AS rivalries go Valentino Rossi and Casey Stoner is nothing in comparison to the career-long battle between Kevin Schwantz and Wayne Rainey, in the opinion of the 1993 500GP champion.Alongside the championships won, the rivalry between Schwantz

The music has finally stopped regarding Ben Spies’ future and now it looks like the chairs in both WSB and MotoGP are filling up fast. The super-fast American has signed a two-year deal with Yamaha that will see him being fast tracked into Yamaha’s satellite MotoGP team in 2011, ...

of the sport's all-time greats - Kevin Schwantz, Wayne Rainey and Freddie Spencer, the men he hero-worshipped as a kid - he positively rubbed his hands at the prospect of answering them.Kevin Schwantz graduated from Superbikes with Suzuki in the 1980s and won

Yamaha put on an amazing display of their GP bikes, past and present at the Bikers' Days Classics at Spa. So how many bikes can you name? Bonus points if you get the year and the rider.P.S if your name's Julian Ryder, Neil Spalding or Toby Moody, you're not allowed to enter.Clue:...

that he was not regarded as quite on the same level as Roberts' protégé Wayne Rainey.The start of the reversal of Magee's career came in 1989, at the place where it would be effectively ended a year later - Laguna Seca in America. Local rider Bubba Shobert

TRIPLE World Champion Wayne Rainey has said Yamaha was right to "go with Lorenzo" following Rossi's leg-breaking crash at Misano two months ago.Rainey, confined to a wheelchair since crashing at Misano in 1993, was analysing Yamaha’s dilemma at a

Champions, Kenny Roberts, Eddie Lawson and Wayne Rainey. They foursome have 17 World Championships to their name.It will be on four wheels, on 250cc go-karts, and could be quite fierce. Rossi is a past national go-kart champion and Lawson a leading light

.Watch as Eddie Lawson, Wayne Rainey, Kenny Roberts Snr. (what's with the hair, dude?) and current MotoGP World Champion Valentino Rossi lay down the rubber in super-fast two-stroke racing karts.Reports say the karts are just a couple of seconds a lap slower than

on eBay for just under £1350, with proceeds of the sale going to help deprived children in Nepal. Steve is already an avid racing memorabilia collector. His treasure trove consists of helmets worn by: Casey Stoner, Wayne Rainey, Marco Melandri, Norick

Rainey, Wayne's Dad concerning his, er, liberal interpretation of the schoolboy racing rule book:'...under fuel it just said "gasoline available to the public". Nitro is available to the public. It had to be stock appearing, so I had to modify the inside