Garrett Gerloff and how he’s preparing for the 2021 season Together with Michael Ruben Rinaldi, the Texan was the absolutely positive surprise of the first Corona season. However, he had a resinous start to the season, which Sandro Cortese was not entirely innocent of. The Berkheimer had sent Gerloff to the hospital with a rather […]
A dangerous misconception
The lack of security of Covid-19 tests Countless politicians as well as journalists have been making the same mistakes over and over again on some points for a long time. One of them is to speak or write about a so-called “return to normalcy”. This is total senseless and leads often to misunderstanding. As experts […]
Sour cucumber time
About team presentations and other supposed sensations Some journalists are not to be envied, like some viewers think when looking at their headlines. But in times of Corona, it is better to deal with your pity in a more measured way. Countless people are dying and an incalculable number of people have lost their jobs […]
Ducati testing in Jerez
After the expected Sepang cancellation, Ducati is now testing privately As our readers have known since November, neither overseas races in April nor tests in Sepang in February were to be expected. We were the only portal to declare the planning of FIM and Dorna untenable, immediately after the official announcement on November 5, 2020. […]
No return
About the pointless hope after the return of normalcy We remember very well when we came back from the WorlSBK season opener in Australia via Singapore. Countless hotels and trips for a complete 2020 season had been firmly booked for months, including the flight to Doha. Most of the Europe trips were planned as in […]
On-off Journalism
About the digitization of journalism in everyday life & sports In the past, only the initiated, and today almost every child, knew how the basis of digitization works. Everything is reduced to a state of zero or one in the end. Even in the first corona lockdown, we were amazed at how many journalists worked […]
Motorsport from home
The high importance for TV broadcasting of MotoGP & WorldSBK While many motorsport journalists have obviously been waking up from their hibernation since the beginning of the year, it is also beginning to dawn on them: The 2021 season will be anything but normal. In addition to countless pause fillers and meaningless articles about previous […]
Hans Baltisberger – † in 1956
Hans Baltisberger – fast Swabian of the 50ies The son of a doctor was born on September 10, 1922 in Betzingen near Reutlingen. After the trained typesetter and book printer attended his first motorcycle race as a spectator in 1947, the virus caught him. He made his first attempts at the age of 25 on […]