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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 continent of Australia. Would he retur...
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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..
Supersport clones from 2011, like it or not. And this production-based class may even turn out to be a one-make ‘World Championship’, if such a thing can exist. With a big letter ‘H’ on it.The murder of the commentators – the death of MotoGP on Eurosport
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Mike Scott Column - Mar 2005
By Mike Scott on 01/03/2005 16:55:01
Boot camps
, and the switch from Bridgestone is to do with commercial expediency rather than competitiveness. But my fancy takes me at least part of the way along with the fervent comments of team manager Livio Suppo. On Michies, he explains, they could only ever equal
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Mike Scott Column - Feb 2007
By Mike Scott on 01/02/2007 10:42:05
Time for the safer 800s
there was one more lap to go.Colin Edwards: Find new source of inspiration. Professed resentment of this reporter's adverse comments is not working well enough.Casey Stoner: Must stop being so nice to everybody. (Or is that "start being nice"?)John Hopkins: Get
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Mike Scott Column - Aug 2006
By Mike Scott on 10/08/2006 12:22:39
All the inside racing gossip that's fit to print from Mike Scott, TWO's GP paddock oracle
on how to behave lap by lap.He also complained about the paddock atmosphere, having got the cold shoulder from the precious drivers who do so much to make F1 so very, very dull.Their leader Michael Schumacher popped in to the Italian GP for a go
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Mike Scott Column - Jun 2007
By Mike Scott on 10/06/2007 12:37:14
All the inside racing gossip that's fit to print from Mike Scott, TWO's GP paddock oracle
line!This comment equates to: "Unfair - there were other people on my race-track," and shows a mind-set shared with a number of past champions. John Kocinski's one coming to mind; likewise Wayne Gardner and Mick Doohan.All three thought, without fail
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Mike Scott Column - Dec 2002
By Mike Scott on 10/12/2002 12:03:36
Learned elder of Grand Prix journalism, Editor of Motocourse and man on the inside of GP racing, Mike Scott looks at the dumping by Yamaha of MotoGP's Max Biaggi
.The loss of Biaggi, came high-level murmurings from factory staff, had not been a Japanese decision. They had never minded his adverse comments about the bike. He had only been telling the truth, and it had inspired them to work harder ... with the obvious
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Mike Scott Column - Sep 2007
By Mike Scott on 10/09/2007 12:48:12
You need luck in MotoGP, but luck can be a bitch, says Mike Scott, our GP paddock pitbull
. Randy Mamola is at the forefront of such calls.Is that why the cheer-leading commentator is so prone to putting on a humorous wig on special occasions? Such as when he's to be seen in public at the British GP, or meeting (soccer) royal Michael Owen
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Mike Scott Column - Jan 2008
By Mike Scott on 15/01/2008 10:02:06
Is Rossi the smiling assassin who always gets what he wants? Yamaha are certainly worried, reckons Mike Scott, the GP paddock pitbull
charm, however, he came out smelling of roses. And will again, now he has turned up the heat on Yamaha. It had always been, he said, “Yamaha’s prerogative to make bikes 20 kms slower than the others,” before laughingly dismissing the comment as a joke
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Michael Scott Column - Apr 2008
By Michael Scott on 15/04/2008 13:14:45
Is Rossi over the hill? Is it time for the greatest motorcycle racer ever to move over gracefully and let the new guard through? Mike Scott ponders.
to wonder what team-mate Dani Pedrosa would be doing. But alas the teeny tiny former tiddler titan fell and broke “a small bone” in his wrist right at the start of everything (cruel commentators said that even if it had been his thigh, it would still be “a
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