Posted Jul 23, 2011, 10:20 PM
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http://www.statesman.com/sports/a-te...d-1638719.html
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A Texas-bred burst of speed
By John Maher
AMERICAN-STATESMAN STAFF
Published: 10:33 p.m. Friday, July 22, 2011
MONTEREY, CALIF. — MotoGP rider Ben Spies is something that Formula One only wishes it had, a born-in-the-USA threat to end up on the podium. Spies, who was born in Tennessee but raised in Longview, had a big breakthrough earlier this summer when he won his first MotoGP race, in the Netherlands.
"It's huge," said Kevin Schwantz, a former motorcycle world champion and a partner in the Circuit of the Americas being built southeast of Austin, about having an American — and a Texan — near the top of the sport.
When it was announced in April that Austin would have a MotoGP race for at least five years, beginning in 2013, Spies was on hand to talk about what it meant to have such an event in his home state.
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