New Zealand Tri-Series Manfield Results

Not much news floating around the Internet recently - must be the holidays. We do, however, have some results from the first event in the New Zealand Tri-Series, which took place this past Saturday at Manfield. Seems that Craig Shirriffs and his teammate, Hayden Fitzgerald, dominated the event on their Castrol Honda CBR1000RRs - both placed first and second in the F1 Superbike class. Suzuki GSX-R1000 mounted Ray Clee rounded out the podium. For the rest of the days results, take the link. The next round will be on 26 December 2009 at Wanganui Cemetery Circuit.

http://tinyurl.com/ykrevto

And, even more on the event and series; Italian riders are making things much more interesting in the New Zealand Tri-Series.

http://tinyurl.com/yk9kcqq

Motorcycle Road Racing is Gaining Popularity in the Philippines

Yesterday we saw that a Filipino man won the Castrol Mechanic Challenge and had the fortune to win a chance to work with a MotoGP team in Malaysia. Today we get a report on the fact that motorcycle road racing is getting ever more popular in the island nation. They recently had 95 entries for a Grand Prix held at the Carmona Circuit Philippines in Cavite. Check it out!

http://tinyurl.com/yfktjxu

Filipino Marlou Acedera Won ASEAN Mechanic Contest 2009

I say won, because it actually happened earlier this year, but it was only today that something was written about it in the press (at least that I could find). It turns out that this mechanic is a very soft spoken man, but he did win the chance to work with the Castrol-sponsored San Carlo Gresini Honda team at the Sepang MotoGP round - he had a great time! Acedera is going to be a great mechanic, but he is already the best one in Asia!

http://tinyurl.com/yeppq8f