AMA Pro Racing announced today the 2014 AMA Pro Road Racing schedule, featuring the full complement of classes at each stop on the circuit. The AMA Pro SuperBike, GoPro Daytona SportBike and AMA Pro SuperSport divisions will contest doubleheaders at each round in 2014, while the Vance & Hines Harley-Davidson Series will participate in one race final per weekend. The 73rd annual DAYTONA 200 will …
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Two of every three deaths in U.S. auto racing over the past three years occurred at short tracks, which have been slow to embrace changes that are saving lives in racing’s major leagues. The most recent tragedy happened last weekend in New York when auto racing star Tony Stewart hit and killed 20-year-old sprint car driver Kevin Ward Jr., who was standing on the track …
It was neither Peter nor Xavier’s first serious accident. Peter crashed into a tire wall at Portland International Raceway in May 2009 when he dove into a corner to find he had no brakes. He broke several bones—the tibia and fibula just above the boot line, a femur and a humerus just above the elbow—and severed a radial nerve, all requiring multiple surgeries. In July, …