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Former MotoGP racer and World Superbike champion Ben Spies blogs for BT Sport and tells us about his life after racing.
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Ben Spies, the 2009 world Superbike champion, is the man behind the elite amateur road team Elbowz Racing
And also HUGE Congrats to Ben Bostrom who today won the "worlds hardest bicycle race" the RAAM Race Across America Today (with Micky Diamond and the rest of the Legends of the Road Team) 3020 miles in 5 1/2 days...
http://www.raceacrossamerica.org/raam/raamfp.php?N_webcat_id=1
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Never been so nervous in my life! Thankfully she said yes!!!! pic.twitter.com/bMmZcYYjPh
A little slow on the draw on this but "Wow! Congratulations!" is still well in order I think...
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Ben Spies has watched the Qatar GP from home, commenting via twitter the performances of his former colleagues. Unfortunately at the end of the last season the Texan rider was forced to announce his, temporary, retirement, due to his injured shoulder’ bad conditions.
Read more: http://www.gpone.com/en/2014032613071/Spies-coming-back-My-shoulder-says-no.html#ixzz2xBOmqjc9
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Forward MotoGP rider Colin Edwards II, heading home to Texas after the Japanese Grand Prix, still had his head in Motegi and the upcoming Spanish Grand Prix at Valencia and hadn't even thought much about Ben Spies decision to retire.
"So, did he not want to ride the Superbike?" Edwards asked about Spies. It's rumored that Spies mulled over a season on the Panigale Ducati WSBK before deciding to retire.
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Ben Spies to announce retirement after continuing shoulder problems result in dismal year for Pramac Ducati team, and Ducati offers to return to World Superbike are rejected
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Proceeds from the sale of AMS Ducati Dallas Diavel ridden by Ben Spies at Indianapolis Motor Speedway will go to Dave Stanton.
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Ben Spies maintains his contract will see him riding a MotoGP bike next season, but Ducati could persuade him to opt for a WSBK ride instead....
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Ben Spies has suffered a literally bruising year in 2013, having been able to contest only two MotoGP™ races. The Ignite Pramac Racing rider, whose most recent injuries were picked up at Indianapolis, chats with motogp.com.
Good Interview. Good Timing. It sure would be nice to see this guy fit and riding a bike worthy of his ability. Fingers crossed for 2014.
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Italian media are reporting this afternoon that discussions are underway between Ducati Corse--Ducati's race arm--and American Ben Spies which may see the former WSBK champion and GP winner not return to MotoGP in 2013. It is said that Spies' doctors have recommended that he not race again in 2013 because of shoulder injuries and also injuries to his hand/wrist suffered in his Indy crash.
Reportedly Ducati is evaluating this information with their own doctors.
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See the original story HERE on GPOne.com (in Italian)
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Ben Spies was, and perhaps still is, America’s great white hope when it comes to MotoGP racing. A sensational young rider, Spies cut his teeth in the AMA on six class championships before going onto winning the World Superbike Championship in his rookie season.
Fast-tracked into MotoGP, Spies served his time, by rule, in Hervé Poncharal’s Monster Yamaha Tech 3 team, before finally getting the nod into Yamaha Racing’s factory outfit.
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After the crime, the apology. Hoping that it is not just crocodile tears. Ben Spies and his mother Mary made a call last night to Carlo Pernat , the subject of a comment infangante posted on Twitter by the Texan in recent days. " Ben and his mom called me - confirms the Genoese manager - and we talked for a long time. I gladly accepted their apologies, for me the matter is closed . " Pernat reacted with elegance in an act condemned by the whole paddock and the Ducati in the first place.
Yesterday the justifications to the act were multiple and contradictory to each other . The first was that Ben was under the effects of anesthesia, although the tweet in reference to the transaction was the next day. Then, through Superbikeplanet , Mary Spies has declared puzzled by the fact that that message had been awarded to her or her son. He also added that Ben had not at that moment the phone with him, and even though he had written it on marine biotoxins in Pernat would not be so obvious. Even the child would know six Carlo, does not specify whether it is his habit then name them all publicly with unflattering terms.
Read more: http://www.gpone.com/2013082511221/Ben-Spies-chiede-scusa-a-Carlo-Pernat.html#sthash.CI8JV0Y3.uxfs#ixzz2d5mM9xYw
More on this odd situation, which I have a hard time believing is now "water under the bridge"...
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Reportedly, Ben Spies' Twitter account had a post yesterday which now has eyebrows fully raised in the MotoGP paddock.
Spies underwent surgery on both of his shoulders yesterday and is expected to be off the bike for an additional eight to ten weeks.
At one point, presumably before the surgery, Spies' Twitter account had a message which read Saw the doc today. not great. Off to surgery tomorrow! Bet Carlo is so excited he wont remember to wipe the powder off his nose.
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Pramac Ducati MotoGP rider hopes to “get back to racing this season.”
Pramac Racing Ducati MotoGP rider Ben Spies underwent surgery Thursday morning at North Central Surgical Hospital in Dallas, Texas, to fix a Grade 5 acromioclavicular separation of his left shoulder. In addition, scar tissue was removed from Spies’ right shoulder, which was reconstructed last October.
According to Spies’ mother, Mary, the two-hour operation was performed by Dr. Daniel Cooper, head physician for the Dallas Cowboys football team, and a shoulder specialist. The 29-year-old Spies is expected to spend one night in the hospital.
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The article leaves me wondering why he doesn't use the airbag suit, and if it would have prevented this...
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Ben Spies has announced that he will require surgery for the dislocated left shoulder suffered during practice for last weekend's Indianapolis MotoGP.
"Saw the doc today. not great. Off to surgery tomorrow!" Spies wrote on Twitter (@BenSpies11) this morning
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As a Spies fan going back to AMA it's really tough to watch him get sidetracked like this. I'd say get well soon but if I only have one wish for him it would be that he have a big pile of really good luck. Talent, toughness and physical fitness he has in spades. It's bad luck and Bridgestones that are doing him in......
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Ducati test rider Michele Pirro has been recalled to the Pramac team for this weekend's Czech Grand Prix following Ben Spies' latest injury.
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American Ben Spies, who was making a long-awaited return to MotoGP racing at this weekend’s Red Bull Indianapolis Grand Prix, has ruled himself out of the Indy race due to suffering a grade-three separation of his left shoulder after crashing in Turn Four during the Saturday morning practice. Spies’ right shoulder—which forced him to miss three months of the season due to damage suffered in a crash at Sepang last year that required surgery—was apparently uninjured. Although he will see doctors on Monday to determine his recovery period, the severity of the separation of his left shoulder will likely mean the Texan will be out of action for at least three-four weeks at a minimum
Read more: http://www.sportrider.com/news/146_13080_ben_spies_out_of_indy_motogp/#ixzz2cHq2UIzt
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Ben Spies made history on Thursday by performing the first drag-race-style pass of any kind—two or four wheels—on the back straight of the historic Indianapolis Motor Speedway’s 2.5-mile oval.
Built by Jeff Nash, owner of Advanced Motorsports Ducati in Dallas, Texas, the radical, open-header Diavelcould be heard on the opposite side of the racetrack. After a short warm-up run, Spies pointed the bike toward Turn 3, clicked the transmission into first gear and laid down a textbook burnout. Moments later, the PramacDucati MotoGP rider disappeared into the heat waves rising off the tarmac.
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Ben Spies has ridden motorcycles of all shapes and sizes, and with widely varying performance, from hand-me-down minis to factory roadracers. On Thursday, August 15, at Indianapolis Motor Speedway, the Pramac Racing MotoGP rider will make his first “pass” on a Ducati Diavel drag racer.
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Ben Spies fully intends to be back racing a factory-backed Ducati Desmosedici in 2014 after laughing off rumours that he will retire or quit and return to World Superbikes.
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0:06:01 Ed Haazer
0:21:40 Josh Hayes
0:37:33 Ben Spies
0:47:49 Jeff Tigert
Jim Race and Martin Darlington link up once again.
Good interview with Ben Spies in tis weeks episode - speaks on his comeback, fitness and Indy stratagy....
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We saw former AMA and WSBK champion Ben Spies at Laguna Seca last weekend. We interviewed him in AlpineStars hospitality.
Q How's your health?
A My health's really good. It's been a rough year, as we know, and a lot of people really didn't realize how bad it was, because obviously a lot of people aren't doctors. Neither was I. I thought I could get back a lot quicker than I could. If you talk to anybody that knows anything, or a doctor, and they know the injury I had, it's a very, very, very big injury, and I kind of just always played it off, "yeah, I'll come back quick," and stuff like that. So that's what I told people, too, but it was - it's been the hardest eight months that I've ever had. Mentally, physically - at first it was physical, and then now, the last couple months that I'm starting to feel good, it's more mentally I want to be back, when in the beginning, it was hard to mentally be there when physically you're so down. So it's been kind of a transitional phase. But now, I feel physically very good. So now I'm starting to, being back at the track, I want to be back on the bike....
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Ben Spies was back in the MotoGPpaddock at Laguna Seca on Saturday, where the Pramac Ducati rider gave an update on his recovery.
Spies has only raced twice this season due to shoulder injuries originally sustained at last October's Malaysian Grand Prix.
The Texan is targeting a return to action next time out at Indianapolis, in mid-August.
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The 2009 World Superbike champion believes the California clash on July 21 might be too soon to return from a serious right shoulder injury he sustained in a rain-hit Sepang race last October.
Spies is undertaking an intensive rehab regime in America and the 28-year-old is hoping he can ride his Ignite Ducati Desmosedici in Indianapolis in mid-August.
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