Aug

Drag Racing – Cruz Pedregon’s do-it-yourself program

It wasn’t looking healthy for Cruz Pedregon this time a year ago. Master tuner Rahn Tobler was long gone, Pedregon couldn’t afford another crew chief and anyway, all the good ones were taken. Then he got an idea: I’ll do it myself. People snickered, but Pedregon and his young team shocked everyone by the end of the season, not just contending but winning. Out of title contention well before the Countdown to the Championship playoffs began, they won multiple Countdown events.

Of the tiny fraction of nitro drivers who tune their own carsÂ Â …Â More

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Aug

Motorcycle Roadracing – A 17-Year-Old Girl, A Suzuki GSV-R and 190 MPH at Indy

Categories: Motorcycle, Roadracing

At the risk of exploding your personal stereotype of 17-year-old girls, read on about the exploits of young Elena Myers at Indianapolis earlier today aboard Alvaro Bautistaâ€™s GSV-R MotoGP bike. I have had the pleasure of riding on a race track with young Elena a few years ago at a press introduction, and she was already extremely fast aboard a Kawasaki 650cc twin. She has since graduated to AMA Pro roadracing, and has even won at that level in the SuperSport class (where, no surprise, she is the only female competing).

Now racing a sponsored Suzuki in the AMA SuperSport categoryÂ Â …Â More

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Aug