Motorcycle Sport & Racing News

One of the Lucky commandos

09 December 2002

Just one of Sergeant Schwantz’s Lucky commandos

Model behaviour

09 December 2002

Capirossi stuns in Ducati test

02 December 2002

Ducati’s MotoGP squad will be waking up this morning sore from the volume of back-slapping doled out at Jerez yesterday. Loris Capirossi blazed around the Spanish circuit in a time that would have put...

Casey Stoner takes factory 125 ride

02 December 2002

Teenage Aussie ace Casey Stoner has taken the offer of a factory 125cc Aprilia ride for 2003. He said: ” It’s pretty exciting news to get just before Christmas. I’m really looking forward to getting...

The R1 built to take on Rossi

02 December 2002

This is the British-built bike that’s going to take on the world in next year’s MotoGP championship. Top tuning squad Harris, based in Hertford, will design the machine, based on a heavily-modified...

She’s a peach

02 December 2002

She’s a peach

Workshop to train your racing brain

02 December 2002

In racing, it’s said, the competition is rarely won on the Tarmac, but in the space between the rider’s ears. So, if you want to give yourself a mental edge ahead of next season’s racing season, you’d...

This, we like

02 December 2002

This, we like

Pretty darn perfect

02 December 2002

And perfectly darn pretty, too

Don’t look down…

02 December 2002

Don’t look down…

Exclusive: First HM Plant Ducati pictures

25 November 2002

MCN has been granted exclusive access to the HM Plant Ducati squad just days ahead of its first round of pre-season testing in Valencia, Spain. This is the first time its riders James Toseland and...

Mixed bag for McGrath on KTM debut

25 November 2002

Supercross legend Jeremy McGrath began his 250cc KTM career in style on Saturday when he aced the opening day of the 2002/03 World Supercross in Pesaro, Italy. But he failed to reach Sunday’s final after clashing with Honda’s Kyle Lewis in the second moto. He took a one-two in Saturday’s motos and won the final at a canter. Sunday, too started brightly. McGrath won the first heat, but in the next...

Eeeny, meeny…

25 November 2002

Eeeny, meeny…

First pictures: Whitham’s new baby

25 November 2002

World Supersport rider Jamie Whitham has a new woman in his life – he’s just become the proud father to Ruby, his first child. Ruby weighed in at 6lb 14oz, and both baby and mother Andrea are doing...

Carmichael is AMA Athlete of the year

25 November 2002

American motocross star Ricky Carmichael has capped a stella year by being voted the AMA’s 2002 Athlete of the Year for the second year in succession. ” Mr.Perfect ” as Carmichael is known, had a...

Just what Nori needs

25 November 2002

A firm rear and animal power

Ukawa to partner Biaggi at Pramac

25 November 2002

West Honda Pons has just confirmed that Tohru Ukawa will partner Max Biaggi on its V5 RCV in 2003. Ukawa, who rode for the factory Repsol Honda effort alongside Valentino Rossi, finished thrid overall...

FIM threatens to expel the AMA

25 November 2002

A row between two sanctioning bodies of motorcycle racing could threaten the chance to see some of the world’s top riders in action in Europe. The American Motorcyclist Association (AMA), which...

The weather girl

25 November 2002

There’s a warm front spreading

A hot cross bunny

18 November 2002

Suddenly we’ve come over all religious

The peaks of success

18 November 2002

The peaks of success

Edwards’ bruising Aprilia debut

18 November 2002

Colin Edwards and Noriyuki Haga began their pre-season tests on the Aprilia RS3 yesterday at the Spanish circuit of Jerez, with Edwards marking his debut with a crash. The reigning WSB champ was...

Haslam joins Renegade squad

18 November 2002

Leon Haslam has turned his back on Grand Prix to return to British racing for 2003. He’ll race a Ducati 748 for Mark Griffith’s Renegade Racing squad in the British Supersport championship, alongside...

She’s a perfect 10

18 November 2002

She’s a perfect 10

Atten-shun!

18 November 2002

MCN staff are trained to be proud and erect at all times.

Van den Bosch denied Supermoto clean sweep

18 November 2002

Thierry van den Bosch has been unstoppable all season, but his string of victories was finally broken in Broadford, Australia at the last round of the World Supermoto series by a mechanical problem...

See - men do make passes…

18 November 2002

For girls who wear glasses

What are they saying?

11 November 2002

We think they’re deciding which one of motorcyclenews.com’s hunks to go after. Pic by Carly Rathmell

Langston rules Bercy

11 November 2002

Grant Langston is the King of Bercy, winning the new format, 125cc event with a win on the final day. This combined with two second places on the previous days to give him the crown from Chris...

A flock of Virgin girls?

11 November 2002

What exactly is the right term for a group of brolly babes?. Pic by Carly Rathmell

Rutter on pole in Macau

11 November 2002

Michael Rutter is on course to be the first man to win three Macau GP’s since Steve Hislop after he slotted his Ducati 998 on pole in today’s qualifying. He needed just eight laps of the 3.9-mile...

Japanese factory rider joins BSB

11 November 2002

Yukio Kagayama will join John Reynolds in the 2003 Crescent Suzuki squad. The 28-year-old will make history as the first Japanese rider, and first full factory rider, to compete in the British...

Something to lift the spirits

11 November 2002

It may be cold and wet in the UK, but in brolly babe land the sun is always shining

Farewell to Manx GP veteran

11 November 2002

The funeral service of Manx GP veteran Bob Hirst takes place this Friday, November 15 at Telford Crematorium, Staffordshire at 2.30pm. Hirst, runner-up to John Goodhall in the very first Senior Classic MGP in 1983, died last Thursday aged 60. All donations in lieu of flowers are invited to the Manx Grand Prix Helicopter fund, c/o John Kermeen, 10 Ballacrosha, Ballugh, IOM.

Wanna play a round?

11 November 2002

There were surprised racers when the brolly babes played golf on the start-line.

2003 World Superbike regulations

11 November 2002

The governing body that regulates the World Superbike and World Supersport series, the FIM, has introduced a series of new regulations designed principally to bring down the cost of a season’s...