Londoner Gino Rea is returning to racing in Britain in 2018 after racing in European championships since 2007. He won the European Superstock 600 championship in 2009, and has since competed in World Supersport on Honda, Kawasaki and MV Agusta machines. He also raced in Moto2 for three years, taking a memorable second place in […]
Hire a wildcard KTM RC390 Cup motorcycle
If you think that teenagers today have it too easy, then prepare to be even more sure of it. Not only do precocious racers from 13-18 have the chance to compete as part of the 2015 British Superbike weekends in the Santander Consumer Finance KTM British Junior Cup, but KTM has even made four hire […]
Wiscombe Park Hill Climb, Honiton, with video
The last two weeks have been frantic, after the 1200cc engine blew up at Scarborough. With no chance of getting another stroked crank sorted, and a 4-week minimum wait for big bore pistons, barrel plating and oversize valves, it looked like I’d be running an almost stock engine. Luckily TTS had a pair of stock […]
Prescott Hill Climb – VIP Style
Sam Matthewman races a Suzuki TL1000S-based racer in hill climbs, and we’ve conned him into writing about his season, starting with the Prescott Hill Climb. Well after what seems like an eternity over winter in the shed reincarnating my heavily modified Suzuki TL1000S for the 13th year in succession, it was finally time to put […]
Mallory Park: The Unfriendly Circuit
Scottie Redmond on why the Leicestershire circuit is at fault for upsetting its neighbours and why a potential closure isn’t such a bad thing. Thanks to the power of social media I discovered that Mallory Park was being threatened with closure; my Facebook lit-up with people up in arms at the thought of the self-titled […]
Racing. The fast way to lose time and money.
We need a racing project to get our teeth into this winter ready for something next year. Or the year after. ResCogs has previous history in racing, the highlight being upsetting the establishment in Earlystocks and winning the championship with Luke Brackenbury riding a GSX1100, built by legendary Suzuki air-cooled tickler, Pops Gary Hurd. Gary […]
Rossi and Lorenzo keep competing – via videogames
After a dramatic, and at times tragic, MotoGP season which saw the title dominated by Honda and Casey Stoner, it appears that Valentino Rossi turned to popular videogame Gran Turismo 5 for some light relief post-season, issuing a challenge to almost 250,000 Twitter followers to beat his laptime. Unfortunately for him, one person that responded […]