Motorcycle Sport & Racing News

It’s one of the hottest days of the year at Brands Hatch, both for the weather, and the racing. A cloudy start to the day has given way to bright sunlight and slightly humid conditions.The RAC reports...

Eight hours in front of a computer may sound like a normal day at work, but on August 4 the Suzuka 8 Hours endurance race will be broadcast live on the internet.It’s free to view, and will have...

Want to know what the WSB stars get up to on a Sunday night when they are partying? Well the annual WSB charity party at Brands Hatch is back and there are still some tickets left.Every year a big...

Carl Fogarty completed a leg of the Queen’s Jubilee Commonwealth Games Baton Relay yesterday, riding the FP1 race bike that will compete in World Superbikes next year.He was one of 5000 people...

To be honest, we’re more interested in the dolly, rather than the brolly

Not an ounce more to be lost anywhere

It’s amazing the people you never knew were into bikes, isn’t it

How do I join?

With gorgeous bikes and co-workers like this, work could be a pleasure

Brolly girl or would-be assasin?

The complete domination of AMA Motocross by Ricky Carmichael continued in Troy, Ohio, with the Honda rider taking his total to 14 wins from 14 starts. He made it easy by getting good starts for both...

They’d be as sexy as their bikes

Race one was won by Australian reigning champion Troy Bayliss, from his teammate Ruben Xaus, with championship rival Colin Edwards in third. Edwards had led for much of the race, until lap 23, when he...

Olivier Jacque pulled off the shock of the season so far by claiming the first pole position for a two-stroke this season in Germany today.The French rider crossed the line with just under 10 seconds...

Valentino Rossi has confirmed he will be driving in the NetworkQ Rally of Great Britain, on November 14-17. He will be swapping his works Honda RC211V racebike for a Peugeot World Rally car, to...

Kenny Roberts will miss the German Grand Prix in order to have surgery on his right arm. The operation is to cure the arm " pump " which has been a reason for his poor performances this...

Daijiro Katoh will race a Honda RC211V four-stroke at the Czech Republic GP. Honda will enter a third bike for the reigning 250cc World Champion, who is a HRC contracted rider, currently being leased...

If you were one of the 60,000 there, if you wished you had been, if you watched it on TV, or missed everything, you need this week’s MCN, out on Wednesday, July 17.We’ve got a full 16 pages of...

Yamaha has announced the end of their sponsorship by cigarette brand Marlboro. The deal will cease at the end of 2002, after three years with Marlboro as the team’s main sponsor.It doesn’t look like...

The fact they put the scaffolding up at a 45 degree angle is even more worrying

Anyone got a handy hose or bucket of water?

Mickael Pichon became the most successful French rider in GP history when he took his 21st Grand Prix win in Uddevalla, Sweden at the weekend in the 250cc class.Local hero Kenneth Gundersen got the...

Young, female and attractive seems to be the criteria

Her cleaning method was unusual, but no one complained

There were a few design problems to be worked round

MCN British Superbike star Steve Hislop joined registered users of motorcyclenews.com for a webchat at 1pm on Thursday July 11.Not only did he reveal his views of World Superbikes, he also told users...

Is that our babe of the Year winner? Quick, turn round and catch her

Ricky Carmichael continued his perfect season in AMA Motocross to take his 11th and 12th motos, and the overall win, breaking Bob Hannah’s 1978 record of 10 moto wins.Carmichael’s Honda teammate,...

Now that’s a bikini fairing

Steve Hislop has definitely ruled himself out of a Brands Hatch WSB wildcard after tests discovered he’d broken his collarbone in Sunday’s MCN Knockhill BSB round.You can read more about Hislop’s...

James Toseland has pledged himself to his HM Plant/GSE team with a new two-year deal that’ll see him assume the mantle of number one rider with the squad until the end of 2004.The current embumbent...

Carl Fogarty has just announced his Foggy/Petronas team will not race in WSB this year.For more details on Foggy’s announcement don’t miss the latest issue of MCN, out July 10.The strain of developing...

Jeremy McWilliams is Britain’s only rider in MotoGPs this season, and he’s hoping the fans at Donington will give him the same kind of support that has led to Brands World Superbikes turning into a...