Hopper Testing at Qatar with Rizla Suzuki
It started out as a rumor, with Crash.net reporting that John Hopkins could see himself once again taking to the Suzuki GSV-R in a one-off wild card race during the 2011 season. That notion in the past...
View ArticleHopkins to Wildcard in World Superbikes at Silverstone
Despite newly announced title sponsor Samsung, British Superbike squad Crescent Racing will not enter John Hopkins as a wildcard entry for the Donington Park round of World Superbike racing as...
View ArticleA Behind the Scenes Look of Alpinestars HQ with Jon Kirham and Crescent Suzuki
Where does Crescent Suzuki’s Jon Kirkham go when he needs custom racing leathers made for his British Superbike Championship bid? Why Alpinestars of course. Testing in Spain before the 2011 season...
View ArticleJohn Hopkins Takes First Race Win in 11 Years
It was the first time that an American has won a British Superbike race, and his victory in Race 2 at Oulton Park was John Hopkins’s first race win in 11 years, making the event doubly special for the...
View ArticleHopper Turns Down Tech3 and Repsol Ride Offers
With two riders out of MotoGP right now because of shoulder injuries (Dani Pedrosa & Colin Edwards), the number of riders in the premier class has dropped down to just 15 expected to compete at the...
View ArticleJohn Hopkins to Wild Card at WSBK Silverstone Round
Announcing its plans back in March to skip Donington Park for Britain’s other track, Samsung Crescent Suzuki has confirmed that the team, along with Anglo-American rider John Hopkins (and teammate Jon...
View ArticleJohn Hopkins Undergoes More Surgery
With just one more round left in the 2011 British Superbike Championship, John Hopkins has undergone more surgery, again having his hand operated on for injuries he sustained after crashing at the...
View ArticleHopkins to Wild Card with Rizla Suzuki at Malaysia
Rizla Suzuki has announced that John Hopkins will return to MotoGP action for another race, riding again as wild card entry, this time at Sepang. The Malaysian GP will be Hopper’s third stint in MotoGP...
View ArticleCrescent Suzuki Joins World Superbike with Leon Camier
The World Superbike team roster will grow a little bit next year, as Crescent Suzuki, formerly of British Superbike fame, will join the premier production motorcycle racing series. While there was...
View ArticleJohn Hopkins to World Superbike with Crescent Suzuki
With the news that Crescent Suzuki would make a move from the British Superbike Championship, and enter into the World Superbike Championship, all eyes have been on whom the British team would field as...
View ArticleWSBK: John Hopkins Amputates Finger
On his way to recovery, in more than one way, John Hopkins may not be the man he used to be after this weekend. Having a number of surgeries and complications with his right hand after his MotoGP wild...
View ArticleCrescent Fixi Suzuki Debuts John Hopkins’ WSBK Livery
John Hopkins continues his stepping-stone return to MotoGP, and accordingly will compete in the 2012 World Superbike Championship with Paul Denning’s Crescent Fixi Suzuki team (note the newly announced...
View ArticleSuzuki Back in MotoGP for the 2014 Season?
When Suzuki announced that they would be pulling out of MotoGP at the end of the 2011 season, they were keen to emphasize that the withdrawal was only temporary, saying they were planning a return to...
View ArticleWSBK: Hopkins Breaks Foot – Will Miss Donington Park
If John Hopkins didn’t have his bad luck, the Anglo-American would have no luck at all. Crashing in the questionable conditions at Monza, the Crescent Fixi Suzuki rider injured himself at the Italian...
View ArticleJohn Hopkins to Take a Year Off from Racing
John Hopkins is to take a year out from racing to allow himself to recover fully from the multiple serious injuries that have plagued him throughout the 2012 season. In particular, a nagging hip injury...
View ArticleWSBK: Blake Young Replacing Leon Camier at Laguna Seca
The Istanbul Park round of World Superbikes proved to be particularly punishing. Carlos Checa fractured a hip, Ayrton Badovini hurt his ankle, and Leon Camier broke the bones in his right foot in seven...
View ArticleMotoGP & WSBK Testing: Laverty Rides the Suzuki, Forward Heads to Jerez, &...
It’s been a busy time for motorcycle racing in the south of Spain. With the winter test ban about to commence, and now in force for both MotoGP and World Superbikes, the teams are heading south to get...
View ArticleQ&A: Paul Denning on the Cost Of New Rules, Expanding Audiences, and the End...
At the Assen round of World Superbikes two weeks’ ago, we caught up with Voltcom Crescent Suzuki boss Paul Denning, to get his vision on how the new technical regulations proposed for World Superbike...
View ArticleEugene Laverty Moving to MotoGP – For Aspar, Maybe?
It is no secret that Eugene Laverty is keen to move to MotoGP for the 2015 season. The Irishman has been present at the last three MotoGP rounds, touting his services around the teams in the hope of...
View ArticleWSBK: Randy de Puniet Signs with Crescent Suzuki
Randy De Puniet is to make a return to racing full time. As had been rumored for some weeks now, the Frenchman is to make the switch to the World Superbike series, where he will join the Crescent...
View ArticleCrescent Suzuki Confirms Talking to Hopper
Being the fine British blokes that they are, MCN was able to get ahold of Crescent Suzuki Boss Jack Valentine, and ask him about the validity to the rumors suggesting that the British Superbike team is...
View ArticleHopper to BSB Reportedly A Done Deal – Still Not Official
Confirming earlier rumors (x2), reports are coming out of the Crescent Racing’s British Superbike team that Anglo-American John Hopkins will be riding for the Suzuki-based team in the upcoming 2011...
View ArticleOfficial: Hopper to British Superbikes
Truly official now, John Hopkins has signed-on with the Crescent Suzuki British Superbike team for the 2011 season. Hopper’s first duty on the BSB team will be to test at the upcoming sessions at the...
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