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The moneysupermarket.com bike insurance channel has teamed up with Silverstone to offer a 20% discount off the price of tickets to this year’s British round of the Moto GP championship.

This offer is exclusive to anyone who utilises the moneysupermarket.com bike insurance comparison service.

20% Discount on Moto GP tickets

All you have to do to be eligible for the 20% discount off the price of tickets to the event which takes place on the 12th June is go to the moneysupermarket.com bike insurance homepage and click on the Moto GP logo on the top right hand side of the screen.

You must then follow the on screen instructions and provide the information which is required in order for a bike insurance quote to be calculated. This will include an active email address, statistics about yourself (age, gender etc) and a motorbike registration plate number. Within minutes you will be provided with bike insurance quotes from some of the UK’s leading bike insurance companies. Just remember to take a note of the company which offers you the cheapest deal.

You can then phone the Silverstone box office as normal to order your tickets on 0844 372 8260. However, this time you should quote the letters “MSM-MGP”. You will then be asked for your bike registration plate number and the name of the insurer who offered you the cheapest deal in order to validate the fact that you have used the moneysupermarket.com bike insurance service. Correctly answering these questions will mean that you are automatically entitled to the 20% discount on the price of tickets to this year’s event.

On the right track

This will be the first time that the Moto GP championship has utilised Silverstone’s new £27 million pit and paddock complex. Construction of the facilities began in April 2010 and it has been completed ahead of schedule.

The start/finish straight will now be along Hangar Straight on the opposite side of the circuit to the old facilities. The launch event was attended by a number of key motorsport figures including the legendary nine times world champion Valentino Rossi. Rossi missed the 2010 event due to injury, and therefore can not wait for this year’s race: “I’m very excited because I had a toe injury so I had to watch the race from the television but it was not the same and so I decided to come here and see the track because all the other drivers say it is good and fast…I can’t wait for the grand prix.”

A great event

The 2010 season was dominated by Yamaha’s Jorge Lorenzo whose good form has been carried through to 2011, with the Spanish rider currently leading the championship by 12 points. However, the 2011 season is a much more closer battle with Honda having produced a much more competitive bike for its riders, which is allowing former world champion Casey Stoner to demonstrate his undoubted skills as he currently lies 2nd in the championship. The battle between the two looks set to be scintillating at Silverstone, a track both riders enjoy.

Bike fans will also be able to enjoy the spectacle of the now recovered Rossi who has joined the ailing Ducati team for this season. Expect fireworks in Britain as the Italian super team battle against the odds in their attempts to beat the stronger outfits at a race Rossi has admitted he can not wait to take part in. It is set to be a brilliant race, so make sure you don’t miss out.

Australian Casey Stoner (Ducati Desmosedici) ingratiated himself with his penchant for getting the best time to practice for the Grand Prix MotoGP Australia, despite reaching “defeated” at Phillip Island after losing the title mathematically with Italian Valentino Rossi ( Yamaha YZR M 1), who crashed, literally, at the end of the day.

Rossi did not quite get a good return on his Yamaha YZR M 1 on the first date after recovering, two years later, the MotoGP world title, and this made him stop rolling on the floor at high speed and getting hit.

Although he tried to continue training when he joined the track again in Australia was no longer effective time to improve the twelfth position then occupied, which affects his performance long ago. However, knowing how “being spent” the 2008 world champion, tomorrow in the final free practice to improve the situation to ensure, at least, the struggle for positions of privilege in the Australian race.

Still, Valentino Rossi will not all them, because in the fall there was a sharp blow to the neck which caused him discomfort than you should be fit for the race if you want to perform at peak performance.

Meanwhile, Casey Stoner did his job and ended up getting the best training time, which puts him in a unique position to try to win at home so they can lay their best season after season which will have to undergo surgery for operated on the injured hand, which dragged on for and a few big prizes.

In addition to Stoner, the first line of the formation of departure will be the Spanish Jorge Lorenzo (Yamaha YZR M 1), which won its particular pulse of American Nicky Hayden (Honda RC 212 V), but all of them, including Australian In less than a tenth of a second, which portends a tight race start at least.

The new rear tire compound used at the Grand Prix of Spain bwin facilitated the achievement of a new lap record and career best total time in MotoGP, while the subsequent test of the compound allowed the development front.

Bwin Grand Prix of Spain turned out to be not only a great show for the fans, but also a success for the official tire supplier Bridgestone MotGP.
The 17 MotoGP riders chose the hard compound front, while Aleix Espargaro was the only driver who did not choose the rear tire half, and chose the soft compound.

The combination chosen by the majority resulted in a great race with Dani Pedrosa set a new circuit record of 1’39 .731 on lap two, and a new career best total time. The durability of the tires used were also displayed in the comeback of Jorge Lorenzo. Responsible for the development of Bridgestone racing tires, Tohru Ubukata, was very pleased with the performance of their products in this race. Read the rest of this entry »

Every lover of motorcycles and you want a game. Surely a game like this MotoGP but what this franchise has incentives to pay their license every year?

Then run this analysis as a tear out of every year. Obviously it is a pleasure to be riding a MotoGP bike competition in 10/11. It is a great simulator that can largely satisfy both the purists and those who simply are attracted to accelerate (though obviously this is not the game). This is because the gameplay is perfectly measured at four levels: beginner, normal, expert and simulation. This results in the first level brake the bike only to a curve or demos in the last face to face with the crown to accelerate rather not put the pilot’s position. If we add the ability to view or not drawn (the imaginary line perfect for navigating the circuit that changes color depending on if we needed more speed to make a curve and, therefore, eat or sand), conclude that this is an excellent gameplay with a learning difficulty curve and very well implemented. If you have years if playing a simulator try to catch a jet maximum displacement of first and see the result.

What gives this quality peldanito MotoGP are obviously their licenses (all teams at all levels with all drivers and circuits). For an understanding that is what was once supposed to hand opt for a Fifa that for a Pro
So, this is a superb and excellent game as never seen before. If we had not seen the last season’s MotoGP.

And here the problems begin: graphically despite being very interesting, it shows the textures lazy in everything other than road. Thus, the atmosphere is a little sloppy and sometimes seems we are driving along a county with no one or anything (a commentary would be a touch of color). This laziness is added to the cut scenes (sorry, the cut-scene) if it is not what is most important, it does lose something in the simulation. Pereza addition to not see the menus or the pictures or the faces of the drivers making them a tad sosainas and pulls a little overboard what to pay licensing.
Speaking of menus, sometimes are not very intuitive. For example, to view our rating in the championship when we pass through a maze is probably what most concerns us know.

We followed this years championship modes (the typical arcade), the story mode (a good mix between a manager and he races), challenge (which is how to achieve certain targets in a race), the time trial and multiplayer.
The latter brings us back to raise doubt. Included in the story mode of interest the cooperative, which with a friend you can play a championship with both of the same team. Apart from face to split screen (either in addition to the grill with bots or not). But in the online.

It is not known if there is not much community but to be made to the idea: take a 125CC race is impossible, in a miracle and 250cc GP game but not always find plenty of choice.
In this sense, there is no more than take little run, incentives, or levels, or ways to customize a championship … Very Light.

But worst of all in the online multiplayer games is that they host (anybody, even you may be) and if it loses and decides to go, the race was going. And there is not a bonus for which necessarily have to go and a penalty for which has decided to end the game.

Thus, we can not say anything that stays in MotoGP 10/11 7. Has no desire to innovate anything, to improve the achievements so far it seems a labor of total laziness.

The IRTA has appointed Aragon Motorland circuit as the best Grand Prix of the 2010 season. Never in the history of the prestigious awards (awarded by the association of all teams participating in the Grand Prix) was awarded this honor to a path in its first year as an organizer of a World Championship event.
The failure of the IRTA for Aragon MotorLand recognizes both dazzling and modern facilities of the Spanish circuit as overcoming any obstacle, to allow a circuit race held in a tax reserve is finally a full schedule of class facilities world.
A challenging layout with some exquisite facilities for teams, together with cooperation and warmth of the organization, citizens and businesses in the region and the strong support of the pilots, has boiled over to the A-Style Grand Prix of Aragon 2010, the highest praise of the year.
By winning this award, MotorLand Aragon joins other prestigious name to paths that have previously earned the award, including Jerez, Catalunya and Valencia. It therefore becomes the fourth Spanish circuit that achieves the honor. In fact, Spain tops the list with nine winners over the 27 year history of this distinction. Read the rest of this entry »

The association of MotoGP teams (IRTA) has announced the results of the vote which, season after season, made the team leaders of the world about what has been the best Grand Prix of the year. On this occasion, in his first year as an organizer, MotorLand has been the most votes. It is the first time in the history of this prize is awarded to a debutante circuit.

MotorLand Aragon has been awarded with the Best Grand Prix of the 2010 season after the vote by the 53 heads of world motorcycling team of three categories participants (125, Moto2 and MotoGP). IRTA (International Road Racing Teams Association), which is the association that encompasses all the teams, the award given annually to a circuit.
Aragon Grand Prix MotoGP was held for the first time on 19 September with a audience of 116,931 people at the weekend. This is the first time in the 27-year history of the award that a circuit receives the award in his first year as an organizer. The vice president and spokesman of the Government of Aragon and MotorLand president, José Ángel Biel, was pleased at the news: “It gives me special pride as president of MotorLand, more recognition, in this case to the organization, global teams MotorLand recognize as the best 2010 MotoGP circuit. I’m sure we will continue MotorLand many joys. ” Biel has also highlighted the work of everyone who worked for the Grand Prix of Aragon, held on 19 September was a success.

Dramatic departure from Valencia Nico Terol, who surprised everyone and after imposing a strong pace in the second round and took out nearly three seconds to his closest rivals, who were forming a group led by his team-mate Hector Faubel, Miguel Oliveira (Team Civic Banking Andalucía) and Efren Vazquez (Ajo Motorsport).

Hector Faubel (Bankia Team Aspar 125) succeeds in reducing the gap to his teammate and the two are involved in a trip that ends up having a margin of nearly 15 seconds behind a good fight for the third step of the podium, which was ruled out rivals fall, was first Efren Vazquez, the lack of 4 turns the author of the pole, Germany Sandro Cortese (Germany Intact Racing Team) who goes to the floor in the curve of entry into the main straight. Leaving the way clear for Jonas Folger (Red Bull Ajo Motorsport) and Frenchman Johann Zarco (Avant AirAsia-Ajo)

Finally passed under the checkered flag, Nico Terol first, not knowing that his team suffered a fall on the last lap, second after the fall of Hector Faubel completed Jonas Folger (Red Bull Ajo Motorsport) to achieve the second podium of his career, third and the first podium finish of his career Frenchman Johann Zarco (Avant-Garlic AirAsia). Read the rest of this entry »

Former world champion Jorge Lorenzo (Yamaha Factory Team) has won a career marked by the fall, with the Jerez track very wet at the start of race where Jorge Lorenzo made a spectacular start getting second behind Casey Stoner (Repsol Honda team) leading the race starting from the light turns green. While his teammate Dani Pedrosa after a poor start is behind the ninth.

Casey Stoner (Ducati Team) and Jorge Lorenzo (Yamaha Factory Team) gradually distanced themselves from their immediate rivals, but Marco Simoncelli (San Carlo Honda Gresini), who was running third, do not lose the trail. Behind, Andrea Dovizioso (Repsol Honda Team), Valentino Rossi (Ducati Team), Ben Spies (Yamaha Factory Team) and Nicky Hayden (Ducati Team) formed a third group that is vying for fourth place, although slowly, Rossi and Dovizioso were able to distance himself from his pursuers.

In the front, pouncing on Marco Simoncelli of Jorge Lorenzo to put more emotion to the configuration of the podium, while Valentino Rossi did the same coming to contact with the Gresini team rider. Finally, Simoncelli has catapulted himself leading the race ahead of Jorge Lorenzo, Valentino Rossi and Jorge Lorenzo. Therefore, it seemed that the struggle for victory would be most exciting and contested. But a few laps, ‘Il Dottore’ was going to the ground taking with Casey Stoner, the Italian was able to rejoin the race, while the Australian was forced to retire. This incident has left Marco Simoncelli and Jorge Lorenzo riding solo in the first and second places respectively. Read the rest of this entry »

The International Motorcycling Federation has reported the rule changes for the World Championship next season. The highlight is the change in the starting blocks to be in rows of 3 riders in all categories and not only in MotoGP, as I was still so far.

The 2011 return to the two practice sessions for each class on Fridays and Saturdays , with the MotoGP 60 minutes, 45 minutes Moto2 and 125 of 45 minutes (Friday and Saturday mornings) and 30 minutes (in the afternoon on Friday and Saturday).

You allow tire warmers not only in MotoGP, but also in Moto2 and 125. Finally it should be noted that next year the rules only allow the use of GPS in a single bike that provide Dorna. This gadget is used, inter alia, to adjust Altuna setings of the bikes as is traction control in MotoGP. Read the rest of this entry »

Valentino on arrival at the opening dinner of Wrooom. The picture illustrating this article was taken even before entering Valentino Rossi in the room where tonight he is performing his official presentation as the Italian rider in the MotoGP 2011 season.

The expectation was highest during the welcome cocktail at the press in the ski resort of Madonna di Campiglio , where traditionally Phillip Morris has 21 years his teams in Formula 1 and MotoGP.

The event was started and within minutes it has hit the American Nicky Hayden , Ducati also for the third consecutive season in 2001. Later the pilots appeared Formula 1 Ferrari, Fernando Alonso and Felipe Massa.

However, the minutes passed and nothing was known about the expected Valentino Rossi. Finally we have waited outside the hotel at temperatures below zero and a few minutes after it has hit a Fiat Punto Evo specially decorated with the colors of Ducati. Once inside, Valentino has posed with Fernando Alonso , the other star in this presentation of the teams sponsored by Marlboro MotoGP and F-1.

On Tuesday, 11 at 9:30 am is scheduled to appear Rossi in his first press conference as Ducati. As rumored, the Italian brand has given express permission to decorate the GP11 Desmosedeci individually decorated , will respect the brand’s corporate red and whose design is already ready Aldo Drudi.