Rea the raising star
Filed under: Ben Spies, Honda, Jonathan Rea, Racing, WSBK, Yamaha
Race 1: Haga’s start was best and he managed to lead the race up to couple of laps before the chequered flag when he made a slight mistake.. Spies cut loose and took the win. Makoto Tamada got into an incident with John Hopkins shortly after the start, they were both taken to the hospital.
Race 2: Haga did another mistake but this one costed him the race, and might cost him the season, he slowed down in the middle of a corner trying to go back to the race line but Rea was coming in fast… both made contact.. Haga fell and Rea claimed the podium.
A dual crash for the Fiat Yamaha team
The headline should have read “Dovizioso first ever premier class victory” but i just couldn’t resist, after leading the race for a couple of rounds Lorenzo hit the asphalt and went out of the race, with 11 rounds to go Rossi crashed, but managed to ride the bike again and continue the race.
Stoner prediction for a rain fall was wrong and going with the wet tiers costed him the race.
The entertaining battle was between podium finishers Colin Edwards and Randy de Puniet, Monster Tech 3 Yamaha man Edwards took second from the LCR Honda rider on the final hairpin.
English Man in Italy
The second race of the World Super Bike championship -Misano round-was a fierce fight between the young -22 years- English rider Jonathan Rea and Fabrizio, after a couple of spectacular laps and just when we thought Fabrizio and Haga will eat Rea alive and claim the title of this race.. Rea manages to slip away to the podium.
Ducati is still leading the WSBK, the points as follows:
Haga 292 points
Spies 244 points
Fabrizio 237 points
Race one was a bore and as expected Spies came 1st, Byrne 2nd , and Fabrizio 3rd.
Faster than an F1
Dani Pedrosa has set a new top speed record of 349.3 km/h on his Repsol Honda, a record speed higher than what F1 cars manage on their fastest straight at Monza.
The new recored is 1.7 km/h faster than the previous record, set by Loris Capirossi on a 990 Ducati in 2003, Pedrosa had the benefit of slipstreaming Rossi.
Playboy Honda official photos
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Playboy Honda LCR
Lucio Cecchinello, owner of Team Honda LCR has pulled out a rabbit of the hat… the dude has concluded an unprecedented sponsorship in the world of GP by teaming with Playboy.
Can’t wait to see the umbrella girls of Team Honda LCR at the first round in Qatar.
The Middleweight Champion
I had some work at next to the Suzuki showroom today, so i dropped by to see if they had anything interesting.
They had the 09 600GSXR, it is pretty much the same as the 08 model which was the number one selling bike in the US, the bike has the Drive Mode Selector system which enables fuel injection mapping to be changed at the touch of a button, but it is lacking the ABS breaks the 09 Honda 600RR has.
They also had one 09 blackgold Busa which was not on display !!!
2009 CBR1000RR Photos
Sweet 600
Once again Honda demonstrates its strengths with its 2009 CBR600RR, the bike received updates on many fronts, some of which will mark a turning point in the world of SuperSportive.
The most important update is the introduction of the on demand ABS braking system “ABS-CBS”, the front brake calipers are now monoblock just like the CBR1000RR, titanium exhaust derived from the CBR1000RR.
A bright future
This video is for Peter Lenz, a 10 years old boy at California Superbike School, the boy is riding the Honda RSF150R, a GP 125 bike with 150cc engine.
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