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TEAM BMW XPLOR RACING NEWS:
TEAM BMW XPLOR RACING NEWS
Put a great bike in the hands of great talent and you get great results. The BMW’s new R 1200 S has been winning regional and national races since it was introduced last year. This new super Boxer, putting out 122hp on a 419lbs body, is beating much lighter and faster race bikes from the Japanese and Italian competition. Team BMW XPLOR racers such as Brian Parriott, Nate Kern, Ivan Messina and Brad Hendry are lining up their shelves with a multitude of trophies this year, in such race series as MotoST, MRA and AFM.
One of the newest Team XPLOR racers to embrace this super Beemer is Brad Hendry of Foothillls BMW Motorcycles. Brad, racing a near stock BMW R 1200 S, has won 3 consecutive MRA events this season, one in Colorado and the other two in Nebraska. He raced in the Supertwins GTO class up against some very tough V-twin competition. The BMW was pitted against the new Ducati 1098S, also Ducati 999R, 998R and the Aprilia Mille. At the end of every one of these 7-lap MRA races, the spectators cheered as Brad and the R 1200 S pulled in ahead of the new Ducati 1098S.
Brian Parriott, perhaps the best known of Team BMW XPLOR racers in the US, just finished a triple win over the memorial weekend in the AFM series at Infineon Raceway in California. Brian won in the 750 production and 750 Superbike classes beating the popular Suzuki GSX-R 750s. He also finished 1st in the Sport Open Twins leaving behind Ducati’s new 1098 and the popular 999R.
Both Brian and Brad partly attribute their multiple wins over the lighter and faster machines to BMW’s superior Telelever front suspension. “The BMW R 1200 S was amazingly stable during braking, allowing me to go around the racer in front of me and get on the brakes late,” Brad Hendry commented. “As we’d get out of the corner, I’d pick up the throttle and be 100% on the throttle and be able to exit the corner way before the others. I’d accelerate outside of the racer in front of me. In short, their horsepower advantage would go out the window, as soon as they got to the corners.”
“I think what’s putting us ahead of the competition can be partly attributed to BMW’s Telelever system,” said Brian Parriott. “Although it took me sometime to get used to, this suspension enables me to put the bike deeper into the corner with the confidence that the front tire won’t let me down.”
Brian Parriott and Nate Kern also finished first in the MotoST at Virginia International Raceway on Sunday, April 29th. Parriott and Kern took the victory with a time that was 23.028 seconds ahead of the field in the three hour endurance race around V.I.R.’s 3.27 mile course. The pair completed 86 laps with an average speed of 98.71 mph and led the entire race except for one lap.
Here’s Brian Parriott with some details about BMW San Jose’s first win of the 2007 season: “At the green flag, I took over the lead in turn 1. On the 4th lap, another team passed me by and by lap 5 we were leading throughout. Lap count was 86 and we led 85 of those laps. Our winning race at VIR this past weekend was great. I loved it! The track was fantastic. This is probably the most fun track I’ve raced in North America.”
Look for Team BMW XPLOR racers to challenge the competition in several other events around the country. As always visit BMWXPLOR.com for our very in-depth events calendar and up to the minute TEAM BMW XPLOR racing news.
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