Exclusive: Rizla Suzuki's Chris Vermeulen Talks To MotoGPMatters.com
In the middle of the 2007 season's summer break, MotoGPMatters.com caught up with Suzuki's Chris Vermeulen, and talked to him about racing, the tire and engine rules which came in in 2007, and the direction for Suzuki in 2008. With the winter test ban about to end, and the teams getting ready for the 2008 season, it seems like a good time to run the interview with Chris Vermeulen, and whet our appetites for the thrills to come. Take it away, Chris.
Kropotkin's Top Ten Motorcycle Racers of the 2007 Season
In the long, bleak period of the MotoGP winter test ban, it is traditional to look back and assess the season just passed. Although we are no big fans of tradition here at MotoGPMatters.com (tradition, after all, is the enemy of progress), this is one we are prepared to make an exception for. And so, as a prelude to the resumption of testing in Sepang on January 22nd, here's a run down of Kropotkin's Top Ten Motorcycle Racers for 2007.
Rusty Writes - Advice For Carmen Ezepeleta about Standardizing ECUs
As an American who has as much interest in auto racing as he does motorcycle racing, I was more than a bit nervous as the threat of a single-tire-supplier rule loomed over the Fall of '07. Now that I read of the latest seemingly similar threat of a standardized ECU, I'm begging an inquiry into motive. Valentino Rossi is complaining about the pervasiveness of electronic traction controls. I infer this is a complaint about Dani Pedrosa, since Casey Stoner claims to be using none...