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MotoGP Shanghai Race Report - Resurrection
By David Emmett on 04/05/2008 23:32:17
Tired of MotoGP's Young Turks, the Old Guard strikes back

Shanghai MotoGP Race Report - ResurrectionThroughout the first three races of the 2008 MotoGP season, all the talk has been of the newcomers to the class. And rightly so, as Jorge Lorenzo, Andrea Dovizioso, James Toseland and Alex de Angelis have

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?

Over the next few days, it is going to be impossible for any MotoGP fan worth their salt to avoid hearing the phrase "nestling in the Tuscan hills." For the MotoGP circus returns once again to Mugello, one of the most beautifully situated race

MotoGP Catalunya Preview - Repeat Performance
By David Emmett on 05/06/2008 23:32:08
No peace for the wicked: Just a week after Mugello, MotoGP hits Barcelona. We can only hope for a race as good as last year.

There is a distinct element of deja vu to Sunday's Catalunya Grand Prix at Barcelona. Just last week, the MotoGP circus was in a bike-mad country, at a circuit sure to attract some 100,000 fans on race day, all clamoring for their local heroes. Once

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.

MotoGP.So how did we get here, and more importantly, what can we do about it? Over the next three days, we'll be examining the state of MotoGP, and asking why it turned out to be so hideously expensive. We'll also be studying the likely effects

MotoGP Valencia Preview - End Of An Era
By David Emmett on 24/10/2008 00:19:59
The end of the 2008 MotoGP season beckons, but before that, there's a race to run. With little to gain, there's nothing to lose either, and only pride at stake. That is surely the best recipe for some great racing.

There is always something bittersweet about the Valencia round of MotoGP. The final race is at once both apogee and perigee, zenith and nadir, as befits the culmination of any experience which marks its fans as deeply as MotoGP does. The last chance

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?

Racing Course near Hita in Japan.As befits the largest motorcycle manufacturer in the world, Honda owns more racetracks than the others, holding the deeds for both the Twin Ring Motegi circuit, site of Sunday's Japanese MotoGP round, and its former

MotoGP Le Mans Preview - The Shadow Of History
By David Emmett on 15/05/2008 21:35:06
MotoGP hits Le Mans, for the first of 7 races in 10 weeks. A tough road lies ahead.

for the 2008 MotoGP championship will be laid over the next few weeks, and it starts on Sunday, at Le Mans. There's a long hard road ahead, and what better place to take the first step than at a track so steeped in legend? Read more articles by David Emmett

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?

was reversed in an attempt to improve safety - a concession to get MotoGP to return after a crash there in 1993 left Wayne Rainey in a wheelchair - the circuit has lost many of the other features that gave it its character and made it special. Before

MotoGP Le Mans Race Report - Battle Of Nerves
By David Emmett on 19/05/2008 15:49:18
Le Mans is about as historic a track as you can get. Would the MotoGP race live up to the location?

The three painted lines marking the spot where MotoGP line up on the grid cram a lot of tension into a tiny space. After rolling out of the pits, and round the track for the sighting lap, the riders are in their element doing something they know

MotoGP Assen Preview - No Sleep Till Breukelen
By David Emmett on 25/06/2008 22:37:44
A quick hop across the North Sea sees MotoGP hit the halfway point. Rossi once closed a title deficit of over 45 points, but can Casey Stoner do the same?

Barely had the engines cooled and the dust been washed off the bikes after the race at Donington before the entire MotoGP circus was busy packing and loading up to head on over to the northern reaches of the Netherlands, and the TT Circuit at Assen

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