2008 Australian MotoGP: Race results from Phillip Island

Casey Stoner won the Australian grand prix, followed by Rossi and and Hayden in second and third places. Winning his home GP should be some consolation for the 2007 MotoGP world champ...

2008 Australian Grand Prix: Race results from Phillip Island

1. Casey Stoner AUS Ducati Marlboro Team (B) 40min 56.643 secs
2. Valentino Rossi ITA Fiat Yamaha Team (B) 41min 3.147 secs
3. Nicky Hayden USA Repsol Honda Team (M) 41min 3.848 secs
4. Jorge Lorenzo SPA Fiat Yamaha Team (M) 41min 8.143 secs
5. Shinya Nakano JPN San Carlo Honda Gresini (B) 41min 8.557 secs
6. James Toseland GBR Tech 3 Yamaha (M) 41min 8.886 secs
7. Andrea Dovizioso ITA JiR Team Scot MotoGP (M) 41min 9.423 secs
8. Colin Edwards USA Tech 3 Yamaha (M) 41min 22.563 secs
9. Randy de Puniet FRA LCR Honda MotoGP (M) 41min 22.680 secs
10. Loris Capirossi ITA Rizla Suzuki MotoGP (B) 41min 23.442 secs
11. Toni Elias SPA Alice Team (B) 41min 23.670 secs
12. Anthony West AUS Kawasaki Racing Team (B) 41min 44.451 secs
13. John Hopkins USA Kawasaki Racing Team (B) 41min 44.976 secs
14. Sylvain Guintoli FRA Alice Team (B) 41min 45.542 secs
15. Chris Vermeulen AUS Rizla Suzuki MotoGP (B) 41min 45.578 secs
16. Marco Melandri ITA Ducati Marlboro Team (B) 42min 8.410 secs

DNF:

Dani Pedrosa SPA Repsol Honda Team (B) Lap 1
Alex de Angelis RSM San Carlo Honda Gresini (B) Lap 1

Full race report here

Pics from various races in the 2008 MotoGP season...

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world’s first supercharged KTM RC8:part 2

Aku Lantto, of Lantto Racing, with his supercharged KTM RC8 drag-racer

Pics: Lantto Racing

Earlier this month, we did this post on the world’s first supercharged KTM RC8, though we then did not have any details or tech specs. Well, now we do have more details and more pics, so here we go again…

Built by the Finland-based Lantto Racing, the supercharged RC8 drag-racer has been prepared in accordance with the FHRA’s Pro Street Bike class rules. The swingarm has been lengthened, the suspension has been lowered and a Rotrex C30-94 supercharger has been bolted on.

The engine’s compression ratio has been lowered to allow running more boost, and the engine management system has been custom-built by TaTech. Fully loaded, the bike weighs 188 kilos.

With around 250bhp, the bike does the quarter-mile in 9.815 seconds...

According to Aku Lantto, of Lantto Racing, the stock RC8 made 141.5bhp and 121Nm of torque, and did the quarter-mile (400m) in 10.17 seconds, hitting 219km/h. With the mods, the supercharged RC8 makes about 250 horsepower and 220Nm of torque, (running only 0.5 bar boost), and does the quarter-mile in 9.815 seconds, at 230km/h.

Aku says that with so much power, setting up the suspension is getting tougher and the clutch also takes a beating every time the bike is launched. Still, Lantto Racing plan to increase the boost to 1.5-2 bar, at which point the RC8’s engine should be pumping out more than 300bhp…

This supercharged KTM RC8 sure looks like one hell of an interesting project. Wish you all the best, Lantto. Go for it!

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150bhp, supercharged Honda VFR800...
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MotoMorphic JaFM 2:

Pics: MotoMorphic

We first wrote about the MotoMorphic JaFM#1 back in June this year. Well, Jim Davis (MotoMorphic founder) and his team are hard at work and the bike is now being further developed. The MotoMorphic JaFM#2 seems to be on its way…

Based on an Aprilia Falco, the MotoMorphic JaFM#1 features a custom-built chassis (made of 6061-T6 tubing and CNC machined billet 6061) which also serves as the fuel tank, custom-made swingarm, Ohlins fork, Penske monoshock and Brembo brakes.

The bike’s 990cc, DOHC, 8-valve, liquid-cooled Rotax v-twin, mated to a six-speed gearbox, makes 108bhp and 91Nm of torque, and the bike runs humungous rubber – a 250-section front tyre and a 300-section rear.

The JaFM#1 has now been tested for about 1,000km and #2 may not be very far away. In the meanwhile, you can visit the MotoMorphic website here for more details and updates.

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The coolest, maddest, wildest scooter ever!
Confederate Fighter: The most expensive Christmas present ever...
Diesel power: Clatter and roll...
The world's first supercharged KTM RC8...
1992 Kawasaki ZX-7R based special...
Specials from Febur and Icon
Supercharged Honda VFR800...

Malaysian Grand Prix...

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2008 MotoGP race results and MASSIVE collection of MotoGP wallpaper...
Classic: The 200mph, 1950s NSU 500 Kompressor...
In conversation with Alex Criville, 1999 500cc world champ
Valentino Rossi: "The first time..."
John Surtees speaks out against traction control...
Board-track racing: 160km/h on wooden planks, with no brakes..

2008 Malaysian MotoGP

The Malaysian GP was rather boring... Still, Rossi finished in first place, followed by Pedrosa in second, Dovizioso in third and Hayden in fourth places

2008 Malaysian Grand Prix: Race results from Sepang

1. Valentino Rossi ITA Fiat Yamaha Team (B) 43min 6.007 sec
2. Dani Pedrosa SPA Repsol Honda Team (B) 43min 10.015 sec
3. Andrea Dovizioso ITA JiR Team Scot MotoGP (M) 43min 14.543 sec
4. Nicky Hayden USA Repsol Honda Team (M) 43min 14.865 sec
5. Shinya Nakano JPN San Carlo Honda Gresini (B) 43min 16.590 sec
6. Casey Stoner AUS Ducati Marlboro Team (B) 43min 19.647 sec
7. Loris Capirossi ITA Rizla Suzuki MotoGP (B) 43min 21.943 sec
8. Colin Edwards USA Tech 3 Yamaha (M) 43min 24.809 sec
9. Chris Vermeulen AUS Rizla Suzuki MotoGP (B) 43min 29.181 sec
10. Randy de Puniet FRA LCR Honda MotoGP (M) 43min 31.523 sec
11. John Hopkins USA Kawasaki Racing Team (B) 43min 33.616 sec
12. Anthony West AUS Kawasaki Racing Team (B) 43min 47.406 sec
13. Sylvain Guintoli FRA Alice Team (B) 43min 51.624 sec
14. Alex de Angelis RSM San Carlo Honda Gresini (B) 43min 55.100 sec
15. Toni Elias SPA Alice Team (B) 44min 5.146 sec
16. Marco Melandri ITA Ducati Marlboro Team (B) 44min 9.335 sec
17. Nobuatsu Aoki JPN Rizla Suzuki MotoGP (B) 44min 54.370 se

Killer K1200R

There's a lethal spider lurking somewhere in there...

For those who think the K1200R wasn’t funky enough already, Wunderlich (Germany-based BMW hop-up specialists…) have built the Caranguejeira. A large Brazilian Tarantula spider, the Caranguejeira doesn’t wait for its prey to get trapped in a web. Nope, it simply hunts them down, killing its prey by injecting venom through its fangs. Definitely not one to be messed with…

The Caranguejeira K1200R was designed for Wunderlich by Bart van den Bogaard, a Netherlands-based designer. The mods comprise a new headlamp cluster, new taillamps, ZARD exhaust system, new handlebars, instrument relocation kit, dual air inlets (in place of the stock bike’s single inlet) with free-flow air-filters, adjustable brake and clutch levers and an aluminium bellypan.

The engine, chassis and suspension have been kept stock, though Wunderlich claim a 5bhp hike in power due to the dual air inlet thing. And while their website doesn’t say anything about this, we suppose they can do their ‘Killer Spidey’ thing on the K1300R as well.