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Justin Smith
Updates:
Photos: 83 More photos from the Vans Triple Crown of Freestyle Motocross at Indy
Photos:
Indy IFMA Vans
Triple Crown FMX, Friday Travis Pastrana is not racing St Louis, according to DC on Racerhead. Many of the riders doing LXD qualifiers for the X Games are not happy with the dates that conflict with IFMA events, low payout, and track conditions. This led to Dustin Miller leaving an X Games qualifier last weekend and he did the second night of an IFMA instead. Some of the flap is posted on www.freestylemx.com, and some on Mototalk. There is pit buzz about a rider organization/union/something, and some are wondering if the X Games are worth the trouble. This one will heat up on the web all week!
Kenny Bartram won the first night of the IFMA freestyle at Indy, a Vans Triple Crown event. Mad Mike sat out the evening because he crashed hard in practice and was very sore and had a black eye. Clifford Adoptante looked good but he hit a tuff bloc twice that messed up his run. Bartram scored 92.5, Nate Adams was a close second with 92.0.
It's confirmed (kinda), Chad Reed is has made a deal with Yamaha to ride for the factory full time in 2003. It's not surprising that the 2003 silly season would start in March, especially with a hot property like Reed to grab. ----------- Honda's lineup for the outdoor nationals:
Combined with Amsoil/FC, Honda will have According to Honda's racing boss Chuck Miller, "That gives us 4 strong guys in the 250 class and 4 strong guys in the 125 class, we are ready to go racing." ----------- Check out the story and photos by Mario Marini from the 2002 Qatar Challenge at http://www.racerxill.com/Qatar.cfm# VRM Site of the Day: Check out Tim Weigand's official site: www.timweigand.com. Freestyler Nate Adams just landed retailer Target as a sponsor. The FIM has announced that the 2002 Motocross des Nations will take place at the Competition Park circuit in San Jacinto, California, United States, on September 29. Motonews is going to St Louis a few days early to shoot a McGrath Racing tour of Anheuser-Busch, and then on to a Cardinals baseball game where MC will be throwing out the first ball! What up with Ronron? He wasn't himself at Houston (12th). He has been fighting bronchitis that seems to come and go and he is still having it checked out. PR from CCE: AURORA, Ill. (March 28,
2002) - Clear Channel Entertainment's motor sports
division today announced that more than 400,000 spectators attended the 2002
IFMA Freestyle Motocross winter series. The 16-event series averaged
nearly 25,000 spectators per weekend. The IFMA
exploded in growth by adding five events including
major media markets Chicago, Dallas and Pittsburgh.
VRM Site of the Day: Check out Shane Bess's official site: www.shanebess.com. Thanks to a study initiated by Brandon Jesseman's agent, Traction Enterprises, Jesseman was ranked a top tier athlete at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center's (UPMC) Sports Medicine Complex. This is way cool, read more about it on Mototalk. Another site to look at: French rider Yves Demaria.
Racing:
Photos added to 125 Racing
pages Business: $100,000 SX privateer bonus program to do weekly payouts Kawasaki confirmed yesterday that Bubba did break 2 toes in his right foot at Houston, where he toughed it out to get 10th place points. He won't need a cast and should be healed up by the next west race. Life: Catching up on People Sections: Minneapolis People
VRM Site of the Day: Check out Matt Walker's official site: www.mattwalkermx.com Business: AMA Official Merchandise available on line
VRM Site of the Day: Check out Ivan Tedesco official site: www.ivantedesco.com
RC is now 17 points ahead of DV for the supercross title, and he has the momentum of 5 wins in a row. The year that started out like 1999 for him is now starting to look like 2001. Lou Lopez, a regular on the SX/MX circuit, will leave Sunstar Sprockets to become a national sales rep for Thor/Parts Unlimited. Team Honda will be doing some outdoor testing in Texas Monday and Tuesday. Eric Sorby made the connection to race for Pro Circuit in the US through his friend David Vuillemin.
Mad Mike won the summer X Games qualifier at the Cobo Arena in Detroit. Clowers, Nate Adams and Mike Metzger were second third and fourth. Dustin Miller didn't like the track because he thought it was unsafe and left to ride a IFMA event in Hampton Va, instead. Racing: CCE's event notes from Houston.
Sobe Suzuki is empty handed this weekend. Wey is staying with Moto XXX and the Budman didn't feel ready for the 250, according to pit buzz. Travis is still out. Also skipping practice Friday was Ezra Lusk, who was recovering from a case of food poisoning. KW was walking in the pits already without crutches. Mike LaRocco was also on hand and should get his wrist cast off next week.
Rodrig Thain will be back on his bike at the beginning of April and he will be ready for Glen Helen.
Racing: Short Press Day interviews with Travis Elliot, Billy Payne, Travis Preston, Chris Gosselaar, Heath Voss, Jeremy Israel, and JSR. Heavy Duty! News is kicking around that the 2002 Motocross des Nations will be held at Competition Park in California this September! News is on www.racerxill.com and www.proride.com (message board). Reynard is skipping Houston because he is getting an MRI done on his shoulder today. The shoulder injury is from Atlanta and it bothered him so much at New Orleans he sat out the main. He should be back for St Louis.
VRM Site of the Day: Check out
Damon Huffman's official site:
www.damonhuffman.com
Skaneateles, NY - Suzuki Sports rider Bobby
Kiniry claimed 2 Amateur National Championships at the Lake
Whitney Spring Classic and the GNC Spring Nationals held at Mosier Valley.
Aboard his FMF/PR2/RG3 Suzuki, Bobby won the 125cc Open Championship
at Lake Whitney and the highly competitive 125B Mod Championship at Mosier
Valley. Bobby also finished second overall in the 125B Stock class, 125
Open, and 125 Schoolboy at Mosier. Bobby
just moved off his RM80 last fall and dominated the 125B class during the
Florida Winter Series, winning the 125B overall Championship.
Bobby's personal sponsors include American Suzuki, Fox, Oakley,
Revenge, RTMX School, FMF, PR2, RG3, Mom/Dad, Uncle Gary, Izzi Family, and
Jeremy Garges.
VRM Site of the Day: Check out
Keith Johnson's official site:
www.keithmx.com. Web rumor section: This is what is kicking around the web this morning. Reed, Pastrana and Tortelli, not racing. Reynard, on Hondas, Wey-wait and see. Tortelli not racing is confrimed. DMXS 3-20-02 Wednesday Nights
9pm est.
www.dmxsradio.com
New Site:
Chad Reed's Official site is here..
VRM Site of the Day: Check out
Michael Byrne's official site:
www.michaelbyrnemx.com
People at New Orleans, web surfer "Turtle" and family.
Who will ride for Sobe Suzuki this weekend? The most credible reports so far say Budman and one other rider.
Life: Scott Sheak interview, by Jim Kimball.
No one said for sure at New Orleans, but it seems likely so far that Travis Pastrana will sit out Houston SX also and Suzuki will keep talking to riders about a fill-in since both Travis and KW are out. It seems the Eric Sourby to Pro Circuit deal is still on. SX 2003? It looks like the season may start in Europe in December, and teams can decide to go for the world championship (2 Euro and 16 US rounds) or they can just race US for the US title, starting at Anaheim. It may be confusing if there are two champs but it solves some other problems.
RC and Reed won again at New Orleans. RC gained another 5 points on Vuillemin and extended his points lead to 10. Roncada rode a strong race for second after passing DV, who toughed it out with a sore shoulder. MC was very fast but suffered from a weak start and caught up to 4th. Reed will ride a 250 this week and it is very likely he will be in the 250 class next weekend at Houston.
Demuth wins Arenacross championship at Vancouver, BC. Robbie Reynard was talking to Sobe Suzuki about racing for them since Travis and KW are out for now, but it was a supercross only offer so he turned it down. Moto cartoonist Marc Estabrooks now has a weekly toon going up on Fox Racing's web site, here is the link.
Business:
Best year for Supercross
Attendance Ever! Three brothers have been making the night shows at east supercrosses, Forrest, Karsten, and Brandon Butler.
WML contender Sarah Whitmore-Needs a pink bike Business: WML Announces 2002 Schedule Stuff: If you hang out on the message boards, you will appreciate why own Mototalk, is AKA "Bushwood," the country club from the movie Caddyshack! Support Mototalk! Get a Bushwood T-Shirt!
Wednesday can only mean another installment of
Cult/Brainwash/Lower Your Intelligence Radio,
otherwise known as the Dead Motocrosser's Society.
Tonight
we will be rounding up the Alessi brothers
(Mike and Jeff) for their Lake Whitney GNC tales.
We'll get them on first cause we gotta put em to bed
early. TV Show host/pro bmx
freestyler Rick Thorne will be
talking to us.
We will be cold calling Marc Peters, Tommy Clowers, and Brandon Zundel from SMP. Brandon should have some great Metal Mulisha stories for us. He doesn't hold anything back so we are gonna save him for our late night crew. If you missed last week's show, it is still looped up until 9 eastern tonight. Thanks to Matt Walker for coming out, thanks to Jeff Tilton for calling in, and thanks to Sondra Peters and Tim Clark for being on. Sondra won the award for most popular guest. People were going off on how cool and down to earth she was. We'd also like to say we are pumped about being one of the headliners over at www.motocrossradio.com , a brand new internet radio station devoted souly to the sport we all love. www.motocrossradio.com will go live in just a few short weeks and the DMXS will be there so go check this out..it's going to be large.
Here's the ESPN Magazine article on RC Check it out! They give Internet message boards credit for sticking up for RC after the booing at Indy.
Life: People Photos from Daytona DV is on his way to France to see his Dr and will be back for New Orleans and will again ride practice and see how it goes. For the record, he really wanted to ride Saturday at Daytona and it was very hard for him not to. At least he rode practice and gave it a shot. He only pulled out when he had to. The good news is there doesn't seem to be any rotator cuff damage in his shoulder, which was discussed Saturday and they just didn't know at the time. What he has seems to be bruising and inflammation. RC said after the supercross at Daytona that he won't race a CRF450R in the nationals, even though he likes the bike a lot and its fast. If he wins the title again at Binghamton and he has nothing to loose for Steel City its a possibility, or the 125 class again! News that isn't announced yet Dept:
Racer X reports
Travis Pastrana won't be racing the New
Orleans supercross this weekend. According to the RC article he has
had breathing problems and Dr's are checking him out.
Check out this new Suzuki GP bike at www.suzuki-racing.com.
Chad Reed on the cover of NSW Magazine in Australia. (digital photos) www.nswmxr.com
Mototalker MXBob37's Vintage RD400! He raced at Daytona with AHRMA.
Check it out: "Gunner," who is appearing at The Whiskey in Hollywood, is also Honda's Racing PR Manager Greg Wright!
Business: Speed Channel uses CMI for PR. New site: VRM has added www.kevinjohnsonmx.com to its site, check it out.
Check out www.ronronmx.com and get your S.W.A.T. Team shirt.
DV and Ronron at High Point last year (happier days). Photo by www.xgenerationphotography.com/
Dean from No Toil working on Jesse Olsen's bike at the IFMA freestyle at Providence. (www.bmx-style.com photo)
Nicky Hayden wins Dayona 200.
Racing:
250 Racing at Daytona Travis Pastrana recovered from heat exhaustion that took him out of the Daytona Supercross by Honda when he was in second place. Suzuki is sending him to some specialists for a full checkup next week. DeCoster told him he could take off as much time as he thinks necessary to get back to 100%. Knowing Travis, that probably means riding tomorrow. Business:
Dorna hires Tiscali to do
MotoGP web site.
John Dowd is using a Doma pipe on his KTM. Check out the pipes at www.langstonracing.com.
Photos: Check out this special section of 35 large photos of Honda stuff at Daytona.
These are the new AMA merchandise logos, licensed by Wateree. Supercross series leader David Vuillemin's website got a new look. Check out www.davidvuillemin.net.
If you are in Daytona, make sure you stop by the Honda display at the speedway early. Honda is making this a bigger event than ever with Rossi's GP bike on display, the V5 motor, cars, power products, and everything Honda. Its a big deal. Business: RC signs with SportsLink Consulting For web updates, make sure you check out AMA Pro Racing's "Mediacenter." Revolt in Style Magazine did a feature with Aubrianna Dunn, Heidi Henry, and Michele Johnson at www.mxgirls.com at Saddleback.
Team Green News cover featuring this Gavin Grayck photo by our own Mototalker Jeff Kardas!
Stolen #1 quad. You can imagine what kind of equipment it takes to run a title-defending GNCC ATV team-a quad, spare parts, tools, equipment, gear, all in a shop trailer. After Okeechobee, someone at Bill Balance's hotel hooked up to the trailer hitch and stole his whole rig. Number 24's ATV was in it too. What kind of low-life-scum-slime-fungus-dungpile would deliberately wreck someone's race team just to grab the goods? They should catch them and tie them to a pole on downtown mainstreet in Daytona and let the bikers beat the life out f them-sheesh. Anyway, watch Mototalk for the latest. There is a $5,000 reward.
Today Motonews is off to WMR Competition Performance in Boynton Beach, Fl. Above: Women's class GNCC winner April Hodges and her proud dad. She is WMR sponsored.
Jeff Emig (Industry class) and first-time winner Jason Raines stole the show Tuesday at Okeechobee. Raines finished way ahead in the afternoon pro class ahead of hard-charging Fred Andrews and defending champion Rodney Smith.
Parts Unlimited: Industry race, and his son checks Motonews every day. The industry class was un-real! Go to www.gnccracing.com and click on results to see all the names that were riding in it. Very cool. Emig won, second was CTi's Tom Carson, third Cycle World's Jimmy Lewis. Long time legend Dick Burleson was 4th, and in 5th was AMA Pro Racing board director (and former GP road champion) Kevin Schwantz.
William Yokley won the opening round of the GNCC series, ATV class at Okeechobee, Fl. Defending champ Bill Balance was second with a come-from-behind charge. Matt Smiley was third. The day was cold, ATV and media turnout was real good. Tomorrow should be cold too so bring a good jacket. For complete results go to www.gnccracing.com.
When Emig was signing up for tomorrow's industry class, Danny LaPorte was talking about signing up too and he was trying to talk Broc Glover into riding. Eric Sorby is getting closer to a deal with Pro Circuit, maybe even some east SX and nationals if testing goes well. Rodrig Thain's shoulder surgery went OK and he is jogging as part of his training to get ready for Glen Helen. A note on an insignificant web site message board that lacks credibility asked the question what is wrong with MX journalism? The writer wants more hard news, whatever. The simple reason is there are very few people getting paid to write, and this hard news just doesn't sell as well as race reports. It's economics, simple as that. Magazines won't use hard news unless it is exclusive. Race reports don't have to be. No one is making it as a freelancer sending out hard news.
Daytona/Florida Notes: DV is feeling ok and flying in today. The fuss over what happened Monday was dumb. Travis was still having a flu bug and rested this week. Emig is riding the Okeechobee GNCC on a Team Green Kawasaki. The Daytona SX 125 class is shaping up to be a classic preview of the outdoor season. We get to see if Reed can whip the competition outdoors like he has the last three races, or if Brown and Langston have anything for him, and if anyone else (Ward) does too! RC on CRF450R at Glen Helen? He is thinking about it, maybe even Millville. As you know one of the reasons he mentioned in his switch to Honda was the technology, and the 4-stroke possibility. Honda isn't pushing it on him, but he is checking it out, so are Ernie (looked faster on it) and Tortelii. If there are tracks RC was getting pulled by 4-strokes like Ferry's Yamaha last season, he has the option. Contrary to what you may have heard, Suzuki is not working on a 4-stroke RM for release in 2003. They need to wait and see what happens with the Kawasaki partnership first.
Racing: Mid Season Supercross Report Card Here is some artwork by Mototalker/photohound "Toe," who used a lot of big words in one message: "Let me Empower you people with my ability to think outside the box.....The leverage used in today's proactive message board's shows a mindset that is on the fast track to a solid bottom line. The Synergy that is needed for so many people to create a benchmark game plan of working together with a knowledge base that knocks any other moto message board out of the ballpark is a result driven attitude that can only be though of at the end of the day as a win win scenario. To touch base on the client focus of this message board, one would have to be out of the loop not to see that mototalk is the benchmark for all other moto message boards.... with 24/7 chat and its core competencies of the newest and most provocative press releases, it is easily a strategic fit for major players in the moto world to come visit here, not to mention a value added feel that is taken off line and into the sx and national arena's around the country. So make it your best practice to revisit this site as often as possible to get the most possible out of your day." Toe's site is www.xgenerationphotography.com/home.htm
Whack! Here's the bizzatch slap DV gave ronron at Atlanta last weekend. You can just see DV's bike on the ground between them. (Practice Track photo).
Johnny Marley- Privateer Honda rider goes to Star Racing. Star was looking for someone to cover for the injured Jacob Martin and hired Tyson Hadsell (below 2/27) and they also just added Oklahoma's Johnny Marley. Will Jeff Emig really race the Okeechobee GNCC? Someone on Mototalk who should know says don't miss it. If you are in Florida for Daytona, drive on down. Well after 6 years of running on wwwboard software, Mototalk is about to get an upgrade to something contemporary. Mototalk has been a holdout among moto message boards by running the old software so long it looks retro already. Still its the the hangout of choice for moto heavies, journalists, and lurkers who know where to get the straight scoop without a lot of nonsense.
Starting this week, motonews.com has a new sponsor... www.MXposters.com. Owned and operated by Tim Clark, (former Director of the THQ U.S. Open) Clark has put together a program that provides professional looking custom autograph posters at an affordable price. Now... if you are a Top Amateur and want to look like a Pro, you can do it for a reasonable fee. The MXposters.com website even has tips on how to get your sponsors to help offset the costs. No matter if you are a motocrosser, off-roader, trials, road racer, flat tracker or just want to impress your friends, this is a great idea so make sure to check it out. Clark is also looking to build a directory of photographers from across United States. If you are interested in hooking up with him and have you name, phone number and/or website listed on www.MXposters.com, just send him your info to clark@clarktime.com. It could mean more business for you! French fast guy Eric Sorby is reportedly talking to Pro Circuit about a ride.
Honda's ministar Mike Alessi won the 125 Int, 80cc 12-13, 80 Open, and Supermini classes at the CMC Goldenstate National at Glen Helen. KTM's Brock Sellards wanted to try another GNCC at Okeechobee next Tuesday, but dragged his foot while practicing in California and an MRI revealed a torn MCL. He will have surgery and should be back by Houston. Sellards raced the last GNCC at High Point last year but had to pull off with a damaged rear tire.
Racing:
Photos added to 125 Racing
from Atlanta
Motonews coverage of Daytona will start with the GNCC at Okeechobee, FL March 4/5 (Monday and Tuesday). For more info go to The GNCC web site. Also check out the 2 page preview in this week's Cycle News by Mototalker "Jwag."
Tyson Hadsell (#231) is Jacob Martin's replacement on Star Racing while Martin recovers from a nasty shoulder injury. Other happenings: Suzuki thought about adding someone while Windham is out but won't. Amsoil/Factory Connection has been talking to people. Mike Craig will stay off the track and focus on managing the Escondito Cycle Center Suzuki team. Blackfoot Honda has 2001 team race bikes for sale, check out www.blackfootmotosports.com/motor4.html. Note the prices are in Canadian dollars. Have you checked out www.mxposters.com yet?
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