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These were just the latest in
a long catalogue of misfortune
for the former World Superbike
Champion and MotoGP winner,
whose last Yamaha season in
2012 was blighted by crashes
and a catalogue of freak mechanical failures, including a rear
suspension collapse at Laguna
Seca.
Ignite Pramac Ducati team
boss Francesco Guidotti confirmed that the team would need
to find a replacement rider for
the rest of the season, with current replacement Michele Pirro
required to resume his role
as Ducati factory tester, ruling
him out of at least two of the remaining six rounds. By Sunday
night the team had confirmed
that Yonny Hernandez would
take over for Spies for the remainder of the year.
But Spies will be back next
year, Guidotti told press, countering rumors that Ducati was
looking for a way to get him out
of the second of his two-year
contract.
Michael Scott
Ben Spies will miss the rest of the season
as a result of his latest shoulder injury.
BROUGH ANDSuperior
CATHCART SET RECORDS
iding a Brough
R
750cc built for the attempt,
Cycle News European Editor
Alan Cathcart set two new officially recognized FIM World Land
Speed Records, and one AMA
National record, at the Bonneville Salt Flats recently.
Running in the BUB Motorcycle Speed Trials held on the Utah
salt flats during the last week
of August, Cathcart put one of
Britain's most historic motorcycle marques back in the FIM
record books for the first time
since 1936. Some 77 years later,
Cathcart set new records for the
750cc Twin-Cylinder Unstreamlined Normally Aspirated (i.e. unsupercharged) category; with a
two-way mean speed of 101.329
mph for the flying kilometer, and
Alan Cathcart
(left) poses with
Brough Superior
owner Mark
Upham (right)
after the team's
record-setting
performance at
Bonneville.
101.132 mph for the flying mile.
The latter speed also represents
a new AMA National record for
the 750cc twin-cylinder Unstreamlined, Unsupercharged
Vintage class using pump gas.
Later attempts by the team to
beat the existing 109 mph Partially Streamlined record with
just a token aluminum nacelle
