The fastest motorcycle road racers on the planet, the MotoGP World Championship, and the best America has to offer in three different classes will take over Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca Friday through Sunday at the fifth annual Red Bull U.S. Grand Prix.
To kick off the two-wheel action Independence Day weekend, former Yamaha World champions Wayne Rainey, Eddie Lawson and “King” Kenny Roberts will take on “The Doctor,” Valentino Rossi, at 3:30 p.m. today in a special free exhibition on World SuperKarts.
The two-wheel action begins Friday with practice sessions. Saturday there will be qualifying sessions, including MotoGP, and the AMA American SuperSport race. Sunday, there will be racing in MotoGP, AMA Daytona Sportbike and AMA American Superbike.
Rossi is both the defending race champion and …Â Details
Triumph’s all-new Thunderbird cruiser has been awarded the title of ‘Cruiser of the Year’ by an influential American motorcycle magazine.
Cycle World, the world’s biggest selling monthly motorcycle publication, declared the 1600cc parallel twin as best in class in its annual awards issue.
Thunderbird, the British company’s first offering in the mainstream cruiser market, has been enthusiastically received since its introduction to the media at last month’s world press launch in Barcelona. It was universally praised for its combination of outstanding dynamics and classic cruiser style… Details
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Odds are that Formula One driver Robert Kubica wouldn’t be racing today if it weren’t for Max Mosley.
Anyone who saw the BMW-Sauber driver survive a heart-stopping, 300-km/h crash at the 2007 Canadian Grand Prix understands the safety stamp Mosley put on his Fédération Internationale de l’Automobile (FIA) presidency.
“It shows that the push of FIA for the safety, you know, to the teams and that they crash-test everything, it has been a big improvement,” Kubica said a week after the crash.
“And also big thanks to FIA because …Â Details
Round 8 of the Victorian off-road championship finds it’s way to the historic venue of Broadford on Sunday the 12th of July.
A place surnonimous with the Mr Motocross series of the 70’s and 80,s, legendry names have been forged around the “Reg Hunt†circuit. Names like “Leiskâ€, “Dack†and the “Floods†all have left their knobby prints at this fantastic venue.
In the late 90’s the Motorcycle Racing Club of Victoria turned the venue into a tough and challenging cross-country racetrack, it once again attracted huge names this time from the offroad world.
World enduro champ Shane Watts and multy Australian off-road champion Frankâ€the bomberâ€Bonfadini put on a titanic struggle on for race honors that saw the fastest lap of race done on the very last lap of the 3hour… Details