Talking points, news, quotes and happenings as the winds push MotoGP around one of the most majestic and intimidating circuits on the calendar
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The ideal place: Phillip Island
A place of rugged and exposed beauty but the birth of Phillip Island is not as idyllic as the breath-taking setting. Read and find out what you never knew about the world’s best racetrack in Sienna Wedes’ latest Blog
A surprising new road
A brand new track, another Jonathan Rea record and the final straight for WorldSBK means a fairly epic trek and adventure for Graeme. Read his thoughts of Villcum and an interesting way to arrive at the Argentinian venue
A conversation in the mind of a MotoGP racer
What’s going on ‘in there’ and what does a rider like Bradley Smith do about it? Find out about the thrill, the fear, the insecurity and the privilege…
A familiar place: Aragon
Sienna throws the covers off one of the more curious and enigmatic rounds of MotoGP, usually dismissed as ‘just another Spanish stop’. Find out what you never knew about MotorLand & Aragon
Banking on a Mir-acle?
Have Suzuki plunged for Joan Mir too soon? Or is youth part of the new plan? Neil Morrison looks at the blue camp, Jorge Lorenzo and the latest chessboard moves inside the MotoGP paddock
Hopes for the big red wing
WorldSBK testing wrapped in Spain and Portugal this week and ended a busy period for Graeme behind the cameras. Our erstwhile Superbike Blogger just had enough time to scribble some impressions of a turnover at Honda for 2018