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Continued from page 2 Canadian Motorsports Hall of Fame in a ceremony scheduled for February 19 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. DuHamel, the father of current road racers Miguel and Mario, has won races in motocross, snowmobile, dirt track, ice racing and road racing events. from March 1'2 to June 25, with the Kyalami, South Africa, round now slated to open the series on April 2. In addition, a round has been added for October 8 with the venue still to be confirmed. The new World Superbike schedule is as follows: April 2 - Kyalami, South Africa: April 23 - Phillip Island, Australia: April 30 Sugo, Japan; May 14 - Donington Park, England: May 21 - Monza, Italy: June 4 Hockenheim, Germany: June 18 - Misano, Italy: June 25 - Valencia, Spain: July 9 Laguna Seca, California; August 6 Brands Hatch, England: September 3 Assen, Holland: September 10 - Oschersieben, Germany; October 8 - to be announced: October 15 - Imola, Italy. The Texas Department of Economic Development has designated American IronHorse Motorcycle Co. as a state enterprise project, making the company eligible to receive sales-tax rebates and use tax relief of up to $1.25 million for the next five years. Under the economic incentive program, American IronHorse will hire as many as 83 employees who live within the manufacturer's north Fort Worth enterprise zone. A sales tax rebate of $2000 per zone employee up to $250,000 a year will be reimbursed to the company, which currently employees 44 people. o o Team Race Against Cancer 4 Kids (TRACK) will host a motorcycle school at Laguna Seca Raceway in Monterey, California, on February 7 in conjunction with Team Desmo. For more information, call 831/320-6683. o o The Illinois Motorcycle Dealers Association has named Amateur Josh Lee Toungett as its "Illinois Top Rider r-... Award" winner. Toungett will receive the award at the IMDA banquet on January 23. The FIM released its provisional entry lists for the 2000 Road Racing World Championships with 22 riders slated to enter the 500cc Grand Prix class. The 500cc GP entry list is as follows: Alex Criville (Repsol Honda); Kenny Roberts Jr. (Movistar Suzuki): Max Biaggi (Marlboro Yamaha); Sete Gibernau The World Superbike Series opener in Valencia, Spain, has been postponed By ALAN CATHCART • • No NAKED MILLE JUST YET The Aprilia RSV Mille naked roadster, which was due to debut at the 1999 Bologna Show opening on December 4, has since been put on hold while Aprilia figures oUI a way 10 match the fuel-injected eight-valve Cagiva Raptors killer price structure, likely to start at $9800 list in Italy for the base-model version when productio.n beginS in March - or the same price as the slower, carbureted M900 Ducati. Aprilia's 6O-degree V-twin fuel-injected motor could have provided similar performance to the new Cagiva even in detuned Sll 000 Falco guise - but the problem is one of cost: The Falco retails for quite a bit more and it's unlikely that the half-faired nudie version would be a lot cheaper, even without bodywork. Add in the fact Ihat the long-overdue Ducati Monster alto va/wle fitted with the ST4 versiqn of the 916-family desmoqllattro motor has been a frequent sighting around the Bologna factory of late, and is expected to debut at lnterrnot 2000, and Aprilia's caution becomes understandable. Economies of scale may allow the RSV Roadster to be resurrected once RSV Mille production cranks up more during the next 12 months, but for now the project is definitely mothballed· in spite of existing in preproduction guise and Aprilia will focus on their existing range for the time being. CRepsol Honda): Norick Abe (Antena 3 Yamaha): Carlos Checa (Marlboro Yamaha); Tadayuki Okada CRepsol Honda); Nobuatsu Aoki (Movistar Suzuki): David de Gea (Proton KR Modenas): Shane Norval (Sabre Sport Honda); Juan Bo~a (Honda Pons): Yoshiteru Konishi (FCC Honda): Jurgen van den Goorbergh (Rizla Honda): Sebastien Gimbert CTecmas Honda Elf): Garry McCoy (Red Bull Yamaha): Jose Luis Cardoso CDee Cee Jeans Honda): Tetsuya Harada (Aprilia): Paolo Tessari (Team Paton); Valentino Rossi (Honda Team Rossi): Regis Laconi (Red Bull Yamaha): Loris Capirossi (Honda Pons): Jeremy McWilliams CAprilia). There are 27 provisional entries in the 250cc GP class and 27 in the 125cc class. Sport Management Inc. has developed "How to Sell Sponsorships Like a Pro" and is making the sales guide available. "Dozens of representatives for athletes, events and teams have contacted our agency, searching out assistance with sponsorship solicitation," said Tom Mueller, president of Sports Management. "Our 'How to Sell' guide allows us to demonstrate how each group can build its own sponsorship program and then successfully implement the sales process." The 40-page manual is available Instead, Aprilia will focus on final development of the other new MiIle-based model, expected to debut at Intermot 2000: the RSVl000 Pegas<>. This V-twin rival to the new Cagiva avigator, BMW R115OGS, Honda Varadero and Triumph Tiger EFI in the Iarge-capacity sports trail-bike market wiU again use the detuned Falco ve'Sion of the 6O-degree V-twin motor, still with fuel injection and tarmac-orientated chassis design. Under development for the past three years, this will again struggle to beat the Cagiva and Honda competition on price, but this is not held to be so crucial in the big enduro market, hence the green light. READING WITH KING CARL As the century turns, Carl Fogarty is one of motorcycling'S genuine heroes - and not only jf you're British and one of Foggy's army of supporters crowding· 120,000 strong in Brands Hatch for a World Superbike round. There aren't many riders in the world whose unmistakably intense eyes have graced newsstands by being pictured alone on the front cover of a mainstream bike magazine (the October '99 issue of Holland's Kicxstart, in case you wondered), but Foggy's been there, done that - and now the rags-to-riches story of the son of an accomplished Isle of Man IT racer has been retold in upto-date form by Britain's voice of Superbike racing, Julian Ryder. "Carl Fogarty - The CompLete Racer" aSBN #1-85960-6415) is an updated version of Ryder'S first Fogarty biography published five yeaTS ago, but in larger format and with a farsuperior selection of photos covering Carl's career from club racing in Britain, through ble of '\1an IT succe.s (including ~~~~~~~~~~ [yclenews.~om reader poll question of the week: Mota Sports brings- its new Formula USA Road Race a II r cetrack near you, what is the probability that a Id attend? To cast your vote, I.og on to http://www.cyclenews.com. 66 JANUARY 26. 2000' c:: U c:: I e n e VII' !is for $21.95. For more information, call 614/899-9476. Dirt Rider magazine editor Ken Faught suffered a second-degree shoulder separation in a crash while testing the Yamaha WR400F at a press introduction in Costa Rica. Former AMA Grand National Champion Gene Romero has offiCially announced his 2000 West Coast Flat Track Series schedule. The series has been more than doubled to include nine concrete dates, 'with the chance for an additional race for the month of June currently in negotiation. So far, the schedule is as follows: April 29 Mohave, Arizona; May 20 - Hanford, California; July 8 - Watsonville, Califomia: July 22 - Vallejo, California; August 5 - Chico, California; August 19 - Aubum, California; September 9 - Ventura, California: September 30 - Placerville, California: October 14 - Watsonville, California. In an effort to increase series' participation, Romero has also decided to introduce a third class, to be known as Novice Modified Production, to the series. This "spec" class is designed to allow owners of 250cc motocross and off-road motorcycles a chance to race flat track. For more information, contact Romero at 714/529-6054, or e-mail himatgromero333@aol.com. l:1li setting an outright lap record on his Yamaha, which stocxnor many years), his first IT Formula One World title for Honcla in 1988, his subsequent World Endurance crown with Kawasaki, and then four World Superbike Championships (so far) with Ducati. Ryder's easy-reading text tells a warm and human tale, giving an accurate picture of the bluff Lancastrian who combines being intensely popular with a privacy verging on shyness, who is very much his own man in the midst of the corporate melee of Superbike sport. yet whose dedication to the cause of winning is almost frighteningly committed and assuredly unshakeable. This i. a story well worth reading, recounting the many ups and few downs of a racing career, which on two wheels reflects that of Britain's other 1990s motor-racing folk-hero on four, Nigel Mansell - christened "tI Leone" by hero-worshipping Italians during his ti,me at Feuari, just as Carl Fogarty is idolized in the same way and with the same reverential nickname in Italy tociay. Together with his wife, Michacle, and two daui(htcrs, Fogarty comes across in this book as someone genUinely untouched by the success he's achieved at doing something he Lives for racing motorcycles, to win. Although written with Carl's full cooperation, this isn't a whitewash job: Ryder doesn't skjrt the issue of Carl's notorious bad temper when things aren't going right, nor the (relatively few) mistakes he's made in attaining his present status as the most successful rider still competing in any class of road racing today. You don't have to like its subject to enjoy this book - but you11 appreciate him and hls achievements all the more after reading it