The unbelievably nasty attacks on a top MotoGP rider One of our readers recently sent us an excerpt from two articles about Maverick Viñales and enclosed the comments from the readers’ forum of a relevant “motorsport portal”. Even reading the stories written about the Spaniard, we hardly believed our eyes. We have no idea what […]
The explosion in costs
Spielberg 2021: The most expensive prices in MotoGP history to date We still remember well 3 years ago when we were guests not only in Styria, but on many other routes around the world. Among other things in Barcelona, where the entrance fee for 3 days per person was 72.75 euros. Like Barcelona, Jerez was […]
Barcelona pre-noises
News & already known before the seventh MotoGP round in Barcelona On April 5th, our website announced what was only officially confirmed almost two months later: Remy Gardner has his place at Tech 3 for the next MotoGP season. The son of the 500cc world champion Wayne from 1987 is definitely following in his footsteps. […]
What does Misano bring?
Expectations for the Italy round of WorldSBK Ducati and Yamaha are under particular pressure, respectively two of their drivers in the factory team and their managers. Not only we were surprised that Chaz Davies was relegated and replaced by Michael Ruben Rinaldi in the works team. The veteran Welshman had been better than the young […]
WSBK Estoril Findings
Overpowering Rea – almost all opponents struggle with setbacks As the reigning world champion had asserted after his second victory on Sunday, he was still convinced on Friday evening to operate pure damage limitation in Estoril. After he hadn’t had a chance to catch Redding and overtake Toprak in the first race on Saturday with […]
MotoGP Italy in numbers
The Moto3 race – winners almost irrelevant The time in Q2 had already expired when the last Moto3 riders were on a fast lap on Saturday afternoon, and the fall of the number 50 at the Arrabbiata double corner actually looked almost harmless at first. But the Swiss who had already qualified for the fourth […]
WSSP look back Estoril
The first race with victory number 3 for Steven Odendaal After Bardahl Evan Bros Yamaha won the WorldSSP title twice in a row in 2019 with Krummenacher and in 2020 with Locatelli, Steven Odendaal has now managed the hat trick. The South African won the third race of the season in a row after his […]
Catalonia GP preview
Preview of the MotoGP Grand Prix of Catalonia To anticipate, the guide times from earlier years are no longer worth anything after the conversion of the “supermarket car park curve” (the name for Turn 11 by Valentino Rossi). Proof of this was provided by the official WorldSBK test on the Circuito de Cataluña in spring. […]
Please stop this nonsense!
The absolute chaos caused by the FIM stewards with the track limits A former MotoGP rider, as a co-commentator after the embarrassing incidents in Mugello, got to the point when he said into the microphone “these track limits rules should be abolished, these are for the very least!” (we are not giving literally everything he […]
Mugello review
Interesting reflections on the Italian Grand Prix At some point even the last sceptics will believe us, the statistics rarely lie and are often helpful. After the “Ducati route” Losail, according to Paolo Ciabatti, many also spoke of such a fairy tale at Mugello. But it does not come true when many repeat it as […]