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inside Issue 125, December 2009
Casey Stoner... Back from the Brink... I was destroyed
•Neil Hodgson
BSB Homecoming… “I’m here to win”
•John Hopkins
Hangover Season... “I like to party”
• Crutchlow’s World Beater
Track Tested
PLUS: AMA Condition Critical, Roads Guy Martin Uncut! BSB New Rules for 2010, Archive Jim Dunlop, Young Guns Glenn Irwin, Extra Cost of Crashing
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Larry Carter
SCOOP'S ANGLE: American Nightmare...
12 November 2009 | LC
Sunday 25th October 2009 was a pretty memorable day in the world of motorsport as it turned out.
Forget Citroen’s Sébastien Loeb sensationally winning his sixth successive World Rally Championship in a head-to-head scrap with the Ford of Mikko Hirvonen in the Welsh forests, in two-wheeled parlance, it all started at daybreak with Valentino Rossi wrapping up his seventh MotoGP title, and ninth world championship title in total, in a damp and dismal Sepang...
HODGSON’S HANDLE - NEIL HODGSON
12 November 2009 | NH
Homeward Bound...
Ten years on after he won his one and only British Superbike Championship title, Neil Hodgson is planning another hit and run raid in his bid for BSB crown number two next season. But it would help if he had a bike and team for starters...
It doesn’t take someone with the interrogation skills of Jack Bauer to figure out when motorcycle racers aren’t being as truthful as they should be and the older the rider gets, the better they become at dealing with awkward questions without looking at the floor, having to think about what they are saying or generally mumbling into their Red Bull...
Blog - Tom Tunstall
8 Octobber 2009 | NH
When Larry “Scoop” Carter asked if I’d be interested in penning a few words for the Motorcycle Racer web site it was an easy decision & how could I refuse?! However what Larry didn’t know was I failed GCSE English and therefore the power of three spell checkers is the only way this will be even slightly readable. Best give it a once over first Scoop!!
For those who aren’t too familiar with me & our Hardinge Doodson Motorsport Team – we run in the British Superbike Cup Championship, well for the next race at least before the “Privateer” idea is put out to pasture....
Mortons Acquire Classic American Magazine
12 November 2009 | Press Release
Lincolnshire publishers Mortons Media Group Ltd have purchased Classic American magazine from the Trader Media Group. The magazine is the market-leading title for all things relating to classic American cars...
MAL CARTER TRIBUTE
12 November 2009 | MCR News
Mal Carter died in September aged 70 after a long illness and the old saying 'he was one in a million' can certainly be attributed to him. There has never been, or I doubt ever will be, anyone to compare with the down-to-earth Yorkshireman who certainly called a spade a spade and had little time for pretentious officialdom...
STAFFORD BREAKS ALL RECORDS
12 November 2009 | MCR News
Racing legend Freddie Spencer enjoyed a starring role at the record-breaking 16th Carole Nash Classic Motorcycle Mechanics show last month as more than 30,000 visitors thronged to Stafford County Showground, feasting their eyes on an array of 1970s and 1980s classic motorcycle machinery...
ROSSI, SPIES & CRUTCHLOW CROWNED CHAMPIONS
12 November 2009 | MCR News
In what will be known as ‘Judgment Day’ for years to come, within hours of each other, Valentino Rossi claimed his seventh MotoGP crown and ninth world title in total when he splashed to third place in Sepang before Cal Crutchlow and Ben Spies wrapped up the World Supersport and World Superbike titles respectively in Portimao to make it a memorable weekend for Yamaha...
CARTER TO CONTEST RALLYCROSS SUPERPRIX THIS WEEKEND
12 November 2009 | Press Release
Local motorsport Broadcaster and Journalist, Larry Carter, is the latest addition to the Get Connected/SG Petch Rallycross Superprix to be held this weekend (Oct 31/Nov 1) at Croft Circuit in North Yorkshire.
Hailing from just a few miles down the road at Northallerton, Carter, the voice of pit lane in British Superbikes, was originally entered in just the Rally Car class, which his company Cartersport is sponsoring at the meeting, but following a successful shakedown earlier today, the MSR Motorsport-prepared Peugeot 206 Super Cup car will now be in action in the Division 1A class of the 2WD Superprix as well as in the Rally Car category...
GUINTOLI FINISHES WITH TOP-FIVES AT OULTON PARK BSB
12 October 2009 | Press Release
Sylvain Guintoli rode to two further fighting fifth place finishes today at the final round of the British Superbikes Championship at Oulton Park. Added to his fifth from yesterday, the Worx Crescent Suzuki rider amassed enough points from the weekend to lift himself from 11th to eighth in the final championship standings.
Just as importantly, Guintoli recovered much of his former speed and so today was able to battle with the front runners...
GSE RACING CLINCH CHAMPIONSHIP ONE-TWO
12 October 2009 | Press Release
Sylvain Guintoli rode to two further fighting fifth place finishes today at the final round of the British Superbikes Championship at Oulton Park. Added to his fifth from yesterday, the Worx Crescent Suzuki rider amassed enough points from the weekend to lift himself from 11th to eighth in the final championship standings.
Just as importantly, Guintoli recovered much of his former speed and so today was able to battle with the front runners...
Camier ends title winning campaign with fifth daily double Final Round – 10/11 October – Oulton Park
12 October 2009 | Press Release
MCE Insurance British Superbike Championship in association with Pirelli
Leon Camier enjoyed the victories in the final two races of his MCE Insurance British Superbike championship in association with Pirelli winning campaign at Oulton Park.
That stretched to 19 the record number of victories in the season by the Airwaves Yamaha rider and he enthused: “That was an awesome way to finish the season. It really has been a dream season for me – I could not have asked for anything more...
$5,000 FINE FOR IANNONE
8 October 2009 | MCR News
Camier wins championship in opening race – Ellison race winner, next time out Round eleven – 27 September – Silverstone MCE Insurance British Superbike Championship in association with Pirelli.
Leon Camier clinched the MCE Insurance British Superbike Championship in association with Pirelli as he headed off the challenge of his Airwaves Yamaha team-mate James Ellison to win the first of the two races in the penultimate round at Silverstone...
‘ASTON’ MARTIN TAKES SEVENTH CONSECUTIVE GOLD CUP TROPHY
8 October 2009 | MCR News
Hydrex Honda’s Guy Martin caused a stir not only by winning the Steve Henshaw International Gold Cup Trophy for the seventh consecutive year at Oliver’s Mount, but by arriving at the Scarborough track in a brand new top of the range Aston Martin DBS...
WHYTE STEPS DOWN FROM NW200
8 October 2009 | MCR News
As exclusively revealed in Racer a few months ago, North West 200 race chief Mervyn Whyte is relinquishing his position as clerk of the course.
However, the Limavady man has offered to take on a more strategic role to ensure the North West continues to develop and improve for future fans and competitors...
Encyclopaedia of classic motorcycles
2 September 2009 | Product News
• Hardback 12" x 10" book - 420 pages
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This book is the culmination of hours of painstaking work by author Richard Rosenthal who has, over a number of years, developed a passion for old motorcycles.
The Encyclopaedia of Classic Motorcycles will become the definitive guide to classic motorcycles, from the very earliest attempts to motorise pedal cycles to the latest technology seen in more modern-day machinery.
It lists in alphabetical order all the machines you are ever likely to see from the dawn of two-wheeled power right up to the mid 1980’s.
