ROLEX MONTEREY MOTORSPORTS REUNION – THE BEAUTY IN WEAR AND TEAR

Every August, the Monterey area of California experiences an influx of automobiles from eras passed. Pre-war machines are oiled up and emerge from their hiding places.
by ANDREW RITTER

Young Spirits, Belgian Classic TT 2012

Gedinne, a char­ming lit­tle vil­lage at the bor­ders of a nice pad­dock. On the edge of that pas­to­ral pad­dock a beau­ti­ful road that climbs and des­cends, tur­ning left and right, and which, for­ced by the logics of ben­ding and swee­ping in all kinds of direc­tions, ends up where it first star­ted. Which turns out to be very prac­ti­cal when you want to lap that road on your motor­cycle. Lap­ping this road seve­ral conse­cu­tive times you end up having a race, a beau­ti­ful race, a hot race! As eve­ry­body wants the che­que­red flag first all ends up in the heat of the fight. And because of that heat they get thirsty, so some of them decide to mount a tent, put some tables and chairs in it, and a bar, of course.
Need­less to say that those guys were Bel­gian adepts of clas­sic racing motor­cycles. So they foun­ded a club they named CRMB (Clas­sic Racing Motor­cycles Bel­gium). An English name yes, because as good Bel­gians they thought it sounds bet­ter that way.

We’d like you to know that the races are open to all pre 1972 motor­cycles and that you can take a one-off licence for this event, so there’s no excuse not to come and join us in the most beau­ti­ful race of the year at the most beau­ti­ful Bel­gian race­track . Pass the mes­sage and see you all in Gedinne!

WEC – Doublé Audi à Bahreïn

Audi se reprend après la défaite infligée par Toyota à Sao Paulo en signant le doublé aux 6 Heures de Bahreïn. La R18 e-tron quattro n°1 de Tréluyer-Fässler-Lotterer s'impose avec deux tours d'avance sur la voiture sœur n°2 de McNish-Kristensen. La Toyota TS030 de Lapierre-Wurz a tout perdu dans une sortie de piste consécutive à un contact avec la HPD ARX-03a du Strakka Racing qui complète ainsi le podium. Devant les deux Lola B12/60 Coupé-Toyota du Rebellion Racing.

PeCom Racing décroche la victoire en LMP2 avec l'Oreca 03-Nissan de Kaffer-Perez Companc-Minassian. Signatech-Nissan retrouve le chemin du podium avec l'Oreca 03 n°23 de Mailleux-Tresson-Lombard. Starworks Motorsport complète le podium avec la HPD ARX-03b de Sarrazin-Kimber Smith-Potolicchio.

La victoire en GTE Pro revient à la F458 Italia n°51 d'AF Corse emmenée par Vilander-Fisichella qui devance l'Aston Martin V8 Vantage de Turner-Mücke et la Porsche 911 RSR 997 du Team Felbermayr Proton de Lieb-Lietz-Adam. L'écurie allemande s'impose en GTE Am avec la Porsche de Ried-Roda-Ruberti.

by.AUTOHEBDO

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Jorge Lorenzo beats Pedrosa for pole position at Motorland Aragon

This afternoon’s MotoGP’s qualifying session at Motorland Aragon was fortunately dry, but the asphalt was cold just 16°C and even if the riders didn’t have any dry set-up time they immediately starting pushing and in the opening minutes Dani Pedrosa crashed out at turn 14 and completely trashed his main machine, but when he returned to track with his spare he took just a few laps to regain his confidence and he and Jorge Lorenzo went into rivalry mode in the final minutes for the pole position and it went to the Yamaha rider by just 0.088s over birthday boy Pedrosa, who has a fantastic fourth sector.

Who really put in blistering laps all through the hour long session was Cal Crutchlow as he conquered the final spot on the front row and he was just 0.172s from his Yamaha counterpart and the same tenth gap from Ben Spies who was fourth on the other factory Yamaha.

Stefan Bradl was fifth with Andrea Dovizioso in sixth, while Jonathan Rea put in an impressive performance in his second qualifying session with the Honda RC213V taking seventh (he had qualified 9th at Misano) and was just a dab over one second from the top of the timesheets.

Valentino Rossi lost the front his Ducati at turn 2 as he went off slightly off the line with a new tire halfway through the session, he returned to track and despite lowering his lap times he couldn’t do better than eighth and the usual 1.5s off pace, so it seems that the new parts (chassis and swingarm) that he debuted at Misano to take second, weren’t a breakthrough but was just the result of having tested in the dry two weeks prior to the GP. Team mate Nicky Hayden also crashed, but in the final minute in one of his last flying laps and it put him 9th and opening the third row.

After lingering in lowly 18th and 19th during the practice sessions, a bruised Hector Barbera made a strong jump forward to take 10th and he was just 0.059s from the Ducati factory rider.

CRT rider Aleix Espargaro was 11th and he was just a little more than one tenth slower than the Valentino Rossi in 8th and faster than Alvaro Bautista who ended up 12th.

MotoGP Motorland Aragon Qualifying Results:

01- Jorge Lorenzo – Yamaha Factory Racing – Yamaha YZR M1 – 1’49.404
02- Dani Pedrosa – Repsol Honda Team – Honda RC213V – + 0.088
03- Cal Crutchlow – Monster Yamaha Tech 3 – Yamaha YZR M1 – + 0.172
04- Ben Spies – Yamaha Factory Racing – Yamaha YZR M1 – + 0.344
05- Stefan Bradl – LCR Honda MotoGP – Honda RC213V – + 0.630
06- Andrea Dovizioso – Monster Yamaha Tech 3 – Yamaha YZR M1 – + 0.837
07- Jonathan Rea – Repsol Honda Team – Honda RC213V – + 1.006
08- Valentino Rossi – Ducati Team – Ducati Desmosedici GP12 – + 1.545
09- Nicky Hayden – Ducati Team – Ducati Desmosedici GP12 – + 1.609
10- Hector Barbera – Pramac Racing Team – Ducati Desmosedici GP12 – + 1.668

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Yamaha World Champions past and future? Giacomo Agostini, Jorge Lorenzo and Phil Read.

For Sale: 1974 Maico 125 RS

This superb 1974 Maico 125 RS 2 is one of the last privateer bikes produced by Maico (series 6, RS2/6) and is for sale via ClassicMotorbikes.comThe bike is complete and in working order. Meanwhile the restarting work should be undertaken since the bike remained in a collection for over 30 years.

It’s equipped with front drum brakes from a 1973 Yamaha TZ. The engine is a 125cc, single-cylinder air cooled unt roducing 25 HP and running a 6 speed gearbox.

A total production of only 146 samples of the 125 RS2 privateer bikes left the Maico factory from 1969 to 1974.

For info contact Classic-Motorbikes.com

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