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- 2010 Daytona SuperSport Race 1 Results - Motorcycle USA
| AMA Pro Racing Adds Five-Round Harley-Davidson XR1200 Spec-Bike Series - RoadracingWorld.com Posted: 04 Mar 2010 03:11 PM PST Mar 04, 2010, ©Copyright 2010, Roadracing World Publishing, Inc. Daytona Beach, FL – March 4, 2010 – AMA Pro Racing and Vance & Hines are pleased to announce the launch of the new AMA Pro Vance & Hines XR1200 Series, a spec-bike five race championship featuring specially modified Harley-Davidson XR1200 motorcycles. This exciting new series will provide loyal Harley-Davidson owners, dealers and enthusiasts a chance to join the action at selected AMA Pro Road Racing weekends throughout the country. As the presenting sponsor, Vance & Hines will also serve as the official race kit supplier for the class. The kit will consist of a Vance & Hines XR1200 exhaust system, a Fuelpak fuel management system, race bodywork including number plate, single seat tail section and belly pan, 17-inch front wheel with matching front fender, steering damper, oil cooler relocator and race decal package. The cost for the complete kit will be $3500. "We have racing in our DNA, Harley-Davidson has racing in their DNA and we are truly thrilled to bring Vance & Hines and Harley-Davidson back into AMA Pro Racing," Terry Vance, a prolific champion as both rider and team owner, said of the new series. "The XR1200 has proven to be an exciting platform for spec racing in Europe and this class will be a perfect cost-effective platform to showcase new talent on a national stage. Many of the finest motorcycle racers all over the world got their start in the AMA Supertwins class of the 1990s." As in all AMA Pro Road Racing series, Dunlop will provide the spec tire for the class and Sunoco will fuel the racers with their Sunoco 260 GTX fuel. In addition to the Vance & Hines supplied kit parts, teams will be allowed to upgrade their suspension, hand and foot controls, brake components and instrumentation. AMA Pro Racing Chief Operating Officer David Atlas welcomed the new series, "Adding another element to our events with a series of this caliber will be a great benefit to our sport. The specification of the XR1200 package will put the premium on the rider's ability and will provide a great new class of racing that has ties to the past." Vance & Hines is also pleased to announce that the XR1200 Series will feature a $5,000 purse payout at each of the five rounds, $2,500 going to the race winner, $1,000 to the runner-up and $750 for third. Fourth and fifth place finishers will receive $500 and $250 respectively. For the 2010 season, the AMA Pro Racing Vance & Hines XR1200 Series will race at five rounds of the AMA Pro Road Racing Championship. The first race will be just north of Harley-Davidson's Milwaukee headquarters at Road America in Elkhart Lake, WI. Next up will be the classic Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course, moving on to Virginia International Raceway and New Jersey Motorsports Park. The season finale will be at Barber Motorsports Park. For more information, please contact Paul Langley, Vance & Hines Motorsports at (317) 852-9057, email to plangley@vhmotorsports.com or www.amaproracing.com More Breaking Headlines | Next Article | Home
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| On Guard: Zemke Wins Daytona Opener - Cycle News Posted: 04 Mar 2010 01:45 PM PST DAYTONA BEACH, FL, MAR. 4 - National Guard Suzuki's Jake Zemke ended an almost four-year winless drought in AMA Superbike racing today at Daytona International Speedway, the Californian starting his first season in the Michael Jordan Motorsports fold with a narrow victory in an ultra-competitive American Superbike final. With the top five riders finishing within .307 of a second of each other, the post-Mat Mladin era in AMA Superbike got started with the opening round of the 2010 series turning into a thriller - even with three of the expected front runners hitting trouble early in the race. Still, the five who were there in the beginning were there at the end with Zemke beating Rockstar/Makita Suzuki's Tommy Hayden by just .238 of a second. Then came Foremost Insurance Ducati's Larry Pegram .259 of a second behind Zemke with Michael Jordan Motorsports' Aaron Yates, the pole sitter, and Rockstar/Makita Suzuki's Blake Young crossing the line in quick succession. All five took turns at the front of the pack, and when they crossed the line for the final time there was just .307 of a second from Zemke in first to Young in fifth. Zemke actually led into the chicane on the final lap and got a good enough drive out of it to hold off the pack of drafters behind him. The win was Zemke's first since he won on a factory Honda CBR1000RR at Miller Motorsports Park in June of 2006 and it was the fourth AMA Superbike victory of his career. "The Suzuki is brand new to me and I didn't really know what feel I was looking for and I still don't; I'm still looking for it," Zemke said. "In the beginning I just wanted to get out there and not let the leaders get away. I've been to Daytona before and you can not let the lead group get away. The number-one job for me was 'Okay, the bike doesn't feel too bad. I just want to hang with this lead pack and make sure I don't get separated from them.' I was there for awhile and about halfway I thought, 'I think I can get to the front of this thing.' The bike was working good and it was really fast and that always helps. The guys have done their homework over the off-season and they build a great motorcycle and the team came together and gave me a bike I could ride in the race. Luckily, it worked out." Three of the other stars of the series ran into problems early on. M4 Monster Suzuki's John Hopkins pulled his GSX-R1000 behind pit wall on the opening lap and both Graves Motorsports Yamaha's Josh Hayes and Pat Clark Motorsports' Ben Bostrom ran into issues early on. Those two were able to persevere, however, with Hayes finishing 13th with Bostrom 18th. That left the others to fill the void with M4 Monster Suzuki's Chris Ulrich having his best-ever AMA Superbike effort to finish sixth, the Californian holding off Ridersdiscount.com's Taylor Knapp by .1 of a second at the finish line. Those two were some 27 seconds behind the leading quintet. Buell-mounted Shawn Higbee ended up eight with Shane Narbone ninth and Barrett Long 10th. Superbike Race One
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| Criss Angel motorcycle collection now on display at Octane - e-Travel Blackboard Posted: 04 Mar 2010 02:21 PM PST Criss Angel is recognized as one of the most provocative artists in the world today with more hours of magic on prime time television than any magician in history. He can be seen nightly at the Luxor in the world-acclaimed production, Criss Angel BeLIEve by Cirque du Soleil. Angel recently received the coveted MERLIN AWARD for Magician of The Decade by the International Magicians Society honoring his accomplishments for the past 10 years. Angel is the only artist to receive Magician of the Year five times and is one of the most viewed magicians in Internet history. Angel's mastery is not only limited to the art of mysticism. As an avid motorcycle enthusiast, he has accumulated an extensive collection of custom vehicles. Experience the many sides of Criss Angel through his most recent collection of bikes now on display at Octane at Excalibur, the hottest classic rock bar in Las Vegas. Enjoy specialty cocktails and the Octane dancers while browsing these one-of-a-kind custom bikes including:
MF2 Chopper - Season 2- 2006
MF4 Chopper - Season 4- 2009
Military Tribute - Season 4 - 2009
MF5 Chopper - Season 5- 2009 The following chopper can be seen steps away from the Criss Angel MINDFREAK Store at Luxor: MF1 Chopper - Season 1- 2005/2006 Located in the Luxor lobby: BeLIEve Show Chopper T-Rex by Campagna Motors- Season 6 -2010 Angel's T-Rex is a custom made vehicle that's "street legal" and something you won't see on the road every day. It can go from 0-60 in 3.9 seconds and the performance of this vehicle is the closest thing to a Formula 1 race car! This chopper will be featured on Season 6 of MINDFREAK.Five Filters featured article: Chilcot Inquiry. Available tools: PDF Newspaper, Full Text RSS, Term Extraction. This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| 2010 Daytona SuperSport Race 1 Results - Motorcycle USA Posted: 04 Mar 2010 12:33 PM PST AMA Pro Road Racing kicked off at Daytona with a wild one in SuperSport. Cameron Beaubier took the win by the narrowest of margins, just 0.001 ahead of fellow Yamaha pilot Joey Pascarella and Jake Gagne. The close finish up front highlighted a top five that all finished within 0.3 seconds of the winner, with no less than four different riders claiming at least one lead lap. Suzuki's Elena Myers finished her professional debut with a seventh-place result. Pascarella jumped up front in the opening laps, followed by Beaubier and J.D. Beach. The front five lapped within a second of the leader, with fellow Yamahas Gagne and Tomas Puerta all keeping the pace. Myers and Huntley Nash kept within striking distance as well, as the rest of the field began to fall behind. On Lap 4 Beach move up to grab a lead lap, as the front five began bumping around in a position shuffle that would remain disordered until the final lap. Pascarella reasserting himself on Lap 7 until Gagne took the position on L9, only to be usurped by Beaubier the very next lap. "You could have thrown a blanket over them" was how our track photog described the frantic scene, as the front five vied for the win. None wanted to be in front on the final straightaway, with Daytona's notorious finish line drafting passes. Pascarella hesitated, allowing Beaubier to get in front, then made his move. However, Beaubier managed to re-draft past his opponent at the line, just necking out the victory. Gagne nearly pulling off a last ditch pass to finish third just 0.065 off the winner. The finish was so close that both riders were dismayed, believing they had lost the race.
Myers' finish at 5.796 seconds back in seventh belies the fact that she was hanging with the front runners, within two seconds of the leader for much of the race. "Once again it was a crazy finish at Daytona. It seems like every time I come here it's pretty gnarly." ? Joey Pascarella "The second to last lap I got in a little too deep trying to pass and had to run through the run-out area. So I dropped back a bit. I just kept my head down the last lap. While the guys up front were messing around trying not to be first on the banking, it allowed me to catch up a bit. I got some slipstream on the banking and was able to pass two guys at the end." ? Jake Gagne "The draft helped so much. I wound up going first going first onto the banking, and he (Pascarella) passed me. He pulled out of the slipstream too early, and I wound up getting by him and barley beat him" Cameron Beaubier The SuperSport class will open Friday's races with the second 12-lap contest at 3 p.m. EST.
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