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o o c c c [ Continued from page 3 American Honda and Team Kawasaki will head to Sears Point Raceway for a ners in this year's election for the AMA Board of Trustees. Gray, a 21-year AMA member who lives in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, has served on the Board for the two-day test session, January 28-29, in preparation for the AMA Superbike Challenge, May 4-6. past six years and is the current chairman. He was the winner in a three-way Richard Ford. of Towson, Maryland, is the grand prize winner of the Cycle News u race for the seat representing the Northeast Region. Other candidates were Jerry Wood, and Robert Coy. In North Central Region balloting, Smith, of Wausau, Wisconsin, earned the Board 2001 Daytona Sweepstakes. Ford wins a TravelCraft Bike Week Package that includes air travel, hotel and rental car, a one-year subscription to Cycle News and two VIP tickets to all of the big events C C seat over Dale Greenwald. Smith is a 28-year AMA member who served for nine years as executive director of the AHRMA before retiring last year. He is also a two-time World Motocross Champion. In the Northwest Region, Trustee Dal Smilie of Helena, Montana, who is also the Board vice chairman, was unopposed. All three candidates were elected for three-year terms. taking place in Daytona Beach, Florida during Bike Week in March. C o Skyking Products has announced that it will donate a portion of its safety banner sales to the Clayton Memorial Foundation ~o in 2001. More information on the banners can be found at the company's website at: www.skykingproducts.com. Starting with the Phoenix round, L.A. Sleeve/Niks Pro-X plans to have Ted Heilbron attend the rest of the The AMA has announced that Richard Gray and Jeff Smith were the win- o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o By ALAN AMAlEA Sports Supercross Series, offering technical piston and clutch support, and overseeing the $67,000 L.A. SleevelNiks Pro-X privateer-contingency program. For more info call 888/487-6457. SFX Motor Sports Group has released its 1 Formula USA National Dirt Track Series schedule. The current schedule features 10 confirmed events and re-visits six cities where the series ran last season, with two additional dates to be announced later. The series is scheduled to begin in late spring and run through summer before finishing in October with the Concours D' Elegance/K&N Filters Del Mar Mile at the Del Mar Fairgrounds in Del Mar, California. Formula USA has also revised its focus within the series, the sanctioning body claiming that it is looking forward to introducing dirt track racing to a number of new market areas as part of its overall strategy to grow the popularity of the sport. Part of the plan calls for some China's largest scooter maIlUfacturers which produced men than CATHCART 500.000 ~ two-.i1eelel$ln 1999. mel Is firmly atabIIshed as a ~ leader in the C1lInese ~ 0d:IltaI end SuncIIro have just announced an agreement to lIIso develop a two-stroke car • engine using the Australian fuIl!!I.irgedion system. Of Aprilia and Peugeot WIth the RSW500 V-twIn bringing its heIf-dec8de d R&D to en hanoreble end by taklng pole posItIcn In Jeremy Mc:WlIIlams' hands for the final OP of the 2000 season at PhIllIp Island, Aprilla Is now foc:used on deveIoplng a very cIIII'erent kind of engine for the 2002 season - lis own four-SI1'Oke OPt design. on which the design team laboring under AprIlie race boss Jan Witteveen is already hard at wor1<. At the recent BoIogne Motor Show, company boss Ivane BeggIo reveeJed Aprllla's total budget for OP road re<:ing in 2001 as being 70 million IR - about $33 million, to include R&D on both two-stroke and four-stroke engine designs, plus participation In World Superbike as well as the 250 end 125<:<: OP classes (AprIIia is the defending champion in the latter). The 500cc OP effort hllll been suspended for one year, until the four-stroke OPI motor comes on Ilne. WIth Troy Corser set to be joined by Fren<:h ex-works Yamaha SOOcc OP rider Regis Laconi on the AprIIIa World Superbike team, Wltteveen has gone on record lIS saying that one of these two wiU be tasked with the job of developing the Aprl1la four-stroke QP racer, as well as racing It in its 2002 debut season. Some Incentlve to shine in Superbikesl AprIIIa has been followed in Its adoption of the OrbItal Engine airassisted dRct-injection tee:hnoIogy end assoc:Iated engine-management system by France's Peugeot. whose scooter division - Europe's third-largest manufacturer of powered two-wheelers, after P1agglo end Aprl1ia - is presently developing a range of fuel-injected twostroke scooters ready for the forth<:oming Euro 2 end Euro 3 emissions regulations. The prototype version of the 500cc version was displayed on the Peugeot stand at intermot 2000. and Is set for laundl at the Paris Show in September 2001. Orbital has also signed an agreement with the Shanghai-based company Sundiro, one of 8 o c r: ... L.I \-/ n o 8 [l CJ 60 JANUARY 31, 2001 • 0: U 0: I e n e _ os Expect a four-stroke Aprilia GP engine to join this RSV1000 Superbike powerplant. events to be recognized as "Grand Slam" events. Four returning dates, including the Oklahoma City Half Mile, Rapid City Half Mile, Seattle Mile and Sacramento Mile, lead to the ultimate Grand Slam Finale, the Del Mar event. The Grand Slam events will feature both the 600cc to 1000cc Super Singles & Twins class and the Pro Singles National Championship class. All new dates will be Pro Singles National Championship rounds only. With the change in direction, Formula USA will award its series points, season-ending points fund and crown its National Champion exclusively from the Pro Singles class. In addition, at the preViously mentioned" Grand Slam" events, the series will feature a separate five-race - Challenge" element that will be tied to the Super Singles & Twins (formerly known as National) class. Formula USA also announced that it has re-signed Wrenchead.com as an associate sponsor for the series. More information on a title sponsor as well as purse information for all of the rounds will be forthcoming. The tentative schedule is as follows: May 19 - TBA; June 9 TBA; June 15 - Rochester, New Hampshire; July 14 . Oklahoma City, Oklahoma; August 8 - Rapid City. South Dakota; August 25 . Vancouver. British Columbia, Canada; September 8 - Portland, Oregon; September 15 - Boise. Idaho; September 22 - Seattle. Washington; September 29 - Sacramento, California; October 6 - Del Mar, California; October 7 . Del Mar, California. The Bureau of Land Management (BLMl and several environmental groups have reached an agreement that will reduce access to roads and protect "rare" species in 11.5 million acres between the eastern Sierra and the Mexican border, news agencies reported on January 19. The pact reduces grazing and will restrict trail use in "sen· sitive" desert areas. The agreement settles a lawsuit filed in March by the Sierra Club, the Center for Biological Diversity and Public Employees for Ethical Responsibility. The agreement imposes immediate restrictions on activities, including off-road vehicle use, that is deemed to be threatening to fragile plants and wildlife. eN