After a season full of successes, race wins, podiums, fastest laps and pole positions, Carlos Checa and the Althea Racing team today received the ultimate prize at the Circuit de Nevers Magny-Cours, as Carlos was crowned World Superbike Champion 2011 at this, the penultimate round of the championship! This was not all, as, thanks to [...]
After a weekend of continuously improving performances in the practice sessions, followed by a strong morning warm-up, Valentino Rossi wasn’t ultimately able to take advantage of the good work carried out on the GP11.1. The Italian crashed just a couple of corners into the race after he and Jorge Lorenzo made contact, which sent him [...]
Following his victory in the first race today of the Magny Cours round of the World Superbikes, Althea Ducati’s Carlos Checa finally took his first ever world title as he was crowned 2011 World Superbike Champion.
Carlos Checa and the Althea Racing team showed themselves to be very competitive in today’s Superpole at the Magny-Cours circuit. Despite a technical problem between the first and second phases, the Spanish rider qualified in third position for tomorrow’s races, in which he needs to earn just three points in order to be crowned 2011 [...]
The refining of the GP11.1’s setup for the Motegi circuit continued positively on the second day of practice at the Japanese Grand Prix. During the four sessions run thus far, Valentino Rossi and his team have focused mainly on the Desmosedici’s weight distribution. The Italian was seventh at the end of qualifying, and was satisfied [...]
