Paddock life

Framing Part one – The dark foreground makes the subject stand out well. (Dennis Herzog Yamaha R7 Cup at Automotodrom Brno CZ) – Photo by Tobias Gehrke Tobias Gehrke is not chasing fake fast. He is chasing the small, honest details that show what riding at the limit really looks like. Tobias Gehrke is based […]

316 Superbike Camp Day 1 Priorities: What Coaches Teach New Track Riders First Beginners show up with the same two things in their helmet. A head full of highlight reels and hands tight enough to bend the clip-ons. I’ve watched it over and over: the bike is fine, the tires are fine, the weather’s fine

Photos courtesy of Rahal Ducati Moto Kayla Yaakov is a professional racer with MotoAmerica race wins and more than a dozen podium finishes, and she became the first female to win a MotoAmerica race. At this stage in her career, she’s been fighting at the sharp end of Supersport on a Ducati V2. What stands

Maria Herrera is walking into 2026 as the defending champ, and that changes the temperature of a race weekend before the bike even rolls. I brought up what the first small thing feels like now that she’s the one everyone is chasing. She didn’t talk about trophies or stats. She talked about eyes. “I feel

Photo by Nicole Paulich | Road Atlanta – MotoAmerica Stock 1000, Round 1. Threading the kink between Turns 3 and 4 with Jason Waters (#92) and Dylan Yelton (#118)  On paper, it doesn’t look like a MotoAmerica Superbike story. Chris Durbin lives in Taylorsville, Kentucky – a small town about half an hour outside Louisville.

Photos by William Joly – King James as he called it. There are photographers who show up to a race weekend and start figuring things out on Friday morning. Then there are the ones who grew up at the fence, watching the same corner year after year, quietly learning how speed and light move together. French

 2025 – before Cremona’s first WorldWCR race, starting P11 on the grid | Photo by William Joly Emily Bondi — Top 15 world rider, FIM Women’s Circuit Racing World Championship There’s a version of Emily Bondi’s story that reads like a clean, easy climb: title in France, step up to a world championship, a polished

Steve Mandeville’s first race bike: a wrecked 1986 Yamaha FZ600 he turned into a track bike. This is ’89 or ’90, racing his “behind the curve” FZ against the much better ’87 CBR600 Hurricane. Photo is at the exit of the original Turn 11 at Sears Point Raceway. Steve Mandeville posted a story in Track

Photos by Yvette From cold, grey Groningen to 4 am alarms and desert heat, Yvette takes us through a Grand Prix weekend from the marshal’s post, where unseen work, pressure, and camaraderie keep the whole show running safely. TrackDNA note:Yvette works as a marshal at both MotoGP and Formula 1 events. This story is from

Photo by Harlie Raethel Author’s note:Huge thanks to Jason Litton — not just for stepping in and coaching me through that COTA weekend, but also for taking the time to walk back through it with me for this story. The lessons in here are from the saddle and from his eye as a coach. Most