MORE Afternoon Moto News - Speed Dating & Dunlop Supports CSC

Road Racer X's Speed Dating column comes to us again...and I missed it earlier this week. Well, along with myself, Joe Petrali, Randy Krummenacher, Nicky Wimbauer, Takuma Aoki, Joey Dunlop, Toriano Wilson, Alex de Angelis, Joan Lascorz Moreno, Colin Edwards, Jorg Teuchert and Terry Rymer are all celebrating birthdays from this past week. Funny, Edwards and I share the same birthday and we were both born in Texas - but I am no MotoGP racer yet, why? Also, Triumph returned to racing during this week in 2003 in the British Supersport Championship.

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The California State Championships (CSC) will now be supported by the Dunlop Motorcycle Tire company. It's a good thing for the three round series in this still bad economy...and they are quite pleased with how it has worked out so far. For more detail, please take the link.

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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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