HOPKINS AND CRESCENT FIXI SUZUKI LOOKING FORWARD TO IMOLA
Crescent Fixi Suzuki is looking forward to Round 2 of the 2012 World Superbike Championship at Imola, where the the team will be back to full strength. John Hopkins has been given the all-clear by his hand surgeon in USA and flew to England this past weekend, and will joining team mate Leon Camier at [...]
HOPKINS INJURES HAND IN TESTING CRASH
John Hopkins “This feels so devastating because I was feeling really comfortable on the bike right from the start. I was running the 2011spec bike, with just small mods to the engine and the new Yoshimura exhaust, and hadn’t even got on the full 2012 bike yet. But I felt that the GSX-R had already [...]
CRESCENT SUZUKI UNVEILS 2012 WSBK GSX-R
Crescent Suzuki are delighted to announce details of their 2012 GSX-R1000 World Superbike Championship contender and also to welcome bespoke FX solutions provider Fixi, as co-title sponsor. Team Principal Paul Denning: “The team has done a stunning job to prepare the new GSX-R for this level of competition – the attention to detail is faultless and [...]
HOPKINS HAS PARTIAL FINGER AMPUTATION
Crescent Suzuki’s John Hopkins has undergone surgery to amputate the top of the ring finger on his right hand. Following numerous surgeries and complications after his crash at the Brno MotoGP event in 2011, the Crescent Suzuki World Superbike rider is now positive that, after the operation in California, it will not adversely affect his [...]
Hopkins forced to withdraw from Malaysian Grand Prix
John Hopkins has had to withdraw from this weekend’s Sepang GP due to further complications with the broken finger he damaged in Brno earlier this season. Hopkins was due to make a wild-card appearance for the Rizla Suzuki team this weekend, but the third finger on his right-hand that he broke in the Czech Republic [...]
Encouraging first day for Rizla Suzuki duo
Álvaro Bautista and John Hopkins began their preparations for Sunday’s Malaysian Grand Prix with a positive performance from both at Sepang today. Bautista (P7, 2’03.123, 33 laps) was never outside the top-10 in either session today as he carried on with the impressive form that he showed last week at Australia. He tested the two [...]
Hopkins and Rizla Suzuki back together at Sepang
Rizla Suzuki is in Sepang for the Malaysian Grand Prix where regular racer Álvaro Bautista will be joined by wild-card entry John Hopkins. Hopkins arrives at Sepang to partner Bautista fresh from finishing as runner-up in the British Superbike Championship during his first season in the series. He was due to race alongside the Spaniard [...]
HOPKINS SECOND IN BSB CHAMPIONSHIP – BY 0.006secs
Samsung Crescent Racing’s John Hopkins has missed out on the British Superbike Championship by the smallest ever recorded deficit: 0.006-seconds. In a day of tough breaks at the final round of the 2011 British Superbike Championship, Hopkins suffered an electrical glitch on the first lap of the first race today, but was able to reset [...]
HOPKINS READY FOR THE FINAL SHOWDOWN
Samsung Crescent Racing’s John Hopkins leads the 2011 British Superbike Championship as it heads to the final round this weekend at the Brands Hatch GP circuit in Kent. Hopkins has an eight-point lead over nearest rival Tommy Hill but with three races on the programme – equivalent to 75 points to the winner of all [...]
HOPKINS AND RIZLA SUZUKI BACK TOGETHER AT SEPANG
John Hopkins will re-join the Rizla Suzuki MotoGP team as a wild-card rider in Sepang for the Malaysian Grand Prix on Sunday 23rd October. Hopkins will make a welcome return to the Rizla Suzuki squad for his second wild-card event of the season. His first event was at Brno where he unfortunately crashed and injured [...]
