The furore around the disqualified WCM MotoGP entry - based rather too closely on a Yamaha R1 for the FIM technical committee's liking - raises old questions in a new light, and has caused a major split in racing with Flammini and Superbike racing

pit as well?More Moto2 tests promise that even if the 250 replacements aren’t particularly fast, the racing will be ultra-close. And though some of the usual suspects – like MotoGP race winner Toni Elias and 125 champion Julian Simon – have gone

.Someone else suggested that bikes should be fitted with proximity sensors, and they could cut the ignition if anyone gets too close. Yet another proposed that the racing should not take place at all, but the results decided in the courts. This could be done

be another 23 years before two riders fought it out for the title all the way to the last race again.The 12 round championship was back and forth between Roberts and Spencer with the two riders sharing all of the wins between them. The closing points tally

go in the last Superbike race of the season. With Aprilia and BMW both heading to SBK rather than MotoGP, and KTM to follow, and with desperately close racing almost every weekend, the grand prix paddock is starting to look over its shoulder.The Rossi

-strokes, was a stroll and he finished the year somewhat bored. It is for that reason, more than any mechanical trouble, that Barros won a couple of year-end races.Rossi started this year rather bored as well. And he kind of stayed that way even after Gibernau

bike for his victory lap.Sadly, by the time it all happened, the bird was at best rather sleepy, and more likely very close to death, its head lolling as they tried to put it in position. The feather parade was abandoned.Mindful of his reputation

racing.Over the years, I've watched it happen to several people. Again, seldom has it been as pronounced as in the case of Valentino Rossi.Not long ago Vale was an innocent charmer, happy to chat with pretty much anyone in the paddock, cheerful

syndrome – a mysterious complaint that is hard to diagnose and equally hard to treat.It made sense. At round six in Catalunya, he’d been ill but raced anyway to third, having dry-retched in his helmet, and plainly close to collapse at the end of the race

in the race: you’ll remember he was leading by over a second from the start, but Rossi was closing inexorably. It was a dodgy tyre, he reported afterwards: “destroyed on the right-hand-side after only six laps.”He blamed the front tyre again at Misano two