VR46 Web-interview by FIAT

If you’re a Valentino Rossi fan, you’ve probably seen this video interview of Rossi by Tiziana Di Gioia, Sponsoring Manager of Fiat and Yamaha on the Fiat on the web because it’s in Italian, but twowheelsblog came to the rescue with the translation, so you don’t miss out on anything regarding our AGV Dainese top rider.

TDG: Name?
VR: We’re starting with the basic questions?
TDG: Yes
VR: Valentino
TDG: Surname?
VR: Rossi
TDG: Profession?
VR: Motorcycle racer
TDG: Vale, a quick question now that the season is over …
VR: Do I look at you or at him?
TDG: Look at me … what are you going to do now, relax, rest, what are your hobbies? I know you like snowboarding …
VR: Look, my first hobby are the races, so in November I’m going to do a few races, but not with the Yamaha GP, but with motocross bike and rally cars and have some fun and in December I’m going on vacation and I really like snowboarding and with some friends we’re going skiing this winter.

read the rest here: http://www.twowheelsblog.com/post/3516/video-interview-with-valentino-rossi-by#continua

The Donkey is coming!!

AGV helmets announces the release of the GP-Tech replica of Valentino's Donkey. This must-have lid will hit the US towards Feb 2010.

AGV helmets introduce the MT-X

This is AGV helmets return to the off-road and motocross scene. Quite a few years and development got by since Guennady Moisseev won 3 world titles with this below lid :-)

The new AGV project is the "entry level" MT-X which will retail in the USA at $199 and in Europe around Euro. 149

Some features:

CHARACTERISTICS
Shell Painted HIR-TH (high resistant thermoplastic) resin
Number of shells 1 shell size
Ventilation System IVS (Integrated Ventilation System) with channels hollowed directly in the shell
Inside padding Removable and washable inside padding
Retention System Double D

AVAILABLE SIZES: S/M/L/XL/XXL

More from Vale at Sepang

Bellissimo Valentino!!

The legend continues! Valentino wins the 2009 MotoGP title and adds a 9th World Championship to his bio.



A few important facts about VR46:

1) Has 103 wins to his name, 77 in the premier class.
2) 163 podiums in all Grand Prix classes.
3) With Saturday’s pole position at Sepang, Rossi equaled Mick Doohan’s pole position record of 58.
4) Has never missed a race start since making his debut in 1996. He has started 226 successive GP races across all classes since; 167 of which have been in the top class.
5) Valentino Rossi and Giacomo Agostini are the only two riders to have won titles on both two stroke and four stroke bikes, and the only rider to have won championship titles on four different types of motorcycles: 500cc two-stroke Honda, 990cc four-stroke Honda, 990cc four-stroke Yamaha and 800cc four-stroke Yamaha.

Of course AGV and Drudi had a special edition GP-Tech helmet for the occasion.

Helmets: the Choice of Champions

Cool blog by Helmet

http://1st-helmet.blogspot.com/2009/10/agv-helmets-choice-of-champions.html

The Making of Valentino Rossi's 'Donkey' Helmet

Cool video found on www.twowheelsblog.com about Drudi and the team working on Vale's "Donkey" helmet for Misano.

Danese victory weekend at U.S. Red Bull Indy GP

Despite Valentino Rossi's disappointing crash during Sunday's MotoGP race at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway, AGV Dainese leaves Indy with 2 great victories in the hands of Fiat Yamaha's Jorge Lorenzo in MotoGP and Marco 'SuperSic' Simoncelli in the 250cc race.

AGV Dainese's James Rispoli interview at Mid-Ohio

AGV's Neil Hodgson Interviewed by Superbikeplanet.com

Check out Neil's interview by Sup's Dean Adams and Susan Haas:

Neil talks

MotoGP Donington 2009

The last MotoGP at Donington was a nail-bitter to the finish but unfortunately not including the 2 Dainese stars on their Fiat Yamaha. Jorge Lorenzo took the control of the race in the early stages before crashing and pulling out. Valentino then took the lead ahead of a very strong Andrea Dovizioso on his Repsol Honda before making a small mistake and crashing towards the end. Vale manage to remount his bike and raced back to the front, passing James Tosseland in the last lap, finishing an excellent 5th considering his race.

First time winner Dovizioso took the top spot ahead of a very happy Collin Edwards and Frenchman Randy De Puniet on his Playboy LCR Honda.

Rossi achieved big by remounting and finishing 5th while title rivals Lorenzo, Pedrosa (9th) and Ducati's Stoner (14th) lost valuable points on the Doctor.

MotoGP World Championship Point Standings (after 10 of 17 races):

1. Rossi, 187 points
2. Lorenzo, 162
3. Stoner, 150
4. Pedrosa, 115
5. Edwards, 103
6. Dovizioso, 94
7. Melandri, 79
8. De Puniet, 74
9. Vermeulen, 67
10. Capirossi, 66
11. De Angelis, 60
12. Toseland, 55
13. TIE, Hayden/Elias, 47
15. Kallio, 34
16. Canepa, 28
17. Sete Gibernau, 12
18. Yuki Takahashi, 9
19. Talmacsi, 5

Race summary video:

Outstanding Rossi and Lorenzo at the "Ring"

What a race, what a battle!

Valentino Rossi and Jorge Lorenzo took their Dainese leathers to another epic battle this Sunday at the Sachsenring for the Alice Motorrad Grand Prix Deutschland.

Congrats to the Fiat Yamaha riders for another 1-2 finish. Vale extending his lead in the champioship by a few points.

Rossi back on Pole at Assen TT

Valentino clocked a 1'36.025, ahead of Repsol rider Pedrosa and Dainese team mate Jorge Lorenzo, for pole at the legendary Assen TT circuit in Holland.

 

 

First AMA Grand National Twins victory for Dainese's Sammy Halbert

Cyclenews.com - June 20, 2009

It’s been nearly five years in the making, but Sammy Halbert finally broke through to earn his first AMA Grand National Twins victory, his second overall Grand National victory, Saturday night at Volunteer Speedway.

 

Sammy, the younger of the two racing Halbert brothers, nearly made a clean sweep of it riding the high-banked red clay 3/8ths-miles on his Halbert Family/Kings Kustoms Harley-Davidson XR750. He was the fastest in timed qualifying, won his heat race, the Dash for Cash and the National.

Despite Halbert’s obvious speed all day the victory didn’t come easy. Halbert battled all race with Blue Springs/Screamin’ Eagle Harley-Davidson’s Jared Mees, who won this race in 2007, and dealt with a late challenge by Kenny Coolbeth on the factory Harley-Davidson.

Halbert led early, but was passed on lap five by Mees, just before a red flag stopped the race when A.J. Eslick laid his bike down between turns one and two. On the restart Mees for another half-a-dozen laps, before Halbert took back the lead on lap 12 of 25. The leading duo battle so hard that it allowed a smooth riding Coolbeth to close the gap and join the battle foe the lead. For several laps it looked like the race would come down to a three-way, last-lap fight, but Halbert turned in a couple of picture-perfect laps to open a gap in the closing laps.

 

Halbert crossed the line .565 of a second ahead of Mees, with Coolbeth a close third.

“It’s been a long time coming, but it was worth the wait,” Halbert said of his first win on the big bikes. “Jared and I had a great race and fortunately I was able to buckle down and turn in a strong last five laps. It feels great to get my first Twins win. Everything seems to be going in a good direction for me now.”

Halbert’s victory was even more surprising since he crashed hard last weekend in Dayton, Ohio, along with his brother and Nick Cummings, injuring his shoulder in the process.

After two rounds of the GNC Twins Series, Coolbeth now leads by five points over Mees, 43-38. Chris Carr is third with 32 points; Sammy Halbert has 30 and Matt Weidman rounds out the top five in the standings with 27 points.

Brad Baker, riding a Brothers Power Sports/Mike Velasco Honda, won the rain-shortened Pro Singles final over Red Bull/Team 95 Honda’s J.D. Beach and Shayna Texter on the Lancaster Harley-Davidson/Screamin’ Eagle Suzuki. The victory, Baker’s second of the season, put him back in the Pro Singles Series lead by seven points over James Rispoli, who finished fourth.

The series moves to Lima, Ohio, next Saturday.

Dainese riders Rossi and Lorenzo give a racing lesson at MotoGP of Catalunya

Fiat Yamaha, and Dainese riders, Valentino Rossi and Jorge Lorenzo offered the crowd and fans one of the most epic racing battles of the decade when they took it to the final corner at Montmelo, for the 2009 MotoGP of Catalunya, this past Sunday.

VR46 passes Lorenzo in the last corner, signing his second victory of the season and tying in points and race wins with his teammate and Ducati's Casey Stoner.

The GP in Montmelo marked Valentino's 99th race win.

The last lap...



Valentino Rossi - 1st

“As we say in Italy, “Mamma Mia!” I think I can honestly say that this was one of the best and hardest wins of my career. Maybe Laguna last year was more important but this was a great, great victory because it went to the very last corner and it’s a long time since that has happened. I have dreamed about that move for the last two weeks and today it worked and I am so happy to have this 99th win. We did a perfect job all weekend and my M1 and Bridgestone tyres were brilliant, but we knew that Lorenzo was in the same situation and for sure he was very strong today. I had to be very brave and take it right to the limit in order to beat him. This victory today is more important than the 25 points and anyway now we all have the same, what a championship this is! As well as thanking my team, I especially want to dedicate this win to my Crew Chief Jeremy Burgess because his mother sadly died yesterday. I have to say thank you to her and to him because without him, for sure, I would never have arrived at 99 wins. Now I am going to go to sleep for quite a long time because I need to recover from this excitement!”

Jorge Lorenzo – 2nd

“This was an incredible battle today and a brilliant show for everyone, I am happy to have been a part of it. Of course I am sad to have lost because I put my heart on my bike and in my career I am more used to winning these last-lap fights, but today Valentino was maybe a little bit cleverer or a little bit braver than me at the very end and he was able to beat me. In fact during that last lap, after I passed him, I expected him to pass me back on the brakes much earlier but he didn’t come, and then I just didn’t close the line enough on the final corner and that was it. I am proud however because I am young and I still have a lot to learn in this class. My team have worked so well all weekend so thanks to them, if we can continue as strongly as this all season then who knows what can happen?”

Dainese legends Giacomo Agostini and Vale 46 at the TT

From twoowheelsblog.com

The two AGV Dainese legends at the Isle of Man TT 2009

"As Marc Potter from MCN, who rode alongside Valentino Rossi and Giacomo Agostini during the parade lap and was with the Italian duo while they were watching the Dainese Superbike race reported what Valentino Rossi said, or what I imagine anyone would say, who was taking in for the first time in their life the Tourist Trophy and watching John McGuinness go by at 180mph: “Fack!”"

Valentino's Mugello 09 helmet

Here are the first photos of the long-awaited Mugello '09 special edition AGV GP-Tech helmet that Vale will be using for the Mugello MotoGP.

This year’s Rossi´s Aldo Drudi designed AGV helmet features Valentino’s gloved hands holding his head/helmet and on the back of the helmet Rossi’s two bulldogs Cesare and Cecilia, with their paws also on their heads.

Wild Save by Raffaele De Rosa - must see!

Check this crazy video of AGV Dainese 250cc rider Raffaele De Rosa rodeo-riding his Honda at Mugello today.

AMA Superbike: AGV's Neil Hodgson returns at Infineon Raceway

Check out this OTT video of Corona Extra Honda's Neil Hodgson as he return to racing at Infineon. Another great on from the OnTheThrottle guys.

Rossi rides the Champ-Elysees in Paris

Wearing a beautiful Dainese leather suit to the colors of his sponsor Monster Energy, Valentino went for a ride on the Champs-Elysees in Paris, France, on theve of the French Grand-Prix.