Valentino Rossi, Eddie Lawson, Wayne Rainey and Kenny Roberts, 18 GP world titles between them, completed a series of Superkart demonstration laps at the spectacular Laguna Seca circuit.

It was supposed to be part of those events for the Mazda Speedway that leads into this weekend’s GP race, but it turned out to be a mini race with the Italian rider coming out on top over the Americans by 15 seconds on a one lap sprint.

The Grand Marshal was Colin Edwards.

Continue reading: Lawson, Roberts, Rainey and Rossi having fun at Laguna Seca

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Ahead of this weekend’s Red Bull United States Grand Prix at Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca, Nicky Hayden unveiled the Ducati 848 Nicky Hayden Limited Edition.

The Hayden Edition is the 2010 model of Ducati’s middleweight sport bike and the livery recreates part of Nicky Hayden’s helmet design and has the Malboro Ducati’s rider personal autograph on the gas tank.

Unfortunately for Europeans, it’s a U.S. exclusive only and retails for about $ 14.495, a little more than 10.300 euros.

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The workers of Yamaha Motor Company in Cypress, California, received a much-welcomed visit at the American factory from MotoGP drivers Valentino Rossi, Jorge Lorenzo, Colin Edwards and James Toseland, who took the occasion to compliment the people who contribute to their sports successes and not just to the three tuning forks company.

Instead of the usual autographs, though, the workers and their respective families posed with the drivers and the YZR-M1 of Rossi in a unique photo; the happiness was immense, seeing as many of the people that work in the factory had never had the chance to meet their favorite racers in person.

From | Roadracing World

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Sports Illustrated has pubblished it’s top earning international list of foreign atheletes and Valentino Rossi is ranked number five out of twenty and is the only motorcycle racer listed.

The Italian rider is tied with F1 driver Fernando Alonso and according to SI, the FIAT Yamaha rider earns a total of $ 35.000.000 a year, based on salary, bonuses and endorsements.

Rossi is up two places from last year, but that’s understandable considering that the Italian was involved in a high profile tax evasion probe in 2007. The revenue agency contested that Rossi did non reside in England, where big named European sportstars are domiciled for tax purposes, but spent most of the year in Italy.

Rossi prefered to settle with the Italian Revenue Agency and paid off 35.000.000 euros last year in back taxes.

Source | sportsillustrated

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Cash strapped PSG-1 Corse team has officially announced that they will not finish this season in the WSBK Championship.

The Republic of San Marino based team found itself in deep water when several sponsors pulled their financial backing. With such a tight budget, team owner Pierguido Pagani first reduced his rider line up dropping Aryton Badovini, keeping only Matteo Baiocco.

Further cash problems caused them to pull out of the Kyalami and Miller Sportspark races and last Sunday they didn’t show up for the Donington round.

PSG-1 team started in the Superbike series back in 2003.

Source | motosprint

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Valentino Rossi and teammate Jorge Lorenzo, Monster Tech 3 Yamaha riders Colin Edwards and James Toseland dropped in at Yamaha Motor Corporation’s U.S. headquarters in Cypress, California the other day, but they didn’t just go to shake hands and have a couple of promo pics taken to celebrate Rossi’s 100th victory.

Watch the video and find out what these star riders have to do besides racing, to stay on Yamaha’s payroll.

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The Transformers craze is contagious, first we had the Bajaj commercial and now Steve Twist, who is computer visualisation and animation undergradute a Bournemouth University, created this Norton Commando Transformer. It took 8 months of work from concept to completation.

The result is fantastic and his teachers should also appreciate the fact that it’s the talk of the web, especially in the motorcycling world.

Source | mcn

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Shoei launched their new XR1100, their new sporty touring helmet to the world press in Spain on Monday.

The new XR1100 will be replacing the already high performance and successful XR 1000, but improves the lid in all areas from ventilation, visibility, aerodynamics to confort.

Shoei has used a special extraction tecnology that improves the ventilation system. They’ve incorporated a negative pressure system that allows a continous discharge of warm air even at low speeds. Inlets include an adjustable vent on the chin (with defroster) two vents on the brow and four outlet vents on the back and a special ventilation duct that minimizes ventilation noise.

Continue reading: The New Shoei XR1100 Helmet

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Take a look at the brand new Faze that Honda released the other day for the Japanese market.

This 250cc scooter has a liquid cooled, four-stroke, single cylinder four-valve engine. Maximum power 23hp at 7500 rpm, and a torque of 23Nm at 6000 rpm and fuel consumption should be 41km/lt at 60 km/h.

The engine’s housed in a tubular steel double-cradle frame with a twin shock set-up at the rear. The Faze rides on 14/13-inch wheels, it also has two brake discs equipped with CBS (combined braking system), an ABS version is also available.

The Faze will be selling in Japan for 557.500 yen and 630,000 yen for the ABS version.

Source | scooterstation

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Like is the new scooter from Kymco, both elegant and retro at the same time. It’s been designed as a traditional city scooter and was created by Italian designer Massimo Zaniboni after some research into scooters of the 50’s and 60’s.

It shows both Asian and European style elements, having fresh and clean lines. The seat is larger than on some scooters, and can comfortable take on two people with anti-slip material. The Like scooter is available in 50 and 125 cc versions.

It has a four-stroke engine with two air cooled valves for economic and quick riding. The 50 cc model will also soon be available in a two-stroke version, air cooled, which will highlight its agility and light weight.

Continue reading: Kymco scooters: Like 50 and 125 4T

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