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Briefly••• Lange Clinches Arenacross Title Corser Concepts, the company owned and operated by Dale Corser, has announced its 2005 World Superbike Tour in Australia. The 12-day motorcycle road trip will be hosted by Corser and includes a two-day pass to the 2005 World Superbike Championship at Phillip Island, a Sydney Harbor cruise, plus travel along the coastal roads of Australia on modern Harley-Davidsons. The tour is open to all motorcycle enthUSiasts, regardless of skill level. Riders must be over 2S and licensed to ride a motorcycle in their country of origin. The tour numbers are limited to 15 riders. The ride will take place March 30 to April 10, and the registration deadline is March 15. For more information, visit www.corserconcepts.com.au. I n one of the most dominating seasons in Arenacross history, Canadian Darcy Lange, of the Kawasaki Team Green/Pro Circuit/Richmond Racing team, completed his back-to-back championship quest in Denver, Colorado, January 28-29. After winning the 125cc main event on Friday night and placing second to Shogun/Factory Yamaha/Thor's Chad Johnson in the 2S0cc main, it was enough for him to wrap up the 200S National Arenacross Championship with one round left on the 2004-0S schedule. "It was a perfect season, although the Denver event wasn't perfect," Lange said. "I just couldn't get good starts and worked up to Chad most the time." In the 2S0cc main event Friday night, Lange was leading the race when another rider took him out. He still got up and finished second. After finishing second to Lange in the first race Friday night, Johnson pretty much dominated the rest of the Motocross icon David Bailey will share his recollections and enthusiasm for motocross at the 17th annual Motorcycle Hall of Fame Museum uFriend-Raising" Breakfast, scheduled for Friday, March I I at 8 a.m., during Daytona Bike Week. Bailey will be interviewed by Davey Coombs, founder and publisher of RacerX Magazine. The breakfast is one of the many ways the Motorcycle Hall of Fame Museum spotlights its national exhibits, educational events and preservation programs. In addition to serving as keynote speaker, Bailey will also be one of the champions showcased in the Museum's next major exhibit, "Motocross America," the first-ever exhibit to chronicle the history of American motocross. Motocross America opens in the spring of 2005. As part of the grand opening celebration, the Motorcycle Hall of Fame Museum will host a "MotoX Reunion" of the legendary racers, tuners and factory stars featured in the exhibit. The event will be held at the Museum on July 14, just before the July IS-17 AMA Vintage Motorcycle Days. The breakfast will be held at the Holiday Inn and Convention Center in De Land, Florida. Doors open at 8 a.m. Admission is $20, and all proceeds benefit the Motorcycle Hall of Fame Museum. To RSVP or to learn about sponsorship opportunities, call the museum at 614/8562222 prior to February 22. weekend's racing action, winning Friday's 250c( main and both mains Saturday night. He also won both Dash For Cash races. John Clifford Darcy Lange clinched the National Arenacross Championship in Denver. Nixon To Grand Marshal Vintage Daytona Gary Nixon and Triumph motorcycles roared to the top of the American racing scene together in the 19605, so it's appropriate that the two-time AMA Grand National Champion and 1967 Daytona 200 winner will serve as grand marshal for the AHRMA's Daytona Bike Week festivities as the vintage-racing organization debuts the Triumph Thruxton Cup Challenge. Daytona International Speedway will host two full days of AHRMA road acing, Monday and Tuesday, March 7 and 8, for rounds two and three of the 200S Progressive Suspension Historic Cup Series for motorcycles racing from the 1930s to the I980s, as well as modern singles, twins and triples. Running for the first time during Bike Week is the Triumph Thruxton Cup Challenge, a spec class for the new retro cafe racer Triumph Thruxton 900. Triumph Motorcycles (America) Ltd. and AHRMA have posted a $4S00 points fund for the 2005 series, and the champion also will win a trip to the Triumph factory in England and British-motorcycling landmarks, including the Ace Cafe and the National Motorcycle Museum. In motorcycle-racing history, Nixon and Triumph will be forever linked. Of Nixon's 19 AMA Grand National wins between 1963 and 1974, the first I S came on Triumphs, including his Daytona win. Triumphs carried Nixon to his two Grand National titles, in 1967 and '68, and the vast majority of his more than ISO National finishes. Nixon's best performances came on pavement and his first AMA National win, in 1963 at Windber, Pennsylvania, was a road race, as were 10 more of his National victories. He competed in the Daytona 200 a total of 16 times between 1960 and 197B, and finished in the top 10 on six occasions, including his 1967 win. After parting ways with Triumph before the 1972 season, Nixon went on to race for Kawasaki. He also competed on Yamahas and Suzukis before retiring from professional racing in 1979. Nixon, 64, was inducted into the Motorcycle Hall of Fame in 1998, and these days is found competing several times a year at AHRMA events. At Daytona, he'll race a Triumph triple in AHRMA's Formula 750 and Formula Vintage classes. Buell Motorcycle Company has announced its road racing support program for 2005, with $70,500 in contingency paid to racers aboard Buell motorcycles in the eight-round national Formula USA Thunderbike class. The program offers Buell racers $8000 per race in contingency paid back to 15th place, in addition to Formula USA:s $2000 Thunderbike purse paid back to 10th, plus a $6500 championship bonus for Buell racers paid back to fifth place, supplementing Formula USA's $S500 championship bonus. "We're proud to once again support the efforts of Buell racers in Formula USA's National Thunderbike class, which continues to draw large grids and features great racing," said Erik Buell, chairman and chief technical officer of Buell Motorcycle Company. The Formula USA Thunderbike class will be a featured event Continued on page '1 CYCLE NEWS • FEBRUARY 9,2005 9