Team KTM/
Southeast-Cycle-
sport
Wins Perry
Mountain
24-Hour
Cha!lenge
KTl4 swept the
(op
three overall
positions a!
the llfth runnint ol rhe KTl4/Perry
ln4ountain
24-Hour Challenge at Reynolds
Pasture in
lYaplesville, Alabama,
lune
3-4.
Team
KTM/Southeast took rhe
overall win and the
S2500
pLrrse that came
with
it alter complet-
ing 46 laps. The team was made up of
Robbie
lenks,
Dustin Gibson, Allen Gravitt,
Michael
Grizzle. Tommy
Veator
and
Jason
Chance),,
and they rode a
KTI'4 400 EXC.
Second
overallwent to Graham fil'l, fol-
lowed by
KTl4/Spann€r Wr€n(h. Team
Action
Kawasakr/Yamaha fi n'shed fourth
while theTlS
fi14 team rounded out the top
frve.
fil'. rider Elmer Symons w?s the top
overall
finisher in the lronman division after
r:cking up 36 laps. FinishinS second was
another
fiM rider, Mike Phillips. who lo8ted
30
laps.
The top lronwoman-class
rrder was
Casey Campbell, with nine laps completed.
Sixty-six teams, including l.onman-
and
lronwoman-alass riders, staned the
race.
Dove Croin
Roberts A Mouie Star
Team
Roberts
has
a!
last found
a sponsor,
I and Kenny Roberts
lr.
was riding
a bike
in the colors of
Venture Petroleum
at
l'4ugello.
Sadly,
however,
the
sponsorship is ficti-
tious
- part
of a new movie under way, as
Hollywood
goes
bike
racing
once atain.
Fobenswillbethe stuntdouble
for
an as-yet-
unnamed hero of the film. to be called
W.itten and directed by former profes-
sional motorcycle racer and Hollylvood stunt-
man
lell Jensen.
whose latest feature, Hrgh
Speed star.int Sienna fliller, has won
"Best
Dramatic Feature" at three film festi\als.
Filmint of a.tion footage began a! lvlugello
and will continue at the European rounds. A
cooperative Dorna will lilm its own
race
footate in high definition so that
it
can also be
used in
(he
movie.
The story concernr a rider
with a
team
o
o
o
the all-new chassis oritinally due for the next race at
garcelona
may now be delayed for one more race.
The bike's improvemen[ had improved the
rider's mood, said
team mana8er Chuck
Aksland:
"He's
got
something he can work
with now.
lt's
good
to see
him
getting
back to form."
,rMi.rroe, Scoft
battling to
8et
sponsorship - art
imitating life, in the case of Team
Robens.
Hopefully, it will have a happy endinS.
The
planned
release date is early in 2007.
Roberts had another chassis revision
for ltajian GP on
June
4,
workine mainly on stiffness
ratios
and some
geometD/ at the front,
after a different rear-end desitn
was introduced at Le I'lans. But
F.
GPs
Back
To
Misano
Grand Prix racint will rerurn to
l"lisano in 2007, with a second
race for ltaly a! a substantially
revised circuit
