The Grand Prix of Malaysia, the thirteenth round of the season, proved a difficult race for FORTUNA HONDA riders Marco Melandri and Toni Elias. The Spaniard made a magnificent start and quickly climbed up into fifth place having set off from 14th on the grid. Over the first few laps Elias lapped with the lead group, but when they dropped the pace a little he decided to push harder and fell as he chased Stoner and Roberts. Team-mate Marco Melandri also endured a difficult weekend and, as he had during qualifying, struggled to find the ‘feeling’ with his bike that would have allowed him to demonstrate his true potential. Problems with the front end slowed his progress and forced him to settle for ninth and some important championship points. The Italian now sits fifth in the standings with 168 points, some 46 behind leader Nicky Hayden.

Team Alstare Suzuki Corona Extra rider Yukio Kagayama took a superb victory in the
first race at the Eurospeedway Lausitz World Superbike Championship 10th round in
Germany with team mate Troy Corser joining him on the podium.

John Hopkins raced his Rizla Suzuki GSV-R to a superb sixth place at today's Malaysian Grand Prix in Sepang after being relegated to 14th on the first lap.

Date: Sept 16
Venue: HK Sun Plaza, Macapagal Avenue, Pasay City

Privateer race teams are welcome to sign up for the races to enjoy riding where finishing the race is an achievement and celebration of teamwork between riders, mechanics and the motorcycle. No other race in the country is as awaited by manufacturers, riders, tuners and mechanics.

The MotoGP World Championship leaves European soil behind once again this weekend as it heads east for three races in as many weekends. The chase for the title promises to be an exciting affair as five riders stake their claim over the remaining five races, which will take place over the next eight weeks. The season-long battle looks certain to go all the way to the wire. Marco Melandri, who lies fourth in the standings behind Rossi, Pedrosa and Hayden on 161 points, is one of the firm candidates for the most treasured prize in motorcycle sport.

One of the closest MotoGP World Championships in history heads into its final stage this weekend as the series heads out to Malaysia for the first of a five-race spell across three continents. Races at Sepang,
Phillip Island (Australia), Motegi (Japan), Estoril (Portugal) and Valencia (Spain), will decide the destiny of a title which for the past five seasons has been lifted by Yamaha superstar Valentino Rossi. For
the Italian to retain that honour he must turn around a 38-point deficit to current leader Nicky Hayden (Honda), although no fewer than nine riders still have the mathematical odds to take the honours.

After Loris Capirossi's spectacular win in the Czech GP and with the return of Sete Gibernau, who was forced to miss the Brno race, the Ducati Marlboro Team is now back to full strength again and ready to face up to the Malaysian GP at the Sepang circuit.

Newly-crowned AMA Motocross Champion Ricky Carmichael raced his RM-Z450 to two straight race wins at the weekends 11th round at Steel City Raceway near Delmont in
Pennsylvania as his Makita Suzuki team mate Broc Hepler dominated the Lites class.

Rizla Suzuki MotoGP gets back into action this coming weekend for round 13 of the MotoGP World Championship at Sepang in Malaysia, the first of three races in successive weekends.

Assen (Netherlands), Sunday 3 September: Troy Bayliss (Ducati Xerox) moved another step closer towards taking a second World Superbike title with his tenth win of the season at Assen. The Australian crashed out of the first race, held in dreadful weather conditions and won by Chris Walker (Kawasaki), but then had a relatively easy run to the maximum points in the second counter after his three main rivals Noriyuki Haga (Yamaha), James Toseland (Honda) and Troy Corser (Suzuki) were involved in a first-corner incident. Troy now leads the championship with 332 points, 100 ahead of Toseland and 102 ahead of Haga, with 150 points still up for grabs in the remaining three rounds.

Team Yoshimura Suzuki dominated todays AMA Superbike Championship penultimate round at Road Atlanta and are now assured of the 2006 title but it all comes down to the final round next month between todays winner Mat Mladin and team mate and series leader Ben Spies.

It was a day of mixed emotions for the Yamaha Motor Italia team in Assen. Andrew Pitt grabbed two superb second places to move up to fourth in the championship but team-mate Noriyuki Haga dropped down to third after he failed to finish either race.

Reigning World Champion Troy Corser and team mate Yukio Kagayama both fell victims to the weather conditions at todays World Superbike Championship round at Assen in Holland, crashing out of the opening race. And Corser left the event point-less after being taken out on the first corner of race two.

Braselton (Georgia) 3 September 2006: Parts Unlimited Ducati's Neil Hodgson fought one of the closest and most exciting battles of the 2006 season on Sunday, trying his best to earn a spot on the podium in the AMA Superbike race at Road Atlanta. Neil came up just 0.098 short of a rostrum finish as he and Aaron Yates raced for third position coming down the hill on the last lap at the Georgia track. Ben Bostrom was seventh on his Ducati 999 as he improved one spot on the final lap of the 25-lap race.

Mat Mladin led a Team Yoshimura Suzuki clean sweep in todays first leg of the AMA Superbike hampionship Suzuki Superbike Showdown at Road Atlanta in Georgia with team mates Ben Spies and Aaron Yates joining him on the victory podium.

Team Alstare Suzuki Corona Extra rider Troy Corser shrugged off problems in World
Superbike qualifying to take his 37th Superpole at Assen today - his first Superpole
since Monza in early May and his third of the season - to move further ahead of his
nearest rival Carl Fogarty, who has recorded 21 pole positions.

Haga and Pitt make superpole improvements

Noriyuki Haga grabbed his third consecutive front row start after taking second
place in today's grid deciding superpole session at Assen.

Yamaha Motor Italia's Andrew Pitt ended today's first qualifying session in sixth position on his first acquaintance with the remodeled Assen circuit in the Netherlands, with team-mate Noriyuki Haga just behind in ninth.