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As many of you know, I have been deployed to Cuba and away from racing for the last 4 months. Actually, I haven't gone any faster than 30 miles per hour since landing on that gawd-for-saken island. But I took a week and a half of leave, went to Vegas...

(photos by Miguel "Kidhornet" Santos)   This year I have a small goal. To participate in the endurance race in October, if all things go well. So, when I heard about DragRacingShow holding the first trackday of the year in the Estoril circuit,...

I was still numb when I woke up. It didn't seem real. I had been invited to test ride a World Supersport CBR 600 RR, and now I was just about to take a shower, grab something to eat for breakfast, get geared up and be on my...

How I missed it all.   The anticipation, the anxiety, the adrenalin, the team effort, the fun, the overtakings, the pushing it just a bit more, the sweat, the pain, the finish line, the aches the next day. I really missed the endurance races that...

I raced for 3 years in Endurance Racing. It was a team composed of me and two other friends riding, and another group of friends helpig out as the pit crew. I stopped racing when I spent almost 3 weeks in hospital with a pneumothorax (just happens,...

Update: A friend (Sergio) lended me a tape that he shot from the track side during that day (his SP1 had some problems) and I managed to find a couple of seconds of film where I'm seen going by. (you'll need the XVid codec installed) Yesterday...

After two sessions riding on the track during the last DragRacingShow trackday, I took the camcorder from the tank and walked around the circuit as a true insider, getting some action on tape, but also part of the backstage of this type of event in the...

Yesterday (sunday) I was present at another DragRacingShowtrackday at the Estoril circuit (where else...). The day started with a cloudy sky and damp conditions, and once we started rolling, there were a couple of corners with some water patches. But...

Willow Springs Motorcycle Club Round 6 – June 18-19, 2006-06-20   Location: Willow Springs Raceway, Rosamond, California Conditions - Sunny Temp: 105 degrees F / 41 degrees C Track Temp: 138 degrees F / 59 degrees C Wind: Windy 40mph with...

In a somewhat unprecedented initiative, BMW Portugal organized a public test-drive of their new F800S bike in the Estoril circuit. Naturally, faced with the possibility of free track time (although surely at a controlled pace), I grabbed the chance immediatelly....

Here I am, after another track day at the Estoril racetrack. This time, it was a DragRacingShow organized track day, which is not my favorite organizer for this type of events. The fact that they had a great price made me go for it - 50 Euros for...

I was at a track day this past sunday in the Estoril track, organized by Speedfreaks. The curious thing is that the track day would be on the sunday afternoon of a race week-end. Altough some delays in the races also meant a delay in the track...

Track: Willow Springs racewayDate: April 15-16, 2006Tires: Michelin PRC front, PR4 rearWeather: 58 degrees F, partly cloudy, very windy This was the start of the Solo series, which is a 20 lap/30 minute race on Saturday afternoon. I got to the track...

Track: Willow Springs racewayDate: March 19, 2006Tires: Michelin PRC front, PR4 rearWeather: 58 degrees F, partly cloudy, windy Saturday: I spent the morning getting the 06 R6 ready by doing a dyno run and taking off the stock tires and mounting up the...

It's that time of the year. The Jerez de La Frontera MotoGP event is next week-end. For those of you who have just watched on TV, you have absolutely no idea of what this week-end is like. Not even close ! I'll try to explain, even though you have...

I happened to be thinking about last WSBK race. Production based motorcycles with some modifications, putting out 200-210 hp racing in almost perfect conditions with slick tires. As many of you noticed, the Pirelli tires were struggling (understatement?)...

Today there has been a lot of talking about how Alonso teased Rossi by saying he'd be at the podium if he was given time and a MotoGP bike to practice on, and how Rossi challenged Alonso for a go . Now, is it just me, or are we seeing all this because...

I have a friend, Miguel Santos, who has a great hobby that I enjoy as well, but I'll never be as good as it as he is, specially taking into consideration the passion and effort he puts into it: sports photography. When I was racing, I noticed that...

The sheer sarcasm that I usually use at work when I say "There's some good news, and some BAD news" always makes the person on the other side a bit scared of what's coming next. If you read my previous post, I was about NOT to attend a track day that...

  It's 7:40 AM as I write this in my living-room after taking a shower and getting dressed, waiting for my wife to do the same. I have been anticipating the first track day of the year with great expectation. I have been working long hours, I bought...

Some of you are aware of my tremendous battle with my bike's battery. To make a long story short, my bike ran out of battery sometime last October, and it's been in the garage ever since. I exchanged the previous battery for a new one, but never got...

Next week-end there will be a track day on the Estoril track, organized by Motor Clube do Estoril (aka SpeedFreaks). 3 sessions for 110 Euros, a normal value for this type of events. There will be cars and bikes sessions, but not at the same time...

There's currently a lot of talks comparing MotoGP to World Superbikes, since both series are undergoing some changes. To those that have trouble understanding what's so different about these two championships, just keep in mind that in MotoGP the bikes...

I never was a big fan of dark tinted or mirrored visors. I always like to see where I'm going, and looking cool is second to my safety and pleasure of riding. Riding on the street, it is enough to put on a pair of Arnette sunglasses when the sun shines...

After running on the Beta3 version of http://communityserver.org/ for a month or so, we have now upgraded to the final version. After the upgrade the PM notification stopped working, because it's a third-party add-on made by Rich Mercer, a great...