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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
. Oh dear.It was, let it be observed, for 13th. Tady wasn’t really up to speed, while Nice Nicky had a duff tyre and went backwards from fourth all race long.Still didn’t look good on paper for a man who is desperate for results to save his career as a
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Mike Scott Column - Oct 2007
By Mike Scott on 10/10/2007 12:51:16
Rossi's under pressure and Honda's on the edge, reckons Mike Scott, our GP paddock pitbull
straight, several of whom went home with souvenirs. It took their first win in 12 races the next day to help the hapless HRC men regain some face.The way the injured Alex Hofmann was treated at Laguna Seca is a shameful stain on MotoGP, and on a US track
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Mike Scott Column - Dec 2006
By Mike Scott on 01/12/2006 18:42:14
Dani takes a dive
Anybody else remember the UJM? Described in the late 1970s by a moribund Norton, this feeble insult to the Japanese conquerors stood for Universal Japanese Motorcycle - the by then ubiquitous inline four.In racing engineering also, the more things
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Mike Scott Column - Feb 2007
By Mike Scott on 01/02/2007 10:42:05
Time for the safer 800s
ceremony in Spain, after failing to secure anything better than second-string rides for 2007.Unfortunately Sete had become rather a figure of fun in racing, the hair being a contributory factor. Also that he kept getting beaten by Rossi. This is surely
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Mike Scott Column - Nov 2006
By Mike Scott on 10/11/2006 12:34:21
All the inside racing gossip that's fit to print from Mike Scott, TWO's GP paddock oracle
to the final race. The last time that happened was in 1992, when Wayne Rainey snatched the crown from an injured but bravely struggling Mick Doohan.With five races left, there were five candidates: Hayden, Pedrosa, Rossi, Melandri and Capirossi. Then Pedrosa
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Mike Scott Column - Feb 2008
By Mike Scott on 15/02/2008 12:37:06
Tyres, dodgy electronics and the first tests at Jerez: Scottie’s rubs his hands and gets stuck into another round of silly-season antics
at the last race.How will Ducati respond? Why not take a tip from World Superbikes, and get the rules changed. In the production-based series Ducati’s twins now have a potential 200cc capacity advantage over the 1000cc fours. Why not the same in MotoGP? Just
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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...
continent of Australia. Would he return as promised for the Portuguese GP, or did the great scriptwriter in the sky have other plans? The post-viral syndrome that is still the major suspect can be cruelly debilitating. At Portugal for Episode 14 out of 17
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Michael Scott Column - Feb 08
By Michael Scott on 17/02/2008 16:08:13
Tyres, dodgy electronics and the first tests at Jerez: Scottie’s rubs his hands and gets stuck into another round of silly-season antics
at the last race.How will Ducati respond? Why not take a tip from World Superbikes, and get the rules changed. In the production-based series Ducati’s twins now have a potential 200cc capacity advantage over the 1000cc fours. Why not the same in MotoGP? Just
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