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AMA Announces Revisions to AMA Flat Track Championship
3 Days ago
AMA Racing announced today that two events have been removed from the 2008 Flat Track Championship schedule and a new event has been added. The races that have been cancelled are the GNC Twins half-mile scheduled at Volunteer Speedway, Bulls Gap, Tennessee, on June 7th and the TT and short track GNC Singles doubleheader scheduled at Castle Rock Race Park, Castle Rock, Washington, Aug. 8th-9th.
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Dungey Wins at Las Vegas Finale
07 May 2008
Rockstar Makita Suzuki Factory Racing's Ryan Dungey capped off the 2008 AMA Supercross Lites season by not only winning the Dave Coombs Sr. East/West Shootout for the second year in a row, but by also being honoured with the Rising Star Award as well. In the Las Vegas season finale event, Dungey finished second in his heat race and then came from behind to take the win in the 15-lap SX Lites main. Later in the weekend, he was honoured with the new Rising Star award at the Live Nation awards banquet.
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Reed 2008 Champion With Las Vegas Victory
05 May 2008
Chad Reed is the new 2008 Monster Energy AMA Supercross /FIM World Championship number one after registering his ninth victory of the season in front of more than 39,000 spectators at the Sam Boyd stadium in Las Vegas last weekend. The Australian, still recovering from a broken shoulder blade, went into the final round of seventeen with a ten point lead over main rival Kevin Windham but blitzed the field once more aboard his YZ450F to clinch his second crown in the class (the other obtained in 2004).
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Reed Takes 10 Points to Season Finale, Lawrence Lites Champion
29 April 2008
A title-worthy performance from Yamaha's San Manuel rider Chad Reed, after pulling back from a first corner crash to finish second, at Qwest Field in Seattle for the penultimate round of the 2008 Monster Energy AMA Supercross series (also an FIM World Championship) means that the Australian carries a ten point advantage to Las Vegas in search of his second crown next week. Yamaha of Troy's Jason Lawrence claimed the West Region Lites series with his YZ250F.
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Pietri Leads at Fontana & Finishes 4th in Superstock
29 April 2008
Team Roadracingworld.com Suzuki backed up their first-ever AMA Superstock podium finish a week earlier at Barber Motorsports Park with another tremendous showing this weekend at Auto Club Speedway in Fontana, CA. Robertino Pietri scored his best finish of the season and equaled the best of his AMA career by finishing fourth in the AMA Superstock race aboard his Pirelli-shod GSX-R1000. Meanwhile, teammate Chris Ulrich fought up from outside the top ten to take seventh in the race and hold down third in the 2008 points race.
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The SunTrust MOTO-ST Series to Run June 7th at Road America
27 April 2008
Round 3 of the 2008 SunTrust MOTO-ST Series at Road America in Elkhart Lake, Wisc. will take place on Saturday, June 7th. Competitors will move in on Thursday and qualifying will take place on Friday. Hosted by the American Motorcycle Association (AMA), this spectacular weekend will mark the first time that the SunTrust MOTO-ST Series has run with the AMA Pro Superbike Series. Not only will running with this popular series be a first for the SunTrust MOTO-ST Series teams, but it will also provide the additional prestige of being part of a major spectator motorsports event.
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Aprilia USA Fastest in First Ever SunTrust MOTO-ST Series Qualifying
27 April 2008
The defending SunTrust MOTO-ST Series champions Aprilia USA/Lloyd Brothers Motorsports will start on pole position for Sunday’s VIR SunTrust MOTO-ST 500k at Virginia International Raceway in Danville, Va. In the first qualifying session in the series two-year history Ty Howard of Weatherford, Tex. took the No. 1 Aprilia Tuono 1000R around the 3.27-mile VIR track in one minute, 59.443 seconds for an average speed of 98.557 miles per hour. Howard and teammate Mike Himmelsbach of Quakertown, Penn. won the season opening event at Daytona International Speedway and the No. 1 Aprilia leads the standings in the Buell Motorcycle Company SuperSport Twins (SST) class heading into this weekend’s second round of the series.
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Izzi Takes 3rd In East Coast Series
25 April 2008
Rockstar Makita Suzuki Factory Racing's Nico Izzi wound up the AMA Supercross Lites East Coast series with an impressive third-overall in the championship points standings at St. Louis' Edward Jones Dome on Saturday night.
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Reed 2nd In St Louis To Keep Title Dream Alive
21 April 2008
Yamaha’s Chad Reed battled through the pain of his fractured shoulder to take a decent second position to main title rival Kevin Windham in front of almost 49,000 fans last weekend at the Edward Jones Dome in St Louis for the fifteenth round of seventeen in the Monster Energy AMA Supercross championship, also an FIM World Championship.
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Suzuki 1-2-3 at Barber Superbike
21 April 2008
Rockstar Makita Suzuki Factory Racing swept the AMA Superbike podium in the second of two AMA Superbike races at Barber Motorsports Park in Birmingham, Alabama on Sunday afternoon.
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LeoVince Foremost Insurance Ducati Team Finish 4th in AMA Formula Xtreme Class
21 April 2008
In the second race of the season at Barber Motorsports Park in Birmingham, Alabama, Larry Pegram, of the LeoVince Foremost Insurance Ducati Team finished 4th overall.
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Mladin Records 65th Career Win at Barber!
20 April 2008
Rockstar Makita Suzuki's Mat Mladin picked up his 65th career AMA Superbike victory after leading every lap and winning Saturday's race at Barber Motorsports Park in Birmingham, Alabama.
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Erion Racing Appeal Denied
20 April 2008
The American Motorcyclist Association (AMA) has announced that the appeal by Erion Racing to overturn the disqualification of Josh Hayes in the Daytona 200 has been denied per the 2008 AMA Superbike Series Rulebook, Section A5.
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Izzi Races To 4th Place in Detroit
16 April 2008
Rockstar Makita Suzuki Factory Racing's Nico Izzi celebrated an impressive fourth-place finish in front of his home crowd at Saturday night's AMA Supercross Lites race at Ford Field in Detroit, Michigan.
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Top 10 For Izzi In Texas
08 April 2008
Rockstar Makita Suzuki Factory Racing's Nico Izzi returned to AMA Supercross Lites at Dallas' Texas Stadium this weekend after skipping the independent Toronto, Ontario, race last week.
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Dungey Podiums at Minneapolis
21 March 2008
Rockstar Makita Suzuki Factory Racing's Ryan Dungey scored his first podium in the AMA/ FIM Supercross class on Saturday night with a strong second-place finish at the HHH Metrodome in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
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Yates Leads Suzuki Top-Twelve Sweep at Daytona Superstock
07 March 2008
Michael Jordan Motorsports Suzuki's Aaron Yates secured a sound victory in the season-opening round of AMA Superstock at Daytona International Raceway in Daytona Beach, Florida, on Thursday afternoon. M4 EMGO Suzuki's Blake Young picked up his first-ever AMA podium by following Yates home in second place, while Yates' Jordan Suzuki teammate Geoff May completed the podium with a third-place finish.
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AMA Road Racing - Yamaha Graves Motorsports Wins All Round
07 March 2008
After qualifying 1 & 2, Yamaha Graves Motorsports riders Ben Bostrom and Josh Herrin finished the 22-lap final in the same order.
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Reed Back on Top with Yamaha 1-2 in Indianapolis
03 March 2008
After missing the top five in an AMA Supercross event for the first time in 88 starts last week Yamaha’s Chad Reed bounced back to record his sixth victory of the season and finished ahead of brand-mate Josh Hill at the RCA Dome in Indianapolis last weekend. The Australian headed a YZ450F ‘1-2’ on the podium of the ninth round from seventeen in the series – an FIM World Championship - to give Yamaha their fourth win at the venue and first since 2002.
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Shoei Returns as Presenting Sponsor of AMA Supersport Championship
26 February 2008
The American Motorcyclist Association is pleased to announce that Shoei is returning as presenting sponsor for the 2008 AMA Pro Honda Oils Supersport Championship presented by Shoei.
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