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The South will rise again....
Is Mississippi boy Josh smitten with Miss Texas, Fast
Dates Calendar
Angel Rockin' Robin?
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POSTPONED:
AMA Chevrolet Superbike Championship Final at VIR,
AMA Supermoto Championship in Bean Town due to Ivan The Terrible
PICKERINGTON, Ohio (Sept. 14, 2004) -- AMA
Pro Racing today announced the AMA Chevrolet Superbike Championship
event at Virginia International Raceway and AMA Supermoto Championship
event at South Boston Speedway scheduled for this weekend have
been postponed due to complications related to Hurricane Ivan.
AMA Pro Racing is continuing discussions with both Virginia
International Raceway and South Boston Speedway regarding possible
make-up dates. The AMA Progressive Insurance Flat Track Championship
race at Scioto Downs in Columbus, Ohio, currently remains scheduled
for Sunday, Sept. 19. For more information about AMA Pro Racing,
visit www.amaproracing.com.
So many curves...
so little time! Rockin' Robin does thenew 999R0R in our exclusive
first world test.
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World Wide Firsts and Exclusives!
Our
Exclusive World Premier of the killer new 140hp and 147hp Models,
and first ever road teat of the new 999R 05!
Our sexy own SBK Fast Dates Team Ducati
Corse girl, Miss Texas and Miss Hawaiian Tropic
"Rockin Robin" Cunningham dishes
the dirt on the world's sexiest new sportbike!
• New 2005
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• New 2005 Ducati
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Read
all the sexy details in our FastDates.com Sportbike
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Screensavers of Robin and the 999R05 doing their thing
HERE
Robin
dishes the inside scoup on whether the new $30,000 999R 05 high
class Call Girl can deliver the goods, and how it compares to
the Plain Jane $17,000 Ducati 999 girl next door, and her tarted
up $23,000 Sister 999S.
Below: the new 140hp 2005 Plain Jane 999 Girl Next Door looks
good enough to take home to mother.
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Robin
Cunningham was our offical SBK World Superbike Fast Dates
calendar Angel and Team Ducati Corse umbrella girl for
World Championship points leader Regis Laconi at Laguna
Seca. All the the sexy details are in Fast
Dates News.
Also
look for "Rockin Robin" featured as hostess
on 3 new TV shows premiering this fall. Robin will be
hosting the WB Channel's new X-Music Network
show starting in September where she will be interviewing
hot up and coming new bands. She will also be hosting
on Black Belt TV, a new martial arts
TV network premiering in November, as well as the new
TV series Underwater Odessy about swimming
with Dolphins on the ABC Family Channel.
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Below: When
Robin's not outrunning the California Highway Patrol on Stunt
Road with a test bike during the week, she can be found most
weekends hanging out on the starting grid at some local race
track.
Our
own Rockin' Robin Cunningham says "I'm Ready!"
Eric Bostrom to Miss AMA Season Finale at Virgnia International
Ducat Corse bringing in Lorenzo Lanzi
and a yet Unamed Replacement
September 8, 2004 – Parts Unlimited Ducati Austin’s
Eric Bostrom will be forced to miss the final round of the AMA
Superbike series at Virginia International Raceway due to injuries
sustained from a high-speed crash at Road Atlanta this weekend.
During
a visit yesterday to Dr. Art Ting’s Northern California
office, the orthopedic surgeon and sports injury specialist
diagnosed Bostrom as having a dislocated shoulder with a posterior
labral tear, contusions and bruising to the socket and humeral
head, and a broken rib.
Dr. Ting has mandated two weeks of complete immobility to
be followed by another re-evaluation and a possible probe
to determine if surgery will be required. Last July Dr. Ting
performed surgery on the same shoulder to repair damage sustained
when Eric was caught up in a multi-bike crash during the World
Superbike race at Laguna Seca.
“It’s
a huge disappointment to end the season this way, especially
because I never got to show our speed at Road Atlanta and
to show the progress that the team has worked hard to make,”
said the 27-year-old rider from Las Vegas, Nevada. “Our
times on race tires were strong and I felt we would have been
contenders and would have made the race interesting. At the
very least we would’ve gotten much better results than
we’ve earned lately.
“Missing
VIR two years in a row is a big disappointment, especially
because the last time that we raced Superbike there we beat
Mat after having an epic battle with him. I want to apologize
to Ducati, my team, my sponsors, and also to my fans for not
being able to compete next weekend. I’m looking forward
to quickly getting back to top physical condition.”
Bostrom will be in attendance at VIR to sign autographs.
The Parts
Unlimited Ducati Austin team will be fielding two riders for
the final event at VIR on September 17-19. Ducati Corse’s
factory World Supersport rider Lorenzo Lanzi, who tested at
VIR in August, is scheduled to race while a replacement rider
for Bostrom will soon be announced. -
END PRESS RELEASE
When
our own SBK Fast Dates World Superbike Calendar Angel and
Ducati Corse girl and Miss Texas "Rockin' Robin"
Cunningham heard of the team's unfortunate and dire need to
replace the injured Bostrom for the season final AMA race
at VIR, there was no hesitation in her mind....
"I'm
ready!" Robin exclaimed. " I can't let
the team down, all the great Bush fans back home in Texas,
and certainly not American roadracing fans who are fed up
with that Aussie guy Mladin running away with everything.
I've got my call into Paolo and Davide now at Ducati Corse
to let them know I'm ready to ride the other Team Ducati Austin
bike if Toseland or Laconi can't break their hair stylist
appointments to be there."
$250,000
Dreamcraft Studios Chopper 001
What
do you get when you combine a race car engineer with a hot young
graduate from the Art Center College of Design who have never
built a motorcycle before? You get is a fresh, exciting, and
futuristic chopper unlike anything the motorcycle indusrty has
ever seen before.
Convention
is thrown aside with the fuel for the full stock Harley Twin-Cam
engine hidden in a flowing backbone frame reminiscent of the
creature in 'Alien". The projector headlights with their
extended eyeshades have the piercing look of a futuristic android.
The exhaust system is a twist of snakes converging in a strange
bulging collector with 4 red hot outlets.
Also extraordinary
is the race car inspired chopper looking front suspension which
uses lever arms acting on exotic externally adjustable racing
air shocks to provide "correct" suspension movement
with wheel travel perpendicular to the road. Whereas conventional
motorcycle forks which are extended at a severe axle for the
correct chopper look, will bind up and more 'suspension"
is provided by the flexing of the fork legs rather than the
actual compressing of the forks.
The Dreamcraft
Chopper, a first ever effort between race car engineer Larry
Nagel and Art Center grad Paul Young,
had it's industry world premier at the 2004 Los Angeles Calendar
Motorcycle Show. With the time it took them both to desing and
build Chopper 001 from scratch, its estimated cost is around
$1/4 million dollars.
Sounds
expensive? Naw. On just their first day dispalying the bike
at the LA Calendar Show the team received blank check commissions
from an extreamely wealthy collector for them to build two new
bikes even wilder than old Number 001 here. We can hardly wait
to see Numbers 002 and 003. And neither can Tanea.
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Gianatsis photographed the Dreamcraft Chopper
for the next FastDates.com Iron
& Lace Calendar after its world premier
at the 2004 Los Angeles Calendar Motorcycle Show.
The sexy brunette beauty vamping herself all over the bike
is Tanea Brooks, a professional model and
dancer, and member of the Purrfect Angelz all-girl burlesque
show troupe which had also performed at our Bike
Show where Jim first met her. Needlsas to say, Tanea
was our purrfect Ridley to tame this wild Alien. To see
more of this wild creature visitthe Iron & Lace
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Chris
Vermeulen (17) lookes at Toseland just in front of him as he
fights off Chili, Haga and Laconi just behind, in an exciting
raceweekend for the history books.
2004
SBK World Superbike Championship, Assen Round 9 of 11
In
an Exciting 5-Way Battle for Both Races and the World Championship
Toseland / Ducati and Vermeulem / Honda take
Wins at Assen
Assen,
Holland, Sept 3-5th -It was one of the most exciting
World Superbike rounds ever, with Assen being the second to
last round of this year's World Superbike Championship season
and 5 riders were still within striking distance of the crown.
Both heats at Assen turned into a 5-way battle between those
5 Championship leading riders: Toseland, Laconi, Chili, Haga
and Vermeulen. It ended as a split result with Race One and
Two proving the same close, but very different outcomes at
the end of their 16-lap at hot and sunny Assen circuit in
front of a large and enthusiastic mixed European and Dutch
crowd of 76,000. When the day ended Toseland moved back on
to the top of the points table with his win and second place.
In the opener James Toseland (Ducati Fila 999F004) secured
his second race win of the season, holding off Pierfrancesco
Chili (PSG-1 Ducati 998). In the second race Toseland had
to concede the win. but only after a phenomenal last lap with
eventual winner Chris Vermeulen (Ten Kate Honda CBR1000RR)
as the exchanged the lead 3 times and crossed the finish line
just a wheel length apart, with the 3 other contenders hot
on their matching spec Pirellis. it might be a 2 horse race
(Ducati vs Honda) on spec tires, but the racing in World Superbike
this season is as close or closer than it ever has been, and
certainly much more difficult to call than this year's MotoGP
and AMA Championships.
Old Dogs
and New Tricks: Frankie and the venerable Ducati 998R02, with
Calendar Angel Andra
Cobb.
Frankie
Conquers His Favorite Track in Practice and Superpole
Sept 3/4th - RAPID FIRE FRANKIE: Pierfrancesco
Chili (PSG-1 Ducati 998) proved his life affirming pre-race
comments at Assen" that life begins at 40" really
are true by heading the time sheets in the Superbike class.
Already a race winner this year on his 999-engined 998RS machine,
the current best lap holder once more proved fastest of the
field, setting a 2:04.028s mark as the one hour first timed
session drew to a close. Second qualifying and Superpole will
determine the final grid positions, but on day one Chili showed
his intentions for the entire weekend at Assen, a track he
reveres above all others.
ITALIAN
INVASION: Gianluca Nannelliís first day riding power
put him second in the time sheets, only 0.286 seconds away from
provisional pole. It was another impressive showing for the
class rookie, on a supposedly outdated 998cc Ducati RS machine,
expertly prepared by the Pedercini Team. The 31-year-old is
one of four Italian riders on the front row, in a glory day
for riders of 998 style Ducatis.
HONDA
HOMECOMING: Their bike might be Japanese but the Ten Kate Team
is a potent mix of Dutch expertise and Australian riding talent,
with Chris Vermeulen (Ten Kate Honda CBR1000RR) once more attacking
the stopwatch with some success, despite many niggling problems
with machine set-up. The whole Ten Kate squad, including the
machine, are SBK rookies, but at present Vermeulen lies only
two points from a share of the championship lead.
BUSSEI
BLOSSOMS: After a recent return to the Superbike class, after
a sojourn in World Supersport, Giovanni Bussei (De Cecco Racing
998RS) has made a mark, none bigger than finishing day one at
the challenging and fast Assen circuit in fourth position. He
had the satisfaction of not only beating all the works machines
but every Ducati 999-based bike on the grid.
WORKS
IN PROGRESS: James Toseland (Ducati Fila 999F04) proved to be
the best of the official Ducati entries, running his big twin
to fifth place, over a second slower than Chili, with a time
of 2:05.096. His team-mate, Regis Laconi lost ground in the
second sector of the track, finishing a disappointed eighth,
clawing his way onto the final place on the second row of the
provisional grid.
KWAK
ATTACK: A good day for the Bertocchi Kawasaki squad put Ivan
Clementi sixth on the score sheet, running his 1000cc Kawasaki
ZX-10 at a high pace in the final result. His team-mate Mauro
Sanchini (Kawasaki Bertocchi ZX-10) ran out 11th on day one.
RENEGADE
RUNNERS: Leon Haslam showed his rate of progress is continuing
to gather momentum, as he outperformed his championship-challenging
team-mate Noriyuki Haga on day one. His seventh best placing
was in marked contrast to Hagaís 14th. The Ducati Renegade
Koji 998RS riders are both expected to improve on day two, with
the wonderful weather conditions predicted to continue throughout
the three days of competition at Assen.
TOP
TENS: Steve Martin (DFX Ducati 999RS) and Troy Corser (Foggy
Petronas FP-1) completed a complicated top ten at Assen, with
the experienced Piergiorgio Bontempi running out 11th on the
improving Zong Shen Suzuki GSX-R1000.
SUPERSPORT:
Another quite outstanding performance from championship leader
Karl Muggeridge (Ten Kate Honda CBR600RR) gave him the upper
hand in the first Supersport session, putting a whole second
between himself and a chasing pack headed by his own team-mate
Broc Parkes (Ten Kate Honda CBR600RR). Muggeridgeís time
of 2:06.249 was untouchable, and may even prove to be the pole
time in its own right. Sebastien Charpentier (Klaffi Honda CBR600RR)
was third, with Muggeridgeís main championship challenger
Jurgen van den Goorbergh (Yamaha Italia R6) fourth, and in an
overnight front row position.
Friday
qualifying times, Superbike World Championship, round 9, Assen:
1 Chili 2:04.028; 2 Nannelli 2:04.314; 3 Vermeulen 2;04.859;
4 Bussei 2:05.086; 5 Toseland 2:05.096; 6 Clementi 2:05.382;
7 Hasalm 2:05.410; 8 Laconi 2:05.459; 9 Martin 2:05.552; 10
Corser 2:05.742; 16 Walker 2:06.665
Free practice times: 1 Vermeulen (Ten Kate Honda) 2:05.644;
2 Laconi (Ducati Fila) 2:05.675; 3 Toseland (Ducati Fila) 2:05.773;
4 Bussei (DeCecco Racing) 2:06.310; 5 Borciani (DFX) 2:06.528;
6 Chili (PSG-1) 2:06.629; 7 Walker (Foggy PETRONAS Racing) 2:06.724;
8 Bontempi (Zongshen) 2:06.752; 9 Haslam (Renegade Ducati) 2:06.795;
10 Haga (Renegade Ducati) 2:06.882; 13 Corser (Foggy PETRONAS
Racing) 2:07.134
CHILI TAKES CLEAR SUPERPOLE WIN AT ASSEN
Saturday 4th - THE BOLOGNA EXPRESS: After several
close calls earlier in the season, Pierfrancesco Chili (PSG-1
Ducati 998) took his first Superpole win of the 2004 season,
running out the victor with a time of 2:03.103 - the fastest
official lap of the weekend so far. The 40-year-old phenomenon,
the holder of the fastest ever SBK lap of Assen set in 2003,
was in untouchable form. He won the otherwise closely contested
Superpole by over 0.6 seconds, an age even at such a long track
as Assen. Currently fifth in the championship fight, two wins
for "Frankie" on Sunday would make the championship
battle a five-way affair with two rounds to go.
FILA
FORCE FIELDED: After some difficult times in recent events,
there were smiles all round in the Ducati pit at the post qualifying
prowess of the official factory Ducati Fila squad members, James
Toseland and Regis Laconi. Toseland just edged out Laconi for
the second best grid position by 0.101 seconds as he strove
for his first Superpole win of 2004.
YELLOW
PEARL: The Ten Kate Honda
CBR1000RR of Chris Vermeulen set the fourth best time of the
Superpole session, earning a front row start, nut only after
the 22-year-old Australian experienced some front end chatter
problems in regulation qualifying. In front of his Ten Kate
teamís home crowd, a front row start for the second placed
championship contender was a popular result in most areas of
the expansive Assen grandstands.
It
was Dog eat Duck at Assen as Haga and Toseland trade paint in
Race One.
Race
One to James Toseland, Fila Ducati 999F04
James Toseland (Ducati Fila) moved back on to the top of the
points table with a win and a second place in front of 76,000
fans at a scorching Assen circuit in the Netherlands. Toselandís
45-point haul came in a superb day of racing which saw the top
5 championship contenders battle every inch of the way in the
two 16-lap races. Team-mate Regis Laconi finished on the podium
with a third in race 1 followed by a fifth place in race 2,
when the win went to Chris Vermeulen (Honda).
Toseland
declared: "It was great racing today, elbow-bashing with
Nori and so close with Chris. I hate great races and finishing
second but 45 points out of this weekend is what we need to
do if we want to win this championship. There are a lot of people
knocking on the door but Iíve just got to ride like this
every week until the end of the season."
"There
are a lot of British fans who come to Assen and I didnít
want to let them down. Here itís such a fast flowing
circuit and difficult to pull away, I only got a two second
gap in the first race and the other guys were battling behind
and slowed themselves down, Then in race 2 I knew they were
on my tail, I could hear them at every curve. Fair play to Chris,
it was disappointing I finished second but it was good for the
championship"
Race
Two to Chris Vermeulen, Ten Kate Honda CBR1000RR
: A quite outstanding fight between the two youngest championship
challengers went to Vermeulen, who had made changes to his set-up.
He attacked Toseland, the front-runner for much of the race
once more, and they exchanged the lead three times on the last
lap, with Vermeulen just holding on to his lead by 0.037 seconds.
Haga was third overall, 0.117 seconds down; in one of the closest
ever SBK finishes.
"The
second race was quite difficultî commented Laconi."I
didnít start very well and then I felt immediately I
had movement at the front of the bike when I entered the corner
and it got worse and worse. That made me go wide all the time,
I tried to do my best to follow but I decided that it was best
to settle for fifth and take the points. Itís not the
best thing, but itís better than nothing.
"I
am sure that the two last races will be good for me because
I always have good results at Imola and Magny-Cours. I am confident
now, the bike is good, we still have two dayís testing
in Magny-Cours so all is not lost for the championship. This
is a crazy season, very good for the fans but Iím not
too worried about the points situation."
Four
riders, separated by 14 points, are still in with a chance of
the title as World Superbike heads to Imola on 26 September
and then Magny-Cours one week later for its exciting finale.
THE
FIGHT CONTINUES: With all the changes of fortune at the front
in the Assen races, the championship fight is still desperately
tight, with two rounds and four races still to go. 14 points
now cover Toseland, Vermeulen, Laconi and Haga, while Pierfrancesco
Chiliís second and fourth places at Assen put him 42
points behind Toseland. In a bizarre weekend for the leading
championship places, Toseland entered the round in fourth place,
and now leads with 255 points. Vermeulen remains a close second,
on a new total of 252, while pre-race leader Laconi is now third,
with 245 points. Noriyuki Haga, who looked capable of another
of his stalk-and pounce wins, failed in this objective in either
race, and is now fourth, on 241. The wins totals in SBK 2004
are now Laconi and Haga with five apiece, Vermeulen with four,
Toseland two, with Chili and Garry McCoy taking a single each.
Superbike
Race 1:
(Laps 16 = 96,432 Km)
Pos /Rider /Nat. /Team /Time /Gap
1 / J. TOSELAND / GBR / Ducati Fila / 33'32.879 /
2 / P. CHILI / ITA / PSG - 1 Corse / 33'33.191 / 2.138
3 / R. LACONI / FRA / Ducati Fila / 33'33.307 / 2.450
4 / N.HAGA / JPN / Ducati / 33'39.785 / 2.566
5 / C. VERMEULEN / AUS / Ten Kate Honda / 33'46.626 / 9.044
6 / L. HASLAM / GBR / Renegade Ducati Koji / 33'47.579 /
15.885
7 / S. MARTIN / AUS / D.F.Xtreme Sterilgarda / 33'47.729
/ 16.838
8 / G.MCCOY / AUS / XEROX - Ducati Nortel Net. / 33'48.932
/ 16.988
9 / M.BORCIANI / ITA / D.F.Xtreme Sterilgarda / 33'50.099
/ 18.191
10 / T. CORSER / AUS / Foggy PETRONAS Racing / 34'01.675
/ 19.358
11 / G.NANNELLI / ITA / Pedercini / 34'10.932 / 30.934
12 / C.WALKER / GBR / Foggy PETRONAS Racing / 34'21.820
/ 40.191
13 / P. BONTEMPI / ITA / Zongshen / 34'23.198 / 51.079
14 / W.NOWLAND / AUS / Zongshen / 34'34.379 / 52.457
15/S. FUERTES/ESP/MIR Racing//1'03.638
Fastest Lap 2° Noriyuki Haga 2'04.360 174,471 Km/h |
Superbike
Race 1
(Laps 16 = 96,432 Km)
Pos /Rider /Nat. /Team /Time /Gap
1 / C. VERMEULEN / AUS / Ten Kate Honda / 33'31.968 /
2 / J. TOSELAND / GBR / Ducati Fila / 33'32.005 / 0.037
3 / N.HAGA / JPN / Ducati / 33'32.085 / 0.117
4 / P. CHILI / ITA / PSG - 1 Corse / 33'35.873 / 3.905
5 / R. LACONI / FRA / Ducati Fila / 33'38.548 / 6.580
6 / L. HASLAM / GBR / Renegade Ducati Koji / 33'50.141 /
18.173
7 / T. CORSER / AUS / Foggy PETRONAS Racing / 33'55.064
/ 23.096
8 / M.BORCIANI / ITA / D.F.Xtreme Sterilgarda / 34'05.239
/ 33.271
9 / I. CLEMENTI / ITA / Kawasaki Bertocchi / 34'05.484 /
33.516
10 / C.WALKER / GBR / Foggy PETRONAS Racing / 34'05.783
/ 33.815
11 / G.BUSSEI / ITA / DeCecco Racing / 34'08.326 / 36.358
12 / P. BONTEMPI / ITA / Zongshen / 34'08.786 / 36.818
13 / W.NOWLAND / AUS / Zongshen / 34'18.369 / 46.401
14 / S. FUERTES / ESP / MIR Racing / 34'46.250 / 1'14.282
15 / R. MENZEN / NED / Robert Menzen Racing / 35'04.952
/ 1'32.984
Fastest Lap 5° Noriyuki Haga 2'04.831 173,813 Km/h |
Riders Championship Standings:
1 TOSELAND 255, 2 VERMEULEN 252, 3 LACONI 245, 4 HAGA 241, 5
CHILI 213, 6 MCCOY 163, 7 MARTIN 144, 8 HASLAM 140, 9 CORSER
127, 10 BORCIANI 114, 11 WALKER 112, 12 SANCHINI 79, 13 CLEMENTI
73, 14 BONTEMPI 60, 15 NANNELLI 52.
Manufacturers Standings:
1 DUCATI 430, 2 HONDA 259, 3 PETRONAS 173, 4 KAWASAKI 106, 5
SUZUKI 84.
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