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Michael Scott Column - Nov 2008
By Michael Scott on 12/11/2008 19:59:55
Mike Scott concedes the battle is over for the motogp title as Casey relinquishes not only a race lead, but also his crash-free season
in the race: you’ll remember he was leading by over a second from the start, but Rossi was closing inexorably. It was a dodgy tyre, he reported afterwards: “destroyed on the right-hand-side after only six laps.”He blamed the front tyre again at Misano two
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Mike Scott Column - Oct 2002
By Mike Scott on 10/10/2002 11:57:29
Learned elder of Grand Prix journalism, Editor of Motocourse and man on the inside of GP racing, Michael Scott gives his half-term reports on the new four-strokes. Now pay attention at the back!
Half-term report. And here are the results of the new MGP 990cc four-stroke class.Honda. Dux of the class. Wrought a wonderfully compact and integrated concept, and made very few errors, once Rossi had tested and told them to knock the power down
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Mike Scott Column - Feb 2007
By Mike Scott on 01/02/2007 10:42:05
Time for the safer 800s
' to race. Then Jeremy McWilliams crashed it testing at Jerez, suffering (among other things) a snapped thigh-bone and a badly mashed finger. One can only imagine how much worse poor Jezza's would have been, had he been riding a full 990. All nonsense
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Mike Scott Column - Oct 2006
By Mike Scott on 10/10/2006 12:31:08
All the inside racing gossip that's fit to print from Mike Scott, TWO's GP paddock oracle
. Now it's happened to Mick Doohan. Who did have the advantage, of course, of being in Australia already.Mick was reported to have been disrobing in a private booth in a strip joint called the Honey Pot, in Darwin (think Greenock, but very hot). Asked
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Michael Scott Column - Jun 2009
By Michael Scott on 01/06/2009 14:35:11
MotoGP legend Scottie says that Dorna’s money-saving push is making the sport squeak
entertaining. Step forward James Toseland and Colin Edwards.As reported last issue, the Texas Tornado (aka Windbag) has taken violent exception to JT poaching his crew chief. Revenge came during testing when Colin was reliably much faster and, rather cruelly
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Michael Scott Column - Jan 2009
By Michael Scott on 15/01/2009 16:35:18
Mike Scott looks on at the continuing discontent within Honda and Rossi attempting to try his hand at World Superbikes
control engines and control ECUs to all, then MotoGP will just carry on cruising round in line astern. Until it disappears up its own exhaust port.That’s why there was universal dismay when I reported that Rossi had made enquiries to see if he could have a
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