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Lives in a van and chases motorbikes around the world for fun and beer money. Freelance MotoGP journalist. Opinionated.

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Simon Patterson
2 years
Respect. Local kids have been chasing the paddock all week to buy bracelets from them - and rather than get annoyed, @FabioQ20 buys them all ice cream 👏🍦
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2 years
Full Indonesia mode for the Espargaro family tonight 😂
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Simon Patterson
2 years
It's actually quite sad seeing so many empty grandstands seats when we know how crazy Indonesian fans are for MotoGP...
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2 years
Wow. WOW. Suzuki will LEAVE MotoGP at the end of 2022. Just had it confirmed by some of the team. They were told today.
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Simon Patterson
6 months
The drive home from the circuit was interesting!
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Simon Patterson
2 years
What a place! 🤩
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Simon Patterson
2 years
Welcome to Kuta Lombok! This is my ride every morning from hotel to circuit, to give you an idea of what ⁦ @themandalikagp ⁩ is like!
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Simon Patterson
3 years
It’s official: Valentino Rossi will retire at the end of the 2021 MotoGP season
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Simon Patterson
2 years
Why Maverick Viñales left Yamaha for Aprilia, in one shot. Family.
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Simon Patterson
2 years
The last photo I’ll take of these beautiful things 😞
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Simon Patterson
11 months
What a fucking corner 🤯
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Simon Patterson
2 years
Two cargo planes full of MotoGP freight trapped in Kenya. Those Binder boys will try anything to have an African Grand Prix, eh? 😂
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Simon Patterson
5 months
AND THERE IT IS! Marc Marquez is a Ducati MotoGP rider!
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Simon Patterson
1 year
💪💪💪 ⁦ @polespargaro
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Simon Patterson
2 years
Terima kasih dan selamat tinggal, Indonesia! See you next time!
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Simon Patterson
6 months
Its OFFICIAL! Fabio Di Giannantonio will ride a VR46 Ducati in 2024!!!
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Simon Patterson
2 years
ALEIX ESPARGARO IS A GOD DAMN MOTOGP RACE WINNER
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Simon Patterson
12 days
Fuck I love MotoGP
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Simon Patterson
6 months
Credit to Bezz for bringing a beer to his debrief. He’s fuming at Marquez for causing his crash, fuming at the stewards for not penalising him, fuming at Dorna for not replaying the crash
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Simon Patterson
26 days
WHAT. A FUCKING. RACE.
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Simon Patterson
5 months
He’s a Ducati racer now
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Simon Patterson
2 years
Long live the king! 👑👑👑👑👑👑👑👑👑
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Simon Patterson
7 months
BREAKING NEWS: The Australian Grand Prix will take place not on Sunday, but on SATURDAY. The sprint will then be held, weather permitting, on Sunday
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Simon Patterson
7 months
THIS IS NOT A DRILL MARC MARQUEZ AND HONDA ARE PARTING WAYS
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Simon Patterson
2 years
Points scored in the last three races Marquez 44 Bagnaia 32 Espargaro 12 Quartararo 8 Tell me again why MM93 won't be a title contender next year?
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Simon Patterson
2 years
One last sunrise over the circuit before heading for home. Indonesia, you have been glorious!
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Simon Patterson
3 years
It’s officially official: @SkyRacingTeam are a MotoGP team!
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Simon Patterson
2 years
For comparison, this is the last time @HRC_MotoGP did their team launch at Sentul circuit
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Simon Patterson
11 months
Question to the FIM MotoGP Stewards: where's Martin's penalty?
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Simon Patterson
2 years
Amazon and MotoGP have finally confirmed what we all know: an eight-episode, 50 minute documentary series coming soon
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Simon Patterson
8 months
Aleix Espargaro and Maverick Vinales have swapped bikes and are currently riding each others' machines home
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Simon Patterson
1 year
ARE. YOU. FUCKING. JOKING?
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Simon Patterson
2 years
First ever lap of Mandalika on a MotoGP goes to @Rins42 !
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2 years
😁🥂🍾
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2 years
It’s all kicking off 🤣
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Simon Patterson
6 months
‘I’m the new Pedro Acosta, not the new Marc Marquez!’
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Simon Patterson
2 years
No race today, guys.
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Simon Patterson
2 years
God I love MotoGP. What a day, what an epic three races.
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Simon Patterson
6 months
The championship winning sticker on Masia’s bike was nearly as bad as the race itself
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Simon Patterson
2 years
Breaking news: Andrea Dovizioso will retire from MotoGP after the San Marino Grand Prix. Cal Crutchlow will replace him for the final six races of 2022
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Simon Patterson
2 years
Media centre in Mandalika is quite good for spy shots 👀🕵️📸
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Simon Patterson
2 years
We've had NINE DIFFERENT podium finishers from the FIRST NINE podiums of 2022. ALL SIX of our manufacturers have won a race in the past two seasons. I fucking love MotoGP.
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Simon Patterson
9 months
Only in road racing would the winner stop for a pint on the slowing down lap 🤣
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Simon Patterson
5 months
Alex Rins' Yamaha testing livery is great!
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Simon Patterson
6 months
The UNEMPLOYED Fabio Di Giannantonio is A MOTHERFUCKING MOTOGP RACE WINNER!!!
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Simon Patterson
5 months
The carbon fibre framed Aprilia test bike is the most beautiful motorcycle I’ve seen in a long time!
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Simon Patterson
11 months
This is, without doubt, my favourite single lap of motorcycle racing ever
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Simon Patterson
2 years
This should not have been a five-minute penalty for Giniel de Villiers (like he received), it should be an instant disqualification the second he drove off without checking on the biker 🤬 #Dakar2022
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Simon Patterson
6 months
Credit to whoever in Dorna realised that the onboard camera on Martin's bike was still live
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Simon Patterson
2 years
How can you not love @Petrux9 ?! 🥰
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Simon Patterson
2 years
As tribute helmets go, @danielricciardo 's for today's #ItalianGP is pretty bloody epic!
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Simon Patterson
7 months
Dear Dorna, Ducati, and Gresini Racing Please go out right now and hire an amazing independent documentary film maker. Send them to the Valencia test, and to every subsequent event next season. This is the behind the scenes series we all deserve! Yours, Everyone
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Simon Patterson
2 years
The witchdoctor is out in pit lane trying to make the rain go away. I feel like if today has been anything, it's been a win for science over sorcery...
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Simon Patterson
2 years
Danilo Petrucci: DAKAR STAGE WINNER!!!
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Simon Patterson
2 years
The Doctor is a daddy! Congratulations to ⁦ @ValeYellow46 ⁩ and Francesca on the arrival of baby Guiletta 👨‍👩‍👧
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Simon Patterson
3 years
Grazie Vale. Fucking superb.
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Simon Patterson
2 years
We, as a sport and not just Dorna, really need to stop relying on Valentino Rossi to keep selling MotoGP. He’s retired, he’s not coming back, and it’s time to concentrate on the future not the past.
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Simon Patterson
2 years
MOTOGP RACE DISTANCE CUT FROM 27 LAPS TO 20 LAPS
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Simon Patterson
2 years
Well well well, the things you see in the paddock. Miguel Oliveira, his father/manager Paulo, and Paolo Ciabatti walking into the Gresini Racing garage…. 📝
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Simon Patterson
11 months
Double oft. A huge moment for Marc Marquez at the top of the Waterfall - and then a not so subtle signal to Honda?
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Simon Patterson
2 years
That’s one pretty looking ELECTRIC Ducati!
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Simon Patterson
2 years
Honda have clearly found that revolutionary new part that they desperately needed to get back to winning ways. A fully fit Marc Marquez.
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Simon Patterson
3 months
Don’t forget: his team might be Ducati (for now!), but he’s still a Yamaha brand ambassador!
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Simon Patterson
11 months
A wow statement from Alberto Puig about Marc Marquez’s future. ‘Marc has a contract but everyone is free to do what they want in life and Honda don’t want to keep people who are unhappy to be there’
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Simon Patterson
7 months
I am going to make a statement to clarify something I've repeatedly said in the past. A satellite bike cannot win a MotoGP world championship UNLESS it has arguably the most talented racer of all time onboard it. Marquez at Gresini Ducati is a legitimate 2024 title contender.
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Simon Patterson
3 years
Man I love MotoGP
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Simon Patterson
5 months
The 2024 Honda RC213V looks radically different
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Simon Patterson
6 months
This guy was running a 40°C fever during the night 🥵
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Simon Patterson
2 years
Marc Marquez has been declared UNFIT for the race
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Simon Patterson
6 months
Dear F1 fans: other forms of motorsport do exist. Not every video posted near a circuit is of your race… 🤦‍♂️
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6 months
The drive home from the circuit was interesting!
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Simon Patterson
1 year
We ran away to Gretna Green and now @Maddi_Scordia is Mrs Patterson 💒❤️
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Simon Patterson
2 years
Look who’s listening in on Quartararo’s debrief
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Simon Patterson
3 years
THE DOCTOR IS GOING TO BE A DADDY!!!
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Simon Patterson
2 years
There will be ONE HUNDRED Grand Prix races in 2023: - 16 MotoE - 21 Moto3 - 21 Moto2 - 42 MotoGP
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Simon Patterson
6 months
Martin also ended Marc Marquez's last Repsol Honda race, and has left him looking battered and bruised too. That was... uncouth.
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Simon Patterson
4 months
WOOOOOOW we are NOT going to miss the VR46 Ducatis in 2024!!!!
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Simon Patterson
9 months
Shreyas Hareesh, the FIM MiniGP World Series India champion, has died following a crash at the Madras circuit. He was only 13 years old. Deepest condolences to his family and friends 😞
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Simon Patterson
8 months
Very cool 🥇🥈🥉
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Simon Patterson
1 year
Nearly 20% of the MotoGP grid absent through injury after the first round of the championship...
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Simon Patterson
2 years
Uhoh. Marc Marquez isn’t the only one unhappy. ‘Something went wrong’ since Misano test for Yamaha’s new engine, according to Fabio Quartararo
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Simon Patterson
2 months
Guys.... GUYS... PEDRO ACOSTA IS A FUCKING PODIUM FINISHER!!!
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Simon Patterson
11 months
BREAKING NEWS: Marc Marquez has withdrawn from the German Grand Prix and will not race.
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Simon Patterson
2 years
Reminder: John McPhee has just WON from 22nd on the grid yet doesn't have a ride for next year because he can't afford the hundreds of thousands of Euro needed to buy a Moto2 seat 🤷‍♂️
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Simon Patterson
7 months
Absolutely amazing 😂😂😂😂
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Simon Patterson
9 months
Maybe controversial, but Jorge Martin smashed through, knocked off 3 riders (including his teammate), and basically ended two other peoples' races with a move that has paid off for him and left him sitting P5 right now. That is something that arguably should be a black flag.
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Simon Patterson
11 months
Not. Good.
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Simon Patterson
2 years
Rider battered but OK
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Simon Patterson
2 years
Remy Gardner has confirmed that KTM has told him there’s no place for him next year. Not because of his results, because he ‘isn’t professional enough.’ Says that they’ve ‘broken his heart’
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Simon Patterson
2 years
A Fabio Quartararo podium at the Red Bull Ring, in a straight fight against three Ducatis, would for me very much cement his place as the most talented rider on this grid by quite a way.
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Simon Patterson
2 years
Rather rapidly… Valentino Rossi was made a MotoGP Legend at last night’s awards ceremony. Most wait at least a few months after retirement for that honour!
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Simon Patterson
9 months
Well, Jerez might have found one way to solve the whole track limits debate! The kerbs have been replaced most of the way around the circuit with these nasties.
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Simon Patterson
2 years
I never knew that MotoGP needed a satin black bike until now 😍 By far my favourite looking bike of 2022 so far from @lcr_team for @takanakagami30 !
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Simon Patterson
11 months
MotoGP: where it takes the medical team 73 laps, four sessions, two crashes and a race to determine that a rider might not be fully fit...
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Simon Patterson
2 years
ALEIX ESPARGARO TAKE A BOW YOU ABSOLUTE HERO!
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Simon Patterson
1 year
Aero! Aero everywhere!
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