Taylor and Ferreira earn podiums at rounds 4 and 5 Thunder r

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Taylor and Ferreira earn podiums at rounds 4 and 5 Thunder race.
Wednesday, August 1st, 2007 - BMW Press Release - Total Motorcycle - www.totalmotorcycle.com

Whitby. The BMW Motorrad Canada racing team was pleased to record three podium positions in rounds 4 and 5 of last weekend’s Parts Canada Superbike Championship Canadian Thunder Series, held at Mosport International Raceway on July 14 and 15.
With heavy rain on Saturday turning the already challenging Mosport track into a slippery playground, Mike Taylor dominated the Round 4 Canadian Thunder race from the start, riding his factory BMW R1200S to a 1st place finish with a margin of some 30 seconds over the 2nd place Buell XB9R of Darren James. Taylor’s teammate, Mike Ferreira also rode a spectacular race, charging from eighth place, narrowly missing a downed Ducati which fell in front of him, to finish 3rd – hot on the heels of James.

Sunday was briefly blessed with a dry track – at least long enough for the Round 5 Thunder race, which proved to be as entertaining as the previous day’s dance in the rain. Virtually every lap of the hard-fought race saw a change in the leaderboard, with Taylor and Ferriera on their BMW R1200Ss and Darren James and Michael Leon on their Buell XB9Rs continually swapping positions. The exhilarating nose-to-tail contest concluded with Leon’s and James’ Buells securing 1st and 2nd places and Ferreira and Taylor finishing 3rd and 4th respectively.

The Canadian Thunder series heads next to the Atlantic Motorsport Park in Shubenacadie, Nova Scotia on August 9-12, with Mike Taylor a very close second to Buell’s Michael Leon series-leading points standing, and Michael Ferreira holding down 7th place.

First ever BMW Motorrad Summerfest

As an unprecedented backdrop for the Parts Canada Superbike Championship series at Mosport, the inaugural BMW Motorrad Summerfest opened on Friday, July 13, providing this weekend’s enthusiastic spectators with an impressive array BMW activities, products and entertainment. With some 500,000 square feet of tarmac laid out to showcase the full range of BMW motorcycles, BMW Retailer booths and a large BMW Rider Gear boutique, each day’s attendees were given the opportunity to view and even roadtest every new model of BMW motorcycle – both onroad and off-road. Over 500 riders took advantage of the BMW demonstration rides.

One of the highlights of BMW Motorrad Summerfest was the entertainment provided by 2006 Stuntwars Freestyle World Champion, BMW’s own Christian Pfeiffer. Having flown in from Germany to attend Summerfest, Chris demonstrated why he was World Champion, bringing wide grins to the faces of every one of the almost-disbelieving motorcycle crowd, as he performed an uncanny, some say “impossible” series of stunts on his BMW F800.

BMW Motorrad Summerfest, in cooperation with sponsor Sirius Satellite Radio, further complemented the excitement and entertainment of the Parts Canada Superbike Championship race weekend with a Saturday evening concert headlining EDWIN, formerly of the group “I Mother Earth”, and local bands, Duty Calls and Afternoon Zero.

BMW Motorrad Summerfest was inspired by the popular BMW Motorrad Biker Meeting, renamed BMW Motorrad Days this year and held for the last six years in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany. The popular German event, held just the previous week, attracted in excess of 34,000 enthusiasts from around the world.

Giving a wide range of motorcycle racing enthusiasts a glimpse at the increasingly wide world of BMW Motorrad, the success of this first BMW Motorrad Summerfest bodes well for a return in 2008.



BMW Group Canada, based in Whitby, Ontario, is a wholly-owned subsidiary of BMW AG and is responsible for the distribution of BMW luxury performance automobiles, Sports Activity Vehicles, Motorcycles, and MINI. BMW Group Financial Services Canada is a division of BMW Group Canada and offers retail financing and leasing programs on new and pre-owned BMW and MINI automobiles, as well as retail financing for new and pre-owned BMW Motorcycles. A total network of 39 BMW automobile retail centres,18 BMW motorcycle retailers, and 22 MINI retailers represents the BMW Group across the country.