Road Racer X's Speed Dating & Morais Filling In for Parkes

For this week of March we have a number of important dates in the weekly Road Racer X Speed Dating column. Celebrating birthdays this week are Danny Webb, Andrea Dovizioso, Roberto Rolfo, Al Ludington, Steve McQueen, Keiichi Kitagawa, Raffaele De Rosa, Harald Eckl, Chris Walker, Burt Munro, Sebastien Charpentier, Toni Elias, Christian Sarron, Bill Bagnall, and Katsuaki Fujuwara. Unfortunately, it is also the anniversary of the death of Mike Hailwood...Please take the link to learn more...

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In the World Superbike Championship series, Echo CRS Honda rider Broc Parkes sustained a broken leg in a preseason training injury and had to give up his seat to Josh Brookes at Phillip Island. For the Portimao round (and, quite possibly for Valencia as well), the faster Sheridan Morais will be substituting for Parkes on the Honda. Morais has been able to out-ride Parkes before, so this may be the beginning of something or just a quick trip to the majors for Morais...

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MotoGP: 2009 Valencia 125GP Results

Well, the 2009 champion, Julian Simon, took victory in front of his home crowd today at Valencia. His teammate - and up and coming racer - Bradley Smith pulled in just two-tenths of a second behind Simon, with Pol Espargaro rounding out the podium. We have certainly seen where the sport may go next year with the late charges of Smith and Espargaro - you won't want to miss 2010!

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Britain Danny Webb just can't catch break - or can he? He further damaged his feet during practice at Valencia and could not take part in the race today: http://tinyurl.com/yg2486f

Danny Webb Has Signed with Aprilia for 2010 125 World Championship

Webb will ride in the seat once occupied by Nicolas Terol (who will join Aspar Aprilia in 2010) on the Jack & Jones Aprilia team in the 2010 125c.c. World Championship series. He had a problem getting sponsorship money, but that seems to have gone away as they just announced the deal.

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Blake Leigh-Smith to Get Wildcard Ride at Malaysian Grand Prix

He is the Australian 125GP Champion and now Leigh-Smith will get to ride on an Aprilia 125 with the Molenaar De Graaf World 125 GP team. His teammates will be Danny Webb and Randy Krumenacher. Currently, Leigh-Smith is running in the ultra-competitive Spanish 125c.c. Championship. It should be a good test for him to race against the world's best!

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British Trio Live American Dream at Indy GP

Bradley Smith, Scott Redding, and Danny Webb - all British riders in the FIM Championships - will get to ride in the Indianapolis Grand Prix this weekend in the USA. They are all looking forward to their arrival in the USA.

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