Sammy said all the right things when he was on the Vance & Hines Harley XG750R, and put it on the podium, and also came within a whisker of winning at it, but for a red flag when he was out front, but the statistics tell a different story. Sammy was Rookie of the Year in 2006 and the de facto GNC champ in 2009, if you, like we do, add the points for the singles and twins class (like it always used to be), Sammy had the most points. Instead, he's credited as Singles Champ and

As much as we are fans of the XG750R (and we really are, featuring it in Sideburn 39) it is gaining something of a reputation for knocking a nail or two on the lid of some long racing careers. Very few riders have climbed off the water-cooled Harley and looked back at the experience fondly. The latest rider to move on from the official H-D Vance and Hines team is Sammy Halbert. Sammy scored two rare podiums for the bike, at the 2019 Perris Half-Mile and 2018 Buffalo Chip TT,

This is getting daft. Sunday's race was delayed nearly two hours because of rain, so the first singles practice started at 11pm UK time. I saw the new schedule, watched singles Qualifying 1 (Q1), then set my alarm for 1am and slept for a bit. I woke, watched the singles heats, then set the alarm for 3am and watched the semis and mains. It all finished, for me, after 4.30. I set the alarm for 7 for work on Monday and tried to get some sleep. And I'm not even that fussed about

I'm not entirely sure if it's the current strength of AFT, the shrinking popularity and budgets of production bike road racing, a bit of both and more besides, but another promising US road racer, who should be in the prime of his career, is making the move back to flat track. PJ Jacobsen was a top ten flat track racer and former rookie of the year, before he pursued a career in road racing. That's him #99 next to Bryan Smith at Springfield in 2010. The 26-year-old has compet