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At a time when millions of us are in lockdown, here’s a wonderful tale of freedom: when Isle of Man TT winner Trevor Nation undertook an epic journey aboard a Suzuki GSX-R750 to compete in two TT F1 races on the Continent
A smart phone is a small box of electronics that replaces any number of physical and mechanical gadgets. It takes the place of a camera, a videorecorder, an alarm clock,…
Spa-Francorchamps: the fastest grand prix track of them all, a white-knuckle rollercoaster ride through Belgium’s brooding Ardennes forest. Most of the road circuit’s 8.8 miles were fifth or sixth gear,…
The master of riding by the seat of your pants: Marc Márquez's special advantage in MotoGP
The Qatar Grand Prix has always felt a bit unreal. The first time MotoGP visited in October 2004 the newly built track was a 20-minute drive out of Doha into…
Joe Roberts may have missed the Moto2 podium in Qatar, but the MotoGP paddock’s latest American star – no relation to three-times 500cc world champion ‘King’ Kenny Roberts – started…
Many people in the paddock and most fans around the world are asking when will the 2020 MotoGP world season really start. Will the team freight currently languishing in Qatar…
Motorcycle racing and other sports are bubbles – microcosms of life that allow competitors and fans to invest themselves in something wonderful but ultimately trivial. When working in the paddock…
Gigi ‘Gadget’ Dall’Igna is up to his tricks again. Ducati’s chief engineer – the man who gave MotoGP wings, holeshot devices, wheel fairings, ‘swinglets’ and much more about which we’ll…
Some people think modern electronic control systems and ever-improving mechanical performance makes MotoGP bikes undemanding. They are wrong, says Mat Oxley, and here’s why
The three-times MotoGP world champion’s MotoGP retirement lasted all of 81 days. And now there’s talk of a race return in June. What exactly is going on?
Only a fool or a dreamer would suggest that Marc Márquez isn’t favourite to win this year’s MotoGP world championship, to add to the 2013, 2014, 2016, 2017, 2018 and…