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Homestead-Miami Speedway - Homestead, FL.
April 14, 2007

The #77 Touring Sport Ducati Racing Team had another successful weekend, posting another 2 nd place podium win at the Homestead 500k round of the 2007 SunTrust MOTO-ST Endurance Roadracing Series. This puts the Greenville , SC based team made up of Frank Shockley ( Greenville , SC ) , Brad Phillips ( Greer , SC ) and Pete Friedland ( Columbia , SC ) within 1 point of the championship points lead for the Grand Sport Twins class of the MOTO-ST endurance series.

Grid positions were assigned by points which put Touring Sport Ducati on the outside of row #1 alongside the #8 Buell XB12R of Shawn Higbee & Dan Bilansky. The race-start was one that showed spectators an all-out fight for the lead position within the GST class. Seemingly more like a sprint race than an endurance event, there were 7 lead changes within the first 10 laps, with the Touring Sport Ducati team out front on lap 4 & 9. On lap 10 after coming off the back straight under heavy braking onto the infield section, John Linder, aboard the #89 Rights for Bikers’ Ducati PS1000LE, came across Friedland’s front tire causing him to cross the steering up a bit and run wide, loosing 3 positions, however Friedland kept pushing to put the Touring Sport Ducati team back to the lead by lap 20. “We eventually lost the lead on lap 30 to the #31 machine of Keese & Keese also aboard a Ducati Supersport 1000 and I was not able to get them back within distance to make a pass.” Friedland later commented after the race.

Phillips took over the racing duties and blasted out of the pit-box after a quick fuel stop and rider change on lap #32. Brad was up to full pace by the next lap, clicking off a handful of consistent ‘38’s. Knowing the lead-bike still needed to pit, he kept his head down making no mistakes to bring the leading #31 machine back into sight. After the leaders pitted on lap 36 and came back out of track, Phillips had the #31 machine within 6 seconds but slowly the gap widened as the day went on. Friedland jumped back on the bike after the 2 nd fuel-stop at lap # 61 and ran as long as possible, but after the fuel light was lit for 6 laps and still 15 minutes left in the race, he had to pit. After a quick splash of fuel, Shockley jumped on the bike and took the team home to another 2 nd place finish which now brings Touring Sport Ducati to 64 points in the MOTO-ST point standings after 2 rounds.

After the race, Shockley responded, “"I am very proud of our team this weekend, our lead rider "Pistol Pete" was for the 2nd time in row the fastest rider on the track in GST practice. We are really working well as a team and it shows, we do still have some fine tuning to do to get the maximum laps from a tank of fuel and I believe we will have it down pat when we arrive at VIR in 2 weeks time.”

Friedland adds, “We are very happy with our results down here at Homestead . With four rounds left, we really need to focus on that top position and the pace is there for us to do it. We need to squeeze very bit from our Ducati, and will be making small adjustments to our fuel strategy & pit-stops.”

A Special Thank-You to the Touring Sport Ducati Racing Sponsors:

Touring Sport Ducati
Duc Shop Performance Center

Robby Byrd
USDesmo
Swatt Motorcycle Products

Pirelli Tires
Sunoco Race Fuels

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