Featuring exclusive interviews with GIACOMO AGOSTINI - WAYNE RAINEY - KEVIN SCHWANTZ - CASEY STONER - VALENTINO ROSSI

By Michael Scott

Published by Carlton Books in hardback, October 2010, at £25.00

"When I began, racing was very dangerous. Every week somebody was killed."Giacomo Agostini

"I just couldn't accept second. If there was anything I could change aboutmy career, it's to realise its okay not to win." Wayne Rainey

The daring exploits of race legends Valentino Rossi, Barry Sheene, Kenny Roberts, Giacomo Agostini and John Surtees are gloriously celebrated in MotoGP:The Illustrated History.

 Written by respected MotoGP journalist Michael Scott and packed with stunning photography, this is the definitive illustrated history of high performance motorbike racing. Each racing decade is dissected and discussed, as are the big incidents, top personalities and technological innovations.

To complete the book, MotoGP's greatest names - including Valentino Rossi, John Surtees and Kenny Roberts - provide exclusive personal insights and accounts of what it is like to race at speeds of 180mph.

Complementing the

text are over 200 glorious photographs, many never before published, which convey the exhilarating spirit of this popular sport.

MotoGP has a great past and pulsating present and it is all celebrated here in this stunning book.

 Michael Scott has been a motoring journalist for almost 40 years, and has specialised in motorcycle grand prix racing, attending almost every GP,since 1984. As well as contributing to magazines worldwide, including Japan,the USA, Australia, India and much of Europe, Scott has edited SuperBikeMagazine and Road Racer. He is the author of a several books including the critically acclaimed Wayne Rainey - His Own Story.

He lives in Wimbledon,London.