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MOTO-RACING - AMA SS: Myers Invited To Ride MotoGP Bike At Valencia - SPEED.com
The Rizla Suzuki MotoGP team has invited AMA Pro Racing SuperSport race
winner Elena Myers to ride a factory GSV-R racebike in Valencia, Spain
following the final MotoGP event of the 2010 season.
The offer was made after 16-year-old Myers was invited to tour the Rizla
Suzuki pit garage during the Red Bull U.S. Grand Prix at Mazda Raceway
Laguna Seca last weekend.
“We saw that she was doing quite well over here on her Suzuki,” said Tim
Walpole, Rizla Suzuki MotoGP Press and PR Officer. “So we thought she might
like to come by the box and get to meet the guys and have a look at how we
do things.”
“It blows my mind that people like that are kind of looking at me and the AMA
stuff,” said Myers, who rides for the Lucas Oil Roadracingworld.com RMR
Suzuki team. “To get this opportunity is a once in a lifetime kind of thing.”
When Myers arrived in Rizla Suzuki’s bustling garage, she was introduced to
MotoGP racer Loris Capirossi, who asked a lot of questions about her racing
and then immediately invited her to sit on one of his GSV-R racebikes.
“It felt really small,” said Myers, “but everything, all
the bars and levers and pegs were exactly where I wanted it. I was like, ‘I
could ride this thing right out of here.’
“It was really cool, especially talking to Capirossi. I have a lot of respect for
the guy but even more now that I’ve talked to him. I thought he was a really
down-to-earth guy. Talking to him was just crazy, to say the least.”
Myers also met Rizla Suzuki’s MotoGP rookie Alvaro Bautista, who explained
what all the switches and buttons on the GSV-R’s handlebars and dashboard
did.
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MOTO-RACING - AMA SS: Myers Invited To Ride MotoGP Bike At Valencia - SPEED.com
The Rizla Suzuki MotoGP team has invited AMA Pro Racing SuperSport race
winner Elena Myers to ride a factory GSV-R racebike in Valencia, Spain
following the final MotoGP event of the 2010 season.
The offer was made after 16-year-old Myers was invited to tour the Rizla
Suzuki pit garage during the Red Bull U.S. Grand Prix at Mazda Raceway
Laguna Seca last weekend.
“We saw that she was doing quite well over here on her Suzuki,” said Tim
Walpole, Rizla Suzuki MotoGP Press and PR Officer. “So we thought she might
like to come by the box and get to meet the guys and have a look at how we
do things.”
“It blows my mind that people like that are kind of looking at me and the AMA
stuff,” said Myers, who rides for the Lucas Oil Roadracingworld.com RMR
Suzuki team. “To get this opportunity is a once in a lifetime kind of thing.”
When Myers arrived in Rizla Suzuki’s bustling garage, she was introduced to
MotoGP racer Loris Capirossi, who asked a lot of questions about her racing
and then immediately invited her to sit on one of his GSV-R racebikes.
“It felt really small,” said Myers, “but everything, all
the bars and levers and pegs were exactly where I wanted it. I was like, ‘I
could ride this thing right out of here.’
“It was really cool, especially talking to Capirossi. I have a lot of respect for
the guy but even more now that I’ve talked to him. I thought he was a really
down-to-earth guy. Talking to him was just crazy, to say the least.”
Myers also met Rizla Suzuki’s MotoGP rookie Alvaro Bautista, who explained
what all the switches and buttons on the GSV-R’s handlebars and dashboard
did.
