HOPKINS JOINS TEAM M4 MONSTER SUZUKI

John Hopkins has signed for Team Hammer, which will race as M4 Monster Suzuki in this season's AMA Superbike Championship along with Daytona SportBike ace Martin Cardenas.

Both Hopkins and Cardenas have Grand Prix experience and the M4 Monster Suzuki team looks to present its most aggressive challenge yet in AMA Pro Racing. While both racers already have garnered a remarkable amount of experience, they're just now entering the prime of their careers: Hopkins is 26 years old while Cardenas is 27.

New Airoh helmets arrived.



Now in stock the 2010 Flip, Easy Millennium black, Easy Monster.

Suzuki and Capirossi stay together for 2010

Suzuki Motor Corporation is pleased to announce that it has secured the services of Loris Capirossi for the 2010 MotoGP World Championship.
Capirossi will sign a one-year extension to his current Suzuki contract during the Indianapolis MotoGP this weekend. The experienced Italian joined Suzuki at the start of the 2008 season and has become a highly respected and influential figure within the Hamamatsu factory's racing division.
The agreement with Capirossi finalises Suzuki's 2010 MotoGP rider line-up, following the recent announcement that 24-year-old Spanish star Alvaro Bautista will join Suzuki for the next two years.

Yamaha confirm Jorge Lorenzo as rider for The Fiat Yamaha MotoGP Team For 2010.

Jorge Lorenzo and Yamaha Motor Company have signed a one year extension to the current rider agreement that will see Lorenzo, presently second in the 2009 MotoGP World Championship standings, as team mate of reigning MotoGP champion Valentino Rossi for another year.
Lin Jarvis, Managing Director of Yamaha Motor Racing, said "We are obviously delighted that Jorge has decided to stay at Yamaha for the next season and we hope that he will remain at Yamaha for many years to come. Jorge has shown his talent, his ability to learn and to compete at the highest level with many excellent performances in 2008 and 2009. We have no doubt that he has the ability and drive to become MotoGP World Champion and we are proud that he has decided to remain with Yamaha, despite having received some very serious approaches from some of our competitors. This timely decision now allows us to focus on the present championship, where our riders are currently first and second, and to make definitive plans for our 2010 MotoGP program."

Blazusiak enters for Enduro round 3 in Italy.

Extreme enduro star Tadeusz Blazusiak will make his MAXXIS FIM Enduro World Championship debut for the season in Italy.

The Polish rider, of the Red Bull KTM team, has entered the race at Iglesias in the Enduro 2 class for the event on April 18-19.

The challenge of this duel of the titans was simple: who would climb the Geraardsbergen Wall in the shortest time, a Citroën C4 WRC car or a Red Bull KTM 450 cc?


And the protagonists of the event: five times rally champion Sébastien Loeb and ten time world motor cross champion Stefan Everts. The result was a particularly exciting and unusual race between two heroes in their disciplines. Stefan Everts reached the top of the Wall first against all expectations. Sébastien Loeb, who was one tenth of a second behind, had to acknowledge the superiority of our compatriot.


What started as an innocent competition between two top athletes turned into an exceptional duel. It was Stefan Everts who challenged Red Bull athlete Sébastien Loeb a few weeks ago, but he could never have imagined that the cobblestones of the legendary Wall of Geraardsbergen would be so slippery smooth today. However this did not put him off and he succeeded in reaching the top first with a very tiny difference separating him from his opponent. His timing was 49:07 seconds compared to 49:17 for Loeb. The Limburger was as pleased as Punch with this unexpected victory: "I surprised myself at my win. It's probably the only time this year that Sébastien will be beaten by anyone!"

AMA Announces Trophy Team for 2009 International Six Days Enduro
The AMA announced the riders who will contest the 84th International Six Days Enduro for the U.S. World Trophy Team. Returning to take on the world this Oct. 12-17 in Figueira da Foz, Portugal, are the riders who rode to a third-place team finish on Team USA at last year's event: Destry Abbott, Kurt Caselli, Ricky Dietrich, Jimmy Jarrett, Nathan Kanney and Nathan Woods.

2009 Race Calender updated with the latest changes.

Kawasaki is back to motogp.

with only one rider, Marco Melanrdi.

American Honda announced today that Honda Red Bull Racing rider Ben Townley¹s return to competition will be delayed due to rehabilitation complications. Honda Red Bull Racing team manager Erik Kehoe stated, “Ben has been training on his CRF450R for about a month and continues to have difficulty with his shoulder. He is working with Red Bull’s elite athlete training staff and will be meeting with several shoulder specialists to identify the cause of the problem and choose the best course of action to expedite his recovery. Our goal is to make sure he is 100 percent before he returns to racing.”

It may be several weeks before Townley can establish a course of action for treatment. American Honda will provide additional details when they are available.