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Day of Champions Opens MotoGP's Donington Weekend
20 June 2008
The ambience was steadily building on Thursday for the eighth race weekend of the 2008 World Championship, with MotoGP arriving in England at a cloudy Donington Park. Despite the typically cool weather conditions it was an exciting day at the circuit in the heart of England, with a busy ‘Day of Champions’ agenda ahead of the bwin.com British Grand Prix. nAs he will hope to be throughout the weekend, home rider James Toseland has been one of the main protagonists as the MotoGP community and British racing fans gathered for a series of activities to raise money for Riders for Health, the official charity of the World Championship.
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Capirossi Out, Spies in for Donington!
12 June 2008
Rizla Suzuki MotoGP will give reigning American Superbike Champion Ben Spies his MotoGP debut at next weekend’s British Grand Prix, following confirmation that Loris Capirossi will be unfit for the Donington race. The 23-year-old American from Longview in Texas was due to make his Rizla Suzuki MotoGP debut as a wildcard rider at next month’s USGP in California, but he has been drafted in early to replace Capirossi who suffered a broken right hand at Catalunya last weekend. Capirossi is now targeting a return at the following weekend’s race at Assen in The Netherlands and will continue to work on his fitness to try and achieve this goal. Chris Vermeulen will be returning to the scene of one of his podium successes in 2007 when he takes to the track at the 4,023m long Donington Park circuit. Suzuki’s Australian star finished third in wet weather conditions at the British venue last year and will be looking to continue with the improvement in form that both he and the Suzuki GSV-R have shown in recent races.
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Toseland Rocks into Donington
12 June 2008
Britain’s one and only MotoGP star James Toseland will entertain the crowds at the bwin.com British Grand Prix at Donington Park next week in two very different ways. On Sunday June 22 the hopes and expectations of all British fans fall on his very capable shoulders as he takes on the likes of Valentino Rossi, Casey Stoner and Dani Pedrosa on his one and only home appearance of the season in the 30 lap MotoGP race. On Thursday he swaps the handlebars of his Tech 3 Yamaha to the keyboard of the piano to indulge in his other great passion playing with his band Crash at the annual Riders For Heath Charity event, The Day of Champions, in the Donington paddock. On Friday night after the first day of practice, Toseland leads Crash back into action at a concert on the Stage opposite Starkey bar.
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Chris Pfeiffer At Goodwood This Summer
25 May 2007
The 37-year-old German stunt-rider is the current Indoor Freestyle World Champion and was the 2006 Stunt Wars winner in Florida USA. Chris will be giving sensational displays of his trick riding skills at the Day of Champions at Donington Park on Thursday 21 June, and the Goodwood Festival of Speed in Hampshire from Friday 22 to Sunday 24 June. The Day of Champions is the annual fund-raiser for the Riders for Health charity, which trains African health workers to ride and maintain motorcycles so they can reach remote rural communities with vital healthcare. The Goodwood Festival of Speed is a hillclimb event which is quite possibly the biggest and most diverse celebration of two and four-wheeled motorsport in the world, both perfect venues for Chris to perform his spectacular show.
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Riders For Health Day Of Champions '06' - Thursday 29th June
09 June 2006
Day of Champions is unique. There is no other day like it, anywhere in the world, in any sport. It is Riders for Health's main fundraising day, held at Donington Park, and over the years has become one of the largest outdoor fundraisers in the UK. All the money raised goes directly to support Riders for Health's pioneering work, enabling health workers to carry on riding motorcycles over tough rural terrain to reach people in need of vital health care.
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Mackenzie leads ride-in on Day of Champions
08 May 2006
Rizla Suzuki’s British Superbike Race Operations Manager Niall Mackenzie will lead the ride-in at this year’s Riders for Health Day of Champions at Donington Park on Thursday, June 29th. The ride-in from Coalville is always one of the highlights of the annual Day of Champions and this year looks set to be no different with 200 bikes taking part. The ride will start at the Victoria Pub in Coalville, registration opens at 09.00, followed by breakfast.
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