Aaron Slight, the Autobiography: You Don't Know the Half of It Paperback – August 1, 2002 by Aaron Slight (Author), Paul Owen (Author) 4.7 out of 5 stars 3 ratings It was during this season that he finished 6th in a World Superbike round. He competed in the Superbike World Championships from 1988 to 2000, finishing second in the championship twice and third four times. People look back and say the reason I had the Mohawk was all for PR and stuff, but it wasn’t, it was just what we were doing. I’m living back in New Zealand and cruising along really.

The factories also aren’t making similar levels of bikes available to privateers and things like that too, it’s just not working at the moment.

We caught up with him at the British Grand Prix, which he attended as part of a Castrol Honda throwback with the LCR team.

View Aaron Slight’s profile on LinkedIn, the world's largest professional community. more >, Moto2: Jake Dixon to remain with Petronas Sprinta Racing for 2021, The Petronas Sprinta Racing team have confirmed that Jake Dixon will remain with the team for the... Registered Office: Media House, Peterborough Business Park, Lynch Wood, Peterborough, PE2 6EA H Bauer Publishing, It spices it up a bit.

Some of the posts have been on the cutting room floor and haven’t seen the light of day until now. There was the time when it got out about Neil Hodgson and I having a dust-up after a race when he was fighting for his career and I was fighting for the championship, people loved that kind of stuff – if someone was a **** to you, you could deal with it both on and off track, we were emotional about what we were doing but you see that a lot less these days. I’m not sure it’s good both MotoGP and WorldSBK being owned by the same company. New Zealand is a long way away, so you can either choose to still be involved in motorsport and stay in Europe or go back to NZ and live a different life. The competition back when I raced World Superbike was so great, there were probably five guys who could win. See the complete profile on LinkedIn and discover Aaron’s connections and jobs at similar companies. The bikes were all pretty similar and you’d get wildcards coming in too, in Japan 15 people could win, the same in America and Britain. They aren’t doing a bad job but you need competition. Have a browse for your next bike on MCN Bikes For Sale website or use the MCN's Bikes For Sale App. Slight, 35, now fully recovered from the blood leak in his brain which stopped his career as it was about to peak, is in New Zealand to promote his book You Don't Know The Half Of It. I’m not a fan of the one tyre rule either, it’s all too similar. There’s a whole PR role there now, but back then we did what we wanted.

Aaron was born in Masterton, New Zealand but has now returned to New Zealand from living in Monte Carlo, Monaco. All registered in England and Wales. 3 talking about this. The racers were icons, both on and off the track and one of those icons was #111, Aaron Slight. We were breaking a lot of new ground, maybe with some antics that you wouldn’t get away with today but that’s the way the world is going.

I miss Europe a lot, but I still get to the races in Phillip Island every couple of years to get my fix. Do they have the same level of interest in each? Nothing was scripted back then. It keeps me involved without sort of being involved.

H Bauer Publishing are authorised and regulated for credit broking by the FCA (Ref No. We had such fierce rivalries. Aaron has 6 jobs listed on their profile.

Aaron Tony Slight was born January 19, 1966 in Masterton, New Zealand. more >, Former sports reporter covering British Superbikes, World Superbikes and road racing, Bauer Media Group consists of: Bauer Consumer Media Ltd, Company number: 01176085, Bauer Radio Ltd, Company Number: 1394141 Aaron Slight: That was the start, because Doug [Polen] rode for half a day as well, and Doug only lasted three rounds that year. He later competed in car racing and now is a television presenter for AA Torque, a motoring show on New Zealand television. Company Number: LP003328 Registered Office: Academic House, 24-28 Oval Road, London, NW1 7DT. The problem with World Superbike these days is that there are no manufacturers there. That makes the competition, with only Kawasaki winning it’s pretty hard to get everybody else feeling it. The competition was so intense and rivalries so fierce that World Superbikes had a bigger profile than Grand Prix racing at the time.

VAT no 918 5617 01 Aaron Tony Slight MNZM is a New Zealand former professional motorcycle road racer.

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He turned professional in 1988 when he left New Zealand to race with the Super Angel Bimota team in Japan. The racers were icons, both on and off the track and one of those icons was #111, Aaron Slight. You were never going to be top five every weekend; you couldn’t count on it and that’s what made it in my opinion. more >, MotoGP: Honda and Repsol extend their partnership for two more seasons, Spanish oil giant Repsol has confirmed a two-year extension on its title sponsorship deal with the...

While he was popular with fans, his rivals were exactly that and he wasn’t afraid to let them know it both on and off the track. 845898), MotoGP: Rossi confirmed as absent for Misano. So I thought, ‘These are your guys this year, but next year…’

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