Intersport Racing broke Audi's stranglehold in the LMP1 category Saturday to take the class victory in the Detroit Sports Car Challenge presented by Bosch, the ninth round of the American Le Mans Series. The No. 37 Very Berry Exotics Lola B06/10 AER of Jon and Clint Field and Richard Berry took the top spot when the No. 1 Audi R10 TDI failed to meet the minimum weight in post-race technical inspection. The win was Intersport's first in the Series since Portland 2006, and its maiden LMP1 victory. It also ended Audi's 30-race class winning streak that dated back to Sebring in 2006. Intersport Racing is the American Le Mans Series longest participating privateer team having competed throughout the Series' 10-year history.

"While this is not exactly how we had hoped to claim our first LMP1 win, we'll take it anyway," said team owner and former American Le Mans LMP2 Champion, Clint. "A win is a win. We admire and respect our friends at Audi. We race them hard and fair every time out. It is a huge challenge for a small privateer like Intersport to go out there and compete with a team of Audi's caliber. This is great for our guys. The whole crew works so hard every week, and we're really happy to share this with them."

"This is a great day for everyone associated with the Intersport Racing team," Jon said. "My last win came at Sebring nearly three years ago, so it's great to have another one under my belt. We are appreciative of the victory, but like Clint said, regardless of the circumstances, a win is a win. We've shown that we have we have the pace to beat the Audis at other tracks. Though I think everyone had difficulty setting up their cars here this weekend because of the lack of track time."

All competitors faced difficult challenges at Belle Isle, as rain dampened most of the activities on Friday. While some teams elected to go out in the morning practice session on wet tires, Intersport played it smart and kept its AER-powered prototype parked in the paddock. In the second practice, Clint and Richard ventured out, completing a handful of laps and acclimating themselves to the tricky 14-turn, 2.07 mile temporary street circuit. In the warm-up on race day, Jon got some time behind the wheel, in what was the first real dry session of the weekend.

The call to preserve the car and not rack up miles in the wet proved to be one of the keys to finishing. Just over 30 minutes into the race, the pole sitter, Lucas Luhr, spun due to the bumps. A few laps later, the German had a second, but race-ending trip into the tire barriers. This immediately put Intersport's Very Berry Exotics Lola into second in class. Jon kept the car solidly in the top-10 overall and on the lead lap through out his double-stint before handing over to son, Clint. Late in the race Richard took over the reigns of the Lola and brought home the win.

"We overcame a few challenges during the race and hung in there at the end," said team manager Brian Alder. "And today, that's what mattered. We're thrilled to have taken the win, although we'd like to have done on the track. I have to thank the entire team that always sticks with us, and also our partners and supporters that never give up. Hopefully this momentum will ride with us into the final two races."

The next round of the American Le Mans Series is the 1,000-mile/10-hour Petit Le Mans powered by the Totally new Mazda6. The Series' cornerstone round is set for 11:15 a.m. ET on Saturday, October 4 from Road Atlanta. SPEED will televise the race live with XM Satellite Radio airing live race coverage throughout the day. Live coverage from American Le Mans Radio will be available at americanlemans.com, which also will feature IMSA's Live Timing & Scoring.

I have finally been able to paint my Arai GP-5K, used for a show piece and track days. I did the design a while ago and was just able to get it into paint and make it a reality. The design has a lot of different elements that are special to me and connect the theme together. I wanted a 3 in there because it is my favorite number, the wings represent my family's history in aviation, and the curving crosses are called Laburu's. They are a symbol of my Basque heritage. The scrolls and font choice was done so everything ties together with an organic feel juxtaposed against the straight lines of the overall design. The color scheme was done for two reasons. The gold candy and the dark blue were done to represent the Blue Angels (again tying in with aviation). The neon orange and neon red with the dark blue was done to represent the Repsol Honda team, my favorite team in Moto GP. I wanted a chrome helmet because it is so fun to look at. So there you go, this is a perfect example of things that you should think about when trying to come up with a design that states who you are. You can see more of this helmet in the gallery section of the website.

The new helmet must have been a good omen for Censport Graphics rider Tyler Cenarrusa at the latest round of the Plaza Cycle Masters of the Mountain series at Miller Motosports Park. Great starts all day, great battles with the opposition, and great results. It was another hot one toping out around 100 degrees but the real heat was on the track. Round 4 was a Suzuki and Yamaha payout weekend so all the fast guys from the west showed up to collect some factory money on their way to Mid-Ohio next week.

In the NTGO class (open class with 600cc and 1000cc motorcycles) Cenarrusa got great start from the 2nd row and was in 3rd place on the opening lap. Mac and Tyler were being held up by a GSXR 1000. Mac managed to make a pass right before a section that you can't pass on and Cenarrusa got stuck behind for the rest of the lap. As a result Mac was able to check out. Tyler then blew turn 9 and allowed John Burr on a Triumph 675 to get by. Tyler and John managed to have an exciting battle all the way to the last lap. Tyler passed on the inside going into turn one and took the line away for John to get a good launch out of the corner. All the while a guy on a Kawasaki ZX10R was lurking behind as Cenarrusa and Burr were fighting. The Kawasaki got a good drive off of the last corner and passed Tyler at the line by 1/100th of a second.

"This race was possibly my favorite so far even though I lost out on the podium by such a close margin. I didn't even know that guy was there the whole time, I was so focused on John in front of me. I had a great time battling with Burr, at one point we were leaning on each other. As I made my pass up the inside of turn one I could see smoke pouring off of his knee puck on the ground, that was pretty cool in itself. I am just happy to have close clean racing with these guys and gals."

In Tyler's first race they had to run two classes at the same time due to a tight schedule with the extra races for the USGPRU 125 and 250 catagories. In NGTU, which Cenarrusa competes in they had to grid behind the open twins class. Both fields went on the green flag. Tyler was on the first row in his category but actually started tenth because of the other class in front of them. Tyler got a solid start and was instantly on the back and dicing with the twins that had a 20 yard head start. He then put in some solid laps and tried to hang with the leading two twins riders. Mac Milner, a rival of Cenarrusa was his only competition of the race.

"I had that great start and even passed 4 or 5 twins guys exiting turn 1. I think I was in 3rd overall and just was clicking off laps. Then I could hear a 600 in the distance behind me. I knew it was Mac. He passed me going into turn 1 on I think the 4th lap. I thought he would check out because he had managed to catch and pass me. But never giving up I tried to stay with him. To my surprise I was able to hang on to him. I was just following him and planning my pass for the last lap. Some guys crashed and the yellow flags came out. I guess they waved the white flag and the yellow at the same time because I didn't even know it was the last lap, all I saw in the flag man's hand was a yellow flag. If I would have known it was the last lap I would have tried to make a pass for the win. When we came down the front straight for the last time I saw the checkered flag and the yellow. I finished 2nd only .4 of a second behind. I was kinda mad because I was so close to my first win. I was able to drop 1.6 seconds off of my lap time from last time I was on the east coarse so I was really happy about that. I will defiantly bring it to Mac at round 6 in September. Hopefully I am going to walk away with a win that weekend."

Tyler will miss round 5 due to a schedule conflict but will be back at Miller on the west course for round 6 on September 5th and 6th. Stay tuned for a race report and see if Tyler can make good on his worlds.

Censport Graphics is proud to present this new technology and technique to produce amazingly detailed bases for a design. For a long time chrome was the coolest thing you could have as a base for your paint job. Now, you can have ultra realistic patterns like desert camo, carbon fiber, burl woods, marble, and stone. This technology was originally invented for the marine industry to simulate wood panels and interior trim because real wood is hard to maintain with water abuse. They were able to make interior pieces made out of plastic that looked exactly like real wood. This same principal has been transferred to the aftermarket and custom industry. Most recently this technology has been used in the hunting world with camo printed shot guns and hunting bows. Censport is proud to be one of the first (if not the first) custom paint companies to experiment with this exciting new technique on helmets. It is going to be the NEW thing that everybody is going to want.

The helmet you see here was designed to use a desert digital camo print. It is the base for the design and all the color will go on top creating a very complex and exciting looking paint job. The finished helmet will have the camo base, and metal flake with candy and pearl paints on top. I also have some carbon fiber helmets in the works so the helmet will look like it was made out of carbon fiber, then the design is painted on top.

This design was originally done for AMA star Josh Hayes of Erion Racing. I met him at Laguna Seca at the Moto GP race last year and told him I would love to paint a couple helmets for him. He seemed eager so I drew something up for him. I noticed he liked to use a scull and crossbones in his designs so I took that idea and designed a helmet around the Jolly Rogers fighter squadron. This design was also to my liking as I wanted to be a naval fighter pilot and Blue Angel since I was 3 years old. Anyway, I sent him the design and he said he liked it but he couldn’t have me do it because he was with another painter. I later found out that Arai helmets started mass-producing his old design as a replica. Maybe this is why he couldn’t switch painters and couldn’t have me do this for him. If he gets the chance to see it all painted up maybe he will decide to switch to Censport! Only time will tell.

But since the design was so much a part of me I decided to paint it for myself for the 08 season. I came up with the design over the winter but up until a couple weeks ago I didn’t have time to even think about working on something for myself. Now it is all finished and I will be wearing it later this month at round 4 of my motorcycle championship. I have another killer design for my Arai GP-5K that I will try to get done before too long so stay tuned for it as well.

Tooele, Utah – After registering late for Round 3 of The Masters of the Mountain Series Censport Graphics rider Tyler Cenarrusa had to start all of his races from the back of the grid. The rules state that if you register late then you are put to the back of the pack instead of lining up by your current points status. This meant that instead of starting from the front row in the NGTO race he would start from nearly dead last in a 28-man field. This particular class is an open class, meaning any bike is eligible to race. This means 600cc motorcycles are racing against 1000 cc motorcycles. One good thing for Tyler was that this particular track layout doesn’t have a lot of long straights for liter bikes to take advantage of their horsepower. However, starting from the back of such a large field in any class was not going to be easy.

“I was pretty bummed that I made that mistake and I knew I had a lot of work ahead of me. One good thing for my mental game was that I wasn’t expecting much so even if I managed a top 10 I was going to be happy. I typically get good starts so I was still optimistic that I could pull out a good result. The only thing I was worried about was the heat. It was around 100 degrees and even though this was a 6 lap sprint race I still get tired toward the end of these races.”

Tyler did end up getting a good start after all, dicing through the pack on his way to turn one. He got about three quarters of the way thru the field at the end of the first lap. He then put his head down to gain as many spots as possible to the end. In the middle of the race there were 4 racers that he had the pace on and could attack. After he got by those riders the gap to the front was too great. He ended up finishing in 3rd.

“After a great start I was able to do most of the hard work by the exit of turn 1. There were a few guys I was battling with in the opening laps and once I got around them I could see the front runners were too far ahead with not enough laps to make a charge. I had no idea what place I was in the entire race. I thought I crossed the line in about 5th or 6th but when I came into my pits everyone was congratulating me on a podium finish. I was ecstatic to say the least!”

Tyler finished 5th and 7th in his other races of the day, but all in all it was a great weekend further gaining his confidence knowing he can be a consistent front-runner. At round 4 in late July he will try not to register late and start from the front where he belongs. Also at round 4 Tyler will be debuting his new helmet design. You can check it out in the gallery section, and read about it in other news.