Word on the street is that a BMW bike has been seen being piloted in Spain with a FIM spec transponder unit attached to the back. Is BMW ready? Time will tell. We’ll all be expecting BMW to shell out some large coin for the 2007 season to get a greater rider for their team. There are apparently pictures lurking about and I’ll try and get those up as soon as possible.
MotoGP in New Zealand? I have to tell you, being Canadian, I’m a bit dissapointed that we don’t have a decent track in Canada - considering all the space we have, and the rather large population and denisty in some of the core cities. I mean, Australia has one and it’s not too far from NZ
The Taupo track will be getting updates for a MotoGP visit next year.
This video really shows you what it’s like to be slow in the AMA. Perhaps we’ve been spoiled with so many Rossi onboard videos that this just really has no way comparing. It does however provide excellent insight into the starting of a race, and what happens when you crash - and has a few close calls when it comes to other riders and this paticular rider (AMA David Glenn #272) choosing lines that are pretty conservative for such a competitive series. This is from the Superbike Series, California Speedway - Fontana, CA - 600 Supersport race.
[press release]
Ben Spies is just 21-years-old, but the Yoshimura Suzuki rider from Longview, Texas, comes to Road America’s Suzuki Superbike Doubleheader on June 1-4 in Elkhart Lake, Wis., on the verge of breaking one of the series’ long standing records. If Spies wins the first leg of the weekend’s doubleheader he will own the longest winning streak in AMA Superbike Championship history.
Spies swept the doubleheader at Infineon Raceway in Sonoma, Calif., on May 20-21, pushing his win streak to six straight. That tied the 1995 record of six consecutive AMA Superbike wins set by Miguel Duhamel in 1995. Duhamel is one of the riders hoping to put an end to Spies current run at Road America.
“Ben is on a roll right now,” Duhamel said. “It was a shame that I couldn’t get up there and battle him to try to keep him from tying my record, but you have to give him a lot of credit for the way he’s riding. I’d like to give him a run for his money at Road America. I’ve done well there and it would be great to get a victory. It’s going to be tough.” (more…)
This is a trailer for a documentry movie coming out (hopefully soon) about the 2005 season of MotoGP narrated by Ewan McGregor of Long Way Round fame - among other things.