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Golden Era Superbike class
Are you a Superbike fan who looks back on the golden years of the 1990’s Superbike and sighs in nostalgia? Get yourself to the UK for the Golden Era Superbike Class starting from next season, which has been designed to revive the 90’s Superbikes and their racing glory with models like the Ducati 851, Ducati 998, Kawasaki ZX-7RR and the Yamaha OW01.
According to BikeSportNews, ThundersportGB boss Dave Stewart is working on the project, and the new class will have restrictions on modern technology and electronics to reflect the bygone days of Superbikes. Stewart says:
None of those bikes were particularly good road bikes, but when you stripped all the clunky and ugly road bike detritus off of them and they stood there in their race prepped glory, just waiting to be spanked around the race track, their true purpose was revealed. At world level they were seemingly ridden by a highly talented and committed bunch of axe wielding maniacs and the racing was simply fantastic. Marco Simoncelli would have looked like a girl scout compared to that lot and the appeal of Superbikes was infectious and spread far beyond motorcycle fans.
More after the jump.
Scott Russell returns to action for Daytona Bike Week
“Mr Daytona” himself, Scott Russell will be returning to action at the famed Daytona International Speedway, where he’ll ride a Harley Davidson again, but this time it will be a XR 1200 for Harley Owners Group and taking part in the seven-lap Vance & Hines XR1200 class race on March 11th.
The five-time winner of the Daytona 200 race and 1993 World Superbike Champion will be donning his motorcycle racing leathers again after three long years (his last time at Daytona was in 2008 with a Yamaha YZF -R1).
“I’m excited to get on one of those Harley XRs,” said Russell. “I ran some endurance races last year and I think I still have some gas left in the tank. It will be fun to race with the rest of the guys at Daytona and hopefully run up front.”
At least twenty racers are expected to take part in the featured race.
2001 Daytona 200 - Scott Russell
When I posted the other day about Scott Russell driving at the Rolex 24 at Daytona, his 2001 Daytona 200 horrific accident instantly came back to mind.
Anticipating the flag on a re-start, he stalled his Ducati 996. As he coasted to the edge of the track, a racer behind him clipped his handlebars, sending both riders sprawling. The other racer went into the grass. Russell went back onto the track only to have himself and his motorcycle t-boned by John Pierson. Parts and riders littered the track, as one of the bikes burned. He would spend two weeks in the hospital undergoing numerous surgeries and these injuries would ultimately end his career.
Motorcyle Trio at the Rolex 24 at Daytona
Usually MotoGP superstar Valentino Rossi gets the media hype when he tests a Ferrari F1 racing car or runs in the Wales Rally but these three motorcycle riders deserve the same amount of attention.
Former former AMA and World Superbike champion Scott ‘Mr Daytona’ Russell, Mx star Jeff Ward, and former AMA champion Jason Pridmore, took to four wheels at the Rolex 24 finishing 11th in class and 23rd overall.
The Rolex 24 at Daytona often draws racing stars of various disciplines from motorcycle racers to Formula One drivers.
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