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5 minutes with ... Nina Sebastiane
By John Cantlie on 22/10/2002 15:53:39
If you don't know who Nina Sebastiane is, that's because you're not into speedway
things work these days are that if it hasn't got full TV coverage and sponsorship, and if it's not available to the average Joe on terrestrial TV, then it's going to be loads more difficult to get it the coverage it deserves. BPI have done all the right
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Interview: Norton CEO, Stuart Garner
By mark forsyth on 23/04/2012 16:08:12
Norton back at the Isle of Man TT
. The companies we were talking to about sponsorship wanted to spend their sponsorship money in the areas where growth in their markets existed. We all know the difficulties of Spain, Italy, Portugal and Greece. The global corporates that are the sponsor base
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20 Questions: James Cracknell
By Mark Shippey on 17/03/2008 15:31:25
Olympic gold medallist rower and very tall bloke
?Less endurance training and more intensive training - short'n'hard.19. If you could switch careers, what would you like to do?Something with an engine for once.20. How much are you paid, and are you worth it?A lot of our sponsorship is bonus-related so if we win
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10 minutes with... Karen Higgins
By Harriet Ridley on 24/10/2007 15:43:00
Receptionist Karen Higgins spends her weekends clearing accidents, dodging bikes and avoiding aggressive confrontations with crashed and concussed riders. And she does it all for free. Is she mad? Nope, she's a volunteer Bemsee race marshal...
times after watching a rider who's been struggling all year finally get their trophy. But it's not all happy. It's painful to watch riders you know struggle for sponsorship and bankrupting themselves to do the sport they love. Often I've had to comfort
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The Professionals - John Mockett
By Visordown on 01/04/2010 12:31:41
Loved for his Sprocket cartoons and respected for his huge design back catalogue, Mr Mockett’s pen is one of the most influential in British motorcycling
sponsorship proposal I got the job doing the livery. AND WHAT WAS THE HIGHLIGHT OF THAT JOB?Yamaha let me loose in the wind tunnel developing a fairing for the XS1100. It was intended as an R&D exercise but ended up reached the market as the Martini Yamaha
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First Person - Mick Broom
By Visordown on 22/12/2008 09:06:22
Mick Broom has spent the last three decades building motorcycles for the eccentric millionaire Lord Hesketh’s company. Last month, he finally retired...
but Hesketh building a motorcycle was a natural progression. He was into F1. With James Hunt driving, his team was the last privateer team to win a F1 GP. He didn’t have any sponsorship, just his own money. That obviously drained his pocket somewhat
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Ferry Brouwer - The founder of Arai Europe
By Visordown on 21/10/2010 17:17:04
If you wear an AraI helmet it’s thanks to thIs guy. Ferry Brouwer Is the founder of AraI Europe. He’s also Dutch and a lIttle odd...
but covering the badges with the logos of other helmet sponsors. does this happen?It still happens, yes. It’s a sad fact of sponsorship deals within racing. People will never admit to it, but it does.What is the worst accident you’ve seen where the rider has
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The World according to Michael Karl Rutter
By Visordown Interviewer on 20/01/2012 12:05:01
Utterly Rutterly
were looking good for the shootout for us. My team lost a load of sponsorship money because of it all. Put it this way, I wouldn’t have tried that move.The golden period for British Superbike in terms of earning was late nineties to about 2005 or 2006
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