When the first MotoGP testing for the year concluded yesterday, it was Ducati’s Casey Stoner who sat proudly atop the Sepang timesheets.
Stoner set the pace on the third and final day of testing yesterday, clocking 2:01.043 on the last of his 38 laps at the Sepang Circuit.
Having complained of persistent pain in his wrist, which hindered him in the second-half of the 2008 season, and is still recovering from the corrective surgery he underwent in November…Â More info
Chris Fischer, 26, has been in a funk since construction crews turned Vista’s skatepark into dust last summer to make way for a multimillion-dollar civic center.
“Some of the best days of my life were up at that skatepark,” Fischer said in a letter to the City Council last month in which he pleaded for a replacement.
He may soon have reason for optimism.
City officials confirmed last week they’re in negotiations to buy land for a skatepark…Â More info
Resplendent in the white, black and blue road-riding colours of the Sydney Cycling Club, the former president James “Doc” Guthrie steps off his $8000 bike, surveys the Adelaide cityscape and smiles.
“You know, the beauty of this place is that here people wave their hands at you; in Sydney they shake their fists. Here people throw you kisses; in Sydney they hurl abuse,” says Guthrie, 56, a university professor.
He is one of an estimated 2000 Sydneysiders in town for the Tour Down Under,…Â More info
The short, redheaded, freckled-faced kid looks more like a candidate to carry your groceries to the car at Publix than for superstardom, but that’s what Ricky Carmichael is: His nickname is “GOAT,” as in Greatest Of All Time, which in the world of motocross motorcycle racing he may well be. He’s the only rider in the AMA motocross history to have an undefeated season — and he did it twice.
Carmichael — a 29-year-old native of Clearwater who lives with wife Ursula and their twins near Tallahassee — has been busy making the transition from racing on two wheels to four. This afternoon, he’ll be behind the wheel of the Kevin Harvick-owned Monster Energy Chevrolet, starting 23rd in the 43-car grid for the Lucas Oil Slick Mist 200, the ARCA race that officially kicks off the oval track portion of Speedweeks at Daytona International Speedway… More info