MotoPod, The Motorcycle Roadracing Podcast, is an internet radio show dedicated to MotoGP and motorcycle racing news, interviews, commentary, opinion and rumor! MotoPod's primary focus is MotoGP, the premier class of the FIM World Championship Motorcycle Grand Prix Road Racing Series, but we’ll have occasional sidetrips into the world of FIM SBK World Superbike, Supersport and many other forms of two wheeled motorsport. Find out what’s going on in the sport that is the pinnacle of motorsports, Grand Prix Motorcycle Road Racing! New episodes every week.
A massive end of the year 4 way call with Bob Hayes, Jim Race, Martin Darlington and Jules Cisek. We go through lots of interesting listener email. Then two multi part interviews with director of Fastest, Mark Neale, and then with Mark Miller. Finally the calendar contest winners are announced. Mega show, enjoy in easy to swallow portions - we're off again for a few weeks. We'll be back in January of 2012!
* BSB and traction control
* Laguna ePower
* Mark Miller
Jules Cisek and Jim Race are back and we do a wrapup of Laguna Seca with the ePower/TTX race but not before answering listener email in a very long winded way. Mark Miller makes fun of Jim's hair and then we do a quick wrapup of WSBK/WSS at Silverstone and a bit on the Suzuka 8 hour.
* Nick Harris, Livio Suppo, Cal Crutchlow, Lucio Cecchinello, Hiroshi Aoyama, Toni Elias, Valentino Rossi, Gavin Emmett, Paul Denning, Tom Tremayne, Nicky Hayden, Dennis Noyes
Bleary eyed Jules Cisek and purple haired Jim Race glue together all the bits we took off our recorders from Laguna Seca. First, MotoGP commentator Nick Harris weighs in on the 2011 season and we follow with quick chats with HRC's Livio Suppo, Tech 3 rider Cal Crutchlow, LCR boss Lucio Cecchinello, Gresini rider Hiroshi Aoyama, and LCR rider Toni Elias. Valentino Rossi talks about QP and season prospects and Gavin Emmett makes race picks. Special guest host Mark Miller then interviews Jim Race while Paul Denning of Suzuki Racing, Tom Tremayne from Bridgestone, and Ducati's Nicky Hayden give post race impressions. Finally a fantastic wrapup with Dennis Noyes. Man what a weekend!
* Ben Spies - Factory Yamaha MotoGP
* Mark Miller - Splitlath Aprilia BSB
While the rhetoric and vitriol are in full swing heading into the Mugello MotoGP round, we're treated to a call with Assen winner Ben Spies put on by the great folks at Indy with Jules Cisek in attendance. Jim Race and Martin Darlington review Assen GP, wander the hallways of rider bickering and still manage the time for a great call with Mark Miller detailing his own time at Assen as well as the upcoming Snetterton BSB round. Good stuff!
* Scott Redding, Michael Bartholomy
* Colin Edwards, Cal Crutchlow, Ben Spies
* Michael Czysz, Mark Miller
* Mick Doohan, John McGuiness
Monster show. Jules Cisek anchors Martin Darlington (returning triumphantly from the GPs at Silverstone), Jim Race (returning triumphantly from the IOMTT), and Gonçalo Silva (returning triumphantly from the hospital…). Join us for a 3.5 hour tour of MotoGP, WSBK at Misano, and Isle of Man coverage sprinkled with interviews, sounds, coffee, and beer.
* Chris Pike (Padgett's Honda)
* Mick Grant (GP/TT Legend)
* Michael Czysz
* Richard Hatfield and Jono Bautista (Lightning Motors)
* Charley Boorman
* Mark Miller, Michael Rutter, John McGuiness
With *Massive* thanks to everyone in MotoPodLand, Jim Race is prowling
a tiny Isle in the Irish Sea to bring you his best impression of the
IOMTT experience. Martin Darlington joins us for the call, along with
a coterie of fantastic guests. Absolutely worth a listen. Maybe two or
three. Wait until next week... We're not even close to done with the
Island...
* Emanuele "Lele" Martinelli (Leon Camier crew chief)
* Ruben Xaus and Johnny Rae (Castrol Honda), Carlos Checa (Althea Ducati), Noriyuki Haga (Pata Aprilia)
* Tom Sykes (Paul Bird Kawasaki), Mark Aitchison & Robby Rolfo & Lucio Pedercini (Pedercini Kawasaki)
* Nick and Todd Grice (AMA privateers)
Jules Cisek and Gonçalo Silva host this one starting with listener emails and shoutouts and still more Simoncelligate fallout. We review the WSBK/AMA races at Miller and BSB at Thruxton. Lots of interviews this week with WSBK personnel: "Lele", Xaus, Rae, Checa, Haga, Sykes, Aitchison, Rolfo, and Pedercini as well as MotoPod rockstars Nick and Todd Grice.
Jim Race is on his way to the Isle of Man TT: remember you can use meetup@motopodcast.com to reach Jim and set up a meeting while he's out there.
* Azhar Hussain - TTXGP Organizer/Promoter
* AJ Rosensky - TTXGP Logistics
* Brian Richardson - Team Electra
* Eraldo Ferraci - Fast by Ferraci
* PJ Jacobsen - Celtic Racing
Jim Race and Jules Cisek go mostly electric with a long and fascinating chat with Azhar Hussain plus short bits on the ground at Infineon with AJ Rosensky and Brian Richardson followed by a review of the new Mark Neale documentary: Charge! To balance things out for the ICEheads, we then switch gears to MotoGP, WSBK, BSB, AMA and wrap up with two great interviews with Eraldo Ferraci and PJ Jacobsen.
Remember: meetup@motopodcast.com if you're at Miller for WSBK this weekend or at the Isle of Man for the TT starting next week!
* James Whitham
* John Hopkins
* Mark Miller
* Michael Hannas
Jules Cisek and Jim Race review Monza and bits of news here and there. Fantastic interviews with Eurosport commentator James Whitham, Crescent Suzuki's John Hopkins, TT bound Mark Miller, and TTXGP/AMA racer Michael Hannas.
Many thanks to the entire MotoPod community for making our kickstarter project successful! Jim is going to the IOMTT!
Finally, a special treat, a song written by Mark Miller and performed and produced by Jon Wadley.
Jim Race and Jules Cisek dash through the Assen WSBK results scattered amongst talks with Mark Miller (currently at the Isle of Man for TT promotion), Ed Haazer, a "regular guy" AFM club racer as well as a quick bit from Eurosport 2's James Whitham. A chaotic show, just as we like them. The first round of BSB at Brands Hatch is coming up this weekend as well as Estoril MotoGP.. Enjoy!