No whippersnapper

» Valentino Rossi is now 42. Too old to race? Hardly. British star Arthur Wheeler won the ’62 Argentine 250 GP aged 46. And American racer Michael Barnes is going strong at 52 – having ridden 15 brands of bike for 33 different teams in his career, he started on the front row in this year’s Daytona 200 on his Yam R6, and lead the race to eventually finish fourth.