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2010 Fast Dates Calendar Shoot at America's The newly constructed Larry H Miller owned Miller Motorsports Raceway, in Toole, Utah, some 30 miles west of Salt Lake City, first got to play host to a AMA Superbike round last year, in a warm up to this year's dual SBK Superbike / AMA Superbike Weekend. The 2 different series used2 different track configurations on the weekend so comparisons between different spec bikes and tires couldn't be directly made. However, the World Superbikes this year did use last year's AMA course and the lap times were effectively quicker despite the World Superbikes being on spec tires. Last year Yoshimura Suzuki's Mat Mladin established the AMA Superbike track record on the 4.907 Kilometer course with a 1:49.585 lap in practice. This year in SBK Superpole that lap recorded was shattered in the 1:48's by the front half of the SBK grid with pole sitter Carlos Checa establishing a new lap record of 1:48.193. Everything you have heard about the Miller Motorsports facility is true. It has been built as as a World class roadracing facility with no expense spared, and along with Laguna Se ca and Indianapolis is one of only 3 FIM approved racetracks in America. Everything is exceptional from the road course layout and and construction, to the Spectator Grandstands and Pit Garages, to the Administration and Press Facilities. The track was way overstaffed with very courteous personnel, making a visit there a wonderful experience. It was incredible to see every team bike even had their own personal Fire Marshal with hand carried fire extinguisher.
My own personal favorite was the track's on site Museum which features millionaire real estate developer Larry Miller's personal race car collection featuring Ford race cars from the 1960s, in particular 427Shelby Cobras and GT350 Mustangs, and the World Sportscar Championship winning LeMans Ford GT MkII and MkV racers. The 427ci Mark V long-tail LeMans cars is one of the most beautiful, and now value race cars ever built. If any criticisms can be lodged against Miller Raceway is the fact it is not a spectator friendly track, as the track design is too expansive, and the grandstands are too far back for the course. You are not a part of the action, and you miss most of the racing taking place on more distant portions of the track. It might have been built more like a European stadium track like for better spectator viewing. As it is, it is an excellent facility for track schools and such where you go there to participate and race on the track. One plus for Miller was the open spectator access to visit the AMA garages throughut the weekend, along with SBK Pit Lane at select times and see the bikes being worked on. While more personable SBK riders like Troy Corser made themselves available to fans at the back of the SBK Pit Row Garages throughout the weekend.
The published attendance figures for this year's SBK/AMA race weekend at Miller was 51,000. In reality, we roughly counted at most 2,500 people on Friday for Practice, possibly increased to 3,500 on Saturday, and then 4,500 returning / total spectators on Sunday. World Superbike has a 3-year contract for Miller Motorsports Park and next year they plan to return with their 600cc SBK Supersport Class, which will add to the race weekend.
When we first arrived at the track on Friday with our Calendar Kittens models we stopped at the Administration Building to pick up our SBK credentials. From there we went into the track with a case of the new 2009 Fast Dates Calendars I had brought, as we do every year, and walked down Pit Lane to meet all the SBK factory teams and managers, give them a copy of the new Calendar with their bikes we shot the year before, and schedule to shoot their bikes again this year after Practice starting around 5:30 pm.
We at FastDates.com got 4 wonderful models in Pirelli girls Lauren Brooke and Jamie Jungers, Hannspree girls Shona Kay and Kami Wilson, all who really wanted to be featured in the 2010 Fast Dates Calendar. And World Superbike sponsors Pirelli and Hannspree got to receive some great publicity by having their models photographed in their team uniforms, as well as in sexy swimsuits for the Calendar. Fast Dates Calendar Shoots
Pit Board Editorial Pinup
Calendars in America - an American Double Standard? But it's hardly anything new. Victoria's Secret lingerie commercials have been running onprime time TV programs Plus the Victoria's Secret Fashion Shows and Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Shows have been regular broadcasts on E! television for 10 years. And let's
not overlook the annual Sports Illustrated Swimsuit issue is the
biggest selling magazine in America with its sexy swimsuit covers,
and that it sits on all public newstands for some 3 months. And
that the Victoria's Secrect Catalog is mailed out more households
in America than any magazine. Or the simple fact that at the checkout counter of every supermarket in America is a rack of young women's magazines from Cosmopolitan to Shape to Glamour featuring some sexy young supermodel in a full frontal bikini swimsuit shots similar to the one of Heidi Klum above, compelling you to pick her up and bring her home. We are also glad to see all the refreshing and sexist new men's mainstream magazines now available in America from Maxim to FHM to Stuff featuring some well known, sexy bikini clad actress or model. Things are slowly changing for the better, although certainly not as close to the European standard of acceptability which includes nudity in many mainstream newspapers, on roadside billboards, in magazines and on TV, both in advertising and editorial features. But this
American acknowledgement of the normal sexuality of human kind
still remains taboo in some elements of our society, including
parts of the motorcycle industry, particulary when it comes to
pinup calendars like those published by FastDates.com and
our competitors. Did you know that 2 major bike brand U.S. distributors
and their factory race teams will not allow us to photograph their
bikes with even a fully clothed model? While their more prominent
counterparts -the factory World Superbike Castrol Honda and Corona
Suzuki World Superbike teams welcome us to photograph their bikes
for the Fast Dates Racebike Pinup Calendar each year. Europe is an even more open culture than America, and the Ducati Corse factory race team in Italy makes their bikes available for a nude racebike pinup calendar. While the factory Yamaha Superbike team last sason even used topless umbrella girls on the starting grid of the World Superbikes races! While America still remains burried in arcahic morality and stupidity supported by idiotic and vague laws. Where one person can choose what is offensive or acceptable to them and have their very narrow views over ride the law and the majority who are not offended. For example, more than one of our biggest FastDates.com calendar distributors has been threatened with lawsuits by one of their female employees who found it "offensive" to see a pinup calendar hanging up at work (probably in the private office or work cubicle of a male employee -never mind the model was in a halter top and cutoff jeans like you would see on girls every day at the local mall). The distributors' attorneys then advised them to ban all pinup posters and calendars from company walls, and then required that all pinup calendars sold by the distributor should be wrapped in plain black opaque plastic wrappers like an adult porno magazine. They couldn't chance a female employee in their warehouse being offended by having to pull one of our calendars off the warehouse shelf and place it in an outgoing dealer order - and then in turn sue the distributor for millions of dollars in "mental stress". That's bad enough. But what really gets us mad is this "double standard" in America. A picture of a pretty girl in a swimsuit or lingerie is -if it appears on the cover of a magazine in a public place (supermarket, newstand, office waiting lounge) or in a Victoria's Secret advertisement or feature program on National television it's perfectly acceptable. Even most liquor stores in America feature swimsuit pinup advertising posters from major beer companies like Budweiser and Miller. But take that exact same picture of Heidi Klum from the Victoria's Sercret advertising campaigns plastered in 2-page ad spreads every magazine, on Hollywood and Times Square billboards, and on national television -and hang it up in the work place and you are fucked. Just like Snap-on Tools can no longer print their once famous pinup calendarshung up in garages by mechanics without the threat of being sued by an offended female customer and her greedy attorney. Why is it acceptable to look at Heidi Klum in sexy lingerie on the billboard outside your office window, or on the cover of the FHM magazine in the office waiting room, but you and your company can be sued if that same picture is hanging up on your office wall? What about a celebrity calendar of Brad Pitt or Britnery Spears? Yes, that can be deemed offensive as well. Go figure.
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