Ballet on dirt

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Sunday, March 27, 2011

More understanding racing

Oval track racing looks boring to most people. All they do is turn left, right? That is the least of it, they are turning left all right, but at speeds up to 200 mph. Most of us can’t handle 70mph straight down the freeway with the skill we really need, we just luck out and the ones that don’t make... Sign in to see full entry.

More understanding racing

Oval track racing looks boring to most people. All they do is turn left, right? That is the least of it, they are turning left all right, but at speeds up to 200 mph. Most of us can’t handle 70mph straight down the freeway with the skill we really need, we just luck out and the ones that don’t make... Sign in to see full entry.

Friday, March 25, 2011

A Formula One Primer according to me

Understanding Formula One is easy, if you don’t know everything there is to know about it. Face it, the average race fan doesn’t really know all that much about most motor sports when it gets right down to the nitty-gritty of the rules. And there are no more rules than in the world of Formula One... Sign in to see full entry.

Sunday, March 20, 2011

Motorsports fires up

The racing season is under way. Supercross passed the halfway point in its series. Ryan Villopoto leads the points owing to his superb riding skills and a little to James Stewart’s mystifying troubles. Ryan Dungey most likely will not repeat as series champion. The reappearance of Stewart and... Sign in to see full entry.

Sunday, March 6, 2011

The last checkered flag – a farewell to Nathan Woods

Death among the dirt bike racing community is no stranger, just about any track you go to has had a life-ending injury occur there. While on the face of it, that may seem horrible, and it really is, the truth is multiudes more riders passed over the track and did not end their lives. I cannot make... Sign in to see full entry.

Sunday, January 30, 2011

Don’t leave your start in San Francisco.

James Stewart, Chad Reed and the boys gathered in Oakland California to contest the 4 th round of the Monster Energy AMA Supercross series. The tracks in Supercross may be man-made but the weather is all up to mom nature and really, San Francisco only has a few less days rain than Seattle. James... Sign in to see full entry.

Sunday, January 23, 2011

The Transformers visit Dodger Stadium

How do you turn a baseball diamond into a diamond in the rough waiting to be polished by a horde of high-flying dirt bikes? Have 5000 cubic yards of dirt hauled in by 550 dump truck loads and turn the guys with dirt moving equipment loose. The result is the first time Dodger Stadium has been host to... Sign in to see full entry.

Supercross hot in Arizona

As the knobbies clawed at the Arizona dirt that had been hauled into Chase Field, it was obvious the spectators were going to get their monies worth. James Stewart lived up to expectations, grabbing the hole shot in the Premier class main event. But wait, Washington State’s own Ryan Villopoto was on... Sign in to see full entry.

Sunday, January 9, 2011

Supercross season is underway.

Saturday night in Anaheim, the thunder of four-stroke dirt bikes shook the stadium as the Monster Energy, AMA Supercross season saw the first of 17 races go into the books. In case I forgot, and I know I did, Ryan Dungey took home all the marbles in the Motocross outdoor season, a season that had so... Sign in to see full entry.

Monday, November 15, 2010

And then there was one.

Sebastian Vettel became the youngest driver to win a Formula One world championship at the Grand Prix of Abu Dhabi. He qualified on the pole, led from the start and was never really challenged by Lewis Hamilton, the previous youngest champion. Vettel’s team mate, Mark Webber didn’t get as good a... Sign in to see full entry.

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