TT & road races

Hutchinson confirmed for TT start

Hutchinson confirmed for TT start

Ian Hutchinson’s Yamaha team boss Shaun Muir confirmed at last night’s TT 2011 party at the Vila Marina, Douglas that the team is going ahead with plans for their rider to make a brief test at...

Super seven for Ryan Farquhar at Oliver's Mount

Super seven for Ryan Farquhar at Oliver's Mount

Ryan Farquhar got his 2011 road racing season underway in perfect style on Sunday when he dominated the Ian Watson Trophy races at Oliver’s Mount, Scarborough. The KMR Kawasaki rider was again in...

Ian Watson Spring Cup, Olivers Mount pictures

Ian Watson Spring Cup, Olivers Mount pictures

Spring Cup, Olivers Mount Scarborough The UK road racing season got under way at the ever popular seaside public roads circuit, Olivers Mount in Scarborough, North Yorkshire on Sunday. A perfect day...

McGuinness to start number one at TT

McGuinness to start number one at TT

Fifteen time TT race winner John McGuinness has confirmed that he will be the first rider away on Glencrutchery Road. He will take the prestigious number one slot in all five solo races. McGuinness...

Farquhar and Archibald team up on Kawasakis

Farquhar and Archibald team up on Kawasakis

Irish roads hero Ryan Farquhar has launched his KMR Kawasaki team for the forthcoming 2011 season. The most successful rider in Irish National road race history will again be contesting the three...

Michael Dunlop picks Kawasaki for the roads

Michael Dunlop picks Kawasaki for the roads

Michael Dunlop will race a full WSB-spec Kawasaki on the roads in 2011. The 21-year-old from Ballymoney will race a Paul Bird Motorsport-prepared ZX10R at the North West 200, Isle of Man TT and...

New era for Duke road race rankings

New era for Duke road race rankings

The Duke Road Race Rankings enters a new era in 2011. Not only will the 10th winner of the annual series be crowned, there will also be a brand new trophy awarded. This year there will 26 events on...

1992 Senior voted ‘greatest TT race’

1992 Senior voted ‘greatest TT race’

Fans have chosen the 1992 Senior TT, which quickly unfolded into a thrilling battle between Steve Hislop and Carl Fogarty, as the greatest race of all time on the iconic Mountain Course. The race saw...

Gary Johnson signs for East Coast

Gary Johnson signs for East Coast

East Coast Racing have signed TT star Gary Johnson and Lee Johnston to race in British Supersport this year. They will ride the ex-GNS Racing Hondas ridden by BSS title-winner Sam Lowes last year.

Hutchinson signs for Swan Yamaha

Hutchinson signs for Swan Yamaha

Ian Hutchinson has signed a two-year deal to ride for Swan Yamaha in the major international road races and selected rounds of the British Supersport series. Hutchy is still recovering from the broken...

Relentless boost for NW200

Relentless boost for NW200

This year’s Relentless-backed NW200 takes place on Saturday May 21 with Race Week Festival kicking off on May 15. The 2011 event was launched this morning at the Belfast’s Merchant Hotel and leading...

Farquhar keeps Duke Rankings trophy

Farquhar keeps Duke Rankings trophy

The prestigious Geoff Duke Trophy was presented to 2010 Duke Road Race Rankings winner Ryan Farquhar at a star-studded ceremony in Belfast by Peter Duke, Managing Director of Isle of Man-based Duke...

Kneen switches to Kawasaki

Kneen switches to Kawasaki

Manxman Dan Kneen will race a Kawasaki ZX-10R riding for the Marks Bloom Racing Team with the backing of Kawasaki UK. Kneen (23) has quickly established himself as a fast and consistent rider with top...

Ulster GP admission price rise

Ulster GP admission price rise

The Dundrod and District Motorcycle Club have been forced to increase the price of admission to the 2011 Ulster Grand Prix after sustained a substantial loss following this year’s races. The club took...

TT Legends to race Ulster GP

TT Legends to race Ulster GP

Honda TT Legends duo John McGuinness and Keith Amor will race at next year’s Ulster Grand Prix on August 10-13 2011. The Honda TT Legends is a newly formed team, assembled for an assault on the 2011...

Storrar’s 2011 TT debut

Storrar’s 2011 TT debut

Scottish rider Jimmy Storrar has confirmed that he will make his Isle of Man TT races debut in 2011. The Perth born racer will compete for Mick Charnock’s ‘TC Racing Honda/DP Coldplaning’ outfit in...

ACU responds to doctors quitting TT

ACU responds to doctors quitting TT

ACU Events Ltd, the organisation who run the TT have issues a statement regarding medical coverage for this year’s event. It reads: Following a statement issued by Dr David Stevens, ACU Events Ltd...

Top doctors withdraw from TT

Top doctors withdraw from TT

MCN has received a statement which says TT Chief Medical Officer Dr Heike Rommer and Medical Director Dr Stevens will not be involved in the 2011 TT, but will continue to work at the 2011 Manx GP. The...

Guy Martin tests Relentless Suzuki

Guy Martin tests Relentless Suzuki

TT hero Guy Martin completed his first test with the Relentless by TAS Suzuki team at Almeria on Sunday, completing over 90 laps on their 2010 TT superbike. In bright sunshine and 20-degree...

Me and Cameron Donald

Me and Cameron Donald

Me and Cameron Donald at the Isle of Man. He was more than happy to have this photo taken.

Padgetts sign Anstey

Padgetts sign Anstey

Padgetts of Batley have signed Bruce Anstey for the three major international road races in 2011. The veteran TT star was cut loose after several years with the Relentless by TAS team but now returns...

Cameron Donald signs for Wilson Craig

Cameron Donald signs for Wilson Craig

Australian Cameron Donald has signed to race for Wilson Craig in next year’s international road races.
  The Australian left Relentless Suzuki by TAS Racing only a week ago by mutual consent, less...

McGuinness and Amor to miss NW200?

McGuinness and Amor to miss NW200?

Race fans in Northern Ireland have been shocked to hear that John McGuinness and Keith Amor may be forced to miss the 2011 North West 200. The race on May 21 clashes with the second round of the World...

ITV increases TT coverage

ITV increases TT coverage

ITV has announced that it will increase coverage of the TT races with a new long-term deal. Fourteen hours of daily highlights from the event will be shown on ITV4 throughout the road race festival,...

New Manx GP race programme

New Manx GP race programme

The Manx Motor Cycle Club have restructured the Manx Grand Prix Races ahead of the 2011 event – including new classes and a revised calendar that will see the meeting ending with a high profile...

Cameron Donald and TAS split

Cameron Donald and TAS split

In a surprise press release, Relentess by TAS have announced that they will not run Cameron Donald in 2011. The press statement read: Due to unforeseen circumstances, Relentless Suzuki by TAS Racing...

Stuart Easton wins at Macau

Stuart Easton wins at Macau

Stuart Easton won the 44th Macau Grand Prix in China after an early scrap with BSB rival Michael Rutter. Scoring his third Macau win was a brilliant start to Easton’s Kawasaki career as he prepares to...

Production-based racing only at 2011 NW200

Production-based racing only at 2011 NW200

Next year’s North West 200 will feature a five-race programme featuring two Superbike and two 600cc races in addition to the Superstock race. Traditionally only the main NW200 race has been run over...

Rutter dominates Macau first practice

Rutter dominates Macau first practice

Going for a record seventh win in the Macau Grand Prix, Michael Rutter  dominated the opening qualifying session in China today on the Team of  Paris/ AXA Ducati.  Having topped the leaderboard in...

My wife and Michael Dunlop

My wife and Michael Dunlop

My wife with Michael Dunlop and my Bruce Anstey tattoo on my leg.

Martin signs for Relentless Suzuki

Martin signs for Relentless Suzuki

Guy Martin has signed tor race for the Relentless by TAS Suzuki team in next year’s major road races. The deal was finalised late on Sunday night and MCN was there at the team’s Moneymore-based...

2011 TT to host Mountain course Centenary festival

2011 TT to host Mountain course Centenary festival

Next year marks 100 years of racing on the 37.73mile Mountain course and to celebrate the momentous landmark in motorcycle racing history, a ‘Milestones of the Mountain’ nostalgia festival has been...

Dunlop tests Relentless Suzuki

Dunlop tests Relentless Suzuki

Michael Dunlop tested a Relentless by TAS Suzuki last week at Kirkistown but is still no closer to being able to confirm his 2011 plans. TAS boss Philip Neill admitted Dunlop rode the bike but says no...

Honda Racing reveal TT plans

Honda Racing reveal TT plans

John McGuiness and Keith Amor have been confirmed by Honda Racing for the North West 200 and TT and rumours persist that they may also do the entire World Endurance championship, along with another TT...

Bishopscourt

Bishopscourt

Me and my mate Andy had a great time meeting Eugene Laverty, James Ellison, James Westmoreland, and Sam Lowes at Bishopscourt and watching them trying out the Parkalgar Honda and TAS Suzuki.

Westmoreland to race TAS GSX-R600 at Sunflower

Westmoreland to race TAS GSX-R600 at Sunflower

James Westmoreland will make a one-off appearance for Relentless by TAS Suzuki team at the Sunflower Trophy Races on October 15/16 at Bishopscourt, Northern Ireland. The 22-year-old runner-up in this...