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Michael Scott Column - Oct 2008
By Michael Scott on 12/10/2008 20:21:11
Mike Scott looks on at the battle heating up between Rossi and Stoner.Is it a battle of who has the most fans, or who wins on track?
more or less likeable?What the hell does that matter? The task of a motorcycle racer is quite different from that of a male model or an actor. Casey didn’t get the factory Ducati ride for his personality, or because the company thought his face’d look
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Michael Scott Column - Aug 2008
By Michael Scott on 12/08/2008 12:07:48
Mike Scott spectates on Honda’s ever-growing despair as its former World Champion nearly gets overtaken by a 42-year-old veteran
Honda’s whirligig into despair continues apace. The world’s greatest engine company is having trouble making a competitive 800cc MotoGP engine.The shame.Well, sort of. Dani Pedrosa is going pretty well on the old engine with steel valve springs, he
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Michael Scott Column - May 06
By Michael Scott on 01/05/2006 15:43:23
In the words of a lame song, it's all yellow. Yamaha's Camel livery being somehow more virulent than on Hondas.
But something more serious has happened. Yamaha had one of the last of the open-sided hospitality, resisting the urge to join the rest and their glass-fronted automatic-doors that make the paddock resemble a street of insurance company head offices
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Michael Scott Column - Sep 09
By Michael Scott on 27/09/2009 14:50:12
Scott digs deep into the difference in psyche between TT and GP racers, ponders Honda's return to form, Edwards' sexual preferences and Stoner's mystery illness
means.He did a lap in company with Ago, and though much was spent waving and pulling wheelies, he was also able to experience for the first time a pleasure enjoyed by TT racers and Mad Sunday-ers alike. Really fast riding on the road, opening up the R1
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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 - Dec 2008
By Michael Scott on 01/12/2008 10:43:42
Michael Scott wonders if Rossi has elevated himself above God status with his eighth World title. And why Dani is so unpopular with, well, everyone
to the sport, were actually complicit, supplying Rossi with a pen fitted with a camera to film in close-up the act of signing the fake document. Does nobody have the guts to stand up to Vale?Talking of guts, why did the tyre companies not find enough to resist
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Michael Scott Column - Jul 02
By Michael Scott on 01/07/2002 14:31:00
the surprisingly good rush-job Suzuki V4, but at several tracks also of the same company's own YZR500 two-stroke, itself unchanged since last year.Dubbed "awesome" and "mighty" over the preceding period of testing, leaked pictures and a gimcrack so
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Michael Scott Column - Mar 2009
By Michael Scott on 01/03/2009 09:51:33
As the storm clouds gather over the pits of MotoGP, Mike Scott tries to make sense of a crazy world that is going into meltdown.
with some 30 teamsters, from director Ichiro Yoda and manager Michael Bartholemy to the catering staff. And three riders, counting tester Olivier Jacque.John Hopkins switched to Kawasaki last year for big money after five years with Suzuki. Crash after crash
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Michael Scott Column - Mar 2008
By Michael Scott on 12/03/2008 13:41:25
Tyres, dodgy electronics and the first tests at Jerez: Mike Scott rubs his hands and gets stuck into another round of silly-season antics
.And who has Jorge always cited as his role model and racing hero? Even more irritatingly for Valentino, none other than the dreaded Max Biaggi.How will the Great British Hope James Toseland fare in this company? He ran respectably at Jerez, ending up
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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.
excellence. There’s a few people, including other riders, who think he might have stopped crashing so often, and that his new satellite Honda might see him rostrum-stepping more than once.The other question is for the engineers. Which company can make a
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