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Valentino Rossi's interview with Italian GQ
By Ben Cope on 05/10/2010 15:56:47
A translation of Rossi's interview with the Italian lifestyle magazine
Below is a snippet of the interview with Valentino Rossi from GQ ItalySince you’ve hurt yourself, it seems that Stoner and Lorenzo have finally found the courage to say what they really think about you.Yes, and I am glad. When you are injured
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BMW's Christian Landerl interview
By Visordown on 07/04/2010 11:21:57
BMW new model guru Dr (he’s a real doctor) Christian Landerl on building a world-beatingsuperbike, why a 600cc version is inevitable and why the Nürburgring is in his blood...
THAT THE S1000RR SUPERBIKE HAS PROVED TO BE FAST IN WSB IS NO SURPRISE TO US“The result at the first round of the 2009 season at Phillip Island was an excellent start and showed the potential of the S1000RR. A victory in our first World Superbike season would have been fantastic ...
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David Knight - Interview
By Visordown on 28/07/2010 09:44:27
Twice World Enduro Champion David Knight on Teutonic over-engineering, going green, racing in the States and his boyhood dream of one day competing at the Isle of Man TT
The BMW ride didn’t work out how I thought it wouldTesting went well and we had good people on the team but when it came to racing it was a complete disaster. We thought we could turn it around, and I thought that I was there to develop the bike, to turn it into a race winner. Bu...
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Paul Denning - Interview
By Visordown on 30/06/2010 09:35:17
Suzuki MotoGP team manager and Crescent boss Paul Denning talks Moto2, the purity of 990 GP bikes without traction control and why Capirossi is special
There’s no one thing keeping us from the front “The Yamaha is the best balanced bike out there. Wherever they go the M1 is quick. It’s user friendly and it looks after its tyres, which is important now that the 800s now are making as much horsepower as the 990s ever did but in a ...
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Jay Leno - Interview
By Visordown on 26/07/2010 12:31:44
Likeable US talkshow legend Jay Leno talks jet-bikes, swapping out carbs on a Vincent Black Shadow and getting speeding tickets on a steam-powered car…
the right gear and don’t hit anything hard and unyielding, you should be okay. You've visited the UK to race up the hill at Goodwood and meet Clarkson on Top Gear. Which was better?Ha! Well it’s always a bit weird being interviewed by a TV host when you
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The Interview - David Robb
By Visordown on 20/09/2010 11:22:06
Ever wondered why BMW’s bikes now look reasonably interesting? Meet David Robb, BMW’s vice president of motorcycle design – a man with a slightly interesting life…
, so if I was a designer I could be a pilot later, but if I was a pilot I’d never design cars, so I went to design school.I started at ChryslerAfter I finished college it was like the US football drafts, all the students were picked to go to interviews
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The Interview - Mark Neate
By Visordown on 20/09/2010 11:29:35
As main man at trackday giants No Limits, Mark has seen it all, from fights to 15-year-olds lapping the fast group and Ducati Desmosedicis in his pitlane to £90,000 gambles...
FISTICUFFS? IT HAPPENSWe had one at Anglesey last week. Fast group, first session of the day and one rider went underneath another. To be fair he gave him plenty of room but unfortunately he then fell off, slid into the other guy and took him out. The fight started in the gravel ...
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Interview: Steve Parrish
By Robin Goodwin on 01/03/2012 09:26:59
BBC's MotoGP commentator and ex-GP racer Steve Parrish comments on the season ahead, the new 1000cc formula and Britain's hopefuls
Predicting MotoGP is easy, my choices are Casey Stoner, Jorge Lorenzo and Dani PedrosaI'd love to see Valentino Rossi in there but I'm not too sure whether the bike will be up to it and it's very difficult to say whether he is up for it. He's 33 years old now and I think there ar...
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Interview: Cal Crutchlow
By Visordown on 21/06/2012 10:35:04
Brit star on the gutsy ride at Silverstone, his MotoGP future and the jump from Superbikes to the prototype machines
Following his impressive ride at Silverstone from the back of the grid to sixth position, with an injured foot, Cal Crutchlow sat down for a webchat on the Bennetts Facebook page. Here's what he had to say:How are you feeling and what is the extent of your injury?Yeah we knew the...
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Jeremy Burgess interview
By Visordown on 26/05/2010 15:09:43
Jeremy Burgess is Valentino Rossi's crew chief at Fiat Yamaha. Nobody knows more about what it takes to win a Grand Prix
On the outside looking in, this looks like a glamorous job. Is it?I think any job where you enjoy it must be pretty glamorous. I guess I see Valentino Rossi for two hours, three days a week, but I wouldn't use the world 'glamorous.' It's an exciting job.What's the longest you've ...
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