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Beginning this summer, Kentucky
motorcyclists will not longer be forced
to provide proof of medical insurance to
ride without a helmet, according to the
AMA. Governor Paul Patton signed into
law House Bill 619 on April 5, a bill that
repeals the proof-of-insurance requirement.
The 'new law takes effect in mid-July,
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Yoshimura Suzuki's Mat Mladin was
consistently the qUickest of the AMA
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Superbike racers who took part in a test
session at Road Atlanta last week.
Mladin put together a string of low 1:24
lap times. under the quickest laps tumed
in during last year's AMA Superbike
National at the Braselton, Georgia. facility. The quickest of the 600cc Supersport
riders was American Honda's Nicky Hay'
den, though the youngster crashed and
injured his ankle later in the test.
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The Canadian Superbike Championship will use timed qualifying to determine its starting lineup in 2000 - the first
time the series has gone away from heat
races to detenmine the final starting grid.
Yamaha Motor Canada has sponsored
the purchase of an electronic timing and
scoring system that will be used in the
Superbike Series. The Open Sportbike
and 600cc Sportbike classes will begin
using the system in 2001. The Canadian
series gets underway at Race City
Motorsports Park in Calgary, Alberta,
June 9-1 1, and concludes at Shannonville
Motorsports ~ark in Shannonville,
Ontario, September 1-3.
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There were puzzled faces and much scratching of heads at
the Japanese Grand Prix on April 8 when the long-awaited
announcement came from the FIM concerning the regulations for four-stroke GP machines in the SOOcc class, As
expected, the class will be opened to four-strokes from
2002. Also as expected, the capacity limit will be 990cc,
with various weight limits for different numbers of cylinders
(three cylinders - 297 pounds; three cylinders with oval
pistons - 319 pounds; four and five cylinders - 319 pounds;
four or more cylinders with oval pistons - 341 pounds; six
or more cylinders - 341 pounds).
Further, there was no surprise in limitations on fuel tank
capacity for two-strokes and four-strokes. The surprise
came in the framing of the rules, which banned twin-cylindef machines, and at the same time allowed them. The
"Alice in Wonderland" contradiction was very hard to
understand, though it is clearly aimea at protecting production-based Superb ike racing, and ensuring th.at any
four-stroke GP bikes will be genuine prototypes rather than
road-based mach.ines.
The World Supersport Championship kicks off at Phillip Island in Australia on April 23, running in conjunction
with round two of the World Superbike
Championship.
Tickets are currently on sale for the third
round of the Formula USA Wrenchead.com National Road Race
Series, scheduled for Road America in
Elkhart Lake, Wisconsin, May 19-21.
Tickets are $20 for Sunday's main event
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More French News
Last week we updated you, on French company Voxen's growth.
This week we talce a look at another French company - Boxer which has confirmed that production of the Voxan-engined Boxer
VBI (star of the 1999 Paris Show) will begin in Jllne. One hundred
cUlltOrner examples of the good-looking sportbike will be built this
year at the Boxer factory in Toulooee, using the innovative stock
VOllan roIJIng chassis with twin steel tubes hoIted to alloy castings
comprising the &leering head and c:omblned oil tank/swingarrn pivot.
A Showa fork and 0hIlns shodt replace the original WP e