Between November 29 and January 3, we’ll be reviewing the 2012 motor sport season month by month. Along with these features, Ed Foster will be assessing each Formula 1 team’s…
This is the time of year I usually indulge myself with a list of awards, handing out praise and criticism, perhaps bearing a grudge or two and exacting a little…
MotoGP winter testing began on Tuesday in very wintry conditions, which isn’t the idea of winter testing. The weather was so grim at Valencia that Yamaha packed up and headed…
You’ve got to hand it to Jorge Lorenzo. During 2012 he was the rock in a rough sea. This has been a stormy year of dizzying change in MotoGP: the…
Valentino Rossi has told BBC Sport that MotoGP racing is boring and that he finds it hard to stay awake. I bet the BBC loved hearing that – they broadcast the…
There’s barely going to be standing room on Phillip Island this weekend. Advance ticket sales suggest that the crowd will be at least double last year’s and possibly even bigger…
Bridgepoint’s announcement that MotoGP and World Superbike are to be run by the same company is the most significant happening in motorcycle racing since WSB’s launch a quarter of a…
It’s ten days since a potentially thrilling climax to the MotoGP championship disintegrated to the sound of shattered carbon-fibre and a chorus of Spanish expletives. Time for a cool, calm…
In MotoGP, no race is any more important than another. They all carry 25 points for the win. But from here on in, every race of the 2012 championship is…
These are strange days in MotoGP. World Champion Casey Stoner is quitting and Ben Spies may follow him, both of them complaining that they don’t like MotoGP’s current direction away…
As a world-class cynic who fled his hometown for the duration of the London Olympics, I have to admit that even I enjoyed the Games. Team GB’s performance proved that…
I like to think that Valentino Rossi is currently in the midst of a US road trip, driving some big ol’ gas guzzler the 2000-odd miles from California to Indiana,…
Chip, chip, chip… That’s the sound of Ducati’s MotoGP crew slowly chipping away at their disadvantage to Honda and Yamaha. It would be too soon to talk of a Ducati…
I didn’t attend last weekend’s Dutch TT at Assen. Instead I took a busman’s holiday a few hours south at Spa-Francorchamps. It was the weekend of the Bikers’ Classic, the…
Cal Crutchlow will be sore in body and mind this week. For him, Sunday’s Hertz British GP at Silverstone was the ‘it Hertz’ British GP. He’s now getting his fractured…
In the MotoGP paddock at Silverstone this week there was a great deal of talk about cost-cutting, about the pros and cons of the new CRT bikes which have been…
