Mike Mason beat out Nate Adams and Taka Higashino for the top spot on the podium at the ASA FMX Championships this weekend, unseating 2007 and 2008 champ Jeremy Stenberg, who no-showed on account of a broken ankle from earlier in the week.
Adams, another favorite to win the event – he was the ASA champ in 2003, 2004, 2005, and 2006 – had bike problems in the Final head-to-head against Mason, floating a few dead sailors in what should have been a run full of fireworks. Mason was on it all night… Details
Jorge Lorenzo repeated his 2008 Estoril victory from pole on Sunday to significantly boost his title chances as Valentino Rossi could only manage fourth place at the challenging Portuguese circuit.
The two Fiat Yamaha riders got away in first and second places on the grid but Rossi was unable to match Lorenzo, who he pulled away quickly at the front. Ducati’s Casey Stoner, returning to racing, rode brilliantly to … Details
Jorge Lorenzo has taken a strong pole position for tomorrow’s Portuguese Grand Prix at Estoril.
The Yamaha rider shot to the top of the timesheets with 18 minutes remaining in the one-hour session. From that point on, he further improved three times to settle with a 1m36.214s lap time set with one minute remaining.
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ANYONE who might have admired the gleaming finish of an Indian Chief I recently rode would not be faulted for praising the quality of its restoration. Never mind that the classically styled highway cruiser being ogled was in fact a 2009 model, fresh out of the assembly plant a few miles up the road from here.
An ambitious restoration — of Indian, that is, the bike’s maker — is well under way, and not for the first time. Since the original company went out of business in 1953, the Indian name … Details