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DAYTONA 675 SCOOPS SUPERTEST AND MASTERBIKE AWARDS....AGAIN!

Triumph’s ground breaking Daytona 675 continues its award collecting rout as it scoops both the Supertest and Masterbike awards for the second year running! This is a true testament to the motorcycle as the 2007 bike remains unchanged since its launch in 2006, yet still it saw off all the competition.

The last week in March saw the Daytona 675 maintain the Supertest crown as King of Supersport bikes. The Supertest competition, held at the Almeria track in Spain, was judged by 15 journalists from publications all around the globe. The competition runs back-to-back tests for sports bikes from all the major motorcycle manufacturers. The Triumph Daytona 675 stormed into the top place in the engine flexibility, throttle response, chassis handling, chassis brakes, equipment and price categories, making it the overall winner for the second year on the run.
Straight from the success at Supertest, the Daytona 675 secured yet another “Best Supersport” title at the Masterbike test in Jerez, Spain. Masterbike is an independent track-test for sports bikes organised by Motociclismo, the best-selling bike magazine in Spain, with a judging panel comprised of 16 international motorcycle magazines. The Masterbike test is considered one of the most important and influential magazine tests due to its impartiality and fairness. The Triumph Daytona 675 continued its reign as the best Supersport bike, beating the second placed Honda CBR600RR, new for 2007, by a significant margin.
Simon Warburton, Product Manager at Triumph Motorcycles Limited, commented: “Winning both Masterbike and Supertest for two years running is a brilliant achievement for Triumph and shows that we are now a force to be reckoned with in the Supersports market. We look forward to continued success for the Daytona 675.”

The Triumph Tiger 1050, the most recent addition to the 2007 range, has also started to reap magazine test awards. Motorrad, the most influential magazine in Germany, and probably the world’s most objective motorcycle magazine, awarded the Tiger 1050 the top spot in their travel enduro test, which saw the Tiger pitched against the BMW GS, the KTM 990 Adventure, the Suzuki V-Strom 1000 and the Honda Varadero 1000. Beating the GS is a formidable achievement as the BMW has dominated the category for many years.
The Tiger 1050’s success continues across the Atlantic, where it has just won the Best Sport-Standard class in Rider’s 2007 Motorcycle of the Year awards program, while back in the UK, the Tiger 1050 won Motorcycle Sport and Leisure’s (MSL) ‘Tall-Rounders’ test, beating the KTM 950 and the Ducati Multistrada. MSL summed up the Tiger’s award-winning performance perfectly when they concluded that the Tiger 1050 is ‘pretty damned good at absolutely everything’.

Follow these links to see the press reviews on our Open House, Saturday January 13th, 2007" Okanagan Racing and One Wheel Drive

BMW Motorrad wins National Canadian Thunder Championship

BMW rider Michael Taylor’s victory at the Canadian Thunder Championship at Shannonville Motorsport Park on 2 September helped secure the first championship title for the BMW Motorrad Canada racing team, as well as the first National championship worldwide for the R 1200 S.

The win gave Taylor 293 points for the season – 24 points more than second-placed Buell rider Michael Leon. Taylor’s team-mate Michael Ferreira also had a successful debut year with BMW Motorrad Canada, earning 190 points and sixth place overall in the series.

The BMW Motorrad Canada race team came into the final round of the Canadian Thunder Championship in second place, five points adrift of the championship leader, but highly energized from their victory in the previous round.

The final round took place at the ‘birthplace of champions’ – Shannonville Motorsport Park – located east of Toronto. SMP is a multi-use facility that boasts four different racetrack layouts with BMW competing on the 1.5-mile PRO Track formation – a configuration highly suited to the BMW R 1200 S race bikes and the “two Michaels”.

Qualifying on Saturday produced a competitive scenario that has become commonplace in Canadian Thunder racing with seven riders less than a second apart and all battling for the extra four championship points available for the pole position time.

Michael Ferreira quickly set the pace in qualifying, breaking the course record and sitting in first place after just four laps. Remaining in the pits to see if another rider could beat the early pace he’d set, Ferreira waited for another 15 minutes before the other riders could even come close to matching his pace. And during a frenetic final two minutes in timed qualifying, BMW team riders Taylor and Ferreira swapped the pole position with American Dave Estok on a Buell.

As time expired, Michael Taylor was the final rider to cross the line with the hottest lap of the day, which put him on pole position and established a new lap record for the Thunder class. Dave Estok on the Buell was second, closely followed by Michael Ferreira in third, and beside him on the grid was the reigning champion Darren James on the other Buell. Two BMWs and two Buells had secured the front row for the final race of the season but most importantly, Taylor had moved to within one point of the championship lead.

The weather was beautiful for race day, with sunny clear blue skies, low humidity and temperatures in the low to mid twenties – perfect conditions for racing air-cooled twins! With no rain forecast, the final round enjoyed full grandstands, loyal race fans looking for poster autographs, and a championship waiting to be decided.

As the lights went green, another great start from Michael Ferreira saw him take the lead over his team-mate Michael Taylor in second place. With Taylor thinking of the title he quickly settled into a comfortable fourth place spot by the end of the first lap while Ferreira was charging at the front.

Still in the title hunt, reigning champion Darren James engaged Ferreira in a battle for the lead until an incident on lap four took James out of the race. Word quickly came down from race officials that Michael Ferreira would be penalized for a jump-start. A four-position penalty was accessed and shown to Ferreira who then started to fade as the race went on.

Michael Taylor, still close to the front, was running at a consistent pace and reeling in the leaders. By Lap 10 Taylor took the lead from Dave Estok and from that point, never looked back, continuing on to take his fourth win of the season and the National Canadian Thunder #1 plate for 2008.

This championship was history in the making as it is the first national championship for the R 1200 S, the first championship for BMW Motorrad Canada, and the first championship in Canadian Thunder to a non-Buell rider. And new champion Michael Taylor had yet another reason to celebrate as he also took delivery of a new R 1200 RT – his machine of choice as a reward for winning the championship.

MotoGP Race Results - GP of Japan
Posted on September 23 2007 in GP of Japan and MotoGP Results |
1. Loris Capirossi ITA Ducati 25 points
2. Randy De Puniet FRA Kawasaki 20 points
3. Toni Elias SPA Honda 16 points
4. Sylvain Guintoli FRA Yamaha 13 points
5. Marco Melandri ITA Honda 11 points
6. Casey Stoner AUS Ducati 10 points
7. Anthony West AUS Kawasaki 9 points
8. Alex Barros BRA Ducati 8 points
9. Nicky Hayden USA Honda 7 points
10. John Hopkins USA Suzuki 6 points
11. Chris Vermeulen AUS Suzuki 5 points
12. Makoto Tamada JPN Yamaha 4 points
13. Valentino Rossi ITA Yamaha 3 points
14. Colin Edwards USA Yamaha 2 points
15. Shinichi Ito JPN Ducati 1 point
16. Shinya Nakano JPN Honda -
17. Akira Yanagawa JPN Kawasaki -
18. Carlos Checa SPA Honda

Casey Stoner has clinched the MotoGP world title at the Japanese GP in Motegi. The Australian Ducati rider finished in 6th position, but it was more than enough as main rival Valentino Rossi slipped down to 13th position with bike problems.
The MotoGP race started out as a wet race, but as the race progressed the track started to dry up. Wet race specialist Anthony West had a flying start and took the lead early in the race, but lost his first position due to a false start. The Australian Kawasaki rider had to come in for a drive through penalty.
It was then that Casey Stoner and Dani Pedrosa opened up a gap over their competition. Valentino Rossi who started from 2nd position on the grid fell back to 8th position but bridged the enormous gap with the race leaders in no time.

As the track started to dry up it was all about tactics. Loris Capirossi was one of the first riders to come into the pit to change his bike and the gamble paid off. The early bike changed meant that the riders with slick tyres went almost four to five seconds faster per lap than the riders on wet tyres. The bike changing completely flipped the field upside down.

Valentino Rossi who was leading the race until he changed his bike, came back on track in 2nd position. It was the start of another tyre problem filled second part of the race for the Italian Yamaha rider. The front of his bike was tucking whenever he came into a corner and the Doctor even had a detour off track. He slipped back to 15th position but managed to salvage a few more points when he moved up to 13th position.

His championship rival Dani Pedrosa crashed out of the race in lap 14.
Loris Capirossi’s early move paid off; the Italian Ducati rider had a very comfortable lead in the race and was once again victorious in Japan. Randy De Puniet finished in second position ahead of Toni Elias who won the battle for 3rd position from Sylvain Guintoli. Marco Melandri finished in 5th position ahead of Casey Stoner who could cruise to the finish line to clinch the MotoGP world title.