Moto Magic

The effects of watching a live MotoGP race.

- Rishabh Bhaskar

The sound still plays in my head as if it was only yesterday. But it’s been well over three weeks. Nostalgia is a trip I keep buying tickets to. I can’t help it because, I guess, I don’t want to ever forget what it was like. They say one is lucky if a long cherished dream comes true, no? Mine was always the wish to watch MotoGP from the grandstands at a circuit. And Yamaha India was the genie that made that wish come true, when they took me along for the 2018 MotoGP Japanese Grand Prix. Up until that day, however, I’ve always imagined what it would be like to watch MotoGP bikes in action. The speed, the noise, the way the bikes flow from corner to corner. To me, it is the greatest spectacle on earth but I certainly wasn’t prepared for the experience when I finally landed up at the Twin Ring Motegi Circuit in Japan.

The atmosphere