Follows the successful format of the preceding editions, combining Julian Ryder's lively race-by-race analysis with an astonishing collection of race data. Details include: qualifying times with gaps to the pole-winning time; graphic lap-by-lap performance charts showing each rider's progress; race, lap, and fastest-lap times; the average speed for each rider; track maps with sections annotated with average speed and gear selection choices; points standings; and a thumbnail report of each rider's race.
This officially licensed photographic book celebrates the super-exciting, high-revving world of MotoGP-- the pinnacle of motorcycle racing that has been dominated in recent years by Valentino Rossi.
Official licensed product. Foreword by Jerry Burgess. MotoGP reached new heights in 2004. In an epic season, Valentino Rossi won back-to-back titles on different makes of motorcycle, after taking on the role of underdog on the previously under-achieving Yamaha M1. MotoGP Season Review 2004 chronicles in detail all 16 races, from Rossi's emotional win in South Africa to his coronation in Valencia. Each rider's performance over the year is analyzed, and there is a unique Riders' Rider of the Year feature, plus an analysis of how the leading bikes evolved over the season. An essential record of the 2004 MotoGP season for all fans of motorcycle racing.
This dynamic, all-color volume chronicles every rider and every motorcycle to have won a World Superbike race since the series began in 1988. Packed with action and statistics, career details for each winner, from record four-times World Champion Carl Fogarty, to one-race winners like Gary Goodfellow, Takuma Aoki and Tom Kipp. Complete with highlights of winning manufacturers - the Japanese giants Honda, Kawasaki, Suzuki and Yamaha, and the all-conquering Ducati, through to the tiny Italian Bimota company. Foreword by Carl Fogarty.
Twenty years after the World Superbike Championship was started at England’s Donington Park, the series has produced some of the most thrilling racing and iconic champions in the world of motorcycle racing. The genius touch was to feature bikes that are sold in showrooms, thus attracting a passionate following among ordinary motorcyclists. The third edition of this fact-packed and gloriously illustrated book brings the story right up to date – all the riders, machines, politics and results.
A full-color charge through Foggy's early racing career, his back-to-back World Superbike titles with Ducati, his troubled '96 season with Honda, and his race for the '98 title, again with Ducati.
This action-packed season preview - produced with unrivalled behind-the- scenes access - provides all the information needed by racing enthusiasts, whether they are trackside or viewing at home. It includes data on the riders, bikes, teams, events, regulations, stats and other facts and figures, all presented in an easy-access format.
The 2004 MotoGP season has been one of the most hotly contested motorcycle championships ever, with Valentino Rossi's Yamaha facing intense competition from Honda-mounted rivals like Sete Gibernau and Max Biaggi. Armed with Julian Ryder's best-selling 2004 guide, fans watching the season's thrilling shoot-outs on TV and trackside have had the insdier knowledge on every MotoGP circuit, bike, rider, team and race statistic. And the 2005 season preview will contain even more information.
During the decade prior to the advent of the World Superbike Championship in 1988, Honda's RVF four-stroke motorcycles dominated the World Endurance Championship and the World F1 Championship. Initially, however, Honda's V-4 powerplant was a total disaster. But with major financial reinvestment, the engine's fortunes turned and it went on to enjoy significant competition success. This is the story behind the development of Honda's four-stroke RVF and RS racers, as well as the VFR streetbike, which has remained a highly sought-after motorcycle for more than a decade. Author Julian Ryder follows Honda's four-stroke engine, from the early disappontments, to the competition successes of Joey Dunlop, to the introduction of the fuel-injected RC45, which is still the basis for today's Superbike races. Also included are detailed competition results and motorcycle specifications.
Packed with fine writing and great photographs, The Official MotoGP Season Review 2005 - in the shops just two weeks after the last Grand Prix - is a must-have Christmas purchase for every fan of motorcycle racing. The sport already has a mega following, with lots more to come. The BBC is to screen MotoGP for the next five years, British Eurosport shows qualifying live as well as the races, and viewing figures and track attendances are rocketing. Written by TV's top MotoGP commentator, the Review details the entire 2005 season with all the behind-the-scenes insight expected of an official book.
Have you ever wondered why we talk about a handicap in sport, why boxing is so named, or whether a dumbbell ever rang? It was during the nineteenth century that hitherto local games with relaxed and varying rules were formalized. During this process terminologies developed to refer to these new standardized sports, borrowing, modifying and redefining words from all walks of life in sometimes strange and unexpected ways. Considering such subjects as why sport shares so many words with the fields of hunting and conflict, and how English sports terms have been both adopted from and given to other languages, this book looks at how words have come into the field of sport and how they have developed and changed.
This thoroughly researched comprehensive work is a must read for everyone engaged in higher educationlest they be researchers, teachers, practitioners, staff, or administrators. CLIFTON D. BRYANT, Emeritus Professor of Sociology, Virginia Polytechnic This book challenges the popular stereotype of deviance; that is, it does not deal with violators of social etiquette or nuts, sluts, and perverts, but rather with a classification of highly educated, respectable, middle class college and university professors and administrators.
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