Simon Patterson
@denkmit.bsky.social
Lives in a van and chases motorbikes around the world for fun and beer money. Freelance MotoGP journalist. Opinionated.
https://linktr.ee/denkmit
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Loaded up full and ready to go!
December 1, 2025 at 2:04 PM
Loaded up full and ready to go!
🇺🇦🏁 Ho ho ho! 🎅🏻 Still time to support our Ukraine toy drive here linktr.ee/racingforukr...
November 28, 2025 at 10:03 AM
🇺🇦🏁 Ho ho ho! 🎅🏻 Still time to support our Ukraine toy drive here linktr.ee/racingforukr...
Ever have one of those days that reminds you that karma is a completely make believe concept?
November 27, 2025 at 1:15 PM
Ever have one of those days that reminds you that karma is a completely make believe concept?
Updated an old spreadsheet. Since the introduction of sprint races, a MotoGP racer is on average twice as likely to miss a race in any given season due to injury, and an average race weekend is likely to have two absent racers.
November 26, 2025 at 10:59 AM
Updated an old spreadsheet. Since the introduction of sprint races, a MotoGP racer is on average twice as likely to miss a race in any given season due to injury, and an average race weekend is likely to have two absent racers.
They’ve sent the injury rate absolutely through the roof. I need to update this with 24 and 25 but they are much closer to 23 than the preceding years.
November 25, 2025 at 9:11 PM
They’ve sent the injury rate absolutely through the roof. I need to update this with 24 and 25 but they are much closer to 23 than the preceding years.
Like butter wouldn’t met 😂
November 25, 2025 at 3:40 PM
Like butter wouldn’t met 😂
And there it is: the greatest press release in motorsport history 🤣
November 22, 2025 at 9:50 PM
And there it is: the greatest press release in motorsport history 🤣
It's official: Maverick Vinales has a new riding coach!
November 21, 2025 at 12:12 PM
It's official: Maverick Vinales has a new riding coach!
I hate car rental companies. You expect the cheap ones to treat you like scum, but Sixt's Portuguese office has just charged me £1000 for this. Gold customer who'll never be using them again.
November 21, 2025 at 9:54 AM
I hate car rental companies. You expect the cheap ones to treat you like scum, but Sixt's Portuguese office has just charged me £1000 for this. Gold customer who'll never be using them again.
‘Why is Le Mans the most popular event in MotoGP?’
Easy: because they don’t treat it like a four day event. It has year round promotion, year round fan engagement. Claude and his team do an amazing job.
Link here: 9yg6k.r.sp1-brevo.net/mk/cl/f/sh/7...
Easy: because they don’t treat it like a four day event. It has year round promotion, year round fan engagement. Claude and his team do an amazing job.
Link here: 9yg6k.r.sp1-brevo.net/mk/cl/f/sh/7...
November 20, 2025 at 4:20 PM
‘Why is Le Mans the most popular event in MotoGP?’
Easy: because they don’t treat it like a four day event. It has year round promotion, year round fan engagement. Claude and his team do an amazing job.
Link here: 9yg6k.r.sp1-brevo.net/mk/cl/f/sh/7...
Easy: because they don’t treat it like a four day event. It has year round promotion, year round fan engagement. Claude and his team do an amazing job.
Link here: 9yg6k.r.sp1-brevo.net/mk/cl/f/sh/7...
Came home just to get brutally assaulted
November 20, 2025 at 4:05 PM
Came home just to get brutally assaulted
Big changes to the 2026 EWC calendar with Suzuka moving forward by a month!
November 20, 2025 at 11:04 AM
Big changes to the 2026 EWC calendar with Suzuka moving forward by a month!
Same weather as Valencia in Dublin (if you just ignore that it’s 15°C colder!)
November 19, 2025 at 4:11 PM
Same weather as Valencia in Dublin (if you just ignore that it’s 15°C colder!)
Mission success 😂 Even found out some interesting things!
November 19, 2025 at 11:14 AM
Mission success 😂 Even found out some interesting things!
Just FYI for Toprak: journalists love baklava too 🤣
November 18, 2025 at 8:49 PM
Just FYI for Toprak: journalists love baklava too 🤣
Pedro’s winter advice for the media? ‘Be bad boys. I will too!’
November 18, 2025 at 4:59 PM
Pedro’s winter advice for the media? ‘Be bad boys. I will too!’
Jorge says that you can’t go fast when mentally you’re still a little afraid to crash. Didn’t even bother using a soft tyre today, but thinks a time attack would have left him top five
November 18, 2025 at 4:52 PM
Jorge says that you can’t go fast when mentally you’re still a little afraid to crash. Didn’t even bother using a soft tyre today, but thinks a time attack would have left him top five
And that’s a wrap. Raul Fernandez tops the final day of official 2025 track action.
November 18, 2025 at 4:41 PM
And that’s a wrap. Raul Fernandez tops the final day of official 2025 track action.
Celestino Vietti says that carbon brakes mean you actually use similar braking markers to a Moto2 bike on a MotoGP machine despite having so much more power
November 18, 2025 at 4:26 PM
Celestino Vietti says that carbon brakes mean you actually use similar braking markers to a Moto2 bike on a MotoGP machine despite having so much more power
Apparently it’s impossible for riders to come to the media centre for their scrums so we’re doing them outside next to the bins 🤣 Liberty can’t get here soon enough…
November 18, 2025 at 4:01 PM
Apparently it’s impossible for riders to come to the media centre for their scrums so we’re doing them outside next to the bins 🤣 Liberty can’t get here soon enough…
Niccolo Bulega’s tribute to Franco Uncini’s 1975 Italian 750cc title winning Ducati
November 18, 2025 at 1:52 PM
Niccolo Bulega’s tribute to Franco Uncini’s 1975 Italian 750cc title winning Ducati
Front aero on the 2026 Aprilia is totally different as well (and it’s going to be impossible to get a torpedo bearing on him today)
November 18, 2025 at 1:47 PM
Front aero on the 2026 Aprilia is totally different as well (and it’s going to be impossible to get a torpedo bearing on him today)
Big day for Toome 😉
November 18, 2025 at 1:08 PM
Big day for Toome 😉