Kenan 5th and Dominique 9th in Estoril moto2 race


The start of the moto2 race in Estoril, Kenan in front and Domi on his right hand side


Kenan Sofuoglu finish in 5th position in Estoril, Kenan has been the star of the show by pulling away in the early stage but a lose left handlebar made the bike more hard to ride and after mid race distance his rear tyre start losing grip so to finish 5th in this condition for his first moto2 race isn't a bad result.
Kenan did crash in the warm up and the team had little time to fix the bike, they  have to change front fork spring and oil level on the grid, they feel very sorry for the mistake made and apologize to Kenan, he should have been there on the podium.

Kenan's rear tyre after the race


Dominique has his first podium in sight but he wasn't the only one to think about it, the late agressive attack from the riders behind cost him to lose a few position and he only could manage to finish 9th.

Kenan Sofuoglu on the front row for first moto2 race, Dominique Aegerter on the second row

Dominique will start from the second row in 8th position, as the qualifying session has been cancelled the grid has been made from the combined free sessions.

Kenan Sofuoglu will start his first moto2 race from the front row, he has been in the top four in all 3 free practices, without no dry session the race may be an hard one if the weather condition is to improve, no data and not even one lap on slicks.



Kenan and Dominique in the top ten at Estoril moto2 free practice 2



Kenan Sofuoglu had to learn a new race track and getting use to the Suter chassis on a wet session in the morning and on a tricky session in the afternoon. As some riders were able to set their time on slicks toward the end, Kenan did set the 4th fastest time on full wet tyres.
Kenan Sofuoglu a dut apprendre une nouveau tracé et prendre la mesure de la Suter moto2 sur une piste mouillé le matin et sur une piste séchante l'après midi, il a réalisé le 4ème chrono avec des pneus pluie.

Dominique crash in free practice1 but was able to set the 8th fastest time in free practice2 on a drying race track using a front rain tyre and a slick rear tyre.
Dominique avait chuté lors de la séance du matin, il a réalisé le 8ème temps en utilisant un pneus arrière slick en fin de séance d'essais libres 2 sur une piste séchante.

from motogp.com

Blue color for Kenan Sofuoglu first moto2 race in Estoril.



This is the Suter moto2 Kenan Sofuoglu will ride for the last two races, in blue for a change.
Voila la Suter moto2 que Kenan Sofuoglu va piloter pour les deux dernières courses du championnat, en version bleu cette fois.

Kenan Sofuoglu and Dominique Aegerter testing in Albacete

Kenan Sofuoglu with Dominique Aegerter in Albacete, same team but different colors.
Kenan Sofuoglu au coté de Dominique Aegerter a Albacete, couleurs différentes pour les deux coéquipiers.


In Albacete Kenan Sofuoglu got his first taste of the Suter moto2  he will ride in Estoril and Valencia.
The purpose of the test was to get more familiar with a moto2 after spending years in world supersport, a similar engine but quite a different feel from the bike.

Kenan Sofuoglu a testé pour la première fois la Suter moto2 avec laquelle il disputera le GP d'Estoril et de Valencia. Le but du test était de se familiariser avec une moto2, moteur similaire mais des sensations de châssis très différentes d'une moto supersport.

Shoya's 49th day ceremony today in Japan

Shiju-kunichi
Today is the 49th day ceremony for Shoya in Japan


On the 49th day after the death of the person it is assumed that the deceased has begun their new life in the land of the dead unless something is keeping them here. The urn containing the ashes of the deceased is now placed in the family grave, and sutras and prayers are offered to the deceased. At this point, the deceased is given a posthumous name (kaimyo) and this name is placed on the funeral tablet (ihai). It is also believed that the final judgement is passed on the deceased on the 49th day with a good, respectable person going to heaven or a less respectable person going to one of the other realms of hell. 

TECHNOMAG-CIPMOTO2 Team welcome Kenan Sofuoglu fo the last two moto2 race


The Technomag-Cipmoto2 team is welcoming Kenan Sofuoglu two times World Supersport Champion for the last two moto2 race, Kenan will ride  alongside Dominique Aegerter in Estoril and Valencia but he will wear different colors for these two GP and the bike color will be different too, you will find out soon.




Racing Number:  54 
Date of birth:     August 25th, 1984
Birthplace:         Adapazari, Turkey
Height:             1,77m
Weight:            61 kg
Hobbies:           Supermoto, football & cycling

Career :
First race:     2000 - Izmit, Turkish Supersport Amateur class 
WSS debut:   2003 - Valencia
First win:      2006 - Netherlands, Assen 
World Titles:
2007:           World Supersport Champion
2010:           World Supersport Champion


To find out more about Kenan just click on the link below

De Angelis dedicates victory to Shoya Tomizawa

Alex De Angelis
“Je veux dédier cette course à Shoya Tomizawa. Je pense qu’il nous regardait de là-haut,” a-t-il déclaré. De Angelis, Scott Redding et Andrea Iannone, qui étaient aussi sur le podium, avaient d’ailleurs décidé de ne pas toucher au champagne lors de la remise des prix, en signe de respect. “Je suis évidemment très content de la façon dont le week-end s’est déroulé. Une pole position et une victoire en une seule course, c’est très bien et ça m’aide à revaloriser une saison qui a été difficile pour moi et en ce moment de joie je veux aussi me souvenir de Shoya.”




b“I want to say one thing: I want to dedicate this race to Shoya Tomizawa. I think he was watching from above,” said De Angelis, who along with fellow podium finishers Scott Redding and Andrea Iannone opted not to mark their celebrations with champagne as a mark of respect. “I’m obviously very happy for how the weekend has gone. Pole position and a win in one single race are a good thing and help me re-evaluate a season that has been very difficult for me, and in this happy moment I also want to remember Shoya".


http://www.motogp.com/en/news/2010/de+angelis+dedicates+the+victory+to+shoya


Ａ.デ・アンジェリス、今季初優勝もシャンパンファイトを自粛
厳しいシーズンを過ごした後で、喜びを爆発させたい今季初優勝だったが、自ら勝利の美酒を自粛。富沢に優勝を捧げた。
http://www.motogp.com/ja/news/2010/de+angelis+reviews+phillip+island


Dominique 13th in Phillip Island

Even the race track wasn't dry for the warm-up the team did collect valuable data, so Dominique did start the race with a setting he didn't even try during the practice.
What to say about the start, just fabulous, from 26th on the grid to 14th in the second corner. Now with more feedback from his bike Dominique start to move up  position, for a couple of laps he was 7th but after a little mistake he lost a few spot, from that he wasn't able to recover but still finish in 13th position.

Après une mauvaise qualif il ne restait que le warm-up pour trouver une solution au problèmes de Dominique.
Bien que se disputant sur une piste séchante le team a put récupérer de bonnes infos et ainsi Dominique est parti a la course avec des réglages non validés sur le sec.
Que dire une fois de plus du départ de Dominique, de 26ème a 14ème au deuxième virage, inspiré par de bonnes sensations Dominique continu a attaquer et remonte ainsi en 7ème position.
Groupe très performant qui se bat pour la 7ème place mais le dernier du goupe est 15ème.
A un moment Dominique commet une petite faute et se fait passer par plusieurs adversaires, il ne pourra désormais ne rien faire de plus et termine 13ème, beau résultat en partant 26ème sur la grille départ.


http://resources.motogp.com/files/results/xx/2010/AUS/Moto2/RAC/Classification.pdf?v1_8f5ea4f9

Dominique down to 26th in the cold and windy P/Island moto2 qualifying.

Du vent et du froid (13°) pour cette qualif moto2 ici a P/Island, Dominique est 26ème il y a donc du travail pour le warm up demain matin.

Cold weather and lots of wind for the moto2 qualifying, it didn't went well for Dominique down to 26th position for tomorow moto2 race here at P/Island so there is some work to do during the warm up to improve our setting. 


http://resources.motogp.com/files/results/xx/2010/AUS/Moto2/QP/Classification.pdf?v1_32f66c3a

Dominique 16th in Phillip Island moto2 free practice.

Rain, wind and low temperature, that was the conditions today in Phillip Island but for the moto2  the track dry out so we could have a normal session, still with a strong wind it made it difficult to ride. Dominique set the 16th fastest time, he struggle a little so we will have to improve our bike set up in order to be more competitive.


Result of free practice below



La pluie, le vent et le froid, c'était les conditions a Phillip Island aujourd'hui mais pour la moto2 la séance s'est déroulée sur une piste sèche. Avec un fort vent c'est assez difficile de rouler et Dominique qui a réalisé le 16eme chrono a peiné un peu, nous devons améliorer les réglages de notre machine afin qu'il soit plus compétitif.

Next motogp race at P/Island Australia

The Australian motogp website
 Le site du GP d'Australie moto a Phillip Island

 The challenging P/Island racetrack, some riders love it others no. 
Technique et difficile le circuit de P/Island ne laisse pas indifferent, certains pilotes l'aimes d'autres pas du tout.
Weather forecast for the week-end, rain?
La météo pour le week-end, la pluie?

Congratulations to Jorge Lorenzo and Toni Elias 2010 motogp and moto2 world champions

Nice word from the 2010 motogp world champion Jorge Lorenzo

Jorge would you like to dedicate this championship to anyone?

“To my father, to my mother, to my sister. To my family in Majorca, and my family here at the races. To everyone who has helped me get here: Giampiero Sacchi, Dani Amatriain, Lin Jarvis. I dedicate this title to Shoya Tomizawa... he was a great talent and unfortunately he couldn't realize his dream of becoming champion. I also dedicate it to my fans; who love my attributes but also understand my shortcomings and defects."

Dominique Aegerter 8th in Sepang moto2 race



Dominique finish 8th in the heat of Sepang moto2 race, a difficult race but what a start. Dominique was 4th at the first corner starting from 11th on the grid, lost a bit of speed on the first lap but he has a strong race.


We can see Dominique's helmet beetwen Elias and De Angelis

Dominique 11th in Sepang moto2 qualifying


Dominique set the 11TH fastest time during the qualifying session, he was hoping for more after setting the 6th fastest time during the free practice two, but a little lack of traction during the qualifying may have cause the loss of performance, still the warm up to find something more for the race.

Dominique a réalisé le 11ème chrono de la séance qualificative, un peu déçu après un beau 6ème chrono en séance libre2, un petit manque de motricité semble être a l'origine du problème qu'il va falloir essayer d'améliorer au warm-up.

Dominique 9th in Sepang moto2 free practice


Dominique set the 9th fastest time of Sepang interrupted first moto2 free practice.
The second period of the session has been interrupted by rain spots as a storm passed, all riders had to wait the end of the session to hit the track again.

Dominique a réalisé le 9ème chrono de la première séance d'essais libres, la séance a été interrompue par un orage qui est passé au dessus du circuit, une pluie légère qui a bloqués les pilotes dans leur stand, Dominique a amélioré son chrono en fin de séance.

Dominique 3rd in Sepang kart race



Karting contest for MotoGP stars
Thursday may have been a day off for the MotoGP World Championship riders as they prepare for the Shell Advance Malaysian Motorcycle Grand Prix, but a host of stars could not resist the urge to compete with one another on four wheels as they entered a karting competition at the Sepang International Circuit.
Split into two qualification groups Bradley Smith, Marco Melandri, Jules Cluzel, Kenny Noyes, Valentino Rossi, Pol Espargaró, Andrea Iannone, Alex Criville, Uccio and Angel Nieto made up qualification session one, with Dominique Aegerter, Mika Kallio, Jasper Iwema, Danny Webb, Alberto Moncayo, Danny Kent, Joan Olivé, Claudio Corti, Marcel Schrötter and Scott Redding in the second group.
Only ten riders qualified for the race, with Rossi missing out, and after a tight fight to the finish line Melandri took victory ahead of fellow premier class rider Kallio – who set the fastest lap of the race – and Moto2 star Aegerter.
Source Motogp.com
http://www.motogp.com/en/news/2010/sepang+karting

Kenan Sofuoglu to join the Technomag-CIP

Voici le communiqué de presse du team concernant l'intégration de Kenan Sofuoglu au team TECHNOMAG-CIP.

Pour éviter toutes mauvaises interpretations Kenan ne remplace pas Shoya, il va piloter une moto Suter prété par le constructeur, la moto de Shoya se trouve toujours au mains de la police en Italie.


Kenan SOFUOGLU intègre l’équipe TECHNOMAG-CIP, pour les deux dernières courses Moto2
2010 a Estoril et Valencia.

Kenan SOFUOGLU, né le 25 août 1983, en Turquie, a été sacré ce week-end Champion du Monde Supersport pour la seconde fois, après son titre 2007. Il sera le co-équipier de Dominique AEGERTER en moto2 lors des Grand Prix d’Estoril et de Valence.

Kenan Sofuoglu.

« Je suis très heureux de rejoindre le team Technomag-CIP pour les épreuves d’Estoril et Valencia. Le team a prouvé cette année qu’ils pouvait fournir une moto capable de gagner des courses. Je veux remercier Alain Bronec pour sa confiance et je suis impatient de travailler avec son équipe expérimentée pour conclure une saison qui honneur Shoya. »

Alain Bronec.

Au nom du team Technomag-CIP je félicite Kenan pour son deuxième titre de champion du monde supersport et je suis heureux de l’accueillir au sein de notre équipe.
Arriver en moto2 en fin de saison c’est un gros challenge, avec notre équipe et Kenan nous sommes prêt a le relever.


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This is the team TECHNOMAG-CIP presse release about Kenan Sofuoglu riding the last two races with the team, to avoid confusion we want to add Kenan is not replacing Shoya and he will ride a Suter bike but not Shoya's bike, Shoya's bike remain in the Italian police's hands.

Kenan SOFUOGLU to join the TECHNOMAG-CIP team

Racing together with the TECHNOMAG-CIP team.

Kenan Sofuoglu, born on 25th of August 1984 in Turkey, two times world supersport champion in 2007 and 2010 will race alongside Dominique Aegerter for the two remaining moto2 races in Estoril and Valencia.

Kenan Sofuoglu

"I am very happy to join forces with the TECHNOMAG-CIP Team for the races in Estoril and Valencia. The team has proven this year that they are capable of delivering a race winning bike. I want to thank Alain for his confidence in me and look forward to work with the very experienced crew to achieve a seasons ending that honours Shoya."

Alain Bronec

"First of all, congratulations to Kenan for his secondWorld Supersport championship title. I am happy to welcome him in our team. To compete in moto2 for the last two races is a real challenge. My team and Kenan are ready for it."

Dominique AEGERTER, Kenan SOFUOGLU and the TECHNOMAG-CIP team look forward to seeing you next October 31th, at the Estoril Grand Prix. .

Moving on



L’épreuve de Motegi a encore été très forte en émotions avec la présence la famille de Shoya avec nous dans notre stand et les différentes cérémonies en mémoire de Shoya.
Après avoir passé plusieurs jours en compagnie des parents de Shoya le moment le plus difficile fut sans doute le moment ou il a fallu se séparer le dimanche soir, durant ces derniers jours nous avons partagés nos souvenirs, depuis ce GP du Japon 2008 ou la décision de prendre Shoya dans l’équipe a été prise a ses derniers jours avec nous en passant par cette fabuleuse victoire au Qatar. Nous aimions tous Shoya, comme un fils, comme un frère, comme un ami, il est parti en emmenant avec lui une partie de nous même car Shoya avait ce pouvoir de nous faire sentir tous un peu spécial, il ne laissait personne indifférent.
Shoya nous as quittés et la vie continue, il sera pour toujours dans nos cœurs et dans nos mémoires, son nom sera pour toujours associé a notre équipe.

L’activité de notre équipe doit continuer, nous allons devoir annoncer le nom du coéquipier de Dominique pour les deux dernières courses de l’année à Estoril et Valencia.
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Motegi has been emotionally intense with Shoya’s parents presence and all the ceremonies in his memory.
The most difficult time has probably been on Sunday evening when it was time to leave each other. During the last few days we have been sharing our memories about Shoya from the 2008 Japanese GP in Motegi when the team decided to take Shoya to the world stage to his last days with us, remembering his fabulous win in Qatar.
We all loved Shoya, as a son, a brother and a friend. He is gone taking with him a little bit of us because we all felt special with Shoya.
Shoya is gone and life goes on, he will be forever in our heart and in our memory, his name will be forever associated to our team.

Our activity must go on, soon we will have to annonce Dominique’s team mate name for the last two races in Estoril and Valencia.

Books and trophy


All your messages send to motogp.com and to TVE are in thoses books
Tous les messages envoyés a moto.com et a TVE sont dans ces livres.


Dominique posing with the M.Metraux trophy and the #48 plate
Dominique pose a coté du Trophe M.Metraux et de la plaque #48

Dominique 12ème a Motegi moto2


Dominique finish 12th today in Motegi moto2 race, from the start he couldn't really ride the way he wanted, he was battling in a group from 9th to 14th, he did make a little mistake that did cost him to loose a few position but he was able to retake some position toward the end.
Dominique n'a pas vraiment roulé comme il voulait depuis le début de course, il s'est battu dans un groupe de la 9ème a la 14ème position, après avoir commis une petite erreur il a perdu plusieurs places mais ne lachant rien il a repassé certains de ses adversaires pour terminer 12ème.



http://resources.motogp.com/files/results/xx/2010/JPN/Moto2/RAC/Classification.pdf?v1_3bfef702

Dominique 12th in Motegi moto2 qualifying



Dominique was disappointed after the moto2 qualifying, he felt he could have done better than 12th position but he got nervous after his first run, at that time he was second fastest and maybe it did put pressure on him.
Still his laptime is good and his rythm too so he has to get a goos start tomorow.

Dominique était plutot décu après la séance d'essais qualificative, il pensait faire mieux mais il s'est mis la pression apres son premier run qu'il avait terminé en seconde position. Ses chronos sont bon et son rythme aussi alors il faudra faire un bon depart demain.

Bonne nouvelle le Team TECHNOMAG-CIP fait partis des teams selectionnés pour la saison 2011

http://www.motogp.com/fr/news/2010/Moto+2011+invited+teams+list


Accepted Teams:
- Forward Racing
- Gresini Racing
- Interwetten Moriwaki Moto2 *
- Jack & Jones by A. Banderas
- JIR Moto2
- Mapfre Aspar Team
- Marc VDS Racing
- MZ Motor
- Racing Team By Quereseno
- Speed Up
- Stop and Go Racing Team
- Tech 3 Racing
- Technomag CIP
- Tenerife 40 Pons
- Viessman Kiefer Racing
* One entry only. All other teams two entries.

Dominique 8th in Motegi moto2 FP1


Shoya est avec nous. Shoya is keeping an eye on us

Les parents de Shoya sont venus encourager Dominique
Shoya's parents came to support Dominique



Good start for Dominique in Motegi, 8th in free practice session.
Bon début pour Dominique a Motegi en réalisant le 8ème chrono de la première séance d'essais libre.


http://resources.motogp.com/files/results/xx/2010/JPN/Moto2/FP1/Classification.pdf?v1_0401bef3

Nobby Ueda team


The team is giving a hand to Nobby Ueda's team, they are on the back of the TECNOMAG-CIP garage and Albo couldn't resist to warm up the bike and giving some advice on carburation. Take Yamamoto set the 15th time at the first 125cc free practice.
http://blog.eigyo.co.jp/nobby/

http://resources.motogp.com/files/results/xx/2010/JPN/125cc/FP1/Classification.pdf?v1_ed2d947e
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