Entries by The Motor Bug

THIRD ISLE OF MAN TT RACES QUALIFYING SESSION CURTAILED AS MIST CLOSES IN BUT MCGUINNESS STILL THE MAN TO BEAT

Competitors were met with considerably different conditions for the third qualifying session at the 2012 Isle of Man TT Races fuelled by Monster Energy and although still dry, the temperature was down on the previous two nights and there were also a lot of grey clouds reported around the Mountain Course. The action got underway […]

CAMERON DONALD MAKES HIS MOVE BUT JOHN MCGUINNESS STILL TOPS THE LEADERBOARD – Reeves/Sayle deliver statement of intent in Sidecars

Ryan Farquhar (2) Australian Cameron Donald delivered a statement of intent in tonight’s qualifying session at the 2012 Isle of Man TT Races fuelled by Monster Energy with a lap of 129mph but the evergreen John McGuinness was able to clock 129.411 to remain at the top of the qualifying leaderboard. In the sidecars the […]

Checa up and down as Melandri wins another

Miller Motorsports Park (USA), Monday 28 May 2012 – On a sunny race day at Miller Motorsports Park the sixth round of the eni FIM Superbike World Championship delivered some great action and two different race winners to the 49,000 strong weekend crowd. In a landmark day for the series, race one saw World Superbike reach […]

Smrz scores his first pole of the season

Miller Motorsports Park (USA), Sunday 27 May 2012 – Jakub Smrz (Liberty Racing Team Effenbert Ducati) scored his first Tissot-Superpole win of the season after setting a lap time of 1 minute 47.626 seconds in the last of three sessions. It was his second career pole position in this class, following the one he obtained back […]

Bournemouth Kawasaki Racing and Zytek Automotive Join Forces to Develop TT Zero Electric Racing Motorcycle

British Superbike race team, Bournemouth Kawasaki Racing and electric powertrain innovators, Zytek Automotive, have joined forces to develop an Electric Motorcycle to take part in the Isle of Man SES TT Zero race on Wednesday 6 June. An established part of the annual TT Races, the clean emissions motorcycle challenge is now in its fourth […]

Bosch receives Innovation Award 2012 at the Global NCAP Annual Awards Ceremony

Bosch Global NCAP  Innovation Award Melaka, Malaysia, 24 May 2012 – Bosch, a leading global supplier of automotive technology, was awarded today with the Global NCAP Innovation Award 2012 for its worldwide development and market deployment of Electronic Stability Control (ESC) systems. NCAP (New Car Assessment Program) is one of the most influential international programs to […]