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Michael Scott Column - Apr 2008
By Michael Scott on 12/04/2008 11:42:11
Is Rossi over the hill? Is it time for the greatest motorcycle racer ever to move over gracefully and let the new guard through? Mike Scott ponders.
can suppress the bounding Stoner this coming season, then he will finally take his place on the top step of the pantheon of racing gods, along with Geoff Duke, Mike Hailwood and Ago himself. If not – well, he’s only human.What of the others? We can
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Michael Scott Column - Jan 2009
By Michael Scott on 15/01/2009 16:35:18
Mike Scott looks on at the continuing discontent within Honda and Rossi attempting to try his hand at World Superbikes
The 117,000 fans who packed the stands at Valencia should have asked for their money back, after a dismal drear-fest procession of a MotoGP race. Asked afterwards, none of the top three riders - Stoner, Rossi, Pedrosa - thought control tyres would make much difference. Unless, as...
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Michael Scott Column - Mar 2008
By Michael Scott on 12/03/2008 13:41:25
Tyres, dodgy electronics and the first tests at Jerez: Mike Scott rubs his hands and gets stuck into another round of silly-season antics
The December-January testing ban means just one thing to the dedicated MotoGP hero: withdrawal symptoms. It’s a rare racer who can kick back. Most of them will have spent the winter worrying desperately.They might be considering those old racing truths. One is every rider’s creed...
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Michael Scott Column - Nov 2008
By Michael Scott on 12/11/2008 19:59:55
Mike Scott concedes the battle is over for the motogp title as Casey relinquishes not only a race lead, but also his crash-free season
Has Rossi got Stoner undone? Surely looks a bit like that, after three forced errors in a row. The only thing that argues against it is Stoner’s own impassive calm, after his two crash-outs at Brno and Misano. Both in the wake of his lippy performance at Laguna, where it definite...
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Michael Scott Column - Oct 2008
By Michael Scott on 12/10/2008 20:21:11
Mike Scott looks on at the battle heating up between Rossi and Stoner.Is it a battle of who has the most fans, or who wins on track?
Lippy little git, Casey Stoner. He won no new friends when he spouted off at Rossi after losing the best race of the 800 era. That was in America, just before everyone went on holiday.It left fans world-wide to spend the ensuing weeks in castigating the whinging Aussie. And both ...
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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
Honda’s whirligig into despair continues apace. The world’s greatest engine company is having trouble making a competitive 800cc MotoGP engine.The shame.Well, sort of. Dani Pedrosa is going pretty well on the old engine with steel valve springs, he even won at Catalunya by a coun...
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Michael Scott Column - Sep 2008
By Michael Scott on 12/09/2008 20:39:23
Mike Scott draws on his pipe, dons his deer stalker and starts to look at the clues. there’s been a murder in MotoGP and he’s on the trail..
There is the smell of murder in MotoGP. And it’s getting worse.For 250s, it is slow murder, by poison, with accomplices, and not yet fully accomplished. But the final chapter is already written: the stroker princelings will be replaced by 600 Supersport clones from 2011, like it ...
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Michael Scott Column - Feb 2009
By Michael Scott on 15/02/2009 16:43:19
Mike Scott looks forward to a new MotoGP season, but will the new one-make tyre rule actually make any difference?
One season ends, the next begins one day later. Yesterday’s race results aren’t even fish’n’chips wrapping, in these days of the download.The difference this time was the introduction of one-make control tyres. Supposed to even it all up a bit. So what happened, in the final test...
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Michael Scott Column - Nov 03
By Michael Scott on 01/11/2003 15:28:18
Warning: Valentino Rossi is enjoying his racing again, so his rivals better watch out, says Mike Scott
, at just 22, is fourth in racing history, behind Agostini (122), Angel Nieto (90) and Mike Hailwood (75). And he's started enjoying himself again. This is a formidable threat, especially if the master of the craft carries the feeling on to next season
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Michael Scott Column - Sep 03
By Michael Scott on 01/09/2003 15:15:02
Today's press release culture may keep the pressmen laughing, but deep down it is destroying the soul of racing, says Mike Scott
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