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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?
July. The following week, Foggy, Corser and Haydon all performed demo laps at Brands Hatch and received a rapturous welcome from the 125,000 spectators. The winter of 2002/2003 was planned to be a hectic schedule of testing. Although the FP1's first
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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
returning to Britain in 1996 while Hizzy had spent the early part of his career dominating the pure road racing scene, racking up 11 Isle of Man TT victories in the process. “I didn’t know Steve very well when he joined the team and I never really knew where
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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
step-thru. Chasing older friends on faster Suzuki AP50s was good early training but he soon upgraded to a Yamaha FS-1E.In 1980, the young Scot bought the bike that would change his life – Yamaha's new RD350LC. When the Scottish ACU announced it would
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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
Five times 500cc world champion Mick Doohan once said that racing was "20 per cent physical and 80 per cent mental." Most top flight riders of today (some of whom remember what it was like to struggle around in Mick's wake) would agree with him. So
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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
-as-nails, aggressive racer on-track and he looked every bit as tough in the paddock. While he failed to win any races in the 1989 250 season, he was still deemed worthy of a 500cc Grand Prix ride in 1990 and was signed by Ducados Yamaha to ride a YZR500 in the premier
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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
Glastonbury but without the mud) and cut several singles in the early 1980s.His nickname of Crazy Horse was well deserved but, even so, the motorcycling world was shocked to hear the news that, on December 6, 1991, Lucchinelli had been arrested on suspicion
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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
for some time. Reynolds hasn't been fully fit for more than a year since breaking his leg testing before the 2005 season. Since then, he's spent seven weeks in hospital and the best part of a year recuperating. "I was lying in hospital when I decided
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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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