It’s known as Skaggs Springs Raceway, a 10-mile pristine stretch of remote road in northern Sonoma County that attracts the fastest motorcycles and street cars from around the Bay Area and beyond.
For years it’s been touted in motorcycle circles and on online websites for its smooth surface, challenging twists and turns, limited traffic and lack of law enforcement.
It’s a racing playground for riders and drivers  … More
Spies Relieved To Win On Special Weekend For Yamaha
Ben Spies was delighted to score his first MotoGP victory on the weekend that Yamaha marked 50 years in Grand Prix motorcycle racing. The Texan took the lead early in the first lap and an incident between teammate Jorge Lorenzo and Marco Simoncelli gave him the springboard for a comfortable victory.
Within three laps, Spies was over four seconds clear of the rest of the field and  … More
At Magny-Cours, during a round of the promosport Championship: two riders crash and their bikes lock wheel bars and continue to pirouette on the ground
Readers who have followed MotoUSA within the last week and caught the opening act of this multi-part feature on the state of MotoGP and its 2012 rules package know exactly where I stand on the issue ( MotoGP Editorial: Can 1000cc Save the Day?). A couple thousand words spent venting about the topic surely saw to that. The new rules are sadly a case of too little too late. Simply going back to 1000cc engines, with the current heightened state of electronic aids is going to do little more than drop lap times. The Grand Prix racing commission is skirting the real issue and trying to sell the idea that an additional 200cc will be the path to good racing as a remedy to the criticism leveled by an ever-mounting number of industry insiders and fans alike, who are  … More