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New Deal With Dorna Sees FIM Sign Away MotoGP Broadcasts Until 2060

Grandstand — Tue, 10 Sep 2024 17:17:08 +0000

Want to watch World Superbike, or MotoGP? For the foreseeable future, Dorna Sports will continue to hold promotional rights for both these international roadracing series, thanks to a new deal with the FIM. The FIM is the world’s largest certifier of motorcycle racing. Its website says “FIM is the supreme and sole international authority empowered to control international motorcycling events…

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Commentary: MotoGP’s Brain Trust Messes With The Formula Again

Grandstand — Wed, 08 May 2024 12:10:36 +0000

It’s time for more big changes to MotoGP, apparently! With the series getting kind of blah since Valentino Rossi left, the wizards of the FIM are now messing with the formula again, saying it’s all about sustainability and safety and blah blah blah. Never mind that the whole concept of a race series involving riders on custom-built, highly-engineered two-wheeled contraptions at hyper-speed is both…

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MotoGP Resumes This Weekend!

Grandstand — Mon, 20 Mar 2023 12:35:40 +0000

Roadracing fans, get ready. MotoGP is back for 2023, starting with the Portuguese GP this weekend, at Algarve circuit. “Wait!” you shout. “Shouldn’t the season start under the lights at Qatar, as we always do? What happened to our nighttime desert racing?” This year, Losail circuit is undergoing maintenance, so we’re kicking things off in Portugal. Going into the 2023 campaign, we don’t see…

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MiniGP Canada Roadracing Series Gets FIM Approval

Grandstand — Tue, 07 Feb 2023 14:27:16 +0000

FIM roadracing is coming to Canada this year—that is, FIM-sanctioned mini-roadracing is coming to Canada, via Toni Sharpless’ hard work. We first told you about Toni’s plans for mini-roadracing all the way back in 2020. Back in those heady, pre-COVID days, here’s what we told you: “The idea is to start riders as early as 6 years old, giving them early racing development that’s really lacking…

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Ducati V21L Electric Racer: Production Begins

Grandstand — Fri, 20 Jan 2023 21:02:12 +0000

Ducati’s about to take over MotoGP’s all-electric MotoE racing series—and now, it’s building the bikes that will be on-grid in only a matter of weeks. Back in 2021, we told you MotoGP’s organizers were cutting their ties with Energica, the battery bike manufacturer that had provided the racebikes for MotoE in its initial seasons. Shortly after, the series announced the new plan was to continue…

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Ducati reveals the all-electric V21L racebike

CMG Staff — Tue, 05 Jul 2022 11:37:22 +0000

One of this year’s most interesting stories in motorcycling is Ducati’s takeover of the Moto-E electric GP series. This makes Ducati the first major OEM to build a full-on electric superbike, and people are keen to see what it’s all about—and over the weekend, Ducati finally dropped some major details. The short version is: This is a technologically advanced machine with horsepower slightly…

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Suzuki explains decision to leave MotoGP

Grandstand — Thu, 12 May 2022 13:05:18 +0000

In a statement this morning on the MotoGP website (which indicates it’s pretty much a sure thing, we’d say), Suzuki says it is planning to leave the series, and explains why: “Suzuki Motor Corporation is in discussions with Dorna regarding the possibility of ending Suzuki’s participation in MotoGP at the end of 2022. Unfortunately, the current economic situation and the need to concentrate…

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Racing roundup: MotoGP, MotoAmerica, CSBK

Grandstand — Fri, 04 Mar 2022 17:54:20 +0000

Let’s take a quick spin around the world of racing, shall we? In case you’ve been living under a rock, MotoGP opens this weekend, with races running Sunday under the lights at Qatar (race times posted here). Finally, after a couple of years of COVID disruption, it seems like maybe, just maybe, things will get back to normal this year. Of course, “normal” in MotoGP still includes a lot of…

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