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]]>It’s been more than a G’day for female motorcycle racer, Maria Costello MBE.
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]]>This year’s Dakar Rally has one woman competing on a quad, who is attempting to beat her own highest finish of 9th in her class in 2012. Camelia became the 2nd woman in history to finish the Dakar on a quad in 2010 and she is still going strong today on stage 8: Salta/Uyuni > Calama- Today she will have to ride around the Salar de Uyuni, the biggest salt flat in the world a full 782km (486miles). If all goes to plan she will begin the Chilean part of the rally tomorrow.
She is currently in 16th position on her Yamaha Storm and is hoping to make up some positions on todays stage after a day of rest. She has completed 6 full days of racing covering 4,136 km (2,570 miles).
Liparoti is a native Italian who discovered her love for endurance racing while on assignment photographing the Dakar Rally. She pursued quad racing and won the World All Terrain Rally Cup in the women’s category twice now.
“After two world titles, I was in need of a new challenge, so I decided to switch to a bigger and more powerful quad. This choice forced me to change brands. I will now ride a Yamaha, which is known for its reliability. It is a limited series Black Storm, but I renamed it the “Black Blonde Storm”, it has 200 more horsepower and more importantly incredible torque… My objective is to make it to the finish and if possible in the top ten. “
The Dakar Rally is known as one of the toughest and most dangerous off-road races in the world, and the 2014 version of the event has certainly lived up to the billing thus far. Not only is the Dakar Rally a test of endurance, it also offers a much tougher terrain than other rallies.
The race,, lasts for a total of 14 days including the rest day breaking up the competition. After 431 participants started the 2014 Dakar Rally, just 229 remained by the mandatory rest day.
The rally passes through Argentina, Bolivia and Chile. After starting on Jan. 5 in Rosario, Argentina, the journey will end on Jan. 18 in Valparaiso, Chile. The entire route is over 5,200 miles, and said to be one of the most treacherous rally courses in the world.
The race doesn’t come without its dangers. The rally is commonly referred to as the “world’s most dangerous race” for its rough terrains and sweltering conditions. The racers must battle through water, sand dunes, mud, camel grass and rocks. During the fifth stage, the temperatures rose to as high as 100 degrees Fahrenheit, according to news.com.au.
CNN has sited, 27 competitors have died and 50 total have perished—including spectators, support crew and media—in the rally since its inception in 1978. This year’s race has already claimed the lives of three individuals—one motorcycle competitor: Belgian, Eric Palante and two news members thus far.
With the race still taking place and entering its eighth stage today (Monday, Jan. 13), the most important moments are still ahead at the 2014 Dakar Rally.
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]]>Maria Costello MBE brought home the Bob Wylie Racing Triumph 675R in 49th place today in the Monster Energy TT Supersport 1 race around the daunting 37.73 mile Isle of Man TT circuit. She made it to the finish line after three difficult laps, despite having to deal with an ill handling bike due to a broken steering damper and a seat unit which had detached itself from the bike on lap three.
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]]>After literally freezing during the opening round at Fontana in January, we were greeted with the low end of the weather curve again in Las Vegas… although thankfully not nearly as cold as Fontana… this time it didn’t get below freezing for a low!
I arranged a half day with Racer’s Edge Friday track day, and holy AMA paddock Batman! When I arrived there was a semi in one corner, and the brightly colored kids from the Red Bull team near my pit; amongst a slew of AMA pro riders in attendance!
Practice went pretty well, but my bike was overly squirrely under the brakes going into Turn 1… not having a slipper clutch, I’m used to the considerable tail wag, but after having a moment where it “wagged the dog” I seriously thought I was going to go completely unstable and crash in a straight line.
It was unstable coming off the back straight/kink as well, but not nearly as bad as Turn 1… well… turn one is downhill.
Then I looked at my bike… looked at my notebook… what was different from November?! Lenny Albin of Superbike Chassis, LLC refreshed my suspension, and my forks were bumped up in stiffness…. Oh man they are amazing! But that wouldn’t cause excessive chassis instability… it was as if the rear was so light it was allowed to gain momentum as it wagged while slipping the clutch… while the weight was on the front end from braking… the front end! Aaahhhh!
I had lowered the front triples down the forks while at Chuckwalla in December… that was it! Too much weight on the front! Duh…
2mm…. that was enough to nearly make me lose complete control of the entire motorcycle. That combined for a perfect storm into turn one that created escalating instability… reminded me of all the curves in our Controls Class on stability… and damping… ahhh college.
Put the forks back to flush with the triples, and all was back to normal. Now… the other thing… I think I need to take a look at my shifter mechanism before the next ride, because I was blowing shifts a bit too often. I couldn’t move the shifter up (GP Shift) with enough power a handful of times, and just got it between gears… it was noisy, annoying, and just made me cringe to think of what the gears in my transmission were doing. One of the slightly negative side effects of being an engineer, and being familiar with your internal parts… picturing them getting destroyed when you hear the clack clack clack of the tranny gears when it doesn’t quite get bumped into the proper down shift.
Due to funds, I opted to sit out Saturday’s 20 lapper; and subsequently, Saturday practice, which was just as well, because practice was ridiculously cold.
Sunday morning was overcast and the track took longer to warm up, so I went out only in the second practice round. I followed JD Beach of the Red Bull AMA team, and we both tiptoed a bit as we felt out the track conditions. He decided to take off, and I watched him for a few corners… “well… he didn’t crash… track is good” So I took off too! I felt good during this practice – confident, in control, hitting my marks. I was surprised how the cold really got into a lot of people’s heads, as I passed some people as if they were beginners! My confidence paid off in that I was the top third of the time sheet
First race of the day… I was ready. Mentally, physically, aggressively. I was on row three, and got a killer start! Slammed the door on a BMW, and lit off out of turn 1 in third place!!!!! Hells yeah! In the opening lap AMA riders Tucker Lancaster and Aussie Dave went though me, but I found myself tail grabbing the ZX10 of a relative new comer to our grid, and pretty damn fast… so be tail grabbing him… I was stoked!
Going into lap two I was trying to hang on to him, and figure out if I was going to have something for him or not when the red flag came out. Ugh…
Back to my pit to see my friends jumping up and down and so stoked on my start!!!! Then my long time pal (and one time coach!) who was on that BMW I slammed the door on into turn one, came over and picked me up off the ground and told me he was coming for me… “I was sooooo close… arrrghhhhh!!!!”
Sadly, by the time they cleaned up and brought us back out, I was still feeling good, but that razor sharp edge of aggression had dissipated. That’s a mental game I’ll have to work on.
My re-start was decent, but my friend on the BMW got me into turn one, and I spent the rest of the race trying to find a way around. Although I ran faster lap times, he beat my 0.08 at the line. So frustrating.
Those shifter problems haunted me when I couldn’t complete the downshifts into turn one, and had to finish them between turn one and turn two.
But what I will say I’m very proud of… I held off AMA Superbike racer Aussie Dave for the full opening lap! Sure he had to start at the back of the grid… but I slammed the door on him coming off the high speed back section, and made him take the pass under the brakes into turn one… where it was borderline getting stuffed… I wasn’t that far off the mark for his turn one… and that… I am quite proud of
In talking to him after the race, he was shocked at the flying braided pigtails… he said “oh my gosh.. those are pigtails! Holy crap that’s a girl!” Ha ha ha! I heard later, he wasn’t the only one to be shocked at the girl factor.
It’s not unusual for these fast guys to be shocked when they come upon a girl who’s going a smidgen slower than they are. I certainly do not take offense… I’m quite proud
No matter… I had some struggles with that tricky long, slow turn three, and could’ve had a better turn one – like the bad ass turn one I had in November.
Thankfully we have a double header in April.
Finish: 5th/12 after Aussie Dave Anthony DQd himself since he was on his superbike.
Best Lap: 1:20.8
Tires: Med front/Med Rear – new
No Women’s race this time!
This grid was stacked. I got a decent start, but got really beat up going into turn one. I still feel a bit more intimidated about Superbike vs Superstock, and it shows in turn one. I’m slowly gaining more confidence in this class. Just because there are a few riders who are in it with fancy bikes doesn’t mean I can’t still rock it.
I was proud to hold off AMA Pro and top club racer Reno Karimian until turn five!!! The high speed kink! He got me with his bizzilion horsepower But I chased him, and my long time fast pal Corey Sarros. Oh I tried so hard to get with those guys… I reeled them in over a few places, then lost them in others. I worked and worked and worked but I just didn’t have much grip left in my medium tire – which worked fabulous in the first race and the cold track, but the sun had shown on the track all day and now it’s the last race of the day.
However, I was still proud to be running with those guys!!!! They used to suck the paint off me as they went by!!!!
That shifting issue cropped up again, going into turn one clack clack clack… it made such a racket that my pals on the wall near start / finish!! heard my transmission, heard my squealing rear tire, and apparently everyone cringed! Ha ha ha… It was just fine, I had to put it back into 4th gear, and grab the two down shifts between one and two again. My pals commented how proud they were of me for maintaining my composure as my bike looked and sounded out of control.
Finish: 7th/11
Best Lap: 1:21.7
Tires: Med front / flipped Med Rear – one race
In summary, I learned some lessons this weekend in the mental game, and found I’m still working on some key areas around the Vegas track.
I’m very much looking forward to running the double header in April. I may or may not do one of the Women’s races in April. There just aren’t many women running in the expert class, and to save money, and wear on my bike, I’ve opted to run it at only select events.
Oh… the back story… apparently a notable AMA rider crashed on Friday because he was “so shocked” that I was a girl he got distracted. That is just hilarious! (he was ok, btw)
I’m very proud to have matched my previous best lap times on a great tire, and warmer temps on a harder tire, and brutally cold temps!
Huge thank you to my amazing friend Lyle Geoff Brown (LGB!) for huge assistance as pit crew on Sunday. To my amazing friend Steve Weir for being so supportive that the girl he used to coach is now giving him a run for his money
Thank you to Barry Wressel & Sean Gager for being available for good discussion over the weekend. And thank you to my wonderful friends who were out there to cheer me on and support from track side and via phone <3
Graves Motorsports (gravesport.com)
Lenny Albin (superbikechassis.com)
Pirelli Tires (CT Racing – ctracetires.com)
M Racing (mracingperformance.com)
Scorpion Helmet (scorpionusa.com)
Five & Dime Tattoo (fiveanddimetattoo.com)
Hella High Oakland (hellahighoakland.com)
Moonstone Cellars (moonstonecellars.com)
STAR School (starmotorycle.com)
Five-0 Racing (five-0racing.com)
785Graphics (785graphics.com)
Cortech (cortechperformance.com)
Valley CrossFit (valleycrossfit.com)
Chicken Hawk Racing
Vortex Racing
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]]>New Vlog from Christin Voros! Follow her on her weekend including a track day and Round 6 of the Chuckwalla Valley Motorcycle Association 2013 Winter Series. This is her second Vlog for FRN and we hope to see more of her. Good luck on lowering your time next Round! We are rooting for you Christin!
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]]>The former Isle of Man female record holder will ride a new Triumph 675R at events including the Isle of Man TT and the Ulster Grand Prix as well as other selected Irish short circuit and real road races.
Maria added:
“I’m so pleased and fortunate to be riding Bob Wylie’s bikes again this year. The 675R has the potential to be a brilliant race bike and I get to race the Moto3 bike again. Great bikes and a fantastic opportunity. I’m very excited about this season, what with these and the other rides I have planned.”
Costello’s first outing for Bob Wylie Racing will be on the Triumph 675R at back-to-back short circuit races at Bishopscourt and Kirkistown over the Easter weekend at the end of March. The Bob Wylie Racing team will be launched on Easter Friday. If media would like to attend please contact maria@costelloracing.
Maria Costello will also continue to support breast cancer awareness charity CoppaFeel! through 2013. She will be carrying their logo on all of the race bikes she competes on, as well as displaying CoppaFeel! collection tins at all the race events she attends.
Image by www.beckphotographic.com
Maria Costello MBE and the Bob Wylie Racing Triumph 675R in road trim ready to be prepared for the 2013 race season.
Maria Costello would also like to thank all of her 2013 sponsors and associates: HOL-TAJ, The European Shoe Machinery Company Ltd, HEL Brake lines, Draper Tools, Rock Oil, Kawasaki UK Ltd, Team Classic Suzuki, Bob Wylie Racing, Bob Jackson Racing, Arai, NGK, Vmtek Suspension/Wilbers, Radicool, Jap4Performance, Skidmarx, EBC, GBRacing, Gimoto, Racing Batteries, Knox, The Image Works, iDP Moto Ltd, Cranfield University, RSV, Racebikebitz/Samco hoses, Daytona boots, Pipercross, B&C Express, RS Fabrications Ltd, Alpha Powder Coatings [Peterborough] Ltd, Cameron Designs, Christian Baker, Dallington Fitness leisure & Wellbeing Club, Trilogy Gyms, DnG, Sparkes Management Support, JP-PT Personal Trainer, Bespoke Injury Management, Scott Physio, Udo’s Choice, Body Helix, Ashgrove Health Ltd, Stratford Print, Stomp & Spider Grips.
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]]>The WERA opener is always just after the New Year, and nothing gets me through the holidays like the anticipation of the season opener!!
After the opportunity to race at Miami-Homestead with Sean Dwyer and Luie Zendejas; followed closely by Femmewalla at Chuckwalla Valley Raceway; I was lucky to go approximately a month between riding.
Where I wasn’t so lucky was having a crash during the Femmewalla event… ugh… that was just frustrating. It was such a dumb crash… I hadn’t crashed in over 2 years… cold conditions, and a small error on my part resulted in a small tumble.
Thankfully most of the damage was limited to the body work… and my amazing friends helped me to get the bike up and running again, and I was able to ride a considerable amount later in the weekend; sans bodywork.
Femmewalla is an all-girls track day started up by Micky & Aimee Grana, who own and operate Chuckwalla Valley Raceway, near Desert Center, Calif. Femmewalla was brought around by an idea from Aimee, and she opted to make it a charity event where all the proceeds go to the Unforgettables Foundation. This foundations helps parents pay for funeral expenses when their children are taken from them way to early. In the Grana’s case, their young daughter lost her life in a tragic accident. The foundation helped them when they needed it the most, and their story, as told at the riders meeting, was so heartbreaking yet such a positive outcome to the dire situation.
Over 60 ladies showed up to ride – an unbelievable number!! When I started riding, in 2001, there were usually one or two girls at the track – when I say one… I mean me.
I was so thrilled to be out there to meet more ladies, and help encourage girls to ride more and race!!! I met some really cool girls, and got to know more ladies who race the Femmewalla class at the CVMA races.
The event was amazing… Jason Pridmore and Dale Keiffer were offering coaching where all the proceeds went directly to the Unforgettables.
My suspension had just been refreshed by Lenny Albin of Superbike Chassis, LLC; and I had finally scored a kit ECU for my 2006 Yamaha R1; so I was more than stoked to test out my new goodies at the track before the WERA season opener at AutoClub Jan 13th.
Once mid December passes, there are little to no track days available through the crazy holidays.
While I was monitoring the weather closely, my stomach just turned when I saw the predicted temps… highs barely cracking 50 deg F with lows below freezing – dipping to 28 on some nights. Not a great way to start the season. The worst was that the weekend before and the weekend after were 70+ deg!!!
Friday practice went really well, as soon as the track warmed up – well after 10am. A hard lesson I learned towards the end of last season was I needed to invest in some track side assistance from a suspension guy. While Lenny is my guy, and I’m very loyal to him, he is but one man who cannot be in a million places at once… and I’m sure I’m not the only one who wishes we could clone Lenny!
With Lenny’s blessing, I enlisted the help of GP Suspensions’ Barry Wressell for assistance in twiddling my knobs and clickers track side, at AutoClub. Someone to be at the wall just for me… to come to my pit for a debrief, and discuss how we can improve lap times.
I learned this lesson when I seemingly pissed away half the day of practice when one simple change would allow me to go forward.
It is time for me to learn that I can ride a motorcycle… and that when I’m getting passed in the braking zone, or can’t pick up the throttle out of the corners it is more likely to be an issue with my set up than with my riding. While I am not perfect, I need to switch my mindset about myself.
Having Barry to talk to helped me to make huge progress throughout the two days of practice. I was able to get more aggressive, faster, and as I improved by fixing little handling issues, it brought up new ones.
By Saturday late afternoon, I had found a really good set up that I was confident I could put to good use on Sunday.
Practice started at 8am, and it was 30 deg F. I made an executive decision not to practice at all Sunday morning. I had already fallen down once from cold, crappy conditions, and I wasn’t about to go out and degrade my confidence by practicing in bad conditions.
Cousin Matt Buanno (Cousin Matty), had a family emergency, and couldn’t come out to help me this weekend. I enlisted the help of several awesome pals; namely Corey Baum. My races were so close together, and I had some serious rear wheel swaps to perform between each race.
Open (A) Superbike was first, one race break (approx 15 minutes), Open (A) Superstock, one race break, then Women’s Superstock.
I had two rear tires to use between the three races, and immediately following Superbike we had to swap wheels, and haul the used one to CT Racing Pirelli to be flipped for use in Women’s Superstock. Following Superstock, the rear wheel had to be swapped for Women’s Superstock. My pals let me borrow another rear tire warmer, so we could keep the spare rear hot – especially given the horribly cold conditions!
Thankfully my races landed in the prime part of the day for the best temperature/track condition combination. It was approximately 52 deg F when I raced, and the track temperatures were rumored to have barely reached into the 70s.
I rolled out for the warm up lap, and my first time on the track all day Sunday, feeling very confident on my brand new set of Pirelli tires.
The green flag dropped, I got a pretty good start from row 3, but got a bit mobbed in turn 3 and turn 4. I tried to hang on to the mid pack guys, but as the laps counted down – 6 laps total – I was sliding a bit much for having brand new tires. When the front slid, I was beginning to wonder what was going on. As I motored down the front straight I realized I had completely forgot to set my tire pressures… I couldn’t believe it. What a bonehead mistake!!! Cousin Matty has definitely spoiled me!! More importantly, he has allowed me to focus on my riding, rather than my bike. While my pals are awesome, it ultimately lands on me to have my shit together. While I did think of my tire pressures several hours before the race, I just completely forgot… I forgot to set them myself, or to ask one of my pals if they had checked. Ugh… well, at least I hadn’t crashed… yet….
I was so distracted by this stupid mistake, I blew my turn 3 entrance, and another rider got underneath me… ugh…
As I chased him into the horseshoe (turn 5/6), I thought to myself… hold this position, and don’t crash….
We took the white flag the next lap, and another rider showed me a wheel going into turn 5, but I slammed the door on him… I held onto 9th place … out of 16 riders. Given the level of competitors – like 5 current or former AMA riders on my grid – I was pretty stoked to have held my position, be in the top ten, and run 1:36s.
They widened the chicane after turn 9 (the decreasing radius) over the course of the weekend, but it was a little bit more open than back in September. The guys who ran 1:29s in Sept were in the 1:28s this time.
While I got to 36s towards the end of practice on Saturday afternoon, I was pretty excited to finish so well given my tires were 5-8 psi overpressure – we checked when I came in.
I admit, I got incredibly lucky that the fantastic Pirelli guys (Chris Maguire, Corey Neuer, and Dale Kieffer) set them considerably lower than most tires get mounted at. For example, my other new tire (after being on the warmer for a good hour) pegged the needle on the pressure gauge… a pressure gauge that goes to 60 psi!
Tires: Med/Soft – new
Open (A) Superbike: 9th of 16
Best lap: 1:36.6
With a new rear tire, proper tire pressures, and a boosted confidence from finishing so well in Superbike, I was pumped to bring it.
Another good start from row 2 netted me in the top five into turn 3 (turning into the infield). I got a little mobbed as we flipped over for turn 4 and I made the mistake of not taking a defensive line into turn 5, which allowed one more rider past me.
I chased him the entire race!!! I was considerably stronger than him in some areas of the track, but it just wasn’t enough to make a pass happen. Several times I could have tried for a pass, but it would have been a lot more risk than I was willing to take.
I wasn’t sure where I was in the pack, but I knew I wasn’t close to the leaders. The two of us ran down another rider, and I can’t help but think of what I could have done had I not let him pass me….
Coming away from these two races, I have recognized some technical areas that I will be working on. I’ve noticed one particular technique that my competitors are doing profoundly better than I. It gives me the greatest margin for improvement. Getting more aggressive on the throttle.
In the end, I held my 8th place of 16 riders, and when I turned around at the end of the race, I was rather shocked to see who I had finished in front of!
Steve Kidd, a racer from the Pacific Northwest, came down for this event, had a GoPro mounted on his ZX10, and he spent the entire Superstock race chasing me. That made for a pretty cool video… I hadn’t seen myself on video for a long time… all I have to say is… wow!!! My bike is fast!!!! I keep thinking how slow it is – when I’m not able to rocket past other liter bikes, but to see it from that perspective… wow….
Link to Steve’s video! My R1 has the twin tail pipes coming from the tail section, and while I mostly look like a white dot; you can make out my flying braids when he gets close on a few occasions… but for the most part, he follows me almost exclusively in the video. http://m.youtube.com/#/watch?v=IwTuRMMaT3I&desktop_uri=%2Fwatch%3Fv%3DIwTuRMMaT3I
Tires: Med/Soft – 1 race/new
Open (A) Superstock: 8th / 16
Best Lap: 1:34.4
For 2013, I have opted to reduce the number of times I enter Women’s Superstock; especially given its proximity to my Superstock and Superbike. Now that I am running considerably stronger, and the fact that so few women enter the class in the Expert classification, I have decided to run it just enough to win the Championship.
Last year, my Pirelli sponsorship was increased because I was winning the class. It was with Pirelli’s blessing I changed my strategy for 2013. However, Corey asked me to run the Women’s Class in the WERA opener and “smash it”… so that’s what I did =D
Although I was the only entry for Women’s Superstock Expert, I smashed it just as I promised Corey I would. I ran down every single Heavyweight Twins Superbike contender, except the winner, despite their 10 second head start. They had their own green flag, and there were several big Ducatis in the class this time! I used the race to work on some immediate issues I felt needed improvement from the previous races.
While I did slow up to make safe, clean passes on the twins class competitors, I still caught the second place guy on the last lap. While I caught him in turn 6, I followed him until the front straight because a safe, clean pass did not present itself.
Passing him was purely for my ego. So I made a run on him and caught him at the line. While the transponders showed I was technically 0.02s behind him… I still credit myself with beating him
Tires: Med/Soft – 2 races/1 race – flipped
Women’s Superstock: 1st of 1
Best Lap: 1:35.5
Such a Bright 2013… I’ll Need Sunscreen!
While I feel I did not ride my best, I am happy with how I rode given the conditions. I am terrible about the cold… I really struggle. Plus not having Cousin Matty there as my racersitter… I came away from the opener having put myself against a slew of ridiculously fast competitors, and came out strong!!! Mid pack!! I am so thrilled with that!
I am also thrilled to announce that I will be competing with AFM in 2013, namely in the AFemme class, but I will do a few other classes on occasion.
Hold on tight… 2013 is going to be a hell of a wild ride!!!!
Huge thank you to my amazing pals who helped so much over the course of the weekend…. While they affectionately referred to me as the moto princess… they let me share garage pace with them, they jumped into help me when I needed it, and I know I would not have had such a a successful weekend without them…
Corey Baum & his dad, Tim Weig, Mike Castro, Steve Kidd, Josh Kent, and a few guys I didn’t get introduced to.
A very deep gratitude is extended to Thomas of Pirelli/Racer’s Edge for bringing his toy hauler out for myself and a few pals to sleep in for the weekend. Thanks to Thomas, we did not freeze!
Huge thank you to Corey Neuer, Chris Maguire, and Dale Kieffer, of CT Racing Pirelli (and Racer’s Edge – Dale’s extra trailer full of goodies)… They always take really good care of me.
Special thank you to M Racing for supplying my fuel for the weekend!!! Five & Dime Tattoo of Oakland for helping to make this weekend happen!!!
I am also very excited to announce new sponsors for 2013!! Cortech, Valley CrossFit, and Chicken Hawk Racing!!
The following sponsors are who make this weekend – and all my race weekends – possible…
Graves Motorsports (gravesport.com)
Lenny Albin (superbikechassis.com)
Pirelli Tires (CT Racing – ctracetires.com)
M Racing (mracingperformance.com)
Scorpion Helmets (scorpionusa.com)
Five & Dime Tattoo (fiveanddimetattoo.com)
Moonstone Cellars (moonstonecellars.com)
STAR School (starmotorycle.com)
Five-0 Racing (five-0racing.com)
785Graphics (785graphics.com)
Cortech (cortechperformance.com)
Valley CrossFit (valleycrossfit.com)
Chicken Hawk Racing (chickenhawkracing.com)
Vortex Racing (vortexracing.com)
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