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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...
keep their mouths shut.”The legend he dismantled this time was even bigger: Kevin Schwantz. The Texan giant of racing’s last golden age was famed as much for physical courage as his daring riding. Injured or not, he would jump on and give it heaps
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Michael Scott Column - May 03
By Michael Scott on 01/05/2003 14:39:38
The elder gentleman of GP racing on the latest invasion of the GP grids by talented American motorcycle racers
for a generation of riders trained in the AMA mixed disciplines of dirt-track and road-racing.The supply seemed endless: Lawson following on directly, and Freddie Spencer. And Randy Mamola. Then came Kevin Schwantz and Wayne Rainey; and then John
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Michael Scott, Column - Jun 08
By Michael Scott on 01/06/2008 15:56:53
Mike Scott discovers that things are getting heated in spain between Pedrosa and Lorenzo. Perhaps we should pack them off to Brands!
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
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Michael Scott Column - Aug 03
By Michael Scott on 01/08/2003 15:04:38
It doesn't take long in motorcycling to empty the soul of a fun-loving serial winner according to our Mike Scott
out with a rival as feisty as Kevin Schwantz is going to take it out of you. Doing so on a bike that is trying to kill you even more so.In the same way, it didn't take very long for Doohan to change from a rather diffident youth to the hardest of hard
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The Cigarette Papers: Grand Prix sponsorship
By Michael Scott on 08/07/2010 10:13:26
In the 1990s, cigarette sponsorship ran the world. Massive corporates, incredibly rich and powerful, went to war on the sidepanels and fairings of the fastest machines in the world. We remember a time when fag ash was king...
Strike came in one year after Rothmans, left for F1 in 1998 after the Suzuki results faded away. “They would think nothing of throwing a Schwantz championship party that cost more than a private team’s entire budget for the year,” said Suzuki team manager
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Spies Like Us
By Michael Scott & Ben Spies on 20/10/2008 14:58:30
The British MotoGP was Ben Spies' first race abroad and his first Grand Prix. We were there
of flying to go there. It was rained off on arrival. He had another pop at Valencia at the end of the season, but all attempts by his mentor Kevin Schwantz to get the factory to provide bikes for another team for this year or next have thus far been thwarted
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