On Saturday, the Motourage crew took a three-hour roadtrip north to Hampton, VA for round 10 of the ICE Speedway Championship.
Featuring Manufacturers Cup Motorcycles, Outlaw Quads, Big Dogs Pit Bikes, Nitro X-Karts, ATCs (which, as someone pointed out, haven’t been manufactured for 20 years) and other featured classes, ICE Speedway definitely delivered on it’s tagline, “The Greatest Spectacle on Ice.”
The Motourage video of the day features the first heat race of the Manufacturers Cup Motorcycle class with 2009 AMA Flat Track Grand National champion and 2010 ICE Speedway champion, Jammin’ Jared Mees.
To get you revved up on this Friday morning, Motourage presents the Video of the Day.
Created by 4TheRiders, this video was released at the 2010 AFM awards banquet, and it offers plenty of action to get you motivated for racing – and for life.
Today’s Motourage video comes from our favorite combination of Ducati and Xerox. However, the timing of this ad’s launch is rather strange considering Ducati recently announced it will pull its factory support from the World Superbike Championship, thus eliminating Xerox’s sponsorship obligations.
Today’s Motourage video of the day offers a rare view into the mind of AMA Formula Xtreme, Superstock and three-time Superbike champion and current World Superbike rookie and points leader Ben Spies.
In the third and final clip from the Corona Extra Honda Q&A session from the AMA Suzuki Big Kahuna Nationals at VIR, Neil Hodgson finishes up his talk with some insight from Corona Extra Honda president Tim Saunders. What have we learned from this session? Well, for one thing, not even Neil Hodgson knows how fast Neil Hodgson goes.
Today’s Motourage Video of the Day is part 1 of the Neil Hodgson Q&A session at VIR. As part of the Motourage Celebrity Weekend at VIR, we were treated to a Q&A at the Corona Honda garage. Neil Hodgson, current Corona Honda rider – and former British Superbike and World Superbike champion - demonstrates why his personality and sense of humor have made him a fan favorite the world over. Neil talks about his life as a racer and why he’ll never race the Isle of Man TT.
This weekend is the 10th-annual AMA Suzuki Big Kahuna Nationals at Virginia International Raceway. If you were there last year, you’ll remember the way Mat Mladin dominated the racetrack, besting teammate and rival Ben Spies by eight seconds in race one and nine seconds in race two. VIR in 2008 marked Mladin’s fifth and sixth consecutive AMA Superbike wins.
Without the challenge from Spies, the AMA American Superbike class has been the Mat Mladin show this year. He currently leads the championship chase by 83 points over teammate Tommy Hayden and could clinch the title at VIR, although Mladin refused to race at the last round in Topeka citing safety concerns. Hayden, who finished third in both races last year at VIR, secured a Yoshimura Suzuki sweep of the previous Big Kahuna weekend and is very likely to continue his success at this track. Although it’s obvious the fire still burns, Mladin’s domination had to come to an end sometime, and the six-time AMA Superbike champion has chosen to go out on top, announcing that he will retire from professional motorcycle racing at the end of the season.
Mat Mladin will certainly leave behind a legacy. His six championships are an AMA Superbike record; no other rider has won more than three. He holds series records for wins (75), poles (50), wins in a season (11) and poles in a season (10), and has won the Daytona 200 three times. He is an outspoken advocate for rider safety, and, most recently, has been extremely vocal about his dissatisfaction with the decisions and actions of DMG in its management of the series.
In today’s Motourage Video of the Day, Yoshimura caught up with Mat back in June to get his views on mental toughness. Enjoy the video, and we’ll see you this weekend in Virginia.
Today’s Motourage video of the day is Gearlink Kawasaki’s Chris Martin flying over the barriers at Hawthorn bend during the Fuchs-Silkolene British Supersport race this past weekend at Brands Hatch. The crash resulted in little more than a broken ankle. A painful injury, but it obviously could have been much much worse.
I don’t think any more words are necessary for this video.
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