Sam Burman Third in NGRRC championship

Sam Burman has taken a fine third place in both the Refined Recruitment 125GP Championship, and the Dara Brady Open 400 Championship, concluding this year’s NG Road Racing Club season. In the final round held at Thruxton, last Saturday, Burman, despite a fall in the first outing, bagged two fifth place finishes later in the day.

With Championship points determining the front row for race one, Burman made a great start, leading the chasing pack into Allard for the first time of asking. However, the lead was to be short lived as the rain started coming lightly but enought to wet the track leaving sam’s slick tyres struggling for grib as she over enthusiasticly powered round the fast right - hander at seagrave causing her to crash out of the race.

The biggest disappointment was the fact that due to her earlier mishap, Burman would start the all important points race from the back of the 35 strong grid. However, with her race face well and truly on, she was in determined mood, and picked off her rivals in style to take the chequered flag in an impressive fifth place of the 125 competitors, thus consolidating her third place in the Championship.

Happy to have rounded off the 125 series with a decent show, Burman was keen to improve on her success in the Open 400 final encounter. Riding another impressive race she took fifth position overall and was the first 125 machine home, a result that meant she had taken another well deserved third place, this time in the Open 400 Championship.

Sam Burman:

“ I suffered with the windy conditions this weekend to be honest. The rain and an eager rider caught us out in the first race which left me having to start from the back for the point’s race; I had a not too bad ride to get to 5th. I was really pleased to take 3rd in the Open 400 Championship to go with a 3rd in the 125 Championship, and I would like to thank the clubs officals and marshalls for a great year.”

Burman will be back in action for the finale of the Thundersport GB series, taking place over the weekend of 18-19 October,

during which, racing will take place at both Donington Park (Saturday) and Mallory Park (Sunday).

Motocross Grandma Still Catching Air

Her right ankle bones are held together with a bunch of bolts and screws. She needs a new left knee. And the arthritis in her fingers gives her fits.

But her brain apparently doesn’t care, because pretty much every day it bleats the same mantra: Mo-to cross! Mo-to cross!

You go, gramma.

Back in the ’80s, Gale Webb made headlines as America’s Motocross Mom. Now that she’s 64 years old and has a grandson, motocross gramma is more like it.

But she could just as easily be skateboard gramma. Or snowboard gramma. Or kamikaze mountain bike gramma. [Read more]

Lierop Will Crown First-Ever Women’s Motocross World Champion

FUNCHAL (PORTUGAL) September 3, 2008; Only one round is left to decide who will be the first ever Women’s Motocross World Champion in history to be crowned in Lierop, The Netherlands, this weekend at the end of the fifth round of the Championship.Livia Lancelot is currently leading the points standings from Steffi Laier, who worked her way up to second despite having missed the opening round in Bulgaria. Maria Franke is third, level in points with Laier, as Larissa Papenmeier is fourth and still holds a slight chance for the Title. [Read more]

Katherine Prumm Not To Participate In Grand Prix of Benelux

The final round of the FIM Women’s World Championship this weekend at the Lierop circuit for the Grand Prix of Benelux will not be able to count on the participation of one of the main stars of the series. Double Women’s World Cup winner and Yamaha rider Katherine Prumm is currently recovering from operations to her right knee and left wrist as well as the collarbone break that prematurely ended her season while leading the standings of the inaugural championship. [Read more]

Maria Costello finished in a solid sixth place at this year’s Manx Grand Prix.

The Northamptonshire racer, along with all those competing at the 2008 Manx Grand Prix, had endured a difficult fortnight plagued by bad weather causing what seemed like never-ending delays and cancelled practice sessions. Costello finally got to race a round the TT course, all be it over a reduced distance of three laps [113.19 miles], when the Ultra-lightweight race got underway at 4.00pm on Saturday the 30^th August, more than a day later than originally scheduled.

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Sam Burman takes honours at Snetterton

Making excellent use of a weekend away from her regular Thundersport GB exploits, Sam Burman has taken a double victory in the 125cc class, and two podium finishes in the all comers races at round 12 of the New Era Motorcycle Club Championship at Snetterton on Sunday. Subsequently, she was presented with the ‘Rider of the Day’ award for her achievements.

Using the event as extra practice, Burman quickly got down to serious business, posting the second fastest time during qualifying, ensuring a front row position for the two GP125 races that run alongside the Formula 400’s, Hornets, and Honda CB500’s.

In race one, she made a good start, and was immediately in a three way battle for the lead with Sam Hornsey and Simon Low. However, calculating her race to perfection, Burman got the hammer down and pulled a gap at the front of just over a second, to take a well earned victory. Race two was much of the same, dicing once again with Hornsey and Low, until two laps from home Simon Low highsided coming out of the Russell chicane, and Hornsey crashed trying to avoid him, leaving Burman to once again take the honours, this time by a more comfortable margin of eight seconds.

In the first of the all comers races Burman, again starting from second place on the grid, didn’t get the start that she hoped for, but she battled through the pack to finish on the podium in third place. For the final race of the day, she got a much better start, and with the previous race winner, Phil Guillou, not taking part, Burman settled into second place behind Martin Thrower, a position she would comfortably hold on to, until heavy rain caused the race to be stopped on safety grounds.

Sam Burman:

“What a great day! We were the fastest 125 of the weekend, winning both races, and had some great battles. The all comers races were good fun and we achieved two podiums, all in all a really good weekend, and to be awarded the ‘Rider of the Day’ just finished it off, which I was proud of.”

Burman will be back in action in the Thundersport GB series over the weekend of 13-14 September, when the series visits Anglesey for the penultimate round of the Championship.

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Sam Burman aims to Thunder at Brands Hatch

Sam Burman is looking forward to what promises to be a successful weekend’s racing at Brands Hatch, on May 31st and June 1st, where she will be racing her Honda RS in the ongoing Thundersport Championship series.
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Sara Price Gearing Up for Loretta Lynn’s Regional

Canyon Lake, Calif., May 23, 2008 – 15-year-old Sara Price is preparing for of the upcoming season and racing the top Amateur Nationals including this weekends Loretta Lynn’s Northwest Regional Qualifier at Honey Lake Motocross Park, Milford, CA.

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Livia Lancelot does it again

Lancelot Takes Pole at First Women’s World Championship Appearance At Mantova

MANTOVA (ITALY), 17 May 2008

Round two of the FIM Women’s Motocross World Championship is once again a wet one as the opening round was last weekend at Sevlievo. Livia Lancelot took her first win there and marked her first outing in Mantova with today’s pole; Maria Franke and two time World Cup Winner Katherine Prumm rounded off the top three.

GPKR’s Livia Lancelot is experiencing an incredible start to the 2008 season as she confirmed her status of title favourite by clocking today’s pole. The French rider was three seconds faster than closest rival Maria Franke, of Kawasaki Elf Pfeil.

The latter still has victory in her sights while Yamaha Van Beers Racing’s Katherine Prumm was a surprise by entering today’s top three.

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Sam Burman aims for the checkered flag at Cadwell

Sam Burman (www.samburman.co.uk) is looking forward to a successful weekend’s racing at Cadwell on May 17th and 18th, where she will be racing her Honda RS in 125cc in both the 125 class in the Thundersport Championship.

Sam has had a mixed start to the 2008 season, overcoming crashes, illness and severe weather conditions to get back on the podium at Brands Hatch with a 3rd place finish.
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