Joe Kopp's Ducati AMA Flat Track Win Is The Shot Heard Round The World

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Larry Pegram's Lloyd Brothers Racing Ducati sits in the pits at the Indy Mile during MotoGP weekend in August of 2009. Pegram rode the bike in several events last year and had been working with a version of the bike since the '04-'05 season.
The 2010 version took '00 Grand National Champion Joe Kopp and The Lloyd Brothers to victory in Prescott Valley last Saturday. It was not only Ducati's first win in AMA Flat Track competition at any level, but it was the first Grand National win for the talented Lloyd Brothers team as well. Very well deserved with some intense and long time veterans on the team like former GNC competitors Kevin Atherton and Davey Durelle working in different capacities to bring this project to fruition.
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And a shot for AMA Flat Track that was much needed, at that.
Perusing the internet the last few days since Joe Kopp, Lloyd Brothers Racing and Ducati made history in the desert last weekend by winning the Arizona Mile, the amount of press for everyone is astounding. From the AMA to Kopp to Ducati, the amount of information out there by doing a Google search is unparalled in AMA Flat Track racing. From the States to the UK to Australia, people are picking up on this great win and series history making event. And all the while giving AMA Flat Track the shot of adrenaline that the series has needed for years, and maybe decades.
I've put together a VERY small, but very interesting smattering of the articles that I thought did the best job of showing the sport overall, as well as highlighting the monumental achievement itself that this is and should be for AMA Flat Track as a whole.
See what you think and congrats again to AMA Flat Track, Joe Kopp, Lloyd Brothers and Ducati for this festive and fun win and event.
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Here's the links to some of the action and noise emanating from around the globe on this great accomplishment for AMA Flat Track, Joe Kopp, Lloyd Brothers Racing and Ducati. Read and right on!

MCNews Australia has a Ducati press release on the race:
http://www.mcnews.com.au/NewsArchives/2010/May/Duc_Flat.htm
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Full Noise is a bike mag from down under in Australia and has the Ducati press release here:
http://www.fullnoise.com.au/news/index.cfm?fuseaction=display_full&news_id=7543&Ntitle=Flat+Track:+Ducati+makes+history+with+its+first+ever+US+Grand+National+Flat+Track+victory&cfid=11250710&cftoken=27828703&dts=85201010555
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Here's Sideburn Mag's stories and pics from the folks in The UK:
http://sideburnmag.blogspot.com/2010/05/ducati-win-gnc-mile.html

http://sideburnmag.blogspot.com/2010/05/yavapai-action.html
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Poppa Wheelie has some real nice pics and stories to go with his coverage from the event:
http://pwheelie.blogspot.com/2010_05_01_archive.html#3719282652444695138

http://pwheelie.blogspot.com/2010_05_01_archive.html#6331072867778896714

http://pwheelie.blogspot.com/2010_05_01_archive.html#4253883936348600990

http://pwheelie.blogspot.com/2010_05_01_archive.html#5974034346337646736
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The KneeSlider.com has a nice article with a couple of pics of the event:
http://thekneeslider.com/archives/2010/05/05/ducati-flat-tracker-beats-a-field-of-harley-davidsons-nice-base-for-a-street-tracker/
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2WheelTuesday.com has another look at the race with some great pics as well:
http://2wheeltuesday.com/2010/05/ama-flat-track-joe-kopp-puts-ducati-on-the-podium-first-time-ever-in-grand-slam-flat-track/
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DucatiNewsToday.com from New Zealand by way of Atlanta has an article and pics, too:
http://www.ducatinewstoday.com/2010/05/ducati-humbles-harley-on-the-dirt/
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