The San Diego Sports Medicine Foundation is pleased to announce this years
honorees at the 6th annual Taste at the Cove.
Jeremy McGrath and Dr Robert Pace will be honored at Taste at the Cove, a
fundraiser for the San Diego Sports Medicine Foundation. This event raises
over $200,000 annually to provide a medical safety net for injured youth with
limited financial means in order to return them back to health, sports and life.
Throughout the event there will be GREAT complimentary food from over 30
of the best restaurants in La Jolla and San Diego, hosted bars, three New York
style fashion shows, great opportunity drawings, silent auction items plus a
live auction! The MC for the event is CS Keys from Fox 6 and the auctioneers
are Scott and Billy Ray from XX Radio. This year guests will be treated to a
surprise performance, one not to miss.
Jeremy McGrath is being honored for his seven Supercross titles - a feat no
other racer in Supercross history has even come close to - with two additional
125 Western Region Supercross Championships, one 250 Outdoor National
Championship and to FIM World Supercross Championships, most within this
spectacular sport feel Jeremy McGrath is to Supercross what Michael Jordan is
to basketball. Truly the most successful rider in AMA Supercross history, with
a record 72 250cc Supercrosswins, the dirt bike racing icon retired from the
sport he helped catapult into mainstream popularity in 2003, only to return in
the 2005 season to race select events throughout the 16 week pro Supercross
season.
Not only a world class athlete, but an exceptional entrepreneur ... Jeremy is
the first pro racer to form and operate his own Supercross race team. The
team's 2001 inaugural race season, culminated with a title sponsor deal with
MAZDA and in 2002 BUD LIGHT/ANHEUSER-BUSCH signed on as title sponsor
for McGrath's endeavor.
Jeremy is long time San Diego resident and gives back to
the San Diego community. Dr Robert Pace is being
honoured for his work in the community. One of his most
satisfying professional experiences has been working with
the young athletes in the Fallbrook area. Pop Warner
"physicals day" has been a Dr. Pace office tradition in his
town for many years. He has served for the past 31 years
as team physician for the Fallbrook High School Football
team. He knows he has been in town for a long time since
he is now seeing young patients who are the offspring of
some of those long ago high school footballers.
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Jeremy McGrath to be honored by San Diego Sports Medicine Foundation
Chad Reed RacerX Interview -ozzy go-
5 Minutes With...Chad Reed August 09, 2007
The last time Chad Reed competed in an AMA Pro Racing event
was on Sunday, June 17, 2007. The venue was Budds Creek MX
Park in Maryland, round four of the AMA Toyota Motocross Series.
Reed rode well and his Yamaha’s transponder put 3-4 moto
scores up on the scoring monitors. Immediately thereafter, Reed
packed his gearbags and suitcases and headed home to Australia
for a vacation he was very much looking forward to. But now
here he was back in America, sitting on a blue and white cooler in
the pits of his L&M race team. The date was August 3, 2007, and
with supercross practice for Summer X Games over and done,
Reed had some time on his hands and was more than up for
laying down a comprehensive interview. Relaxed and in good
spirits, and as you’re about to read, the runner-up in the 2007
AMA Supercross Series had a lot on his mind and a lot to talk
about. click on ozzy go to the interview on Racerxill.com
Carmichael set to make final appearance in AMA Motocross Championship -ozzy go-
Ricky Carmichael, fresh off winning gold in his first X Games appearance, will return
to AMA Toyota Motocross Championship racing action this Sunday, Aug. 12, at
Spring Creek MX Park in Millville, Minn., for round nine of the 12-event series.
Carmichael, 27, of Havana, Fla., is shooting for an unprecedented 150th combined
AMA Motocross/Supercross win.
The race is slated to be Carmichael’s final appearance in the AMA Toyota Motocross
Championship presented by FMF. The Makita Suzuki rider is the all-time AMA
Motocross wins leader and the defending and seven-time series champion.
While Carmichael’s final race is the big headline at Millville, there will be several
other major stories to follow. A victory for Monster Energy Kawasaki’s Tim Ferry at
the last race in Washougal, Wash., combined with a second moto crash and DNF by
his teammate James Stewart, has moved Ferry within seven points of Stewart in the
Championship standings.
The Motocross Lites class is having one of the best two-way battles in years, with
Monster Energy/Pro Circuit Kawasaki riders Ben Townley and Ryan Villopoto locked
in an exciting title chase.
In addition, a number of young riders will be coming straight from the amateur
motocross championships at Loretta Lynn’s Ranch in Tennessee to make their pro
debut at Millville. Trey Canard (2007 AMA Horizon Award winner) and Nico Izzi are
among the top prospects in the new class of 2007.
Carmichael, who is racing part time while he makes a transition to car racing, is
making his first appearance in the series since round five on July 1, in Buchanan,
Mich. He now comes to Millville trying to win his eighth straight AMA Motocross at
the circuit dating back to 2000, his first year in the premier class. Additionally,
Carmichael won two AMA Motocross Lites races at Spring Creek.
click on ozzy go to the full story on amamotocross.com
Ronnie Renner RacerX Interview -ozzy go-
Monday Conversation: Ronnie Renner August 06, 2007
So many great performances this weekend—33 champions
crowned at Loretta Lynn’s, RC in Moto X, Burkhart in X Games’
Supermoto, the freestylers, the Grand Prix winners at Namur—but
who to pick for a Monday Conversation?
A few months ago, Ronnie Renner was sitting in his garage in
Southern California, wondering aloud what the future held for him
in freestyle motocross. “I don’t really want to flip and I’m pretty
burned out on the contests,” said Renner, sitting on one of his
KTM motorcycles. “I’d love to do Step-Up in the X Games this
summer, but I think they have the five riders picked and I’m not
going to get in.”
But then fate stepped in. Ricky Carmichael, who had been invited
by the Summer X Games freestyle motocross committee to
compete in the Moto X Step Up at Summer X Games 13, politely
declined, deciding to rather concentrate on the new Moto X he
would be competing in at Summer X. Renner got the call—he was
in.
And he made the best of it. Before a sell-out crowd of nearly 
14,000 fans in the Staples Center, Renner employed a KTM450
four-stroke, much to the astonishment of his two-stroke
competition. What followed was a Doug Henry-like breakthrough
And he made the best of it. Before a sell-out crowd of nearly
for the thumper, as Renner blasted off for a leap of 33’ to win the
Moto X Step-Up Gold Medal over Brian Deegan, Matt Buyten,
Tommy Clowers and Jeremy McGrath. This morning, while he was
driving down the I-5 just north of San Diego, we talked to the
dancing fool of freestyle motocross.
click on 'ozzy go' to the interview on racerxill.com
2007 Summer X Games Medallists
X GAMES 13 MEDALLISTS
Rally Car Racing
Gold: Tanner Foust (USA) & Chrissie Beavis (USA)
Silver: Ken Block (USA) & Alessandro Gelsomino (USA)
Bronze: Travis Pastrana (USA) & Christian Edstrom (USA)
BMX Vert
Gold: Jamie Bestwick (Great Britain)
Silver: Simon Tabron (USA)
Bronze: Kevin Robinson (Great Britain)
BMX Park
Gold: Daniel Dhers (Venezuela)
Silver: Scotty Cranmer (USA)
Bronze: Dave Mirra (USA)
BMX Big Air
Gold: Kevin Robinson (Great Britain)
Silver: Steve McCann (Australia)
Bronze: Anthony Napolitan (USA)
Moto X Freestyle
Gold: Adam Jones (USA)
Silver: Nate Adams (USA)
Bronze: Jeremy Stenberg (USA)
Moto X Racing
Gold: Ricky Carmichael (USA)
Silver: Grant Langston (South Africa)
Bronze: Kevin Windham (USA)
Moto X Super Moto
Gold: Mark Burkhart (USA)
Silver: Jeff Ward (USA)
Bronze: David Pingree (USA)
Moto X Step Up
Gold: Ronnie Renner (USA)
Silver: Tommy Clowers (USA) Matt Buyten (USA) & Brian Deegan (USA)
Bronze: Jeremy McGrath (USA)
Moto X Best Trick
Gold : Kyle Loza (USA)
Silver : Adam Jones (USA)
Bronze: Todd Potter (USA)
Men’s Skateboard Vert
Gold: Shaun White (USA)
Silver: Pierre Luc Gagnon (Canada)
Bronze: Mathias Ringstrom (Sweden)
Men's Skateboard Street Best Trick
Gold: Chris Cole (USA)
Silver: Andrew Reynolds (USA)
Bronze: Eric Koston (USA)
Women's Skateboard Vert
Gold: Lyn-Z Adams Hawkins (USA)
Silver: Mimi Knoop (USA)
Bronze: Cara-Beth Burnside (USA)
Men's Skateboard Street
Gold: Chris Cole (USA)
Silver: Greg Lutzka (USA)
Bronze: Jereme Rogers (USA)
Amateur Skateboard Vert
Gold: Ben Hatchell (USA)
Silver: Josh Stafford (USA)
Bronze: Paul Luc Ronchetti (Great Britain)
Women's Skateboard Street
Gold: Marisa Dal Santo (USA)
Silver: Elissa Steamer (USA)
Bronze: Amy Caron (USA)
Skateboard Big Air
Gold: Bob Burnquist (Brazil)
Silver: Jake Brown (Australia)
Bronze: Pierre Luc Gagnon (Canada)
2 Medals: Chris Cole (USA) 2 Gold
2 Medals: Adams Jones (USA) 1 Gold, 1 Silver
2 Medals: Kevin Robinson (Great Britain) 1 Gold, 1 Bronze
2 Medals: Pierre Luc Gagnon (Canada) 1 Silver, 1 Bronze
United States 38 Medals: 12 Gold, 14 Silver, 12 Bronze
Great Britain 4 Medals: 2 Gold, 2 Bronze
Australia 2 Medals: 2 Silver
Canada 2 Medals: 1 Silver, 1 Bronze
Brazil 1 Medal: Gold
Venezuela 1 Medal: Gold
South Africa 1 Medal: Silver
Sweden 1 Medal: Bronze
Shaun White captures his first X Games gold
Shaun White, who as a snowboarder came from behind to win the
halfpipe gold medal at the 2006 Winter Olympics, rallied in similar
fashion today during the Skateboard vert finals to win his first
Summer X Games gold medal.
Having fallen on his first two runs, as he did at the Olympics,
White nailed a perfect routine that included a variety of 540-
degree spins and even a 720, along with various other difficult
tricks.
His score of 95.75 points, on the second-to-last run of the event,
propelled him from sixth to first and relegated Pierre-Luc Gagnon
(91.25) to second and Mathias Ringstrom (88.25) to third. "This is
pretty big for me -- I almost broke down afterward," White said.
"I saw my whole family and they know what this means to me.
"It's one of those things where I've always wanted to be a
skateboarder, and as you can see I've got my own pro model and
I'm smiling and doing my thing: winning a few events."
As he was when entering the Winter Games, White went into the
X Games Skateboard vert men's final undefeated, having
prevailed in the first two Dew Action Sports Tour contests.
Men's Skateboard Vert Finals
1 Shaun White 95.75
2 Pierre Luc Gagnon 91.25
3 Mathias Ringstrom 88.25
4 A. Preleson 88.00
5 Andy MacDonald 86.25
6 Bucky Lasek 75.75
7 Rune Glifberg83.75
8 Bob Burnquist 80.50
9 Rob Lorifice 77.75
10 Sandro Dias 76.25
Foust and Beavis win Rally Car racing final
Tanner Foust and Chrissie Beavis outraced Ken Block and
Alessandro Gelsomino to win the Rally Car racing final this
afternoon at Home Depot Center.
Block and Gelsomino beat Foust and Beavis off the line and led
through the first lap, but Foust and Beavis made up ground on the
second lap and dropped into the stadium a second ahead. Coming
from opposite directions in their Subarus, both cars made the
final turn for home and banged doors coming out of the turn, but
Foust and Beavis won by three-quarters car length.
Block's teammates, Travis Pastrana and Christian Edstrom, were
disqualified in their semifinal against Foust when both also raced
to the finish line, but Pastrana crossed over into Foust's lane and
they collided. Pastrana crossed the finish line a half length ahead
of Foust, but it was announced shortly afterward that he had been
disqualified.
Pastrana then raced Colin McRae and Carolyn Bosley in a third-place
race and Pastran won, preventing him from going without an X Games
medal for the first time in his career.
Final
1 Foust / Beavis 2 Block / Gelsomino
Semifinals
1 Foust / Beavis 2 Pastrana / Edstrom - disqualifed
1 Block / Gelsomino 2 McRae / Bosley
Quarterfinals
1 Pastrana / Edstrom 2 Choiniere / Becker
1 Foust / Beavis 2 Pinker / Durant
1 McRae / Bosley 2 Lagemann / Williams
1 Block / Gelsomino 2 Comrie-Picard / Goldfarb
The Big Payback: Mark Burkhart Wins Summer X Supermoto -ozzy go- Alpinestarsinc.com
Last summer — almost precisely 365 days to the day — Jeff Ward
defeated Team Yamaha factory rider Mark Burkhart by 0.572 of a
second to win the Gold Medal in the Summer X Games 12
Supermoto final. One year later — on Saturday, August 3, 2007
to be exact — the tables were turned when, with only two laps left
in the 32-lap Summer X Games 13 Supermoto main event, Mark
Burkhart made a clean, nifty pass on the former seven-time AMA
supercross/motocross champion to win the Gold Medal.
When the green flag dropped to signal the start of Supermoto
final, it was Jeff Ward on his Red Bull/Troy Lee Designs-backed
Honda CRF450R, getting the jump off the line, leaping into Home
Depot Center with the lead. Immediately behind Ward were
teammate David Pingree and Team Yamaha’s Mark Burkhart. The
three ran in close formation through the dirt track, motocross,
and supercross section on the soccer field floor, leaving the
stadium via a large ramp in the same order. Meanwhile, behind
them, in a cloud of dusk, pre-race favorite Jeremy McGrath was
pulling his factory Honda up from the hardpack ground, the victim
of an opening lap crash. Freestyle legend turned supermoto racer
Carey Hart also crashed on the first lap.
Three laps into the race, Ward opened up a three second gap on
Pingree and Burkhart, who ran within a bike length of one
another. A few seconds back was Ivan Lazzarini, the highly
competitive FIM Supermoto World Championship rider. At the
seven-lap mark, Ward still held station in the lead, 1.44 ahead of
Pingree and 1.76 ahead of Burkhart. Lazzarini was a further 7.40
back, all alone in fourth. As the race approached the halfway
mark, Burkhart found a way around Pingree and quickly set off
after Ward. Way behind them, a different sort of drama was
taking place as Jeremy McGrath had raced all the way back from
19th place to sixth. On lap 17, Mark Burkhart was the first rider to
make his mandatory pit stop. The Team Yamaha crew quickly
over the wall, changed tires, filled the YZ450F with gas, and got
Burkhart on his way in exactly 19.0 seconds — a great pit stop.
Two laps later, Jeff Ward was in, his pit crew getting the job done
in 17 seconds. And just like a Formula 1 race, immediately after
the two stops were made, Ward and Burkhart found themselves
right next to one another on the track, Ward holding a bike length
lead. With 10 laps remaining, the race had boiled down to a full-
on battle between Ward and Burkhart, the later nipping at Ward’s
red rear fender... click on 'ozzy go' to the full story & pics gallery
Alpinestars Inc Race Report: Moto X Racing
Super-X Games: Carmichael Wins His Own Race
Pitched as the man who talked the X Games organizers into
including the sport of supercross into the already motorcycle-
crazed Summer X Games, Ricky Carmichael did himself proud on
Saturday evening by winning the inaugural Summer X Games 13
Moto X race. Held in the Home Depot Center before a sell-out
crowd of well over 40,000 Southern California motocross fans,
Carmichael was simply untouchable in the unique, never-before-
seen, six-man, 12-lap, main event format. Certainly a “Made for
TV” affair, the X Games organizers, holding true to their ethos
and beliefs of making action sports “TV friendly”, the X Games
brain trust schemed up a race format that required exactly 60
minutes of live TV time. Inviting 16 riders and implementing an
innovative three race qualifying procedure, the Moto X event
kicked-off with four, four-man heats in which only the winner
would advance to the main event. Kevin Windham won the first
six-lap heat race, although he had to fight off a rapidly closing
Grant Langston to do so. In heat number two, Michael Byrne won
although Travis Pastrana, who only rode a few times leading into
Summer X and made a few mistakes in during heat, certainly
made him work for it. Chad Reed handily won heat number three,
while Carmichael won the last heat over David Vuillemin by over
five seconds. Next up for the riders who did not win the first four
heat races were two six-man heat races. Once again, it was only
the winner who would transfer to the main, and Grant Langston
and David Vuillemin were those two riders. Thus when it came
time for the 12-lap final, it was Carmichael, Reed, Byrne,
Windham, Langston and Vuillemin behind the six-gate starting
line. When the gate did drop, Carmichael grabbed the holeshot,
with Yamaha riders Chad Reed and Grant Langston and Honda
pilot Kevin Windham immediately behind his #4 Suzuki. The
foursome would rapidly clear out on the ultra-hardpack, dusty
circuit, Carmichael visibly a bit faster than his adversaries. By
lap six, the halfway mark of the race, Carmichael enjoyed 2.03-
second lead over Reed. But then Reed made a minor bobble and
Langston was through and into second. Carmichael would
continue to extend his lead over Langston, while Reed, with les
than two laps to go, ran into trouble, allowing Kevin Windham to
pass him and nick the Bronze Medal. At the finish, Carmichael
flashed across the finish line with a 3.62 second lead over
Langston, who had another two seconds on Windham. Reed was
fourth, Byrne fifth, and David Vuillemin was sixth.