Suzuki Alstare’s Leon Haslam extended his World Superbike points lead on Max Biaggi after a third- and first-place finish at Kyalami this past weekend.  Xerox Ducati’s Michel Fabrizio scored his first win of the season while Carlos Checa, Jonny Rea and Max Biaggi also climbed the podium in South Africa.

A 70-point round this weekend by the top three Motourage Fantasy Riders Race League teams made it difficult to catch the leaders, while less than 100 points separates fourth through 11th places.

The next round of the Motourage Fantasy Riders Race League will score next weekend with MotoGP round four, the Monster Energy Grand Prix de France in Le Mans.

All selections will be frozen on May 21 at Noon EDT in the US ( 17:00 BST, 16:00 GMT), so make sure your lineup is finalized before this time.

Notes:

• Rizla Suzuki’s Alvaro Bautista suffered a broken collarbone in a motocross training crash, and although he is slated to compete this weekend, don’t expect him to be 100%.
• Last year’s Le Mans results were: 1-Jorge Lorenzo, 2-Marco Melandri, 3-Dani Pedrosa. Valentino Rossi and Mika Kallio both scored DNFs
• Results for the last MotoGP race, the Gran Premio Bwin de Espana at Jerez, May 2: 1-Jorge Lorenzo, 2-Dani Pedrosa, 3-Valentino Rossi

Current standings for the Motourage Fantasy Riders Race League:

The Motourage Fantasy Riders Racing League spreadsheet is getting too big to fit comfortably in the space provided by WordPress, so it has been moved to Google Documents.

For the latest results and standings, check out the new Motourage Fantasy Riders Racing League results HERE.

This weekend marks Rounds 6 and 7 of the Motourage Fantasy Riders Racing League season.
Due to the postponement of the Motegi MotoGP round, no points were scored in Round 4.  Round 5 was scored with the Assen Round of the World Superbike Championship, and teams will score this weekend based on the results of the MotoGP-Jerez and British Superbike-Oulton Park races.
The top scorer in Round 5 was Brad Boutilier’s East Coast racing team with a very impressive 70 points, but a big weekend by Luckyguess mixed up the standings at the top of the chart.

In MotoGP, Valentino Rossi’s health may have been in question at the beginning of the weekend due to an injury he sustained during a motocross crash, but he finished free practice at the #5 position.  Stoner, Lorenzo, Hayden and Pedrosa rounded out the top spots, but the Jerez race is anyone’s to win.  Will the Spanish Armada flex its collective hometown muscle or will it be an Aussie an Italian or even one of the field’s three Americans atop the podium on Sunday?

The British Superbike field is another story altogether, with a total of seven riders sitting this weekend out.  Hampus Johansson, James Edmeads, James Ellison, Pat McDougall, Scott Smart, and Simon Andrews are watching from the stands, and the big news is the sudden retirement of World Superbike Champion (and a familiar face in the AMA paddock for four seasons) Neil Hodgson, who was forced out due to his aggravating a two-year-old shoulder injury by crashing at Brands Hatch.

Team lineups have been locked in since Noon EST today, so sit back and get ready for some two wheeled action, both on the track and in the virtual world.

The current Motourage Fantasy Riders Racing League standings are below. Good luck to all the Motourage teams.

Round 2 of the Motourage Fantasy Riders League corresponded with Round 2 of the World Superbike Championship in Portimao, Portugal. Results and standings are posted below.
Round 3 of the Fantasy Riders league scores this weekend with the opening round of the British Superbike Championship at Brands Hatch Indy.
All rider changes for Round 3 must be submitted by the cutoff time of 17:00GMT (Noon Eastern time in the US) on Saturday, April 3. Log on to Fantasy Riders to make your changes, and good luck to all competitors.

Scores and rankings after two rounds
1st: MinellaSpeed, Dave Minella – 45, 50 = 95
2nd: Blue Galaxy, Alun Edwards – 0, 90 = 90
3rd: Flying Monkeys, Jeff Ritter – 29, 59 = 88
4th: Swamphole Racing, Noel Nunkovich – 46, 32 = 78
5th: East Coast Racing, Brad Boutilier – 33, 38    = 71
6th: Spieswise, A. Van Donselaar – 24, 32 = 56
7th: Team Motorious, Ivan Lo – 35, 16 = 51
8th: Ow My Freakin’ Ears!, Leigh Berwick – 0, 48 = 48
9th: CornerSpeedPhoto, Dan Lo – 27, 20 = 47
10th: team karbonated, Rebecca Saclolo – 27, 16 = 43
11th: BNG Racing, Bridget Kirkland – 27, 16 = 43
12th: Motherless Goats, Jared Koch – 27, 16 = 43
13th: Dark Energy, Camila Restrepo – 27, 16 = 43
14th: Team Rig, Lee Lilly – 27, 16 = 43
15th: irishlad, Dave Kelly – 9, 22 = 31
16th: Pretty.2010, Pretty Pretty – 16, 13 = 29
17th: luckyguess, N. Van Donselaar – 0, 26 = 26
18th: Uttley Allstars, Richard Uttley     – 6, 19 = 25
19th: JJ’s M1 Super Scooters, Jennifer Jabbusch – 6, 19 = 25
20th: ducatinewstoday.com, Mark Morrison – 0,0 = 0
21st: Desmodromic Demonoids, Aaron Boyle – 0, 0 = 0
22nd: rozlanbgsp, Rozlan Abdullah – 0,0 = 0
23rd: MotoGPNewsBlog, Chris Lykins – 0,0 = 0
24th: MotoGPBlog, Rob Jones – 0, 0 = 0
25th: gp1malaysia, Nazarie Francis – 0, 0 = 0

An exciting weekend of World Superbike action from Round 1 at Phillip Island. This weekend was also round 1 of the Motourage Fantasy Riders league.  Suzuki and Ducati – both factory and privateer efforts – came up big in Australia, and the players who picked those teams also came up big.

Here are the results of Round 1 of the Motourage Fantasy Riders league:

1st Swamphole Racing, Noel Nunkovich 46

2nd MinellaSpeed, Dave Minella 45

3rd Team Motorious, Ivan Lo 35

4th East Coast Racing, Brad Boutilier 33

5th Flying Monkeys, Jeff Ritter 29

6th team karbonated, Rebecca Saclolo 27

7th BNG Racing, Bridget Kirkland 27

8th Motherless Goats, Jared Koch 27

9th Dark Energy, Camila Restrepo 27

10th Team Rig, Lee Lilly 27

11th CornerSpeedPhoto, Dan Lo 27

12th Spieswise, A. Van Donselaar 24

13th Pretty.2010Pretty Pretty 16

14th irishlad, Dave Kelly 9

15th Uttley Allstars, Richard Uttley 6

16th JJ’s M1 Super Scooters, Jennifer Jabbusch 6

17th ducatinewstoday.com, Mark Morrison 0

18th Desmodromic Demonoids, Aaron Boyle 0

19th rozlanbgsp, Rozlan Abdullah 0

20th MotoGPNewsBlog, Chris Lykins 0

21st MotoGPBlog, Rob Jones 0

22nd Ow My Freakin’ Ears!, Leigh Berwick 0