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Who dat?

This week I caught up with Kevin Windham. In the video below, Kevin Windham talks about the Superbowl Champions, the NFL’s New Orleans Saints, his family, his future plans for racing and beyond.

The Superbowl XLIV champions, the New Orleans Saints, have many fans – among them is none other than the number 14 in Supercross, Kevin Windham. While the NFL season started when Supercross was in its off season, Kevin was able to take part in season tickets to his favorite NFL team – da’ Saints. Eventually the 2010 Supercross season got underway in January, which meant Kevin was flying off after those Saturday night Main Events back East to watch the New Orleans Saints Playoff games.

On February 7, 2010 the New Orleans Saints headed to the Superbowl in Miami, Florida and Kevin Windham and his wife Dottie made arrangements to attend this momentous occasion. First, however Kevin had to finish up a Supercross race in San Diego the night before.

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This past Saturday we took some time to visit a unique site that has some significance for our family. The Dignity Memorial Vietnam Wall Experience is a traveling three-quarter-scale replica of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington, D.C., and it was recently installed at Resthaven Cemetery here in the Des Moines area. Since 1990, the [...]

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Chad Reed wins San Diego Supercross. Eli Tomac wins his first ever 250 Lites Supercross Main Event. The points in all series are closer than ever with Ryan Villopoto leading James Stewart by three points in premiere Supercross, as the series heats up going to Atlanta next weekend!

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It was expected to rain all day and night. But during the day, it only rained a bit off and on. The track was covered to protect it from the rain and be maintained for the night time program. It did start to rain more as the night time program was getting under way. However, the Feld Motor Sports / Dirt Wurx crew know how to do their jobs. The track is in great condition as the opening ceremonies get under way before the first heat race of the night.

The first 250 West Heat takes off!

The track is a bit slick, and it is raining, but all-in-all everything is in good shape. The early leader is Nicholas Paluzzi on the 72 Yamaha. He’s followed very closely by Jim Decotis (66). Tyla Rattray is third, followed Broc Tickle in fourth and Ryan Morais in fifth.

In the 6 lap qualifier, Paluzzi is leading on the last lap, but Decotis makes a pass on a tight left hand corner. They both bobble and it makes room for Broc Tickle to pass! At the finish it’s Tickle with the win! Decotis is second, Paluzzi third, Rattray fourth, and Morais fifth.

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Crash media also briefly quoted at the time that the condition of the track in Sepang classified as wet and very dangerous.

and for the test session will take place at 13.00 hours, and to pledge Honda rider Casey Stoner should be absent because of an injury to the spine, and is not possible to go down.

and finally lowered Honda rider Kousuke Akiyoshi reserves, this Japanese racer can not be underestimated, it proved he occupies the seventh position of the four rounds.

Ducati won the top spot champion, Valentino Rossi, who recorded a time trajectory of 2905′s best 2 minutes and seconds of the 12 laps. Senior Italian rider sped by Desmosedici latest output, GP12.

Followed by two Yamaha rider, Ben Spies and Jorge Lorenzo, respectively in second and third. Whereas in the second test, turn Lorenzo recorded the fastest track time 2 minutes 2406 seconds. Meanwhile, Rossi and Spies is ranked two and three. (Irb)

Here are the results of pre-test a MotoGP 2012 season at Sepang:
1. Valentino Rossi Ducati Team 2m 2.905s (12 laps)
2. Ben Spies Yamaha Factory Racing 2m 2.930s (10)
3. Jorge Lorenzo Yamaha Factory Racing 2m 3.044s (7)
4. Alvaro Bautista San Carlo Honda Gresini 2m 4.110s (7)
5. Katsuyuki Nakasuga Yamaha Test Rider 2m 4.577s (6)
6. Dani Pedrosa Repsol Honda 2m 4.971s (11)
7. Casey Stoner Repsol Honda 2m 7.163s (4)
8. Andrea Dovizioso Monster Yamaha Tech 3 2m 8.375s (4)
9. Cal Crutchlow Monster Yamaha Tech 3 2m 10.993s (1)
10. Ivan Silva BQR (FTR-Kawasaki CRT) 2m 11.280s (10)
11. Nicky Hayden Ducati Team 2m 11.759s (3)
12. Stefan Bradl LCR Honda 2m 11.887s (1)
13. Karel Abraham Cardion AB Motoracing 2m 15.563s (1)
14. Jordi Torres BQR (FTR-Kawasaki CRT) 2m 16.565s (5)
15. Hector Barbera Pramac Racing 2m 17.372s (1)

The following test results II:
1. Jorge Lorenzo Yamaha Factory Racing 2m 2.406s (Lap 11/13)
2. Valentino Rossi Ducati Team 2m 2.824s (17/19)
3. Ben Spies Yamaha Factory Racing 2m 2.930s (10/10)
4. Alvaro Bautista San Carlo Honda Gresini 2m 3.197s (11/18)
5. Cal Crutchlow Monster Yamaha Tech 3 2m 3.233s (11/11)
6. Dani Pedrosa Repsol Honda 2m 3.410s (18/20)
7. Katsuyuki Nakasuga Yamaha Test Rider 2m 3.418s (15/15)
8. Nicky Hayden Ducati Team 2m 4.665s (9 / 9)
9. Stefan Bradl LCR Honda 2m 4.865s (9 / 10)
10. Andrea Dovizioso Monster Yamaha Tech 3 2m 4.996s (3 / 3)
11. Hector Barbera Pramac Racing 2m 5.112s (5 / 6)
12. Karel Abraham Cardion AB Motoracing 2m 5.923s (9 / 10)
13. Casey Stoner Repsol Honda 2m 7.163s (1 / 4)
14. Ivan Silva Avintia Racing (FTR-Kawasaki CRT) 2m 11.267s (12/12)
15. Jordi Torres Avintia Racing (FTR-Kawasaki CRT) 2m 12.816s (13/15)
16. Colin Edwards NGM Forward Racing (Suter-BMW CRT) 2m 18.195s (3 / 3)

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Who dat?

This week I caught up with Kevin Windham. In the video below, Kevin Windham talks about the Superbowl Champions, the NFL’s New Orleans Saints, his family, his future plans for racing and beyond.

The Superbowl XLIV champions, the New Orleans Saints, have many fans – among them is none other than the number 14 in Supercross, Kevin Windham. While the NFL season started when Supercross was in its off season, Kevin was able to take part in season tickets to his favorite NFL team – da’ Saints. Eventually the 2010 Supercross season got underway in January, which meant Kevin was flying off after those Saturday night Main Events back East to watch the New Orleans Saints Playoff games.

On February 7, 2010 the New Orleans Saints headed to the Superbowl in Miami, Florida and Kevin Windham and his wife Dottie made arrangements to attend this momentous occasion. First, however Kevin had to finish up a Supercross race in San Diego the night before.

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After dinner, the awards ceremony began. Jason Weigandt, along with Tim Cotter hosted the show. And of course Jason started it just like he does many of his shows – after slamming down an energy drink.

Jason went on to talk about each round of this summer’s AMA Motocross Nationals, with a list of funny jokes pertaining to all the good and bad situations at each of the races. After that, the awards and trophies were handed out.

The night was filled with special memories, good times, and laughs. One poignant moment was when Kevin Windham accepted the award for ‘Sportsperson of the Year’. Kevin always has a great way of expressing himself, but made a great comment towards his friend & the team manager, Mike LaRocco. He commented on Mike’s motivation, that pushed Kevin to work hard and do his best … it was touching, but at the same time very funny.

Kevin Windham accepted the award for ‘Sportsperson of the Year’

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MotoGP rider ever to win the world in 2010 was indeed very surprised by riding a bicycle in a state very slowly, indeed it is very surprising Jorge Lorenzo fans, many who think that a MotoGP world champion would have had a driver’s license.

And selection of obtaining a driver’s license after he did this test circuit in Sepang, Malaysia, 2 February 2012 ago.

“I get a car driver’s license at 18 years, and so far I feel no need of a motorcycle driver’s license, because it is not required to race. But, now I need it, so can riding a bike on the street through town,” said Lorenzo.

If in MotoGP, Lorenzo used the 1000cc motor M1, to exercise on Mount Montjuic, 24 year-old driver using Yamaha YBR 250cc motor.

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MotoMatters.com continues to grow in popularity – a massively heartening phenomena, for which we are all grateful – but that popularity comes with a downside: at peak times, the site can become very slow, and provide a frustrating user experience. In response to this – and in anticipation of the further growth of the site – we are switching MotoMatters.com to a different server, with more powerful hardware and much more memory. The end result, once the changeover has been made, should be a much zippier site which loads and responds faster, especially around the busiest times on race weekends.

The switch has been a little more complicated than expected, but it looks like we have everything under control, thanks to the outstanding support from our hosting company Rimuhosting.com. who we really cannot recommend highly enough (and no, we are not being paid to make that statement). The actual switchover will take place some time today (Wednesday, February 8th 2012), once the new server has been fully tested and all of the data has been transferred. In the meantime, the site may go offline for a brief period to facilitate the switch. We are working hard to make the changeover as painless as possible.

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American Honda is proud to announce that two-time WMA Women’s Motocross Champion and two-time X Games Gold Medal winner Ashley Fiolek will be racing once again in 2011 with the American Honda Racing factory team. Fiolek will join American Honda Racing teammates Trey Canard and Josh Grant and will campaign for a third WMA title in 2011 on Honda’s CRF250R.

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Ryan Villopoto answers your Facebook and Twitter questions in the latest installment of “The 411.” Follow Monster Energy Kawasaki’s star rider, Ryan Villopoto, as he defends his Supercross and Motocross championships in 2012.

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First off, I want to congratulate KTM, Roger De Coster, and Ryan Dungey for KTM’s first Supercross Class main event win. It’s huge. I know of all the work they have done in the past few years in developing winning machines, teams, and more. Look at what they did with Stefan Everts and Pit Beirer in developing the 350 SX model – two world championships so far with Antonio Cairoli.

KTM in America has been working on the new 450 that Ryan races. It’s a new effort, on a new bike. For Ryan Dungey, his win last Saturday in Phoenix goes a long way in many areas, but I feel the most important is that it adds confidence to the team and Ryan.

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Kyle rode a few 450 Supercross rounds last season, when he wasn?t racing in the Supercross East Coast Lites, but it was this summer Kyle really gained momentum on the 450, finishing ninth in the series final standings.

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Well hi! Remember me? Once again I seem to have taken my traditional, annual, accidental hiatus from blogging… I swear, it’s getting to where you can set your seasonal clocks by me, no? Well I’m happy to report that things are humming along just fine, I just ran out of steam like I usually do [...]

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Nicky Hayden has returned home after successful surgery on his shoulder. The Ducati rider had damaged his shoulder in a training accident – on his first time back on a motorcycle after recovering from a broken wrist, sustained in the final race of 2011 at Valencia – and though the initial diagnosis only showed up a cracked shoulder blade, further examination after the Sepang test showed damage to his glenoid labrum, the cartilage which holds the upper arm in place in the shoulder socket. Dr Ting, the famous motorcycle racing surgeon based in California, carried out surgery to repair the tear, sending Hayden home to recover.

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But, as I mentioned, this was something special – the first official get together of Team USA for the 2010 Motocross of Nations. Team Manager Roger De Coster, racers Ryan Dungey, Andrew Short, Trey Canard, and all the support staff needed for an effort like this.

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I felt very privileged to be invited to such an event. I soon came to realize that the most unique and moving part of the day was seeing the look of real happiness, the feeling of true honor, and the comraderie for each person involved, as ‘The Team’ came together for the first time. It was contagious. They seem to be a real ‘team’ already, working together well, and have great things to say about each other. Again, it was contagious!

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For my local readers, just wanted to share this info on the ABATE District 4 Toy Run coming up in October! This is one of my favorite rides, and I’ve missed it the past couple of years. I hope and expect we’ll be able to participate this year! Thanks to Laura Strovers for the info [...]

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