CMR Update from Down Under - the Philip Island Classic, January 24-26, 2014

The CMR Yamaha TZ750

This is an update on CMR customer Dave Crussell and Team USA competing at the Phillip Island Classic near Melbourne Australia. The following is from the website of Motorcycling Australia, entry dated January 25, 2014. For the complete item, go to the Motorcycling Australia website.

Here's the report:

"Team USA to Unleash at Island Classic

Team USA organizer and multi-time AHRMA National Champion Dave Crussel has assembled a team of current and past championship winning racers from across America to compete at this weekend's AMCN International Island Classic at the Phillip Island Grand Prix Circuit.

The year 2014 marks the second year in which the Americans have fielded a team in the Tahbilk International Challenge - a four-nation battle between the USA, the UK, Australia and New Zealand to determine historic motorcycle racing supremacy....

...In 2014, the team will be focussing on the international challenge in the P5 Forgotten Era Superbike Category (1972-82).

Dave on the CMR TZ750 at Isle of Man in August 2013

Dave Crussell will be aboard one of his 1978 CMR TZ750's. Crussell will also field four other riders on his machines. Brian Filo, current AHMRA racer and one of the top points scorers in 2014 will ride a full-on 1978 P&M Kawasaki Z1. Current and past AFM Superbike champions Shawn Riley and Rob Mesa will be aboard a 1978 Sponden TZ750 and another 1978 CMR TZ750...

...The Island Classic is the Southern Hemisphere's largest historic motorcycle racing event. As well as the Tahbilk International Challenge, the Classic also hosts events for solo and side-car machinery from early last century to 1990."

Final results, and a personal update from Dave Crussell will be posted as soon as we receive them.