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Biking Iceland
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Road tests from Visordown.com
R1200GS v Bandit 1200 v Sprint ST v FZ1
CB600 v FZ6
Duc v GSX v Triumph
Hmmm, is this a multi test model which could be used in ON?
Honda ST1100 v ST1300
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REVIEW: HJC Sy-Max II
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MotoGP 2008: Le Mans Results
BMW PressClub: Germany
BMW is looking for the best Enduro riders from five countries.
16.05.2008
Munich. BMW writes the first time the international GS Trophy. These are all called gel?ñndetauglichen driver of a BMW motorcycle, their ability to professionally prepared routes want to measure. The regulations are based directly on the concept of the BMW GS family: safety and reliability, manageability and driving pleasure on any terrain. The focus is therefore not speed or risk but skill, sporting challenge and fahrerische intelligence. With this competition, BMW motorcycle riders committed a unique opportunity to deal with their individual skills and the extensive possibilities of the BMW terrain engine.
The starter, the GS-Trophy qualify in national preliminary. This invites GS-BMW driver in Germany, Italy, Spain, Japan and the U.S. to their own excrement. In Germany, BMW directed to the GS-Challenge in Enduro Park Hechlingen, to the maximum of 200 BMW drivers can participate. Where appropriate, chosen at random. Three routes in different degrees of difficulty have the BMW experts prepared, both amateur riders without sporting experience, as well as trained hands according to their abilities a fair chance.
The GS Challenge starts on 1 August 2008 and goes through two test days. Based on the results of special inspections on the first Fahrtag the best participant, on the second day of the final contest. This event takes place on uniform, of motorcycles and in the knock-evaluated. The three best drivers invites the international BMW GS Trophy to Tunisia, where they are on the winners of the other nations. It expects a desert route, which they specially prepared by BMW's BMW F 800 GS cope.
Of course, no participant of the German GS Challenge with home empty-handed. Participation in the GS-Challenge costs 250th - Euro. Interested parties can apply from June in the Internet in a special page of BMW-Motorrad.de register.
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World champion Priaulx scores podium finish for BMW in Valencia.
05-18-2008 Press Release
Valencia, 18th May 2008. Andy Priaulx (GB) of BMW Team UK claimed his second podium result in this yearÔÇÖs FIA World Touring Car Championship. At ValenciaÔÇÖs ÔÇ£Circuit de la ComunitatÔÇØ he finished third in the sixth round of the season. In the first race of the day the reigning World Champion finished seventh. BMW Team Germany driver J?Ârg M??ller (DE) also collected points at what was the seriesÔÇÖ maiden event on European soil in 2008. His team-mate Augusto Farfus (BR) and BMW Team Italy-SpainÔÇÖs Alessandro Zanardi (IT) and F?®lix Porteiro (ES), however, failed to make it into the top-eight in either race. Victory in the two sprint races at the 4.005-kilometre track went to ChevroletÔÇÖs Robert Huff (GB) and Alain Menu (CH).
In the DriversÔÇÖ Championship, Priaulx now has 22 points under his belt and ranks fifth as the best-placed BMW driver. M??ller follows in sixth with 20 points. With a points tally of 59, BMW currently lies in third place in the manufacturersÔÇÖ classification.
Andy Priaulx (BMW Team UK):
ÔÇ£All in all a good weekend for me. The whole of race one was a really big scrap for me. But I come here to win races and championships and I think I got the best out of the weekend I could possibly expect. My target was seven points, so to get one more than I thought I was able to get was great.ÔÇØ
J?Ârg M??ller (BMW Team Germany):
ÔÇ£My fastest lap in race one shows how competitive my car was today. Probably I could have gone even faster, but itÔÇÖs just really difficult to overtake these SEAT diesels. In the second race I made a good start, but later had to let Robert Huff pass. But the most important fact is I scored solid points after the Puebla wash-out.ÔÇØ
Augusto Farfus (BMW Team Germany):
ÔÇ£I just want to leave this weekend behind me as quickly as possible. We had a fantastic package, the performance was great, but IÔÇÖm still leaving Valencia empty-handed. My chase in race two turned out to be in vain.ÔÇØ
F?®lix Porteiro (BMW Team Italy-Spain):
ÔÇ£I certainly had different hopes for my home event in Spain. At the beginning of the first race I was hit by another car and a wheel-rim broke. Pit stops cost a lot of time in WTCC, so I had to bid farewell to my ambition to score points. At least I was able to entertain the fans with lots of overtaking manoeuvres in race two.ÔÇØ
Alessandro Zanardi (BMW Team Italy-Spain):
ÔÇ£I might leave Valencia without any points under my belt, but I go home with some positive feedback. We have a good race performance, and I only need to be more consistent in qualifying. Today I just suffered another dose of bad luck.ÔÇØ
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IN THE TIRE TRACKS OF A LEGEND: BMW 328 AT THE 2008 MILLE MIGLIA
05/15/2008
Munich/Brescia. It was 70 years ago that BMW first entered its 328 model in the Mille Miglia. For this year's anniversary appearance, BMW will be following the historic example by deploying four of these legendary roadsters in the event. Joining them will be the BMW 328 Berlin-Rom racing variant from 1941 as well as a BMW 327 Convertible and a 327/28 Coup?®. With nine private teams entering, a total of 16 BMW cars will be lining up in Brescia for the start of the 2008 Mille Miglia.
For the first time this year, BMW's heritage division will be debuting under its new designation BMW Classic. "Taking part in such a tradition-rich event with our new name is very special for us," said the Director of BMW Classic, Karl Baumer. "And the fact that we will be on the road exactly 70 years after the first BMW 328 lends extra appeal to the race," he added. But the achievements of those historic forerunners are unlikely to be surpassed: 70 years ago the teams in their BMW 328s swept up the first four places in the 2000 cc class and majestically claimed the team trophy in the regularity race.
BMW Classic Teams
78 BMW 328 Berlin Rom 1940 Klaus Draeger / Michael Paul
80 BMW 327 Convertible 1937 Ian Robertson / Daniel Tasch
81 BMW 328 1937 Ludwig Willisch / Prinz Leopold von Bayern
82 BMW 328 1937 Ulrich Knieps / Hans Hamer
83 BMW 328 1937 Tom Purves / James Berrien
87 BMW 328 1938 Marco Saltalamacchia / Andrea Castronovo
88 BMW 327/28 1939 Paolo Kessisoglu / Luca Bizzarri
Private Teams
84 BMW 328 1938 Sandro Bertoli / Alessandra Bonomi
85 BMW 328 1938 Manuel Eli?ºabe / Juli?ín Lepphaille
86 BMW 328 1938 Gianmaria Aghem / Rossella Conti
89 BMW 328 1939 Andrew Baker / Richard Kresch
300 BMW Isetta 300 1957 Pier Luigi Mercadanti / Gabriella Bastoni
351 BMW 507 1955 Daniel Peeters / St?®phane Sertang
352 BMW 507 1957 M. Guarnieri / G. Guarnieri
353 BMW 507 1957 Thomas Haffa / Christoph Walther
354 BMW 507 1957 Franco Forti / Jacopo Danielli
61st CANNES FILM FESTIVAL STARTS ON MAY 15 ON THE COTE D'AZUR
05/13/2008
BMW Group presents itself with the film industry in an international cooperation.
Cannes/Munich May 15 marks the start of the 61st International Film Festival in the eternally glamorous town of Cannes on the coast of southern France. The BMW Group is right in the middle of things, a competent partner for the German, European and global film industry.
The Munich-based company has a long tradition of cooperation with the film industry: alongside classic product placements, the BMW Group has also consistently supported the rise of young film talent both in Germany and world wide.
At this year's Cannes Film Festival, the BMW Group is the local partner of the European Film Promotion (EFP), the Rome Film Festival, the Quinzaine des R?®alisateurs, Next Generation from German Films and the German Short Film Association, AG Kurzfilm.
Producers on the Move - Europe's young producers in Cannes
The BMW Group is partnering the European Film Promotion (EFP) in Cannes this year, supporting the organisation in all events related to the festival. As in previous years, the principal EFP event is Producers on the Move, an event at which over one hundred young European film producers are introduced and distinguished in the presence of international media and representatives of the film industry.
Rome Film Festival reception in Cannes
The Rome Film Festival brings a touch of Italian flair to the French Mediterranean resort: In cooperation with MINI Italy, the BMW Group is this year's international partner of the film festival in the Italian capital, alongside the activities in Cannes. MINI Italy has supported the Rome Film Festival since 2006, and will continue the cooperation this year also.
40 years Quinzaine des R?®alisateurs
The Quinzaine des R?®alisateurs (Directors' Fortnight) section of the SRF French Directors' Society celebrates its fortieth anniversary in Cannes this year, taking place from 15 - 25 May. Jointly with BMW France, the BMW Group is cooperating with the Quinzaine for the second time, but on a much more extensive basis this year. The company will also be supporting the 40-year jubilee celebrations of the event, with the brand new Sports Activity Coup?®, the BMW X6, right at the centre of the festivities.
German Films on the Riviera
The BMW Group has partnered the Next Generation short film programme from German Films since 2005. This event, which launched in 1998, presents a selection of recent German film college productions at the Cannes Film Festival. This year the programme includes the BMW funded productions Mein Robodad from the Bauhaus University of Weimar and the short film Dunkelrot from the Hamburg Media School, which has already garnered the Max Oph??ls Award.
Short films with a sea view
Short films are also the focus of the reception organised by BMW on 17 May 2008 (invitation only) on the terrace of the Quinzaine. The BMW Group has been a member of the German Short Film Association AG Kurzfilm for 3 years, sustainable supporting the growth of the German short film industry both in Germany and abroad. For the first time this year, short films have been given an official forum in the festival programme, giving a further boost to the panache and diversity of the festival as a whole.
popularmechanics.com
Exclusive Book Excerpt: Searching for 10 classic motorcycles ÔÇô and the legends behind the handlebars
sportrider.com
Using data acquisition ÔÇô RPM analysis
motorcyclistonline.com
Biking Iceland
I bump into sites on the web with art cars. Now
thenewcaferacersociety.blogspot.com
Art Bikes
The KneeSlider.com
Motorcycle Racing ÔÇô Talent or luck ÔÇô You decide
Michael Schumacher ÔÇô More motorcycle racing
Road tests from Visordown.com
R1200GS v Bandit 1200 v Sprint ST v FZ1
CB600 v FZ6
Duc v GSX v Triumph
Hmmm, is this a multi test model which could be used in ON?
Honda ST1100 v ST1300
webbikeworld.com
REVIEW: HJC Sy-Max II
motorcycle-usa.com
MotoGP 2008: Le Mans Results
BMW PressClub: Germany
BMW is looking for the best Enduro riders from five countries.
16.05.2008
Munich. BMW writes the first time the international GS Trophy. These are all called gel?ñndetauglichen driver of a BMW motorcycle, their ability to professionally prepared routes want to measure. The regulations are based directly on the concept of the BMW GS family: safety and reliability, manageability and driving pleasure on any terrain. The focus is therefore not speed or risk but skill, sporting challenge and fahrerische intelligence. With this competition, BMW motorcycle riders committed a unique opportunity to deal with their individual skills and the extensive possibilities of the BMW terrain engine.
The starter, the GS-Trophy qualify in national preliminary. This invites GS-BMW driver in Germany, Italy, Spain, Japan and the U.S. to their own excrement. In Germany, BMW directed to the GS-Challenge in Enduro Park Hechlingen, to the maximum of 200 BMW drivers can participate. Where appropriate, chosen at random. Three routes in different degrees of difficulty have the BMW experts prepared, both amateur riders without sporting experience, as well as trained hands according to their abilities a fair chance.
The GS Challenge starts on 1 August 2008 and goes through two test days. Based on the results of special inspections on the first Fahrtag the best participant, on the second day of the final contest. This event takes place on uniform, of motorcycles and in the knock-evaluated. The three best drivers invites the international BMW GS Trophy to Tunisia, where they are on the winners of the other nations. It expects a desert route, which they specially prepared by BMW's BMW F 800 GS cope.
Of course, no participant of the German GS Challenge with home empty-handed. Participation in the GS-Challenge costs 250th - Euro. Interested parties can apply from June in the Internet in a special page of BMW-Motorrad.de register.
TO CLOSE TO CALL: Racing News ÔÇô You make the call about what you want to know!
Racing Feeds:
Auto Racing Daily: Motorcycle Racing
Auto Racing Daily: Superbike
BBC: Motorsport ÔÇô Rallying ÔÇô World Edition
Crash.Net: MotoGP
Crash.Net: World Superbikes
HighRevs.net: MotoGP
Motorsport.com : World Superbike
MCN: Motor Sport
MCN: World Superbikes
Roadracingworld.com
Superbike-News.co.uk: Superbike
Superbikeplanet.com
BMW Sauber F1
BMW Motorsport
autoracingdaily.com
NASCAR Ace Kyle Busch aiming for F1 test with Toyota
Monaco practice has not even started and the complexities of racing regs have already altered the starting grid.
planetf1.com
Five place grid penalty for Vettel
World champion Priaulx scores podium finish for BMW in Valencia.
05-18-2008 Press Release
Valencia, 18th May 2008. Andy Priaulx (GB) of BMW Team UK claimed his second podium result in this yearÔÇÖs FIA World Touring Car Championship. At ValenciaÔÇÖs ÔÇ£Circuit de la ComunitatÔÇØ he finished third in the sixth round of the season. In the first race of the day the reigning World Champion finished seventh. BMW Team Germany driver J?Ârg M??ller (DE) also collected points at what was the seriesÔÇÖ maiden event on European soil in 2008. His team-mate Augusto Farfus (BR) and BMW Team Italy-SpainÔÇÖs Alessandro Zanardi (IT) and F?®lix Porteiro (ES), however, failed to make it into the top-eight in either race. Victory in the two sprint races at the 4.005-kilometre track went to ChevroletÔÇÖs Robert Huff (GB) and Alain Menu (CH).
In the DriversÔÇÖ Championship, Priaulx now has 22 points under his belt and ranks fifth as the best-placed BMW driver. M??ller follows in sixth with 20 points. With a points tally of 59, BMW currently lies in third place in the manufacturersÔÇÖ classification.
Andy Priaulx (BMW Team UK):
ÔÇ£All in all a good weekend for me. The whole of race one was a really big scrap for me. But I come here to win races and championships and I think I got the best out of the weekend I could possibly expect. My target was seven points, so to get one more than I thought I was able to get was great.ÔÇØ
J?Ârg M??ller (BMW Team Germany):
ÔÇ£My fastest lap in race one shows how competitive my car was today. Probably I could have gone even faster, but itÔÇÖs just really difficult to overtake these SEAT diesels. In the second race I made a good start, but later had to let Robert Huff pass. But the most important fact is I scored solid points after the Puebla wash-out.ÔÇØ
Augusto Farfus (BMW Team Germany):
ÔÇ£I just want to leave this weekend behind me as quickly as possible. We had a fantastic package, the performance was great, but IÔÇÖm still leaving Valencia empty-handed. My chase in race two turned out to be in vain.ÔÇØ
F?®lix Porteiro (BMW Team Italy-Spain):
ÔÇ£I certainly had different hopes for my home event in Spain. At the beginning of the first race I was hit by another car and a wheel-rim broke. Pit stops cost a lot of time in WTCC, so I had to bid farewell to my ambition to score points. At least I was able to entertain the fans with lots of overtaking manoeuvres in race two.ÔÇØ
Alessandro Zanardi (BMW Team Italy-Spain):
ÔÇ£I might leave Valencia without any points under my belt, but I go home with some positive feedback. We have a good race performance, and I only need to be more consistent in qualifying. Today I just suffered another dose of bad luck.ÔÇØ
windingroad.com
Really modern classic: The brand new Jensen Interceptor S
autobloggreen.com
Lotus creates lightweight structures division
iht.com
Diesel automobiles clean up for U.S. revival
upi.com
Porsche eyeing 2,100 new German jobs
BMW Website Review:
BMW Yachtsport
BMW Golfsport
BMW Oracle Racing
BMW Sport website
BMW PressClub
BMW PressClub: North America
IN THE TIRE TRACKS OF A LEGEND: BMW 328 AT THE 2008 MILLE MIGLIA
05/15/2008
Munich/Brescia. It was 70 years ago that BMW first entered its 328 model in the Mille Miglia. For this year's anniversary appearance, BMW will be following the historic example by deploying four of these legendary roadsters in the event. Joining them will be the BMW 328 Berlin-Rom racing variant from 1941 as well as a BMW 327 Convertible and a 327/28 Coup?®. With nine private teams entering, a total of 16 BMW cars will be lining up in Brescia for the start of the 2008 Mille Miglia.
For the first time this year, BMW's heritage division will be debuting under its new designation BMW Classic. "Taking part in such a tradition-rich event with our new name is very special for us," said the Director of BMW Classic, Karl Baumer. "And the fact that we will be on the road exactly 70 years after the first BMW 328 lends extra appeal to the race," he added. But the achievements of those historic forerunners are unlikely to be surpassed: 70 years ago the teams in their BMW 328s swept up the first four places in the 2000 cc class and majestically claimed the team trophy in the regularity race.
BMW Classic Teams
78 BMW 328 Berlin Rom 1940 Klaus Draeger / Michael Paul
80 BMW 327 Convertible 1937 Ian Robertson / Daniel Tasch
81 BMW 328 1937 Ludwig Willisch / Prinz Leopold von Bayern
82 BMW 328 1937 Ulrich Knieps / Hans Hamer
83 BMW 328 1937 Tom Purves / James Berrien
87 BMW 328 1938 Marco Saltalamacchia / Andrea Castronovo
88 BMW 327/28 1939 Paolo Kessisoglu / Luca Bizzarri
Private Teams
84 BMW 328 1938 Sandro Bertoli / Alessandra Bonomi
85 BMW 328 1938 Manuel Eli?ºabe / Juli?ín Lepphaille
86 BMW 328 1938 Gianmaria Aghem / Rossella Conti
89 BMW 328 1939 Andrew Baker / Richard Kresch
300 BMW Isetta 300 1957 Pier Luigi Mercadanti / Gabriella Bastoni
351 BMW 507 1955 Daniel Peeters / St?®phane Sertang
352 BMW 507 1957 M. Guarnieri / G. Guarnieri
353 BMW 507 1957 Thomas Haffa / Christoph Walther
354 BMW 507 1957 Franco Forti / Jacopo Danielli
61st CANNES FILM FESTIVAL STARTS ON MAY 15 ON THE COTE D'AZUR
05/13/2008
BMW Group presents itself with the film industry in an international cooperation.
Cannes/Munich May 15 marks the start of the 61st International Film Festival in the eternally glamorous town of Cannes on the coast of southern France. The BMW Group is right in the middle of things, a competent partner for the German, European and global film industry.
The Munich-based company has a long tradition of cooperation with the film industry: alongside classic product placements, the BMW Group has also consistently supported the rise of young film talent both in Germany and world wide.
At this year's Cannes Film Festival, the BMW Group is the local partner of the European Film Promotion (EFP), the Rome Film Festival, the Quinzaine des R?®alisateurs, Next Generation from German Films and the German Short Film Association, AG Kurzfilm.
Producers on the Move - Europe's young producers in Cannes
The BMW Group is partnering the European Film Promotion (EFP) in Cannes this year, supporting the organisation in all events related to the festival. As in previous years, the principal EFP event is Producers on the Move, an event at which over one hundred young European film producers are introduced and distinguished in the presence of international media and representatives of the film industry.
Rome Film Festival reception in Cannes
The Rome Film Festival brings a touch of Italian flair to the French Mediterranean resort: In cooperation with MINI Italy, the BMW Group is this year's international partner of the film festival in the Italian capital, alongside the activities in Cannes. MINI Italy has supported the Rome Film Festival since 2006, and will continue the cooperation this year also.
40 years Quinzaine des R?®alisateurs
The Quinzaine des R?®alisateurs (Directors' Fortnight) section of the SRF French Directors' Society celebrates its fortieth anniversary in Cannes this year, taking place from 15 - 25 May. Jointly with BMW France, the BMW Group is cooperating with the Quinzaine for the second time, but on a much more extensive basis this year. The company will also be supporting the 40-year jubilee celebrations of the event, with the brand new Sports Activity Coup?®, the BMW X6, right at the centre of the festivities.
German Films on the Riviera
The BMW Group has partnered the Next Generation short film programme from German Films since 2005. This event, which launched in 1998, presents a selection of recent German film college productions at the Cannes Film Festival. This year the programme includes the BMW funded productions Mein Robodad from the Bauhaus University of Weimar and the short film Dunkelrot from the Hamburg Media School, which has already garnered the Max Oph??ls Award.
Short films with a sea view
Short films are also the focus of the reception organised by BMW on 17 May 2008 (invitation only) on the terrace of the Quinzaine. The BMW Group has been a member of the German Short Film Association AG Kurzfilm for 3 years, sustainable supporting the growth of the German short film industry both in Germany and abroad. For the first time this year, short films have been given an official forum in the festival programme, giving a further boost to the panache and diversity of the festival as a whole.