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Rich Lee’s “Super Sic 1” Available Again To Benefit Simoncelli Foundation

“Super Sic 1” Several weeks before Marco Simoncelli’s fatal accident in Sepang in October, 2011, the very talented Rich Lee and I began collaborating on this amazing illustration. Rich drew from several of my photographs from the 2011 season, combining various elements into this original piece. Marco’s death put the project on hold for some time, […]

Simoncelli Archive Online

It’s New Year’s Eve, 2012, and I’m feeling fantastic that I’ve (just barely, I admit) met a very important goal, that of launching the Marco Simoncelli Archive at PHOTO.GP this year. I brought the collection online yesterday morning and announced it to my newsletter subscribers just now. It feels like a great accomplishment and is […]

MotoGP Story–The Catalan Follies

Note: This first appeared on MotoMatters.com as a Photographer’s Blog post, February 16, 2012. You don’t get many chances to get an image like this, with the entire grid together on track. Some circuits don’t have a good first couple of turns, or it’s hard to get there from the grid in time for the […]

Che Spettacolo, Redux?

Ladies and gentlemen, this may be Italy’s best chance to replace Valentino Rossi. Romano Fenati was at the heart of an amazing story in Qatar. The Italian Motorcycle Federation brought a last-minute effort to the Moto3 race with no sponsorship and a rider unknown to practically all but themselves. (Once the buzz started, I asked […]

The Long Goodbye

The best of Raymond Chandler’s Philip Marlowe novels is, in my opinion, his last, the title of which I’ve borrowed for this piece. In The Long Goodbye, Chandler shows us more of what makes Philip Marlowe tick than in any of the previous novels, and along the way, as observed by my old professor Thomas […]

Helmet Art

I spent more time on the grid in 2011 than ever before and one of the interesting benefits of this was the level of details I started notching in some of the helmets. On TV, or even at trackside, it’s difficult to see exactly what the helmet designers have done to make each rider’s crash […]

Did you see the Rich Lee Marco Tribute Illustration?

“Super Sic 1” A week or two ago I added this to the Buy Prints and More page, and if you missed it, please click to link to read the story on Rich Lee’s fantastic drawing.

Once More Into The Night

T. S. Eliot wrote that April is the cruelest month, but for grand prix fans, it’s November when the season ends. We’re eight weeks away from the final pre-season test at Losail International Circuit just outside Doha, Qatar, and a week after that test, the first race of the 2011 season will take place under […]

What’s Safer Than an Airbag?

When I was flying from Frankfurt to Doha, Qatar, I met two Italian members of the Clinica Mobile, the M*A*S*H unit of MotoGP. These guys travel to each race to tend to any injuries the riders suffer during the weekend. We talked about many things, one of which was their experience treating rookie MotoGP rider […]