I'd say that women are less likely to ride like pricks and are, in that respect, safer riders than men. Alex DangerfieldI don't think that a person's sex defines their ability to ride or drive well, but their mental state does. Girls are more likely

Adriana Stoner is the beauty often seen in the Honda MotoGP pit garage next to her husband, Casey. Here's a picture gallery of Adriana through the years as she's followed Casey around the world, holding his umbrella on the grid, showing up the pit babes and generally looking very...

For a girl to make it into professional bike racing is rare enough. For a girl to make it all the way into Grands Prix is even rarer. And for that girl to be (let's be frank here) not a complete minger, is absolutely unheard of. But 23 year

that the leathered up rider will be a man. It's a male pursuit after all. Just flick through this magazine and count the number of scantily clad girls within these very pages. They're for us to ogle over, once we've finished drooling over the gleaming machinery

, together with his unfeasibly white teeth, do a 10-minute, 10-lap balls-out demo aboard the Rizla Suzuki MotoGP bike. His stand-up wheelies are definitely better than mine. Sundry promotional girls - parading around the paddock like prime rib on stilettos

Alvaro Bautista keeps his girlfriend pretty quite. The MotoGP rider, who has a nickname of Bati, has been dating his girlfriend Noelia for years, but she has never been a grid girl or paddock babe. Instead, Bautista's girlfriend stays out

to be surrounded by pit girls and brolly dollys. This gallery shows Loris Capirossi's wife Ingrid at various MotoGP races over the years.

Manuela Raffaeta is the beauty often seen in the Melandri's MotoGP pit garage. Here's a picture gallery of Manuela through the years as she's followed Marco around the world, holding his umbrella on the grid and generally looking very pretty indeed.

Yvette Amescua is the beauty often seen in the background at MotoGP races. She is Dani Pedrosa's girlfriend and keeps a low profile. This is a picture gallery of Yvette Amescua on holiday with her boyfriend and also at the circuit during MotoGP races.

Kawasaki's World Superbike rider, Chris Vermeulen has won the World Superbike title and also competed in MotoGP for Rizla Suzuki. His girlfriend and now fiancee Toni Pinion is formerly a photographer and TV presenter. Toni Pinion is rarely seen on the grid, however she can be see...