VOL. 51 ISSUE 1 JANUARY 7, 2013
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Briefly...
The Stars Come
Out For SX
The Supercross season
opener at Anaheim brings
out a lot of well-known
names in the industry and
this year was no exception. Spotted at Angel
Stadium were MotoGP's
Randy
Mamola,
Cal
Crutchlow, Neil Hodgson
and Nicky Hayden. Also
present was former AMA
Superbike
Champion
Miguel Duhamel.
(Above) Joan Barreda's teammate Sam
Sunderland won his first-ever stage in
the Dakar, the Brit winning stage two.
(Left) Barreda won the opening stage
of the Dakar Rally on his factory Honda
and the Spaniard leads the overall after
two stages.
be really happy if I take the stage. It will be the first
one for me on the Dakar. It's great. The bike was
awesome. Without all the work that goes on behind the scenes this is nothing, as you know, so
I'm really grateful for the opportunity from Honda
and all my sponsors. Hopefully, I can carry on in
this direction and have a good overall finish."
Third in stage two went to stage-one winner
Joan Barreda, the factory Honda rider ending up
two minutes behind his teammate Sunderland,
but over two minutes ahead of Red Bull KTM's
Ruben Faria.
The two men who went into the event as the
favorites for victory ended up ninth and 10th in
stage two with Red Bull KTM's Marc Coma some
45 seconds ahead of his rival, defending race
champion Cyril Despres on the factory Yamaha.
Not Just
Commentators
Play-by-play announcer
Ralph Sheheen will lead
an announcing team of
Jeff Emig and Jenny Taft
for this year's Monster
Energy Supercross TV
shows with those three
set to be joined by a rotating panel of three legends
– Ricky Carmichael,
Jeremy McGrath and
Kevin Windham. The
shows are airing on Fox
Sports.
Scherb To
Superprestigio
Texan Merle Scherb,
an instructor at Colin Edwards' Texas Tornado
Boot Camp, will be heading to Spain to compete
in the Superprestigio dirt
track event that is being
promoted by MotoGP
World Champion Marc
Marquez. The race will
take place at the Palau
Sant Jordi in Montjuic,
Spain. Scherb won't be
the only American taking
part, as he'll be joined
there by AMA Grand National Champion Brad
Baker and dirt tracker
turned road racer Kenny
Noyes.
Bigger Purse For
Aussie Supers
Motorcycling
Australia says it will pay out
$56,000 in prize money
during the 2014 Australian Superbike Championship. "We will pay the
prize money direct to the
riders within seven days
of the conclusion of each
round, either by check or
direct deposit," said Motorcycling Australia's CEO
David White.
And Get Pirellis
The Australian Superbike
Championship has also
announced that Pirelli will
be the spec tire supplier
for the 2014 series in all
classes.
Cairoli Honored
Seven-time
Motocross
World Champion Antonio
Cairoli has been named
2013 Sportsman of the
Year in Italy in a competition set-up by broadcaster
Sky Sport.
Five Rounds For
Canadian Superbikes
Five events at four venues
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