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Jamie Whitham Column - Oct 2005
By Jamie Whitham on 01/10/2005 15:22:11
High spirits at Assen mean the team pulls together when Whit destroys his rental car. Again.
height=10width:300px; margin:5px 0px 5px 10px;" align="center"black solid; margin-bottom:2px;" width="300" /I had a good result at Assen one year, and as we did on these occasions my team took us all out for a nice Italian meal in town. Except that they always insisted that we ea...
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Jamie Whitham Column - Nov 2005
By Jamie Whitham on 01/11/2005 16:59:03
Whit overcomes the elements - and even a crash - to take the top step on the podium
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...
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Jamie Whitham Column - Dec 2006
By Jamie Whitham on 01/12/2006 18:49:00
A simple proposition - dig a hole, cement post. Repeat 50 times. But this is Whitham. His brush with power tools does not auger well
height=10width:300px; margin:5px 0px 5px 10px;" align="center"black solid; margin-bottom:2px;" width="300" /Early on in my career I did quite a lot of racing at Oliver's Mount near Scarborough. Not only because it's fairly near my home but also because I always got on well with t...
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Jamie Whitham Column - Jan 2007
By Jamie Whitham on 01/01/2007 19:34:56
As the season winds down so Whitham winds up. Cross country cycle thrashes and bike show talkathons are all part of the gig.
height=10width:300px; margin:5px 0px 5px 10px;" align="center"black solid; margin-bottom:2px;" width="300" /Both the WSB and the BSB championships are over. It's been a busy year doing my pundit stuff for both. Me and the wife worked out that of the 33 weekends between the first ...
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Jamie Whitham column - Jan 2006
By Jamie Whitham on 01/01/2006 09:46:11
Testing can make you slower, but not if your throttle sticks open
height=10width:300px; margin:5px 0px 5px 10px;" align="center"black solid; margin-bottom:2px;" width="300" /After so many years of defying death in racing, at really fast speeds, now I'm retired I've just had one of mybiggest near death experiences of them all - driving a tractor...
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Jamie Whitham column - Mar 2006
By Jamie Whitham on 01/03/2006 11:11:54
When Whit hit the road and travelled in style
height=10width:300px; margin:5px 0px 5px 10px;" align="center"black solid; margin-bottom:2px;" width="300" /Walking around the paddocks this year it's struck me just how much the whole hospitality, motorhome, paddock village thing has mushroomed, in every class of racing. That's ...
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Jamie Whitham column - Apr 2006
By Jamie Whitham on 01/04/2006 11:19:51
Lunatic fragments of life from the twisted world of a famous ex-racer
height=10width:300px; margin:5px 0px 5px 10px;" align="center"black solid; margin-bottom:2px;" width="300" /... I've had a pretty busy winter really; working at the NEC and G-Mex bike shows, and the Autosport International, plus a bit of testing for the mag has meant we've manage...
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Jamie Whitham Column - Sep 2005
By Jamie Whitham on 01/09/2005 13:56:28
We're bang up to date this month with Whit's recent Goodwood wheelie shame
height=10width:300px; margin:5px 0px 5px 10px;" align="center"black solid; margin-bottom:2px;" width="300" /A couple of times now I've done the Goodwood Revival meeting, and this year I got invited to the Festival of Speed. The Revival's brilliant but the Festival is the big even...
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Jamie Whitham Column - Feb 2007
By Jamie Whitham on 01/02/2007 10:53:54
Snowball fights in Dubai, lost, concussed trials riders, angry ramblers - name the constant. James Whitham of course.
height=10width:300px; margin:5px 0px 5px 10px;" align="center"black solid; margin-bottom:2px;" width="300" /Andrea and me have a problem. Er, no, not that problem - it's just we've never really been able to agree what sort of holiday we should be going on. She prefers the sunbath...
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Scoop: Whitham tests the 2008 R6
By Jamie Whitham on 26/10/2007 14:38:59
TWO's Jamie Whitham world first R6 video and launch report
James Whitham tests the 2008 Yamaha R6 at Sugo, Japan.'Ey oop to all you Visordown readers, I'm just about getting my sleep-patterns back to normal after getting back from Japan. I was there to test the 2008 Yamaha R6 around the sublime Sugo circuit
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