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The Thruxton 500 was a motorcycle endurance race for production based road machines, covering 500 miles and ridden by a team of two riders per machine. The first event was a 9-hour race which took place in 1955, organized by the Southampton and District Motorcycle Club (SDMCC) at the Thruxton Circuit near Andover in Hampshire.
Gus Kuhn entered Potter and Green on a Norton for the Thruxton 500 mile Endurance GP. At a late stage the pair changed to Green's Triumph Trident and they finished second. In domestic races Potter continued to race the Kuhn Norton including an impressive win in the wet in the production race at Brands Hatch's Hutchinson 100 meeting where he led ...
The Thruxton Circuit is a 2.356 mi (3.792 km) motor-racing circuit located near the village of Thruxton in Hampshire, England, United Kingdom, about 30 mi (48 km) north of Southampton. It has hosted motorsport events including the British Touring Car Championship , British GT Championship , British Formula One Championship , British Formula ...
Chase Briscoe wins the Cook Out Southern 500 NASCAR Cup Series race at Darlington and gets into the playoffs. ... No. 4 Stewart-Haas Racing Ford (2 points) Chris Buescher, No. 17 RFK Racing Ford ...
In 1969, he teamed with Percy Tait to win the Thruxton 500 endurance race for production (road-based) machines and at the 1969 Isle of Man TT, Uphill won the 750 Production class on a Triumph Bonneville with a 100 mph lap, which prompted renaming of the Dunlop K81 motorcycle tyre as the TT100.
Sept. 1: Cook Out Southern 500, Darlington Raceway (5 p.m., USA Network) This article originally appeared on Nashville Tennessean: NASCAR playoff picture: Cup points standings after Indianapolis race
549.5 points, 19 wins from 26 races, 9 poles, 4 doubles & 1 treble (1 DSQ) 2010: Superbike Ryuichi Kiyonari (3) Honda CBR1000RR (4) HM Plant HRC First season of NASCAR Playoffs-style points system. 2011: Superbike Tommy Hill: Yamaha YZF-R1 (8) Swan Yamaha: Championship down to last corner of the last race - won by 2 points overall and 0.006 ...
An optional cylinder head for the Venom became available for racers in 1964; [6] [7] a Venom equipped with this revised cylinder head took first in its class at that year's Thruxton 500, a 500-mile (800 km) endurance road race. Veloce introduced the Venom Thruxton production model in 1965 with an advertised 41 horsepower at the crankshaft.