On September 15-17, 2016, I will team up with Miguel Duhamel to compete in the BOL D’OR CLASSIC road race at the famed Paul Ricard Circuit in Le Castellet, France on a DCT Racing Team Honda RC30 (Dreams Come True).

In 1988, I helped Miguel, his brother Mario, and his father, the legendary Yvon Duhamel, compete in the Bol d'Or 24 Hour Endurance race on a Team Honda/Winners/Ipone Honda RC30. They finished 7th.

Miguel racing the Honda RC30 at the 1988 Bol d'Or

The Bol d'Or Classic is a four-hour endurance race reserved for racing motorcycles built before 1991, with two-rider teams consisting of one professional rider, and one amateur. The format emulates the classic endurance, but with the amateur rider providing a slight handicap, thus assuring no one runs away with an easy win.

In my case, my goal is to give life to a dream, an achievement of which I can brag to my future grandchildren.

Randy Mamola, co-founder of Riders for Health

However, this exceptional project also has a more charitable objective: To raise funds for Riders for Health. This humanitarian organization, founded in the late 1980s by Barry and Andrea Coleman in collaboration with Randy Mamola, provides motorcycles and ambulances to doctors so they can deliver medical care and first aid to rural populations in Sub-Saharan Africa, including countries like Kenya, Lesotho, Liberia, Malawi, Nigeria, Gambia, Zambia, and Zimbabwe.

Alongside the race, our team, in collaboration with the French filmmaker Olivier Wagner, will produce a documentary on this crazy adventure that you will be able to live as if you were part of it.

Help me raise the funds necessary to:

take part in this wonderful adventure;
realize a documentary about our project;
raise money for Riders for Health;
make a Dream Come True!

BUDGET — $81,500

CONTRACTS AND TRAVEL EXPENSES — $50,000

MOTORCYCLE PARTS & RIDERS EQUIPMENT — $15,000

CONSUMABLES — 4 500 $

ASSISTANCE / CARAVANS & TENTS— 6 500 $

COMMUNICATIONS — 1 500 $

MISCELLANEOUS— 4 000 $

Our $7,000 goal is very conservative. In fact, every extra dollar we can collect will be a blessing in disguise. So be generous. Give freely!

MIGUEL DUHAMEL

BIOGRAPHY

Date of birth: May 26, 1968
Age : 47
Citizenship: Canadian
Hometown: Las, Vegas, Nevada, USA
Heigth: 5’5 »
Weigth: NA
Favorite racing number: 17

CARRER

1986/1987 — Begins his road racing career competing in the Yamaha RZ350 Cup, Canada
1988 — Seventh position, Bol d’Or (24 Hour Endurance Race) at Paul Ricard Circuit, France. Rode a Honda/Winners/Ipone RC30 with his father Yvon and his brother Mario
1989/1992 — FIM World Endurance Championship with Team Honda France (1989), Suzuki Endurance Racing Team (1990), Team Kawasaki France (1991-1992)
1991 — Won his first Daytona 200 (Honda Camel Racing Team)
1991 — Won Bol d’Or at Paul Ricard Circuit, France, with team mates Alex Vieira & Jean-Louis Battistini for Team Kawasaki France
1992 — FIM World Endurance Champion, Team Kawasaki France
1992 —12th overall, FIM 500 Grand Prix World Championship with Yamaha Sonauto (France). Best race result : 5th at Brazilian GP
1995 — AMA Pro Athlete of the Year
1995 — AMA Superbike Champion
2004-2005 AMA Formula Xtreme champion
2007 — Wildcard ride for Gresini Honda at the USGP, Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca, replacing the injured Toni Elias
2012 — Won the FIM e-Power & TTXGP race at Le Mans with Barracuda Lightning Racing Team

HIGHLIGHTS

Five-time Daytona 200 winner (1991, 1996, 1999, 2003, 2005
Five-time AMA Supersport champion (1991, 1993, 1995, 1996, 1997)
AMA winningest racer in AMA Supersport with 28 career victories
Second winningest racer in AMA Superbike (32) behind Mat Mladin (72)

Mon Bol d'Or Classic avec Miguel Duhamel

Mon Bol d'Or Classic avec Miguel Duhamel