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Jonathan Rea clinched a delightful double in contrasting weather conditions to slash Alvaro Bautista's World Superbike Championship lead from 41 points to just 16 during a dramatic weekend of racing at Misano in Italy.
Jonathan Rea has closed the gap to World Superbike Leader Alvaro Bautista to 16 points after winning the final race at Misano.
Jonathan Rea won Saturday's World Superbike race one at Misano to close the gap to series leader Alvaro Bautista.
Jonathan Rea finished second overall after the opening two practice sessions for the seventh round of the World Superbike Championship at Misano yesterday.
The 2019 Bayview Hotel Armoy Road Races was launched in Portballintrae yesterday on the 40th anniversary of the death of Frank Kennedy, one of the members of the much admired Armoy Armada.
The seventh round of the World Superbike Championship takes place at Misano World Circuit Marco Simoncelli on the Adriatic coast of Italy this weekend - but Eugene Laverty won't be in action.
The family of road racing legend Joey Dunlop have appealed for items belonging to the late world champion to be returned to them.
The sizzling rivalry between Alastair Seeley and his British Supersport championship adversary Jack Kennedy boiled over after Saturday's scheduled 12-lap sprint race at Brands Hatch.
British Supersport Championship leader Alastair Seeley ended free practice yesterday in fourth position ahead of today's qualifying and opening race at Brands Hatch, 0.903sec slower than the fastest rider of the day and one of his chief rivals Jack Kennedy.
Alastair Seeley leads the British Supersport Championship by 30 points as practice begins this morning at Brands Hatch for the fourth round of the series.
Carl Phillips will lead the charge when the Mid Antrim 150 Club host the fifth round of the AJ Plumbing Supplies Ulster Superbike Championship at Bishopscourt on Saturday.
Four-time World Motocross champion Jeffrey Herlings will be attending the fifth round of the Maxxis British Motocross Championship at Desertmartin on June 20, courtesy of Milwaukee Powertools and Hitachi KTM.
The sixth round of the World Superbike Championship at Jerez in Spain proved to be a rollercoaster ride for four-time champion Jonathan Rea over the weekend.
In the Post TT Race meeting at Colas Billown Circuit on Saturday evening, Cork rider Mike Browne, who had an excellent TT debut, scored a 600cc race victory on his debut at the track.
Jonathan Rea finished second in a dramatic World Superbike race at the weekend, as series leader Alvaro Bautista crashed out.
Jonathan Rea has been stripped of his podium place after the opening World Superbike race of the weekend ended in controversy in Spain.
Dean Harrison won a dramatic six-lap Senior TT race yesterday with the Silicone Engineering Kawasaki rider taking the lead after long-time leader Peter Hickman ran into mechanical problems with his Smiths BMW on the penultimate lap.
Jonathan Rea was third fastest in yesterday's practice session ahead of today's first race of the sixth round of the World Superbike Championship at Jerez in Spain.
Peter Hickman has revealed that a confusing water issue denied him a Superbike double at the 2019 Isle of Man as a mechanical problem allowed Dean Harrison through for a first big bike win in the Senior TT.
It was hats off to hat-trick hero Peter Hickman as he notched up wins two and three as the sun finally shone on the Isle of Man.
Form may be merely temporary, but Michael Dunlop yet again proved that class is permanent as he stood on the top of the podium on the Isle of Man for a 19th time.
An emotional Michael Dunlop choked back the tears as he chalked up yet another milestone for Northern Ireland's premier road-racing dynasty.
Michael Dunlop has won his 19th Isle of Man TT race to take the family's total to 50 TT victories.
Friday's headline race at the Isle of Man TT has been brought forward after a weather warning was issued.
Weather frustrations were put on pause during Thursday at the Isle of Man TT.
Peter Hickman has completed a hat-trick of victories at this year's Isle of Man TT with a Thursday double.
Thursday is set to be a bumper five-race day at the Isle of Man TT after organisers again had to concede defeat with all of Wednesday's scheduled races and qualifying cancelled.
Wednesday night's race at the Isle of Man TT has been cancelled due to the poor weather.
The Isle of Man TT organisers have released a revised schedule in the latest attempt to conclude the weather-hit festival of racing.
Peter Hickman took victory in yesterday's opening Isle of Man TT RST Superbike race, but it was over-shadowed by the death of 27-year-old Daley Mathison.
Fermanagh flyer Lee Johnston last night dedicated his emotional first Isle of Man TT victory to the memory of his late father, Everett, who passed away after a cancer battle two years ago.
The Isle of Man TT has been hit with more cancellations due to the continued poor weather on the island.
The grieving wife of tragic road racer Daley Mathison paid a heartbreaking tribute to her husband, killed in an accident in yesterday's opening Superbike race at the TT.
English road racer Daley Mathison's wife has paid an emotional tribute to her husband after his death in an incident during the Superbike race at the Isle of Man TT this morning.
It's beginning to sound like a broken record now, as yesterday's two scheduled qualifying sessions for the Isle of Man TT, fuelled by Monster Energy, joined the ever increasing 'cancelled club' with the inclement weather again playing havoc with practice and qualifying.
Both of the planned Isle of Man TT qualifying sessions on Thursday were cancelled due to poor weather.
Saturday's RST Superbike race may be put back for 24 hours following the cancellation of last night’s practice session on the Isle of Man.
There were blue skies and dry roads yesterday but windy conditions greeted the Superbike, Superstock and Supersport machines as practice for ths year's Isle of Man TT resumed after weather delays last night .
Dean Harrison once again led the way in the Superbike and Superstock times during the second Isle of Man TT qualifying session on Tuesday evening.
Clerk of the Course Gary Thompson announced at 4.10pm yesterday that TT practice and qualifying had been postponed due to inclement weather.
Alastair Seeley on the EHA Yamaha scored an impressive British Supersport double at Donington over the weekend to take the championship lead, as his rival Jack Kennedy crashed out of Saturday's Sprint race, suffering a broken scaphoid bone ruling him out of Sunday's feature race.
A packed weekend of motorcycle sport sees BSB, British Championship Quadcross, Irish Championship motocross, Ulster Superbike action, TT practice commences and Pre-TT Classic action all to look forward to.
It was a rotten day for Mervyn Whyte and his team at Saturday’s North West 200 but they rescued it in the end.
It will go down as the longest race ever in the 90-year history of the North West 200.
Saturday certainly tried the patience of competitors, officials and long-suffering spectators throughout an initial five hours of heavy rain, racing and non-racing incidents.
Coming to the North West 200 since he was in his teens, 55-year-old Jeremy McWilliams has raced all around the world and on Saturday he rode to a tremendous victory in the four-lap JM Paterson Supertwin race around the 8.97mile Portrush-Portstewart–Coleraine circuit to become the oldest winner at the event in its 90th anniversary year.
English rider James Hillier has been named the man of the meeting at this year's North West 200.
The measure of a man is not how he basks in the glory when things go well but how he responds when all is going awry and the responsibility to make it right is his alone.
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