Jardine Exhaust History

More than fifty years ago, Jardine Performance Products developed its first exhaust system to transform cars of the late 1950s into hot rods.

Motorcycle Racing History

Wayne Rainey will forever be remembered as one of Yamaha's greatest stars in an era of the FIM World Championship Grand Prix where talent, technology and speed combined to create some of the most captivating seasons of racing seen in the sport.

Motorcycle Racing History

Yamaha have been fortunate to see some of the greatest and most talented road racers in the history of the sport throw their legs over the formidable machinery from Iwata and none more so than "Steady" Eddie Lawson, who claimed a total of three 500cc World Championships with Yamaha and helped evolve Yamaha's two-stroke technology during the 19

Husqvarna Motorcycle History

There is hardly any other motorcycle brand able to boast a 108-year tradition of motorcycle production and racing like that of Husqvarna.

A Ducati Story

With the unveiling of some new superbike machinery, most notably the 1199 Panigale, and the signing of nine-time World Champion Valentino Rossi to the MotoGP team, the Italian manufacturer Ducati began yet another legendary trek in its long history.

Motorcycle Racing History

The Venezuelan Carlos Lavado was one of the colourful characters in the Grand Prix paddock during the early 1980s at a time when the sport was maturing but retained a sense of fun thanks to the antics and attitudes of men like Lavado, Sheene, Nieto and Lucchinelli.

BMW Motorrad Innovation

Twenty-three years ago, BMW Motorrad was the first motorcycle manufacturer in the world to fit its machines with the anti-locking system ABS, setting a milestone in active motorcycling safety at the time.

Ural Motorcycles

It was a brutally cold November of 1941. The Nazis were at the outskirts of Moscow, preparing for the all-in assault on the Soviet capital.

At the same moment, in a small town of Irbit, located on the eastern slopes of the Ural Mountains, 2000kms away from Moscow, a freight train arrived with the machinery, materials, and drawing boards.

Pirelli Motorcycle Tires

Since the 1970s, the history of high performance motorcycle sport tires produced by Pirelli has been marked by evocative names such as Mandrake, Phantom, and Gordon, all inspired by the world of comics, and there were also Demon and Dragon instead derived from the fantasy world.

Motorcycle Racing History

Yamaha clinched their first premier class world championship in 1975 and a few years later a fiercely talented Californian placed the United States on the Grand Prix map from 1978-1980 with three consecutive titles to make Yamaha a major player in the 500cc MotoGP category.

Repsol Honda

Following is a history of how Repsol Honda achieved 100 victories in World Championship racing (500cc, 990cc, 800cc), which was reached after Casey Stoner won 2011 Aragon MotoGP. In its era, the team had wins from Stoner, Pedrosa, Andrea Dovizioso, Valentino Rossi, Nicky Hayden, Tadayuki Okada, Álex Crivillé and Mick Doohan.

Motorcycle Racing History

The Italian Giacomo Agostini was already a living legend when he joined the Yamaha Factory Team for the 1974 500cc and 350cc World Championships.