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…
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…
The war has been going on for some while now and finally the deciding battle is ready to be fought. The opposing armies are camped out on either side of…
Casey Stoner’s retirement bombshell overshadowed everything at Le Mans, but it wasn’t the only talking point. The other story that grabbed people’s attention was the Tech 3 brakes saga which…
Great to see the two grandest men of bike racing inducted into the Motor Sport Hall of Fame this week, taking their place alongside Fangio, Senna and the rest. John…
Today, in case you had not noticed, is Friday the thirteenth of January. Lucky for some, not so for others. If you were unaware, or simply don’t care, it is…
It has become a custom for me to offer some predictions for the season ahead. Actually, it has become a source of much amusement and derision among my colleagues, who…
OK, here we are, the right side of the winter solstice, and just two packets of mince pies away from Christmas. The last few days have been spent meeting deadlines,…
This is an interesting time of year for many reasons, not all of them connected. Summer is gradually giving way to autumn, in Britain at least. The swallows are gathering…
