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Michael Scott Column - Dec 09
By Michael Scott on 27/12/2009 16:09:03
Casey Stoner returns to MotoGP with a bang, not to mention a razor-sharp comment to a former GP star. It’s not often that Kevin Schwantz is put in his place...
The great medical mystery of MotoSoap 2009 remains unsolved. But, late in the series, the corpse has come back to life for the last
few episodes.Casey Stoner wrote himself out of the series after the British GP and disappeared into the lost
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Michael Scott Column - July 10
By Michael Scott on 15/07/2010 12:33:56
Never one to avoid asking difficult questions or giving uncomfortable answers, Mr Michael Scott offers a typically trenchant view of the relative states of health of world race series...
his way to a pair of great rostrums when he could finish no higher than sixth last year in MotoGP and usually much lower, you’d have to think that Rossi, Stoner and Co would be kicking some butt there.At the same time, Dorna is planning to bring in rev
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Michael Scott Column - Nov 09
By Michael Scott on 27/11/2009 15:53:54
Can Stoner bounce back with a vengeance? Will Rossi ever race a Ducati? Is all this inside leg waving a load of old crap? Scotty might just have all the answers...
Casey Stoner – yes or no? That’s the burning question, with conspiracy theorists in overdrive. And the knock-on effect has been spectacular.Stoner stunned racing by pulling out for three races to recover from what appears to be post-viral fatigue
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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
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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
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Michael Scott Column - Feb 08
By Michael Scott on 17/02/2008 16:08:13
Tyres, dodgy electronics and the first tests at Jerez: Scottie’s rubs his hands and gets stuck into another round of silly-season antics
It’s hard not to feel a pang as Dunlop’s Brummy Army are ushered out of MotoGP, after having been there… well, forever. The company may be owned by Goodyear now, and many of the racing tyres come from Sumitomo in Japan, but the roots remain firmly
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Michael Scott Column - May 2009
By Michael Scott on 01/05/2009 12:30:55
The wisest man in the MotoGP paddock rates 2009’s plucky underdogs
success, and an apparent reluctance to fight for race wins – all his MotoGP successes have been runaways. His already shaky popularity took a dive last year when his manager/mentor/puppet master Alberto Puig started messing with Honda’s factory team
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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
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Michael Scott, Column - Jun 08
By Michael Scott on 01/06/2008 15:56:53
Mike Scott discovers that things are getting heated in spain between Pedrosa and Lorenzo. Perhaps we should pack them off to Brands!
meeting? It’s obviously a risk they’re happy to take. Ink, after all, is ink.The proper way to learn how to ride a MotoGP bike is via 125s, not so? Rossi, Stoner and Pedrosa have already proved it; Lorenzo and Dovizioso likewise. Sadly, nobody’s told James
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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
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