Entries by The Motor Bug

Rally legend Sébastien Loeb joins Peugeot-Total “Dream Team”

The nine-time World Rally Championship winner and Pikes Peak record-holder has joined Peugeot’s 2008DKR line-up alongside Carlos Sainz for next month’s Rallye du Maroc (October 3-9) before facing the sport’s toughest challenge, the Dakar, over 13 days in Argentina and Bolivia in 2016. Joining him in South America will also be Stéphane Peterhansel and Cyril […]

GT ASia Series – Team Aylezo

Aylezo Competizione is looking forward to the Chinese weather for the GT Asia Series scheduled during the World Touring Car Championship weekend at the Shanghai International Circuit this 25-27 September weekend. Both Zen Low and Fairuz Fauzy are looking forward to another race outing with Aylezo, who are technical partners to OD Racing. The Lamborghini […]

Tamburini wins in STK1000 and keeps his title chances alive

Roberto Tamburini (MotoxRacing BMW) has kept his slim title chances alive by winning the 15-lap FIM Superstock 1000 Cup race at Jerez today. The 24-year-old Italian managed to pull away in the early stages of the race to cross the line with a comfortable 4.6s lead over Althea Racing’s Raffaele De Rosa. Series leader Lorenzo […]

Davies returns to winning ways in Race 2 at Jerez

Chaz Davies (Aruba.it Racing – Ducati SBK Team) went one better than in race 1 to win the second race of the day at a very hot and sunny Jerez Circuit in Spain. Unlike the opening encounter, Tom Sykes (Kawasaki Racing Team) was unable to break away after taking the holeshot for the second time. […]

Sykes wins Jerez Race 1 as Rea clinches WorldSBK crown

The opening race of the Pirelli Spanish round of this year’s eni FIM Superbike World Championship has been won by Tom Sykes (Kawasaki Racing Team), the former champion notching up his 60th WorldSBK career podium finish as team mate Jonathan Rea sealed his first World Title by finishing fourth after an early race fight with […]

Jonathan Rea: 2015 eni FIM Superbike World Champion

The Pirelli Spanish Round has gone down in history as the WorldSBK race meeting at which Jonathan Rea was crowned World Champion of 2015. The British rider, standard bearer of the Kawasaki Racing Team, clinched the ultimate goal in Race 1 courtesy of his fourth position. He has been pursuing the title since his first […]

Sykes claims Spanish Tissot-Superpole with new outright record

Tom Sykes (Kawasaki Racing Team) has claimed the Pirelli Spanish Round pole position, his 29th career Pole after a nail biting Tissot-Superpole at the 4.423km Jerez Circuit this afternoon. The Briton lapped in an outright circuit best of 1.40.292s, six thousandths of a second better than former teammate Loris Baz’s time of 12 months ago. […]

MotoGP to return to Austria in 2016

The provisional calendar for next year’s MotoGP™ World Championship has been released. After 19 years, the premier class of motorcycle road racing is coming back to Red Bull’s home country – Austria. The circuit will race around the Red Bull Ring in Spielberg on August 14, 2016, with racer Marc Márquez and his competitors fighting […]

WorldSBK poised to crown a new Champion

Jonathan Rea is just six points away from the ultimate goal in WorldSBK: the eni FIM Superbike World Championship title of 2015. Thanks to a truly dominant campaign on the Kawasaki Racing Team ZX-10R, number 65 requires only a single top ten finish to cement the achievement in the opening World Superbike race of the […]