29.6.06
28.6.06
Ecclestone driving a hard bargain on US return to fold - Sport - Times Online: "Ecclestone told The Times: “It does not matter to Formula One if there is no grand prix in the US. What do we get from America? Aggravation, that’s about all. If you say ‘good morning’ over there and it’s five past 12, you end up with a lawsuit. We have never got any sponsors out there. The television has never taken off; we have more viewers in Malta than over there."
27.6.06
NTSB Press Release During the forum, the NTSB will examine issues raised by a number of recent motorcycle accidents, including the June 12 motorcycle crash involving Pittsburgh Steelers quarterback Ben Roethlisberger, and the June 11 crash involving a motorcycle and a minivan in Williamsport, PA that killed five persons.
26.6.06
Grand American Road Racing Association: "there's a crossover road in the middle of the track that is new. It has a really big elevation change to the road from the grass and when I hit that, the car got launched"
25.6.06
Motorsport.com: News channel: "Hand's BMW went off the track and over a mound of dirt, which served like a motorcycle stunt rider's ramp and launched him into the air. The car flipped at least eight times and finally landed on its roof, with fuel pouring out of it."
Let's hope someone from the AMA saw this and makes sure that mound is eliminated before the Superbikes race there next month.
Let's hope someone from the AMA saw this and makes sure that mound is eliminated before the Superbikes race there next month.
22.6.06
The In-Car Camera Never Blinks (but Viewers Flinch) - New York Times: "'A near crash is just like a crash except that somebody did something to avoid it,'"
Fédération Internationale de Motocyclisme Mark your calendars. The Motocross des Nations returns to the US on September 23, 2007 at Budds Creek in Maryland.
21.6.06
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7.6.06
News - Belfast Today: News, Sport, Jobs, Property, Cars, Entertainments & More Joey's Home a fitting memorial
6.6.06
5.6.06
Champ Car Co-owner Believes NASCAR is Interfering with Phoenix Race Plans :: PaddockTalk :: Two drivers, Two cars... Drop the flag...It's all good!: "The next thing I know, there are letters flying off from ISC to the (Phoenix) city council containing a number of falsehoods. But more disturbing, within two weeks, there is a motion being passed at the state level – well, trying to be passed -- which would, in fact, ban all forms of motor sports if it isn’t on one of the ISC tracks. Whether it be karting, all across motorcycling, MotoGP -- you name it"
4.6.06
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Soup :: Emde Resigns From AMA Racing Committee: "the need for ... establishing procedures that avoid any suggestion of conflicts of interest."
Somebody needs to ask Mr. Emde to explain why this point is important in this context.
Somebody needs to ask Mr. Emde to explain why this point is important in this context.
1.6.06
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Rocky Mountain News: Local: "We are allowed to stay active on issues like auto seat belts. But on helmet laws, we've had to sit back and watch the motorcycle fatalities go up for eight straight years."
28.5.06
27.5.06
Independent Online Edition > General: "Love of the simple life pays dividends in Bayliss's return to superbikes "
26.5.06
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22.5.06
Sport-Federer and Kostelic win Laureus sporting oscars | Motor Sports | Reuters.co.uk: "Italian motorcycle champion Valentino Rossi, who picked up a Spirit of Sport award after three fruitless years as a contender."
21.5.06
The big money of motorsports - Forbes.com - MSNBC.com: "a top 25 finisher in the Daytona 500 got airtime equivalent to $7 million worth of 30-second commercials on average... [Last year,] Earnhardt reaped $149 million in televised exposure time for lead sponsor Budweiser. By that calculation, Anheuser-Busch got a bargain. It is believed to have spent only $15 million on the sponsorship."
19.5.06
WORTHPLAYING - - All about games ! Milstone, the creators of the Superbike series, are back and bringing Super-Bikes: Riding Challenge with them, the most realistic and in depth riding simulation
18.5.06
16.5.06
Orange County Weekly “Fine art? It’s more like primitive art,” said photographer Richard Karl Koch, who shot Von Dutch for a 1970 Los Angeles Times West magazine feature and had him pinstripe a Rand McNally globe of the moon—which Koch recently listed on eBay with a $75,000 reserve.
Insider Racing News * May 16, 2006: "NASCAR tops the list as the favorite type of motorsports according to fans polled from January-December 2005. It received 59.5% of the votes compared to the next-highest total of 13.4% for the National Hot Rod Association (NHRA). Following in third place were motorcycle events at 9.7, Formula 1 with 6.3, the Indy Racing League (IRL) with 6.1, Champ Car World Series with 1.4 and other racing series at 0.4. NASCAR tops the list as the favorite type of motorsports according to fans polled from January-December 2005. It received 59.5% of the votes compared to the next-highest total of 13.4% for the National Hot Rod Association (NHRA). Following in third place were motorcycle events at 9.7, Formula 1 with 6.3, the Indy Racing League (IRL) with 6.1, Champ Car World Series with 1.4 and other racing series at 0.4. "
Cleveland.com's Printer-Friendly Page: "the Environmental Protection Agency Web site shows the three dozen or so 2006 flexible-fuel vehicles (which operate on either gasoline or E85) typically lose 25 percent to almost 30 percent in mileage when running on E85."
15.5.06
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11.5.06
YouTube - Heat Vision and Jack"Adventures of a superintelligent renegade astronaut and his talking motorcycle." Directed by Ben Stiller, starring Jack Black and Owen Wilson.
10.5.06
Mid-Ohio race track revs up with expansion - Business First of Columbus:: "Ohio is considered the motorcycle capital of America"
Like, did the cars designate the old Daytona road course this way before they got it all to themselves?:
"- Turn 3 is known as the International Horseshoe [okay, that one we knew]
- Turn 5 is known as Pedro Rodriguez Corner, named for the Mexican road-racing legend who also was NASCAR's Latino pioneer with six races run between 1959 and 1971
- Turn 7 is NASCAR Turn 1
- Turn 8 is NASCAR Turn 2
- Turns 9, 10, 11, 12 make up the chicane
- Turn 13 is NASCAR Turn 3
- Turn 14 is NASCAR Turn 4"
"- Turn 3 is known as the International Horseshoe [okay, that one we knew]
- Turn 5 is known as Pedro Rodriguez Corner, named for the Mexican road-racing legend who also was NASCAR's Latino pioneer with six races run between 1959 and 1971
- Turn 7 is NASCAR Turn 1
- Turn 8 is NASCAR Turn 2
- Turns 9, 10, 11, 12 make up the chicane
- Turn 13 is NASCAR Turn 3
- Turn 14 is NASCAR Turn 4"
9.5.06
6.5.06
HometownAnnapolis.com, Sailing - Volvo sailor jumps at chance to ride with motocross star: "Call it moto meets Volvo."
5.5.06
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27.4.06
News - Ballymoney Today: News, Sport, Jobs, Property, Cars, Entertainments & More JOEY'S TREASURES GO ON SHOW
SignOnSanDiego.com > Sports -- Muscling in Bar-bending young Texan challenges Mladin's Superbike dominance
25.4.06
Fullboost latest news: "Also present today was former 500cc motorcycle World Championship frontrunner and Network Ten motor sport commentator, Daryl Beattie, who is trying out all four wheels for the first time at this year's event. "
22.4.06
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5.4.06
Belfast Telegraph Irish Superbike champion Alistair Seeley, from Carrick, is to fly to America immediately after Easter to take part in the AMA 600cc Supersport Championship in Alabama.
4.4.06
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2.4.06
This Is Lancashire: Leisure: Leisure highlights: "SUPERBIKE legend Carl Fogarty got the chance to 'act like Flash Gordon' as he was fired across a gorge on a rocket while filming a new TV show."
1.4.06
Daytona Beach News-Journal Online -- Flagler: "Sales of parts, accessories and clothing, not motorcycles, averaged between $400,000 and $500,000 a day during Bike Week"
31.3.06
30.3.06
Moody Blues: Jerez. - Yahoo! Sport UK -: "Pedrosa is now the Honda Golden Child in the top class. They haven't had a Golden Child since Kato... They've obviously nicked all the young small riders and helped some people. Just how did Lucio Cecchinello find the money to pay for that bike? They must have bamboozled the rules through for 800cc, just as they did with the 4 and 5 cylinder weight limit being the same. It can't have been a co-incidence.
Fundamentally, if a rider is quick, he is quick and Honda have seen that in Pedrosa, Elias, Melandri and Stoner. To a certain extent they thought that of Hayden, but they've kicked him aside with Pedrosa after his three years in the works team. Hayden must feel over the moon. How long until he leaves? Monday after Valencia?"
Fundamentally, if a rider is quick, he is quick and Honda have seen that in Pedrosa, Elias, Melandri and Stoner. To a certain extent they thought that of Hayden, but they've kicked him aside with Pedrosa after his three years in the works team. Hayden must feel over the moon. How long until he leaves? Monday after Valencia?"
29.3.06
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