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AMA Pro Superbike
AMA SBK: Larry Pegram - Back To The Front
Larry Pegram may have taken a step back last year as he acclimated to new machinery, but he vows to be fighting for victory again in 2012.
Foremost Insurance Pegram Racing's Larry Pegram (Photo: Evan Williams)
It may have been left for dead decades ago, but the vinyl LP market has made a huge comeback over the past few years. Even if only a niche, old fashioned records and the independent record stores that sell them are thriving while big CD chain stores are melting away into bankruptcy.
AMA Pro Superbike’s LP, Larry Pegram, has made a similar comeback over the last few years. Everything started lining back into place when Pegram had hip replacement surgery prior to the 2005 season. Pegram’s promising career had nearly been foiled by a horrific crash at Phoenix in 1993. He’d come back, but the effects had hindered him from achieving his goals. The pain was one thing. The lack of movement was another. He couldn’t lean off the bike like he wanted.
Pegram had some success before the new hip, though. He won a Superbike race for Ferracci Ducati in ’99 at Willow Springs and won in 600 Supersport for Yoshimura Suzuki. But everyone thought his career was winding down before the hip replacement surgery -- and before he began running his own team.
Larry says his best moment in racing was when he won at Elkhart Lake in ’09 on the Ducati in an epic battle with Mat Mladin. He won twice more at Topeka, then at Fontana in 2010.
Last year was more of a struggle as Pegram and the Foremost Insurance Pegram Racing squad switched from Ducati to BMW equipment. The electronics were never quite right and Pegram did not win in 2011, but was only out of the top ten twice.
The 38-year-old Ohio native thinks the team will be back on top this year, however.
SPEED.com: What’s the latest with your team?
Larry Pegram: We made some good steps forward in the offseason. I thought we were making some good steps forward by the season’s end. I think the bike, now, is really good. We were able to do four or five tests this winter and we were able to get some really upgraded electronics packages and engine package, chassis… everything is much better. Before, we were never able to get the thing adjusted properly. Every time you change the electronics, it changes the way the chassis behaves and the motor works. Once we finally were able to get the electronics right, it was a lot easier to dial everything else in.
AMA Pro Superbike’s LP, Larry Pegram, has made a similar comeback over the last few years. Everything started lining back into place when Pegram had hip replacement surgery prior to the 2005 season. Pegram’s promising career had nearly been foiled by a horrific crash at Phoenix in 1993. He’d come back, but the effects had hindered him from achieving his goals. The pain was one thing. The lack of movement was another. He couldn’t lean off the bike like he wanted.
Pegram had some success before the new hip, though. He won a Superbike race for Ferracci Ducati in ’99 at Willow Springs and won in 600 Supersport for Yoshimura Suzuki. But everyone thought his career was winding down before the hip replacement surgery -- and before he began running his own team.
Larry says his best moment in racing was when he won at Elkhart Lake in ’09 on the Ducati in an epic battle with Mat Mladin. He won twice more at Topeka, then at Fontana in 2010.
Last year was more of a struggle as Pegram and the Foremost Insurance Pegram Racing squad switched from Ducati to BMW equipment. The electronics were never quite right and Pegram did not win in 2011, but was only out of the top ten twice.
The 38-year-old Ohio native thinks the team will be back on top this year, however.
SPEED.com: What’s the latest with your team?
Larry Pegram: We made some good steps forward in the offseason. I thought we were making some good steps forward by the season’s end. I think the bike, now, is really good. We were able to do four or five tests this winter and we were able to get some really upgraded electronics packages and engine package, chassis… everything is much better. Before, we were never able to get the thing adjusted properly. Every time you change the electronics, it changes the way the chassis behaves and the motor works. Once we finally were able to get the electronics right, it was a lot easier to dial everything else in.
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