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Crafar tests R1 in Spain

04 March 2002

Simon Crafar has been riding his Virgin Yamaha R1 for the first time in a test in Almeria, Spain, alongside team mate Steve Plater. The team started testing on Wednesday and will finish on...

Honda Britain to race in superbikes

04 March 2002

Honda Britain is backing a team in BSB this year. The firm has announced it will back Lee Jackson on a privateer 2002 FireBlade in the Superbike series. Jackson’s bike is being prepared by Paul Bird...

MacPherson lands Riba’s WSS ride

04 March 2002

Scot Iain MacPherson has landed Pere Riba’s vacant Honda World Supersport ride. MacPherson clinched a deal with the Dutch-based Ten Kate team on Monday morning after Riba quit on Friday to take up...

Rossi & co head-to-head this weekend

04 March 2002

Valentino Rossi will clash with his major GP rivals on Saturday in the first meeting of all the new four-strokes at the Catalunya circuit near Barcelona. The reigning world champion though will be...

Is there no end to Schwantz’s talents?

04 March 2002

Is there no end to Schwantz’s talents?

Foret fastest after opening WSS qualifying

04 March 2002

Honda rider Fabien Foret was fastest after first qualifying at Valencia in WSS. He took provisional pole on a CBR600, more than half a second ahead of Italian Yamaha rider Alessio Corradi. Stephane Chambon was third quickest and Stefano Cruciani completes the provisional front row. German Yamaha riders Christian Kellner and Jorg Teuchert are fifth and sixth with Aussie Chris Vermeulen seventh.

Why’s she laughing? Ah, someone’s just bet against Rossi…

04 March 2002

Why’s she laughing? Ah, someone’s just bet against Rossi…

Just how good is Rossi?

04 March 2002

With the big GP tests coming up at Barcelona this weekend, Valentino Rossi remains THE man to beat this season. But what gives him the edge? We’ve got all the datalogging info to reveal exactly where...

McCrae firm signs up schoolboy Chaz

01 March 2002

British teenager Chaz Davies has been signed by a new sports management company run by former world rally champion Colin McRae. The 15-year-old, who will ride a kitted Aprilia in this year’s world 125...

You must be having a laugh

01 March 2002

The lesson is to never tell a brolly babe you’re faster than Rossi when you’re trying to impress her

Don’t look behind you Troy

01 March 2002

Although I suppose she is being quite complimentary

Riba quits WSS to take Criville ride

01 March 2002

Spanish World Supersport star Pere Riba has quit his Honda team to take Alex Criville’s vacant works Yamaha GP slot. It was confirmed on Friday morning in Spain that negotiations between Riba and team...

Look at the steak of that

01 March 2002

Fortunately Haga only uses organic, free-range brolly babes

Carmichael does it again

25 February 2002

Ricky Carmichael took his second victory on the trot in the AMA supercross 250 class, in front of 69,471 in the Georgia Doma, Atlanta. Now, the defending champion is 20 points behind leader David...

Where’s the beach?

25 February 2002

They thought they would be auditioning for Baywatch, not watching motorbikes in the rain

Criville up all night to solve fainting fits

25 February 2002

Alex Criville will be locked in a room and made to stay awake for over two days in a bid to pinpoint the cause of the fainting fits which forced him to take a break from GPs this season. One of the...

Walker 14th fastest despite partially paralysed face

25 February 2002

The effects of Bell’s Palsy have left Chris Walker with blurred vision and unable to complete more than a handful of laps at a time. Yet he toughed it out to rack up 72 laps and end up 14th fastest...

Jefferies misses out on superbike ride

25 February 2002

David Jefferies’ dream of a return to British Superbikes is over for another year. His V&M team has failed to come up with the cash to run so the six-times TT winner will be stuck in the Superstock...

Best test times of Saturday and Sunday

25 February 2002

Valencia, Spain, WSB test, February 23-24, 2002 1. T Bayliss: 1’34.922. 2. N Haga: 1’34.957. 3. C Edwards: 1’35.168. 4. B Bostrom: 1’35.260. 5. R Xaus: 1’35.260. 6. P Chili: 1’35.668. 7. S Martin: 1’35.962. 8. L Pedercini: 1’35.962. 9. H Izutsu: 1’36.032. 10. J Toseland: 1’36.305. 11. N Hodgson: 1’36.358.12 G Lavilla: 1’36.595. 13. J Borja: 1’36.728. 14. C.Walker: 1’36.930. 15. A Antonello:...

Neil Hodgson: In his own words

25 February 2002

Jo d: You were very pleased with the Philip Island test but seemed more frustrated during the Valencia test. Do you think this is essentially down to your style being incompatible with the circuit rather than a more wide-ranging problem? NeilHodgson: Erm, yes. I think you’ve hit the nail on the head there. I do have a slight problem with the set-up of the bike, but I think it’s more a case of my...

Hodgson reveals his go-faster diet

25 February 2002

We’ve now added the full transcript from Neil Hodgson’s Thursday lunchtime web chat in which he reveals his recipes for success. Neil starts a WSB race day with porridge, tucks into bananas and fig...

Smets first at Beaucaire

25 February 2002

Joel Smets won the 2002 pre-season motocross international at Beaucaire, France, at the weekend in front of 15,000 fans. Jamie Dobb finished 12th overall. Here are the results: First heat: 1.Smets...

Hislop and Reynolds to test together

25 February 2002

Steve Hislop and John Reynolds will ride together this weekend for the first time since they collided at Rockingham last year. That resulted in Hislop crashing to hand Reynolds the title. This year’s...

Two roll-ups please

25 February 2002

Simply smoking

Fancy a nibble?

25 February 2002

Good enough to eat…..

Permanent indoor dirt venue for Bristol?

25 February 2002

PLANS are well underway to establish the UK’s first permanent indoor supercross track at a site near Bristol. The man behind the scheme, Shane Fenton, reckons the track, with a 35,000 sqft area, will...

Slight to race in UK

25 February 2002

Aaron Slight will be racing a 500bhp V8 this year. No it’s not Moto GP gone mad, he’s on four wheels for the ASCAR oval racing series in the UK and Germany. Slight is driving the TJ Motorsports Ford,...

It’ll be all white on the night

25 February 2002

This year the brolly babes will be wearing a colour that goes with anything.

Carmichael and Vuillemin lead title charge

18 February 2002

Ricky Carmichael and David Vuillemin have emerged as the main contenders for the AMA supercross title. With seven rounds down, each has won three races Carmichaal won Saturday’s event in Minneapolis,...

You can never get enough

18 February 2002

We know you may have seen her before, but it is the girl who won your vote for 2001 Babe of the Year

Hello… all of you

18 February 2002

Go on, show us again how the suspension compresses and rebounds, ever so quickly…

Got a sweat on?

18 February 2002

Plastic pants and high humidity – yup; there’s a very warm front in Valencia today

McCallen back for 2002 TT?

18 February 2002

Phillip McCallen is considering a racing return to this year’s Isle of Man TT – almost four years after he was told one more race there could paralyse him. McCallen, who won 11 TT victories between...

First blood to two-strokes at GP test

18 February 2002

Yamaha’s supposedly ” best ” bike, in the hands of its ” best ” riders, was left trailing in the wake of Gary McCoy’s two-stroke at Valencia’s opening ITRA test. In fact, McCoy’s YZR (a full 14kg...

Walker will test despite paralysis

18 February 2002

Chris Walker will test his Kawasaki WSB bike this weekend despite continued problems with partial facial paralysis caused by Bell’s Palsy. Walker has been having treatment all week to try and...

Smart replaces injured McGuiness

18 February 2002

Injured John McGuinness will be replaced by Scott Smart for this weekend’s crucial final test at Valencia before the start of the World Supersport season. McGuinness injured himself while filming a...