Honda Motorbikes: Bikes in the Fast Lane: #fiatyamahateam MotoGP France Report: The Scooters plus 5 more

Saturday, May 22, 2010

Bikes in the Fast Lane: #fiatyamahateam MotoGP France Report: The Scooters plus 5 more

#fiatyamahateam MotoGP France Report: The Scooters
#fiatyamahateam MotoGP France Report: Day 2 PM
#fiatyamahateam Interview Michele Quarenghi
#fiatyamahateam MotoGP France Report: Day 2 AM
#fiatyamahateam Interview Brent Stevens
#fiatyamahateam MotoGP France Report: Day 1 Night

#fiatyamahateam MotoGP France Report: The Scooters

Posted: 22 May 2010 07:45 AM PDT

MotoGP races isn't only about really fast motorcycles. The majority of motorcycles are in fact small, 50cc, scooters and mopeds.

Here's a look at the fleet of scooters and almost-motorcycles, and one electric Quantya motorcycle that I saw at the French MotoGP.

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#fiatyamahateam MotoGP France Report: Day 2 PM

Posted: 22 May 2010 06:45 AM PDT

A quick look at all the other main MotoGP hospitality areas. I went during the MotoGP qualifiers since nobody was outside. If you want to know more about the QP, check out MotoMatters.com... they know more about it than me.

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#fiatyamahateam Interview Michele Quarenghi

Posted: 22 May 2010 04:30 AM PDT

MotoGP France 2010 Fiat Yamaha Team Michele

Continuing our look at the Fiat Yamaha MotoGP team support staff, we interviewed probably the most popular person on any large racing team; the chef/cook.

Michele Quarenghi has been doing this for 3 years, and cooks, hold your breath, .... 15,000 meals during the race season. Here's the interview.

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#fiatyamahateam MotoGP France Report: Day 2 AM

Posted: 22 May 2010 02:45 AM PDT

Here's a quick tour of the paddock area of the Le Mans MotoGP.

We even spotted Valentino Rossi's private motorhome, where he sleeps when racing in Europe.

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#fiatyamahateam Interview Brent Stevens

Posted: 21 May 2010 10:45 PM PDT

Brent at MotoGP France 2010 Fiat Yamaha Team

As promised, a look at the people you rarely see or hear from at the MotoGP races, but have very important roles.

This is Brent Stevens, a Kiwi, living in Australia, but working on every MotoGP circuit of the world, and he is one of Valentino Rossi's mechanics. For your info, he spends some 500 hours per year flying in airplanes.... that's more than what most commercial pilots do..

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