Chip Yates

Below are our press releases surrounding Chip's 3rd ever professional race weekend and his first ever World-level race!

News Release

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racing@swigz.com

American Chip Yates Ready to Race in the FIM World Supersport Race at Miller Motorsports Park This Weekend

ORANGE COUNTY, CALIFORNIA, May 28, 2009  --  SWIGZ.COM Pro Racing announced today that rider Chip Yates (AMA #89) is in Salt Lake City, along with a newly-built, dedicated WSS racebike, entry fees paid, FIM license arranged, and ready to race as one of only two Americans in the World Supersport race on May 31^st at Miller Motorsports Park.

The 600cc World Supersport race will be Yates’ first world level event and his next regular AMA race will be AMA Daytona SportBike at Laguna Seca July 3-5 (Moto GP weekend).

Chip Yates:  “I think the paperwork process of racing in a world level race has to be harder than the race itself!  Joking aside, the AMA was great in helping me with my FIM license and we are ready to race and are very excited.  I made life harder for my team by writing off my A-bike at Infineon last weekend during race 2 when I crashed out and we’ve been working through the wee hours each night to not only rebuild it, but to meet all WSS regulations and performance specifications.  The bike came off the dyno yesterday and was trailered here to Salt Lake City today with absolutely no time to spare!”

In addition to racing on Sunday, Chip will be participating in other activities such as signing autographs with other World Superbike and World Supersport riders at the downtown party at Energy Solutions Arena from 6:15 – 7:30pm on Thursday evening (May 28), and he will also be a featured rider at the Saturday evening (May 30) Clubhouse member meet and greet and charity auction at Miller Motorsports Park starting at 6:15pm.  The SWIGZ.COM team has donated one of Chip’s Dainese full race leather suits to the Saturday charity auction that Chip was wearing when he crashed out of AMA Daytona SportBike race 2 at Infineon last weekend.

Chip is sponsored in the AMA by:  SWIGZ.COM Dual Hydration System, Dainese, AiM Sports LLC, Woodcraft, and Armour Bodies.

About SWIGZ.COM:  SWIGZ^® is the world’s first dual hydration sports bottle allowing athletes to carry two drinks of their choice in a single bottle during workouts.  SWIGZ^® sports bottles can be purchased at www.swigz.com.  For more details of the SWIGZ.COM Pro Racing team and exciting on-board videos, visit www.chipyates.com and www.youtube.com/chipyates.

News Release

Media Contact:

racing@swigz.com

American Chip Yates Has Qualified for the FIM World Supersport Race at Miller Motorsports Park This Weekend

  --  SWIGZ.COM Pro Racing announced today that rider Chip Yates (AMA #89) has qualified his Suzuki GSX-R600 for the grid of Sunday’s World Supersport race at Miller Motorsports Park.

Chip’s weekend has not been without drama and qualifying within 107% of the world’s fastest 600cc riders proved difficult with a right shoulder injury sustained in a crash at the AMA Infineon Daytona SportBike race two weeks ago.

Chip Yates:  “The situation with my shoulder is only making this experience more colorful and exciting – we have overcome pretty steep odds to put our bike on a world-level grid.  The crash at Infineon destroyed my bike and we spent all our time and energy rebuilding it to world specs as best we could for this race weekend.  We only had 2 days to build our engine and it makes 123 horsepower versus the 138 ~ 145 horsepower of the incredible World Supersport machines.  Still, it’s great to be here and the rider has lots of room for improvement and I expect to drop my laptimes at least another 2 seconds during Sunday’s race.”

Crew Chief Jimmy Summers:  “Chip’s being a little baby with his shoulder so we won’t participate in the final qualifying session today or in Sunday’s warmup session to give the shoulder a break, which means we have to start last on the grid but this is still the best strategy.  We have his orthopaedic surgeon here and he is keeping an eye on things.  We were doing very well fitness-wise, but then Chip got popped out of the seat hard in a pretty dramatic incident in turn 16 and it yanked his injured shoulder badly.”

Also assisting Chip’s World Supersport efforts is his wife Julie Yates and Mechanic Jamal Malik.

Chip is sponsored in the AMA by:  SWIGZ.COM Dual Hydration System, Dainese, AiM Sports LLC, Woodcraft, and Armour Bodies.

About SWIGZ.COM:  SWIGZ^® is the world’s first dual hydration sports bottle allowing athletes to carry two drinks of their choice in a single bottle during workouts.  SWIGZ^® sports bottles can be purchased at www.swigz.com.  For more details of the SWIGZ.COM Pro Racing team and exciting on-board videos, visit www.chipyates.com and www.youtube.com/chipyates.