Look at the following video which captures a great moment in Daytona, where Valter Bartolini captures a great win aboard the NCR Millona, as well as duel between Larry Pegram and Nick Ienatch aboard NCR New Blue’s and finally, an historic moment where Cook Neilson wips around Daytona on the New Blue made in his and Phil Schillings honor.

The moment solidifies the hard work of the continuous development of the pursuit of the passion of NCR but also the culmination of development that lead to the win in the predominant class of Sound of Thunder where Walter set a lap record of 1:45.4 which was one full second faster than his competitor Guareschi on his Moto Guzzi.

Given that this was Valter’s first time at Daytona, it shows the potential of NCR’s development of the 1200cc version of the Ducati 1000DS 2 valve engine. The base engine develops 77 hp at the wheel and it is magically worked on by NCR’s know how to develop 115 hp aqt the wheel, almost a 40 hp increase while surviving the rigors of Daytona. Given that the 1200cc version is just a the beginning of the development cycle, it is still very impressive that it was able to hit 182 mph at 10,000 rpm. The combination of the excellent power to weight ratio and simplicity of the air cooled 2 valve engine gives the edge to NCR to be able to achieve an incredible motorcycle weight of 270 lbs combined with an incredible torque of 87 lb-ft at the rear wheel.

Also note that Valters time would have put him a solid 5th place in the AMA Formula Extreme class later in the week. Interesting….

In Summary:
Great Victory of Bartolini on the NCR Millona in the Sound of Thunder with a time of 1:45.4, third and fourth place for Larry Pegram (DNA) and Nick Ienatch (Cycle World) aboard the NCR New Blue and the historic celebration of Cook Neilson on New Blue.

Wow.

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