AFM Round Five Thunderhill Park Raceway Willows, California July 17, 2005 In sweltering conditions with temperatures over 100 degrees, former CCS standout Corey Sarros took the holeshot in the Formula Pacific race. His lead was short lived, as defending Formula Pacific champion David Stanton put his Arlight Suzuki GSX-R1000 past Sarros just three turns into the first lap. Stanton immediately began to pull away at the front, as former number one plateholder Jeff Tigert worked his way through the pack, riding his AMA Superstock spec Honda CBR1000RR. Tigert took second with a bold pass on the GSX-R1000 of Michael Earnest, giving him the chance close the gap on Stanton, setting the stage for a climactic last-lap showdown. Unfortunately for Tigert, that showdown never took place, with his chances at a come-from-behind victory coming to an end when his motor blew on the lap five. David Stanton went on to take the win, with Michael Earnest finishing second and Ken Hill third. “I knew those guys would be coming for me, especially Jeff he’s great when he’s coming from a couple of rows back,” Stanton stated from the winner’s circle. “I just put my head down, trying to be as easy as I could with the tire. I just tried to maintain my gap, and it ended up working out.” Stanton went three for three on the day, taking victories in both Open Superbike and 750 Superbike. Tigert salvaged his day by taking the win in the Keigwins@theTrack 600 Production race. From his second row grid spot, Tigert charged into the lead early in the race, taking the position from early race leader Andy Carman at the end of the first lap. Second place went to Grant Riggs on the Jelly Belly R6. “I saw that Grant was catching up, but I put my hard laps in at the beginning,” stated Tigert after the race. “I saw that he was closing, but with the heat I figured all of us were hurting, so it must have hurt him to be catching me. With that in mind, I just put it into cruise control on the last two laps, and brought it home.” The Desmoto Sport Open Twins race saw a fantastic battle at the front between Jack Pfeifer and Eric Gulbransen. The battle went down to the last turn of the last lap, with Pfeifer using the power of his Scuderia West Aprilia to motor past the Munroe Motors Ducati 749 of Gulbransen and take the win. Pfeifer’s day took a turn for the worse in the Scuderia West Formula I race, as his bike mysteriously lost power moments after the start, resulting a horrific crash that collected a total of six machines. Pfeifer broke his wrist, arm, and two vertebrae in the incident, but luckily escaped without injury to his spinal cord. After the restart, Jon Bawden took the lead and immediately began to run from the field, with Robert Campbell running strong in second. Despite a lead that stretched almost the length of the back straight, Bawden’s race came to an early end after a freak lowside in Turn 14, relegating the position to Campbell and his Bike World GSX-R750. Campbell went on to take his first Formula 1 win of the season, with Wil Morton putting in an impressive ride on his Honda RS250 to finish second. “It sure surprised me – I’m not sure why he was pushing so hard!” Campbell recalled. “When he went down, I thought to myself ‘Why the heck did ya do that? I’m waaaaaaaaaaay back here!’ After that, I just kept a steady pace so I could take the win!” Michael Jarrard came out on top of a race-long, four-rider battle for the lead to take the win in the Formula 3 race. The remaining two trophy positions went to a couple of up-and-coming youngsters, with 16 year old Tyler Reiswig finishing second and 14 year old Tommy Aquino finishing third. The Suzuki SV650s returned to the front of the Zoom Zoom Trackdays Formula IV race, with the Buell of Shawn Reilly and the Honda of Mike Lohmeyer both out of the race early after tangling on the first lap. BARF Racing’s Felipe Cabezas held the early lead on his SV650, but his race came to an early end after a lowsid at the top of the Cyclone, giving the lead to Brian Long and his Spears Racing SV650. Long held the lead to the checkered flag, with Kurt Spencer finishing second on his Twin Works Factory SV650. 650 Twins initially looked to be a repeat of Formula IV, with Long and Spencer crossing the line once again in the top two positions. But result changed when Long was stripped of his second victory of the day, the result of a protest made against Long for passing under a yellow flag. As a result, Spencer was awarded the win, with Felipe Cabezas coming back from his fall to finish second and Jason Butler in third. Chris Siglin took the win on his Arclight Suzuki GSX-R600 in the Pacific Tracktime 600 Superbike race, continuing a recent string of strong performances at WERA and AMA National events. Jeff Tigert gave chace but was unable to close the gap crossed the line in second, with Grant Riggs third. “I learned a few things riding with Tray Batey at the WERA Nationals,” recalled Siglin. “That guy goes so hard on the first lap that’s why he’s so good! A lot of the time that’s your only chance to build a nice gap on people. You know that guys like Jeff are behind you, and that they’re going to be on the gas. So before the race, I told myself ‘First lap, get on the gas.” And it worked!” The 500 Twins class revitalized after the introduction of the SV400/500 and the reintroduction of the Ninja 250 saw a new face finishing at the top of the order, with Jay Jacobsen taking the lead from Bobby Lee Broussard just four turns from the finish to take the win on his BRG Racing SV500. Broussard finished second on his GS500, with defending class champion Jon Format crossing the line third on his Twin Works Factory SV500. “He did this defensive maneuver in Turn 11 on the last lap, so I thought ‘Sure thing you go inside, and I’ll go deep!'” Jacobsen stated after the race. “He ended up going wide, and that opened the door for me.” The next round of AFM action is scheduled to take place at Infineon Raceway on August 14. AFM Round 5 July 17, 2005 Thunderhill Park Unofficial Results Mach 1 Motorsports Formula Pacific 1. David Stanton (Suz 1000) 2. Michael Earnest (Yam 1000) 3. Ken Hill (Hon 1000) 4. Rob Mesa (Suz 1000) 5. Corey Sarros (Suz 1000) 6. Chris Siglin (Suz 600) Scuderia West Formula 1 1. Robert Campbell (Suz 750) 2. William Morton (Hon 250) 3. Craig Wierman (Suz 750) 4. David Bell (Suz 750) 5. Garry Combs (Suz 750) 6. Jeremiah Grant (Suz 750) Mazda Technologies Formula 2 1. William Morton (Hon 250) 2. Jeffry Hanford (Hon 250) 3. Phillip Torres (Yam 250) 4. Sean Case (Hon 250) 5. Shawn Herrera (Yam 250) 6. Jove Shapiro (Yam 250) Formula 3 1. Michael Jarrard (Hon 125) 2. Tyler Reiswig (Hon 125) 3. Tommy Aquino (Hon 125) 4. Carlos Neves (Hon 125) 5. Steve Magri (Hon 125) 6. Jeffrey Lim (Hon 125) Zoom Zoom Trackdays Formula 4 1. Brian Long (Suz 650) 2. Kurt Spencer (Suz 650) 3. Michael Metcalf (Suz 650) 4. Jason Butler (Suz 650) 5. John Daker (Suz 650) 6. Everett Dittman (Suz 650) Powerstands Open Grand Prix 1. Rob Mesa (Suz 1000) 2. Kim Nakashima (Suz 1000) 3. Martin Szwarc (Suz 1000) 4. Mike Thompson (Yam 1000) 5. Michael Lohmeyer (Suz 1000) 6. J.D. Grow (Suz 1000) Hare Racing Open Superbike 1. David Stanton (Suz 1000) 2. Rob Mesa (Suz 1000) 3. Corey Sarros (Suz 1000) 4. Kim Nakashima (Suz 1000) 5. Martin Szwarc (Suz 1000) 6. David Kunzelman (Suz 1000) Dial It In Tracktime 750 Superbike 1. David Stanton (Suz 750) 2. Robert Campbell (Suz 750) 3. David Bell (Suz 750) 4. Jeremiah Grant (Suz 750) 5. Garry Combs (Suz 750) 6. Craig Wierman (Suz 750) Pacific Tracktime 600 Superbike 1. Chris Siglin (Suz 600) 2. Jeff Tigert (Hon 600) 3. Grant Riggs (Yam 600) 4. Andy Carman (Yam 600) 5. Ryan Texeira (Kaw 600) 6. Lenny Hale (Yam 600) 450 Superbike 1. Michael Lohmeyer (Hon 400) 2. Paul Yoshimune (Hon 450) 3. Jose Quintanar (Yam 400) 4. Kenyon Kluge (Hon 400) 5. Craig Sanders (Kaw 400) 6. Ross Wells (Yam 400) Kilowatt Bar 250 Superbike 1. Jove Shapiro (Yam 250) 2. Shawn Herrera (Yam 250) 3. Gordon Johnson (Hon 250) 4. Dylan Benjamin (Hon 250) 5. Clif Jordan (Apr 250) 6. Joe Rust (Apr 250) Take It 2 The Track Open Production 1. Corey Sarros (Suz 1000) 2. Martin Szwarc (Suz 1000) 3. William Scott (Kaw 1000) 4. James J. King (Suz 1000) 5. Daniel Bokum (Suz 1000) 6. Ed Milhausen (Kaw 1000) Strictly Sport 750 Production 1. Robert Campbell (Suz 1000) 2. Jeremiah Grant (Suz 750) 3. Danny Yamasaki (Suz 750) 4. Patrick Flora (Suz 750) 5. Don Rudolfs (Suz 750) 6. Liko Miles (Suz 750) Keigwins@theTrack 600 Production 1. Jeff Tigert (Hon 600) 2. Grant Riggs (Yam 600) 3. Andy Carman (Yam 600) 4. Berto Wooldridge (Suz 600) 5. Bobby Fong (Yam 600) 6. Thomas Montano (Hon 600) 450 Production 1. Ross Wells (Yam 400) 2. Douglas Goldman (Yam 400) 3. Dave Norgard (Yam 400) 4. Gwyn Lewis (Yam 400) 5. Don Breeden (Yam 400) Aftershocks Suspension 250 Production 1. Jay Kinberger (Kaw 250) 2. David Crone (Hon 250) 3. Bob Simmons (Kaw 250) 4. Kelly Winkelbauer (Kaw 250) 5. John Anne (Kaw 250) 6. Dale Walker (Kaw 250) Desmoto Sport Open Twins 1. Jack Pfeifer (Apr 1000) 2. Eric Gulbransen (Duc 749) 3. Brian Long (Suz 1000) 4. Simon Williams (Duc 998) 5. Patrick Blackburn (Duc 998) 6. Scott Schwanbeck (Apr 1000) 650 Twins 1. Kurt Spencer (Suz 650) 2. Felipe Cabezas (Suz 650) 3. Jason Butler (Suz 650) 4. Michael Metcalf (Suz 650) 5. John Daker (Suz 650) 6. Mike Rosa (Suz 650) 500 Twins 1. Jay Jacobson (Suz 500) 2. Bobby Lee Broussard (Suz 500) 3. Jonathan Forman (Suz 500) 4. Josuf Zobairi (AND 500) 5. John Lasiter (Kaw 500) 6. Boris Clifford (Kaw 500) Formula Singles 1. Chris Keane (Hon 450) 2. Charles Statman (Hon 650) 3. Greg Creech (KTM 598) Teresa McKinney Realtor Formula 40 1. Mike Thompson (Yam 1000) 2. Bud Anderson (Hon 1000) 3. Mike Owiecki (Yam 1000) 4. Mark Nelson (Kaw 1000) 5. Jeff Gruetter (Hon 1000) 6. Pete Demas (Suz 600) Super Dinosaur 1. Ross Wells (Yam 400) 2. Dave Norgard (Yam 400) 3. David Worthington (Suz 750) 4. David Crussel (Kaw 748) 5. Michael Nishita (Yam 450) 6. Peter Blum (Yam 400)

Racer Vincent Haskovec, a 31-year-old Czech immigrant who settled in Lake Elsinore, California, suffered spinal injuries and was paralyzed from the chest down when he crashed and hit a wall during an AMA Formula Xtreme motorcycle road race at Infineon Raceway in Sonoma, California on May 14. After spending four days in a local trauma center where he underwent surgery to stabilize his spine, Haskovec was transferred to Santa Clara Medical Center in San Jose, California. Last week he was released from ICU to begin rehabilitation. Haskovec’s medical bills are fast approaching $500,000, of which 70% is covered by his medical insurance. He faces a long rehabilitation and will have to find a new way to make a living, since he worked in construction before he became a professional racer. The team he rode for, Lake Elsinore-based Team Hammer, Inc., racing as M4 EMGO Suzuki, has continued to pay Haskovec but his contract expires at the end of this season. Fundraising efforts are being coordinated by the Wegman Benefit Fund, a 501(3) c non-profit dedicated to helping injured road racers, and an online auction of racing gear and memorabilia donated by racers and people in the motorcycle industry appears at ~http://www.rpmcolorado.com/auction.asp~ . Vincent can be contacted via e-mail, [email protected] and updates on his condition can be seen at www.teamhammer.com . To bring people up to date on Vincent’s current status, we asked Vincent how he was doing. Q: What’s going on? Vincent: First I want to thank everybody who sent me an e-mail or a letter. I can’t believe it, how many people are wishing me well and are trying to help me. It’s amazing, man, and even though I can’t understand why this happened to me I really appreciate that so many people contacted me. I always tried to be nice to people and now they are being so nice to me it’s unreal. In the hospital, I’m now on a different level. On Monday the 11th I made it into the section that I was heading for. That’s why I came here to San Jose. I got out of there and now I’m in the rehab center on the first floor and those people in the rehab center are really cool. It’s the first people in the hospital that give me some hope. Q: You got to sit up for the first time, when did that happen? Vincent: That happened on the Friday before the 11th, so that was like the eighth. Over that weekend I got to sit up. Now I can do therapy and be in the wheelchair. Q: So the more time you spend in the chair the better it is? Vincent: Exactly, because the circulation and the movement is very important. Q: How’s your left arm doing? Vincent: That’s slowing me down on the progress here because it can move but it’s not as strong. I can do the things, but for a very short time. Q: Overall, now that you are up and in your chair and starting rehab, how do you feel about all that stuff? Vincent: It’s much better because I can go out and see people so I’m really happy. I can be in the chair at least and go around. I’m in the chair and I have to have like four hours of rehab through the day, but I have rest in between those hours. Q: How’s your overall feeling so far? Vincent: I’m pretty happy to make that move and finally do some activity. I’m not laying in bed all the time, laying on my side. Q: What do they have you doing for your activities? Vincent: We’re doing weights. I do normally that for one hour. Another hour they try to teach you about regular life; like you going in the shower, how you’re going to transfer yourself to the bath, how you’re going around the kitchen, how you’re going to open the door. All the basic stuff, you know? Another hour is physical therapy, they are teaching me about the wheelchair. And they are teaching me how to get up myself from the chair. And the last hour is going around a course in the wheelchair. This week they are going to have a bus with a ramp and on next Sunday they are going to take us to Santa Cruz. We can hang out, be outside, eat, and other stuff. Q: Are you looking forward to that? Vincent: Yeah, that will be the first time that I am going to be out of the hospital.

MID-OHIO’S WISECO SUPERBIKE 100 DOUBLEHEADER IS WIDE OPEN PICKERINGTON, Ohio (July 18, 2005) — Any of a number of the leading AMA Superbike riders are expected to contend for victories in the upcoming pair of Wiseco Superbike 100 races, July 22-24 at Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course in Lexington, Ohio. A total of five former winners will be on the grid at Mid-Ohio for rounds 12 and 13 of the 17-race AMA Superbike Championship presented by Parts Unlimited. Jake Zemke, Aaron Yates, Miguel Duhamel, Eric Bostrom and series leader Mat Mladin have all tasted victory on the challenging 2.4-mile, 15 turn circuit. The pair of Wiseco Superbike 100s are part of the Honda Super Cycle Weekend presented by Dunlop Tire. This year’s race is the 23rd annual Mid-Ohio Superbike event and has long been one of the best-attended races on the AMA Superbike calendar. Riders will be greeted this year by continued circuit safety improvements. Yoshimura Suzuki’s Mat Mladin comes to Mid-Ohio with a 31-point lead over teammate Ben Spies. Mladin, the all-time AMA Superbike wins leader from Australia, is looking to add to his 2005 tally of seven wins. He is the only four-time Mid-Ohio Superbike winner. “I’m happy with the progress we’re making this year,” said Mladin, who is shooting for his sixth AMA Superbike Championship. “Suzuki came in with the strongest bike in the championship this year and our team has only made it better.” Mladin’s teammate Aaron Yates swept the first Mid-Ohio Superbike doubleheader in 2000 and previously won the race in 1998. Yates has seven podium finishes to his credit so far this season, but is looking to score his first victory. He could join Mladin as a four-time winner, or even become the first five-time winner of Mid-Ohio this weekend. Ducati Austin’s Eric Bostrom is hot coming off his victory at Laguna Seca, on July 9. Bostrom is hoping to score his second career Mid-Ohio AMA Superbike victory. If he wins it would mark the first win for Ducati at Mid-Ohio since Doug Polen took victory on the Italian-made machine in 1992. “We’ll see what the coming races bring,” Bostrom said. “I know we’re improving and I’m getting more confident with each race, but at the same time it’s going to be tough to beat the guys who have it dialed in and have been running up front all season.” Honda teammates Miguel Duhamel and Jake Zemke have both scored wins at Mid-Ohio, but the two have yet to win this year. Time is running short for Honda if it is to avoid being shut out in AMA Superbike for the first time since 1994. Mid-Ohio fans will get their first opportunity to see Ben Spies and Neil Hodgson on AMA Superbikes. Spies is a Superbike rookie from Texas, who is second in the standings to Suzuki teammate Mladin. Mid-Ohio is a homecoming of sorts for Spies, who raced in his first AMA Pro road race at the track in 2000. Hodgson is the former British and World Superbike Champion who is making his debut in the American series this year. Already the Brit has scored a win last month in Elkhart Lake, Wis., and could be a major factor in his first visit to Mid-Ohio. Three riders from independent or privateer teams are ranked inside the top 10 in AMA Superbike coming into Mid-Ohio. Marty Craggill (Mladin Motorsports Suzuki), Lee Acree (KWS/Millennium Suzuki) and Steve Rapp (Michael Jordan Suzuki) are eighth though tenth in the standings, respectively. Mid-Ohio was the site of the last privateer victory in AMA Superbike. Privateer Dale Quarterley won Mid-Ohio in 1993 on a Kawasaki. Both Wiseco Superbike 100s will be televised nationally on SPEED Channel with Saturday’s Superbike beginning at 2 p.m. EST on Sunday, July 24, followed by live coverage of Sunday’s Superbike final at 3 p.m. For additional information contact Mid-Ohio at (614) 793-4600 or visit the website www.midohio.com.

WANTED: A GOOD DICE Munroe Motors/Tag Team/Harmon Bros Racing’s Eric Gulbransen takes home a well-fought second place at Thunderhill Raceway during the 5th AFM round aboard his Ducati 749R. Thunderhill Raceway, CA July 17th, 2005 – The thermometer was soaring, the parking lot asphalt was melting and the sweat was pouring. Eric “GoGo” Gulbransen and the team from Munroe Motors/Tag Team/Harmon Bros Racing were chillin’ in the shade of their Ducati EZ-Ups at Thunderhill Raceway in Northern California, scene of the 5th round of the nine round AFM Championship Road Race series. The topic of discussion was what makes the perfect road race. Racer Tom Goetze, put it perfectly about his Formula 40 race on his T-&-G/Munroe Motors sponsored Ducati 996 “¦man, I had a great dice”. “That’s it!” the team decided. All racers want “a great dice” and, ironically, winning comes second. If you’re going to risk it all, then you want to have the best possible time doing it. The Open Twins race provided GoGo the ideal opportunity to test the new theory his 749R was clearly the best handling bike on the grid, but the extra power of the big-bore 1000cc competition was a real threat on the long and fast straights of Thunderhill. The green flag dropped to start the race, and for once GoGo was not the first to stuff his bike through turn 1. “I blew the launch. My fault. The bike wanted to go, but I screwed it up.” he explained later, “That entire first lap I was out to lunch. Pfeiffer got the hole shot and then Long squeezed under me going into turn six. That 749R is a weapon when you’re on your game. And for that first lap, I wasn’t.” Out front, Jack Pfeiffer on his Aprilia 1000 was easing away from the pack, and by lap two he pulled a 2 second margin over GoGo who worked his way past last year’s Open Twins champion Brian Long into second place. “By lap two we were jammin’ again. The bike felt like I grew up on it. Jack had gapped us a bit, so I kept my head down and hit my marks harder and faster than ever before” said GoGo, as he raved on about the little Ducati. Each lap GoGo went a little faster, until he dipped under his 749 personal best time at Thunderhill, by just under a second, to record a 1:55:01. “Once I caught him I nudged my way under him on lap five, cresting the hill out of turn nine, and then drag raced him to turn ten but I was on the outside. He says he had no idea I was there, and I’m sure he’s being honest because he drifted to the edge of the track once we got into the brakes and pinched me right out of the fight. That lost us some time, and now I only had one lap to get back on him. I tried the same move on the white flag lap, only this time on the inside. And this time we made it stick… Once I had the lead, I started looking for things to throw over my shoulder at him, because I knew we’d be in trouble once we hit the long straight to the checkered flag. If I could have tucked inside that gas tank I would have, but Jack shot by and took the checkers by a bike length. We both shouted and high-fived each other all the way around the cool-down lap”¦what a race!” Back in the pits, the crew judged that GoGo must have had a good time by all his hootin’ and hollerin’ thereby proving our new theory that “a good dice”, not to forget a strong second place, is the best way to spend a rather warm Sunday afternoon at the racetrack. More, from a press release issued by Traxxion Dynamics: Young Gun Peris Unbeatable in Hindle Pro 600 Racing at Mosport Young Gun Chris Peris had the best weekend of his professional racing career at the Parts Canada double header weekend at Mosport International Raceway last weekend. It started with a stunning pole position run that saw Peris complete only the first five laps of qualifying. Peris set the pole time of 1:23.9 on his third lap, and then ran two more laps within tenths, and came into the pits and parked his bike. “That was a perfect lap. I can’t duplicate it, and I can’t go any faster. Nobody will beat that lap”. He took his helmet off, and sat down to watch the rest of qualifying. To the astonishment of the officials and spectators, he was right and his pole time remained unbeaten. The television crews were aggravated, since Peris’s qualifying effort was to be filmed as part of the “featured rider” coverage throughout the weekend. “We had just started to roll cameras, and were set up to film Chris, and then he never came around again!” proclaimed an amazed cameraman. In Saturday’s race, conditions were hot and dry, and the competition was close and fierce. Peris got off the pole behind the front row, and had to work forward. At the white flag he was 20 bikelengths behind Clint McBain, whose lead seemed insurmountable. Peris however, showed a new level of determination, and “Rossi’d” McBain by making up the gap, passing the leader, and putting in the fastest lap of the race on the last lap! Peris’ father Fernando was extremely proud of Chris and the Topline Printing Yamaha Team. “Chris made several draft passes throughout the race, and it was clear that our Vass Performance Racing Engine was faster than anything else on the track. Our second advantage is our Traxxion Dynamics suspension. To set the fastest lap by almost a second on the last lap speaks for itself; our Dunlop tires looked perfect even after that blistering lap. Chris never ceases to amaze me, and I am really happy for Max McAllister and Willie Vass, since they have worked so hard this year to put Chris on the box!” Peris passed all post race inspections including a tear down and inspection of the front fork system. The weather took a dramatic turn on Sunday, and it rained so long and so hard that officials continually delayed the start of the feature events. When the race finally did start, the track was “full wet” and rain continued to drizzle lightly. Peris led the race and a three rider breakaway of Peris, Tom Kipp, and Matt McBride quickly distanced the field. Then disaster struck as Peris approached the slow and slippery turn 5 area. A rider had fallen and a debris flag was waving. Peris was trying to sight the problem and ran wide of the apex, and fell on the concrete patch. Luckily, he stayed with the bike and was able to pick it up and re-enter the race. The right handlebar had bent in, but Peris continued on anyway, and actually maintained a third place position, 10 seconds off the leader. To everyone’s amazement, Peris worked his way back past McBride, and then passed Kipp for the lead coming to the white flag. He never looked back and took his second win to complete a perfect weekend. According to McAllister, Peris’ suspension tuner, “Chris stepped to another level here this weekend. I have been watching racers for a long time, and I have not been that impressed with a rider since John Hopkins came from behind to win the AMA FX Championship at VIR. I think the fans can expect to see Chris competing closer with the leaders than ever at Mid-Ohio this weekend.” Peris and the Topline Printing Yamaha Team are headed to the Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course for the upcoming weekends AMA National. More information is available at www.peris.ca. More, from a press release issued by Kenny Kopecky: Willow Springs Motorcycle Club Round 7 – July 17, 2005 Rosamond, CA On the hottest race day of the 2005 season at Willow Springs, Ducati Oceanside’s Kenny Kopecky took four race victories along with a well fought third place to remain atop the WSMC Overall Track Championship standings and solidify his hold on several individual class Championships. The wins included back-to-back races in BOTT Heavyweight and 750 Superbike early in the schedule. Kenny said “The heat didn’t seem too bad in the first couple of races but later in the day we saw 109 in the shade at our trailer and decided to skip the Formula Two race to wait for our next pair of consecutive events in 650 Superbike and Middleweight Twins. The 650 Superbike race went well…I had a fun battle with Mickey Lane throughout the event and came up just a little short at the end finishing 3rd. The wind was getting a little gnarly in turn 8, so I think we rode a little on the conservative side.” Jason Perez easily won over a field that was somewhat thinner then usual. Kopecky won his 3rd straight WSMC 750 Superbike event and has now moved into a tie in the class point standings with Ritchie Thorup, who finished a close third just behind Karl Lowry Jr. on Sunday. Kenny added “We ran hard for a few laps to get a gap…I knew the other guys would remain strong all the way and we feel our strategy worked out really well today. We managed to sweep the Ducati contingency races again this month and our 749, the 999 and the Dunlops held up really well in the desert blast furnace.” Kopecky also leads the BOTT Middleweight, BOTT Heavyweight and Formula Twins class standings and is ranked top 5 in Formula Two and 650 Superbike. The next WSMC roadrace is Round 8 on August 19-21, 2005. More, from a press release issued by Bell’s ARNCHU Racing: Bell’s ARNCHU Racing rises to 5th overall in points! This past weekend during Round 6 of the Dunlop/WERA National Endurance Series, Bell’s ARNCHU Racing (#15) scored another overall podium position of 3rd overall. The team also scored 2nd in the Heavyweight Superbike class, on a largely superstock Suzuki GSXR750. The team rose to 5th in points with a string of lately impressive finishes in the series. Riders Nathan Dressman, Randy Sherman, and Bojan Milkovich all rode with times in the 1:23/24 range. Dressman put in the 3rd fastest lap of the race at 1:22.1 on lap 7 of 230. Considered a “local track” by the riders, the team understood that weather at Grattan is a curious thing, often with it’s own atmostphere. ARNCHU played a calculated risk during the final 45 minutes of a wet Grattan 6 hour race. As the closing hour came with rain on the western half of the course, ARNCHU was running P4. Randy Sherman, riding, was told to stay out in the damp conditions as teams began to funnel in the pits for rain tires, including Team Redstar in P3. This was the chance the team needed to overtake for P3 by over a minute. Soon the track began drying and Sherman increased the lead into P3 by over a lap! “It was the most intensely focused I’ve been on a bike and it felt incredible. The seams at Grattan were so slippery so I chose completely different lines. We ran the whole race on one Michelin front slick and two rear DOTs!” said Sherman. Our team thanks the dedicated crewmanship of Ted Sherman, Tom and Kathy Dressman, and Jim Sheldon of Trackoholics.com. Bojan Milkovich, our guest rider, rode extremely fast and consistent on bike a bit too soft for him. More, from a press release issued by Rojo Racing: Jason Perez pulls off five wins for five starts at the seventh round of WSMC race event. Prior to Sunday’s races Jason ran the GTO on Saturday experimenting with 16.5″ rear wheel technology. Being that there was a lack of set up time, the attempt was unsuccessful having to pull in on two consecutive laps then pulling out of the race. On the other hand Sunday was a different story. After Saturday’s mishap Jason opted to stay with the 17″ rear wheel on his Yamaha R1, which has worked great in the past. Despite the 108 degree heat in the high desert, Perez was able to keep his competitors behind him the entire day. With lap times in the mid 21’s of the first race “Open Superbike” Jason was off to a good start with a win. Jason went on to win Open Superstock, 600 Superbike, 600 Superstock, and the premier Formula One class. Jason said “the bikes were working great, despite the heat.” “During the Formula One race I started with a couple of easy laps but noticed my pit board was not giving much of a gap so I picked up the pace a little while taking care not to cook my tire, Once I saw that I had a bit of a gap I maintained that pace and every thing turned out ok” “the bike felt a little loose towards the end but it worked fine”. Tire choice was crucial this week end due to the extreme heat conditions, we have to hand it to Dunlop for getting Jason and his Yamaha R1 on the top box! Rojo Racing team will be taking their show on the road next weekend at the Mid Ohio AMA Superstock race.

FANS GET TO LAP TRACK DURING 15TH ANNUAL MID-OHIO DEALER RIDE DUBLIN, Ohio (July 18, 2005) Taking to the highway on a motorcycle is a thrill to be sure, but getting to lap America’s most competitive road course on one is something else entirely. That’s exactly what motorcycling enthusiasts can do when they attend the Honda Super Cycle Weekend presented by Dunlop Tire and sign up for the Mid-Ohio Dealer Ride. Now in its 15th season, the Mid-Ohio Dealer Ride provides spectators the opportunity to hit the track on their own two-wheeler and get the pros’ perspective of the challenging Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course in Lexington, Ohio. The Dealer Ride takes place throughout the lunchtime break on Sunday, July 24, during the Honda Super Cycle Weekend presented by Dunlop Tire. With more than 132 motorcycle dealerships participating in this year’s event, over 600 riders are expected to experience an on-track tour of Mid-Ohio’s 15-turn, 2.4-mile road course. In addition to the lunchtime lap on Sunday, participants also will receive VIP parking in the track’s infield. Bike owners interested in taking part in the Dealer Ride can simply visit their nearest participating motorcycle dealership, including all Ohio Honda dealerships, during normal business hours to sign up. All participating riders and passengers must be 18 years of age or older, carry a valid operator’s license, and wear helmets throughout the ride. Along with the Dealer Ride, the Honda Super Cycle Weekend presented by Dunlop Tire will feature an AMA Superbike doubleheader. Miguel Duhamel, Ben Spies, Jake Zemke and the rest of the Superbike superstars will go head-to-head in two Wiseco Superbike 100s one each on Saturday, July 23, and Sunday, July 24. These thoroughbred bikes reach speeds over 170 miles per hour on Mid-Ohio’s famed backstretch before battling side by side into the Esses. Also featured during the weekend’s events will be fast-paced, two-wheeled action in the Supersport, Superstock and Formula Xtreme classes. Tickets and information are available by calling 1-800-MID-OHIO or visiting www.midohio.com. Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course is a 2.4-mile, 15-turn permanent road racing circuit in Lexington, Ohio. Located 60 miles north of Columbus and 75 miles south of Cleveland near Mansfield, the track has been called the most competitive in the U.S. and annually hosts a diversity of locally, regionally and nationally sanctioned racing events for amateur, club and professional riders and drivers. Mid-Ohio’s 2005 schedule features six spectator events, including the AMA Vintage Motorcycle Days (July 15-17), Honda Super Cycle Weekend presented by Dunlop Tire (July 22-24), EMCO Gears Classic and Unlimited Audio and Accessories presents the Triple Crown Tuner Challenge (August 26-28), and SCCA National Championship Runoffs presented by Kohler (September 19-25). Founded in 1981 and headquartered in Dublin, Ohio, TrueSports, Inc. is a privately held motorsports entertainment enterprise. The company owns and operates Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course and The Mid-Ohio School, and promotes a wide variety of motor racing, driver instruction, corporate, and family entertainment events throughout the year.

Racer Jack Pfeifer was injured Sunday during an AFM racer at Thunderhill Raceway in Willows, California. According to his friend Travis Ryan, “Jack was in his second race of the day at the AFM at Thunderhill. He won his first race of the day. During the second race his Aprilia died and he put his hand up. The first group behind him saw the hand and went around him, but the second group didn’t. Jack’s handlebar was clipped and he was thrown from the bike, then run over by another rider. Two other riders were injured but only one went to the hospital and the doctors said he would be fine. “Jack is at the Chico, California Enloe Medical Center, Room 192, Neuro Trama Center ICU. His arm and wrist are broken and his T4, T6 and T8 vertebrae are cracked. His T5 is crushed. He has no spinal cord injury and he has feeling in his feet and hands; at first he didn’t but now he does. “We are going to try and get Jack back to Las Vegas ASAP so he can see an associate of Dr. Paul Canale, Jack’s former sponsor who is now a spine surgeon in Alabama, ~http://www.spineuniverse.com/mdpage.php?doctorID=3228~ Dr. Canale said Jack is extremely lucky it’s not worse and that he has some feeling. “I have set up a website where Jack’s friends, fans and family can e-mail him, it’s [email protected]. Jack is very much an e-mail reader and anything will help him recover.”

GAULOISES YAMAHA TARGETS PODIUM REPEAT AT DONINGTON PARK The 2005 MotoGP World Championship reaches its halfway stage this weekend as the Gauloises Yamaha Team heads back to Europe for the British Grand Prix at Donington Park. After consecutive podium doubles for Valentino Rossi and Colin Edwards in the last two rounds at Assen and Laguna Seca, both riders are confident of continuing their form at a circuit where they claimed the top two steps of the rostrum one year ago. After taking third place on his first visit to Laguna Seca last week, Rossi’s podium run now stretches to an impressive eleven races. The Italian has made Donington Park his own over the past few seasons, taking victory in all but one of the MotoGP races there since 2001, adding to previous successes in the 125cc and 250cc classes. He now returns to the scene of his debut premier-class victory with a 79-point lead at the top of the championship standings. Edwards will again be counting on huge local backing, with his army of British fans following up the excellent support he received at his home Grand Prix last week. The American managed successive podiums for the first time in his MotoGP career at Laguna Seca and moved up to fifth place in the championship. He is now looking for a podium hat-trick as he chases down second place in the championship, with just 14 points now separating him from Rossi’s closest pursuer Marco Melandri (Honda). The Donington Park circuit is known for its vastly contrasting sections, which require a competitive overall machine set-up to cope with the combination of fast, flowing corners in the opening half of the circuit and the stop-start chicanes towards the end of the lap. Last year’s YZR-M1 machine proved to be more than competent, with Rossi winning the race by a comfortable 2.945 second margin over Edwards, but the 2005 version has already shown that it is a more complete motorcycle with six wins from the opening eight rounds of the season, and it should adapt perfectly to the demands of the Derbyshire circuit. After a revised weekend timetable designed to accommodate a host of support events and provide extra track time for the MotoGP riders at Laguna Seca, normal service is resumed for practice at Donington Park, although the race-day schedule has been altered slightly. The red lights will go out for the 30-lap MotoGP event at 15:30 local time on Sunday. VALENTINO ROSSI: HOME FROM HOME As well as being his favourite venue on the calendar, Donington Park is also the closest circuit to Valentino Rossi’s home city of London. The flamboyant Italian moved to the English capital in 2000 as he looked to avoid the constant glare of the media and fans in his own country and is aiming to use his local familiarity to bounce back to the top step of the rostrum after taking third place on his first visit to Laguna Seca in the last round. “I was very happy to finish on the podium at Laguna Seca because it was my first time at the track and we knew it would be hard to battle with the Americans there,” said Rossi, who will be addressing the British press at a special event in an Italian restaurant on Park Lane, London, on Wednesday. “We didn’t have time to learn everything about the track and find the perfect setting for the bike, but I was close to the winner and that is important because now we go to Donington Park, a track I know well. “I always look forward to riding at Donington because it is close to my house and now it is like a second home Grand Prix for me. It has been one of my favourite tracks ever since I rode the 125 and I have a lot of good memories especially my first win with the 500 in 2001. “Last year also was a good race with the Yamaha. It was an important time of the season, just before the summer, and we were making a lot of progress with the bike so I was able to win. Anyway, Colin was very strong in that race and I know he will be strong again this weekend. Marco Melandri is fast at Donington and also Nicky Hayden is in a very good moment, so I think it will be a big battle.” COLIN EDWARDS: THREE, TWO, ONE? For Colin Edwards there is only one target this weekend as he sets his sights firmly on a first MotoGP victory to go with third and second place finishes respectively in the last two rounds. The American has plenty of experience at the British circuit, thanks to his regular appearances there in the World Superbike series, and he will also be looking to make local knowledge count in the same way he did at Laguna Seca. “I had a good result last year, ending up second, and at the time I was riding a bike I wasn’t completely comfortable with,” recalls Edwards. “Now I’m going there on the back of a third, a second”¦ I’m guessing it must be time for a first! I like Donington, I always get along with it and it’s been one of my favourite tracks for a long time, so we’re rolling up there looking to win.” Edwards is currently in his best run of form since joining the MotoGP series two and a half seasons ago and, with just 14 points separating the three riders in front of him, the Texan says he is keen to keep the ball rolling as the team define their objectives for the rest of the season. “With everything going on around Laguna, all the hype and concerns about the track and everything else, I think it just became one of those pivotal weekends. Barros and Melandri crashed out of the race and the points have scrunched up a lot. As far as the title race is concerned”¦ I’m not saying it’s over yet but basically Valentino is gone! So our target is to finish second in the championship, to get a one-two for Yamaha, and we’re approaching the rest of the season with that attitude.” DAVIDE BRIVIO: BACK TO EUROPE Gauloises Yamaha Team Director Davide Brivio is looking forward to every Grand Prix at the moment, with both his riders in excellent form and the 2005 YZR-M1 machine consistently showing improved levels of consistency and performance over previous models. The Italian returned straight home from Laguna Seca to lead operations as the Team prepares for two European rounds in consecutive weekends at Donington Park and Sachsenring. “This is a very positive moment for us Laguna Seca was the third time we have had both riders on the podium this season and the second in a row so we are all feeling confident,” says Brivio. “It was great to see both yellow, white and black bikes on the podium in America for Yamaha’s 50th Anniversary but now we are back to our standard colours to continue the job in Europe. “Valentino wants to confirm his leadership in the championship again and he likes the track very much, as does Colin, who has a lot of experience at Donington Park. Last year both our riders were on the top two steps of the podium so our target is to repeat that, whichever way around they are! It won’t be easy because our competitors are strong at the moment; it’s going to be another tough race! “Donington is a special track because it combines a section of very fast and flowing corners with a slow section full of chicanes, so you need to have a bike that is good in all conditions. Last year Valentino ran the race on his own so we know the M1 works there and in theory it should be better this year because so far this season the 2005 bike has been much easier to set-up. That is the theory but we’ll see what happens when we get there!” BLAST FROM THE PAST: CELEBRATING 50 YEARS OF YAMAHA GLORY For many fans and journalists in Britain, the arrival of the MotoGP World Championship conjures up memories of one of the most exciting motorcycle races of all time. The 1979 British Grand Prix at Silverstone was the first to be screened live on national television and became one of the most talked about races in history, after a thrilling clash between national hero Barry Sheene and his American Yamaha nemesis Kenny Roberts, who had wrestled the title from the Londoner the previous season. The pair went head-to-head in a breathtaking battle over 28 laps, famously exchanging gestures and hand signals throughout the race before a final corner dash to the line which saw the Yamaha rider take the flag by just 0.3 seconds. “There are two races from my career that people will come up to me and say: ‘I was at the race’, and I instantly know what they mean” says Roberts, who won a hat-trick of 500cc World Championship titles for Yamaha from 1978-80. “In America they mean the Indy mile that I won on the two-stroke Yamaha in 1975 and in Britain they mean Silverstone 1979. It’s just one of those races that sticks in people’s minds. “It was a race where every lap or two we changed positions. Barry would get in front and slow me down and then I’d get in front and pick the pace up and we’d leave the other three guys behind. Then he’d get in front again and I’d be saying: ‘Hey! Get going!’ I knew I couldn’t outrun him but I didn’t want him slowing us down and letting everybody else catch up. So initially I was just telling him to get a move on, but Barry took it the wrong way. “They got the classic picture when he gave me a sign behind his back! We both knew it was going to come down to the last lap because I couldn’t outrun him and he couldn’t outrun me. Sure enough, it ended up last lap, last corner and I was just able to pull it off. “Of course Barry was one of my biggest rivals and at the time our relationship wasn’t the best, but we respected each other and we since became close friends he was one of the sport’s greats and he is missed by everybody. We were close on the track but Silverstone was one of the circuits that was very fast and it just suited my style. There were other races where I had to ride harder or be more clever, but the one everybody remembers is the British Grand Prix in 1979.” TECHNICALLY SPEAKING Donington Park is a track of two halves. One section is slow and less interesting for the riders and spectators alike, the other is faster and more flowing. Machine set-up is also therefore something of a compromise, with strong front fork springs and sharp steering the ideal solutions for hard braking and swift flick-in at the chicane and last two hairpins, while the rest of the undulating fast and medium corners require suppleness from the front suspension and a high degree of stability mid corner, and a firmer set-up on the rear to help with corner exit traction. Horsepower is less of a factor at Donington than some circuits, but clean engine response and exact gearing choices are essential to handle such a variety of corners, as the track runs downhill from the start to the Old Hairpin, then back uphill to the flat section behind the pits. Working conditions at the ageing Donington track are far from ideal but the track layout is the type that provokes either love or hate, such is its individuality. The prevalent off-camber nature of Donington is one of the main factors at play during any British GP weekend, with a large tendency for the front tyre to push, making the right, left, right flick down the Craner Curve section something of a high tension rollercoaster ride. A dramatic viewing experience, Donington sits inside an amphitheatre style setting, with the spectator bankings ringing around the outside. VALENTINO ROSSI: INFORMATION Age: 26 Lives: London, UK Bike: Gauloises Yamaha Team YZR-M1 GP victories: 74 (35 X MotoGP, 13 X 500cc, 14 X 250cc, 12 X 125cc) First GP victory: Czech Republic, 1996 (125cc) First GP: Malaysia, 1996 (125cc) GP starts: 148 (56 x MotoGP, 32 x 500cc, 30 x 250cc, 30 x 125cc) Pole positions: 39 World Championships 6 Grand Prix (1 x 125cc, 1 x 250cc, 1 x 500cc, 3 x MotoGP) Donington 2005 Results (Yamaha): Grid 1st, Race 1st COLIN EDWARDS: INFORMATION Age: 31 Lives: Conroe, Texas Bike: Gauloises Yamaha Team YZR-M1 First GP: Japan, 2003 (MotoGP) GP starts: 40 (MotoGP) World Championships – 2 World Superbike Donington 2005 Results (Honda): Grid 5th, Race 2nd Donington MotoGP lap record: Colin Edwards (Honda), 1m 29.973s – 2004; Circuit best lap: Valentino Rossi (Yamaha) 1m 28.720s 2004.

PICOTTE BACK IN THE HUNT MOSPORT, ON Pascal Picotte jumped back into contention for a third straight Parts Canada Superbike title by winning the second half of the weekend doubleheader at Mosport International Raceway Sunday. After dominating Saturday’s event on his Picotte Performance Yamaha YZF-R1, the Granby, QC rider repeated the performance on Sunday as he led every lap from pole. Calgary’s Clint McBain finished second on his Team Suzuki / Blackfoot Suzuki GSX-R1000, 5.460 seconds behind Picotte after making a dramatic last lap pass of Jordan Szoke. Szoke, from Brantford, ON settled for third aboard the Fast Company Honda CBR1000RR. The results dramatically tightened the Parts Canada Superbike Championship point standings after five of eight rounds. Rock Forest, QC’s Francis Martin retains the lead with 198 points after fighting back from a crash to finish sixth in Sunday’s race on his Snobgirls / Laval Moto Suzuki GSX-R1000. But Szoke is now only two points back with 196, while McBain is just another two points behind in third. Picotte, meanwhile, leaps up to fourth with 179. “This is what we had to do,” said Picotte, who also swept the Mosport doubleheader last season and has five Superbike national wins at the track. “We had to get the most out of the weekend. There’s no other way to turn the championship around. Now we’ve put some pressure on the other guys.” Picotte was a heavy preseason favourite for the Parts Canada Superbike crown but broke some ribs and his wrist in a practice fall at the season opener in May. His best finish before the Mosport doubleheader was a fifth at the previous round at Race City Motorsport Park in Calgary. Chardon, OH’s Tom Kipp challenged Picotte early in the race on the Canadian Kawasaki Motors Kawasaki ZX-10R but crashed on lap 6 of 10, leaving Picotte alone at the front. Kipp’s exit left McBain, Szoke and Kevin Lacombe battling furiously for second. McBain dove inside Szoke at the end of the backstraight then held his ground as the pair raced side-by-side through the next turn. Lacombe crossed the line fourth on the second Team Suzuki / Blackfoot Suzuki GSX-R1000 but the Granby, QC rider was penalized for a jump start, relegating him to eighth in the final results. Matthew McBride of Mississauga, ON took fourth on the Canadian Kawasaki ZX-10R and Kars, ON’s Andrew Nelson completed the top five riding the Nelson Racing Honda CBR600RR. The series resumes with another doubleheader at Atlantic Motorsport Park in Shubenacadie, NS Aug. 5-7 before concluding at Shannonville Motorsport Park on the Labour Day Weekend. In other action at Mosport, Chris Peris of Calgary completed a sweep of the Hindle Exhaust Pro 600 Sport Bike features on the Topline Yamaha YZF-R6. Despite a fall on the third lap of the 14-lap race, held in wet conditions, Peris recovered to pass Kipp two laps from the end. Kipp settled for second on his Canadian Kawasaki Motors Kawasaki ZX-6RR while teammate McBride placed third. Mark Douglas of Warkworth, ON won the International Motorcycle SUPERSHOW Amateur 600 Sport Bike round at Mosport. Oshawa, ON’s Stephan Chabot was second and James Collins of Woodstock, ON third. All three Yamaha riders engaged in a racelong battle for the win. Bill Card of Wellesley, ON led all the way to win his second Canadian Thunder feature of the weekend on a Buell XB12R. North Vancouver’s Darren James was second on a Buell XB9R, holding off the Ducati SS1000 of Brampton, ON’s Robert Trottier. Fifteen-year-old Karl Daigle of Roxton Pond, QC scored his third straight win in the Suzuki SV650 National Cup race Sunday. Rouyn-Noranda, QC’s Alain Lefebvre was a close second while Ottawa’s Derek Bowker finished third. Action from this weekend will be shown later this summer in a one-hour show on TSN.

Noyes Seventh for Folch Yamaha in Calalunya Folch Yamaha’s Kenny Noyes took a promising seventh place at the third round of the Spanish National Formula Extreme Championship today at the Circuit of Catalunya. Noyes started eighth off the second row but was balked by a faller going into the first corner and had to come back from 12th to hook up with the Suzukis of Ribalta and Morales for a race long battle for fifth. “I was having some traction problems from about the fourth lap because I guessed wrong on set-up after the morning warm-up. I was spinning up way to much out of the fast Renault and SEAT right-handers and after I had a couple of warnings I had to accept seventh. It was a step in the right direction and I was only 14 seconds back of the winner after a half hour, so we are progressing fast,” said Noyes The race was won by former 500 and MotoGP rider Jose de Gea by .067 of a second over his Wurth Honda BQR teammate David Tomas, but de Gea was relegated to third by a five second penalty for passing under yellow on lap two. That meant that Grand Prix 250 veteran Tomas took his first win since the spring of 2002. It was the second time in three races that de Gea has crossed the finish line first only to en stripped of the win due to passing under yellow. Ivan Silva was in the thick of the Tomas-de Gea battle until his Yamaha R1 refused to select fifth and sixth gears at the start of the penultimate lap. He managed to hang on to finish fourth and left Catalunya leading the Championship by four points over de Gea. The Spanish Championship now adjorns for five week summer holiday before resuming at Jerez de la Frontera at the end of August. 1. David Tomas Wurth Honda BQR 29′ 17.691 16 laps 2. Javier del Amor Laglisse Yamaha 29´21.533 -4.042 3. Jose de Gea Wurth Honda BQR 29´22.524 -4.933 4. Ivan Silva Laglisse Yamaha 29’25.595 -8.368 5. Dani Ribalta ZK Pontgrup Suzuki 29´26.436 -8.825 6. Carmelo Morales ZK Pontgrup Suzuki 29´30.714 -13.123 7. Kenny Noyes Folch Yamaha 29´32.287 -14.696 8. Josep Monge Promoracing Yamaha 29´37.786 -20.195 9. Jose Oriol Reynolds Suzuki 29’38.849 -21.258 10. Julian Mazuecos PL Motoracing Yamaha 29´40.224 -22.633 11. Victor Casas ZK Pontgrup Suzuki 29´40.282 -22.691 12. Davis Gomez Meggebike Suzuki 29’41.276 -23.685 13. Juan Gomez RPM Expert Suzuki 29’42.147 -24.556 14. Roberto Pandilla Osasuna Saltoki Kawasaki 30’04.022 -46.431 15. Marc Vellida PRT Kawasaki 30’08.111 -48.520 There were 35 starters and 27 finishers, all but two finishing on the same lap. Fastest lap: Ivan Silva (Yamaha) 1’48.531