We already know that 2013 will be a big year for MotoGP in the Americas. With the addition of the Circuit of the Americas in Austin, Texas, the total number of MotoGP rounds in the United States will increase to three, with Austin joining Indianapolis and Laguna Seca on the calendar. And according to reports in the Argentinian press, there could be a fourth round of MotoGP in the Americas, with a South American race joining the three North American rounds of the series.

The reports state that the Las Termas de Rio Hondo circuit in Argentina is due to sign a contract with Dorna to host a round of the MotoGP championship from 2013 through to 2015. The contract will be signed in the next few days, as the Argentinian president Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner is in France to sign, among other things, contracts with the ASO for the extension of the Dakar Rally, and she will be present at the signing with Dorna. 

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Paul Bordes

It looks like the rumors were true, as Dorna announced today that the MotoGP World Championship will race in Argentina during the 2013 season. In an event attended by Argentinean President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner, Dorna announced that MotoGP will come to the Autódromo Termas de Río Hondo track in the Santiago del Estero province for three years, starting in 2013 (subject to FIM homologation of course). Bringing premier motorcycle racing back to South America, Argentina is ...

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Silvano Bertarelli Albert Bertholet Guy Bertin Franco Bertoni Juan Bertran Willi Bertsch Paul Berwick Kees Besseling

The factory Yamaha team concluded a 1-day test at Misano on Monday, taking the 2012 Yamaha MotoGP machine out for the second time, after an earlier test at Brno. The test had originally been planned as a public test together with Honda and Ducati, but Ducati withdrew from the Misano test in July, and Honda pulled out shortly after the Brno test, both factories saying that they had nothing to test. As a result, the test morphed into a private test, leaving a small band of journalists to twiddle their thumbs in the press room, with no access to times and no access to the pit lane.

As a result, we have only the times released by the factory to go by, and with Jorge Lorenzo posting a 1'33.7 and Ben Spies posting a 1'34.3, both men were a couple of tenths quicker on the 1000cc bike on Monday than they were during the race on the 800s a day earlier. The difference with Brno was mainly down to the difference in the tracks: Brno is a big horsepower circuit with plenty of places where the added grunt can come into play. Misano is much tighter, with a lot of low-gear corners exiting onto the straights, meaning that neither the 800 nor the 1000 could use their horsepower to full effect. As a consequence, the extra mid-range of the 1000 largely went to waste. Even from the press room, sat above Misano's front straight, it was clear the 1000s were struggling to get the power down, the bikes wanting to wheelie all along the pit straight.

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Kenichi Yoshida Lewis Young Paul Young Yasuharu Yuzawa Shahrol Yuzy Norick Abe Hubert Abold Karel Abrahám

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Kork Ballington Hans Baltisberger Carlo Bandirola Alain Barbaroux Hector Barberá Fabio Barchitta Alan Barnett Lorenzo Baroni

Back-to-back wins in the last two rounds of the 125cc World Championship have seen Nico Terol (Banki...

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Youichi Ui Chris Vermeulen Pierrot Vervroegen Walter Villa Arnaud Vincent Jan de Vries Jason Vincent Danny Webb

The first day of practice at the Gran Premio di San Marino e della Riviera di Rimini featured high temperatures and humidity levels making quite conditions very challenging for all the riders. Valentino Rossi and Nicky Hayden worked to find a setup that will work with the fairly slippery asphalt and, toward the end of the second session, the Italian managed to have a decent run with the soft tyre. Tomorrow, both riders will work to improve their setups for the qualifying session.

Valentino Rossi:
?Fortunately, I managed to do two or three good laps at the end of the session, and to make up a few positions. We struggled because we wanted to ride with the hard tyre in order to work for the race, but unfortunately, following a promising start, I found it more difficult as the pace steadily improved. We lacked rear grip, especially with the bike leaned over, so we mounted the softer tyre at the end of the session. Today I did a ?35.3, but tomorrow we?ll try to cut at least half a second, working to also improve the feeling with the front under braking. We?ll start with the base setting from Brno and Laguna, and we?ll try some difference changes on the second bike.?

Nicky Hayden:
?This obviously isn?t how we hoped to come out of the gate here. I like this track okay, but it seems like every time I come here, it?s very hard to get up to speed. Basically, I?m pushing the front on corner entry and can?t get it stopped. My ideal time is ?35.0, but I can?t be consistent and put laps together. The track isn?t bad, but it?s hot and slippery and a little bit bumpy, and those things really don?t favor me on this bike. We?re definitely up against it but we?ll try a different solution for tomorrow.?

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Felice Agostini Giacomo Agostini Jack Ahearn Mitsuo Akamatsu Takashi Akita Kousuke Akiyoshi Raffaele Alberti Josef Albisser

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Sandro Artusi Javier Arumi Sadao Asami Giuseppe Ascareggi Franz Aschenbrenner Stuart Aspin Len Atlee Pierre Audry

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Jean François Balde Mike Baldinger Alex Baldolini Mike Baldwin Brian Ball Andrea Ballerini Kork Ballington Hans Baltisberger

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Mike Baldinger Alex Baldolini Mike Baldwin Brian Ball Andrea Ballerini Kork Ballington Hans Baltisberger Carlo Bandirola

After finishing a very successful weekend at the San Marino GP, the factory Yamaha squad stuck around Misano for another day, and tested the 2012 Yamaha YZR-M1. Though the 1,000cc class MotoGP monster has remained basically unchanged from its debut at Brno, reigning World Champion Jorge Lorenzo and teammate Ben Spies continued development on the bike’s electronics package and overall setup. Misano proved to be a good contrast for Yamaha, as the Italian track’s tighter ...

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Chris Baert Graham Bailey Steve Baker Peter Balaz Romolo Balbi Jean François Balde Mike Baldinger Alex Baldolini