Thursday News

Mick Doohan is in Japan today talking to HRC execs about his future in racing. Try this scenario on for size: Doohan retires, Colin Edwards gets the call to replace him in Grand Prix and Troy Corser joins Honda's World Superbike team. Fantasy? Perhaps.

Cliff Nobles is looking for a 98-99 Yamaha YZF-R1 racebike preferably located south of the Macon  County Line. E-mail him here if you have one for sale.

Larry Pegram has an offer from a World Supersport team to ride in Europe next year and it is thought that the former Yoshimura and Ferracci Ducati rider is thinking about abandoning the AMA series for a year and instead do a season in the old country.

Four time world champion and living legend Eddie Lawson has sold his home in California and now lives full-time in Arizona, in his palatial abode on the Colorado River. Lawson lived for more than 20 years in Upland, California, and since 1993 or so he has kept homes in both Upland and Lake Havasu.

Former Sport Rider magazine editor and probably the fastest motojournalist in North America, Nick Ienatsch, chimed in with a phone call to AMASuperbike.com regarding the Quokka television commercial which features four stroke Superbike sounds over video of Grand Prix bikes. Ienatsch stated, "It was a little mistake; and hopefully people realize that Quokka is really working hard to push GP racing in front of a lot of people that normally wouldn't see it. We're all working really hard and sometimes things happen that you can't go back and change.  I don't think you'll see that in the next commercial."

Former Vance and Hines Ducati Ben Bostrom might test an F1 car next week when he is in Europe. Details are still being worked out.

More after I make some calls.