Video Cycling BMX – Belmar 09… the final round! – September 5th, Binghamton NY
Thirty-five years ago, Hawaii’s Laura Blears single-handedly took on an all-male field at Sunset Beach in the Smirnoff Pro, firmly planting the flag for women’s professional surfing. Today, another page is added to the colorful history of women’s surfing with the announcement by Gidget Worldwide of their sponsorship of the Gidget Pro Sunset Beach – the second of three stops on the ladies Vans Triple Crown of Surfing presented by Rockstar Energy Drink, and the penultimate event of the 2009 ASP Women’s World Tour.
After Blears’ professional debut at Sunset Beach in 1974, women became a regular feature of pro surfing on the North Shore of Oahu when the first organized world tour culminated here in 1977…Â Details
FIA president Max Mosley says that race fix claims surrounding Renault are being viewed by the governing body as more serious than outright cheating, after revealing on Friday that Nelson Piquet has been granted immunity.
Renault has been called to appear before the FIA’s World Motor Sport Council on September 21 to answer charges that it deliberately told Piquet to crash in last year’s Singapore Grand Prix to help Fernando Alonso win the race.
Those claims have been …Â Details
Patience, persistence and a wickedly powerful Victory Freedom engine helped Gregor Moe set a new national speed run record of 165.8 mph on a Victory Motorcycle September 3 at the BUB Motorcycle Speed Trials on the Bonneville Salt Flats.
Moe ran a timed mile at 166.004 mph on the Victory Kingpin, then backed it up with a run at 165.6 mph, giving him the average of 165.8 mph that goes into the American Motorcyclist Association (AMA) record books for the 2000-M-AG class. The class includes bikes of up to 2000cc with modified frames that are gas-powered but do not use turbochargers or superchargers. The previous class record of 163 mph had stood since 1973.
“It’s a good feeling and it’s good to get it done… Details