The new season of racing is on its way, with the MotoGP, World Superbike and British Superbike championships all set to be hotly contested once again. Casey Stoner, Carlos Checa and Tommy Hill are the respective champions, but they’ll have the usual suspects and the inevitable surprise packages right in their slipstream, pushing them all the way to the title. At the moment...

It was another disappointing weekend in Japan for Valentino Rossi, capping a nightmare season on the Ducati off by crashing out of the race on the second corner after a coming together with the Yamaha duo of Jorge Lorenzo and Ben Spies. Fortunately, ‘The Doctor’ was relatively unhurt, walking away from the crash with a broken little finger, managing not to damage the leg h...