The term 'maximum attack' has ben widely misused. Surely this is a sport where it's your only possible option. Rather them than us, that's what we say

, fuel suppliers, magazines, established race teams and universities. Teams have utilised many types of fuel technology including biodiesel, bioethanol, methanol, electric and hybrid fuels. Racing takes the form of Drag Racing: whoever can clock

Don't panic. We're not going to run out of crude oil some time soon.But that's not the issue that should be bothering us. Even the most doom-mongering pessimist has us earmarked for at least a generation's worth of extractable crude oil so our high performance carbon burners are ...

's tones subside, the bark of 500cc singles and 1000cc fours tears into the chill air of deep, rural Hampshire.This is grass track racing: mud, methanol and as mixed a bag of spectators and competitors as you're ever likely to see - anywhere. From grizzled

of the interior parts of the  carburettor. So I did that and made my own needle out of a piece of brazing rod. I set the 50(cc) motor up on 50 percent nitro, 50 percent methanol, and got it to carburtate good. I took Wayne out of school to go test this thing

absence of a left-hand footpeg.I know a missing footpeg may seem like small beer against the other odds stacked against anyone slinging a shivering leg over one of these methanol-burning two-wheeled chainsaws, but think about it for a moment.With no left

said, with an air of mystic menace.This, in essence is how you ride an 80bhp, methanol burning motorcycle with no brakes. On shale. Elbow to elbow with three other lunatics. You ride with your heart both emotionally and physically.I’m not suggesting

.What's the score with the speedway thing? You doing it again this year?Well we're waiting for the agreements to come through for this year, but hopefully yes, I'll be doing the speedway for 2002. I absolutely love doing it - the smell of a methanol-filled stadium