Mechanical rumor the root of Barberá’s Laguna trouble

The Páginas Amarillas Aspar rider fell foul of a trouble with the chainlet on his satellite Ducati at Laguna Seca, ending a fantastic weekend with pension just three laps into his U.S. GP debut

Héctor Barberá had began the Red Bull U.S. Grand Prix from tenth on the grille and as one of only three riders to pick up points from every round so far in the 2010 season. The Páginas Amarillas rider would pick up his first DNF of the year after only three laps, still. Sometimes hard work is not enough, and happening was not on the Spaniard’s side on Sunday. A trouble with the chainlet of his Ducati machine brought an end to his race, in a situation that arrives with the job of being a motorcycle racer. Barberá’s great indicating in the first half of his rookie season gives him cause for blessedness over the summer break, and he will be back and fully aroused at the next lap of the series, in Brno at the end of next month.
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Randy de Puniet Replace For Seca and Roger Lee Hayden In

The Frenchman had a successful operation last night on his left leg, and expects to be back for Brno. LCR Honda have claimed the American rider will stand in at this weekend’s Red Bull US Grand Prix.

Randy de Puniet undergo a successful two-hour operation on his left leg last night to insert a titanium rod, subsequent fractures to his left tibia and fibula continuous in a crash in Sunday’s race at Sachsenring.

The surgery, performed by Doctor Claudio Costa from the Clinica Mobile along together with Doctor Ulf Schendel and his medical team, was holded at hospital in Hartmannsdorf where De Puniet was streamed by helicopter from the circuit. LCR Honda have declared the operation as a positive one, and De Puniet would leave the hospital tomorrow (Tuesday, July 20th) to begin his rehabilitation with the aid of the Clinica Mobile.
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Lorenzo yearns better M1 feeling after first German run

The World Championship leader was left disillusioned with his first practice at Sachsenring in which he positioned sixth, as he fought for front feeling on his Fiat Yamaha M1. Jorge Lorenzo encountered a first practice session at the eni Motorrad Grand Prix Deutschland that cease him and his Fiat Yamaha team with some overnight problems to resolve, namely a better front-end feeling on his M1 prototype.

The flow World Championship leader, who has won the last three races arrival into Sachsenring, was sixth fastest in the hour-long practice at 0.703s off Dani Pedrosa’s leading lap time. Lorenzo elaborated a change in the manner he rides for Saturday’s second practice and qualification sessions in order to recapture feeling and get back toward the top end of the timesheet ahead of Sunday’s race.
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Leonov Recover, Ready for The Next Round at Jerez

The Vector Kiefer Racing rider undergo an operation last week once fracturing his right elbow in the Moto2 race in Qatar, and will be fit as well as prepared for the next round at Jerez.

It was a crucial debut in the Moto2 category for Leonov at the opening Commercialbank Grand Prix of Qatar, at that time the Russian rider agonized a fractured right elbow as he fallen out of the first-ever race in the new intermediate class.

As Leonov kept on work his way up from the rear of the field of riders, it was on lap eight that the Russian rider experience several troubles that led to the high side crash which ended his race early.

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