I'm still alive

News is slow around this time of the year. The big racing series are closed up for winter and the weather keeps a lot of us from riding. Most of the big new '09 model revelations hare already months past now as well, though we still eagerly read bits of additional details about them.

In other news...

WSBK has given Miller Motorsports Park their "Organizer of the Year" award for '08

Who says the US doesn't have world-class roadcourses?

http://www.worldsbk.com/pubb_EN/news_ext.php?id=2779

They also have a brief article about the BMW S1000RR we've been talking about for so long now.

http://www.worldsbk.com/pubb_EN/news_ext.php?id=2773

"In the hands of Corser, the new factory BMW was only 1.4 seconds off the very best time of the test at Kyalami..."

The Aprilia isn't lapping too shabby thus far either. Biaggi on the new Aprilia and Corser on the new BMW duking it out down the big stretch at Kyalami... ahhh. This season hasn't even begun and already the atmosphere has become a World Superbike classic. I've re-opened the "biggest splash" poll for the occasion.

Some cool stuff up over at MCN; for example how "Bayliss and Rossi agree WSBK is more fun than MotoGP" and word that Aprilia has given the Tuono-equivalent naked version of the RSV4 the green light.