tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9346531839229024072012-01-28T01:04:21.117-05:00(mostly)motor(cycle)sportTim Whitehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15934194959559653862noreply@blogger.comBlogger1051100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-934653183922902407.post-56056367783881260342011-10-23T08:23:00.000-05:002011-10-23T08:23:11.456-05:00

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Let's try something a little different--a slideshow of selected images from Indianapolis. Indy Slideshow

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Yard, really.  As in, the Brickyard, the Indianapolis Motor Speedway.  At one time the entire 2.5-mile circuit length was paved with over 3 million bricks.  These days the expanse of smooth asphalt is interrupted only at the Start/Finish line with just a single yard of the incongruously textured things.  Leading up to this year’s MotoGP round at Indy the photo or photos I most wanted to get

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Slippery track or no, Casey Stoner is fast. 

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I'm ready. 

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This year Ben Spies is in new colors and with a new book to sell.  Only one way to improve upon last year's pole position . . .

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Although the United States is fortunate to host two rounds of the MotoGP round championship, only one, the Red Bull Indianapolis GP, features the full program, including the 125 and Moto2 classes.  This is a treat, if a slightly bittersweet one this year, as it will be the last appearance of the two-stroke 125 machines, which are to be replaced next year with the new Moto3 category for 250cc

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Click and make big.

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Roger Hayden was quick at Mid-Ohio, racing with the leaders and scoring his first Superbike podium on the National Guard Suzuki.  Click and make big.

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I haven't kept the blog updated of late, so here's a quick recap of AMA Pro Racing rounds 4 and 5 from Road America and Barber Motorsports Park. Jake Holden Jason DiSalvo led all comers at Elkhart Lake but somehow ended the weekend with two DNF's. After I noticed the possibility for this shot it took me three tries to get it.  But it was pure luck that the "Elkhart

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More later!

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A scene from Road Atlanta, 2007.  Tires were overheating that weekend.  One solution was to remove a measure of rubber from the surface of the tire--less rubber means fewer rubber molecules rubbing against each other and getting all hot and bothered and stuff.  Dunlop's Jim Allen, seen here demonstrating the tire shave technique on the rear tire of a Fast By Ferracci MV Augusta Superbike, would

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It's opening day.

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But I like the way he follows cars.

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For motorcycle racing fans in the U.S. March means Daytona, and the beginning of the new racing season.   For the first time I experienced it first-hand rather than on the telly or page.  It was pretty much as I had expected it to be--for better and worse--but there still is no substitute for the smell of race fuel and howl of racing engines at full rip.  What follows are a few samples from my

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Looking at this photo I almost miss the place.   Full update coming soon.

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Daytona is fast approaching so the mind turns to high-bank fundamentals like the high-speed tuck.  Click and make big.  And learn.

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Issue #7 of Sideburn Magazine, the world's best go fast, turn left magazine, begins shipping to lucky readers next week.  Be one of them!  That's a Tim White Original Photo on the cover--my third! 

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Former Harley-Davidson factory flat track racer, veteran race flagman, and Summit Point Raceway fixture Al Wilcox passed away this morning.  He was 92. 

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I'm looking forward to seeing Martin Cardenas on the big bike this year.  Click and make big.  

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The Daytona tire tests are in the rearview now so it's all downhill to the new season.  Click and make big.

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This week's entry features two names not currently part of the 2011 AMA Pro Racing series:  Jake Zemke and Road Atlanta.  Someone should do something about that.  Click and make big.

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Wednesday Wallpaper, Part Deux.  'Tis the season for giving, so here's another big'n.  Hank Wiles, again, on the Aprilia flat tracker at the Indy Mile.  Click and make big.

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Wet AMA Superbike practice at Road America, Elkhart Lake, Wisconsin, 2008.  Ben Spies.

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What racing motorcycle is red, has the number 46, a tasteful splash of yellow, and gets the faithful all worked up? A brakeless, suicide-shift, hard-tail, flat-head Indian flat-tracker, of course.

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I love this photo.  It was taken (and developed) by a newspaper photographer with a new camera to test.  The subject is my paternal grandfather.

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Seems strange to say it, and maybe others don't need the reminder like I do, but in this digital age it's helpful to make prints and have an analog experience with your photos.  This morning I was home with Jack, in the midst of a fearsome Sorry! Sliders contest, and I noticed the window light moving across a small framed print on the wall.  So I grabbed a camera and the lens that happened to be

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I have a suspicion that next year Casey Stoner is going to be a blur streaking into the distance, with everyone else wondering which way he went.  But here he is, captured for an instant, for your viewing pleasure.  Click and make big.

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Continuing the flat-track trend for another week, here is a shot of Hammerin' Hank Wiles on the Lloyd Brothers Motorsports Aprilia from 2008.  The location is Hagerstown, the session qualifying, the late afternoon light golden, and the Italian v-twin sound reverberating off the concrete wall and up and around the clay bowl electrifying.  Click and make big.    

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Lima is in Ohio.  Ohio is in America.  America is home to flat-track racing.  For this I am thankful. This photo first appeared in the pages of Sideburn Magazine, issue #5, for which I am also thankful.  Click and make big.

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Not just any candles.  Candles on my mother's dining room table, which is always one of my favorite places to be, especially this time of year.  Yes, I know it's Thursday.  Click and make big.

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This week's wallpaper features 2000 AMA Grand National Champion Joe Kopp.  In 2010 Kopp won three times, twice on the venerable Harley-Davidon XR750 and once on the Lloyd Brothers Ducati Hypermotard 1100 to open the Twins season at the Yavapai Downs Mile in Prescott, Arizona.  At the end of the season he announced he'd be retiring from full-time competition. My photo is from the Indy Mile in

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I had another image tee'd up for this week's wallpaper but heeding to popular demand here instead I offer a big'n of Nicky Hayden from the Indianapolis Motor Speedway in 2009.  Click and make big.

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2010 AMA Pro Racing American Superbike champion Josh Hayes powers up and out of Road Atlanta's Turn 5. Click and make big.   

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Path Valley Speedway Park Spring Run, PA 16 October 2010

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Congratulations to Jake Johnson (#5), winner of the 2010 AMA Pro Flat Track Grand National Championship.  Next year it'll be his #1 plate everyone is chasing.  

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Aluminum Overcast is one of fewer than 15 Boeing Aircraft Co. B-17 "Flying Fortress" heavy bombers currently flying.  Delivered to the U.S. Army Air Corps 18 May 1945--too late to see any action in World War II--the plane is now owned and operated by the Experimental Aircraft Assoc. (EAA) and demonstrated around the U.S.  This weekend it's based at Leesburg Executive Airport, in Leesburg,

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Shoya Tomizawa, 1990-2010

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Jorge Lorenzo leads morning warm-up.

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Winner, Pro Singles:  J.D. Beach Winner, Expert Twins:  Bryan Smith & Kawasaki (!) Flat-tracker done good:  Nick Hayden (and proud papa Earl) Suitably impressed flat-track first-timer and MotoGP rider:  Alvaro Bautista

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That's phrasing it a bit strong, but walking through the Turn Four banking and looking down the famous Indianapolis Motor Speedway front straight is a small thrill itself.

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Casey was quickest . . .

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AMA Pro Racing at Virginia International Raceway aka Suzuki White Lightning Nationals 13-15 August 2010 Alton, VA Peace.  More, HERE.

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One of the "best" parts of visiting Hagerstown Speedway is watching the track prep goobers circulate in their surprisingly stable fleet of jalopies. Fortunately the weather this year was good and we didn't see quite as much of them as last year, when a Goober-v-AMA Official vehicular manslaughter event was only narrowly avoided. One can only enjoy broadsliding water trucks for so

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. . . bound for Hagerstown

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Just because.  Photo from Springfield Mile, this year.

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Team Zyvax riders Jason Disalvo and Chris Clark took overall honors in today's WERA National Endurance Series 6-Hour race at Summit Point Raceway.

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Feel the heat.  Rossi leads Stoner, Laguna Seca 2009.

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Of all that Randy de Puniet and I share -- fearsome riding skills, popularity with the ladies, distaste for shirts - the one thing that springs to mind most prominently at the moment is that we will both be absent from the Red Bull U.S. (Moto) Grand Prix at Laguna Seca this weekend.  Randy's excuse is a broken leg.  Mine is more prosaic.  I have to work on my dramatic flair.

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Congratulations to Washington's Sam Halbert, winner of the 450 single and 750 twins main events. 

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AMA National Hot Shoe Series Frederick County Fairgrounds, Frederick, MD Sunday, 4 July 2010 Be there.  2009 Grand National Twins Champion Jared Mees will be.

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Yesterday the Capitol Chapter of the Alfa Romeo Owners Club hosted a "Concorso" at Stone Manor Country Club in Middletown, MD.  The show was part of the group's week-long celebration of Alfa Romeo's 100-year anniversary.  I went figuring there would be plenty of neat Alfas to see but unsure how many of Alfa's peerless pre- and early post-war cars would be present.  Only one, it turns out, but

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Practice was just underway and already Joe Kopp and Sammy Halbert were resuming their Arizona Mile tussle Kopp's wasn't the only Lloyd Bros. Ducati in action.  Larry Pegram on the #99 Last Chance Qualifier, GNC Twins The Pro Singles main event was fairly competitive . . . . . . as were portions of the Twins main event (A.J. Eslick leads

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Friday morning prior to Memorial Day saw Dad and I rolling toward Springfield, IL, a trip of nearly 800 miles.  The carrot was two days of AMA Pro Flat Track racing at the Illinois State Fairgrounds--Saturday on the TT course and Sunday on the legendary Mile oval. TT festivities kicked off around 3pm and continued well into the evening.   Chris Carr engages in a

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Al Wilcox, former factory Harley-Davidson flattracker and Summit Point Raceway fixture and flagman, is featured in today's Washington Post. Read the story HERE.      Al holds a photo of himself winning on his factory H-D (photo © Tim White) Jared Mees takes the checkers from Al at the 2007 Barbar a Fritchie Classic in Frederick, MD.(photo © Tim White)

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The Vintage Racers Group hosted its annual celebration of historic racing automobiles at Summit Point Raceway this past weekend.  Racing legend and historic event impresario Brian Redman was supposedly the Grand Marshall, although I never saw or heard him while I was there.  I attended Saturday with a couple cameras and a few lenses; on Sunday I brought along my 5.5-year-old son, Jack. Some

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The previous post put me in mind to search for any prints I might have from Road Atlanta circa late-90's. I found a few and most aren't worth sharing, but these caught my eye. Anthony Gobert 'Tis a shame he can't be with us this weekend.  Stay tuned for more (and happier) photos from Road A!

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I'll be rolling south Thursday for round #3 of the AMA Pro Road Racing series at Road Atlanta. Road A has always been one of my favorite places. In part because it was my "home track" throughout my high school and college years, I've enjoyed dozens of two- and four-wheeled race weekends there, certainly more than any other track I've visited. In lieu of a preview photo or two, how about a

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Anybody know how to decode Goodyear tire engineer scribblings? Maybe we can figure out who used the tire.UPDATE:Here are some detail photos of the mystery tire.Right-front, #12 car?

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On the cover of the new issue of the world's best go fast, turn left magazine, Sideburn, is a Tim White original photo of Jake Johnson en route to the Grand National Twins win at the Hagerstown half-mile in July 2009.

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Will Josh earn another #1 plate this year?

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We've been snowed in here in the D.C. area so I've passed some time going through my '09 archives. I found a few "new" images from the AMA flat track round at Lima, OH, and from the AMA & MotoGP round at Laguna Seca. Some California sunshine would be a welcome find too.

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On the cover of the brand new issue of Iron Horse Magazine is my photo of Larry Pegram riding the Lloyd Bros. Ducati during practice for the 2009 running of the Indy Mile. Enjoy!

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The MotoGP World Championship returns to the Indianapolis Motor Speedway next weekend for the 2nd inaugural Red Bull Indianapolis GP. Last year I went as a general admission spectator; this year I'm fortunate to be working as a credentialed member of the fourth estate. Let's hope the weather is improves in kind. Some photos from last year: Every race is a home race for Valentino RossiIt is

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The Suzuki Big Kahuna Nationals from Virginia International Raceway are done, and Josh Hayes is a deserving Big Kahuna after winning the pole and taking two dominating Superbike wins on his sweet-sounding Yamaha R1. Please enjoy a few photos from the weekend. Josh #1: Hayes. Superbike. Josh #2: Herrin. Sportbike. (8)Josh #3: Day. Supersport.Not Josh: Taylor Knapp, 1st-time AMA Pro

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Jack and I drove up to Timonium, MD, last evening for some short-track racing. He's witnessed roadracing and drag racing, but this was his first trip to a dirt oval. A proper good time it was for both of us. ApprovedOld's coolGiddyupRoosted

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AMA Pro Racing visits Virginia International Raceway again this weekend. With the Daytona SportBike championship coming down to the wire and Mat Mladin (presumably?) in a mood to dominate, it promises to be a good racing weekend. I'll kick things off with some photos from last year, starting with a couple things we won't see this year. Jamie Hacking on a SuperbikeBen Spies on anything But we

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While the AMA series was in Kansas experiencing the trials, tribulations, and triumphs of a "new" circuit on their calendar, I was working Round 7 of the WERA National Endurance & Challenge series at the familiar Summit Point Raceway in West Virginia. My weekend started on Saturday with the 6-Hour endurance race. Based on my informal observations, entrant turnout was low, certainly lower than

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Another Hagerstown National is in the books. Jake Johnson won the GNC Twins Main event, rain-shortened as it was, over Ken Coolbeth and Sam Halbert. Brad Baker won the Pro Singles Main. Damn. Next they’ll tell me I can’t run the blender in the bath.Lloyd Bros. DucatiReady to RaceNot ready to raceUnfortunately rain and track-prep delays meant there were no bikes on track during the “golden

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Aaron YatesSuperAMADukeBikerPegram. Ducati.Team Yoshimura

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What a difference a week makes . . . The previous Saturday I was at the Allen County Fairgrounds in Lima, Ohio, enjoying the golden late-afternoon light and the familial, Midwestern flat-track scene. By the following Friday morning I was moving into the media center at Laguna Seca Raceway near Monterey, California, soaking in the chorus of different languages being spoken excitedly all around

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The Allen County Fairgrounds on the east side of Lima, Ohio, are host to the longest continuously running event on the AMA Pro Flat Track schedule. I know this because the PA announcer said so and I was there to hear it--my first trip to the half-mile cushion.This guy had been there before, however.As had this guy, last year's winner, Slammin' Sammy Halbert. Think he's wide open?Classic

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The last two weekends sent me back in time a bit. First was a couple days at Summit Point Raceway for the annual Memorial Day weekend Summit Point Cyclefest, featuring CCS and ASRA club racing. And this past weekend offered a chance to take my 4.5-year-old son Jack to 75-80 Dragway in Monrovia, MD, for an evening of (very) amateur drag racing. Both venues were the setting for some of my

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