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2020 Regional Series Schedules
Date Event Location Nat/Reg disciplines 2/21-23 Monster Mountain Tallassee AL Nat REG. XC/VMC/PVMX/NG 3/14-15 White Lightening Buffalo SC Nat Cross Country 4/18-19 Jammer Cup JWTF Maysville NC Reg VMX/PVMX/NG 5/16-17 Lake Sugar Tree Axton VA Reg Trials/VMX/PVMX/NG/CC 5/30-31 Aonia Pass MX Washington Ga. Reg Trials/VMX/PVMX/NG/CC 6/13-14 Moto-Vated 101 Gray Court SC Reg Trials/VMX/PVMX/NG 8/15-16 Turkey Creek MX Edgefield SC Reg Trials/VMX/PVMX/NG/CC 9/12 Aonia Pass MX Washington Ga Nat Trials 9/26-27 I-81 MX Greenville TN Reg Trials/VMX/PVMX/NG/CC 10/9-11 Barber Birmingham AL Nat Trials/CC 10/24-25 Axton VA Reg Trials/VMX/PVMX/NG/CC
Presenting the “Jammer’s Cup Championship”! A four race series within our SE / Mid Atlantic Regional series with special awards, named for The Jammer himself Jimmy Weinert! Details released shortly! You must attend 4 regional events to qualify for year end awards, with the best of 5 counted. 2020 AHRMA Mid Atlantic Cross Country Schedule Date Event Location
4/5 Rocket Raceway Three Springs, PA 4/18 Irish Valley Paxinos, PA 5/3 LL Raceway Fairmont City, PA 5/16 Twilight Farm Airville, PA 6/13-14 **Reynlow Park Reynoldsville, PA Reynlow Park includes Trials on June 13 6/28 Ashcraft Farm Bellfont, PA 7/25-26 **Shady Acres Friendsville, MD 8/22-23 Coyote Run Ebensburg, PA 9/13 Little Beaver Lisbon, OH 10/11 Candytown MC Elisabethtown, PA 10/25 White Rose MC Spring Grove, PA
**National Series event 6 region scores to qualify for year end awards. 2020 AHRMA Southeast Schedule Date Event Location Nat/Reg Disciplines Promoter
2/1-2 Arizona Cycle Park Buckeye, AZ Nat VMX/PVMX AVDRA 2/23 Glen Helen Raceway San Bernardino, CA Reg VMX/PVMX OSSRG 3/21 Glen Helen Raceway San Bernardino, CA Nat VMX/PVMX CALVMX 3/22 MotoVentures Anza, CA Nat Trials Morgan Proffitt Trials Master 4/25 Willow Springs Raceway Rosamond, CA Reg Trials Luke Sayer Trials Master 5/31 Glen Helen Raceway San Bernardino, CA Reg VMX/PVMX OSSRG 9/6 Glen Helen Raceway San Bernardino, CA Reg VMX/PVMX CALVMX 10/11 OctoberFest Grand Prix Glen Helen Raceway San Bernardion, CA Reg Cross Country OSSRG 11/15 Arizona Cycle Park Buckeye, AZ Reg VMX/PVMX AVDRA 11/28 Glen Helen Raceway - Day In The Dirt San Bernardino, CA Reg Trials Lane Leavitt Trials
Note: All events are SW Points Regionals with National points given to those events as designated National 2020 AHRMA Southwest Schedule Date Event Location Nat/Reg Disciplines
4/4-5 Burrows Ranch Chrome, CA Nat XC(NW PVMX Points)/VMX/PVMX/Trials 5/2-3 Crooked River Ranch Terrebonne, OR Reg Trials 5/16-17 Bodnar Ranch Dairy, OR Reg XC(NW PVMX Points)/Trials/VMX 6/6-7 Premier & Classic Steamboat Springs, CO Reg Trials (All AHRMA Classes)VMX (Premier & Classic classes only) 6/13-14 Niarada , MT Reg Trials/VMX/PVMX 6/20 LeMay Museum at Marymount Tacoma, WA Nat Trials 7/TBD Donner Trials Soda Springs, CA Nat Trials 8/29-30 Point Arena, CA Reg Trials/Trials (Scot Trial) 9/19-20 Rattlers Run Fairfield, WA Nat Trials/VMX 10/3-4 Bushey Ranch Canby,CA Nat XC (NW PVMX Points)/Trials/VMX 10/17-18 Carnegie Cycle Park Livermore, CA Nat Trials/VMX 10/31 -11/1 MMX Cycle Park Marysville, CA Reg VMX/PVMX
Post Vintage Series which will consist of three Cross Country events and two MX events. Overall season finish will be all 5 events. Classes will be 250 PV, 500 PV, PV Open Age and PV +50. Exp, Intermediate and Novice. 2020 AHRMA Northwest Schedule SCHEDULES ARE SUBJECT TO CHANGE!
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Racing History The Oldest Living World Champion: Cecil Sandford
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CHAMPIONSHIP CUP SERIES (CCS)/AMERICAN SPORTBIKE RACING ASSOCIATION (ASRA) RACE OF CHAMPIONS
XXXVI Daytona Beach, Florida
Making History
Cecil Sandford made history as the fi rst rider to win a World Championship riding an MV Agusta. Now, at the age of 91, he is motorcycling’s oldest-surviving World Champion and still has vivid memories of Grand Prix racing in the 1950s. By Mat Oxley Photos by Chippy Wood and Sandford Archives
On Wednesday, June 11th, 1952, Cecil Sandford started something very big. He scored the fi rst World Championship race victory for MV Agusta, the marque that went on to become the most successful manufacturer in Grand Prix racing, with 275 race wins and 75 Rider and Constructor world titles. Even now, almost half a century after MV’s last race, only Honda, Yamaha, and Aprilia have achieved more Grand Prix success.
Two months after Sandford took MV’s fi rst classic win in the Ultra-Lightweight TT, he clinched the 125cc World Championship, MV’s fi rst. Five years later he won his second World Championship, in the 250cc class, with rival Italian brand Mondial.
During his 15-year career, the Gloucestershire, England rider had factory contracts with AJS, Velocette, MV, DKW, and Mondial. He raced against Geoff Duke, John Surtees, and Mike Hailwood, Britain’s greatest riders of all time. And he won the race in which Hailwood made his debut, at Oulton Park in April, 1957.
“Surtees was one of the best riders I ever watched,” recalls Sandford, a chipper nonagenarian with an amazing memory for the fi rst decade of motorcycle World Championship racing. “And Duke was always a step ahead. He was the only bloke I ever saw drift a motorbike, at Monza.”
Sandford started racing as a teenager, just after the Second World War, after converting his Triumph road bike for scrambling, trials, and grass-track duties.
Next came road racing, usually at disused wartime bases like Haddenham, Dunholme, and Blandford Forum. He made his TT debut in the 1948 Clubmans Junior, although he very nearly didn’t make it to the Isle of Man.
“We were taking my Velocetteto Douglas from Liverpool, with me, my mum and my dad in an MG with the Velo on a trailer. At the docks we gave the car to the AA to put on the boat [this was pre-roll-on/roll-off ferries], went for some dinner, came back and stood in the passenger queue to get on the boat. We’d been there for quite a while when my mum pointed at a boat pulling out of the docks and said, ‘I’m sure that’s the boat we put the car on’. And it was. The queue we were stood in was for the boat to New York.”
Two years later Sandford made his Continental debut, riding an AJS 7R in the Italian GP at Monza. “That was my fi rst time abroad and Europe was still recovering from the war, very much so. A lot of road signs were still full of bullet holes and I remember the roads in France were still really rough and full of muck.”
During the crucial early days of Sandford’s professional career his mentor was Les Graham, winner of the inaugural 1949 500cc World Championship, with AJS. The Merseysider quit the struggling Plumstead brand for MV at the end of 1950 and a year later recruited Sandford, 17 years his junior, to the cause of Count Domenico Agusta.
“Les called at the garage owned by my sponsor Arthur Taylor to ask if he’d let me go, because Les had suggested to Domenico that I ride for them in 1952.”
Agusta had recently recruited engineer Piero Remor and mechanic Arturo Magni from Gilera. Remor designed MV’s fi rst 500 and fi rst four-stroke 125, a DOHC Single; although Sandford believes that Agusta was also involved with the smaller engine. “I think the fi rst 125 engine was the old man’s idea—he was a good engineer,” Sandford recalls.
“The fi rst time I saw the bike was on the Isle of Man and the fi rst time I rode it was in practice. It had very narrow tires—you just had to keep underneath the hedges and try to make speed. I won the race and I was on the way up.”
Sandford and the MV beat Carlo Ubbiali’s Mondial by one minute, 40 seconds to take his and MV’s fi rst TT win, but the Count (Above) Cecil Sandford (71) in 1956 on a DKW 250cc three-cylinder twostroke fi tted with an example of "dustbin" fairings, later banned because they were too dangerous in windy conditions. (Above, Right) Sandford (left) with Les Graham, discussing the Earles front fork that most likely caused Graham’s death at the 1953 Isle of Man TT. (Right) A delighted Sandford poses in pit lane after winning his fi rst Isle of Man TT in 1952 on an MV DOHC Single, with sponsor Arthur Taylor (center) and MV Agusta mechanic Arturo Magni (left). Photos courtesy Sandford archives.
22—Roadracing World, December 2019
By David Swarts
Hundreds of racers from North America and other parts of the world converged on Daytona International Speedway to compete for race wins and National Championships at the 36th annual Championship Cup Series (CCS) Race of Champions, featuring the fi nal rounds of the AMA-sanctioned American Sportbike Racing Association (ASRA) National Sprint and Team Challenge series.
On the line were eight National Championships in the ASRA Sprint Series Presented by Pirelli Tire, decided by points accumulated over a seven-round season; four National Championships in the ASRA Team Challenge Series Presented by Michelin Tire, decided by points accumulated during an eight-round season; and 54 CCS National Championships, which were decided by winner-take-all sprint races. The Race of Champions also included two MotoGirlGT exhibition races, featuring only female competitors.
After a full day of mostly dry practice time and the Team Hammer Advanced Riding School on Friday, racing began in wet conditions on Saturday; the track dried out later in the afternoon and stayed dry on Sunday.
Former Moto2 World Championship rider and 2008 125cc Grand Prix World Championship runner-up Simone Corsi rode a Pirelli-fi tted Squid Hunter Racing Yamaha YZF-R6 in the ASRA Team Challenge race as part of a last-minute deal put together as a possible precursor to a Daytona 200 effort. The 32-year-old Italian took the overall lead on lap 30 of the race and turned laps as quick as 1:53.485 to pull away and claim the overall and GTU class victories by 13.869 seconds. “I love this track,” Corsi said in English from the podium. “The race was very diffi cult, but I enjoy it very much. I want to thank my team. They did a great job.”
West Side Performance’s Christian Miranda, age 19, raced closely with Corsi but fell behind after the fi rst and only round of pit stops. Miranda, however, held on to fi nish second overall and in the GTU class on his Yamaha YZF-R6. Series regular Lloyd Bayley fi nished third overall and fi rst in the GTO category on his BMW S1000RR.
Jinba Ittai Motorsport’s Joel Lenk crossed the fi nish line fourth overall and second in the GTO class, and that was enough to claim the 2019 ASRA Team Challenge Overall and GTO Championships. Jinba Ittai Motorsport edged out seven-time ASRA Team Challenge Champion Grease Monkey Racing (Eric Helmbach/Stephen Hoffman) for both titles. Grease Monkey Racing fi nished the race sixth overall and third in GTO.
JoeyO Racing (Robert Bettencourt/Sean Osowski) took 18th overall and won in the GT Lights category on a Yamaha FZ07, while fourth place in the GT Lights division was enough for Racing 101 (Doug Stuffl ebeam/ Gino Angella/Mark Evry/Joseph Ciesnik) to secure the GT Lights Team Challenge Championship.
The Team Challenge race was originally scheduled to run for 55 laps, but a crash in the chicane Cameron Jones (239) won the wet CCS GT 500 Expert race on a Honda CBR500R and won the dry CCS 300 SuperSport and 300 SuperBike Expert races on a Kawasaki Ninja 300. Photos by Brian J. Nelson. Roger Morissette (60) took fi rst place in CCS GT Lights and CCS Moto3 Expert on his Suzuki SV650. (Above) Squid Hunter Racing’s Simone Corsi (47) sets up to pass Greg Melka (1) as they lead Max Angles (64) through Turn One during the CCS Heavyweight Supersport race race at Daytona International Speedway all on YZF-R6s. Photo by Lisa Theobald. (Above, Right) Jason Farrell (86) won in the wet in CCS GTU Expert and in the dry in CCS Middleweight SuperSport and Middleweight SuperBike Expert. Photos by Brian J. Nelson.
42—Roadracing World, December 2019
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16—Roadracing World, December 2019
By Chris Ulrich W hen Ducati introduced the 959 Panigale in 2016, it offered plenty of performance without any of the usual drama of riding a fi re-breathing 1000cc sportbike. After riding the 2020 Panigale V2—the new designation for Ducati’s fully faired V-Twin sportbike—at Jerez for a day, I’m still convinced that this smaller- displacement Panigale V-Twin is a great alternative to an open-class sportbike. With Ducati’s high-performance Superbike platform moving to a V4 engine confi guration, company engineers gave the 959 a host of smart upgrades and the new V2 designation. Ducati refers to the V2 as another model in its "Super-mid" heritage that dates back to the 748, fi rst released in 1994. The 748 and the succeeding model, the 749, were potent weapons competing on the racetrack against 600cc inline four-cylinder machines, but the bike was banned from the Supersport World Championship when Ducati added 99cc to create the 848 platform for the 2008 model year. A major change came in the 2012 model year, when Ducati abandoned the tried-and-true tubular-steel trellis chassis, building an aluminum monocoque chassis for the 1199 Panigale. Following the lead of its fl agship model, Ducati implemented the monocoque chassis on the 899 Panigale for the 2013 model year. The next evolution was the 955cc 959 Panigale. In 26 years the Super-mid line went from the displacement of a true middleweight to the displacement of a full-blown superbike. It’s amazing what a couple hundred cubic centimeters do for performance! Which brings us to the 2020 model year and the new Euro5 emission standards. A key design challenge for this 959 update was to meet the Euro5 standards without losing performance. And Ducati engineers have done that with the V2. Ducati claims the 2020 upgraded V2 version of the company’s 955cc V-Twin Superquadro engine—which has a bore and stroke of 100mm x 68.5mm and a compression ratio of 12.5:1—puts out 155 bhp and 76.7 lbs-ft of torque. For 2020, Ducati brought the styling and design of the Panigale V2 in line with the look of the Panigale V4 platform, although the bodywork on the V2 is 1.6 inches (40mm) narrower. Like the bodywork on the V4, the V2’s upper fairing now has larger ram-air inlets with the headlights mounted inside the cutouts for the ductwork, along with the same tailsection design. A new single-sided swingarm and a new exhaust system that looks similar to the V4 exhaust were also fi tted to the V2. Both those changes can be justifi ed in terms of overall performance, but also contributed to an 11-pound increase in weight. (More on the changes later.) Performance improvements start at the leading edge of the upper fairing, where larger intake BIKE INTRO 2020 Panigale V2 / Jerez, Spain P OWER Without Drama (Above) The 2020 Ducati Panigale V2 is based on the Panigale 959, but with intake and exhaust system changes needed to meet Euro5 emission standards without losing performance. The exhaust box under the engine holds the catalytic converter and provides the large volume needed to maintain power. (Below, Right) Advanced Bosch IMU-based electronics from the V4 line represent a signifi cant upgrade for the V2.
18—Roadracing World, December 2019
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