
It seems it is time to talk about the battle Cairoli-Pourcel again, as Christophe Pourcel won his first GP of the season. Tony Cairoli came very close to his sixth consecutive strike, but finished second, ahead of KTM Red Bull’s Tommy Searle. His team mate Tyla Rattray was tied in points with Tommy,...
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Kawasaki Racing Europe’s Billy Mackenzie, suported by Akrapovič exhaust system, clinched his first MX1 victory, becoming the only British rider to have ever won a MX1 GP. Mike Brown was second on the podium after he won the final moto....
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Australian Brendan Roberts (Ducati 1098 with Akrapovič exhaust system) won shortened FIM superstock 1000 race. After 10 laps the race was called off due to heavy rain....
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Freezing temperatures and heavy rain was not enough to put Anthony West off from taking his first race win for Yamaha today at Silverstone. In a dramatic race for the Yamaha World Supersport Team Broc Parkes crashed out while in second place and West went from 16th to take the race win in appalling ...
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The British weather tried to spoil the seventh round of the World Superbike Championship at Silverstone but it couldn't take away two podium positions from the Yamaha Motor Italia Team, supported by Akrapovic. In a rain-soaked single-race day Haga took second while Corser took his 110th podium posit...
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Australian Chris Vermeulen was the winner of unpredictable wet race in historic French race circuit Le Mans. Kawasaki’s Randy De Puniet showed some great speed in opening laps and was in leading position. Unfortunately he crashed while trying to stay in front of the pack....
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Teutschenthal and the Grand Prix of Germany were fertile soil for KTM Red Bull Racing Team’s Italian rider David Philippaerts, who finished the day atop the MX1 podium. Fifth in the first moto, Philippaerts then showed his true colours by coming in victorious in the day’s second race to steal the pr...
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Anthony West , who is recently replacing injured rider Kevin Curtain of Yamaha World SSP Racing (Akrapovic exhaust system) scored great third place in elbowing match with Fabien Foret (second place). As usual for this season Kenan Sofuoglu won the race wihtout any dificulties....
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Noriyuki Haga of Yamaha Motor Italia (Akrapovic exhaust system) brought a perfect present to his Monza – based team with Superpole win, a new lap record and double win. Second went to James Toseland nad third to Troy Bayliss....
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The 51st edition of the FIM Motocross Grand Prix of Italy was won by New Zealander Joshua Coppins in the MX1 class, as Italian Motocross idol Antonio Cairoli made the home fans crazy by dominating both MX2 heats. Josh Coppins increases his leadership to a 36 point advantage over MX1 runner up Kevin ...
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Stefan Everts is a living legend of motocross, and with 10 world championship titles the most successful MX racer of all time. Due to our great respect for Stefan and his sporting achievements we were excited to make something special for him....
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Randy de Puniet equalled his best performance in MotoGP at the Chinese Grand Prix in Shanghai. The 22-lap race saw the French Kawasaki rider bring home his 800cc Ninja ZX-RR in eighth position, on a par with his previous best at Istanbul two weeks ago, and well ahead of last year’s 12th place. With ...
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MANTOVA, 04 May 2007- Today at the Circuito Internazionale Città di Mantova, Akrapovic Research & Development Manager Slavko Alojz Trstenjak gave Youthstream some Akrapovic Slip-on exhaust systems, to be applied to the KTM machines that promoter Youthstream’s staff uses in the FIM Motocross World Ch...
>>Teutschenthal and the Grand Prix of Germany were fertile soil for KTM Red Bull Racing Team’s Italian rider David Philippaerts, who finished the day atop the MX1 podium.
Fifth in the first moto, Philippaerts then showed his true colours by coming in victorious in the day’s second race to steal the premium podium for the KTM team. The Italian’s victory also proved that New Zealand’s Joshua Coppins, the dominant in the class a third of the way through the season is not invincible. Coppins won the first race but came in sixth in the second to finish overall third in the Grand Prix results. In MX2 class Antonio Cairoli dominated the race.
MX1 Standings after round 5:
1. Coppins (NZL) Yamaha .............. 234
2. Strijbos (BEL) Suzuki .................. 191
3. Ramon (BEL) Suzuki ................... 156
4. De Dycker (BEL) Honda .............. 131
6. Barragan (ESP) KTM ................... 121
7. Philippaerts (ITA) KTM ................ 115
9. Leok T. (EST) Kawasaki ............. 112
14. Mackenzie B. (GBR) Kawasaki ... 73
15. Nemeth (HUN) Suzuki .................... 66
MX2 Standings after round 5:
1. Cairoli (ITA) Yamaha .................. 247
2. Pourcel C. (FRA) Kawasaki ...... 181
3. Rattray (RSA) KTM ..................... 180
4. Leurent (FRA) Honda ................. 143
5. Searle (GBR) KTM ...................... 137
8. Swanepoel (RSA) Kawasaki ... 113
15. Curch (GBR) Kawasaki ............... 53