The argument over the greatest motorcycle racing track on the planet is both simple and impossible to solve. The choice is between Phillip Island in Australia and Mugello in Italy. They are both wide, sweeping, fast, and challenging. Tracks where riders win, rather than bikes.
Choosing between the two is hard. Both are set against a spectacular backdrop. In the case of Mugello, the verdant Tuscan hills. For Phillip Island, the cliffs that drop away into the Bass Strait. For the visitor, Mugello probably just edges it, as the weather in late May in Tuscany is reliably warm, whereas Phillip Island in October, at the end of the Antipodean winter, can be anything: hot, cold, windy, dry, wet. Often all in the same day.
Until Phillip Island is given its rightful place, at the start of the MotoGP season in late February/early March, it loses out. But the men in blazers from the Australian Grand Prix Corporation want to keep the race at the opposite end of the year to the Melbourne F1 race, which they also run.
