What a disaster at Assen. At the World Superbike race, where British riders dominated. Both rostrums were filled with regional accents and true blue bulldogs: Rea, Toseland, Camier on the first one; Rea, Haslam and Toseland on the second. Wow

.This move was a classic, and the sort of thing that makes one love racing. Photographs later showed that Tamada was definitely angled towards Gibernau after pulling alongside at a hard downhill braking area. A collision course. And sure enough, they collided

undergoing shake-down runs at the final European test of the season at Catalunya. It's not going to be winning races just yet. Unless it rains.Edwards has been astonishing in the pre-season, putting the previously ill-favoured Aprilia right on the pace. One

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

I'm guessing, BUT I predict that by the time you read this, Rossi will have one or even both hands on his third consecutive top-class championship.This year, however, has been a little different from last. 2002, the first year of the four

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

for the payment of a fixed amount of money.Thus thoroughbred grand prix racing threatens to become a combination of bargain basement and high-flown irrelevance all moulded into one. Three different types of bikes, all with different performance parameters, trying

predictably well, other names in the frame will be ones you’ve never heard of.Not unless you’re a close follower of Spanish national racing, anyway. I mean, so far we’ve had top drawer test performances from hot American Kenny Noyes – who I had heard of

.Extreme reactions that show how unused our once-dominant racing nation has become to success.Smith’s win was a strong one, a runaway at such speed that his only pursuer crashed while trying to catch up. That was home GP pole qualifier Julian (pronounced “Hooligan

turned them down, preferring one more year with Yamaha to race Rossi on equal machinery. The Marlborites then hunted Pedrosa, though it appears without success, for they renewed Nicky Hayden’s contract as second rider, suggesting they had run out