On one of my rare weekends off from the race track last year, I stopped in on the Kentucky Kickdown festival at American Turners in Louisville. With bikes, music, food, burnouts, stunts, and mud drags, it was a cool scene. I took a bunch of pics, but got busy with…
Full Story Behind WAR’s Second Straight Indy Win
White Alligator Racing (WAR) head honcho Jerry Savoie scored his second U.S. Nationals win in dominant fashion, winning on Labor Day at Lucas Oil Raceway Park in Brownsburg, Indiana. Qualified only 8th, Savoie and tuner Tim Kulungian found their mojo on raceday, running a string of laps between 6.84 and 6.86…
Sam Wills Assaults the Salt in Bonneville
story and photos by Adam Weege The Bonneville Salt flats are unlike any other place on earth. If you are from the Midwest, like me, you have probably experienced snow, and if you go to the Salt flats you will expect it to be like snow. But what you have…
Wilson in for Scott at Jay Turner Racing
You only have to put two and two together to see that Tyler Wilson (shown here on his Pro Fuel bike) will be taking over for Mike Scott at Jay Turner Racing (JTR) in Brainerd this weekend. Wilson has been testing with JTR on the bike that Scott has been…
Moxley at the Main Event: Santa Pod
The 2019 European FIM Championships got underway at Santa Pod Raceway with the Main Event under overcast skies and showers on and off on Sunday and Monday of the Whitsun bank holiday weekend. Some new records were set at the meeting. Top Fuel Bike Rikard Gustafsson dominated Top Fuel Bike…
EDRS Pro Nordic MC round 3 is “Go” at Gardermoen
The EDRS Pro Nordic Motorcycle Championship is at the halfway point of the season and, with the Drag Challenge at Gardermoen Raceway in Norway, the riders kick off part two of their title race. After two races, Marcus Christiansen, Filippos Papafilippou, Fredrik Fredlund and Vesa Ruhanen are the leaders in…
Flattening Dimples for Sonoma
NHRA’s directive to EBR gen2 racers to delete their dimples in less than a week’s time has left the teams in a quandary about how to kit out for this weekend’s Sonoma race, which includes the Pro Bike Battle. On top of that, I’m told that NHRA will have a…
Vance & Hines Harleys for Sale in 2020??!!
Dimples aside, the BIG rumor out of Denver is that the currently exclusive Vance & Hines/Harley-Davidson Pro Stock Motorcycles will soon be FOR SALE! And not for a million dollars either, but the real world number of $250,000 chassis/bodywork/motor (update: 2 motors) What this says to me is that Harley-Davidson is…
Easter Festival of Power at Santa Pod
Twelve months ago it was very cold and wet with a slick Santa Pod Raceway on Easter weekend, which restricted the Festival of Power to no quicker than 8.5 seconds. This year the temperature was in the 70s for all three days of Round 1 of the ACU championship. Records…
Hines Wins Norwalk, You Get the Scoop
Five-time Pro Stock Motorcycle world champ and points leader Andrew Hines rolled to his fifth win out of seven races in 2019 at the 13th annual Summit Racing Equipment NHRA Nationals at Summit Racing Equipment Motorsports Park. Hines’ best season result has been six wins in one season. “(One more)…