Indian continue to support top-level and grassroots flat track and have announced they are sponsoring one of our favourite ovals, Dirt Track Lelystad in the Netherlands. This is from the press release... Lynda Provoost, Marketing manager for Indian Motorcycle Benelux said of the deal, “We have a really good relationship with the team at Dirt Track Lelystad. It’s not just sponsorship, but a true partnership and we are really looking forward to organising exciting events togeth

Sideburn asked filmmaker James Cox to shoot Sideburn Hooligan racer Grant Martin at Hells Race, then explain his concept. This is what he said. it'll strike a chord with anyone who has raced motorcycles... 'Having shot a good number of flat track races in various locations over the last few years, one aspect of the day that always strikes me is that for the riders, their time is spent alternating between fairly long periods of quiet downtime and very intensive bursts of acti

Photo: Ian Osborne. DTRA The only DTRA round to run at Hells Race was the Indian-sponsored Hooligan race. Having missed King's Lynn, because of a long-booked family holiday, it was my first hooligan race of the season, and boy have things progressed a lot since my last one. All the riders, except two, were from the UK. There were effectively seven 'sponsored' riders, those are riders on bikes they hadn't bought themselves. Photo: Ian Osborne. DTRA Lee Kirkpatrick (Krazy Horse

I loved Hells Race in 2017, helped by good weather and a fun road trip with Anthony and Anna from the DTRA. Just about everyone who went last year loved it, word spread and twice as many people entered for 2018, riders coming from Netherlands, Belgium, Germany, France, Spain, Switzerland and the UK (including Sideburn ambassador, John Harrison, above). And the weather was even better this year. The owners of Dirt Track Lelystad had changed the make-up of the track, adding, I