Millennium/KWS Suzuki to Represent America in the 40th Macau GP, China Charleston, SC – November 2006 — Millennium/KWS Suzuki sponsored by Ron Ayers Motorsports has been given the unique opportunity to compete in the Macau GP with two of the three American riders invited to this prestigious event. 2006 marks the 40th anniversary of this remarkable race through the streets of Macau, China and Millennium/KWS Suzuki has put together an incredible team to challenge British Superbike regular, Michael Rutter who is hoping for a record breaking seventh victory at the historic event. Millennium/KWS Suzuki’s AMA team rider John Haner will be making his second trip to Macau, this time on a Pirelli shod Suzuki GSX-R1000 Superbike. After making a brilliant Macau debut in 2005, qualifying in the 8th position, Haner unfortunately did not finish the race after a clutch issue on his Lee’s Cycle Honda. “I had a blast last year, but I feel like I have some unfinished business in China and I want to go back and show them what I can do,” said Haner. Joining Haner on the LeoVince sponsored team will be American real roads specialist Mark Miller. Mark has competed in the Macau GP six times and finished on the podium twice. “My deal to race Macau fell through so I contacted Kevin Hunt (KWS team owner) about possibly riding one of his bikes,” said Miller. “Kevin jumped at the idea of having a two rider team so here I am. I am extremely excited about being able to compete at Macau on this level of equipment; it’s going to be really good!” Millennium/KWS Suzuki team mechanic Michael Godin will be taking care of all the mechanical duties with help from Englishmen David Hinch and Richard Linely. This will be Godin’s second trip to Macau. Godin competed at the Macau GP with Vincent Haskovec in 2002. Unfortunately, Vincent suffered career ending injuries in 2005 and is no longer racing. “I’m excited about going back to Macau, but it will definitely be emotional. We will be running Czecher stickers on the bike and hopefully we can get a result Vincent will be proud of.” “We are a privateer team in the AMA and we really only had the budget to do the AMA series, but when the opportunity presented itself to do this race our sponsors stepped up to make it happen and truly can’t thank them enough,” said team owner Kevin Hunt. “I would really like to thank Henry DeGouw for putting this all together and of course Millennium Technologies, Pirelli Tires, GP Tech, Suzuki, Pit Bull, Ron Ayers Motorsports, LeoVince Exhaust, Catalyst Racing Composites, Vortex and CTR Suspension for all their help with this event!”

Three-time AMA Superbike Champion Doug Chandler and former AMA Supersport and Formula Xtreme Champion Kurtis Roberts have combined efforts to try to put together an AMA Superbike team for the 2007 season. “We’re trying to,” Chandler told Roadracingworld.com Monday via cell phone. “It looks like we’re gonna be able to kinda get something together, but we don’t have everything kind of set in place.” The team, tentatively named NFS Racing, issued a press release last week announcing its existence and to also “kind of speed things up,” according to Chandler, who said he hopes to start testing in January 2007. As far as which brand of motorcycle and tires to use, Chandler said they are considering which directions would be best for the team. “We can get some help,” he said, “but we haven’t got to the point where we can do what we want. We’ve kind of got to go with the people who are going to help us out the most.” Chandler was pretty tight-lipped as far as which sponsors and supporters had already signed on to back their effort, saying, “I don’t want to start jinxing it right away.” The NFS Racing team would not immediately include a spot for Chandler’s teenage son Jett, who started club racing in 2006. Chandler plans for Jett to race in the WERA National Challenge and National Endurance Series in 2007 and move up to the AMA when he feels ready. Attempts to reach Roberts via his mobile phone were not successful.

Veteran’s Day weekend at JenningsGP near Jennings, Florida drew a sold-out, record crowd as the crew put on a special event to honor our country’s men and women who are serving and have served in the military. The event featured discounts to all veterans who could produce a military ID card and included a cookout Saturday night with a DJ and raffles. “It turned out to be a great weekend and I am looking forward to future events like this one,” said Jennifer Reese, the track secretary for JenningsGP. Riders from several clubs such as WERA and CCS participated in the three-day event, which brought riders in from as far away as Canada and New England.

Rizla Suzuki MotoGP excited about next 800 test Rizla Suzuki MotoGP travels to Sepang in Malaysia for its second off-season test in preparation for next year’s assault on the MotoGP World Championship. Following the test at Valencia earlier this month which gave promising results for the new engine the whole team will be looking to see how the 800cc Suzuki GSV-R performs at such a different track to Valencia. The Sepang International Circuit will give the new engine a thorough test, as the 5.5km circuit features two long straights interlinked by a variety of turns including some very fast and testing sweeping bends and a mixture of slow corners. John Hopkins and Chris Vermeulen are both eager to continue getting to terms with the way the new bike performs. The data that both they and Team Test Rider Nobuatsu Aoki gathered at Valencia will be put to good use as Suzuki look to develop the new 800 to be a competitive machine in readiness for the start of the new season at Qatar in March next year. Aoki will be joining Hopkins and Vermeulen for the three day test beginning on Wednesday 15th November. Comprehensive tests will be conducted not just on the new engine but also further evaluation on the prototype chassis that may house next year’s motor. Detailed chassis and suspension options will be scrutinised alongside Bridgestone tyre testing, to match the performance characteristics of the new engine with the latest generations of profiles, compounds and constructions. John Hopkins: “I’m really looking forward to getting to Malaysia and testing the bike again. Since I have been at Suzuki there has never been such a buzz about the end of season tests. The bike seemed to go well at Valencia and it will be good to see what it will do over such a different circuit as Sepang. We still know there is a long way to go but if we can continue the way we have started, things will be good for 2007 and I’m ready for it!” Chris Vermeulen: “Valencia showed us the potential that was in the new bike, but we need to keep improving on what we have as the other manufacturers will certainly do so as well. Sepang will be a good place to test the 800, because of the different layout to what we tested on at Valencia. This will start to give us a good idea of how the bike will handle and perform on other tracks and confirm the priorities we need to concentrate on.”

UtahSBA (Utah Sport Bike Association) will have a major role in the upcoming 2007 road racing season at MMP (Miller Motorsports Park) in Tooele, Utah. Our membership has grown from approximately 180 last year to more than 450 in 2006. We expect another significant increase in 2007. Next year is shaping up to be a Dynamic season. We would like to announce our new board of directors to the general public. They are: President Danny C. Norr Vice President Roger Bennett (newly elected) Secretary Randy Neitzel (newly elected) Treasurer Lance Lee Director of Schools Troy Buchanan (appointed position) Race Director Peter Truerherz (newly elected) Membership Director Michael Bunds For more information, visit www.utahsba.com or call 801.966.7021. USBA PO Box 26791 Salt Lake City, Utah 84126

AHRMA, the AMA-affiliated Vintage racing organization that has been involved in a decades-long pissing match and extended litigation with AHRMA founder, Team Obsolete race team owner, race promoter and now-expelled-AHRMA-member Rob Iannucci, has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy, according to the official AHRMA website. Recently, the law firm representing AHRMA in the continuing litigation with Iannucci filed papers with the court stating that it no longer wished to represent the organization. Observers familiar with the case speculate that the firm did so because AHRMA can no longer pay it, having exhausted its insurance coverage and bank accounts; the bankruptcy of AHRMA’s liability insurance carrier complicated matters, and the personal liability exposure of individual AHRMA Trustees in the matter is unknown. The news of the bankruptcy filing was not released until after nominations for the upcoming AHRMA Trustees election were closed. The pending litigation between Iannucci and AHRMA involves AHRMA terminating Iannucci’s membership and banning riders from competing if they rode machines owned by Iannucci, listed Team Obsolete as a sponsor or displayed Team Obsolete logos on their motorcycles. In a fascinating turn of events, motorcycles owned by Iannucci and displaying Team Obsolete stickers have appeared at certain AHRMA race venues, Daytona and Mid-Ohio, when either the racetrack (Daytona) or the overall event promoter (AMA Sports) intervened, most recently during AMA Vintage Days held at Mid-Ohio last summer. Iannucci’s current litigation also targets the AMA, charging that the organization failed to protect the rights of its members to participate in AMA-sanctioned competition. Former AHRMA boss Jeff Smith–who was at the center of the dispute with Iannucci–is an elected member of the AMA Board of Directors. Read more about it here: ~http://www.ahrma.org/whatsnew.htm~ ~http://forums.13x.com/showthread.php?t=123948&page=11~ ~http://teamobsoleteforum.com/index.php?PHPSESSID=4f236841a4decc32bffbd36643ffa2a7&topic=41.0~

Thieves broke into NJK Leathers in San Clemente, California sometime between Thursday evening and Friday morning, making off with about 50 pieces of sportbike apparel, according to NJK’s Kelcey Gordon. Among the stolen goods are about five red/black one-piece leather racing suits with flourescent yellow flames; several solid red and solid blue one-piece suits; four or five blue/black/white two-piece suits; a ladies’ custom two-piece suit with GATES on the back; a blue one-piece custom speedway suit with GOMEZ on the back; and numerous jackets. A reward is being offered for information leading to an arrest in the case. More information is available from Kelcey Gordon at 949-481-3005.

MV AGUSTA-FAST BY FERRACCI TEST SUCCESSFUL First Shakedown with Riders a Success The return of MV Agusta to racing in America is a reality. Using the F4 1000R in Superstock trim, Eraldo Ferracci brought the rudiments of his team and a pair of young riders to Jennings GP for a private two-day test using Pirelli tires on November 8 and 9, 2006. Italian Superstock champion Luca Scassa (age 23) and American Matt Lynn (age 22) turned laps under mostly favorable conditions at the Florida track looking for basic setup information and a shakedown for the nearly stock motorcycles. Scassa is well acquainted with the MV Agusta motorcycle and brought his suspension settings with him to an unfamiliar track. Lynn has raced at Jennings GP but started from scratch on a bike he had never seen or ridden. Both worked through the challenges diligently to arrive at a point where they could begin fine-tuning and offering feedback to keep the MV Agusta technicians heading in the direction of fielding a competitive machine for the US Superbike series. By afternoon on the first day, both riders were already tantalizingly close to the track record of 1:15:444 of Canadian champion Pascal Picotte set earlier this spring at a joint test of all the Canadian Superbike teams. Just before lunch on day two, Scassa went 1:15.448 and Lynn 1:15.545 hand-timed. Under sunny skies and with track temperatures climbing nicely, Scassa smashed the record in the mid-afternoon with a 1:14:81 and backed it up a lap later with a 1:14:85 on spec Pirelli tires identical to those used in the Canadian Superbike Championship. Lynn’s best of 1:15.2 was also under the old track record and two seconds faster than he had ever been at Jennings GP. Scassa said, “It’s cool being in America, but for sure I came here to do a job and we did some good work. We have much more to do to make the MV Agusta into a superbike but the bike is good and work is OK for me. I’m excited to do this.” “I’m really excited,” Lynn added. “We came here with a blank sheet of paper and went to work. It was a lot different from what I have been riding, but once we got the MV basically set up it was really fun. Eraldo knows what he’s doing and what he wants. We just kept at it and that’s what we need to do. I can’t wait to ride it some more. It’s fast!” Ferracci will now travel to Italy to consult with the factory again, delivering information from the test and input from the riders and technicians. The next outing for the Fast by Ferracci MV Agusta F4 1000R will be at the Daytona tire test in December, after which the team will prepare in earnest for the 2007 AMA Superbike Championship. For sponsorship inquiries, please e-mail [email protected].