I've said this a few times now, but a favorite pastime of mine when a new issue comes out is to peruse the internet for additional content about a given Vintage Motorsport feature. Things were no different when the Jan/Feb 2022 arrived last week. In fact, Editor-In-Chief D. Randy Riggs...

Straight out of Modesto, California, Kenny Roberts simply is the greatest motorcycle racer the nation of the United States of America has ever produced.A two-time American Motorcyclist Association Grad National Champion, in 1978 Roberts took it upon himself to make a run at America’s first 500cc Grand Prix World Championship...

A dirt-track star who learned to excel on asphalt, Kenny Roberts and his Yamaha YZR500 beamed down in Europe in 1978 and changed the face of grand prix racing. At the 2009 MotoGP finale in Valencia, Spain, Texan Tech 3 Yamaha rider Colin Edwards coined an enduring epithet when he...

Dan Gurney was a true renaissance man of motorsports; an innovator for whom the path of least resistance was anathema, as well as a racer revered by his peers.Of those peers, Jim Clark was perhaps the greatest. At Clark's funeral in his beloved Scottish Borders, his father told Gurney that...

The day after the memorial service held for Nicky Hayden in Owensboro, Kentucky, this writer tracked down three-time 500cc World Champion Kenny Roberts, the man who, for all intents and purposes, established America as a motorcycle racing a global superpower"Nicky Hayden was a racer," reflected Roberts of the 2006 MotoGP...

MotoGP could "double" its crowds in America if it can generate more opportunities for riders from the United States, says 1993 500cc world champion Kevin Schwantz.Aspar's Nicky Hayden will be the only American rider in three grand prix classes at this weekend's Circuit of The Americas round. From 1978 to...

Newly crowned MotoGP champion Marc Marquez says his record-breaking title is yet to sink in after a whirlwind rookie season.The 20-year-old won six races on his way to becoming the first rider since Kenny Roberts in 1978 to win the championship in his debut season. Despite graduating to the premier...

Jorge Lorenzo says he has no regrets over how he managed the MotoGP title decider at Valencia, in which Marc Marquez beat him to the championship.With a 13-point deficit at the start of the weekend, Lorenzo needed to win with Marquez lower than fourth. He took the lead at the...