Superbike races at Miller. Mat Mla-
din and Larry Pegram won the AMA
Superbike races at Road America.
Shane Narbonne was the winner
of the 86th Loudon Classic at New
Hampshire Motor Speedway, and
Garrett Gerloff beat Nick McFad-
den and Joe Roberts in the Miche-
lin WERA National Challenge Se-
ries 125cc GP race at Miller.
Oxley also interviewed Mo-
toGP riders who described in de-
tail what they were doing to get
the most out of an 800cc MotoGP
bike. With the electronics han-
dling throttle duties, riders were
at full throttle and forced to mod-
ulate the front and rear brakes at maximum lean
at triple-digit speeds to control suspension movements and
keep the front wheel on the ground and steering. “Try doing
that on your next track day,” Oxley wrote. “In fact, don’t.”
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WORLD SUPERBIKE:American Ben Spies Is Fast
Enough To Be World Champion. Will His Team Continue
To Hold Him Back?MotoGP SPECTACULAR:Rossi vs. Lorenzo vs. Stoner Three-Way Slugfest
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To Hold Him Back?F
actory Yamaha MotoGP rider
Valentino Rossi chases team-
mate Jorge Lorenzo at Cata-
lunya on the cover of the August
2009 issue of Roadracing World.
Lorenzo led until the fi nal corner,
where Rossi passed him for the win
and “showed him how an eight-
time World Champion rolls,” the
editors wrote.
MotoGP Editor Mat Oxley
delved into the back story of a pri-
vate Drixton Honda CB450 that
was so stout that it led the 500cc
race in the 1969 East German GP
and fi nished fourth in the following
race. Honda was so busy with car
development at the time that it did
not even know of the bike’s exis-
tence or racing success.
Entrepreneur Kyle Intermue-hle opened a business where bike
owners could rent a workspace,
access to tools and a tire changer
for $25 an hour. Santiago Villa,
“the toughest man in road racing,”
talked about his injuries, burns
and surgeries and how he over-
came them to keep racing. Ben
Spies described his fi rst year in
the Superbike World Champion-
ship, with wins, crashes, and me-
chanical problems, as being “really
good and really bad.” Racing Editor
Chris Ulrich reported on setting
up a Kawasaki ZX-10R to race in a
support race during the World Su-
perbike weekend at Miller Motor-
sports Park.
Casey Stoner and Rossi won
MotoGP races at Mugello and
Catalunya. Spies won both WorldTen Years Ago...
2009
RW
ent Cup will have two races per
weekend at seven venues, includ-
ing MotoGP, World Superbike, and
IDM events.
Former British Superbike
Champion Josh Brookes swept
the British Superbike double-
header at Brands Hatch, winning
both races on his Ducati PanigaleV4 R and earning the title of “King
of Brands.” Dan Linfoot was the
runner-up in Race One on his Ya-
maha YZF-R1 ahead of Tommy
Bridewell, who took third on his
Ducati Panigale V4 R. In Race Two,
Brookes narrowly beat Bridewell
while Brookes’ teammate Scott
Redding was a distant third. Rid-ing a KTM, American Brandon
Paasch fi nished second to Span-
iard Victor Rodriguez in British
MotoStar Race One and won Race
Two at Brands Hatch.
FS3 Racing Kawasaki’s Dan-
ny Buchan became the fi fth differ-
ent race winner in the 2019 British
Superbike Championship in RaceOne at the Knockhill Circuit. Bu-
chan crossed the fi nish line well
ahead of Redding, who was 0.8-sec-
ond in front of third-place Xavi
Fores and his Honda CBR1000RR
SP2 at the fi nish. Redding came
through to win Race Two, beating
McAMS Yamaha’s Tarran Mack-
enzie and third place Bridewell to
the checkered fl ag. After 11 of 27
races, Redding held a four-point
lead over Bridewell.
Paasch took second place
in British MotoStar Race One
at Knockhill and crashed while
racing for the lead in Race Two.
Paasch held a 27-point lead after
six of 18 races.
Mike Jones rode his Ducati
Panigale 1299 FE to win Race One
during Round Four of the Austra-
lian Superbike Championship at
Morgan Park Raceway. Jones beat
Suzuki rider Wayne Maxwell and
third-place fi nisher Cru Halliday
on a Yamaha. Maxwell won Race
Two over Honda's Troy Herfoss
and Jones in third. After four of
seven rounds, Jones held a one-
point lead over Halliday.
Ben Young beat Jordan
Szoke to win the Mopar Canadi-
an Superbike race at Grand Bend
Motorplex in Ontario, Canada.
Riding his Van Dolder’s Home
Team/Scot-Build BMW S1000RR,
Young passed defending Champi-
on Szoke and his Mopar Express
Lane Kawasaki ZX-10R on the fi -
nal lap to win. Earning third was
Trevor Daley on a Fast Compa-(Above) Mike Jones (46) leads Troy Herfoss (1), Cru Halliday (65), Wayne
Maxwell (47) and the rest in Australian Superbike at Morgan Park. Photo
by Andrew Gosling/TBG Sport. (Below) Ben Young (86) beat 13-time Cana-
dian Superbike Champion Jordan Szoke (1) to win at Grand Bend. (Above,
Right) Nate Kern (12) had a tough time in the BMW Boxer Cup event at
Zolder. (Above, Left) KTM is supplying spec bikes for the Northern Talent Cup(Above) Scott Redding (45) led Brit-
ish Superbike points after Knock-
hill. (Below) American Brandon
Paasch (96) led the British Motostar
Championship by 27 points after
s i x o f 18 ra ce s. P h o t o s b y B a r r y C l a y.12—Roadracing World, August 2019