Fiat Yamaha MotoGP World Champion Valentino Rossi has continued his stunning pre-season form, again topping the time sheets yesterday at Sepang in Malaysia to carry on from where he was three weeks ago at the previous test.
With the preliminaries all over, the focus now turns to the real business of racing when the season kicks off with the 2010 Yamaha Phillip Island Superbike World Championship at Victoria’s world famous circuit this weekend on 26-28 February.
Queenslander Robbie Bugden will miss this weekend’s opening round of the Viking Group Australian Superbike Championship at Phillip Island, focusing on capturing his fourth successive New Zealand Superbike title at Manfeild's penultimate round instead.
Ducati continued to dominate at the official World Superbike test at Phillip Island today, setting the four best times of the two days while the Australian contingent struggled somewhat - focusing on setting up their equipment for this weekend’s opening round of the 2010 championship.
In front of a packed crowd of 60,019, the 2010 Monster Energy AMA Supercross, an FIM World Championship, season made its East Coast debut from Indianapolis’ Lucas Oil Stadium on Saturday night, with Ryan Villopoto and Christophe Pourcel winning for Kawasaki.
Rockstar Makita Suzuki’s Ryan Dungey and San Manuel Yamaha’s Josh Hill are tied at 103 points apiece headed into the eastern swing of the AMA Supercross series, while this weekend also marks the opening race of the Eastern Regional AMA Supercross Lites class championship.
Former Supersport World Championship runner-up Kevin Curtain has officially returned to the Yamaha Racing Team, undergoing his first test on the team’s YZF-R6 at Eastern Creek yesterday. Curtain rode a Supersport specification Yamaha that he’ll contest the opening round of the ASBK on next weekend.
