Paddock

 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

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

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

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

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

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