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A Desmosedici For You! I Briefly... Continued from page J J members are invited to attend as well as other women involved in the professiona l motocross/supercross industry who are interested in joining the organization. For more information, contact SarahVoss at 210/382-6998. Ray Ca m pa nile, pres ident and general manager of Motorrad North America, the MZ facto ry-owned U.5. office of MZ motorcycles, scooters and ATVs. has res igned, effectiveJune I. Campan ile started as national sales manager w ith Ame rican Jawa Ltd. in1989 and in 1993 convinced the company to impo rt and distribute the MuZ bran d of mo torcycles from Germany. Fo r more informat ion, contact Campanile at 386/6 79-B229. Anti~doping controls we re carried out at the Spanish Grand Prix in Jerez on May 2 w ith all samples coming back negat ive, according to t he FIM. Those te sted were Sete Gibe rnau, Valentino Rossi, Carlos Checa, Marco Simoncelli, Andrea Ballerini and Andrea Do vizioso. RPM (Race Promo tion Management) has announced that note d surgeo n Dr. Arthur Ting will be on hand at this year's Hond a Superb ike C lassic, the combination World Super bike/AMA Superbike event at Mazda laguna Seca Raceway. Ting will be joined at the infield medical center by ce rtified athlet ic trainer Tuan Nguyen . "We definitely are excited about the event and appreciate \ A fhi le it has been commonly under- V V stood that today's MotoGP bikes will eventually become tomorrow's road-going sportbikes, Ducati has now placed a dead line on that dream. The Bologna, Italy-based manufacturer chose the occasion of its biannual World Ducati Wee k in Misano, Italy, to unveil the street version of its V4 Desmosedici engine, the Desmosedici RR, and announce plans to produce a complete bike by the same time in 2006 . "This is a dream for us," Ducati CEO Federico Minoli told a crowd of ove r 10,000 people during the unveiling of the engine on the main stage at WDW, "It is a dream that we want to put on the street simply because we have always brought to the street what we have been racing wit h. It will be a very limited production. We think that we will make one a day, no mor e. It will be very expensive. We will sell at 50,000 eu ros because it has to be a dream. O ur future , from the businesspoint of view, has to be the tw in because that is where our history is. But we felt that we needed to put on the street also what I call the 'Double Two' because that is what we have always done ." Nevertheless, the Desmosedici RR will be the rea l thing, according to Ducati Corse CEO Claudio Domen icali, the father of the Desmos edici MotoGP e ngine. "We tr ied very hard when w e decid ed to put the engine into production to repli- cate as much as possible all the features that are typical of the Desmosed ici and the racing dream for MotoGp," Domenicali said. "The engine will be very exclusive. It w ill feature a lot of the stuff w e are developing dur ing th is year for the Desmosedici MotoGP," Coincidentally, the announcement of the Desmose dici RR come s in the same month 50 years afte r Fabio Taglioni left his position at Mondial and jo ined Ducat i. Taglioni developed t he Desmodromic valve system that is an engineering trademark of the brand . "This is the way that we will celebrate the memory of Taglioni," Minoli said. "I wou ld like to invite you all back here to World Ducati Wee k 2006 , because that is when we w ill deliver the first Desmosedici RR replica." S cott Ro uss eau the opportunity to be involved in the race at this level and guarantee that we will provide the best medica l care possible in the best interest of the racers and all involved," said Mr. Nguyen and Dr. Ting. The Honda Superbike Classic will be he ld July 9-1 I. Motoworldracing.com Racing's Sh ae Bentley will be ou t for the res t of the season . In the past, injuries have sidelined the motocrosser, but this time it's Chro nic Fatfgue Syndr ome that Bentley is battling. "My body is just shutting down, and it's affecting my eyesight and everything ," he said. "If I do five minutes of exercise, I can't recover. My speed is unreal, so it has nothing to do with that. I just need to feel bette r and come back when I'm 100 perce nt." Even thoug h he will miss the entire seaso n, all of his sponsors remain beh ind him. "My tea m is really supportive, they just feel bad for me and want me to get bette r," Bentley said. 8entley is hoping to ret urn for the start of the 2005 Supercross Series aboard a Motoworl dracing.com Suzuki. Clear Cha nnel Entertainment's Moto r Sports division hasannounced that tickets CANCELED: Due to the current economic conditio ns like gas prices. low er rider turnout and other races in close proximity to this one, the Eddie Mulder 's West Coast Vintage Dirt Track scheduled for Anderson. "Now Randywillbe assigned to assist those reps and fill in any gaps while providing dedica ted sales support for them here in our ticket options are now available, including, main office in California ." for the first time ever, the Black Jack Package for $121 . The package include s one of the best seats in the stadium, an all-access Saturday, June 12 in Tulare , California, has been canceled so they can concentrate on the Ventura, California, race on June26, according to Mulder. 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A variety of www.cyclenews.com pit sticker (which allows you to visit the pits be fore and after the race), an 8X I0 ride r picture , a Bar-to-Bar 2004 DVD, a supercross hat and an exclusive supercross t· shirt. In add ition , for ON LY the first 500 fans who purc hase the BlackJack Package, you will receive an invitation to walk on the official supercrosstrack! For more info rrnation, visit supercross.cc.com. CYCLE NEWS • JUNE 2, 200 4 13