Airwaves Ready for Showdown
The word from Airwaves Ducati;
BLACK MINT AIRWAVES DUCATI READY FOR SEASON FINALE AT BRANDS HATCH
The Black Mint Airwaves Ducati team head to round 13 of the British Superbike championship at Brands Hatch this weekend lying first and third in the title race. The 2006 title will be decided in a double point’s header at the Kent circuit on Sunday.
In a dramatic penultimate round at Silverstone two weeks ago Gregorio Lavilla achieved two second places and former championship leader, Leon Haslam had a day of mixed results, failing to finish the first race but coming 3rd in the second. Those results mean that Greg goes into this weekend’s finale with 377 championship points and a slender 1 point lead over Kiyo, with team mate Leon only 8 points behind on 368.
UK Supermoto Cancellation
The latest from the ACU;
Following problems with the track layout and Road Closure Orders for Olivers Mount, the British Supermoto Championships regret to announce that the meeting scheduled for the 23rd/24th September has been cancelled.
Unfortunately a suitable alternative date was not readily available at Olivers Mount.
The 6th Round of the Championship will now be held at Three Sisters in Wigan on the Saturday the 21st October and the 7th Round on Sunday the 22nd October. Also on this weekend we are honoured to be hosting a round of the World KTM Red Bull Cup, alongside our own British Supermoto Championship.
2007 Honda CBR00RR
The latest from Honda Uk;
Completely new from stem to stern, Honda’s astounding new 2007 CBR600RR launches a blistering assault on the roads and tracks of Europe with a sleek and slippery new, aerodynamically designed race-ready form;
a lighter and more powerful new 600cc Dual Sequential Fuel Injected inline-4 engine with the smallest dimensions in its class;
a slimmer and lighter weight new Fine Die-Cast aluminium frame that realises both a shorter wheelbase and a longer swingarm;
and an impressive list of high-performance features which all come together to herald the arrival of the electrifying new champion of the mid-displacement Super Sports class.
Kawasaki Versys Should Be Grunty
Kawasaki have released a few more details about their new Versys all-rounder machine for 2007.
The company say that their first priority with the 650cc engine was making it responsive and torquey, with plenty of lowdown acceleration. There’s a balance pipe in the exhaust system to smooth the torque curve, whilst the top end has had work done to the inlet and exhaust cams to help boost low down pull from the motor.
The digital fuel injection has also been tweaked, again to promote immediate throttle response. The Versys is claimed to produce its peak power in the 3000-6000rpm range - almost like a V-twin motor, rather than the typical parallel twin engine.
