Ahead of this weekend's World Superbike opening round at Phillip Island, here's the numbers, courtesy of the series promoters, Infront. 1 - the most successful number: 80 races have been won by the … [Read more...]
A temporary member of the Fourth Estate
You see, I did pay attention to those French lessons in High School. In French politics the Press was referred to as the Fourth Estate. In order it was the 4th most important group of society, behind … [Read more...]
A bearer of bad tidings
It hasn't been the best of times in my household the last few days. While my wife's recover from her breast cancer operation is going well and she's settled well into the radiotherapy routine, my … [Read more...]
Licorice allsorts
The pace towards the 2012 season in world motorcycle racing is accelerating, and, along with it, the news items about it continue to multiply. So, let's see if i can get you reasonably up-to-date. To … [Read more...]
Starting to pick up the pace
You can tell that the holiday season is over, things are starting to happen again and the press hacks are actually producing real stories instead of the standard "BMW looks to better things in 2012" … [Read more...]
It has been a very long season
Witnessed by the fact that this weekend's Valencia Grand prix will be going ahead without three of its stars. Of course, a minute's silence will be observed in memory of Marco Simoncelli and the … [Read more...]
Testing times
I neglected to include one more significant item from the FIM's changes to the WSBK for 2012. A testing ban has been put in place that will run from the 1st December to the 15th January, preventing … [Read more...]
News, sporting and otherwise
As foreshadowed a couple of days ago, Aprilia has announced that Eugene Laverty will join their WSBK team to partner Max Biaggi for 2012. Quite where this leaves the fast-but-fragile Leon Camier is … [Read more...]
Ups and downs
A busy weekend in motorcycle racing although all of it off shore. In the Le Mans 24 hour race, Aussie rider, Damien Cudlin had to settle for 7th in the race after putting the bike on pole and leading … [Read more...]
GP, GP, GP
It's amazing. Sometimes you can go days and days without any significant news and then other days you're deluged in it. Today is one of the latter, so let's get down to business. 1. Valentino Rossi … [Read more...]
