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Congratulations to team Known Hooligans (#6) on their 5-hour endurance win! The team of Eric and Adam Purves, Scott Stall, and Cole Speer took home the podium spot with only a 3 second lead on 2nd place. Certainly the closest endurance finish in recent CRA history! A huge thanks to John Anderson with Worldwide Machining and Welding (as well as the anonymous donor) for putting up a HUGE $11K endurance purse. It was great to see all the teams out there chasing down victories in their respective classes and a blast to watch everyone in BIR's winner's circle holding their giant checks. Nice work...


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Finally! Between the weather and the traffic we've had a string of bad luck trying to get vanity shots this season. Many have been asking and unfortunately haven't been able to accomodate. Happy to announce that we'll be up early on Friday, and will be doing vanity shots on the front straight after the new rider challenge race is over. There's no charge for this, so bring your bikes, your endurance teams, your pit crews, YOUR REAR STANDS (duh), and meet us at the gate after the track goes cold on Friday. We'll take as many pics as you want, and strongly encourage endurance teams to get your...


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Welcome back, riders/spectators/fans! No, you are not imagining things - Photos have FINALLY been posted! There are a LOT of pictures of everyone who came and rode, spectated, ate pizza, or generally hung out with their buddies at a kickass event put on by the crew at Simply Sport Bikes. For those of you who are new to the site, the images from the kickoff ride are free to use on your Facebook page, forums, personal website, etc. All I ask is that you do not remove the watermark (and we have ways of finding out!). If you would like a print or a digital version without the watermark...


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Phew! Another double-sprint weekend in the books. Some might even say the record books, as lap times dropped for everyone and we got to watch Christian Schmidt (*ahem* MPDN sponsored rider *ahem*) dominate with 20 wins in 28 races. Great job Christian! You can check out the full press release here: http://www.cra-mn.com/wordpress/2011/announcements/press-releases/july-press-release From our end, we once again got to enjoy some close racing from the (sometimes) very edge of the track. Unfortunately we missed the SuperSport Sprints on Saturday morning due to the absolute worst traffic Chelsea...


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Another successful ZARS day at the BIR Competition Course! Once again the morning started off looking like it might be time to hit up Jim's Dunlop trailer and beg for some rains. But in true ZARS fashion, the weather seemed to stop short of visiting the track and we opened up to some great early morning sessions. As I'm sure you've heard me say before - cloudy skies make great light for taking photos, so I shot every single session save for one round in the late afternoon. More work for me, but more options for you. This should also provide a great way to check out how your body position...


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Hard to know where to start talking about this past race weekend. It was one of those CRA events where forum posts, Facebook status updates, and email threads all contained the same word: Awesome. From the weather, to the racing, to the people, and to how smoothly a double-sprint weekend ran on the long course up at BIR I can't think of a better word to describe the weekend. Even those who fell down were smiling by the end of the day, and that matters more than anything else. In true MPDN fashion, we arrived 5 minutes before the start of the New Rider race, where we watched #610 Jordan...


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