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Saving MotoGP Part 2 - How To Encourage The Cheats
By David Emmett on 15/01/2009 12:59:55
There have been a range of proposals to cut costs in MotoGP, including banning electronics, introducing budget caps and extending engine life. Today, we explain why that will make MotoGP more expensive
Yesterday, we examined why MotoGP turned into the bottomless pit which swallows money, and looked at the mistakes which made this result inevitable. Today, we'll be examining the suggestions being put forward to fix the situation, and get spending
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Saving MotoGP Part 1 - Why Is MotoGP So Expensive?
By David Emmett on 14/01/2009 13:59:22
The first of a three-part series on how MotoGP needs to solve its current crisis, we explore just how MotoGP got into the financial pickle it finds itself in.
. With sales plummeting and the banks only willing to lend money to them at exorbitant interest, the manufacturers are being forced to examine their activities with an almost pathological attention to detail for areas where they can cut costs.Naturally, one
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MotoGP Misano Preview - History In The Making
By David Emmett on 29/08/2008 01:13:18
MotoGP hits Valentino Rossi's back yard, just as The Doctor can put his name in the record books. But there's a bright red Ducati parked squarely in his path. Can he push it aside for the third time running?
on Hondas hoping to be fight men who could be back at the front if Michelin come through for them. Andrea Dovizioso has been the most impressive of the satellite Hondas, and is giving Lorenzo a run for his money for the title of Rookie of the Year. Like most
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MotoGP Mugello Preview - Physical Poetry
By David Emmett on 29/05/2008 23:29:21
Mugello is a magical location, and a magical track. Can the MotoGP race live up to the surroundings?
, aboard a specially painted Honda NSR 500, and since then, Rossi has refused to run special liveries at Mugello, despite a lot of pressure to do some from sponsors. Rossi has turned down a lot of money at Mugello because of his belief that a special paint
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Saving MotoGP Part 3 - Avoiding The Traps Of The P
By David Emmett on 16/01/2009 11:47:50
If MotoGP is too expensive and proposals made so far will only make things worse, how should it be fixed? In the last of the series, we explain how radical changes are the only solution to making MotoGP cheaper, and more exciting to boot.
. But bigger engines mean heavier bikes. And heavier bikes are harder to stop, turn, and get off the corner. And so all the money saved on engine development would probably not be saved, but would be poured straight into weight saving, as the engineers examined
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MotoGP Misano Race Report - The Best Laid Plans
By David Emmett on 03/09/2007 22:07:18
MotoGP Misano - After the deluge, the destruction
veritable tidal wave of minutiae, all demanding an incomprehensibly large amount of time, money and effort to cope with adequately. As a consequence, motorcycle racing is left down to large organizations which have both the money and the resources to cope
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MotogGP 2007 Season Preview - Into The Unknown
By David Emmett on 05/03/2007 12:04:41
The 2007 MotoGP season is upon us. Get ready!
quite a different face on things: Firstly, Pramac, the Italian industrial power systems company who sponsor the team, announced they would be buying a big stake in the team, and putting more money in. Shortly afterwards, Luis d'Antin announced the team
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MotoGP Laguna Seca Preview - Poor Little Rich Girl
By David Emmett on 19/07/2007 23:31:02
MotoGP crosses the Atlantic, and hits The Corkscrew
reserves of wealth, some of the world's most spectacular scenery, and large population centers full of people with plenty of money to spend on leisure activities, such as motorcycle racing. It is the home of the automobile, a nation whose very culture
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MotoGP Phillip Island Preview - Homecoming
By David Emmett on 11/10/2007 23:43:25
The new world champion heads for home.
, and that has spoiled the spectacle, and it's the spectacle which keeps money flowing into the series. Phillip Island is Michelin's chance to turn things around, and history is very much on their side. Bridgestone have never done very well here, Chris Vermeulen
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Motegi MotoGP Preview - Own The Racetrack
By David Emmett on 26/09/2008 00:03:34
After the hurricane at Indianapolis, MotoGP goes to Japan, amidst a political whirlwind. Can Rossi claim the title, and make us all forget about tires for a while?
the best bike out on the circuit, rather than the literal sense of actually paying money to own and operate a racing facility for your own personal use.Yet that is exactly what a number of manufacturers have chosen to do. Literally owning your own racetrack
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