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Michael Scott Column - July 10
By Michael Scott on 15/07/2010 12:33:56
Never one to avoid asking difficult questions or giving uncomfortable answers, Mr Michael Scott offers a typically trenchant view of the relative states of health of world race series...
What a disaster at Assen. At the World Superbike race, where British riders dominated. Both rostrums were filled with regional accents and true blue bulldogs: Rea, Toseland, Camier on the first one; Rea, Haslam and Toseland on the second. Wow
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Michael Scott Column - Jul 2009
By Michael Scott on 01/07/2009 10:29:03
Paddock sage Scott on the British GP debacle and Marco Melandri’s resurrection
quipped in an interview directly after the race.We already know Scott Redding – last year’s first British 125 winner in 35 years – is a talent to watch, and that Kentish kid Danny Webb is knocking on the door of similar success, too.What with poor James
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Michael Scott Column - Feb 10
By Michael Scott on 20/02/2010 10:55:03
If you’re British and want a half-decent ride in a Grand Prix class, you’d better have a big bag of sponsor’s money. But if you happen to be the ever-so-humble Ben Spies...
champs of the past, from Bayliss and Edwards to the hapless James Toseland.But I fear another tsunami of misguided British passion – a repeat of Superbike mania, is on the way. As well as the return to Superbikes of Toseland after his MotoGP misadventure
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Michael Scott Column - Aug 2009
By Michael Scott on 01/08/2009 14:35:11
Grand Prix wise owl Scott muses on the Lorenzo threat, Moto2 and rubbish engines
. The double Superbike champ’s new crew just hasn’t done the business: JT’s second-year results are worst than his first, while Colin started slowly before charging ahead. At the last two races he had the huge pleasure of blasting past JT.You can be sure he
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Michael Scott Column - Sep 03
By Michael Scott on 01/09/2003 15:15:02
Today's press release culture may keep the pressmen laughing, but deep down it is destroying the soul of racing, says Mike Scott
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Michael Scott Column - Sep 2008
By Michael Scott on 12/09/2008 20:39:23
Mike Scott draws on his pipe, dons his deer stalker and starts to look at the clues. there’s been a murder in MotoGP and he’s on the trail..
– was accomplished more suddenly.The axe fell at the Dutch TT, and British (and many, many more Eastern European) GP fans were outraged. Free-to-view Eurosport has dutifully covered all grand prix races in all grand prix classes and all practice sessions for all
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Michael Scott Column - Dec 09
By Michael Scott on 27/12/2009 16:09:03
Casey Stoner returns to MotoGP with a bang, not to mention a razor-sharp comment to a former GP star. It’s not often that Kevin Schwantz is put in his place...
The great medical mystery of MotoSoap 2009 remains unsolved. But, late in the series, the corpse has come back to life for the last
few episodes.Casey Stoner wrote himself out of the series after the British GP and disappeared into the lost
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Michael Scott, Column - Jun 08
By Michael Scott on 01/06/2008 15:56:53
Mike Scott discovers that things are getting heated in spain between Pedrosa and Lorenzo. Perhaps we should pack them off to Brands!
Bull rookies returned in Spain, the pimply brigade reinforced by ten new 13-year-olds. It’s all ripping fun, overlaid with a chilling fear of a nasty crash. Nearly happened at Jerez, when a Japanese kid high-sided, and his cartwheeling bike hit British
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Spies Like Us
By Michael Scott & Ben Spies on 20/10/2008 14:58:30
The British MotoGP was Ben Spies' first race abroad and his first Grand Prix. We were there
.The best Suzuki could do was promise wild card rides for Laguna Seca (where Spies will also be contesting his usual AMA Superbike race on the same day!) and Indianapolis. That is, until Rizla Suzuki team regular Loris Capirossi smashed his hand at Catalunya
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