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The trials & tribulations of Foggy Petronas
By Stuart Barker on 09/01/2008 14:57:49
At the end of this season Team Foggy Petronas will be no more. After five years the team still hasn't won a WSB race and the FP1 road bike has yet to go on general sale. So what went wrong?
team and was considering 'walking away from the sport completely.'But while Foggy had been pushing for a Ducati WSB deal, another manufacturer was busy advancing its own plans to race in the upcoming four-stroke MotoGP championship. Sauber Petronas
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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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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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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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Ten years of BSB
By Stuart Barker on 01/05/2006 11:39:29
BSB's champions tell Visordown what made British racing great again, and what their titles mean to them
in British Superbike racing have increased dramatically over the last decade, with Niall Mackenzie estimating that all the top teams now have an annual budget of over £1 million while in 1996 a team could have run at the front for around £300,000. Riders
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Bad Boy No.3: Juan Garriga
By Stuart Barker on 06/12/2010 15:38:38
When the fast pace of Grand Prix wasn't enough Juan Garriga turned to the fast pace of drug smuggling, here's the untold story
and final year in the top class.In 1993 he moved to World Superbikes riding a semi-factory Team Grottini Ducati 888 and scored a promising 5th place in the opening round at Brands Hatch. Despite only contesting a further three rounds before parting company
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Bad Boy No.9: Anthony Gobert
By Stuart Barker on 07/12/2010 15:39:03
First seen tearing a Kawasaki round WSB rounds, now seen struggling to hold down a job in Subway
and a third place. His incredible performance put the then 19-year-old on every team’s wish list and he eventually opted to replace Scott Russell in the factory Kawasaki squad. He won two races 1995 and a further three in ’96 before moving to 500cc
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Bad Boy No.1: Marco Lucchinelli
By Stuart Barker on 03/12/2010 12:46:40
The coke snorting champ: The story of Crazy Horse, the original Grand Prix rock star
Battle of the Twins race on a Ducati 851 and scored two wins in the first ever World Superbike season in 1988 before becoming Ducati’s team manager in the series the following year. He was still in Ducati’s employ when he was arrested on drugs charges
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John Reynolds - Retirement Plans
By Stuart Barker on 22/09/2006 16:28:36
After 20 years of racing, John Reynolds is now watching bike racing from the safe side of the fence. We ask the BSB legend about his career-ending crash, retirement, his plans for the future and what it's like not to be racing bikes for a living
to the team or myself so I thought if I can't turn it around I'll probably retire."But as Reynolds' leg improved, so did his results. Two podiums at Oulton Park showed he was back on the pace. "As soon as I realised I could still win I fell in love
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Frank 'Ponch' Poncherello - CHiPs
By Stuart Barker on 16/09/2010 14:37:29
Everyone loves a pull with Ponch. He even kept junk food in a little plastic lunchbox in his pannier
, Estrada (who's currently on his third wife) was once asked what he looks for in a woman. He simply grinned and replied: "T and A."CHiPs ran for 139 episodes up until 1983 but has been repeated regularly ever since. The boys even teamed up again in 1998
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