, is to be conducted by French surgeon Dr. Albert Bohbot and will involve mending Gill's damaged spinal cord by laser. If the operation is successful Gill has his sights set on racing a jet bike through 13 walls of fire. A special race suit is already being designed

first with the tyre wall on the outside of the corner. Unable to walk, Hopkins was transported to the medical centre by ambulance, where he underwent an initial examination by circuit medical staff.X-rays of his injured left leg revealed that Hopkins had

with it, while Edwards has concerns:"By the time you get to accelerating and get out toward the curb, you're going to be well over 100 mph, and that wall comes up pretty tight," Edwards said. "But that's something that can always be changed during

my fingers to see if they were there, and they were. I was stunned. I tried to stand up but fell against the wall.“The race was going so well too, it was one of the easiest of my life, right up until I fell.”

-year-old told BBC News he's been practising several hours a day for the more than 12 years to perfect his incredible skills: "My mum used to get pretty sick of the police always being at the door with me because I used to jump onto people's walls

at the age of 56 on a 1934 Rudge, but he ranks his proudest moment of his racing career as winning at the Teterow circuit in the former East Germany, the year after the Berlin Wall came down. In 1998, Bill had a hip replacement operation after coming off his

. "James must roll. There are three Yamahas in the first four in MotoGP. James is sixteenth. He must arrive in Japan with ambitions. It is necessary that he makes the top 10."Could the writing be on the wall for our British hero?

leads to turn 2 head on into concrete which leads to turn 3 where a wall has removed and if you run off the track you go into a 10ft deep ditch. The track seem willing to do work but the wrong people are advising what to do and unfortunately I do

SMT HONDA - the team running Honda Fireblades in this year's BSB championship - may pull the plug after hitting a financial wall at Knockhill.Team boss Robin Croft said: “It’s almost an impossible position we are finding ourselves in. So far

is ridiculously massive and what looks like a ten minute cab ride on the map is actually an hour and forty minutes.Our itinerary for this six day trip is going to keep us busier than a one-armed wall paper hanger. After the Tokyo motorshow (Wed), we’re taking