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MotoGP 2010: Who's going where?
By Visordown News on 13/08/2009 16:32:25
Visordown rider guide to the 2010 MotoGP season
Repsol Honda TeamDani Pedrosa – confirmed for 2010Andrea Dovizioso –confirmed for 2010 Fiat Yamaha TeamValentino Rossi - confirmed for 2010Jorge Lorenzo - looks set to stay with Yamaha in 2010 but could the reported 7million euro offer from Ducati
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Cold Play - Staying in
By Visordown Team on 20/10/2007 18:46:04
The team get together for a long night of beers, pizzas and DVDs to review what's hot on the box
the rumour goes. Harry H Corbett from Steptoe & Son is in it too. 6/10.10.30 Faster. Bloody hell, this is awesome. Filmed behind the MotoGP scenes during the 2001/2002 seasons, and featuring candid interviews with Rossi, Roberts, Schwantz, Doohan, Checa
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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
THE HISTORYThe 1996 British Superbike year was special for a number of reasons. This was the year when the series really started to gain popularity.Big name sponsors such as Cadburys and Old Spice were onboard and the TV coverage was increasing
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3-11-90 - The first Day of Champions
By Visordown on 01/12/2010 14:09:04
When GP racing found its conscience and the Day of Champions was born
at the end of 1984, and saw a need to manage the delivery of healthcare by motorcycle. He suggested putting on a race to raise awareness."Randy, Kenny Roberts and I got the first event up and running," says Andrea Coleman. "Kenny brought his whole team
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Lauren Vickers - Randy de Puniet's Playboy girlfriend
By Visordown on 25/07/2011 15:48:35
Gallery of Randy de Puniet's Playboy model girlfriend Lauren Vickers
.She's has more height than the average grid girl you often see on the MotoGP grid. She can be seen holding Randy's brolly or in his pit garage with the team or wandering around the paddock posing for photos and video. Lauren Vickers is on Facebook
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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
was racing,” says Yorkshireman Mick Grant. “You had to try harder because things were against you. When I rode for the John Player Norton team in the ‘70s they all took the piss out of my accent. It made me try even harder to prove to them that I wasn
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Porsche 997 Turbo vs. Honda Fireblade
By Visordown on 15/10/2010 12:27:37
You don't often get to see this - a fast car and a sports bike hammering it out on track together. Rockingham's bumpy, twisty National circuit, as it goes. Honda Fireblade or Porsche 911 Turbo: who's the daddy?
THERE'S ONE HELL of a lot of heat coming out of the back of that 3.6-litre, 473bhp Porsche, and it's spitting up chunks of grit and rubber that are stinging my flesh. And if that camera falls off I'm in trouble...And we're doing this why? Visordown
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Time Tunnel: 1978 - Hailwood's TT
By Visordown on 19/10/2010 18:23:16
Sharing the podium with Mike the Bike at the '78 TT
The biggest crowd ever turned up to watch the 1978 TT races. They came to see Mike Hailwood's return to racing. He didn't let them down.Privateer racer Ian Richards got to share the Formula One TT podium with Hailwood and John Williams in 1978
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TT Centenary: Legends on Legends
By Visordown on 13/05/2007 12:00:17
Many of the TT's biggest names have been taken from us, either on the Island or by other means. So here, an appreciation of three TT legends by those who knew them the better than most
earlier - and I would have been the most unpopular TT winner of all time!"Mike was canny too. I remember back in the 60s when Gary Hocking and Mike were team-mates at MV. Gary had spent all practice with Girling creating what was the first hydraulic
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Katja Poensgen
By Visordown on 26/10/2001 16:47:36
For a girl to make it into professional bike racing is rare enough. For a girl to make it all the way into Grands Prix is even rarer
to racing all the time.You were in a coma once for three days in 1997 after a crash. Don't you worry about hurting yourself? I never worry about crashing and hurting myself. I stopped counting when I reached 100 crashes and I've broken a few bones in my body
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