Team Roadracingworld.com Suzuki’s Chris Ulrich gave rides on his two-seat GSX-R1000 Superstock racebike to two television personalities and several journalists Wednesday, April 23 during a special media event hosted by American Suzuki at Auto Club Speedway (formerly known as California Speedway), in Fontana, California. Ulrich spent most of the day working with a production crew from “Attack of the Show,” a daily show on the G4 cable network. Ulrich participated in several segments taped in the pits before giving correspondent Alison Haislip a multi-lap, 150-plus-mph ride around the 2.3-mile infield road course. “Dude, that was absolutely unbelievable!” exclaimed Haislip. “You totally trust Chris. He knows exactly what he’s doing. When you hit 150 (mph) you feel like your head is about to get ripped off at the neck (laughs), but making those turns and everything else was great. It was great. It was really great.” After working with G4 and Haislip, Ulrich offered a ride to SPEED’s new pit lane reporter Brice Cooper. In addition to his duties during SPEED’s broadcasts of AMA Superbike racing at Barber Motorsports Park and Auto Club Speedway, Cooper was a former host of HGTV’s “Design on a Dime” and is an active road racer with AHRMA. “It’s funny,” started Cooper, “two-up rides you never really think they’re going to push it. Chris, I think, pushed it pretty darn good out there. He was throwing it in there deep and definitely getting on it to where we were picking up the front and laying blackies in some of those corners. Chris is a helluva rider. It’s an amazing thing he is able to do on a consistent basis.” Asked for his opinion of the Team Roadracingworld.com Suzuki two-seat racebike program, which is designed to give a hands-on education on motorcycle road racing to local, general interest media members, Cooper said, “Seeing what a motorcycle racer does and hearing what a motorcycle racer does, those are two different things to actually doing what a motorcycle racer does. And to be out here and experience it first-hand I think especially for the novice is a great way to open up, not only the sport but respect for the riders. I think that’s the biggest thing.” Although he drove his motorcoach straight through from Alabama to California (in 48 hours) to attend the event, Ulrich spent the remainder of the day giving two-up rides to journalists attending the event, the U.S. press launch of the 2008 Suzuki GSX-R600.