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o o o o o o Continued from page 3 agency. which is responsible for reducing deaths, injuries and economic losses related to motor vehicle crashes. The age ncy sets safety sta ndards for mo tor vehicles and related equipment and provides grants for local traffic safety programs. Martinez, an emergency room physician . left the NHTSA late last yea r to take a job as a senior executive at an Atlanta-based Internet health-care company, Bailey has been assistant secretary of defense for health affairs since 1998. Before that. she served as deputy assistant secretary of defense fo r clinica l services. She has also served as deputy ass istant secretary of de fense for health affairs . and in 1993 served as a spo keswo ma n for C lint o n' s healt hc ar e reform campaign. Ignace Ghijselings. the surgeon w ho has worke d o n both Stefan Everts and Fl dri ver Michael Schumacher. performed the operat ion . It is undecided as to whether Dem ent wi ll continue to race in the 125cc G rand s Pr ix or if he w ill move to the 250 cc GP s for 200 1. o o o o o o o o o o o o o Australian Road Racin g Ch amp ion C lay. ton Chapma n has joi ned Motot ek Rac ing to compete in the final three rounds of t he PACE /F o rm u la USA Ap r il ia C up Series. Clayt o n, wh o started racing at age six. is co nside red to be o ne of the up-andcom ing sta rs from A ustra lia. W ith numero us Au stra lian Stat e and National Ch am pion ship titl es to his name (ranging fro m 60 cc . to 250cc and 90 0c c c at eg o rie s). Clayt on is hopeful of joining the ranks of Troy C orse r. Anth on y Gobert and M at M ladin. Ch apman made his A merican racing deb ut at th e Portland round o f th e PAC E series o n Au gust 6. finishing sixth afte r running o ff the track o n the final lap wh ile attempting to take the lead. Fans o f women ' s m otocross wi ll be pleased to hear t hat A ugu st is a great month for catc hing fast females on televisio n. On Friday . Au gust 11, Fox Sports N etwork ' s Bluetorch TV w ill be airing a profile on Team Green racer A ngie Keuntjes at 4 :00 p.m . Pacif ic Standar d time . T he n a t t he same t i m e o n M o nd ay , A ugust 14 , the same chan nel will feature a segment ove rview o f wome n's motocro s s feat uring S heena Patte rso n. K eu ntj e s . an d t h e W o m e n ' s Ra ci ng League ' s M ik i Keller . C hec k www.blueto rch.com fo r re-airing times. Starting on Frid ay . A ug ust 25 , the Fox Sports N et - Dr. Sue Bailey , the U.S. assistant secretary of defen se for healt h aff airs . has been chose n to head the National Highway Traffic Safety A dm inistrati on (N HTSA ). according to the AMA. President C linton announced on J uly 26 that he wo uld nominat e D r. Bailey to succeed Dr, Ric ard o M art inez as administrator of the federal c C n • Italian Rebirth II Last week we co vered Mondil , one of tw o legenda ry brands from the Italian glory days, about to resurface. Th at leaves Gilera , for three decades the property of the Piaggio scooter em pire, and rivalling MY Agusta as lta ly's most historic m otorcycl e marque, with six 500cc world titl es to its credit in the 1950s. Its certainly the oldest. datin g from J909, and though the Gilera name has only been used on badgeengi neered Piaggio scoo ters since mot orcycle manufactu re was shut down at the company's Arcore factory seven years ago, the re's been co nstant spec ulatio n of late th at Gilera would soon follow its MY Agusta rival in being born again, As revea le d in th is co lu m n some months ago, a gro up of investors has essentially leased the Gilera name from DBMG, the new owners of Piaggio who are more preoccupied with turning the Vespa scooter operation around than on taking on the challeng e of relaunching the much smaller-volume Gilera marq ue. First priority was perceived as getting back into racing. in order to re-establish Gilera's competition heritage . and for this reason the first new model of the bom -again marque was to have been a 600cc Supersport contender - naturally enough , a four-cylinder. since it was Gilera that invented the four-cylinder across-the-frame engine format on two wheels back in the 1930s (befo re this was later dubbed the UJM Universal Japanese Motorcycle). With no time - or resources - to develop its own family of four-stroke engines in the short term . Gile re had to obtain a ready-ma de power uni t from work's She Sport program (w hich airs Fridays for six weeks at 8:30 a.m . Pacific Standard Time) will feature Plano Ho nda's Jacki Hudson in the opening credits. The T HQ U.S . Ope n has signed on 1-800-COLL ECT as an event sponso r, and 1-800-C O LLEC T is having a sweepstakes on its website on which it gives away a trip to the event . plus spending cash . C heck out http; / /www.1800collect.com fo r more info rmation . If you don 't w in the trip but sti ll want to attend the Las V egas event o n October 14-15, you might be interested in the $369 travel package. w hich includes two nights at the MGM Grand , prem ier seating fo r both days of racing , pit passes , an eve nt pro gra m and mo re . Fo r mo re inf o rmat ion, call 877 / 523 -99 16. The FIM recently issued a press release annou nc ing several new m otocro s s rules for the 2001 GP season . W hereas G Ps have traditiona lly gone 40 minutes , plus two laps. the federation is now adopt ing a S upe rc ro s s -st y le forma t in which each race goes 20 laps (though special exceptions w ill be made on long tracks, to make sure races don't go longer than 45 minutes). The points system is also being changed . Fo r each race. championship points will be awarded as follows: First. 25 points; second, 20; third, 16; fourth, 13; another manufacturer, After being turned down by Trium ph for the recentl y launched TT600, the company is now under stood to have concluded a deal with Suzuki for supplies of the new fuel-i njected GSX-R600 which will make its debut at Intermot. However , not unexpectedly, Suzuki wants to wait a year before selling the motor from its latest and greatest to what will inevitably end up being a riv al manufacturer - so the debut of the Gilera 600 cc Supersport Powered by Suzuki has now been rescheduled for Milan 2001 . However, a mockup may be displayed at the Bologna Show in December of this year, b ut Gil eras World Supersport debut won't happen until 2002. However, Gilera wiil stiil m ake its born-again debut with a new pro duction m odel late r this year at Bo logna . but w ith an other Suzuki-engined model, powered by the TLl 0005 Y-twin m ot or currently fitted to the Cagiva Raptor. Prototypes of the bik e - a Naked street rod with m ore spo rty styling than th e Raptor , say co mpany ins id ers - h av e been clocking up the m il es for the past few mon th s out of th e company's base north of Milan at Velate, inside the well- appo inted Gilera Corse fact or y which last acted as the base for the company 's 250cc GP race effort in the early '90s, where production of the new model will start early in the New Year. Th is ine v ita bl y • Will Gile ra re-enter int ernational ra cin g? J:yJ:lenews.J:om reader poll question of the week If you er~ sitting on the starting lin e, ge ting read y to compete in the this year, whicH motorcycle would you prefer to be riding? A: Ryan Hughes' Works Parno Handa RCi!SO C: Andrea Bartolini's Works ;Varnaha YZ4i!&F E: lirant Langston's Works KTM Ii!SS 80 A UGUST 16, 2 000' cu e I e otocross es Nations B. Ricky C rrnich el' Factory Chevy Trucks Kawasaki SRi!SO D: Stefan Everts' arks Husqva rna TCS7 0 Four-Stroke F: iet ael Pichon's Works Corona Suz uki RMi!S O n e vv s Fo r o ff-road racers wh o li ke t o pl an ahea d : The Lo s A ncia nos M .C . wi ll be hosti ng it s GNCC-style Tecate Hare Scrambles o n S und ay , J an uary 2 1 in the hills east of Tecat e, Mexico . For more info rmatio n, call 6 18/28 1- 14 00 (days) or 6 19/4 62-2627 (evenings) . T ravis P as tra na (Suz) won rou nd one of th e V a ns Tr i p l e C rown o f Freesty le Motocross in Las V egas, Nevada, over the Augu st 5 -6 weeke nd. taking home $ 8500 , Past rana closed out his ride by ghosting his bike o ff a jump and f lipp in g o nto his fe et. M ik e Jon es (Kaw) w as a controversial se co nd . w ith C liff ord Ad apt onte (S uz) t hi rd , To mm y Cl owers (Han) fourt h and Trev o r V ines (Yam) fift h. A huge bra w l in t he M eta l M ulisha pits reportedly resulted in two arrests. CN whic h on the other hand won 't deny it eitherl - that the company is also develo ping a World Superbi ke contender based on the Suzuki TLI DOOR engine used by Bim ota to score an upset. if fort unate, SBK victory at Phillip Island in Ap ril, and which V-twin engine guru Franco Fame has gone on record describing as "wo nderful , with not a single bad part in it.' Should such a scenario take place, as now seems most like ly, chances are that Fam e and those involved in Bimota's stalled World Superbike campaign might well shortly find anothe r form of gainful SBK empl oyme nt. gives rise to the suspicion - not yet confirmed by Gilera sources, fifth. 11: sixth . 10: etc, (Before. first got 20 points; second got 17; third got 15; fourth go t 13 ; fi fth got 11; sixth got 10; etc.l Also. the total number of entries will be limited to 50 riders for the 125 cc class (narrowed from two 10-lap Saturday qualifiers of 25 riders each , and one six-lap LCQ) . The 2 50 and 500cc classes will acce p t 40 riders, which will advance through Saturday qualifyi ng prac tices.