Larry Pegram Ducati Foremost Racing Live Webcam for AMA Superbike Mid Ohio Round

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Larry Pegram's Pegram Racing/Leo Vince/Competition Accessories/Foremost Insurance Group Ducati 749R sits under the team's canopy in the paddock area at Mid Ohio in the summer of 2007. Pegram raced the AMA Formula Xtreme Championship in '07 and finished fourth in the class with six top five finishes and three podiums to his credit. The big twin was no match for the inline fours of Erion Honda's duo of Josh Hayes and Aaron Gobert, or the inline of Attack Kawasaki's Steve Rapp. The 2010 season marks four years with Larry onboard the Italian marque, after riding Hondas in '06. This is his second straight year back in the premier AMA Superbike class and he has already proven to be a front runner again after a stellar year last year aboard the team's 1098R's. After first round qualifying today Larry sits in the third spot to line up for the AMA Superbike finals tomorrow and Sunday.
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Larry Pegram, who has raced just about everything imaginable in the AMA Pro Racing series and for what seems like forever, is in the middle of a great run this year after having a stellar year back in the premier AMA Superbike class last year. After today's provisional qualifying session at Mid Ohio, Pegram sits in the 3rd spot on the grid for the AMA Superbike races with his Foremost Insurance Ducati 1098R just .542 seconds behind race and series front runners Tommy Hayden and Josh Hayes. Go Larry!

For this weekend, the Pegram Racing team is offering an 'in view' live webcam of the goings on in their garage at Mid Ohio. (it requires Apple Quicktime plug-in to view)

So while you are checking out the Live Timing and Scoring feeds from the races outside Lexington, you can have a look at what Larry and the Foremost Ducati team are up to.

Check it out here--and thanks to Larry and the team for the live feed. You guys rock as usual!

http://pegramracing.com/liverace/index.php
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Ducati Wins It's 1st U.S. Superbike Race in 4 Years at Road America...

...and winning it for Ducati was none other then Mr. Larry Pegram, who had last

won a U.S. Superbike round back in '99 at Willow Springs Raceway in the sunny

state of California.

Larry, who also won his last--and his first--Superbike race on a Ducati, did so

while riding a Fast By Ferraci-prepped Duc at the time. According to reports today

from the beautiful Road America circuit, Larry mananged to best not only a VERY solid

field of competitors in Aaron Yates, Ben Bostrom and Neil Hodgson--just to name a few--

but also BESTED the King of U.S./AMA Superbikes, yes, ladies and gentleman, Mr. Mat

Mladin, the 6-Time Superbike Champ. And per those reports, did so in a heads up race that

went to the wire with Larry pulling out the win over Mad Mat by just over .3 seconds!

Now, to win a Superbike race in itself is quite the accomplishment, but to do so in a heads

up assault against one Mat Mladin, well, is pretty darn rare! (For more proof of that you will have to read my previous posts and brush up on your history via some of the other websites

that have more time and can do a much better job of documenting that then I can. But to say

this was a major accomplishment by itself is understating the feat dramatically!)

Congrats to Larry Pegram on his Foremost Insurance/Leo Vince Exhausts Duc for putting it

on the top of the box again, and for giving Ducati that elusive win they haven't seen on U.S.

soil in quite some time! And bravo to you, as well, Mr. Pegram for being able to best the best

that U.S. soil has seen and probably will never see again in one Mr. Mladin! I'm sure your respect level in the paddock, let alone with fans such as myself, has gone up exponentially.

While we celebrate Mr. Pegram's feat--who by the way has raced a variety of road race AND

dirt track races since the early '90s--you can check out the following links from the wonderful

folks at http://www.roadracingworld.com/ and http://www.superbikeplanet.com/ who have supplied us with the results links, and also to the great people at http://www.speedtv.com/ for the nice read on

the race itself:

http://roadracingworld.com/news/article/?article=36851

http://superbikeplanet.com/2009/Jun/e/n090607g.htm

http://moto-racing.speedtv.com/article/ama-sbk-pegram/

The shots you view as you are relishing the great win by Larry and Ducati are of Mr.

Pegram at the sprawling Road America track last year during the June AMA round. These

were taken back in the turn 10 area of RA while practice was being run for the then-FX class.

Larry had run that class during the '07 and '08 campaigns on his own team with Foremost and

Leo Vince as his main sponsors while riding a Ducati 848 against the onslaught of the mainly

600, 4 cylinder, inline-based Japanese bikes. This practice session, as you look closely, was

being run as the track was drying after a fairly heavy rain mid-morning on Saturday of the

event. Hence the grooved tires, as they ran race slicks during the dry events and race rain tires

during the wet events. This was NOT a DOT tire class. This was a MINI-Superbike class, ala the name 'FX'--for Formula Extreme, as it were, as the class was named at one time. Larry ran

against the best of the best and was always in the hunt and if my fading memory recalls ended

up ranked 4th overall in class at the end of the '08 campaign. Please correct me if I am wrong.

Again, a major tip o' the hat to Larry and Ducati. And of course, to Mad Mat, as he does retain

the points lead after winning SuperPole and race 1 of the w/e yesterday. Even though he isn't

worried about points. But that is another post for another time.....

God Bless all and have a great week!