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Bingley’s
Ian Hutchinson enjoyed a great year in 2007, his
first season as a factory rider and his first as
a member of the all-conquering HM Plant Honda team.
Hutchy was signed to race in all 3 International
road races as well as spearhead Honda’s assault
on the British Supersport Championship; and he didn’t
disappoint........
Mention the name Kevin Schwantz
and you automatically think of one of the most exciting
and entertaining riders ever to have graced the
sport. The Texan rider burst on to the scene in
1986 when he dominated the annual...
It’s fair to say that
Davy Morgan had what can only be described as
an ‘up and down’ season in 2006 and
what promised to be a dream ticket with the DMRR
Racing squad turned out to be a damp squib. The
season got off to a great start...
Having made his name at the 2000
Manx Grand Prix, when he finished runner up to Seamus
Greene in the Senior Newcomers race, Cumbrian rider
Dan Stewart was one of the unsung heroes of TT 2006
and the 31-year old enjoyed a scintillating...
2006 was a terrific year for Bruce
Anstey and he was the only rider to score wins at
all three of the International road race meetings,
also recording the most number of podiums. In what
was arguably the most comeptitive years in...
Kettering’s James McBride
may be a relatively newcomer to the real road racing
scene but in the space of just three years, he’s
firmly established himself as a top-flight competitor.
2005 was his most successful year to date on the...
It was back in 1997 when Jun Maeda
made his TT debut aboard the newly introduced Honda
Firestorm machine and little interest was shown
in the Japanese rider. However, year-by-year he
got quicker and quicker, with his first 110mph lap...
2005 was a great year for Ian Lougher
and he was a unanimous choice for the RealRoadRacing.Com
team when we named our rider of the year, the second
time he has taken the award. His success was nothing
more...
Before June of this year, the name
Michael Weynand would have been alien to the most
ardent road race fan in the UK. Weynand was trying
to make his name in the Belgian Championships and
World Endurance, but a chance meeting...
Christer Miinin is a new name to
many road race fans, having only briefly competed
in this years Isle of Man TT, before his best friend
and team mate Joakim Karlsson lost his life in a
tragic accident at Douglas Road Corner on the way
into Kirk Michael.
Ryan Farquhar is ‘almost’
the complete real road racer. Virtually unbeatable
on the National Road Race scene in recent years,
Ryan has also enjoyed success at the International
events; however the big wins in the Superbike...
Keith Stewart could well have been
considered somewhat of a holiday racer up until
last season, picking and choosing his races, never
venturing outside of Ulster. On deciding to take
in the Manx Grand Prix in 2004 however, Keith took
in...
Quietly spoken Lifford rider Raymond
Porter was shaping up to be one of the stars of
the season in the early part of the year winning
his first North West 200 and taking a well earned
podium finish at the TT. Disaster soon struck however...
Bruce Anstey is one of road racings
biggest current days stars. The Kiwi ace has proved
that on his day he is as good as anyone on the roads,
having won races at all three International Road
Races consistently for the past four years...
Lancashire lass
Carolynn Sells is one of the fastest lady racers
around, having impressed the pundits and her fellow
riders with a series of gusty performances on
the road circuits of Ireland and the Isle of Man...
County Donegal’s Seamus Greene
first came to prominence in the late 1990’s
when he competed in the Irish Support series but
he really made his name in the year 2000 when he
won the Newcomers Manx Grand Prix at record speed...
John Burrows made his name in the
Irish Clubman’s Championship in 2002, winning
both the Open and 600cc titles in his first year
of competition. Since that time he has slowly but
surely developed into one of Ireland’s leading
national road racers...
Twenty six year old Laxey rider
Nigel Beattie spread his wings in 2004 and participated
in far more road races than he’d done before,
acquitting himself with considerable aplomb. The
former Manx Grand Prix winner impressed many with
his...
In just four years of racing, twenty-nine
year old David Bell has established himself as one
of the stars of real road racing. It wasn’t
until 2001 that the Chester-le-Street rider first
took to the race track but in a short space of time
he...
January 2005 has seen the re-launch
of RealRoadRacing.Com
and it has also seen the launch of Pacemaker Press
International’s website at www.pacemakerpressintl.com
as well. For the first time ever...
2004 was a great year for John
McGuinness and the RealRoadRacing.Com
team had no hesitation in naming him as their rider
of the year. His success was nothing more than he
deserved and in an exclusive, and unique, interview
we got the...
Richard Britton is amongst the
fastest and most experienced riders in road racing
and he could also be considered as one of the
best riders to have never won a TT. This could
be about to change, with the news that the popular
County Fermanagh rider...
After twenty
three years in the saddle, Ian Lougher is still
considered one of the best pure road racers still
racing today, and his consistency and versatility
is almost unrivalled. He has raced against some
of the greats of our sport...
Shaun Harris has been competing
at the TT since his debut back in 1991, and those
14 years have seen there fair share of ups and downs
both on, and away, from the race tracks. The tough
Kiwi has never been far from controversy...
When it comes to racing between
the hedges Martin Finnegan is, quite simply, one
of the best. At just twenty four years of age,
the man from Lusk has improved with each and every
outing since his first full season of National
competition...
Twenty five year old Bingley
rider Ian Hutchinson was virtually unknown before
he blasted onto the scene with a record breaking
victory in the 2003 Newcomers Manx Grand Prix.
This year he continued where he left of...
Quietly spoken
Scot Les Shand caught the imagination of pure
road race fans with a stunning debut at this years
North West 200, finishing fourth in the Production
race. The twenty seven year old, who hails from
Mosstodloch...
Lisburn’s Darran Lindsay
has been one of Ireland’s top real road racers
for more than a decade, in almost all classes. The
diminutive star has put his crasher tag behind him,
to become a regular winner in the 125cc, 250cc and
600cc classes...
With the TT only nine weeks
away, we took the opportunity to chat with the
Isle of Man's Minister of Tourism and head of
the TT Organising Committee, David Cretney MHK.
Cretney is a popular and successful politician,
but to race fans...
The name Davy Wood is one that
has become synonymous with road racing over the
past three decades. From a well established road
racer in his own right, Davy developed into the
fast talking team manager of Ireland's most...
One of the real plus points about
working on a web site like this is the chance to
talk to your heroes. I have been lucky enough to
talk to many of the great riders to grace our sport
in the last couple of years. Jim Moodie, Ian Lougher...
Nick Jefferies is one of the most
respected and experienced riders, if not the most
experienced rider, who will sit on the starting
grid at the 2002 Isle of Man TT. A late bloomer,
Nick finally came to the fore in his mid 30s after
gaining...
Martin Bullock is a Manx business
man who has been sponsoring riders since 1988 with
a great deal of success, in particular at the Manx
Grand Prix. He still has a large squad of riders
using his immaculate machinery including man of
the...
Michael Rutter has such a laid
back personality, it is sometimes hard to believe
he makes a living in the cutthroat world of motorcycle
road racing. But for most of the last decade he
has been at the top of his chosen sport winning
at...
American Mark Miller is an unlikely
interviewee for a web site, which is solely devoted
to real road racing. America is not known for developing
pure road racers, even though they have some of
the best short circuit riders in the world...
Roger Harvey is an ex British Moto
Cross Champion who became a team manager with Yamaha
before moving to Honda. He has a massive knowledge
of the motor cycle industry in this country on a
whole and is well respected in his current...
Everyone knows Richard Quayle,
as 'Milky' for his striking resemblance to the famous
character who gives away white chocolate bars to
kids, Because of the way he looks, and sometimes
the way he acts, he is often thought of as a joker
rather...
Donegal's Uel Duncan was a road
racer on a rapid road to success. During a short
career, Uel established himself as one of Irelands
best road racers regularly mixing it with Adrian
Archibald and Richard Britton at Ireland's demanding
road races...
