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Foggy and Ducati split

FOUR-TIMES World Superbike champion Carl Fogarty officially split from Ducati today. And he’s now expected to be installed as the man to spearhead Sauber’s surprise World Superbike effort in 2002. Ducati announced this afternoon that they have decided to end their long-standing relationship with the British legend, who is currently still recovering from a broken leg he suffered while testing a CCM...

Rossi and Bayliss collide

Rossi and Bayliss collide

World champions Troy Bayliss and Valentino Rossi will race head-to-head on equal machinery for the first time next month although sadly it will be on four wheels and not two. World Superbike champ...

Do the locomotive

Look… they’re going like a train…

Okada quits – will Edwards go it alone for Honda?

Okada quits – will Edwards go it alone for Honda?

SPECULATION that Castrol Honda will run just one full-factory SP-2 in WSB next season was reinforced when Tady Okada announced his retirement after finishing second in the final round of the All Japan...

Think lubricants

Think lubricants

The Castrol girls look slick

World exclusive: Foggy / Petronas deal sealed

World exclusive: Foggy / Petronas deal sealed

It’s official. The lid on Foggy’s top secret plans has been lifted with the four-times World Superbike champion announcing “a once in a lifetime opportunity ” with Petronas. Foggy has agreed an...

Haven’t we seen you somewhere?

Haven’t we seen you somewhere?

Was that one in the middle in Abba?

Down in the mouth

Down in the mouth

The gift of giant earrings did nothing to lift her mood

James Haydon aproaches final decision

James Haydon aproaches final decision

James Haydon was in Geneva at the weekend – looking at a race-spec R1 similar to the one Yamaha boss Rob McElnea wants him to ride in next season’s British Superbike championship. He visited Yamaha’s...

Haslam forced to 250s

LEON HASLAM is expected to confirm this week that he will ride in next year’s world 250 championship. The 18-year-old British rider has been forced to drop into 250s after he couldn’t secure a ride in the 500 class. After an up and down rookie season in the world 500 championship, he looked like he would be retained by the Shell Advance Honda squad to ride a production Honda NSR V-twin. That...

Grand Prix attendance breaks records

Grand Prix attendance breaks records

The biggest crowd at the British GP in years helped break new attendance figures for a world championship season. Official figures released by series organisers Dorna said 1,588.635 attended GPs to...

John Reynolds goes two-up for Children In Need

John Reynolds goes two-up for Children In Need

John Reynolds took time out from his busy close-season schedule to take former Radio One and current Radio Northampton presenter Liz Kershaw for six high-speed laps of Rockingham circuit to raise cash...

Criville on course for Yamaha GP ride

Criville on course for Yamaha GP ride

Former world 500 champion Alex Criville will find out later this week if his career has been saved by a shock move to Yamaha. The Spaniard appeared to be heading for enforced retirement when he was...

Put a cap on it

Put a cap on it

She’s mobile. We’re not guessing about the other bit.

TT rivals to battle it out in Macau

TT rivals to battle it out in Macau

Next year’s main TT contenders will go head-to-head at the prestigious Macau Grand Prix in the early hours of Saturday morning (UK time). John McGuinness and David Jefferies will both be in the...

Watch the video part of the interview

Watch the video part of the  interview

Max Biaggi answers your questions at the NEC Show. Choose from Quicktime (MOV) or Real Player (RM) downloads.

Firm and fair

Firm and fair

Pert, I believe, is the word you are looking for

NEC Supercross winners

Here are the 10 winners of our NEC Supercross competition. They each get a pair of tickets to Saturday night’s event. The winners are: Richard Chown, from Beds, David Macklin, from Staffs, Keith Hopkins, from Staffs, Michael Collins, from Middlesex, Paul Sutton, from Glamorgan, Steve Boulton, from Gwent, Tim Holloway, from Berks, Jim McBain, from Wrexham, Paul Laver, from Herts and Robert Perrin,...

Rain holds up Bayliss and Xaus

Rain holds up Bayliss and Xaus

The second day of testing for the factory Ducati team of Troy Bayliss and Ruben Xaus was severely disrupted by rain. Bayliss and Xaus were only able to do 22 and 24 laps respectively at the Valencia...

Give us a ring

Give us a ring

There’s a ringing in her ears.

Good news for Mrs Hodgson

Good news for Mrs Hodgson

That Neil Hodgson clearly only has eyes for his missus.

You can back Young’s 2002 effort

You can back Young’s 2002 effort

British superstock champion Paul Young is starting a supporters club for his 2002 British superbike campaign. For £299, fans get a range of racing-related benefits including paddock passes, team...

Watch Chris Brock in action

Choose from Quicktime (MOV) or Real Player (RM) downloads to watch stunning stunts from the NEC Show

Search for a new Eastender

Search for a new Eastender

The Tamsin Outhwaite look-a-like competition drew some quality entries

McWilliams and Haslam in line for Team Roberts

McWilliams and Haslam in line for Team Roberts

British riders Jeremy McWilliams and Leon Haslam are the among the contenders to land a ride in Kenny Roberts’ Banbury-based Proton GP squad next season. McWilliams is a free agent following the late...

Watch freestyle star in video action and win PlayStation 2 games

Watch freestyle star in video action and win PlayStation 2 games

If you’ve already been to the NEC Show, here’s your chance to relive the awe-packed moments when you saw Freestyle supercross star Chris Brock in action. If you haven’t been, watch it and you’ll...

Battered Bayliss cracks lap record in Valencia test

Battered Bayliss cracks lap record in Valencia test

After six weeks of recuperation from a broken collarbone, World Superbike champion Troy Bayliss got straight back into the swing of it on Tuesday by racking up 77 laps and knocking 0.5s of the...

McGuinness on pole for Macau GP

McGuinness on pole for Macau GP

John McGuinness will start Saturday’s Macau Grand Prix from pole position after dominating qualifying and setting a time over three-and-a-half seconds faster than second-placed man Roger...

Off-road riding returns to IoM

Footpaths and public rights of way are being re-opened to the public for off-road riding. " We are happy for bikers to come and ride around the island, as long as they take the necessary precautions " said Manx minister for tourism and leisure David Cretney. He also confirmed that next year’s TT will be going ahead even if Foot and Mouth is still on the mainland. " There will be fences put up...

Listen to part one of the Max interview

Listen to part one of the Max interview

Biaggi answers your questions. Choose from RM (Real Player) or Quicktime (MOV) downloads.

Haga to join Hodgson, Walker and Co in WSB

Haga to join Hodgson, Walker and Co in WSB

Noriyuki Haga is likely to join Neil Hodgson, Chris Walker and James Toseland in WSB next season after signing a letter of intent to ride Aprilia’s RSV Mille in the 2002 championship. Haga has been...

Could you be our next GP star?

Could you be our next GP star?

Entries close on Thursday for a Pop Idol-style competition designed to find two GP stars of tomorrow. So if you can ride and are aged between 14 and 18 (or know someone who is) read on and be prepared...

Pump them up

Pump them up

Clearly, an expert in pneumatics.

Honda loses race to get V5 to NEC Show

Honda loses race to get V5 to NEC Show

Honda’s hopes of putting the 2002 V5 race bike on display at the NEC Show have been dashed by red tape. It had hoped to get the RC211V, which will be its four-stroke entry on next year’s GP grid, to...

GP four-strokes won’t test together until February

GP four-strokes won’t test together until February

Honda and Yamaha won’t go head-to-head against each other with their new four-stroke GP bikes until the middle of February. So far the Japanese factories have kept tests of the RCV and YZR-M1 separate...

Exclusive video and audio interview with Max Biaggi

Exclusive video and audio interview with Max Biaggi

While at the NEC Show, we hooked up with GP superstar Max Biaggi for this exclusive video and audio interview, based on the questions you wanted to ask. Your e-mailed in questions were added to our...