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Irish Real Road Racing Motorcycle Blog by Barbiegirl Northern Ireland

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Yoshimura-backed teams were strong throughout the past week of racing at the opening round of the 2012 AMA Pro Superbike Championship at Daytona International Speedway in Daytona Beach, FL. The Yoshimura Suzuki Road Race team showed the performance advantage of their Yoshimura products with solid results in a week of extremely competitive racing.

The Yoshimura Suzuki Road Race team was a force to be reckoned with at the season-opening round of AMA Pro Superbike this past double-header weekend in Daytona. Yoshimura Suzuki?s Blake Young captured the win in one Superbike race and a second-place result in the other, while new teammate Chris Clark made his Yoshimura Suzuki debut with two top-10 finishes.

The weekend?s first race saw Young get a good start on his Yoshimura Suzuki GSX-R1000, slot into second place and hold on until the checkers. As impressive as Friday?s podium finish was, it was Saturday?s race where Young really strutted his stuff. The Wisconsin native got another great start on the Yoshimura Suzuki GSX-R1000 and again settled quickly into second position. But this time, he stayed with the leader until the last few laps, at which point, he made his move and brought home the win.

?Today?s race was a lot better than yesterday?s race,? said Young. ?My Yoshimura Suzuki team worked hard for me on Friday, and after the race, we looked at the data and I knew the problem was me. I just didn?t have a very good race, for whatever reason, and I needed to work hard to let my crew know not to give up on me yet. We need to go strong all year long. We just needed to come in here, get some points and race hard the rest of the year. Today?s race was good, and now I?m just looking forward to Atlanta and the rest of the season.?

Yoshimura Suzuki?s newest addition, Chris Clark, admittedly struggled in Friday?s race. He got a decent start on the Yoshimura Suzuki GSX-R1000 and held his own to bring home a ninth-place finish. On Saturday, Clark lifted his game, getting another decent start but turning faster, more consistent laps to finish a respectable seventh.

?This was my first race with the Yoshimura Suzuki team, so I definitely was over-riding the bike a little bit,? said Clark. ?I was nervous and wanting to do well and putting a little too much pressure on myself. So I came out today and worked on what we were having problems with. I was able to turn it around in the second race. We?re not too far off from where I want to be, fifth in the championship, so I?m just looking forward to Atlanta. The Yoshimura Suzuki GSX-R1000 is working great; it?s a really fantastic bike. So we?ll head to Atlanta with our heads up and hopefully do well there.?

The Yoshimura Suzuki Road Race team?s next event of the 2012 AMA Pro Superbike Championship series is at Road Atlanta in Braselton, GA, the weekend of April 20 ? 22, 2012.

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©2012 Motorcycle RealRoadRacing Blog by Barbiegirl Northern Ireland

Source: http://www.realroadracingblog.com/2012/03/yoshimura-suzuki-blake-young-taste.html

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Daytona 200 AMA Pro Road Racing SuperSport Race Two Result
Daytona International Speedway

1. Elena Myers (Suz GSX-R600), 10 laps
2. Corey Alexander (Suz GSX-R600), -0.239 second
3. Hayden Gillim (Yam YZF-R600), -0.248
4. James Rispoli (Suz GSX-R600), -6.756 seconds
5. Miles Thornton (Yam YZF-R6), -10.807
6. Tomas Puerta (Yam YZF-R6), -10.892
7. Stefano Mesa (Yam YZF-R6), -11.020
8. Ryan Kerr (Kaw ZX-6R), -11.132
9. Sebastiao Ferreira (Yam YZF-R6), -11.132
10. Gavin Herrin (Yam YZF-R6), -15.653
11. Travis Ohge (Yam YZF-R6), -15.766
12. Jake Morman (Yam YZF-R6), -16.436

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©2010 Motorcycle RealRoadRacing Blog by Barbiegirl Northern Ireland

Source: http://www.realroadracingblog.com/2012/03/elean-myers-takes-daytona-200-ama-pro.html

Mike Beuttler Birabongse Bhanubandh Lucien Bianchi Gino Bianco

Real Road Racing Motorcycle Blog by Barbiegirl Northern Ireland

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If you’ve never had to call upon a household as the bearer of the news every parent/spouse/partner dreads – you haven’t witnessed the pain of those traumatized by the tragic avoidable death of a loved one.

If you’ve never experienced a middle of the night visit from a police officer bearing the news every parent/spouse/partner dreads – you have yet to experience the pain of those traumatized by the tragic avoidable death of a loved one.

Think of the paramedics at the scene of a fatal road traffic incident, how traumatic the experience is, perhaps a child has been killed, a life snuffed out by the thoughtless irresponsible action of another person. Imagine being one of those paramedics – the parent of a child yourself – having to deal with the broken lifeless body of that young child – or any broken lifeless body of a loved one. Imagine being one of the police officers, a member of an attending fire and rescue crew, the hospital staff – imagine being the person responsible for that fatality – any avoidable fatality.

Imagine now if you will – being the mother, or the father of that child – imagine if it was your husband who’d been killed, your wife, your partner, your soulmate, your ——.

Would you want justice for your child, wife, husband, partner – or would you simply be willing to forget and forgive the drunken driver, the car thief, the ‘joyrider’?

What if the fatality was the result of an incident at a motorcycle real road race event? Would you expect all concerned to tell the truth, would you want justice, or for the good of the sport – would you be willing to forget and forgive?

During the recent inquest into the tragic death of the much loved and missed Martin Finnegan, it was revealed that experts had come to an agreed conclusion that if Martin did not suffer a severe ‘tank slap’ in all probability the cause of the failure was a loose banjo bolt. Whilst allegedly possibly not 100% in agreement, Senior Coroner Mr John Leckey nonetheless also concluded that “in all probability a loose banjo bolt was the cause of the failure of the front brake”.

The problem with those foregoing conclusions is that not only do they leave us with unanswered questions – a loose banjo bolt did not end Martin’s life – it was in fact the immovable extremely large banking which he was unable to avoid.

It has since been mentioned by several people that all precautions had been taken by the organisers and that no amount of air fencing would have saved Martin’s life, but might it be pointed out that had the banking not been there, that would not have been the case. That simple fact alone would surely therefore suggest the organisers did not take all necessary precautions, and the MCUI-UC should therefore not have issued a Track Safety Certificate.

As Mr Michael Maxwell, barrister for the family of John Donnan, rightly said during that inquest: “Far from being a freak accident, this was an accident waiting to happen.”

It should also be remembered that during an earlier preliminary hearing ahead of Martin’s recent inquest, Senior Coroner John Leckey heard Martin would have had a real chance of surviving his Tandragee 100 crash if the organisers had put a run-off area or slip-road on the dangerous Marlacoo Corner, instead he died of multiple injuries. Not only did this particular dangerous corner not have a run-off area it was also the only corner which allegedly didn?t have air cushioning either, and those omissions were allegedly said to be directly responsible for his death.

Senior Coroner John Leckey at that time also acknowledged motorcycle road races did not have the same safety measures in place as other motor sport venues here in Northern Ireland and allegedly then said – if it cannot be made safe to a requisite standard, then the question has to be asked – should motorcycle racing on public roads take place at all? This is the first issue that must now be addressed by the Department of Culture, Arts and Leisure.

The second issue to be addressed is that of those who were responsible for allowing the event to proceed without ensuring all necessary safety precautions actually had been taken – those persons should now be held to account.

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©2010 Motorcycle RealRoadRacing Blog by Barbiegirl Northern Ireland

Source: http://www.realroadracingblog.com/2012/01/price-of-lives-in-real-road-racing-who.html

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