SUPER HOOLIGAN RACING
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"It all started out of the Costa Mesa
Speedway Harley night," says Super
Hooligans founder Roland Sands. Harley
night runs a couple of times a year,
where regular riders on Harley-Davidsons
turn up to Costa Mesa's tiny speedway
oval and bash bars, sometimes with as
many as 12 riders on a track that seems
packed with four speedway bikes.
"This type of racing has been going
about 10 years, but it's only recently that
we've started getting it out into the wider
public," Sands says. "It's crazy. We've
been all over the place. To have our se-
ries that we have, and have it in so many
different places, from Portland to South
Dakota to Milwaukee, to California, it's
the real deal."
The 2017 series started in Oregon,
before trekking to Wisconsin, Georgia,
California, Washington, South Dakota
and back to California for the final four
rounds of the championship at Santa
Maria, Costa Mesa, Perris again and the
jewel in the series, Bolsa Chica State
Beach at Huntington Beach.
"We've had weekends where it's been
BMW, Ducati, Harley-Davidson, Indian,"
says Sands. "We got the factories that
want to help out. I want as many OEM's
(Right) Rob
Dixon rode his
H-D Dyna to
the SH event,
raced it, did a
massive smoky
burnout and
rode home.
Respect.
(Below) Have
you ever seen a
more perfectly
groomed
racetrack?
