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Der MotoGPâ„¢ Auftakt 2012 rückt immer näher und in Jerez bereiteten sich einige MotoGP und CR-Team weiter vor.

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“Nachdem wir eine gefühlte Ewigkeit warten mussten, wurde unser kleines Töchterchen Alessandra Maria am 16. Februar geboren. Danke für die große Anteilnahme und die vielen Wünsche”, schrieb der Fahrer in seinem Repsol Blog.

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		Frühjahrsmesse: Motorräder Dortmund 2012
		Inklusive Weltpremiere und Leserwahl-Ergebnisse
		Vom 1. bis 4. März öffnet die Motorräder Dortmund ihre Tore. 420 Aussteller präsentieren in den Westfalenhallen die Motorrad-Neuheiten der Saison. ... > weiter

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Randy De Puniet bleibt weiter der schnellste unter den MotoGP CRT-Fahrern, während James Ellison von Paul Bird Racing seine ersten Runden mit der ART auf der Strecke in Andalusien fahren konnte.

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		Porträt: Vergleich Mick Doohan/Casey Stoner
		Die MotoGP-Fahrer aus Australien
		Zwei furchtlose Kämpfer, zwei Weltmeister, zwei Generationen bei Repsol Honda. Sie stammen aus demselben Winkel der Erde, wo die meisten Kids nur Surfen im Kopf haben. Sie aber wurden Racer, zwei australische Superhelden. ... > weiter

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Der private drei Tage andauernde Test auf dem Circuito de Jerez endete am Mittwoch mit Randy de Puniet und Aleix Espargaró als schnellste CRTs im Feld auf ihren Power Electronics Aspar Bikes. James Ellison und Danilo Petrucci beendeten ebenso ihren ersten Test auf ihren jeweiligen Maschinen.

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The countdown is underway for the Australian Round at Phillip Island, which marks the start of the 2012 FIM Superbike World Championship this weekend.

Media day today was traditionally dedicated to the official presentation of the event at Phillip Island, a circuit that celebrates its 60 years of activity this year. Top riders and media were invited to ‘Granny's Shed', a characteristic farmhouse in the middle of the Island's countryside close to the circuit.

After arriving on tractors and quad bikes, world champion Carlos Checa and his adversaries took part in a press conference before moving outside for the International Sheep Rally Round Up, which involved rallying 12 sheep from one pen, and then separating them into two separate paddocks.

For the record the win went to the Australia A team of Joshua Brookes (stand-in for the injured John Hopkins), Supersport's Broc Parkes (Ten Kate Racing Products Honda) and Jed Metcher (Rivamoto Junior Team Yamaha) with a new ‘sheep' record of 1 minute 34.2 seconds. Second was the European squad of Checa, Max Biaggi and Marco Melandri, but a full minute behind with their flock of sheep.

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		Gebrauchte 125er bis 1500 Euro und 34-PS-Motorräder bis 2500 Euro
		Übersicht: gebrauchte Einsteigerbikes
		Die Auswahl ist riesig. 28000 Gebrauchte sind in unserem Marktplatz gelistet. Hier eine Übersicht über günstige Gebrauchte zum Einstieg. ... > weiter

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Das Ducati Test Team beendete am Mittwoch einen drei Tages Test auf dem spanischen Circuito de Jerez. Die Aktivitäten wurden von Filippo Preziosi geleitet, der sich mit dem offiziellen Testfahrer Franco Battaini genau an den Testplan hielt.

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		PS-Racecamp Sachsenring
		Freies Fahren auf dem Sachsenring
		Erstmalig freies Fahren mit dem PS-Racecamp auf der aktuell einzigen deutschen Grand-Prix-Strecke, dem Sachsenring. ... > weiter

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Die spanischen Firmen Stampii und Dorna Sports haben ihre weltweite Lizenz für die Herausgabe der digitalen Tauschkartensammlung der MotoGP™ 2012 erneuert, eine Sammlungsrevolution, die Fans begeistern wird und die Spannung von Kartentausch im Internet im dritten aufeinanderfolgenden Jahr erhalten wird.

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James Ellison hatte in Jerez die erste Gelegenheit mir der Aprilia von Paul Bird Motorsports CRT zu testen.

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The 25th year of World Superbike got under way this morning with free practice at Phillip Island and reigning champion Carlos Checa (Althea Racing) was right on the pace with quickest time of 1 minute 31.973 seconds. The Spaniard was the only rider under the 1m32s barrier, and he finished a couple of tenths ahead of Max Biaggi (Aprilia Racing Team) 1'32"161. The opening session of the season confirmed the outcome of the pre-season testing, with Czech rider Jakub Smrz (Liberty Racing Team Effenbert) ahead of Tom Sykes (Kawasaki Racing Team) who crashed out at Honda, but the British rider concluded the session.

Jonathan Rea was next up for the Honda World Superbike Team, with Frenchman Maxime Berger and Sylvain Guintoli making it three of the Czech team's riders in the top 7. There were some problems for Marco Melandri (BMW Motorrad), who could only manage eleventh place, a couple ahead of SBK rookie Chaz Davies (ParkinGO Aprilia). Eugene Laverty (Aprilia Racing) was on track despite a broken bone in his right hand picked up during testing, the Irishman setting 22nd fastest time, while Leon Haslam (BMW Motorrad) followed the session from his pit garage.

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Broc Parkes (Ten Kate Racing Products Honda) is the man most on form in Supersport, the Aussie powering his Honda CBR-RR to the quickest time in 1 minute 34.532 seconds on the first day of qualifying. Parkes was just 26 thousandths of a second ahead of Frenchman Jules Cluzel on a PTR Honda machine, a new arrival on this year's World Supersport grid and one of the stars of winter testing.

Third place went to Sam Lowes in the Bogdanka side of the PTR operation, with two former champions, Fabien Foret (Kawasaki Intermoto Step) and Kenan Sofuoglu (Kawasaki DeltaFin Lorenzini), next up. Alex Baldolini was the top Italian in sixth place, a good effort on the Power Team by Suriano Triumph, but team-mate Vittorio Iannuzzo crashed out.

East European riders are also making major progress in these early stages, with Hungarian Balazs Nemeth (Racing Team Toth) ahead of Lukas Pesek (PRORACE Honda) in seventh and eighth.

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Jonathan Rea pulled off the surprise of the day in first qualifying at Phillip Island as the Honda World Superbike man put in the only sub-1m32s lap in the last couple of minutes to head the field. Rea's time of 1'31.959 put him in front of three Ducati men, who had dominated the session until then. Second place went to Jakub Smrz on the Liberty Racing machine, followed by Superstock 1000 winner Davide Giugliano (Althea Racing) in third and Carlos Checa in fourth. The Italian rookie actually led at one point.

Max Biaggi (Aprilia Racing) was next up in fifth place ahead the Red Devils Roma Ducati of another rookie Niccolò Canepa, while the final two places on the provisional second row went to the two Kawasaki Racing Team riders, Tom Sykes and Joan Lascorz.

Joshua Brookes (Crescent Suzuki), Lascorz, Checa and Maxime Berger (Effenbert Liberty) all went off during the session, without any consequences, while Eugene Laverty (Aprilia Racing) again crashed, picking up a bump on his head, but was declared fit. Leon Haslam (BMW Motorrad) returned and did three laps to see how his recent injury from his crash earlier in the week was holding up.

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Die Speed Master Box verließ den Jerez Test zufrieden mit den Fortschritten, die sie während der drei Tage gemacht hatten. Von Montag bis Mittwoch arbeitete das italienische Team ein Testprogramm in Vorbereitung auf die MotoGP™ Saison 2012 ab.

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Der Italiener, der den Ioda Racing CRT Prototypen entwickeln soll, hat beim ersten echten Test mit der neuen Maschine diese Woche in Jerez entdeckt, was er zu tun hat.

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Der Weltmeister aus 2011 teilte seine Sicht auf die 1000ccm Repsol Honda vor dem Beginn der Saison 2012, in der die MotoGP™ Klasse wieder auf kraftvollere Maschinen umsteigt.

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Tom Sykes (Kawasaki Racing Team) moved back to the top of the timesheets in second qualifying with a time of 1 minute 31.323 seconds to head the 16 who go into this afternoon's Tissot-Superpole session. Max Biaggi (Aprilia Racing Team) moved up to second place overall after recording the fastest ever top speed at Phillip Island, 323.7 km/h. Right behind the 2010 champion were three Ducatis in the hands of Carlos Checa, Jakub Smrz and Sylvain Guintoli.

Overnight leader Jonathan Rea (Honda World Superbike) neither improve his time nor his position and in fact dropped down to eighth place. The Northern Irishman crashed and his Honda team mechanics took less than 10 minutes to replace the damaged handlebars, fairing and exhausts. Chaz Davies (ParkinGO Aprilia) also crashed, suffering a suspected broken left wrist in the process and has been declared unfit to continue, with two still convalescent riders Eugene Laverty (eleventh) and Leon Haslam immediately behind.

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Kawasaki Racing Team rider Tom Sykes will start from pole position for the third time in his career at the opening round of the year by heading the field after combined qualifying. Tissot-Superpole today was cancelled after a fatal accident suffered by young Australian Superstock 600 rider Oscar McIntyre in a support race before the session was due to start.

Second on the grid for Sunday's two 22-lap Superbike races will be Max Biaggi (Aprilia Racing) who was 0.54 seconds behind Sykes. World Champion Carlos Checa secured third spot while another Ducati rider, Jakub Smrz on the Liberty Racing machine, completed the front row.

Frenchman Sylvain Guintoli was fifth on his Effenbert Liberty Racing vee-twin, and Leon Camier was sixth on his Crescent Fixi Suzuki. Niccolò Canepa (Red Devils Roma Ducati) was an impressive top seven qualifier, with the last place on row two being taken by Honda World Superbike official rider Jonathan Rea.

Infront Motor Sports and the entire SBK paddock offer their condolences to the McIntyre family and all those affected by his loss.

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Broc Parkes (Ten Kate Racing Products Honda) secured the first pole of the season, the 15th of his career, on his Honda CBR600RR with a 1 minute 34.445 second lap, set this afternoon in the final qualifying session. On the combined qualifying sheets a late charge from Bogdanka PTR Honda rider Sam Lowes made sure he would lead Frenchman Jules Cluzel (PTR Honda) making it three CBR riders in the top three places.

Kawasaki riders monopolised the next three spots, with Kenan Sofuoglu (Kawasaki DeltaFin Lorenzini), Fabien Foret (Kawasaki Intermoto Step) and Sofuglu's team-mate Sheridan Morais completing the top six grid places. Italian rider Alex Baldolini (Power Team by Suriano Triumph) was seventh and the second row of the grid was completed by Balazs Nemeth (Racing Team Toth).

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Max Biaggi (Aprilia Racing) won the first race of the year by seven seconds from Marco Melandri (BMW Motorrad Motorsport) and third was a closely following Sylvian Guintoli (Team Effenbert Liberty Racing) after a dramatic contest held over 22-laps.

Carlos Checa (Althea Racing) crashed out of the race while leading, suffering a fast high-side fall on the final corner early in the race. Spots of rain appeared at two separate stages but to no real effect for the majority of the riders and it continued as a dry race.

Tom Sykes (Kawasaki Racing Team) took fourth place after leading early on, with Jakub Smrz fifth on his Liberty Racing Team Effenbert Ducati.

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		Superbike-WM 2012 in Australien: 1. Lauf
		Checa stürzt und Biaggi gewinnt Rennen eins
		Max Biaggi fuhr in Australien dem ersten Sieg entgegen. Marco Melandri und Sylvain Guintoli standen mit ihm auf dem Podest. ... > weiter

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Kenan Sofuoglu (Kawasaki DeltaFin Lorenzini) returned to the Supersport World Championship in the best form possible as he took the race win from his old rival Fabien Foret (Kawasaki Intermoto Step Racing).

The leading fight had up to seven riders in it for most of the 15-lap race distance, until Sofuoglu stretched out a lead that Foret could not quite run down on the final lap.

Slow staring pole man Broc Parkes (Ten Kate Racing Products Honda) battled to third, ahead of impressive rookie Jules Cluzel (PTR Honda) and Sam Lowes (Bogdanka PTR Honda). Sofuoglu's team-mate Sheridan Morais (Kawasaki DeltaFin Lorenzini) was sixth.

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Carlos Checa (Althea Racing) recovered from his big race one crash to post his first win of the year but arguably an even greater performance came from second place finisher Max Biaggi (Aprilia Racing).

Checa hit the front early on but Biaggi had run of track on lap one, kept his bike upright and restarted last, then fought through to take a second place and a clear championship lead with a total of 45 points.

Tom Sykes (Kawasaki Racing Team) overhauled a slowing Jonathan Rea (Honda World Superbike Team) in a breathtaking final lap to get his first dry weather Kawasaki podium.

The injured Leon Haslam (BMW Motorrad Motorsport) put in a gritty ride to secure fifth place while his team-mate Marco Melandri was one place behind.

Melandri is second in the points to Biaggi with 30, one point ahead of Sykes in overall third. Checa is fourth with 25 points.

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