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The Corpse Flower Award The Indonesian Corpse Flower (Titan arum), nature’s prankster with a PhD in stench, blooms once in a blue moon, unleashing a scent like rotting gizzard seepage mixed with regret. This towering floral fiend, often called the “diva of decay,” can grow up to 12 feet tall, luring curious pollinators (and horrified…
The best way to explain anything in this day and age is with internet memes. But what’s the best way to explain what happened in the Japanese MotoGP round, and the subsequent World Championship victory? With memes, duh!!! Let’s do this! …
If the internet has taught us anything it’s that the internet knows best. The classic comment “do your own research” 100% proves this. Marc Marquez may have won his 7th or 9th world championship in Japan…but something wasn’t quite right. Luckily hundreds of eagle-eyed MotoGP sleuths were quick to spot abnormalities in the race at…
Changes are already happening in the MotoGP world under its new Liberty Media ownership. In this article we analyse the What, Where, How and Huh? S – Standing for the national anthem When motorcycle racers assemble at the front of the grid before a race, you immediately know that they’ve done it to honour…
This week it was announced that Ducati have rummaged around in the spare parts bin to find enough extra bits to offer Alex Marquez a full factory spec machine for 2026. Marquez Lite has easily impressed enough this season so far to deserve this – but is this a blessing or a curse? Let’s find…
What was it like to be a fan at the MotoGP race at Misano? We asked one lucky Italian to write a diary for us covering aspects from the Practice, Qualifying, Sprint Race and Main Race! Let’s find out what happened and what he said about it Practice Yamaha V4 For countless years the Yamaha…
It’s not escaped anyone that Pecco Bagnaia seems to be getting worse. At the beginning of the season the beard-shod Italian could usually salvage in a podium finish behind either of the Marquez antichrist brothers that hadn’t fallen off. But not now. Now Baggers can’t even manage to scrape through into Q2 and can usually…
With the Winners and Losers format debased by a plague of boring articles on lesser websites, we have decided to try out an upgrade by comparing the MotoGP riders at Barcelona to 3 types of people: Taylor Swift fans, the British Public and the Baseball Karen from the Phillies game. Let’s see how the stars…
With the recent introduction of the ‘stability control’ ECU algorithm in MotoGP (click here for full story) our sport is slowly heading down the ‘can’t someone else do it?’ path. So what if we speeded up this process and did away with the human aspect altogether? What if robots were to replace the riders and…
The MotoGP paddock is rife with rumours that denim-clad American Eagle spokesmoppet Sydney Sweeney is being lined up as a buyer for the Gresini Ducati team. We investigate two big questions: is this is a good idea, and how will it integrate with the new Liberty Media era of MotoGP? Could this help with…