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Club Racing in Spain
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the text below appeared from a guy on a UK racing mailing list I'm on.
I can't commment on the content, but thought it worth bringing to this
audience as a indicator of how big bike racing is in Spain.
"Ever wondered why there are so many world class spanish riders??
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Hmm, let me think about that for , well, let's say .005 secs. NO, because
there aren't "so many"...
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I went to a race meeting at the weekend with a local spanish team,
they come from a small town in Andalusia and almost every business in
town sponsors them with whatever they can
The team consisted of 6 riders all in matching leathers and matching
liveried bikes the youngest kid aged 9 raced in the minimoto class,
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Were they all midgets?
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Old school:
Sete Gibernau 154 lbs
Carlos Checa 152 lbs
Jose Cardoso 161 lbs
New school:
Toni Elias 125 lbs
Dani Pedrosa 112 lbs
Jorge Lorenzo 121 lbs
Hector Barbera 117 lbs
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Go fast. Take chances.
Mike S.
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No but they were all euromed conspiracy, ham eating, surrender monkeys.
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How do you recognize a surrender monkey?
They give you their banana before you draw your gun.
Go fast. Take chances.
Mike S.
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then they had a 13 year old on a 125 a 15 year old (girl) on a 250,
then a 600, a gsxr1000 and a ZX 10 for the older riders. All the
older riders freely gave advice to the kids and even the youngest was
able to go out in practice and come in and explain exactly what the
bike was doing and what he's like changed.
This team wasn't unique there were quite a few similar teams there."
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So what's going to happen to the 4 Brits and 3 Americans in the Red Bull
Academy? And what's going to happen to Bradley Smith?
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Hopefully it'll be onwards and upwards for the wee guy ....
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