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Mike Scott Column - Jul 2006
By Mike Scott on 10/07/2006 12:19:23
GP paddock oracle Mike Scott tells all
to take it lying down.Quick and forthright in contradiction, he was fine with sliding tyres, he said. He slowed because he was feeling crook, after two overnighters in airport lounges and a dose of 'flu. It could almost have been feisty old Wayne Gardner
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Mike Scott Column - Sep 2006
By Mike Scott on 10/09/2006 12:28:09
All the inside racing gossip that's fit to print from Mike Scott, TWO's GP paddock oracle
me more of feisty, fighting Wayne Gardner. He rides in a similar press-on style too.In an interview, he spoke a lot about "proving my critics wrong". I asked him: "Do you really care what other people say about you?""No," he replied, then paused for a
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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 - Oct 2001
By Mike Scott on 01/10/2001 11:10:30
Learned sage of Grand Prix Journalism, esteemed Editor of Motocourse and man on the inside of racing, it's old fuzz-faceMichael Scott
, everyone wanted a Yamaha. If you didn't have one of them, ran the mantra, you didn't stand a chance.Kevin Schwantz and Wayne Gardner simply refused to accept that their machines (a Suzuki and a Honda respectively) suffered any disadvantage that they couldn
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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
by Yamaha, dismayed Tech 3 team boss Hervé Poncharal, who was more than pleased with the 2007 progress of his own protégé, fellow-Frenchman Sylvain Guintoli, who has now gone to Ducati.I enjoyed watching Michael Schumacher belting round Valencia on a
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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...
form: razor-sharp and taking no crap. Not even from legends.In 2006, when fellow-Aussie world champ, the legendary Wayne Gardner, criticised him for crashing too much, Stoner memorably told me: “People who don’t know what they’re talking about should
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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!
the best lines, and Dani the better results.Racing is illuminated by such bitter personal rivalry; history is full of riders who really didn’t like one another, and didn’t care who knew it. Read/Ivy, Read/Ago, Roberts/Sheene, Rainey/Schwantz, Gardner
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