Pirelli Scores Unprecedented North American Championships and Track Records WERA At the WERA GNF Championship finals, Pirelli riders scored numerous wins, podiums, and top-five finishes. Pirelli swept the top 8 places in B Superbike with Ryan Elleby taking the win. The top sixes places in Lightweight Superstock were all Pirelli riders with Jimmy Wood scoring first in the championship. Other top Pirelli finishes include 3rd and 4th in A Superstock, 3rd in C Superbike, 2nd and 3rd in Heavyweight Superstock, 3rd 5th in Open Superstock, 3rd in 750 Superstock, 2nd and 1st were posted by Matt Lynn in each of the Formula 1 races, and Brandon Parrish won the 750 Superbike championship In the WERA Novice championships, 1st 4th were a Pirelli sweep in A Superstock with Michael Dillon nabbing the win. Open Superstock Novice saw Michael Dillon again scoring the win with other Pirelli riders taking 2nd, 4th and 5th. Charlie Coleman went home 2nd in A Superstock, B Superstock and 750 Superstock, with Bob Henderson finishing 4th in B Superstock. In the WERA Suzuki Cup events, Pirelli racers won the SV1000 Cup and SV650 Cup, with riders Matt Lynn and Jimmy Wood, respectively. Pirelli racers also scored a 3rd and 5th in the GSX-R600 Cup. These individual successes compliment Pirelli’s domination of the WERA National Endurance Series, with the top three places overall in the championship going to Team Velocity Racing, Vesrah Suzuki, and RED STAR. CCS At the Daytona Speedway Race of Champions Formula USA/CCS event, Pirelli riders won a total of 18 races and earned 57 podium finishes in the various classes. On the Formula USA day of the event, Pirelli riders took 1st and 3rd in Lightweight Grand Prix, 3rd in Formula Sportbike, 3rd in Superbike, 2nd in Sportbike, 1st and 2nd in Superbike, and 1st and 3rd in Thunderbike. The winning riders in those races were Chris Peris and Ed Key. Ed Key had the most successful Race of Champions event ever, winning all seven of the classes he entered. Key’s other 1st-place finishes were in Lightweight Superbike, Lightweight Supersport, Lightweight GP, GT Lights, Thunderbike, and Lightweight F40 CCS winners and top-finishers of note include Dave Estok, Nate Kern and Chris Boy who followed Key to a four-place sweep in Lightweight Superbike. Nate Doebert took 2nd in Amateur Middleweight, Heavyweight Superbike, Middleweight Supersport, and 1st in Amateur GTU and Heavyweight Supersport. Nate Kern took 2nd in Unlimited Superbike and Lightweight Supersport. Michael Barnes grabbed 1st in GTO and 2nd in Middleweight Supersport behind M4 EMGO Suzuki teammate Geoff May, who also won the top prize in Unlimited Supersport. Other Pirelli wins at the Race of Champions are John Linder of Team Hurtbyaccident.com in Solo Challenge, with Robert Lombardi of Team LB-racing taking 2nd right behind, and the winner of the Team Challenge Championship GTL class was Team Rightsforbikers.com with riders C.J. Czala, John Linder, and Ben Matheson. Canadian National Road Racing Series In the Canadian National Road Racing Series, Pirelli riders scored a huge number of wins and championships from regional amateur classes to the national expert classes. The Canadian National SV Cup and the four classes of the Women’s Cup Challenge are Pirelli spec classes, so the championships were pretty much in the Pirelli bag before a tire ever hit the track, but each champion still deserves recognition for coming out on top. In the SV Cup it was Karl Daigle, while Shawna Aron won Expert Open Sportbike and Marie-Josee Boucher claimed the crown in Expert 600 Sportbike. In the two Novice classes the champion is Vanessa Gareau. The largest field in Canadian National Road Racing is Amateur 600 Sportbike, open to all tire competitors. In that class Mark Douglas took the championship in a season that saw every race won by a Pirelli rider, a class track record set at every track by a Pirelli rider, and a sweep of the top 13 places in the championship. In the Canadian Thunder class Bill Card finished 2nd overall while Pirelli riders won four of the five events, nabbing three of the top-five overall positions in the championship. In the Canadian Regional Series, of AMCRA in Nova Scotia, four Pirelli riders won championships. Pro Open Sportbike was won by Jeremy Burgess, Amateur Open Sportbike saw Gene McKay take the championship, the Pro 600 Supersport champion is Fred Silver, and the Pro Superbike class was won by Jeremy Burgess. In Ontario’s RACE series, Pirelli won championships in seven classes. The Amateur Suzuki SV Cup championship was won by Alain Lefebvre, the Pro Suzuki SV Cup belongs to Marc St. Amend, Mark Douglas is champion in Amateur 600 Sportbike, in Amateur Superbike it’s James Collins, in the RACE Thunder Series it’s Robert Trottier, and in the two women’s classes the above mentioned Vanessa Gareau and Shawna Aron. In the other three regional series in Canada (ASM Quebec, CRCA Calgary, WMRC British Columbia) Pirelli scored another 12 championships with racers Karl Daigle, Chad Pasowisty, Kel Davidson, Shawn Jones, Alan Schmidt, Trevor Shires, Marbod Kern, and Oliver Jervis and Sylvain Grenier winning multiple championships. As has previously been announced, all five classes in the Canadian Nation Road Racing Series Pro Superbike, Pro 600 Sportbike, Amateur Sportbike, SV Cup and Canadian Thunder will be Pirelli spec classes in 2006. Racers Tray Batey and Geoff May set five track records in 2005, on Pirelli race tires at tracks used by racers running every brand of competitor’s tires. Batey set overall motorcycle records at four tracks including Summit Point, West Virginia, Grattan, Michigan, Joliet, Illinois, and Nelson Ledges, Ohio, while May recorded the all-out fastest lap for a bike at Roebling Road, Georgia.