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Nick Harris Media Communications races into the new season with the enthusiasm and expertise that is reflected by our portolio of international clients.

Nick will attend all 18 of the 2012 MotoGP grands prix working once again alongside Gavin Emmet as the Dorna World feed television commentators. Around 30 million viewers worldwide tune into their live coverage from every practice and qualifying session plus of course the races. In addition Nick will host all the press conferences on behalf of Dorna at the 18 venues and will also voice the highlight programmes from each race with Gavin.

Nick Harris Media Communications are delighted to continue their excellent working relationship with Tissot this season. We will carry out a number of tasks on their behalf before, during and after the race weekends.

Nick continues his 39 year association with the BBC by supplying voice reports for BBC World Service from each grand prix.

We are pleased to announce that we will continue to provide media support for grand prix winner Bradley Smith. Claire Sobas in particular has worked closely with Oxford-based Bradley since his grand prix debut six years ago.

Nick Harris Media Communications has just completed the Media Coverage and Audience Statistics brochure, circuit sheets and VIP brochure on behalf of the International Road Racing Teams Association. The Media Coverage and Statistics brochure will be available on line at www.nick-harris.co.uk/news next week.

Finally of course there is football. Nick has provided commentary for BBC Radio Oxford 95.2 fm for the majority of the Oxford United football league games both home and away this season.

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Grand Prix winners Bradley Smith and Scott Redding head the British charge to Valencia in Spain for the first official Moto2™ test session of the season on Wednesday. They will be joined in the ultra competitive Moto2™ class by Gino Rea.

It will be the first ride of the season for both Smith, who won the 2010 125 cc grand prix in Valencia and 19 year old Redding. It will also be the first official test session for the Moto3™ class which replaces the 125 cc World Championship. Both Danny Webb and Danny Kent will be there to test the new 250 cc four-stroke single cylinder machines.

Twenty-one year old Smith can’t wait to get started after taking three podium finishes and finishing seventh in his maiden Moto 2 season last year.

“I’ve been training in California and can’t wait to get back on the bike,” explained the Tech 3 rider.” That first grand prix in Qatar is just two months away and so we have a very busy testing schedule. I will probably start on the bike that I rode in the Jerez test at the end of last season because I will be a little bit rusty and need a day to get it out of the system. It’s not a race at the moment and it’s important not to try too hard and be a test rider for at the least the next three days.”

Redding is as equally excited about getting back on the track.

“We need to be on the pace for the first practice in Qatar and so these pre-season tests are vital,” said the Marc VDS rider. “The advantage we have this year is we know the Kalex frame is good. Now we need to focus on refining the set-up and confirming and re-confirming any changes we make. If we do that in testing I’m confident we can fight at the front from that very first race.”

The former 125 cc World Champion Marc Marquez who finished runner-up in last year’s Moto2 World Championship will miss the test. He is recovering from an operation to cure double vision problems sustained in his crash in Malaysia last October.

Kent- based Danny Webb returns to Valencia, on the Indian Mahindra Moto3 machine, where he took the last ever125 cc pole position last year. Teenager Danny Kent had a very impressive first full season of grand prix racing last year and returns on the Red Bull KTM AJO in the Moto3 class.

After the three day Valencia test the Moto2 and Moto 3 teams travel further south for a three test at Jerez which starts on February 16.

CRUTCHLOW HERALDS NEW MOTOGP™ ERA IN SEPANG
The new era of the MotoGP™ World Championship officially kicks off tomorrow (Tuesday) with the first test of the 2012 season at the Sepang circuit in Malaysia. The capacity of the MotoGP machines has been raised from 800 to 1000cc while the introduction of CRT machines to reduce costs has already increased the size of the grid for the 18 round global Championship.
Isle of Man-based Midlander Cal Crutchlow starts his second season in the Championship after winning the Rookie of the Year award last season riding the Monster Tech 3 Yamaha. He returns from winter training in California for just his second ride on the 1000 cc Yamaha after a brief shakedown test at Valencia last November. He will be joined in the Championship by Cumbrian James Ellison who returns to MotoGP riding the Paul Bird CRT Aprilia ART machine. He will have his first ride on the machine at the MotoGP test at the end of February.
All the factory bikes will be in Sepang with enormous focus on the performance of the 2012 Ducati after such a disappointing season last year. Nine times World Champion Valentino Rossi and former MotoGP World Champion Nicky Hayden managed just two podium finishes last year and Ducati has made some radical changes to the new machine to take on the likes of Honda and Yamaha.
World Champion Casey Stoner, who waits the birth of his first child, enjoyed testing the 1000 cc Repsol Honda last year and together with 125/250 cc World Champion Dani Pedrosa will form a formidable duo. Despite a tremendous fight Jorge Lorenzo lost the Championship to Stoner last year but returns to the fray together with former World Superbike Champion Ben Spies on the 1000cc Yamaha. Also on a Yamaha is Italian Andrea Dovizioso who despite finishing third in the Championship last year was dropped by Repsol Honda. He joins Crutchlow at Tech 3 and hopes to be 100 per cent fit after breaking his collarbone in a motocross training accident – sounds familiar!
Moto2 World Champion German Stefan Bradl makes his official debut on the LCR Honda while the highly rated Alvaro Bautista is joined by Italian Michele Pirro in the San Carlo Gresini team. Karel Abraham and Hector Barbara will ride the 1000 cc satellite Ducatis. Many of the CRT teams will miss the first test but grand prix veteran Colin Edwards will be there on the Forward Racing Suter BMW.
SMITH AND THE BOYS HAVE ONE WEEK TO WAIT
The British youngsters in the highly competitive Moto2™ and new Moto3™ classes will start their official testing next week at Valencia in Spain. Twenty one year old Bradley Smith, who secured three podium finishes in his debut Moto2 season on the Tech 3 machine last year, returned after training with Crutchlow in California to start testing next Wednesday. He is joined by his great rival Scott Redding who rides for the Marc VDS team for the third year in succession. They are joined by Gino Rea who rides for the successful Gresini team after competing in the World Supersport Championship.
These are exciting times for Danny Webb and Danny Kent who compete in the new Moto3 Championship. The two-stroke 125 cc machines will be replaced by four stroke 250s. Webb continues riding for the Indian Mahindra team and 18 year old Kent for the Red Bull KTM AJO team.
The first grand prix of the season will be held under floodlights at the Losail International circuit in Qatar on Sunday April 8.
WINTER TESTS 2012

MotoGP™ WINTER TESTS
SEPANG 31/01-02/02/2012 Set Up: 29-30/01/2012 Time Zone: GMT + 8 hours
Tuesday, 31 January Wednesday, 1 February Thursday, 2 February
10:00-18:00 MotoGP™ 10:00-18:00 MotoGP™ 10:00-18:00 MotoGP™
SEPANG 28/02-01/03/2012 Set Up: 26-27/02/2012 Time Zone: GMT +8 hours
Tuesday, 28 February Wednesday, 29 February Thursday, 1 March
10:00-18:00 MotoGP™ 10:00-18:00 MotoGP™ 10:00-18:00 MotoGP™
JEREZ 23-25/03/2012 Set Up: 22/03/2012 Time Zone: GMT + 1 hour / +2 hours
Friday, 23 March Saturday, 24 March Sunday, 25 March
10:00-18:00 MotoGP™ 10:00-18:00 MotoGP™ 10:00-18:00 MotoGP™

Moto2™/ Moto3™ WINTER TESTS
VALENCIA 08-10/02/2012 Set Up: 07/02/2012 Time Zone: GMT + 1 hour
Wednesday, 8 February Thursday, 9 February Friday, 10 February
10:00-14:50 Moto2™/ Moto3™ 10:00-14:50 Moto2™/ Moto3™ 10:00-14:50 Moto2™/ Moto3™
15:00-15:50 Moto3™ 15:00-15:50 Moto2™ 15:00-15:50 Moto3™
16:00-17:00 Moto2™ 16:00-17:00 Moto3™ 16:00-17:00 Moto2™
JEREZ 16-18/02/2012 Set Up: 15/02/2012 Time Zone: GMT + 1 hour
Thursday, 16 February Friday, 17 February Saturday, 18 February
10:00-15:50 Moto2™/ Moto3™ 10:00-15:50 Moto2™/ Moto3™ 10:00-15:50 Moto2™/ Moto3™
16:00-16:50 Moto3™ 16:00-16:50 Moto2™ 16:00-16:50 Moto3™
17:00-18:00 Moto2™ 17:00-18:00 Moto3™ 17:00-18:00 Moto2™
JEREZ 19-21/03/2012 Set Up: 18/03/2012 Time Zone: GMT + 1 hour
Monday, 19 March Tuesday, 20 March Wednesday, 21 March
10:00-15:50 Moto2™/ Moto3™ 10:00-15:50 Moto2™/ Moto3™ 10:00-13:50 Moto2™/ Moto3™
16:00-16:50 Moto2™ 16:00-16:50 Moto3™ 14:00-15:00 Moto2™
17:00-18:00 Moto3™ 17:00-18:00 Moto2™ 15:10-16:00 Moto3™

Our Website is currently being updated to bring you all our exciting news for 2012. I’m sure you will enjoy reading all about our plans

Nick Harris 24/1/12

NHMC organised what was regarded as the best MotoGP pre-grand prix event of the
2010 season when they hired Lords cricket ground in London for the day.

Just four days before the AIRASIA British Grand Prix at Silverstone the MotoGP circus,
led by World Champion Jorge Lorenzo, descended on the hallowed Lords turf in London.

The media had a field day with Lorenzo and Nicky Hayden playing their first ever
game of cricket while the likes of Bradley Smith and Scott Redding sampled traditional
strawberries and cream served by AIRASIA air hostesses.

The result was superb media coverage including features on BBC television and in the Times newspaper.

Just two years after celebrating their 25th birthday the future looks bright for Nick Harris Media Communications.

We will be attending all 18 rounds of the 2010 MotoGP World Championship. For the 11th year in succession Nick will commentate to millions of television world-wide from practice, qualifying and the races. Nick will also host all the major press conferences and we will look after the British media.

We will be looking after the media interests for Bradley Smith, who finished runner-up in the 2009 125 cc World Championship.

Once again we have produced the very successful MotoGP Media brochure, VIP booklet and Circuits cards for the International Road Racing Teams Association.

We have many more exciting on going projects that we will tell you all about.

Finally of course, there is the BBC Football commentary following the fortunes of Oxford United Football Club. Nick has also been hosting some of the Saturday afternoon sport programmes on BBC Radio Oxford.

Twenty seven years is a long time but the Nick Harris Media Communications success story continues into another new decade.

Nick Harris’s distinctive voice opens the “A closer look at he title fight” video that won the coveted Georges Bertelloti Golden Podium prize at the Sportel Convention in Monaco last year.

A video montage featuring the intense battle between MotoGP stars Valentino Rossi and Jorge Lorenzo won the award for the best Slow Motion Sequence – Cut/Edited Shot category.

The Georges Bertellotti award was created in 1991 and is part of the Golden Podium Awards which each year showcases the best TV sports images and slow-motion sequences, with the ceremony taking place as part of the Sportel Monaco, the International Sports Convention for Television and New Media.

Watch a clip of this award winning video by courtesy of www.motogp.com

Just before Christmas Bradley Smith appeared on two prestigious national radio and television programmes.

On the run up to the Motorcycle Show he appeared on the Alan Titchmarsh ITV Television chat show and the Chris Evans show on BBC Radio Two.

Bradley Smith and his mum Dawn were featured in the Sunday Times Magazine last month.

They appeared in the prestigious Relative Values feature that previously had featured Bernie Ecclestone, Harry Rednapp and Ester Rantzen

The whole process from beginning to publication was organised by Nick Harris Media Communications.