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Marco Simoncelli (born 20 January 1987 in Cattolica) is an Italian Grand Prix motorcycle road racer

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Marco Simoncelli (born 20 January 1987 in Cattolica) is an Italian Grand Prix motorcycle road racer. A top rider of the Italian Minimoto Championship from 1996 to 2000, Marco Simoncelli moved to 125cc bikes after taking two consecutive titles in the aforementioned discipline. After a promising first season in the 125 Honda Trophy, Simoncelli took the European 125cc title in 2002 and had a first taste of Grand Prix racing the same year.On 25 June 2009 it was confirmed that Simoncelli would move up to premier class racing for 2010 MotoGP championship after agreeing to ride with the San Carlo Gresini Honda team.

Aleix Espargaró (born 30 July 1989 in Granollers, Spain)

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Aleix Espargaró (born 30 July 1989 in Granollers, Spain) is a Spanish motorcycle road racer.On October 6 2009 it was announced that Espargaró had signed an agreement with Pramac Ducati to race in the 2010 MotoGP Championship. He will replace Niccolò Canepa in the team. He also replaced the injured Canepa for the last two races of the 2009 season in Sepang and Valencia.

Hector Barbera survived a huge crash during the Italian round of the championship on June 1, 2008

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Hector Barbera survived a huge crash during the Italian round of the championship on June 1, 2008. Running second behind Marco Simoncelli on the penultimate lap who tried to defend his lead by changing his line on the straight, Barberá slipstreamed onto Simoncelli's back wheel and clipped it with his front brake lever. His bike somersaulted through the air, with Barberá escaping somewhat uninjured. However, a further crash in practice at Motegi left him with two spinal fractures, ending his season
On 20 August 2009 it was announced Barberá will move to MotoGP in 2010, riding for team Aspar which will also move from 250cc to MotoGP. The team will use Ducati customer bikes

Mika Kallio (born 8 November, 1982 in Valkeakoski)

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Mika Kallio (born 8 November, 1982 in Valkeakoski) is a Finnish Grand Prix motorcycle racer. He debuted in the 125cc World Championship with the Finnish rookie team Ajo Motorsport in 2001 and was awarded the "Rookie of the Year" in 2002. After moving to Red Bull KTM during the 2003 season, he finished runner-up in the class in 2005 and 2006

Fausto Gresini is pleased to announce that Marco Melandri will line up alongside Marco Simoncelli in the San Carlo Honda Gresini Team for 2010

2010-01-30T22:25:00.000-08:00

Fausto Gresini is pleased to announce that Marco Melandri will line up alongside Marco Simoncelli in the San Carlo Honda Gresini Team for 2010. It is a case of ‘Back to the Future’ for the 27-year-old from Ravenna, who returns to the Italian outfit after a spending year with Ducati in 2008 and the current season on board the Team Hayate Kawasaki. Before that the team and rider enjoyed a three-year relationship, from 2005 to 2007, that saw Melandri take the runner-up spot in the championship, win five races and finish on the podium no fewer than 17 times. During that time Melandri upheld the winning spirit at Honda Gresini and always set his sights on top results even in difficult times.

Álvaro Bautista Place of Birth: Talavera de la Reina, Date of Birth: 21st November 1984

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Álvaro Bautista Place of Birth: Talavera de la Reina, Date of Birth: 21st November 1984.
2006 - 125cc World Championship. World Champion. First 125cc race win. Eight victories and only off the podium twice during the whole year With eight pole positions, seven fastest laps and 338 points during an almost perfect season
2007 – 250cc World Championship. First 250cc wins and podiums. Fourth position overall and won the FIM ‘Rookie of the Year’ award.
2008 - 250cc World Championship runner-up. Ten consecutive podiums and a total of four wins

Álvaro Bautista World Championship - 250cc 2009 . Two victories and seven further podiums. Fourth overall in the championship.

Randy de Puniet (born February 14, 1981 in Maisons-Laffitte, Yvelines)

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Randy de Puniet (born February 14, 1981 in Maisons-Laffitte, Yvelines) is a French Grand Prix motorcycle road racer. 2006 was his first season in MotoGP, for the Kawasaki factory team, where he remained for 2007. At Barcelona he took his first front-row start, and finished a career-best fifth. Up until Donington, he has started all but one other race on the third row. He started 4th and finished 2nd at Motegi in the wet. August 24, 2007 saw the Honda LCR team announce that de Puniet would ride for them in 2008 and 2009.

Ben Spies (born July 11, 1984 in Germantown, Tennessee)

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Ben Spies (born July 11, 1984 in Germantown, Tennessee), also known as "Elbowz" due to his riding style where his elbows protrude outward, is a professional motorcycle road racer who turned pro in 2000. He won the AMA Superbike Championship for Yoshimura Suzuki in 2006 (only the second time since 1999 that his team-mate Mat Mladin had not won it), and successfully defended it in 2007 and 2008.

Hiroshi Aoyama , born October 25, 1981 in Ichihara, Chiba) is a Japanese Grand Prix motorcycle

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Hiroshi Aoyama , born October 25, 1981 in Ichihara, Chiba) is a Japanese Grand Prix motorcycle road racer. He is the older brother of former 250cc and World Superbike rider, Shuhei Aoyama.
In his six seasons in the 250cc World Championship, he raced Honda and KTM machinery in an Aprilia-dominated class. He took eight victories and never finished lower than seventh overall. He won the 2009 250cc World Championship, becoming the last ever winner of this class before its replacement by the Moto2 class in 2010.

Andrea Dovizioso (born March 23, 1986 in Forlimpopoli, Italy)

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Andrea Dovizioso (born March 23, 1986 in Forlimpopoli, Italy) is a professional motorcycle road racer. He won the 125cc World Championship in 2004.

Colin Edwards II (born February 27, 1974 in Houston, Texas)

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Colin Edwards II (born February 27, 1974 in Houston, Texas) nicknamed the Texas Tornado is an American professional motorcycle racer. He is a two time World Superbike champion and has competed in MotoGP since 2003, now riding for the Yamaha Tech 3 team. Edwards has recently signed an extension to his contract to continue with the team for the 2010 season.

Valentino Rossi,born February 16, 1979 in Urbino, is an Italian professional motorcycle racer ....

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Valentino Rossi,born February 16, 1979 in Urbino, is an Italian professional motorcycle racer and multiple MotoGP World Champion. He is one of the most successful motorcycle racers of all time, with 9 Grand Prix World Championships to his name. According to Sports Illustrated, Rossi is one of the highest earning sports personalities in the world, having earned an estimated $34 million in 2007.
Following his father, Graziano Rossi, Rossi started racing in Grand Prix in 1996 for Aprilia in the 125cc category and won his first World Championship the following year. From there, he moved up to the 250cc category with Aprilia and won the 250cc World Championship in 1999. He won the 500cc World Championship with Honda in 2001, the MotoGP World Championships (also with Honda) in 2002 and 2003, and continued his streak of back-to-back championships by winning the 2004 and 2005 titles after leaving Honda to join Yamaha, before regaining the title in 2008 and retaining it in 2009.
Rossi is first in all time 500 cc/MotoGP race wins standings, with 77 victories, and second in all time overall wins standings with 103 race wins (behind Giacomo Agostini with 122).

Casey Stoner born 16 October 1985,is an Australian motorcycle racer....

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Casey Stoner born 16 October 1985,is an Australian motorcycle racer. Born and raised in Southport, Queensland, Stoner raced from a young age and moved to the United Kingdom to pursue a racing career. After first competing internationally in 2002, he won the title of 2007 MotoGP World Champion when he succeeded American Nicky Hayden. He currently competes in the MotoGP class for the Ducati Marlboro Team.In 2008, Stoner was named Young Australian of the Year as well as Nickelodeon´s Australian Kids Choice Awards.Stoner opened the 2008 season with a victory at Qatar, before a run of two races without a podium. He returned to the podium with a second place at Mugello, before starting a run of seven successive pole positions.He turned three of them into successive victories - a lights-to-flag win at Donington, leading every lap at Assen six days later,and recovering from a huge Friday crash at Sachsenring to win in the wet after Dani Pedrosa crashed, moving to within 20 points of the championship lead. However, successive crashes while fighting for the lead at Laguna Seca where he remounted to finish second to Valentino Rossi,Brno and Misano ensured that he could not defend the title successfully.Stoner finished the 2008 season as runner-up to Rossi with 280 points, the highest amount of points ever gained without taking the title.

Jorge Lorenzo born May 4, 1987 in Palma de Mallorca....

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Jorge Lorenzo born May 4, 1987 in Palma de Mallorca, Balearic Islands, Spain, is a professional motorcycle road racer. He was the 2006 and 2007 250cc World Champion.In 2009 Lorenzo stayed with Yamaha. His season started strongly, with two wins out of four races, in Japan and France. Two crashes later in the season, during rain hit British Grand Prix and at Brno have hampered his title bid, as he laid 50 points behind championship leader Valentino Rossi prompting Lorenzo to claim his chances of winning the title have gone.He won at Indianapolis, while both Rossi and Pedrosa crashed, reducing Lorenzo's gap to Rossi to 25 points.

Ben Spies born July 11, 1984 in Germantown, Tennessee, also.....

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Ben Spies born July 11, 1984 in Germantown, Tennessee, also known as "Elbowz" due to his riding style where his elbows protrude outward,is a professional motorcycle road racer who turned pro in 2000. He won the AMA Superbike Championship for Yoshimura Suzuki in 2006 ,only the second time since 1999 that his team-mate Mat Mladin had not won it, and successfully defended it in 2007 and 2008.

For 2009 he raced in the Superbike World Championship series for the Yamaha Italia team,winning the championship in his rookie year by six points over rival Noriyuki Haga. He started racing on Yamaha YSR 50cc bikes with the Central Motorcycle Roadracing Association in Texas as a pre-teen. Spies currently lives in Longview, Texas.

Daniel Pedrosa Ramal born September 29, 1985 in Sabadell, Spain is a Grand Prix motorcycle racer....

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Daniel Pedrosa Ramal born September 29, 1985 in Sabadell, Spain is a Grand Prix motorcycle racer. Pedrosa grew up in a village near Sabadell called Castellar del Vallès. He is the youngest world champion in 250cc Grands Prix. Pedrosa is 1.58m (5ft 2in) tall and weighs 51 kg.Dani Pedrosa started riding bikes at the early age of four, when he got his first motorcycle, an Italjet 50, which had side-wheels. His first racing bike was a minibike replica of Kawasaki, which he got at the age of six and which he used to race with his friends. Pedrosa experienced real racing at the age of 9, when he entered the Spanish Minibike Championship and ended his debut season in second place, scoring his first podium finish in the second race of the season. The next year, Pedrosa entered the same championship, but health problems prevented him from improving his results and he ended that season in 3rd position.

Nicholas "Nicky" Patrick Hayden born July 30, 1981 in Owensboro...

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Nicholas "Nicky" Patrick Hayden born July 30, 1981 in Owensboro, Kentucky also known as The Kentucky Kid is the American professional motorcycle racer who won the MotoGP World Championship in 2006.As a youth, racing others twice his age in CMRA, Hayden would often start the race from the back of the starting grid while a family or crew member held his bike upright because he could not touch the ground. Later, at age 17, he was racing factory Honda RC45 superbikes while still in high school. In 1999, he won the AMA Supersport championship on board a privateer Honda. In 2001, his first full season as an AMA superbike racer, he came within 40 points of winning the championship, finishing behind only champion Mat Mladin and runner-up Eric Bostrom. The 2002 season, however, would see Hayden answering the bell: he won the Daytona 200 on a Honda Superbike en route to becoming the youngest ever AMA Superbike Champion, defeating reigning treble champion Mat Mladin, among others. He also entered the World Superbike round at Laguna Seca, making a solid 4th in the first race before colliding with Noriyuki Haga in race two.