Wednesday #2First it
was Jeff Ward Racing, then earlier last week the Australian-owned JDR
Motorsports Californian-based AMA team will close its doors in May in the
United States. Now it's L&Mc Racing (stands for Larry Brooks and Jeremy
McGrath) that has pulled the plug on the 2013 Supercross/Motocross season. The
L&Mc Racing team, which made its debut last year with rider Andrew Short,
has officially announced that it is pulling out of racing effective
immediately. I'm told from California that there is a manufacturer next?
Watching the Dirt Shark video of Anaheim 2 is all about the Monster Girls.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jAT7ixWylV8&feature=player_embedded#
Reminded
me of the 2011 MXoN in France. I
had an invite to go and photograph the Monster Girls in the Spa Pool …. and
unbelievably I forgot to go !!!! I was sent this as a reminder of my stupidity!!
Motorcycling New Zealand website www.mnz.co.nz is a finalist in the Website of the Year Contest in the Not For Profit Sector. To have made the finals is a great achievement for Motorcycling New Zealand, the awards are not limited to New Zealand websites but all websites built with Sitefinity. Public Votes are now open:
MotoGP returnee Hiroshi Aoyama has sustained a fractured wrist in a motocross accident. The 31-year-old Japanese rider fell while training on a motocross bike at a Barcelona track last Friday. Aoyama will not require surgery and has been ordered to rest prior to the first MotoGP test of 2013 at Sepang on February 5-7, which he is expected to be fit for. The 2009 250cc world champion switched to World Superbikes last year after losing his Gresini Honda MotoGP seat at the end of 2011. But he made his comeback to stand in for the injured Yonny Hernandez on Avintia's CRT bike at the Valencia season finale, and also secured a 2013 seat with the squad.
After my update yesterday Lynda Blair advises that the test days at
Yamaha motocross legend Doug Henry returned to the ESPN X-Games Aspen Snocross event and won his fifth X-Games medal. Doug already has a SuperMoto gold from 2005, and a bronze from 2006. Four years later, Henry returned to race Snocross Adaptive, earning a bronze in 2010 and gold in 2011 in the paraplegic class. Snocross Adaptive rules allow riders to modify their sleds to adapt to their particular physical abilities, with separate classes for amputees and paraplegics, who are racers with a spinal injury resulting in lower body paralysis.
Red Bull KTM's Ken Roczen now leads the 250SX Class Championship by 15 points. Nobody more excited than www.foxhead.com/us/#/moto based in Irvine, California, who have been ‘hanging out’ for Ken to top the podium.
http://www.transmoto.com.au/publish/news/19234880/2013-Australian-Off-Road-Teams
Remember Jason Weigandt's hilarious feature in Racer
X a few years back, "Kevin Windham is the Most Interesting Man in
Motocross.” Here it is courtesy of
Racer X – photos are Simon Cudby’s.
You will have to open as a PDF. www.cs23.olbiz.net/racerxonline/afred/windham.pdf
14 riding days of Dakar 2013 and thousands of pics
everywhere on the internet. Here are two courtesy of http://www.dakar.com
Some time ago Moto-Media was the first to announce the Australian YZ450 GP bike. Here is an in-depth review. http://www.cycleonline.com.au/2013/01/25/tested-2013-yamaha-yz450gp/
Is Husqvarna being sold by BMW - to KTM? Chris Birch put this up on Twitter.
BMW bought Husqvarna from MV Agusta back in 2008. Best of Twitter. 
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