A motorcycle rider in Washington is back with his stolen motorcycle, after an Apple AirTag helped him find the bike abandoned a few blocks away.
David examines Yamaha’s options in replacing Maverick Viñales in the factory MotoGP team.
Covering all the Moto2 and Moto3 news from the Austria GP, you won’t want to miss this edition of the Paddock Pass Podcast.
Maverick Viñales has been released from his duties at the Yamaha MotoGP team, with immediate effect. Will we see him on the Aprilia this season?
The latest episode from the Brap Talk podcast explores the debut of the Aprilia Tuareg 660, and why you shouldn’t buy a Ural sidecar. It’s a fun, if not irreverent, look at the ADV market.
The Malaysian GP has been canceled and replaced by another round at Misano. Meanwhile, the Americas GP seems set to run, despite a huge COVID-19 surge.
The Paddock Pass Podcast crew takes us through the MotoGP round at Le Mans, in the second of this weeks’ episodes.
Assen had been earmarked as a key round for Honda in its search for competitiveness in WorldSBK. It passed with more confirmation that the team’s struggles will continue. Nine points were all that Nicky Hayden had to show for himself at the end of a trying weekend at the TT Circuit of Assen. The Honda rider was able to show some signs of improved competitiveness at times during the weekend, but overall the same flaws of the Honda Fireblade have been exposed once again. Reliability and inability to bring competitive upgrades to the table cost Hayden dearly at Assen. The week before the Dutch round, the team tested a new engine specification in Portimao and the American came away disappointed with a lack of progress.
As discussed previously on Asphalt & Rubber, flat track racing in the United States will have a comprehensive makeover in 2017. The series will be rebranded as the American Flat Track Series, and the calendar expanded to 18 rounds. At the Superprestigio in Barcelona last weekend, the CEO of the American Flat Track series, Michael Lock, sat down with Asphalt & Rubber to discuss the reasoning behind the changes. The expat Englishman came to flat track with a unique perspective; that of an outsider. He was an Englishman abroad, and brought fresh eyes to the problem of trying to grow flat track racing once again. The single biggest change is to simplify the structure of the championship with the GNC1 class now just for twin-cylinder engined bikes, with the GNC2 class using the smaller singles.
