PODIUM AT BARBER MOTORSPORTS PARK
The No. 69 RightsForBikers.com Ducati PS1000LE team of Jason Edmonds (Ft. Lauderdale, Fla.), John Linder (Tampa, Fla.) and Rodolfo Ramirez (Sunrise, Fla.) finished second in the 4th round of the SunTrust MOTO-ST Series. 2008 results>>
A WIN AT ROAD AMERICA!
June 7, 2008: Sixth overall and winner of the BMW GrandSport Twins (GST) division was the No. 59 RightsforBikers.com Ducati PS1000LE ridden by Justin Filice of Daytona Beach, Fla, Armando Ferrer from Caracas, Venezuela and Roldolfo Ramirez of Ft. Lauderdale, Fla.
Filice rode a strong opening stint with his dad Jimmy Filice on the No. 9 Pair-A-Nines Kawasaki on the wet track to put the No. 59 Ducati in the class lead. The father-son duo battled it out the entire first stint.
"I have to give a lot of credit to my dad," Justin Filice said. "He led me around early on and showed me some spots I could use a little more throttle."
More than just a win, Justin and his dad will long remember this event as Justin's first roadrace win ever and Jimmy's first win at Road America.
Armando picked up the pace as the track conditions went from wet to dry and maintained the lead, finishing 18.559 seconds ahead of the second place team. The pair started and finished the race on one set of rain tires.
Finishing 4th in the GST class and 19th overall were riders Jason Edmonds and John Linder. Starting the race on DOT tires in the rain promised to be a challenge for the no. 69 Ducati, unable to make up the time as the track dried.
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Two podiums at VIR!
April 28, 2008: Riders Justin Filice and Rodolfo Ramirez overcame a number of obstacles to finish 3rd in the SST class during the 2 ½ hour race at VIR on April 27th, 2008.
The team participated in the 1 ½ hour scheduled practice and qualifying on Saturday morning, but with a limited number of laps. Justin Filice set out on the Suzuki SV1000 and found quickly that the set-up for the two lightweight riders needed some major tuning, and the crew needed to repair a faulty front brake line. With only 2-3 laps in per rider, and no qualifying laps, the crew set out to get the bike in order for Sunday’s race, while the Ducati PS1000LE had a flawless practice and qualified in 5th place.
Rain didn’t hold back the start of the VIR 500K on Sunday morning at 9:15am. Gridded in the back of the SST class, rider Justin Filice turned his best lap time of a 2:03.177 on lap 60 and consistently made fast laps to lead a total of 19 laps in the 70 lap race. The team chose to run slicks at the beginning of the race, a decision that put them at a serious advantage. While other teams pitted to change tires, Justin opened the gap on the other front-runners. After a fuel stop and rider change it was decided, based upon position and time left in the race, that the team would change the rear tire…and it had to be flawless!
In for the pit stop – bike is refueled and crew gets to work changing the rear when snap…the axel breaks. Steve Walker runs over the wall to the spare bike and grabs the axel. The team in all may have lost about 30 seconds on the stop but the crew did a great job recovering from the incident. At that point the team was passed by the #1 Aprilia and the #75 Ducati. Filice finished out the last stint on the podium!
The Ducati PS1000LE finishes in 2nd!
Riders Jason Edmonds and John Linder rode a very consistent race to finish in 2nd place in the competitive GST class. Edmonds rode the first stint up until about half way through the race when rider John Linder took over. Consistent lap times, no mechanicals and flawless pit stops earned the team the 2nd place spot on the podium.
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