After deposing Barry Sheene for three straight championships, Kenny Roberts stopped winning the 500GP title after 1980. He remained King Kenny nonetheless. In racing terms, his status equalled that of Valentino Rossi.In 1982, injury at the British

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

Rolling Stoner; and he has several times shown himself fragile under pressure. After a pretty flawless title win in 2007, he crashed out of consecutive races the next year while battling Rossi, after running off the track at Laguna.Along with his headlong

-offs in two races. And Dani had done exactly the same at Assen.A win at last is good. But it’s too precarious to start celebrating just yet.The things they say: Colin Edwards gave an interview to an Italian bike mag that had the paddock rollicking at Assen

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

top factory team had one top rider, but Yamaha had two. He had been crucial in developing the M1 into a race and title-winning bike. “Now I am developing the bike not only for myself, but also for my worst enemy,” he said. “After what I have done

-strokes, was a stroll and he finished the year somewhat bored. It is for that reason, more than any mechanical trouble, that Barros won a couple of year-end races.Rossi started this year rather bored as well. And he kind of stayed that way even after Gibernau

on the old days in the USA when it was part of the AMA rule book. Factory teams from BSA/Triumph and Norton (ah, remember when) used to visit the important Daytona 200-Mile race in some trepidation with their race-winning triples etc back in the 1970s

anyway, with warmer weather, to race for real.Some riders, and Stoner is one, welcome the cut in testing. He sees little point in going round and round and round. If you can’t work it out in a lap or two, you shouldn’t be doing the job, in his opinion

Spanish journo remarked afterwards, feigning tears at how ‘sad’ he was at Dani’s misfortune. “I spoke to him afterwards,” he said. “He had the same face as when he wins.” In the post-race press conference, racing nice guy Nicky Hayden was asked how he felt