MotoGP 2009

[ambasnakeman]

Preseason testing has started.

 

Gibernau is back on satelite ducati on factory bike.

Melandri is factory kawa

Hayden on facotry ducati in american flag.

Toni Elias back to satelite honda on factory bike

Takahashi on satelite honda

Mika Kallio on satelite ducati

Niccolo Canepa on satelite ducati

 

 

When will team illmor ever make a comeback?

[ambasnakeman]

Test Times

1. Casey Stoner (AUS) Ducati Marlboro 1'32.464

 

2. Dani Pedrosa (SPA) Repsol Honda 1'32.672

3. Valentino Rossi (ITA) Fiat Yamaha Team 1'32.921

4. Chris Vermeulen (AUS) Rizla Suzuki 1'33.142

 

5. Loris Capirossi (ITA) Rizla Suzuki MotoGP 1'33.325

 

6. Alex De Angelis (RSM) Team San Carlo 1'33.375

7. Jorge Lorenzo (SPA) Fiat Yamaha Team 1'33.550

8. Andrea Dovizioso (ITA) Repsol Honda 1'33.676

 

9. John Hopkins (USA) Kawasaki Racing 1'33.760

 

10. Marco Melandri (ITA) Kawasaki Racing Team 1'33.782

 

11. Randy De Puniet (FRA) LCR Honda MotoGP 1'33.832

 

12. Nicky Hayden (USA) Ducati Marlboro Team 1'33.960

 

13. Toni Elias (SPA) Team San Carlo 1'34.129

 

14. Sete Gibernau (SPA) Grupo Francisco Hernando 1'34.451

 

15. Mika Kallio (FIN) Alice Team 1'34.793

 

16. Olivier Jacque (FRA) Kawasaki Racing 1'34.925

 

17. Niccolò Canepa (ITA) Ducati Test 1'34.995

 

18. Yuki Takahashi (JPN) JiR Team Scot Honda 1'35.203

[ambasnakeman]

Anthony West returns to World Super Sport

 

Sylvain Gunitoli goes to British Superbike

 

Nakano is rumoured to join Biaggi on Aprilia World Superbike

[bOtzZ]

it's good to see Melandri in the top 10 test times.. hope he can bounce back from a torrid 2008 season

[MC28]

It has been confirm..Shinya Nakano would be in World SBK for 2009 with Max Biaggi @ Aprilia

 

Shinya Nakano has signed up to join Max Biaggi on the Aprilia RSV4, thus completing the Aprilia team that will race in the 2009 Superbike World Championship.

The Japanese rider, after he visited the Racing Department of Noale, signed the contract that ties him to Aprilia for the whole of the next season with an option for 2010.

Shinya Nakano, born in Chiba on October 10th 1977, is a pilot of great experience who can boast ten seasons in the World Championship: two in 250 cc - the category in which he was vice-champion of the world in 2000 - one in 500 cc and seven in MotoGP.

Nakano declared: "I am happy indeed, for me it is a joy to belong to the Aprilia family. Here I have found a big tradition and extraordinary competence in the races that Aprilia faces with high professionalism, and the 33 world titles won up to today are confirmation of this. Superbike is a new challenge, I want to risk all of my experience to help the new Aprilia RSV4 project. It will be a honor to be able to race beside Max Biaggi, he is a hero of mine and he was an inspiration to me in the first phases of my career, I am sure that together we will succeed in developing the best motorbike and to already get good results in the season 2009".

"With the signing of Nakano - said Giampiero Sacchi, Sporting Director of the Piaggio Group - we complete the team for the World Superbike 2009. Aprilia faces difficult competition having as adversaries the greatest world constructors, it is a hard but fascinating challenge that needs interpreters of before greatness: Biaggi and Nakano are a couple of pilots at the same time fast, competitive and of great experience. This is the top for an innovative, technological project, being ambitious in sport like Aprilia RSV4

[D3athscyth385]

It has been confirm..Shinya Nakano would be in World SBK for 2009 with Max Biaggi @ Aprilia

 

Shinya Nakano has signed up to join Max Biaggi on the Aprilia RSV4, thus completing the Aprilia team that will race in the 2009 Superbike World Championship.

The Japanese rider, after he visited the Racing Department of Noale, signed the contract that ties him to Aprilia for the whole of the next season with an option for 2010.

Shinya Nakano, born in Chiba on October 10th 1977, is a pilot of great experience who can boast ten seasons in the World Championship: two in 250 cc - the category in which he was vice-champion of the world in 2000 - one in 500 cc and seven in MotoGP.

Nakano declared: "I am happy indeed, for me it is a joy to belong to the Aprilia family. Here I have found a big tradition and extraordinary competence in the races that Aprilia faces with high professionalism, and the 33 world titles won up to today are confirmation of this. Superbike is a new challenge, I want to risk all of my experience to help the new Aprilia RSV4 project. It will be a honor to be able to race beside Max Biaggi, he is a hero of mine and he was an inspiration to me in the first phases of my career, I am sure that together we will succeed in developing the best motorbike and to already get good results in the season 2009".

"With the signing of Nakano - said Giampiero Sacchi, Sporting Director of the Piaggio Group - we complete the team for the World Superbike 2009. Aprilia faces difficult competition having as adversaries the greatest world constructors, it is a hard but fascinating challenge that needs interpreters of before greatness: Biaggi and Nakano are a couple of pilots at the same time fast, competitive and of great experience. This is the top for an innovative, technological project, being ambitious in sport like Aprilia RSV4

 

Yeah..can't wait 2 c the new RSV4 in action as well as on the road:bounce:

[MC28]

Yeah..can't wait 2 c the new RSV4 in action as well as on the road:bounce:

 

Provided there are ppl who buys that thou...

 

Damn, the road bike exhaust is huge...

 

http://www.rsv4aprilia.com/media/foto/big/factory/RSV4_Factory_03.jpg