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Simon Patterson
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Lives in a van and chases motorbikes around the world for fun and beer money. Freelance MotoGP journalist. Opinionated.

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Loaded up full and ready to go!
December 1, 2025 at 2:04 PM
🇺🇦🏁 Ho ho ho! 🎅🏻 Still time to support our Ukraine toy drive here linktr.ee/racingforukr...
November 28, 2025 at 10:03 AM
Ever have one of those days that reminds you that karma is a completely make believe concept?
November 27, 2025 at 1:15 PM
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
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
Like butter wouldn’t met 😂
November 25, 2025 at 3:40 PM
And there it is: the greatest press release in motorsport history 🤣
November 22, 2025 at 9:50 PM
It's official: Maverick Vinales has a new riding coach!
November 21, 2025 at 12:12 PM
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
‘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...
November 20, 2025 at 4:20 PM
Came home just to get brutally assaulted
November 20, 2025 at 4:05 PM
Big changes to the 2026 EWC calendar with Suzuka moving forward by a month!
November 20, 2025 at 11:04 AM
Same weather as Valencia in Dublin (if you just ignore that it’s 15°C colder!)
November 19, 2025 at 4:11 PM
Get. Me. Home.
November 19, 2025 at 11:54 AM
Mission success 😂 Even found out some interesting things!
November 19, 2025 at 11:14 AM
Just FYI for Toprak: journalists love baklava too 🤣
November 18, 2025 at 8:49 PM
Pedro’s winter advice for the media? ‘Be bad boys. I will too!’
November 18, 2025 at 4:59 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
November 18, 2025 at 4:52 PM
And that’s a wrap. Raul Fernandez tops the final day of official 2025 track action.
November 18, 2025 at 4:41 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
November 18, 2025 at 4:26 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…
November 18, 2025 at 4:01 PM
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November 18, 2025 at 3:32 PM
Niccolo Bulega’s tribute to Franco Uncini’s 1975 Italian 750cc title winning Ducati
November 18, 2025 at 1:52 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)
November 18, 2025 at 1:47 PM
Big day for Toome 😉
November 18, 2025 at 1:08 PM