CANADIAN THUNDER

Vammus To Race New Sport Classic For Ducati Canada

	Ducati's retro-look Paul Smart Replica.

10/17/05 — Derek Vammus will head into the 2006 Canadian Thunder Series with a new Ducati Paul Smart 1000 Replica, with support from Ducati Canada. This motorcycle captures the essential beauty, timeless style and emotion of the original Taglioni Ducati sport bikes of the 1970s. Even though they reflect the best of the past, they incorporate the latest Ducati technology and engineering, creating a thoroughly modern motorcycle that lives-up to today's standards of road-going performance. Known as a Ducati Sport Classic model, this bike uses Ducati's 992 ccair-cooled Desmodue Dual Spark motor, that is the same power plant in many of Ducati's current line-up. This is the same motor that propelled Vammus to a Thunder Victory this past season on his Ducati SS1000, and 2nd overall in the Championship.The Paul Smart 1000LE (PS1000LE) comes fully equipped with some awesome gear like full Ohlins 'superbike' forks and Ohlins racing shock, combining retro styling with modern parts.

The 2006 PS1000LE is inspired by Paul Smart's 750 1972 Imola 200 racer. The Imola 200 was known as the Daytona of Europe in the early 1970s, with a yearly long distance race featuring street production based motorcycles. All of the major brands participated with highly modified bikes based on models like the Honda CB750, Norton Commando, MV 750 America and Suzuki GT750, just like Superbike racing today. Ducati had yet to race their new 750 twin up to this event, having dominated single cylinder racing since WW2. The new bevel-drive 90 degree L-Twin was the first big twin for Ducati, and Paul Smart’s win in 1972 was the start of four decades of Ducati twin success in production based classes like AMA Superbike in the late seventies, Formula 2 (TT2) in the early eighties and World Superbike (WSB) from the late eighties to today.

Ducati Canada and Derek Vammus look forward to an interesting Canadian Thunder series in 2006. The team is actively seeking sponsors to support our 2006 Factory DucatiThunder Racing effort.

From a press release issued by Ducati Canada Thunder Racing.