IN
THE
WIND
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TEMPERS FLARE
AFTER REA'S CRASH
IN BRNO
J
onathan Rea has lashed out at
Kawasaki Racing Team team-
mate Tom Sykes following their
controversial clash in race two at
Brno.
Rea and Sykes collided while
disputing sixth place on lap three
with Rea going down, the two
riders exchanging words in the
media shortly afterwards.
"Blaming me? I don't under-
stand how, I'm on the outside of
the corner, how I could cause
the crash," Rea fumed on Mo-
torsport.com when told Sykes
blamed him for the crash.
"Clever people know what hap-
pened, I was on the outside of the
corner completely through," said
Rea. "From his onboard [cam-
era] he came from behind and
hit me on the side, when he had
space to go more on the inside
and square off the corner like
[Eugene] Laverty in front. He was
much wider than Laverty in front.
The intention was clear, I just
don't understand why it was in his
brain to not give me room when I
was already through.
"I can't accept the blame, it's
ludicrous putting it on me. I can't
understand this guy sometimes.
I went down because there was
contact; that happens in racing. But
looks like I'm not going to get an
apology either, so it's one of them."
Sykes refused to take blame
for the crash, either, stating, "It
looks like there's people making
a big deal out of this," Sykes said
to Motorsport.com. "The long
and short is he [Rea] made an
uncalculated pass, ran wide and
obviously I focused on my exit up
the hill.
"He looked to obviously cut
back; he was off the line, tried
to cut it back onto the racing
line and I was there. People can
say what they want, but there
was nothing to it, it was a racing
incident." CN
T2 HARLEY SOLD
FOR $480,000
T
he 1991 Harley-Davidson Fat Boy made famous
in the iconic 1992 action blockbuster Termina-
tor II has sold at auction for $480,000 at the Icons
& Legends of Hollywood Auction, held over June
5-8 in Los Angeles.
Arnold Schwarzenegger used the machine in
various scenes throughout the movie, including the
epic truck chase clip when he and John Connor,
played by Edward Furlong, are being chased by the T-1000, played by Robert Patrick.
Other movie items sold at the action included Sigourney Weaver "Ellen Ripley" spacesuit from Alien for
$192,000 and Jane Fonda's futuristic rifle from Barbarella for $264,000. CN
Tom Sykes stares
down Jonathan
Rea before the
start of race two at
Brno. It would get
much worse in a
few laps' time.
The Terminator's
Hog went for
nearly half a million
dollars at auction
last week.
