National Motorcycle News

[Mach24]

1 Wayne MAXWELL Oleon Motologic Racing Honda
2 Glenn ALLERTON Oleon Motologic Racing Honda
3 Joshua WATERS Team Joe Rocket Suzuki
4 Robert BUGDEN Team Joe Rocket Suzuki
5 Shawn GILES Team Joe Rocket Suzuki
6 Craig COXHELL CJC Racing / Bisley Workwear P Honda
7 Jamie STAUFFER Yamaha Racing Team
8 Daniel STAUFFER Yamaha Racing Team
9 Kevin CURTAIN Kawasaki Racing Team
10 Grant HAY Shock Treatment / Big Kahuna Racing / Jones XL P Yamaha

[Mach24]

1 Glenn ALLERTON 217
2 Joshua WATERS 206
3 Wayne MAXWELL 198
4 Shawn GILES 165
5 Robert BUGDEN 154
6 Craig COXHELL 146
7 Jamie STAUFFER 135
8 Daniel STAUFFER 126
9 Kevin CURTAIN 116
10 Chris TROUNSON 87

[Rod Richardson]

I listened to the audio broadcast of race 2 of the Superbikes available each raceday on the Woodstock site asbk.com.au and tried to copy and paste results to the forum but couldn't do it for some unknown reason.

Article from the site..............
"Oleon Oils Team Motologic Honda rider Wayne Maxwell moved to within 19pts of the championship lead when took a clean sweep of both Superbike races at the fifth round of the Woodstock Bourbon Australian Superbike Championship at South Australia's Mallala Motorsport Park this afternoon.
Maxwell was in scintillating form, powering to a 0.291sec win over Team Motologic teammate Glenn Allerton in the opening 20-lap race and then backing up with a 2.477sec win in race two, again over teammate Allerton.
Reigning Australian Superbike champion Allerton maintained his overall points lead in the seven-round series with his two second placings, but had no answer to the hard-charging Maxwell around the 2.6km Mallala circuit this afternoon.
Team Joe Rocket Suzuki rider Josh Waters was third in both races, but the 22-year-old saw his opportunity of a victory in race two snatched from his grasp on the penultimate lap when a two-dollar bolt broke, leaving his Suzuki GSX-R1000 stuck in second gear.
Waters was able to hold on to third place in the race and second overall on the points table, courtesy of his Team Joe Rocket Suzuki teammates Robbie Bugden and Shawn Giles who both slowed down on the final lap to avoid passing Waters' stricken Suzuki."


A dead-set shame for Waters whose gearshift was hanging off throughout the last lap.

[Mach24]

A dead-set shame for Waters whose gearshift was hanging off throughout the last lap.

The racing was world class on Sunday. Josh Waters is 22, in his first season of Superbike and in with a real shot of winning the title. Had the gear shift not broken he was going to give it one hell of a shot at Maxwell.

It would be fantastic if Kawasaki ran a second Superbike again as in previous years for a young rider. Kev Curtain would be a great mentor to a young gun.

Mallala is a great viewing track, I sat in the stand on the flat-out right hand sweeper, the Supers cranked over at 230km/h about 30 meters infront of me and could see the whole track from my vantage point.

A 14 year old, Jack Miller won the last 125GP race, Aaron Morris (Son of two time Aust SS Champion Greame) won his first race in 600 Superstock. Bryan Staring held his championship lead in SSport and looks to be coming of age. Pat Medcalf is dominating 1000 Superstock. The future looks bright for Aussie bike racing.

[Mach24]

Karl Harris has been shown the door at Hydrex, effective immediately!

[patnicholls]

Ah, I was wondering what had happened to Craig Coxhell who came over to BSB a couple of years ago and did a decent job with a small team. And Kevin Curtain still going too, he's getting on a bit now isn't he?

Mind you, Jeremy McWilliams is still at it, now racing in Germany for KTM at 45 years of age...

[NinjaMaster]

Craig 'Cannonball' Coxhell is currently the leading privateer in the Australian Superbike class. He was shown the door by Suzuki to elevate Josh Waters (currently second in the title) and there was rumour of Craig joining Kawasaki but that ride went to Curtain so Coxhell was forced to start his own team riding a Honda and he's currently making a pretty good fist of things. Woulda loved him on a green bike.

[Wim_Impreza]

This weekend were the Dutch Superbikes, Supersport and 125cc championships at Assen.

Superbikes:
1 Peter Politiek (Suzuki) 14 laps in 24'10"568
2 Bob Withag (Yamaha) +0"033
3 Joan Veijer (Honda) +7"777
4 Peter Schalken (Yamaha) +8'892
5 Allard Kerkhoven (Yamaha) +9"328
6 Sepp Vermonden (B / Honda) +17'370
7 Ferry van Rijn (Suzuki) +31'045"
8 Bertus Folkertsma (Suzuki) +31"909
9 Wesley van Nieuwenhuizen (Yamaha) +31"938
10 Bas Winkel (Honda) +32"009

Australian rider Gareth Jones crashed early in the race, but is the Dutch Superbike Champion 2009. His closest rival for the title Schouten is concentrating on the next 3 rounds of the FIM Superstock 1000 Championship and didn't took part. Harry van Beek with the MV Agusta didn't start the race due to an oil leak. Ghisbert van Ginhoven retired with technical problems on his Ducati. With only one round to go, it is close for the 3rd place in the championship.

Standings:
1 Gareth Jones (AUS / Yamaha) 197 points
2 Raymond Schouten (NL / Yamaha) 170
3 Sepp Vermonden (B / Honda) 99
4 Peter Schalken (NL / Yamaha) 93
5 Bob Withag (NL / Yamaha) 89
6 Allard Kerkhoven (NL / Yamaha) 89

Supersport:
1 Ronald ter Braake (Honda) 14 laps in 24'23"668
2 Marcel van Nieuwenhuizen (Yamaha) +0"222
3 Roy ten Napel (Honda) +3"216
4 Stuart Voskamp (Honda) +10"993
5 Nelson Rolfes (Honda) +14"488
6 Hugo van den Berg (Honda) +14"780
7 Nigel Walraven (Suzuki) +20"002
8 Jos van der Aa (Yamaha) +23"549
9 Joop Timmer (Yamaha) +28"237
10 Twan van Poppel (Yamaha) +30"445

Standings:
1 Roy ten Napel (Honda) 178 points
2 Marcel van Nieuwenhuizen (Yamaha) 132
3 Swen Ahnendorp (Yamaha) 122
4 Ronald ter Braake (Honda) 89
5 Kevin van Leuven (Yamaha) 87

Roy ten Napel is the Dutch Supersport Champion 2009. Ahnendorp retired in the race.

125cc:
1 Marvin Fritz (D / Honda)
2 Michael van der Mark (Honda) +0"09
3 Ernst Dubbink (Honda)
4 Roy Pouw (Aprilia)
5 Alexander Kristiansson (S / Honda)
6 Kevin Valk (Honda)

Standings:
1 Michael van der Mark (Honda) 120
2 Kevin Valk (Honda) 102
3 Marvin Fritz (D / Honda) 70
4 Alexander Kristiansson (S / Honda) 66
5 Roy Pouw (Aprilia) 56

Michael van der Mark is close to the title with only one race to go, again in Assen.

[NinjaMaster]

And the GFC has started really kicking in for some national series with American Honda pulling out of AMA road racing next year and Kawasaki Australia doing likewise over here. The uncertain future of each series also played a part.

[gco0307]

And the GFC has started really kicking in for some national series with American Honda pulling out of AMA road racing next year and Kawasaki Australia doing likewise over here. The uncertain future of each series also played a part.

Kawasaki will not be the last to withdraw from the ASBK for 2010 if the words of one of the competitors to me on Saturday come to reality.

He clearly stated that all but one of the manufacturers would be withdrawing, although the reasons may be hidden somewhat by the GFC





Gaz