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Hotride by The Prodigy becomes BT Sport’s MotoGP theme tune

Hotride by The Prodigy becomes BT Sport’s MotoGP theme tune

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The song Hotride by The Prodigy will be the theme to BT Sport’s coverage of the 2014 season of motorcycle racing contest, the FIM MotoGP World Championship.

BT Sport will use various mixes of the track to open and close MotoGP programmes and before and after breaks.

It’s a fantastic track from an iconic British band and delivers a variety of powerful hooks and riffs that marries perfectly with the fresh approach to MotoGP coverage we’re planning. – Grant Best, senior channel executive producer BT Sport

Hotride was The Prodigy’s 15th single and the second single released from the band’s fourth studio album, 2004’s Always Outnumbered, Never Outgunned. The track features vocals by actress Juliette Lewis and borrows lyrics from Jimmy Webb’s Up, Up and Away (In My Beautiful Balloon). The Prodigy are perhaps best known to the general public for their 1996 number 1 Firestarter.

Keith Flint, lead singer of The Prodigy and owner of newly launched British Supersport ‘Team Traction Control’ will also make an appearance on BT Sport’s MotoGP Tonight programme.

Race weekends on BT Sport will be presented by Melanie Sykes alongside former British and World Superbike Champions, Neil Hodgson and James Toseland. The commentators will be Julian Ryder, Keith Huewen and Matt Birt. Gavin Emmett will be BT Sport’s MotoGP reporter. For each of the 18 race meetings in 2014, BT Sport will show the free practice and qualifying sessions live, full coverage of the Moto2™ and Moto3™ races and the elite MotoGP race across Friday, Saturday and Sunday.

The new hour-long programme, MotoGP Tonight, at 8pm on Tuesdays, after every Grand Prix weekend, will be presented by BT Sport’s Craig Doyle and former Olympian and biker, Iwan Thomas. In August last year, BT Sport announced it had signed up leading British MotoGP riders, Cal Crutchlow, Bradley Smith and Scott Redding as BT Ambassadors.

Melanie Sykes, James Toseland and Neil Hodgson

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