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Black Thunder Racing NZ was founded for Street Modified Stock Motorcycle Drag Racing and also modified/stock
Motor Cycle Land Speed Racing. 2006/2007 will see the ZX14 running at various events at Meremere, Taupo, and Tokoroa Drag Racing events and Land Speed Racing at Bonneville Salt Flats in the USA. Black Thunder Racing NZ Kawasaki ZX1400 – Owner/Manager/Rider - Alan Thoresen Introducing: Alan Thoresen 
Alan Thoresen turned 52 on 4th of July 2007 and has been a motorcycle enthusiast all of his life and raced motorcycle circuit in his earlier years. He returned to Motorcycle Drag Racing last year and had a very successful first season, coming Second overall in the NZ Drag Association (NZDRA) Points Series for Modified Bike, Winning the Season Points series at Meremere for Modified Bike, and Breaking the NZ National Record for Modified Bike twice, as well as a successive series of Wins and Places at Champion Dragway at Meremere, Lakeside International Dragway at Taupo and at Amisfield Drag strip at Tokoroa. Alan has been involved with Aviation in the past, in both engineering, flying and management, and now works in the Recreational Vehicle and Marine Industry as General Manager of NZ's largest Importer and Supplier of RV and Marine Appliances, parts and Accessories, Serada Ltd in Auckland. He resides in Hamilton and commutes daily. BLACK THUNDER FROM DOWN UNDER Alan is racing as a privateer under "Black Thunder Racing NZ". There are many people that work extremely hard behind the scenes of the Black Thunder Racing NZ Team. Alan's wife Violet is the PR Manager and Transport Driver. Neil Powell, is the Chief Mechanic for Black Thunder and runs the workshop at Big Bikes in Hamilton. Debbie Petch & Vikki Lowe-Reid are Black Thunder's Racing Promotion & Events Co-ordinators. DR Design are the Web Masters who are doing an excellent job of updating and modifying the web site. They will be updating the web site with news and progress daily from Bonneville, if all our communications systems work okay from the Salt Flats. Each person is an important part of the Team that makes certain Black Thunder runs and moves smoothly though out the Drag racing Season, The Land Speed Racing at Bonneville and other special events. |
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The name Black Thunder came about from a combination of: "BLACK" – The New Zealand National Colour "THUNDER" – (a) The motorcycle will roar like "Thunder" at top speed. - (b) Alan's surname THORESEN is Norwegian and means Son of Thor, THOR being the God of Thunder. Hence the name Black Thunder Racing NZ came to be known |
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