American Motorcycle Dealer AMD 179 June 2014 | Page 15

Zodiac Racing ready to defend
European Championship
EUROPEAN Champion Zodiac Racing is
about to start the 2014 season with
one goal in mind, to defend the
European crown. This year started with
the good news that all their major
sponsors will continue their support for
the coming race season.
Zodiac General Manager Vincent
Pels said "it became even better when
long time Zodiac partner S&S Cycle, the
“Industry Leader of Proven
Performance Products for HarleyDavidson”, decided to team up and
support our racing efforts.
"With a rich racing heritage of more
than 55 years, the support and
knowledge of S&S Cycle is more then
welcome, not the least because of the
Hubba Hubba supercharged Top Fuel
Harley-Davidson. This bike was the first
V-twin to exceed 200 mph in the
quarter mile in 1995, under the

leadership of George Smith Jr., an
accomplishment that Zodiac Racing's
team principal Ton Pels did himself one
year later, as the first European."
So in addition to S&S Cycle and
distributor Zodiac International as
naming rights sponsor, "Godfather VII"
will again be supported by the likes of
Spectro Oils of America, SuperTrapp,
Accel Motorcycle Products and
Kibblewhite Precision Machining Inc.
Pels says that "the team is also going
to rely on valuable parts from
supporters such as National Cycle for
their 220 mph tested V-Stream wind
screen, and Eriks/Gates, who helped to
develop a new blower drive system for
this coming season.
The formation of the team will be the
same as last year, with former Zodiac
General Manager Ton Pels as team
principal, his son Vincent Pels as Crew

Chief and Norwegian Ronny Aasen as
rider.
The first outing of the year will be the
first round of the FIM Europe Super Twin
Top Fuel championship at Santa Pod
Raceway in the UK.Ton and Vincent Pels
(T&V Racing) have made some major
changes in the fuel system of the
1000+HP nitro-methane breathing
machine, to be able to control the
extraordinary fuel delivery of over 12
gallons per minute better.

The rest of the changes made over
the winter are mostly for consistency,
like a new blower drive, newly designed
CP pistons and a titanium 9-stage
clutch. They expect to need one or two
runs to dial-in the bike and get their
base line setting back, but from then on
the plan is to run hard, so Ronny can
take on the elite of European
V-Twin racers in the only true
European Championship.
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terrain vehicles per year will be
made for delivery to Europe,
Middle East and Russia. Some
350 jobs will be created initially,
with that number expected to
grow in the future" said
Boguslaw Dawiec, Plant

Manager.
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