There were quite a few riders showing-off over the large Bulgarian jumps for the opening Grand Prix of the year but Ray Archer had a fair amount of luck with American Zach Osborne with this impressive whip.

A ten-year agreement has been reached to take MotoGP to Austin from 2013 with the Circuit of Americas not even built yet (due for 2012). Will the race join Laguna Seca and Indianapolis to make three North American stops for the series? This question wasn’t revealed in the PR details below…

The FIM Motocross World Championship began at Sevlievo with two riders as quick as the wind that battered the impressive venue some 180km east of Sofia. Red Bull Teka KTM’s Ken Roczen showed all signs of the confidence an off-season of supercross will forge for timing and technique to win MX2 pole by almost ten seconds, while Monster Energy Yamaha’s Steven Frossard carried a similar margin of superiority and is clearly relishing the extra power of the works YZ450F in the premier MX1 category.

No doubt you need both in spades to make it as the top of any sport but the Spanish GP at Jerez last weekend was just the kind of fantastic entertainment MotoGP needed to get everyone’s tongues (and thumbs) wagging through social media.

If anything else is left to happen in the 2011 AMA SX series then it will hardly be a surprise when it does. Trey Canard owned proceedings at the Cowboys stadium last Saturday for the third time this season while Chad Reed and James Stewart clashed again and Ryan Villopoto qualified!

The FIM Motocross World Championship calendar has finally filled the gaps with Grands Prix in Brazil and Spain confirmed for the venues of Indaiatuba and La Bañeza and the penultimate round slated for Gaildorf in Germany for the first visit to the circuit in the south since 2005.