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P28 WIND young, and when it's too muddy to practice motocross I like to get back in the woods and ride. I live in Kentucky, and there's a lot of off-road racing going on in the east and I would like to be a part of it." Sipes rode well in Italy, though he learned a valuable lesson on day one when he was slapped with a 60-second penalty for entering a time check too early. Had it not been for that, he most likely would have won the C2 class. Later in the week, Sipes came on strong, winning 12-straight tests in the C2 class and 20 in all. Shan Moore EVO SPEC FOR 2015 WORLD SUPERBIKE M ost people in the World Superbike paddock knew it was coming, but it is official now. All World Superbike bikes will be of Evo spec in 2015, meaning that the original plan of making full World Superbikes available to non-official teams, for a reduction in overall price over the next three seasons, has been reduced to one season - next year. The MSMA, the manufacturers' representatives, agreed with Dorna and the FIM to make this move to safeguard the championship and be safe in the knowledge that even those bikes of an older, or cheaper or less technologically extreme design should now be able to 'tune-up' to the level of the more expensive or complex standard bikes. This is to maintain the important philosophy of performance equalization between manufacturers, but this time at a muchreduced cost than what is being spent to make the Aprilia, Kawasaki or BMW winners this year. All manufacturers have had their bikes on podiums in 2013 so far as even the near-privateer-status Suzuki has put both its riders on the podium. World Superbike racing will feature Evo rules in 2015. If the Evo rules bring forward equally competitive racing as we have now, making the series more relevant to the customers' bikes, providing less cost for factories and private teams - who could argue with that? We asked representatives from the current manufacturers in World Superbike to tell us what they thought of the future tech paradise. Steve Guttridge: Kawasaki Europe Race Planning Manager: "We will try to work hand-in-hand with the organization to stay in our championship with our offi- cial team and as a manufacturer. The rules will become defined for Evo and we hope that those rules remain consistent - obviously with some aspects to allow us to keep close racing over the years, but also to give us consistency to work on our production bikes. Our customers can then aspire to buy what they see us winning on. If we continue to develop in the series for future production bikes, and we can then produce a fabulous production bike from it, then there is a valid reason to stay in this championship. The 'test on a Monday' idea PHOTOGRAPHY BY GOLD & GOOSE IN THE