This weekend is the Cabo’s Pizza 26th Annual WaveMasters Pro/Am Surf Contest, starting at 8 a.m. Saturday at the Jacksonville Beach Pier.
Registration is taking place at Sunrise Surf Shop for North Florida’s largest annual surf event.
Divisions include shortboard and longboard for all ages, as well as a Men’s and Women’s Pro Division.
The title sponsor, Cabo’s Pizza, will host a pizza-eating contest at noon on Saturday. Whoever can eat one of their huge slices the fastest will win a $100 gift certificate.
The WaveMasters contest has evolved into one of the biggest and most …Â Details
I read on the BBC Sport website today that, among others, Renault boss Flavio Briatore, has stated that Jenson Button’s success this year is down to nothing more than the speed of his Brawn. Â
The outspoken Italian said that “Button is an indifferent driver unworthy of comparison to his double world champion Fernando Alonso.â€Â Â
Until now I have agreed largely with Briatore’s often comical outbursts, but I feel as a Brawn fanatic a huge Jenson fan that the Italian needs to be answered! I will answer Mr Briatore by briefly analysing Jen’s F1 career and considering his performance relative to the car he was in and his team mate… Details
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One of the crews favoured to take victory in the Bathurst RSL Club Rally of Bathurst on May 16 and 17, is a former winner of the event, Gareth Morgan-Thomas of Bathurst and his Sydney co-driver, Matt Ruggles.
The two day event that will start and finish in Bathurst, is the second round of the 2009 Pipe King Southern Cross Rally Series run by the Australian Motor sport Action Group (AMSAG), with Dave Aitchison as rally director.The event will cover 230 kilometres of competitive roads within the Sunny Corner State Forest, east of Bathurst.
Morgan-Thomas won the Bathurst RSL Rally of Bathurst in 2004 driving a 5 litre V8 Holden Commodore, and finished a close second in that year’s Southern Cross Rally Series, as he had done the previous season, 2003.
“You could say we lost that 2004 championship by only three seconds, because that was what we were beaten by, in the final round at Port Macquarie. We were beaten by a lack of tyres,†Morgan-Thomas said.
He sold his Commodore a short time after the 2004 series, and last year purchased a 1996 Subaru WRX STi that had won the 2004 Victorian Championship.
“It is unbelievable the difference between the Commodore and the WRX. The WRX is a maintenance intensive car, and you must spend many hours working on it between events, whereas the Commodore would seldom need a spanner on it.  Details
 Every season of government brings new legislation, some from good intentions, others from personal ambitions and the occasional bill that appears to make no sense to a majority of voters.
Currently, the latter category would include California riders as they face the possible effects of a bill introduced into the State Senate in February requiring newer motorcycles to be smog tested biannually. Labeled as California Senate Bill 435 and introduced by Senator Fran Pavley with the intention of fighting smog, it sits with the Senate Transportation and Housing Committee.
Removing the exemption for motorcycles from biennial smog testing, the bill would affect motorcycle models year 2000 a newer with an expected commencement date of …Â Details