Pit Bull has noted repeatedly (certainly annually) how the great name of Honda has been shamed by results ever since the advent of the 800s. Ever a company of engineers, this time their seldom rivalled manipulation of the nuts and bolts hasn’t born

- completely out of character - gravest apologies" etc.Mick was fined Aus $2500, but the magistrate very decently acceded to his lawyers request that no criminal record should result, because of Doohan's charity work, and because he was "a veritable Australian

with some 30 teamsters, from director Ichiro Yoda and manager Michael Bartholemy to the catering staff. And three riders, counting tester Olivier Jacque.John Hopkins switched to Kawasaki last year for big money after five years with Suzuki. Crash after crash

.One inevitable result would be to sideline the last remaining two-stroke classes, the 250s and 125s. Which seemed something of a pity. Two-strokes may be irrelevant, but these are proper racing machines - with fully adjustable suspension and gear ratios, and so

, what happens when you get a competitive rider and a competitive bike.NOT YELLOW AT all - John Hopkins's new teeth. American cosmetic dentistry's finest have been at work over the winter, and the results are dazzling. He won't need a reading light in bed

-R Superbikes, as well as all the rest, on the new V4 XR-E0. Honda and Yamaha also? Reckon so. They're hardly going to be shy.The results achieved by the new-generation racers won't matter, of course. But who will care about the real results? What is the value

the best lines, and Dani the better results.Racing is illuminated by such bitter personal rivalry; history is full of riders who really didn’t like one another, and didn’t care who knew it. Read/Ivy, Read/Ago, Roberts/Sheene, Rainey/Schwantz, Gardner

, sounds and behaves like a motorbike.Of course it is not as simple as it looks. Ducati's string of results come courtesy of a distinct step forward by Bridgestone. It vastly upped the stakes in the tyre war, both technically and financially, and new

Roberts Jr. slides his 990. Try that on an 800 says ScottIn your dreams, you can probably power-slide a sports bike on tar. Properly, I mean - using throttle control and footrest-weighting; pulling it upright to get on the fatter part of the tyre

'd deliberately slipped him a dud.The last time he thought like this was at Brno, where he ran dry on the final lap.Never mind that almost all his other non-finishes and bad results were down to crashes, or (on three occasions) just running off the track while