height=10width:300px; margin:5px 0px 5px 10px;" align="center"black solid; margin-bottom:2px;" width="300" /In 2002 I got an abject lesson in not giving up hope until it's really all over. I was racing for the Belgarda Supersport Team at the Silverstone full circuit for the first...

circuit very quickly anyway, so Paolo will only get a bit of a headstart. He had a really good start to the season, he doesn't crash and he will fight for it, and he's a good lad, he's all right. He's a bit dry. What I'm up to at the moment next year we

The collection of Whitham/Speedfreak machines has grown recently, and now includes some 600cc racebikes, ones that we can rent out to people who don't want to bash up their own roadbikes if they crash. A lot of people have been asking us to do that

SLOW". I thought, "Bejeezuz, I'm not getting away from these lads," so I really started pushing - and of course crashed.I knew right away I'd broken my wrist, but I got the bike back in to the pits. Sarron said to me, "Did you understand the lap signals

, and totally embarrassed to have crashed like that. But that wasn't the worst of it. As the bike was so trick the crash had cost a load of money for Hoss, so I had to give the team more than the agreed money. The money I gave to Hoss were nowhere near the real

As you know by now I had a big crash in the Brands Hatch World Supersport race. I had a good start in the re-run after Chambon had fallen but as the track starts to dip away on the entrance to the straight the rear started to slide. It slid for ages

at Cadwell Park was a belter. Good racing in just about every class, a huge crowd, and fine weather. Two incidents that occurred at the Lincolnshire circuit though, reminded me of how tough the top riders have to be. The first one was Denis Hobbs crashing

but the front gracefully folded under, sending Evil and the ZX-10R sliding off the road and across the stony overshoot at 80mph or so. Now, I've witnessed many a crash, at most speeds and from most angles, and never batted an eye. But that was on track when it

I went in early I ran wide; if I went in wide I had to open the throttle so early I was losing the back end. I was dropping back and went over the line in about eighth when they stopped the race because of a big crash and an oil spill.I was thinking

though. We had a cracking meeting at Snetterton. None of us had crashed and we were right up front in all the races. So for a change, the bikes just had to go home, get cleaned and that was about it. Two short days' work, so the lads were really pumped