Team HRC gives the world a first glimpse of the CBR1000RR-R Fireblade that will be raced in the 2022 season. Via a virtual launch, Team HRC beat everyone else to the punch by being the first to unveil its bike for the upcoming 2022 season. Honda unveiled a striking red, white and blue colour scheme with a nod to the past: 30 years on from the launch of the original Fireblade, which changed sports bikes design and became an icon across the world. The stunning CBR1000RR-R will be ridden by two Spanish rookies, Iker Lecuona and Xavi Vierge throughout the season and is sure to give Honda fans a bit of nostalgia, wrapped around a stunning new WSBK Challenger.

Red Bull KTM’s Jorge Prado dominated the Grand Prix of Latvia in the MX2 class and the latest round of the FIM Motocross World Championship to increase his lead in the standings to 30 points over Thomas Kjer Olsen. The eighteen year old Spaniard started from first place and set the pace in every session. His 1-1 represented his seventh ‘double’ of the year. From eight rounds of MX2 prior to Latvia, Jorge Prado has claimed seven wins (all seven he has contested in 2019). Prado was understandably upbeat despite a hard weekend for his teammates in the MXGP class. “This weekend was a bit down for the team. There were some ‘ups’ like my victory and the good ride by Tom but then Jeffrey and Tony getting injured is upsetting,” said Prado. “I wish a speed recovery for both of them. From my side it was a perfect weekend.…

Dean Harrison has won the Dunlop Senior TT, the most prestigious race of the Isle of Man TT. Michael Dunlop took the top step in the Lightweight TT. Both riders were running Metzler tyres. The success at the Dunlop Senior TT represents an historic victory for both the tyre brand and the rider from Bradford, who took the Senior TT for the very first time. Furthermore, at 30, Dean Harrison is one of the youngest riders ever to win this race. After getting three second places in the Superbike and Supersport races on Monday 3rd June and in the Superstock race on Thursday 6th June, Harrison finally got a 2019 win under his belt in the blue ribbon Senior race. Harrison was riding the Kawasaki Ninja ZX-10RR of the Silicone Engineering Racing Kawasaki team fitted with Metzler Racetec RR Slick tyres and won by 53 seconds over second place Peter…

With just a week to go before the official FIM Enel MotoE test at Valencia, electric bike builder Energica has released video and pictures of a crash that occurred in testing at the Cremona Circuit. Official Test Rider Alessandro Brannetti crashed one of the Ego Corsas whilst braking into a corner. The bike tumbled and rolled on the gravel trap a few times. The images released by the company show how little damage the bike suffered in the incident, which goes some way to proving how solid and safe the bike is in a real world scenario. Energica has now completed the rebuild of all the Ego Corsa machines which will be used at the Ricardo Tormo Circuit for three days, from June 17th, before taking on the opening round of the series at the Sachsenring in early July. The company also completed eight days of testing with 80 laps…

Red Bull KTM Factory Racing’s Taddy Blazusiak and Jonny Walker finished in sixth and eighth places respectively at the 2019 Erzbergrodeo Red Bull Hare Scramble in Austria. KTM supported Manuel Lettenbichler finished as runner-up following a two-and-a-half-hour battle for victory. The 25th Erzbergrodeo Red Bull Hare Scramble once again lived up to its fearsome reputation as being the world’s toughest one-day hard endure, with huge puddles and extremely slippery conditions in the forest sections adding to the level of difficulty faced by the 500 qualified riders. Five-time winner of the event, Taddy Blazusiak put in an excellent performance to bring his KTM 300 EXC TPI home in sixth place. “I feel this is one of those results that doesn’t show how well I rode,” said Blazusiak. “I got together with Billy off the start then got stuck with the riders who fell on the first hill, so it was a…