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o o ~ o Belgian Joe l Smets (KTM ) won the Spanish 500cc Motocross Grand Prix at Osuna, Spain, on April 23, Smets pulled the holeshot in both moto s and ran away for the double-moto wins, "I really had to wo rk hard today," Smets joked , " No really, the track was tough, In fact. the track was my only real problem, " Second place in Sp ain wa s S met s ' KTM team ma te Peter Johansson , w ho t all ied 4 -2 results. while third place went to defending champion Andrea Bartolin i (Yam) with 3-3 scores , Johansson did his best t o come up w ith an answ er t o S met s ' domination, "The only way we can beat him is by knocking him out. " Johansson kidded . "H e i s j ust t oo g ood at t he moment. " New Zealand's Shayne King, racing a prod uction-based machine, co mpare d to th e fact ory bikes of his KTM teammates Smet s and Johansson . was happy with his sixth-place ov erall. King used the Spanish GP as a preparation for the upcoming AM A National M X Series, "I did not want to race a bike with factory parts," King said, " In America you can't use the parts they use here in Europe, and while it made it a little tough today, I felt I learned enough to co me away from Spain happy. " o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o James Haydon (Duc) and Ne il Hodgson (Duc) split wins in the third round of o o o n o o o o u t he B rit ish S uperbik e C hampions hip round at Thruxton on Monday, April 24, Haydon beat Chr is W alker and Hodgson in th e fir st race wi th Hodgso n com ing bac k t o bea t S t eve Hislo p and J ohn Reynolds in race two. Reynolds leads the championship point standings over Hodqson. 11 2-106. tralia on April 23 . Fogarty was operated on at the Alfred Hospital in Melbourne , Au stralia, w here surgeons used a titaniKawasaki Team Manager Mike Presion's resp onse for Ihe "fuel ly pe " um plate and seven screw s to fix the brocal egory on Cycle News "Bikes of Ih e Sla rs " in formation sheel for ken humerous bone (upper arm). Fogarty ~ Eric Boslrom's Supersporl bike (Ka wasaki purchases its own f ue(J. wi ll be in a cast fo r 15 day s and then faces rehabilitation, likely keeping him out have announced that the AM A Dirt Track disappointed wit h the news he got from of act ion fo r up to two months. Fogarty Nationals will be part of their Tire Aw ards his doct or last wee k. " It seems that one may en d up bei ng rep lac ed by Lu ca Proqrarn. For more information. call A&A of the bones is okay," Evert s said. "The Cadalora , who was hired earl ier this other, though , is not mending, and I might at 800/ 55 1-7755. year as a test rider for Ducati. Cadalora have to have an operation. To be honest. te st ed p rior t o last weeke nd 's W o rld this has really put me on a downer, I have Race Tech will hold what it calls " Bike Superbike round in Australia. bee n th roug h a tough few years, and I Setup 10 1" at the AMA National Hare & just have to think that all my problems will Hound round in Lucern e. Califo rnia, on Acc o rding to Tony Strangio , the team end soon, I don' t even want to go to the Apri l 29. The sessio n will start at roughly manage r for Jeff Em ig ' s Strat egic3/ motocros s lracesl . It' s better if I spend 3 p .m. and is aimed at helpin g yo ung TheEdgeSports.com team, Emig will promy time thinking abo ut ot he r things . " desert racers . For more information , call cee d w ith his o rig inal plan to rac e his Evert s will vis it his doc tor again in two 909 / 594-7755 , VZ250 two -strok e in the upcoming Ch evy weeks, then he will find out if it' s possible Truck s AMA 2 50c c N at ional Champ ito go racing or have the operation. If he is Castrol Honda has announced that Manon sh ip M o t o c r o ss S e rie s . Emig w as to have the arm operated on, he will more abu Kamada will join Colin Edwards on Yamaha's rider of choice to compete on than likely miss just about the complete t he t eam ' s RC51 s fo r the upc omin g th e inj ure d J imm y B ut t o n ' s f ac to ry season. "I just want to get back as soon Japanese round of the W orld Superbike back ed YZ426 F four-str ok e. w hen the as possible. " Evert s said from Spain, "I Ch ampion ship in Sugo , Japan. on April company decided not to go thro ugh with thought I could come back quickly, now it 30. Kamada is replaci ng Simon C rafar, the plan. " Yamaha decided that they just turns out much wo rse. I hope I can at who served as the replacement rider for we ren't prepared to do the program, afte r least do some Grands Prix this year." Aaron Slight in the first two rounds of the all." Strangio said, Yamaha will not field a series. "W e've assesse d the current sitfactory-backed four-stroke on the Nati onFormer W orld Trials Champion Tommy uation with the team and, after discu ssion al circuit thi s year , though it is possible Ahvala will put on a trials-riding demonwith HRC, have opted to use a Japanese th at D ou g D ub ac h might ri d e a f ew stration at Sears Point Raceway in Sonorider for the Japanese round, for a numselected rounds on the bike. ma, Ca lifornia. as part of Sonoma fest , ber of reasons" said team manager Neil April 28 -Ma y 7 . Ah vala wil l perf orm at Tuxworth. " Kamada is Honda's test rider , S tefan Everts , who was injured at the Vallejo Speedway on Friday night, April he is v e ry ex pe rie nce d , has a g o od Beaucaire International in Febru ary, w ill 28, and he'll be at Sears Point on Saturknowledg e of the Sugo circuit and has now most likely miss most of this year's day and Sunday, Apr il 28-29. also ridd en t he ne w S PW [R C51 J FIM W orld Ch a mp io nsh ip 50 0 c c M X machine - in a test at Sugo last week," Series, as his broken arm is taking longer To co incide with the release of the new The team said that Crafar might be used than expected to heal. Everts att ended M axxi s 17 -inch di rt tr ack tires, A&A Racing Service and Maxxis International the Spanish 500 Grand Prix and was very at the D oni ng to n Park and/or M onz a me Fo rm e r Au st ral ian C hampi on Ke v in Curtain (Yam) has wr itt en himself into the record books with a dominant display at Mou nt Pano rama, Bathu rst . in Australia, on April 23 . W inning every race in which he started, the 33-year-old Curt ain w as no thin g sho r t of br illi ant as he scorched around the 3.7-mile road circuit, smashing the previous lap record held by Shawn Giles by 2.47 seconds on the way to winning the Australian over 49 laps, acco rding to Cy cle N ews co ntributor Darryl Flack. o o Afterm arket ex haust ma n ufa cture r SuperT rap p h as re sig ned as the ti tl e sponsor for the 2000 AMA SuperT rap p SuperT rac ker Seri es. "SuperTra pp is pl eased t o spon sor th e AMA SuperTrapp SuperTra ck er Ser ies for its second year," said Larry Tre vath an , Gen era l Mana ger at SuperTrapp. " Based on th e succ ess of last year' s inaugural season , we beli ev e the ser ies pro ved t o be an exciting addition to the sport of di rt- track racing." A ccording to the AMA, the 2000 series marks th e sec ond of a three-year program o f testing and d evelopment for th e SuperTrapp SuperT racker Serie s, wh ich runs at sel ected events of the 2 000 AMA Prog ress ive Insuran ce U .S. Flat T ra ck Cha mpionshi ps . Su perTracker ru les and equi pment sta ndard s were created with th e guidance of race -t eam owners, and des ig ned to encourage the partici pa tion of a wi d e ra nge o f m o to rc y cl e m an ufacturer s. La st seaso n's entries incl ude d bik es powered by Suzuki , Honda , Du c at i, Yamah a and Harley -D av id son engines . "T he new b ikes have inj ect ed a fresh look to th e Grand n ~ o o Def ending W orld Superbike Ch ampion Carl Fogarty underw ent surgery on Monday. April 24 to repair his broken arm suffe red in the second race of the World Superb ike round at Phillip Island in Aus - 8DCDWJ[})(B[?- - - - - -o o o o o o o o ~ " Race fuel." ..J N at ional circuit, and should open up dirt -tra ck racing to a la rger audience of m otorc yclists and rac e fan s," Trevathan sai d . " W e a lso w an t t o con g ratu la te 1999 SuperTrapp SuperTracker Ser ies Ch am pion J oe K opp , h is te am , and Suzu ki as we ll as th e oth er rid ers and t eams tha t c o ntr ibuted t o m aking the ina ug ural season a success." SuperT rapp suppo rt s th e Sup erT rack er rac er s by c ontributing $14 ,000 t o th e seri es purse. Wh en combine d w ith race o rg anizer co ntribu tions , a t ot al of $6 3 ,0 0 0 is up fo r gra bs over the c ourse of the 200 0 SuperTrapp SuperTrack er sea son. The 2000 Su perTra pp Su perT racker seaso n schedule is as follows: May 19 - Harrington , Delaware, Half Mile Ma y 20 - Harr ington , D elaw ar e, Half M ile J un e 24 - Lima , Oh io , Half Mile July 1 - J o li et, Illinoi s, Hal f Mile July 29 - Rossburg , Oh io , Half Mile September 2 - Sprin gfi eld , Ill in o is, Mile September 9 - Vernon , New York, Mil e October 15 - Du Quoin , Illino is, Mile - - - - ~_~-rE: 750 2750 5000 B500 IB,21L1 ApprDximate rnmbined tDtal ApprDximate cDmbined tDtal ApprDximate combined tDtal Approximate combined total ApprDximate combined total disp lacement lin cubic displacement li n cubic cen- displacement lin cubic cen- disp lacement li n cubic een- displacement lin cubic cen- centimeters) Df all I 5 bikes timetersl Df all 22 bikes timeters) Df all 20 bikes timetersl Df all 57 bikes timeters! 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