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2011 MotoGP

Things were looking good for John Hopkins heading into Saturday’s third and final MotoGP practice session at Brno.

The Wildcard Rizla Suzuki rider posted times within the top 10 on Friday, showing his competitive edge in MotoGP, a series he competed in from 2002-2008.

2011 MotoGP

The man who’s been completely unstoppable so far in the 2011 MotoGP Championship is no doubt Repsol Honda’s Casey Stoner.

Except for a DNF due to the now famous crash at Jerez with Ducati Team’s Valentino Rossi, the Australian Stoner has been on the podium in every round, including five wins.

Suzuki Motorcycle Racing

John Hopkins’ main focus for the 2011 motorcycle racing season was British Superbike after the American landed a ride with the Samsung Crescent Suzuki team.

2011 World Superbike

For the first time in the 2011 World Superbike Championship, an American rode as a wildcard entry in the series after John Hopkins raced Sunday at Silverstone, round nine of 13.

2011 World Superbike

Samsung Crescent Racing will add a very welcome sprinkle of local flavor and color when they take their Suzuki GSX-R1000 superbikes back into World Superbike wildcard competition at Silverstone next week.

2011 MotoGP

For the second time in the 2011 MotoGP Championship, the American John Hopkins will join the grid aboard a Rizla Suzuki GSV-R.

2011 British Superbike

It was all about the American at the Round six of the 2011 British Superbike Championship. Samsung Crescent Suzuki’s John Hopkins first became the first American to ever take a pole position at Snetterton on Saturday.

2011 Snetterton British Superbike

For the first time in British Superbike history, and American will start from the pole. Samsung Crescent Suzuki’s John Hopkins put on an amazing performance Saturday at Snetterton, Round 6 of the 2011 British Superbike Championship, taking the top spot, having over a second on the man starting second, Swan Yamaha’s Tommy Hill.

2011 British Superbike

The British Superbike Championship heads to Thruxton this weekend, with the race occurring on Bank Holiday Monday.

Up top, only three points separate the leader, HM Plant Honda’s Shane Byrne, from the American John Hopkins on the Samsung Crescent Suzuki GSX-R1000.

MotoGP news

Just like Major League Baseball and the Olympics, the International Motorcycle Federation (FIM) has strict anti-doping rules, making sure no single rider has an advantage over the other.

2011 MotoGP

The last time the American John "Hoppper" Hopkins competed on the Suzuki GSV-R was the 2007 MotoGP season, when he finished fourth overall in the championship.

MotoGP News

Rizla Suzuki MotoGP welcomed back former team rider John Hopkins today as he helped the team with some PR work in Qatar.

British Superbike

Samsung Crescent Suzuki Racing has reported a high level of productivity and satisfaction after completing its first day of testing in preparation for the 2011 British Superbike Championship season at Cartagena in Spain.

John Hopkins has signed to race the 2010 AMA Pro Superbike season with Team Hammer, which will race as M4 Monster Suzuki. He will race American Superbike in 2010, joining the team’s Daytona SportBike ace Martin Cardenas in a two-rider assault for the championship-winning team that first began racing in 1980.

Both Hopkins and Cardenas have Grand Prix experience and the M4 Monster Suzuki team looks to present its most aggressive challenge yet in AMA Pro Racing. While both racers already have garnered a remarkable amount of experience, they’re just now entering the prime of their careers.