Ah, the good old days. When racing was racing and riders were tough. Not like today’s pampered social-media celebs. I was thinking about this at…
Guys you meet in the pub are a notoriously unreliable source of information and opinion. Legendarily so. This was a little different. These guys included…
My driving force has always been to look for ways to improve; making small improvements moves me forward to meeting my goals. This is…
My motivation in racing is to reach (and hopefully achieve) new goals. Going faster than the session before or improving a particular part of my riding is where…
Everyone spoke about how he will probably be the only sportsman ever to win grand prix world titles on two and four wheels. Some also asked why he…
Race engineering is largely a matter of fashion. Or to put it another way – as former world champion and revered crew chief to Kenny Roberts Senior,…
I’m Thomas Brown, I’m 12 years old and I’m currently doing junior road racing in Australia. I’m trying to take every opportunity of my life as a…
I’ve had an unusual path to end up riding speedway. All I knew is I wanted to make motorcycle racing a career. I started racing dirtbikes when…
As one who likes to keep photographs of his food to himself, I believe that Faceplant is an invasion of privacy, Instaflap harmless but essentially very, very…
As the tarmac twisted into a clump of overhanging gum trees my field of vision telescoped into the corner’s apex. Seconds earlier I had been…
This year the latest-generation Michelins have had a huge influence on MotoGP results, and from Round 6 onwards will continue to do so… except in a different…
Melissa Bruce – Growing up, I was not the kid racer with doting helicopter parents. I was the kid that was destined to grow up a ‘failure’.
