The paddock is where the real stories live — the unfiltered moments, the conversations between sessions, the lessons learned the hard way. These are the stories from riders who show up, gear up, and keep coming back.
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 […]
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Photo by Jason Farias You can hear it before you see it. Down at Harris Hill, the riders’ meeting is rolling and the track is quiet. Up on the rise at Turn 4, the wind is kicking through the bluebonnets, the paddock sits in the background, and somewhere in that stillness, Jason Farias is already
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Photo by David Schwartz There’s a moment a lot of creatives can point to when a hobby quietly crosses the line into something more. For David, one of TrackDNA’s young paddock creatives, that moment didn’t actually happen at the track. It happened later, at home, staring at a batch of NASCAR shots from Circuit of
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Photo by Shaun Bexley – British Superbikes Test Day at Donington Park There are places in life that feel familiar the moment you step into them – like a piece of you has been there long before your first visit. For many of us, the motorcycle track is one of those places. The first time
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Photo by Theo Poncet If you’ve spent even one morning in the paddock, you know how alive it feels. The smell of fuel, the shuffle of warm-up routines, somebody torque-checking bolts for the fourth time. Every rider shows up with something on their mind. Every bike rolled off a trailer for a reason. And every
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Photo by David Schwartz Most riders expect their first track day to be loud, chaotic, and a little intimidating.Mine wasn’t. It was quiet, human, and surprisingly welcoming. It didn’t just change how I felt about that day – it changed what I thought track life actually was. Your first track morning doesn’t hit all at
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Photo by WP Your second track day doesn’t feel like your first. There’s still nervous energy buzzing under the suit, but now it’s mixed with something quieter – a small, earned confidence that comes from knowing what not to do. My first track day humbled me in all the classic ways. I ran wide into
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Bradley Ray at Snetterton, framed through the eye of a spectator during British Superbikes. On a circuit that does not give photographers much to work with, the composition does the heavy lifting here. Credit: Michael Clarke Photography Michael Clarke spends much of his season photographing British Superbikes and Bemsee rounds, with the off-season taking him
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Photos by Zach MacKay -Danny Kent and Tommy Bridewell on the podium at the 2025 BSB finale. By the time I arrive at a British Superbike round, the weekend has already started. Most people think race photography begins when the bikes roll out of the pit lane. For me, it starts much earlier, and it
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