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Foggy's Little Wonder: The Petronas FP1 Story
By Bertie Simmonds on 29/05/2003 09:45:30
Clean-sheet design to front-row start in the WSB opener in 16 months? Here's how...
as seeing the quality of the team he was building around him, could see that betting against Carl was likely to be a mug's game."We were never going racing last year, to be honest. We didn't like letting people down for sure," says Carl, "but we had to set
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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...
dominated the grid, and the money flowed. Into the pockets of not only the top riders, but also a slew of ancillaries from technicians and team managers to a whole layer of free-spending PR schmoozers as well. The lunches were not only free but also very
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Mackenzie's Final Race
By Niall Mackenzie on 20/09/2010 14:31:38
Niall Mackenzie reminisces about the final race of his 20-year career
team orders between me and John Crawford. I want to give John his due, because if he would have even thought that there was an issue with team orders he wouldn't have turned up, we've got that sort of relationship, based more on friendship and respect
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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
, the leading riders are so closely matched that the most minute advantage can mean the difference between winning and losing. That advantage can come from the team, the bike or the rider's fitness level, but the biggest gains are to be found in the mind. Racing
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Africa Rally - Adventuring with the Princes
By John Cantlie on 14/04/2010 14:21:08
South Africa opens its arms to the heat and dust of Enduro Africa, the rally that promises to thrill and thrash its participants in equal measure. And this year, Princes William and Harry came along for the ride
.There was a scattering of broken bones amongst the various teams but nothing too serious, the most common complaint being a deeply contagious bout of the shits that blasted through the entire event and left everyone knackered at the end of the day. Proper
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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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Don't Look Back in Anger
By Bertie Simmonds on 14/08/2001 15:53:42
Four people who have had family members killed in racing, but have dealt with their loss and carried on in the sport that they love
.Neil, meanwhile, works in a bike shop to keep the money coming in, to help support Chrysalis Racing.The workshop at the end of the garden was their father's, Dave Morris, but the team, Chrysalis Racing, belonged to both Dave and their mother, Alison.Dave died
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The story of Akrapovic
By Bertie Simmonds on 07/01/2011 13:06:52
From a shed in Slovenia, Igor Akrapovic's exhausts now dominate the world
In just 15 years Akrapovic has come from a one-man-band making exhausts in a shed to being the number one brand worldwide for road-riders and race teams alike.Stories like this generally start with a visionary, and this is no different. Ours is Igor
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Rider Support
By Gavin Day on 05/06/2010 10:42:24
Find out about the solicitors who have been specialising in motorcycle accident claims since 1994
http://www.visordown.com/cl.asp?cn=143Getting down to business...The RSS team is made up of legal experts and experienced negotiators, all of whom know bikes and the special need of bike and scooter riders.With it's positive and proactive approach
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Dr Claudio Costa - Medicine Man
By Harriet Ridley on 14/09/2010 15:50:07
Meet Dr Costa. He's a very passionate Italian who has spent the past 30 years at motorcycle races fixing up racers who crash. Here's his story
of Franco Uncini and Virginio Ferrari and saved the limbs and careers of Mick Doohan and others. He introduced to bike racing the security and understanding of a medical team devoted to motorcycle racers at a time when you'd have been lucky to find a plaster
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