More rain and cold temperatures affected most of the final day of Moto2 testing at Jerez, but saw Alex De Angelis rise once again to the top of the timesheet for the second time in this official three day test.

De Angelis put in a best lap of 1’55.280 in the wet, improving on his Saturday times by more than a half a second and the only rider to break into the 1.55 mark. Toni Elias was in second, more than seven tenths of second behind his former MotoGP team mate. Tech3 riders Raffaele DeRosa and Yuki Takahashi, were third and fourth respectively.

Missing were Kenny Noyes and Joan Olivé from Jack&Jones by Antonio Banderas team who packed up early and didn’t test. Mapfre Aspar rider Julian Simon who topped during the Valencia tests didn’t even complete a full lap today.

The third and final pre-season Moto2 test will again take place at Jerez March 27-29 before heading to Qatar for the championship opener.

Overall test times here.

Continue reading: Moto2 Jerez Day 3 : Alex De Angelis on top in the wet

We can bet that the Moto2 teams at Jerez are chanting rain rain go away, come back another day as bad weather has once again affected testing and the forecast for the next two days says more rain.

Only 11 riders out of the 30 present braved the wet track with laps times so high that they’re barely worth mentioning. When the rain let up the riders ventured out of their garages on a drying circuit and Alex De Anglis set the fastest time of the day with a best lap of 1’55.835 with Tech3’s Raffaele De Rosa behind his the Sammarinese by less that three tenths of second and Toni Elias from Gresini Racing in third with a best lap of 1:56.246.

Back on track after his injury was Roberto Rolfo (Italtrans STR) who did 9 laps in the afternoon session finishing the day in 23rd.

Continue reading: Moto2 Jerez Day 1 Test: De Angelis on top

The final day of Moto2 testing at Valencia, saw rain and colder temperatures than from the previous two days but at the end of the day when the track dried out it looked like an ex-MotoGP riders class reunion with four former 2009 riders finishing in the top four spots.

Scot Racing Team’s Alex De Angelis headed the top of chart with a best lap time of 1.37”687 bettering his Tuesday times by three tenths of second. Second on the chart was Toni Elias who was half a second slower than De Angelis and coming up in third was Yuki Takahashi and Gabor Talmacsi in fourth.

During the wet morning session saw very few riders decided to risk riding, but Anthony West who doesn’t let a little rain bother him was the fastest on the MZ racer. Other riders who ventured out were Andrea Iannone and Gabor Talmacsi with Luca Boscoscuro’s Speed Up team and Mattia Pasini and Simone Corsi with the JiR team, who have yet to come to grips with their TSR bike.

Valencia Moto2 overall test times can be found here.

Continue reading: Moto2 - Alex De Angelis on top on 3rd Day

Alex De Angelis has finally come to an agreement with Scot Racing to ride their prototype bike next season in the Moto2 category in its first ever season next year.

The Sammarinese has signed a one year contract and an option for 2011 with Cirano Mulroni’s Republic of San Marino based squad, who has now completed their rider line up after having already signed up another former MotoGP rider Niccolò Canepa back in November.

Continue reading: Moto2 - Alex De Angelis in Scot Racing

Alex De Angelis says his future is now 100% in Moto2 , the new championship series that will replace the 250cc next year.

De Angelis, who will undergo shoulder surgery next Tuesday, in a video interview with the San Marino National Televison Station has vehemently denied rumors that he had a Ducati option that would have consented him to remain in MotoGP.

“I’ve several offers for Moto2 but I haven’t decided yet, but it’s only a matter of hours. Superbike hasn’t really been an option, so for the past couple of days Moto2 is now 100%. I’m very angry with what Sportmediaset and all the San Marino newspapers wrote because if there is someone who didn’t let any opportunities get by, that’s me. I’ve given up a 1000 things to try to stay in MotoGP so those fake rumors really, really bother me. It’s absolutely untrue that Ducati offered us a bike and that we didn’t want it, on the contrary, it we had known about this before I’d probably still be in MotoGP.”

“I’ve had offers from Superbike teams and this is really flattering because it’s a great championship, but I perfer to stay near theMotoGP championship. I’m still young and in Superbikes you can go when you’re 30/32 years old and still have seven seasons, so I perfer staying here and if things to don’t go well, I still have alot of time to do well in Superbikes.”

Continue reading: Alex De Angelis: 'It's not true that there was a Ducati for me'

Alex DeAngelis still hasn’t lost hope in finding a ride in MotoGP next season. DeAngelis finished eighth in the standings and was in negotiations with Scot Racing, but the team had to withdraw from the premier class, as the team and rider were unable to find sufficient backing in time to meet Honda’s deadline.

According to Italian motograndprix website, LCR Honda owner Lucio Cecchinello, could be interested in expanding his team to a two rider outfit and putting the Sammarinese rider on a second bike next to the already confirmed Randy DePuniet.

The only other alternative for DeAngelis, who wants to stay in grandprix racing is Moto2, where he has numerous offers including one from Sito Pons’ Kalex team.

UPDATED:

DeAngelis is out of luck, and will have to give up any hope of riding in MotoGP in 2010, because Lucio Cecchinello speaking to the Radio Television station of San Marino has said:

“I’m very sorry because Alex deserved to stay in MotoGP. Honda has told me that there isn’t enough time to prepare a new bike and above all we haven’t found the necessary financial coverage.”

Continue reading: MotoGP – Alex DeAngelis in LCR Honda?

Scot Racing Team has announced that, despite being close to an agreement with Alex de Angelis for the 2010 season, has been forced to retire from the MotoGP class.

While Honda was willing to put a seventh RCV on the grid for the team, they missed Honda’s deadline for a decision.

Cirano Mularoni Team Manager:

“After the happiness for the conquest of the world championship in the 250cc class for me and for the whole team this is a great disappointment, that no reward for all the work done over the years. Now we just have to concentrate on the project Moto2.

While Alex DeAngelis in a press release had this to say:

“I’m sorry that this opportunity to stay in MotoGP with Cirano Mularoni’s team Scot. In these last weeks we’ve were working hard to find the funds so we could get together for next season and we almost made it. Even if the negotiations were pretty far ahead, Honda informed us that they would not be able to deliver the bike because and expired time limit relevant to the request.”

“For me there’s still a possibility to stay in MotoGP, but at the moment I can’t reveal the details. I’ve still some contacts with several teams in Moto2 and a few negotiations are already at a good point.”

DeAngelis has been linked to Gresini’s Moto2 team, and also to the new FB Corse team that could see their MotoGP debut late next season or in 2011.

Continue reading: No MotoGP for Scot Racing - Alex DeAngelis left at the starting blocks

Shhh, don’t tell the Dorna watchdogs, but Asphalt & Rubber have found another video of Alex DeAngelis taking out Colin Edwards and Nicky Hayden at Misano. It’s from an another angle and you get a closer look see at Nicky Hayden losing his cool.

Jorge Lorenzo, who almost got clipped from behind, got into the blame game against DeAngelis, also citing the Sammarinese as one of those rider’s that have the habit of cruising around the outer track during qualifying, ready to hitch a tow from one of the Fantastic Four:

“I am very angry. In the past I was like that, sometimes I did some crazy things. But when the organisers gave me some ‘advice’, I was more clever. I think now they have to do something with these riders, who are also the same ones who try to follow faster riders on Saturday during qualifying. It is very dangerous and I hope they do something,”

Continue reading: Another Video of De Angelis Wiping out Edwards and Hayden

Check out the video of Gresini Honda rider Alex DeAngelis binning his bike on the first corner of lap one at Misano taking out Colin Edwards and Nicky Hayden.

Both Americans were not happy and we hadn’t seen Nicky Hayden this upset since Dani Pedrosa crashed into him at Estoril in 2006. Hayden vented his anger on the Sammarinese rider had to be stopped by a marshal, while Edwards was quoted as saying when asked what had happened, said ‘I have no idea but it’ll be the usual thing, a dumb-ass Italian at the Italian GP.’

Here’s the usual PR statements when the riders were slightly calmer.

Colin Edwards:

“I thought I had the pace to easily be fourth and maybe fight with Pedrosa for a podium but we are in Italy and occasionally you have to deal with an Italian rider who wants to be a hero and today that was De Angelis. Turn one at the start with seventeen bikes is not the place to be going at race pace and he was never going to make through there. Today De Angelis is the guy who needed to be wearing Valentino’s donkey helmet. I didn’t know what happened until I was sliding through the gravel. Turn one is the most dangerous time to crash with so many bikes around you, it is unacceptable. I’ve been fighting with Dovizioso in the championship most of the season and now he has ten points on me with four races to go. That’s racing.”

Continue reading: MotoGP Misano - DeAngelis takes out Edwards and Hayden Video

Check out our great gallery of pics from the MotoGP Indy weekend that saw Fiat Yamaha rider Jorge Lorenzo win the race and close in again on Valentino Rossi who crashed out by putting his tires where he shouldn’t have.

Lorenzo is now just 25 points behind Rossi in the standings with G.P. Cinzano di San Marino e della Riviera di Rimini race coming up in just 6 days and Valentino looking for some way to mend his costly error and show rivals who is the Alpha male in MotoGP and in the Yamaha team.

Indianapolis MotoGP Pics

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Today’s MotoGP race at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway saw Jorge Lorenzo win the race and re-open the championship when Valentino Rossi who was points leader crashed out.

Dani Pedrosa who was leading the race followed by Rossi and Lorenzo, lost his front during lap 3 and slide across the track, but was able to get back on his Honda and rejoin the race in 17th, and finish in 10th after pipping Chris Vermeulen at the finish line.

Pedrosa’s crash left the Yamaha duo to battle it out. Lorenzo passed Rossi on lap 9 and one lap later Rossi’s front folded and found himself in the gravel, he too was able to return to the race in 16th place, but after 3 laps had to return to the pits with a damaged throttle.

Continue reading: MotoGP Indianapolis – Lorenzo Wins, Pedrosa and Rossi Crash, Championship Breaks Open

As everyone knows Alex De Angelis’s contract with San Carlo Honda Gresini is up at the end of this season and that the rider from the Republic of San Marino is looking for new options, but the news is that DeAngelis has terminated his management contract with Carlo Pernat and what’s more De Angelis had denied that Pernat would be at Misano looking for a ride for him in the WSBK series.

De Angelis also said that he has a few contacts in MotoGP, but none in Superbike and that it’s more likely that he will remain in the MotoGP series next year.

At the moment DeAngelis’s position in MotoGP can be defined as difficult, as his team manager Fausto Gresini is in the final stages of negotiations with Marco Simoncelli, and is in talks with Marco Melandri as well. Obviously DeAngelis’s position in the team is tied to his results and at the present is 13th in the championship standings. His name has also come up with several teams who are interested in Moto2.

This has come as a big surprise because the other night on Italian Tv show Griglia di Partenza both DeAngelis and Pernat were present and there wasn’t any signs that there was trouble brewing between the rider and his now ex-manager.

Continue reading: Alex DeAngelis breaks with Pernat and denies SBK contacts