| Wednesday News from AMASuperbike.com |
| So
the very unconfirmed word from a gent who rapped with Sir Carl at the big
MCN banquet the other night in London has it that the reason Corser lost
his job is because he failed to deliver the number two plate to Ducati
this season and rode, they felt, rather lackluster at Sugo. Carl was out
there diving in on the the Japanese mad-men while Troy played it cool and
finished third in the championship. Some people felt that was not what
he should have been doing. Those people also thought Troy should find another
place to park his buttocks next season. Harsh, eh?
And where will that be? Maybe Aprilia. Earlier this week the way it sounded, the 2000 Aprilia team will be Pete Goddard and Chris Walker. Now with Corser available, it sounds like Goddard and Corser, or maybe just Corser. Other teams have got to be looking at their rider rosters and thinking, 'Why in the devil do we have Guareschi/Fujiwara/Slight/ on our team when we could have Corser?' There's a private Yamaha team that has been promised an R7 for WSC next season and they may end up with a big gun (94 AMA champion Corser) to ride their bike. This is how teams are made. There were unconfirmed sightings of the new Buell single last weekend at the PACE/CCS races in Daytona Beach. Terry Vance was asked for comment on the Gobert vs VHR legal matter yesterday and he replied, "No comment, no comment at all." The sum in question, according to insiders, is a cool hundred grand. EBC brakes has a new site up. We are officially out of AMASuperbike.com/PID T-shirts at the moment and will re-order soon. If you ordered via our secure server and got an Email confirming that your order had been sent, it has. If not, you've been backordered. Gobert will sign with MuZ this weekend in South America if all goes as planned. Steve Rapp was said to be playing hard
to get with the Vance and Hines Ducati team for a short while last week,
but now someone waved smelling salts under his nose and he's ready to sign.
Rapp presumably realized:
AMASuperbike.com is trying to reach photographer
John Owens, who shot images on the east coast and in England in the seventies
and early 1980s. Know where he's at? Email
us. -- Dean Adams
Lastly, is print dead? Opinions
differ. But when Excite
pays $780 million dollars for an on-line greeting card site started
in an attic on little more than a whim, AND DOESN'T EVEN BOTHER BUYING
THE ACTUAL GREETING CARD BUSINESS, it really makes you wonder, eh?
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