PHOTOGRAPHY BY GOLD & GOOSE
VOL. 50 ISSUE 30 JULY 30, 2013
Former 500cc World Champion Kevin Schwantz finished
on the podium in the Suzuka 8 Hour with his team of
Yukio Kagayama and Noriyuki Haga finishing third.
leg over one a few more times.
Stoner will do four tests at Motegi in Japan with
Honda's R&D team, riding both the evolution of the
RC213V and the new production racer that HRC will
sell to selected teams next year to race in MotoGP.
"It's been almost seven months now since Valencia and I'm still happy and comfortable with the decision I made to stop racing," Stoner said. "Sometimes I miss riding my RCV, so I am happy that HRC
asked me to do some tests in Motegi this year. This
will allow me to enjoy what I miss: riding a MotoGP
bike. I'm looking forward to getting on the bike and
see how it has changed from last year and I'd like to
thank Honda for this opportunity"
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Briefly...
First Timer
Jodi Christie scored his
first career Canadian Superbike
Championship
win in dramatic fashion on
Sunday as he beat Jordan
Szoke by just .036 of a
second to claim the third
round of the series at Atlantic Motorsport Park.
The 20-year-old Christie
took the lead from two
laps from the end of the
22-lap and held off a late
challenge from Szoke at
the line.
50 Is Nifty
On August 16, 1963, Suzuki officially entered
the American motorcycle
market. Fifty years later,
at the Red Bull Indianapolis MotoGP, August
16-18, the company will
commemorate the anniversary and celebrate the
customers, dealers and
vehicles that make Suzuki
a major influence on the
powersports market. Suzuki's 50th Anniversary
event will take place in the
Suzuki Fan Paddock at
turn two with the largest
customer display by any
manufacturer at this year's
Indianapolis MotoGP race
weekend.
Ohge Improving
AMA road racer Travis Ohge has been upgraded from critical to
serious condition as a
result of his crash during
the Supersport race at
Mazda Raceway Laguna
Seca last weekend. The
19-year-old was attended
to at trackside by medical
staff before being transferred via helicopter to
the Santa Clara Valley
Medical Center in San
Jose where he remained
unconscious and in critical condition. Ohge regained
consciousness
on Wednesday and was
breathing comfortably on
his own, according to his
family. Doctors continue
monitor his vital signs and
administer tests to evaluate the extent of his head
injury, but he's been relocated out of the head
trauma center at SCVMC
where his outlook remains
positive.
Laguna Superbike TV
CBS Sports Network will
air the AMA Pro National
Guard SuperBike and
AMA Pro GoPro Daytona
SportBike races from the
Red Bull U.S. Grand Prix
at Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca as part of the
CBS Sports Spectacular
in a three-hour special on
CBS Sports Network beginning Friday, August 2 at
7 p.m. ET (4 p.m. PT). The
back-to-back GEICO Motorcycle AMA Pro Road
Racing broadcasts will
kick off with GoPro Daytona SportBike at 7 p.m.
ET (4 p.m. PT), followed
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