Michele Pirro Confirmed At Gresini To Ride FTR Honda CRT Machine In MotoGP

The 2012 MotoGP grid took another step closer to completion today, with the announcement that Michele Pirro will be riding the San Carlo Gresini Honda team's CRT entry in MotoGP next season. Pirro is to ride a CBR1000RR-powered MotoGP machine, the Honda engine housed in a chassis designed and built by FTR.

The move had been long anticipated, with Pirro claiming the favorite role for the seat after his win in the final Moto2 race of the 2011 season at Valencia in November, aboard the Gresini Moriwaki. His Moto2 teammate Yuki Takahashi had originally been linked to the Gresini CRT ride, but the tragic death of Marco Simoncelli at Sepang left Gresini without an Italian rider for 2012, a key point for Gresini's Italian sponsor, snack manufacturer San Carlo. Pirro, who had shown clear progress throughout his debut Moto2 season, took priority over Takahashi once Alvaro Bautista was signed to race Gresini's Honda RC213V factory prototype for 2012, that deal being completed at Valencia.

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Photographer's Blog: The MotoGP Championship Trophy

The MotoGP Trophy

In August of last year I posted a desktop wallpaper on my website of the above image with a bit of information about the championship trophy's creator, GARCIAROJALS Studio in Barcelona. I'd seen the trophy up close for the first time while it was on display in the lobby of the mobile Dorna HQ building that travels to the European rounds. I was very impressed by the workmanship and design. It's quite a beaufitul bit of art, and I was pleased to share the above photo with others who shared that opinion.

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Caption Contest # 28

Below is a frame from Elvis? biggest movie, Blue Hawaii.  The three teenage girls are trying to hide so their chaperone doesn?t find them in Elvis? room.  Elvis needs to quickly think of a hiding place for them, but the first thing he blurts out is ?Girls, in the bed.?

 

True to his character, Elvis changed his mind and said, ?No, no.?

 

Although, we?ve never had a Caption Contest picture with a subtitle before, that dialog is what Elvis spoke in the frame. 

 

It doesn?t look like the two girls in the back are too big on the idea, but the one in blue looks like she is running to hop in the bed.  Anyway, send your captions to philarnold@charter.net.  Only clean captions can win, but feel free to send dirty ones for my enjoyment.

 

 

 

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Elvis, Elvis Presley, and Graceland are registered trademarks of Elvis Presley Enterprises, Inc.

 

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Fastest in San Francisco is a Sellout

We hope you bought your tickets to the San Francisco premiere of Fastest, Mark Neale’s latest MotoGP documentary, because our screening, co-sponsered by the San Francisco Dainese Store, has sold out. If you happen to fall into the group of GP junkies who haven’t purchased tickets to the SF Fastest screening, you’ll be happy to know that we’ve left 20 or so tickets waiting for you at the box office, but you’ll have to pick ...

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