Sunday Morning Moto News - Gulf Bike Expo, AMA Team Sponsorship & Husaberg

Over in the UAE, the Gulf Bike Festival started last Thursday and Mohammed Ben Sulayem, FIA Vice President and President of the Automobile and Touring Club of the UAE (ATCUAE), also announced two more motorcycle models which will be sold in the Gulf Coast nation this year. They presented models from BMW, Kawasaki and Honda, which have never been sold in the UAE previously. The show goes through the weekend and will attract thousands of attendees.

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Two AMA Pro Racing teams have just signed sponsorship deals this past week. First up is Crozier Roberson Motorsports has signed with DNA Beverage Corp for the 2010 season. They will field two Duacti 848 bikes in the DMG/AMA Pro Racing Daytona SportBike class. In American Superbike, the Jordan Motorsports team has signed another agreement to use Chicken Hawk Racing products in their garage.

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Husaberg's riders in the 6th annual Hell's Gate event in Italy - the toughest one-day extreme off-road event in the world - took on some heavy competition. Xavi Galindo and Alessandro Botturi rode in the main event for the Husaberg Factory team, with Galindo finishing in sixth and Botturi crashed hard and could not finish. Another Husaberg rider, Erich Brandauer, managed to come home in 29th position.

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Triumph's Daytona 675 Wins AMA Moto-GT1 Class

Crozier Motorsports has taken two wins and three second places on their way to taking the Triumph-owned Daytona 675 to the championship in the AMA Moto-GT1 class. They had a second place finish to the 2007 season and then only ran select races in 2008. But, this year they managed to take it all the way to the top!

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More VIR Results from Sunday, August 16, 2009

Triumph fans should like this result in AMA Pro Moto-GT. I know I am - that 675 triple of theirs is a great motorcycle.

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From Race 2 of the Daytona SportBike event at VIR, we saw Josh Herrin take a double! We all knew this young upstart would shine.

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