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Team Hates: Eight intense team-mate rivalries
By Bertie Simmonds on 11/11/2010 11:36:45
It's a rule of thumb in racing that you have to beat your team-mate. And to beat him, you must employ every method at your disposal. Delve into the world of when the team-mate system goes wrong
It's a fact. Motorcycle racers are selfish, vain, greedy, guiltless people, who will swindle and cheat their own grannies to the top step of the podium. You need look no further than having two riders in the same team. Team-mates is the term, yet
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Face Off - Mackenzie V Hislop
By Stuart Barker on 23/04/2010 09:45:54
In 1998 the fiercest battle between two team-mates took place in British Superbikes. Niall Mackenzie and Steve Hislop set the racing scene alight with their increasingly vicious clashes
race of the BSB season and the source of his anger was his new team-mate, Steve Hislop, who had just beaten him with a last corner manoeuvre that left Mackenzie fuming. “I was less than pleased about the way he did it,” he said at the time. “I
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Whitham remembers a wet Silverstone in 2002
By James Whitham on 14/09/2010 11:25:42
When our Whit and his Belgarda Yamaha team-mate Paolo Casoli crashed and still finished 1-2 at the 2002 World Supersport race at Silverstone
and passed him quite easily into Copse. By now I could see spray in front and when I saw my team-mate's lap board up at the same time as mine down the start straight I knew it was Casoli. And I could see P1 on his board so I knew he was leading the race
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Settling the score - Mackenzie v Whitham
By Visordown on 28/03/2008 15:52:00
In 1996 Niall and James were team mates in the British Superbike championship. Niall won the title and James came second. Now, for the first time in 11 years, they prepare to face each other on track again on identical Yamahas for one final showdown
returned from the GP scene and James' typical light-hearted approach to life the team gelled perfectly. But there was still a title at stake, which both riders desperately wanted to win. In the end Niall lifted the trophy and was crowned British Superbike
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Who the Hell is Niall Mackenzie?
By Stuart Barker on 02/08/2010 11:29:31
Niall went from digging holes for the council to being Freddie Spencer’s team mate in five years. In his GP career he scored seven podiums and 28 top-fives. And after 10 years in Grand Prix he returned to the UK and won three consecutive BSB titles
“My worst Mackenzie memory? That would have to be the Japanese Grand Prix at Suzuka in 1987,” Rob McElnea muses. “I was fairly well established on the Grand Prix scene at that point and then this Niall Mackenzie bloke comes along for the first race in his first season of GPs and ...
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From Private Jet to Easyjet - rider salary chart
By Ben Cope on 25/08/2010 11:12:57
Despite the glamour, racing’s not the early ticket to retiring a rich man. Only the big hitters bring home the big bucks. Here are estimated wages of the not so rich and less famous
racing and riders’ salaries hard. Unless you’re Loris Caprossi, or Troy Bayliss, most riders have just a few years in which to make it big and try to cash in before injury – or even worse – a faster team-mate, comes along.We’ve dug around the paddock
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The tactics of mind games
By Stuart Barker on 02/09/2010 15:37:46
The ways of the mind game and the racers that take the mental edge over of their competitors
is no exception. From putting your arch-enemy down in the press to misleading your team-mate with false information, anything goes in the quest to gain an advantage.While teams spend millions on shaving ounces off their bikes and finding fractions more horsepower
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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
’m the bitch from hell,” she said recently, “but when Ben started he needed someone to look after him, and I still do that.”His ascendancy in the States is complete, as team-mate to the most successful ever AMA racer Matt Mladin. Spies ousted him in 2006
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Motorcycle Radar: 1986
By Roland Brown on 18/11/2010 15:01:39
The VFR750F. Need we say any more? This was 1986
’s hear it for his team-mate and Burly Humbersider Rob McElnea, who ended the season fifth — and would surely have finished even higher if he hadn’t been wide enough to tow everyone else down the straights, such was the size of the man.Ian Mc
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Why Can't Southerners Race?
By Visordown on 15/04/2010 09:38:56
Born down South? An analysis of the North = quick theory to see why Northerners are better than you at racing
. And then there’s the Jocks: Hislop, Mackenzie, Rob McElnea and Jim Moodie.I tried my North=quick theory on a few mates down the pub and not surprisingly they all fired the name Barry Sheene at me. Of course, everyone knows that one of Britain’s greatest talents
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