Supermoto: AMA Announces Additional Supermoto Round In Conjunction With Champ Car Event May 31, 2006
AMA Pro Racing announced today that an additional round of the 2006 AMA Supermoto Championship presented by Parts Unlimited has been added to the schedule. The event will be held at Elkhart Lake, Wisconsin’s Road America on Sept. 22–24 in conjunction with the Champ Car Grand Prix of Road America. The Rotax Karting Series will also be featured on the same race weekend.
Additional details will be revealed today at a press conference to be held at Road America in advance of this weekend’s combined AMA Superbike Championship and AMA Supermoto Championship events.
“We’re thrilled to add this event to the AMA …
BSB: New Layout For Mallory BSB
Rizla Suzuki’s James Haydon and Shane ‘Shakey’ Byrne will race at a revised Mallory Park circuit featuring a new chicane for the first time when the Bennetts British Superbike Championship visits the Leicestershire track for the sixth round this weekend.
The chicane has been placed approximately half way round the famous Gerard’s 180 degree corner in a bid to slow the Superbikes down to improve safety. It means the circuit is now 1.41-miles long and a new lap record will be established during the races.
James Haydon:
“There will be a few new twists and turns for us at Mallory Park this weekend …
MotoGP: Camel Yamaha Previews Grand Prix Home Round Mugello
The Camel Yamaha Team heads into its home Grand Prix this weekend looking to turn a stuttering start to the season into a consistent challenge for MotoGP World Championship honours. The fast and flowing Mugello circuit in Italy presents an entirely different challenge to the tight complexities of recent tracks such as Le Mans and Shanghai and both Valentino Rossi and Colin Edwards hope it can also deliver a similar contrast in the fortunes that have followed them around the world during a dramatic opening five rounds of the campaign. Rossi, in particular, is keen to get his fifth title …
MotoGP: Nakano And Kawasaki Bring MotoGP Back To Spa
The Spa Francorchamps circuit in the Belgian Ardennes reverberated to the sound of a factory Grand Prix race bike for the first time in 16 years on Thursday, as Shinya Nakano put the Kawasaki Ninja ZX-RR through its paces, watched by Kawasaki riders from Belgium, Holland and Luxembourg.
The demonstration ride by Nakano was part of an event organised by Kawasaki Benelux, at which Kawasaki owners were given the opportunity to ride the 6.9 km Spa Francorchamps circuit, described by none other than Michael Schumacher as “without doubt the best circuit in the world.”
Originally designed by Jules de Their and Henri …
Buell Motorcycles Sweep ASRA Thunderbike Podium
Bilansky, Bemisderfer and Estok Dominate at Summit Point West Virginia’s Summit Point Raceway was the site of a dominating Memorial Day Weekend performance by Buell riders who swept the podium in the American SportBike Racing Association’s (ASRA) Thunderbike class. Hal’s H-D/Buell Hal’s Speed Shop rider Dan Bilansky took the victory on Monday from pole position, with Harley-Davidson/Buell of Frederick’s Bryan Bemisderfer and Veatch Motorsports rider Dave Estok filling the final steps on the podium.
Bilansky took the ASRA Thunderbike Pole on Sunday with a 1:18.865, followed by Bemisderfer with a 1:19.274 and defending 2005 National Thunderbike Champion Estok’s 1:19.325. …
Coolbeth Earns Podium Finish For Screamin’ Eagle At Springfield
Kenny Coolbeth is perfectly fine not having all the information about what happened during Sunday’s season opening AMA Grand National Twins event at the Illinois State Fairgrounds. There were several crashes. Red flags stopped the race twice. Coolbeth didn’t see any of it and that’s just how he likes it.
Coolbeth rode his Harley-Davidson Screamin’ Eagle entry to third place while factory teammate Rich King finished sixth after a crash and Wrecking Crew teammates Jared Mees and Bryan Smith finished eighth and 11th, respectively.
“I didn’t see any of the crashes,” Coolbeth, a Connecticut native said. “I was riding up front, in …
SBK: Walker Leads Race Two For Kawasaki Corse
Chris Walker used obvious his pace at his local circuit to score sixth and eighth places in the 28-lap Silverstone races, but ran confidently in the lead for a time during race two, slowly dropping through the field as other riders picked up places.
It was a more disappointing weekend of work for the other team riders, with Regis Laconi struggling against chatter in race two, after scoring a fine seventh in race one.
The luckless Fonsi Nieto was taken out in the first race, in a four-rider spill, and in the race restart he felt dizzy, having bashed his head hard …
SBK: Bayliss Takes Silverstone Double To Extend Championship Lead
BAYLISS AND HAGA FIGHT FOR SILVERSTONE SPOILS
Two man-to-man battles from eventual double winner Troy Bayliss (Ducati Xerox) and Noriyuki Haga (Yamaha Motor Italia) provided huge entertainment for a 71,000-strong SBK crowd at Silverstone, and with James Toseland (Winston Ten Kate Honda) third in each race; the British crowd enjoyed its first taste of World Superbike 2006-style. Bayliss also set a new lap record, and the absolute best in SBK, with a 1′26.299, in race two.
RACE ONE A dramatic start to race one saw four riders fall at the first corner, after a highside from Fabien Foret (Alstare Engineering Suzuki). Another …
Bimota DB6 Delirio May 27, 2006
Bimota presented their latest model to the international media from May 17th-19th, 2006. Created by Sergio Robbiano, the DB6 Delirio continues the tradition of advanced technology and great handling. Yet another Bimota that manages to impress everyone present. Inofficial word is that the DB6 Delirio will be available on our side of the big pond later this year.Design, Uniting Esthetics And Necessity”The Bimota Delirio project had been born even before its supersport counterpart, the DB5, was completed. The esthetics and function-driven design of the DB5’s bare chassis did not only suggest but demanded the creation of a naked bike.
“The …
BRAG To Host Annual Homecoming Rally In East Troy, Wis.
Buell Riders Adventure Group Celebrates Homecoming June 2-4, 2006 Buell Riders Adventure Group (BRAG) will host its annual Homecoming Rally in East Troy, Wis., June 2-4, 2006. Buell motorcycle owners will travel from all over the country to enjoy a weekend surrounded by other Buell enthusiasts.
The weekend will kick off at Hal’s Harley-Davidson/Buell in New Berlin, Wis., with a breakfast from 8 a.m.-10:30 a.m. Enthusiasts will have the opportunity to meet Hal’s Thunder Eagle Race Team and check out the NHRA Pro Stock Buell motorcycle that will be on display.
During the course of the weekend Buell owners will …