At the beginning of last year, we said that former 125cc World Champion Gabor Talmacsi was at career crossroad, after spending half a season with the now defunct MotoGP team Scot Racing thanks to his sponsor Mol, he was then was ditched at the end of 2010 by Moto2 team Fimmco Speed Up despite finishing 6th in the 2010 championship.

Talmacsi was another rider who was asked to pay for his ride (€600,000) but he refused to beg for money so he could ride and then proceeded to sit out the entire 2011 season, now the Hungarian rider has decided to switch from two wheels to four wheels and will take up a career in rallying in his native country.

He will be driving a Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution IX in the Hungarian Rally Championship, which also includes a round of the Intercontinental Rally Challenge. The Hungarian rider now turned driver has previously taken part in several car endurance races.

Source | superbikeplanet.com

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Moto2 rider Julian Simon underwent surgery yesterday morning at the USP San José Hospital in Madrid to repair the fractures to his tibia and the fibula that he sustained during the Moto2 Catalunya race when Kenan Sofuoglu clipped the rear of his machine sending both of them into a horrific crash.

The operation was performed by doctors Angel Villamor, Dura and Agustin Rafael Garabito and carried out under epidural anesthesia (imagine hearing the noise of your bones being sawed and hammered at) and lasted three hours. Simon will have to undergo the usual rehabilitation and probably spend some time in a hyperbaric chamber to speed up his recovery, but no return date has been mentioned so far.

According to the latest rumors Simon’s replacement could be either Gabor Talmacsi or Raffaele De Rosa who was officially axed from the Nieto’s G22 team, just a week before the Spanish GP. Both riders were seen at Montmelò still looking for a ride.

Continue reading: Gabor Talmacsi or Raffaele di Rosa to replace Julian Simon at Silverstone?

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After losing his ride with the now defunct Jack& Jones by Antonio Banderas team (that ditsy Paris Hilton has officially beaten Banderas as a celebrity sponsor after Vinales won his first 125cc GP race) and not wanting to commit to Superbikes with Team Pedercini, Hungarian rider Gabor Talmacsi more or less dropped off the racing radar.

However it seems that “Talma”could be plotting a return to GP racing (if he finds the money or sponsor backing) when he was invited to test Andrea Iannone’s (his team mate in Speed Up last season) Suter at Brno, where Moto2 teams Speed ​​Master and Ioda Racing were carrying out a private two day test last week.

Apparently Talmacsi gave some very useful feedback to the team on the bike’s development, while thanking Iannone and his father for the opportunity to ride again.

Source | talma.hu via bikeracing.it

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2009 and 2010 Australian Superbike champion Bryan Staring who’ll be racing with Team Pedercini this year in Superstock FIM Cup 100, will be getting a racing bonus as the Italian team will be fielding him alongside Roberto Rolfo in the season opener at Phillip Island, in the World Superbike race.

This will give Aussie racing fans a chance to see Staring and wildcard entry Josh Waters on the Yoshimura Suzuki compete against each other again, and this could also mean that Gabor Talmacsi who tried out the ZX-10R at the Kawasaki test at Sepang, will not be racing anytime soon for Pedercini.

Source | bikeracing.it

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Gabor Talmacsi lost his Moto2 ride after the Jack& Jones by Antonio Banderas team dropped out of the 2011 championship after losing their title sponsor, was invited to Sepang to test for Pedercini’s Kawasaki team to see if he could come to grips with the ZX-10R.

Apparently due to the rain and the fact that team was rightly concentrating their efforts on contracted rider Roberto Rolfo, Talmacsi didn’t get enough time on the bike, the Hungarian has still to decide if he actually wants to switch to the World Superbike championship and has stalled in giving his final decision to the Italian team, calling for a couple of days of think over time.

With official Superbike tests at Portimao taking place in two weeks time and the season opener at the end of February and no other offers in sight, Talmacsi will have to decide if he actually wants to compete or if retiring is really the only other option.

Our opinion is that there are a lot of unemployed riders out their looking for a job who’d kill for the opportunity.

Source | gabortalmacsi.facebook.com

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Gabor Talmacsi may be at a crossroads in his career, but not wanting to leave any stone unturned and despite revealing that the World Superbike championship is hardly known in his native Hungary.

Talmacsi is still deep in talks with Pedercini, and has decided to give superbikes ago, pending a test with the Kawasaki ZX-10R. The Hungarian rider will be joining the platoon of Kawasaki superbike and superstock riders (Tom Sykes, Joan Lascorz, Chris Vermeluen, Stuart Easton, Katsuaki Fujiwara, Roberto Rolfo, Marco Bussolotti, Leandro Mercado and Bryan Staring, who’ll all be at the Malaysian track from January 10th to 14th.

According to Lucio Pedercini, Talmacsi asked to join the test session at Sepang in order to get the feel of a 1000cc 4-stroke superbike on track, as his previous experiences with a four-stroke has only been with a Moto2, before deciding if his future, wanting to be sure that he could also be competitive in this category.

Source | moto.it

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Gabor Talmacsi’s racing career is at a crossroads. The former 125cc World Champion finished 6th in this year’s Moto2 championship with Fimmco SpeedUp and was set to race the 2011 season with the Jack&Jones by Antonio Banderas squad.

Unfortunately, the 29-year old rider was left jobless at the beginning of December, when the Moto2 team unexpectly announced they were folding after losing their title sponsor, Jack&Jones.

With most of the teams already having announced their line-ups, Talmacsi set out to find a new ride, but was only offered jobs if he would personally fork out € 600,000 and not wanting to be milked to continue his career, is now considering other options, which includes retiring.

In an interview with Sportweek.de website, the popular Talmacsi, who brings in droves of Hungarian fans to the Czech track at Brno said, “If don’t see why I have to pay, I finished 6th in the championship. I’ve got an offer to race in World Superbikes with Pedercini, but in Hungary, that series is hardly known at all. Maybe Dorna will help in finding a solution, otherwise I’ll retire and try to find a job as a test rider.”

It’ll be interesting to see if Carmelo Ezpeleta will able to wrangle a ride for Dorna’s ‘token’ Hungarian after the Balatonring circuit economic fiasco, and try at least to keep the Moto2 series somewhat more ‘international’ and a little less an extension of the Spanish CIV.

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Kawasaki is going all out to try to ensure that in 2011 they are going to be on the podium, and their upcoming test at Sepang from January 10th to 14th is another example of their intention, with at least nine riders that are going to be testing the 2011 Ninja in Malaysia.

Tom Sykes, Joan Lascorz and Chris Vermeulen, the official Kawasaki SBK riders, add Stuart Easton in case Vermeulen is still not fit enough, and test rider Katsuaki Fujiwara and Team Pedercini’s newly signed Roberto Rolfo.

Pedercini will also be taking to Malaysia all three of their Superstock riders, Marco Bussolotti, Leandro Mercado and the 2010 Australian Superbike champion, Bryan Starling who was suggested to the Italian team by Troy Bayliss.

In a long interview with Motosprint.it Lucio Pedercini confirmed that his team will field a second rider in 2011 alongside Roberto Rolfo, and they’re in talks with numerous riders who are offering themselves to ride for the Kawasaki privateer team. Names on the short list include two former Moto2 riders, Gabor Talmacsi (jobless after the Jack&Jones team folded) and Lukas Pesek (axed from Matteoni Racing). Andrew Pitt’s name is still on the table, if he lowers his economic requests, and Massimo Roccoli is also on the list

Pedercini also confirmed that they will have full technical support from Kawasaki.

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While Alvaro Bautista’s Brno post race celebration wheelie in 2009 may be defined as highly embarrassing moment for a rider, but Gabor Talmacsi’s celebration after taking third place at the Aragon Moto2 GP this year, wasn’t exactly a high moment in his career either.

Check out what happened to the former 125cc World Champion, while he was heading towards the parc ferme on his Fimmco Speed Up bike, trying to garner a little attention.

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Kenny Noyes and Gabor Talmacsi are today officially without a team for next season. Jack & Jones by Antonio Banderas team has decided to pull out of the 2011 Moto2 championship after loosing their title sponsor Jack&Jones.

The team took part in the Moto2 tests at Valencia after confirming Noyes and Talmacsi and switching to the Suter chassis from the Promoharris one, but with no other big sponsor at the moment willing to fund the team, Dani Devahive, team manager has decided to let his staff and riders go in order to allow them to find other teams for next season, which will very difficult as almost all the Moto2 teams have already announced their 2011 line-ups.

“This is perhaps the hardest decision I’ve made in the last 10 years,” said Devahive. “Despite the enthusiasm and excitement that Antonio Banderas and I have put into this project, the lack of funding has forced us to take this difficult decision. At the present it’s very difficult to find a sponsor in time to take part in the championship that starts in March and therefore it’s our responsibility towards our staff and riders and release them to find other teams.”

Source | motociclismo.es

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Hungary’s best loved motorcycle racer Gabor Talmacsi appears in this Candid Camera. Obviously the gas station belongs to Hungarian petroleum giant MOL, who casually is also Talmacsi’s personal sponsor.

After less than a season in MotoGP with Scot Racing, Talmacsi is now racing in the Moto2 Championship with Luca Boscoscuro’s Speed Up Team and in the first race of the season at Losail, Qatar took a 9th place.

Source | testztmotor.hu via motoblog.it

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This isn’t the official FTR Moto M210 in the photo, but Hungarian rider Gabor Talmacsi who is posing with his new Spidi leathers that he’ll be wearing in this year’s Moto2 championship. If the leathers are black and gold, we can expect that Luca Boscoscuro’s Moto2 Speedup team will have the same coloured livery.

Talmacsi who will race with #2, will be on track with the other Moto2 teams for two days (February 11th and 12th) of testing at Valencia and then in Barcelona from February 15th to 17th.

Source | talma

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