Cycle News - Archive Issues - 2000's

Hu hes Hurt, Dietrich Wins WORGS n o o - ,5 ru # I I !l - 14; I 2U ffi Ricky Dietrich won hi! firll- evei woRcs roce ot lhe Woshougol MX Pqrk. ar' lE- u -, , ,+ffiI V14;: H:'i,?,""i:I: :''i : Saturday mornin8, round seven of the Rocky Mountain ATv/lYC world Off Road Championship Series on Sunday, lune ll, went up for grabs. Bu! Team Green-supponed Ricky Dietrich swore to himself rhat the raae at washougal MX Park. presented by Maxxis, would belong to him alone. and indeed the sec- ond-year Pro ended up leadins from stam to finish - winning his first career WORCS race in lront of a number of family and friends. 'After what happened last year lwhen his silencer broke while he was leading], I wanted to take some revenge," he told the crowd afterward. "lt was definitely stolen from me; I pr€t- ty much had this race la5t year: When that gate dropped, full race mode, dude. I wanted it bad!" All of the racint tuhed out to be behind Dietrich and his Caner Powersports /Maxxis/ARc-backed KX450E After lust under ovo hours of racint in the most oll-road-oriented, technicalty challenging course this sea- son, Team FMF Suzuki Off-Road's Mike Kiedrowski worked hir v/ay up to sec- ond spo! on his DP Brakes/RPM/M2R big-bore RH250 - about a rninute and a half behind Dietrich and se\.en seconds ahead of Team Green'i Destry Abbott, who scored his best result of the season on his Pro Circuit Mai(imafftor KX450E Team Green's Lance Smail and Zip-Ty RacinS Yamaha racer Bobby Garrison rounded out the top five linishers in the event. which was the second most heav- ily attended of the season so far. Huthes still retains the series points lead at 166, but Diearich now holds sec- ond, unofficially, with IJ6. Garrason drops from second ao third in points with 130, unofflcially, while Kiedrowski remains fourth at 129. Smail moves up to fifth at 90 points, unofficially, with Russell Pearson (seventh for the day) dropping a spot to sixth, with 87. There are nine weeks until the series resumes a! Cinebar, Washin8ton, August l2- l3. Mork KoriYo I I The San Marino round of the World Superbike Championship held at the l'lisano Adriatico circuit on lune 25 v/ill see the unveiling of a sitnificant new streetbike employing performance-enhancinS technolo- gy now commonplace on high-end cars, but until now strantely absent from bikes- h's the Vee Two Australia SuP€. Squalo, powered by a supercharged Ducati 9995 Testastretta desmo V-wvin entine producing 190 hp in |oo-percent staeet-legal guise - the same horsepower as the factory 999 F06 Superbike on whi.h Troy Bayliss is convincingt/ leading the 2006 World Superbike series. Over the past two decades, Perth, Western Australia-b:sed Vee Two Austraiia has earned worldwide repute as one of the world's leadint Ducati aftermarket tuning specialists, scoring victory in races all over the world from Donintton to Daytona, and winning the 1997 Sound of Thunder world Series with a factory-supplied Bimota OB2R, whose Ducati desmodue engine was tuned by Vee Two founder Brook Henry To celebrate that success, Henry ioined forces with lapanese chassis manufacturer Kensei Sato to create the first Vee Two streetbike, the radical-lookinS Over-framed Squalo sintle-seater (that's th€ ltalian for "shark" - es in great whit€, th€ predator of the Australian coastline), lyith stylint by British designerjohn Keogh, and powered by a Vee Two-tuned desmodue motor. This entered prcduction in 1998, and has

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