
Soup Classic: High Desert Encounter "Don't ever hesitate to approach your heroes ..." by rick oestricher Friday, October 03, 2003 As a Texas teenager suddenly dropped into the middle of the high desert of California, life could be kind of dull. You see, I had been forcibly uprooted from my...
Prior to the start of the Indy GP, former factory Yamaha MotoGP rider Colin Edwards will lap the Indianapolis Motor Speedway aboard a special Yamaha YZR-M1 featuring yellow-and-black, 60th Anniversary livery. "Colin's appearance at Indy is part of Yamaha's ongoing celebration of the company's...
Marc Marquez said it all after Q2: "I am happy with pole position—more than anything because of how comfortable I am feeling this weekend." Comfortable? People watching Marquez's race-long duel with eventual second-place finisher Jorge Lorenzo described what they saw as "ragged," saying that...
Press releases from the MotoGP teams after the first day of practice at Qatar: 2013 Season gets underway in Qatar Tonight under the floodlights of the Losail circuit in Qatar, the 2013 MotoGP season began. Repsol Honda's Dani Pedrosa and Marc Marquez made the most of the 45minute FP1 session on...
As a Texas teenager suddenly dropped into the middle of the high desert of California, life could be kind of dull. You see, I had been forcibly uprooted from my comfortable North Central Texas existence by my father's talent for flying experimental aircraft. He went willingly to Edwards Air...
MotoGP starts the back nine of the 2015 season this week in Indianapolis with all four Aliens looking fast and frisky. At the top of the heap, a mere 13 points separate factory Yamaha grandees Valentino Rossi and Jorge Lorenzo. Factory Ducati interloper Andrea Iannone, in third, sits squarely in...
For Yamaha and its racing fans, the decade of the 1990s was a particularly heart-wrenching era in terms of lives that were lost or permanently changed. It stands as a cold reminder that the sport we all love is undeniably fraught with risk. Probably the most prominent incident of the 90s was...