Lloyd Brothers team going back to Italian bike
Lloyd Brothers Motorsports’ Henry Wiles will be back on the Ducati for this weekend’s Lima Half Mile, the Michigander hoping to make history as the only non-Honda or Harley rider to win a Grand National Half Mile in the last 35 years.
Joe Kopp was the last rider to win on a Ducati, the now-retired 2000 AMA Grand National Champion riding the Lloyd Brothers Ducati to victory in the Prescott Mile in Arizona. With that win in 2010, Kopp became the first non-Honda RS750 or XR750 winner in 28 years, but it came on a mile and not a half mile.