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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 - Jun 2009
By Michael Scott on 01/06/2009 14:35:11
MotoGP legend Scottie says that Dorna’s money-saving push is making the sport squeak
MotoGP team and the Spanish Blusens 250/125 team have already begun to make prototype machines using different 600cc four-cylinder engines. Not much saving for them, if they have to throw them away and start again.Wackiest of all is a rule dictating
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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...
.It was largely out of admiration that Ducati gave Pasini a test gallop on their MotoGP bike. He crashed twice, and wasn’t fast enough, but full marks to both for the effort.The dark deeds are in the 250 class, where his team owner Imre Toth keeps running out
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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?
control allows rain to be introduced at the ringmaster’s discretion, just in case any dry race threatens to get too dull.In the end, we will have to rely on riding talent. MotoGP is especially blessed at the moment, with Rossi and Stoner, Lorenzo
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Michael Scott Column - May 10
By Michael Scott on 29/05/2010 12:04:51
MotoGP struggles to find a workable format for modern times while the Moto 2 class is in disarray as riders struggle to squeeze enough speed from their new machines
hasn’t been much good against other 800s. How the hell will it do against proper 1000s? In Australia last year a Honda CBR-based Superbike set a faster race lap time than the factory MotoGP bike in qualifying, on the same day. I reckon in a race between
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Michael Scott Column - June 10
By Michael Scott on 30/06/2010 12:24:58
Honda’s MotoGP effort looks like turning into the same rider grudge match as Yamaha’s. If only it could produce similar results, so badly needed by the underperforming giant
relative innocent: in only his third MotoGP year, and although his 2009 on the factory Honda was generally below expectations, he also won a race... giving him half as many victories as Dani.Fast forward to this year. Honda has switched to Öhlins
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Michael Scott Column - Jul 03
By Michael Scott on 01/07/2003 14:55:17
MotoGP's main man on the issue of when is a prototype not a prototype?
The furore around the disqualified WCM MotoGP entry - based rather too closely on a Yamaha R1 for the FIM technical committee's liking - raises old questions in a new light, and has caused a major split in racing with Flammini and Superbike racing
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Michael Scott Column - Mar 2009
By Michael Scott on 01/03/2009 09:51:33
As the storm clouds gather over the pits of MotoGP, Mike Scott tries to make sense of a crazy world that is going into meltdown.
More a business than a sport, MotoGP had a grim festive season and a bleak start to the new year. Along with the rest of the commercial world.The news that Honda was to pull out of F1 sent shivers down the spine, now Kawasaki’s stealthy withdrawal
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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 - 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
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