Drift like a Boss

Marco Melandri piloting his Honda at MotoGP.    He competes in WSBK now and his girl friend is more talked about than him.

19 years ago

May 1st 1994: Senna dies
On this day in 1994 the Brazilian racing driver and Formula One champion Ayrton Senna was killed in an accident during the San Marino Grand Prix. He was 34 years old. Often considered one of the greatest drivers of all time, Senna won the Formula One World Championships three times. He died hours after his accident during a race when his car left the track and hit a concrete wall at around 135mph. Senna is the last Formula One driver to die during a race.

 Via: Today in History

I was watching the race when that happened.  He was complaining about how dangerous the course was before this race was started. 

 

 

Onboard lap of Magny Cours with Jake Zemke

Happy 90th Birthday Geoff Duke

1997 World Supersport Donington

Roberto Panichi's great high side save

Armoy Road Races 2012 Duke Review

The 2012 Armoy Road Races attracted big names with the likes of Guy Martin, Ryan Farquhar, Michael Dunlop, William Dunlop, Adrian Archibald and more in action.

TT 2012 - On Bike Blu Ray Experience

With Micheal Dunlop

WSBK crash compilation

Man, I miss Nitro Nori there.

Marc Marquez's incredible first lap at Motegi

Marc Márquez Motegi Onboard 2012 - Lap 1 by Alfonso_SomozaMrquez

Left Side Story

Ernst Degner

He was the '62 world champion in 50cc class. He sure was a huge figure in Suzuki, not only he brought Suzuki a first world championship as a rider, but also he was an excellent engineer; the champion machine would not have been made without his knowledge developed at East German manufacturer MZ which used two-stroke engines.

His boss at MZ, Walter Kaaden worked under Nazi V-series rocket engineer Werner von Braun during WWII and is known to discover principles regarding how sound waves and expansion chambers affect engine tuning. He made 2stroke motors semi-reliable, efficient and faster.
Degner was a successful rider at MZ team of East Germany and in 1961 he was very close to be 125cc wold champion. Right after the Swedish Grand Prix at Kristianstad when he was able to drive out of the circuit, Ernst Degner defected by driving his Wartburg car to West Germany via Denmark. Needless to say, that made East Germany and MZ team he was with very angry. They managed to have Ernst's racing license revoked, preventing him from being a 125 cc champ for the season. November of 61, Suzuki hired him. He moved to Hamamatsu Japan and designed 50cc and 125 cc 2 stroke machines passing Kaaden's knowledge to Suzuki engineers; how to get more power from the same displacement.

In November 1963, Degner crashed his Suzuki 250cc racer at the Japanese Grand Prix held at the Suzuka Circuit. The fuel tank burst into flames and Degner suffered horrific burns which required over fifty skin grafts. As a mark of respect, the double-apex right-hand curves past the esses where Degner had crashed so badly were named Degner Curve.
Degner had little success after that and decided to retire from motorcycle racing. After dabbling with single seater car racing, he worked for a spell as Technical Manager at Suzuki's German importer in Munich. He then moved to Tenerife where he ran a car hire business. In '83, he had a heart attack and passed. He was 52 years old.

WSBK 2012 Round7 Race1

It was pretty good race. I enjoyed it. I would have enjoyed it more if Haga was racing here.

Nice high side save

http://hagataracing.com Rider: Genki Hagata #422
AMA round 3 West Coast MotoJam - Infineon Raceway, Incedent durring Supersport Qualifying 2 on Saturday morning.

mmm chill on the spine.

Nitro Nori

I am a big fan of Noriyuki Haga. He currently races at British Super Bike with Swan Yamaha. He is not shining there right now while his team mate stays competitive with the same bike.  He was a few points short of being a champ a few times at WSBK

I sure hope he comes back to WSBK. He is a champ without the title.

Oliver's Mount

"Onboard with Keith Pringle (1000 BMW RR) during the Ian Watson Cup/Allcomers race -- 2nd Leg At the Oliver's Mount 2012 Ian Watson Spring Cup - Sunday 15th April 2012"

Melissa Paris on WIDSIX TV : Las Vegas Motor Speedway

Melissa Paris only started racing while she was in a college. In fact, she purchased her first bike and a racing suits with the student loan. Until then she never really rode motorcycles though she played all kinds of sport as a kid. She is one of the examples is that a great athlete can perform good on most of sports.

Melissa Paris

On board Nina Prinz in Doha On a Stock Model GSXR 1000

Nina Prinz is a female German motorcycle racer. 2007-2008 European Women´s Champion - Superstock 1000. Pretty neat on-board footage. Would have been nice if this was 3D.

Nina Prinz official site

Happy 50th Suzuka

One of the most well-known circuit in Japan, Suzuka turned 50 this year. There was a huge event for the anniversary which was organized by Honda, who owns the circuit. The event had  many famous race car drivers as guest but for two wheel fans, the appearance of world champions, Kevin Schwantz and  Wayne Gardner was real treat. Schwantz even tried out the 2011 MotoGP champion bike, Honda RC212V. For more info visit Schwantz’ Facebook page.  Suzuka was one of  the Moto GP circuits until the Daijiro Kato's death in 2003, which raised safety concern about the facility and replaced with Twin Motegi circuit, which also owned by Honda.  So far, 17 racers has lost their lives there.
 Via: Two Wheels blog

Faster-the movie (MotoGP)

Yes pretty much the whole movie. Watch it when you got time.

John McGuinness - The Road to Revolution