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.
* Scott Redding
* Edwin Haazer
* interviews from the PI Classics weekend
Jim Race and Martin Darlington wander over the first test results departing the winter break for MotoGP from both Valencia and Sepang, and weave together some great interviews with Scott Redding plus bonus interviews done by Phil Hall with Ryan Farquhar, Jeremy McWilliams, Josh Brookes, Steve Martin, and others from the land down under. Jules Cisek also gets Ed Haazer's goggle-eyed impression from his trip to the isle where penguins go to chill. Join us, will you?
* 00:11:25 Simon Crafar
* 01:28:15 Josh Hayes
* 02:21:40 Andrew Wheeler
Jim Race and Jules Cisek draw our GoPro HD2 winner and put in the glue between 3 fantastic interviews with former GP/WSBK rider Simon Crafar, AMA superbike champion Josh Hayes, and MotoGP photographer Andrew Wheeler.
* In depth interview with Colin Edwards
* Behind the scenes with Spiel Nalding
Jim Race and Martin Darlington walk through the MotoGP, Moto2 and Moto3 entry lists, enjoy a behind the scenes bit, and round out the show with a killer long call with the Texas Tornado, Colin Edwards. There is nothing that is too sacred to talk about, so we go in balls deep.
... this is the Dawning of a New Era
* James Whitham
* Ben Spies
* Doctor Claudio Costa
Jules Cisek and Jim Race usher in 2012, with a serious bevy of interviews and a cracking start to the beginning of yet another year with MotoPod. Join in with James Whitham as he summarizes and finalizes the 2011 BSB season, hear Ben Spies just being a regular guy and enjoy the poetic nature of Doc Costa (of the Clinica Mobile) as they all all join us for a great start to a new year!
Also some great listener emails and… another GoPro contest!
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!
Martin Darlington and Jim Race reunite to bring you the latest endless silly season news, and Jules Cisek nails down a fascinating interview with Dr. Martin Raines, MotoGP statistician-extraordinaire. Pay close attention to the interview, as for the first five to get in their correct answer to the poised question will win a brilliant 2012
MotoMatters calendar, with commentary by David Emmett and photography by Scott Jones. Winners will be announced on the landmark MotoPod episode #300 in a few weeks time!
Jules Cisek and Jim Race answer listener email, review the final round at Valencia, discuss the latest in the silly season and wrap up with a short discussion about the post Valencia test.
Jim Race and Jules Cisek attempt to return to normalcy by going through some extremely interesting listener emails, MotoGP news (some of it stale by the time these show notes were written), and a preview of the upcoming and final Valencia weekend.
* on Marco Simoncelli
* moto2/125 race and championship updates
Martin Darlington joins Jules Cisek this week. We do our best with the difficult subject of Marco Simoncelli's death at Sepang on Sunday and then give proper weight to the intriguing 125 and moto2 races overshadowed by the tragedy.
* MotoGP Phillip Island review and Sepang preview
* WSBK Portimão review
Jules Cisek and Jim Race ramble on Casey Stoner's perfect day and everything that happened around it on a wild and crazy weekend at Phillip Island. WSBK wrapped up their season in Portugal but Sepang is just a few days away in MotoGP.