IAbove) Mike Baldwin 11861 and Reg Pridmore 11631 lap Torello Tacchi. (lnsetJ
Cook Ne ilson's lap times 12:15.951were as fast as Kenny Roberts' best 250cc
times. Neilson won by 30 seconds. (Below ). David Emde's first Superbike
ride put him in front of Wes Coo ley (331and Reg Pridmore.
•
Cooley's fee l f1 y in~ o ff t he pe~s ne ar
t h....nrran ce to Turn One . Cool ey
b a ck'e d off. hoping to fin ish , and
Emdc , sel'i n~ t hat Cool e y wa s ha ving
trouble in th e dist ance a hea d, ~aSSl'd it
up. Em d e ca ug ht Cooley .
Meanwhile, Mike Baldwin a nd Reg
P r idmo re Wert' going a t it for fourth
p lace. Ba ldwin 's pressure push..d the
h a rd -rid ing Pr id m o re right up behind
Ernde a n d Cooley , Emde passed
Cool e y, and Cooley ba cked off in stead
of repassing with horsepower.
" I fi!(un'd I'd slingsho t him at th e
finish ," said Coo ley la te r , " b u t I ca m e
out o nto the banking a n d it got into a
!(iant wobb le , I co u ld n 't hold the ~as
on
I had to b a ck off. " ,
So Neilson wo n bv h a lf a minut e ,
with Emde , in h is' fir st Su pc r bi kc
Production ride second , a n d Cooley's
fastest Supcrbikcin third , Last yea r's
winner , St eve Mct.aught in. los t third
in his Udo Ge itl. Tod Schuste r ,
and Kenny August ine (non -Butler a n d
Smith) BMW , Ron Pierce parked his
J ohnn y Kokinos BMW a fter two laps
wh en .the bike, whi ch McLaughlin
rode for Butler and Smith last year ,
tank -slapped h im into th e air in front
of t he pits . The new Superbikc
Production rule requ iring st andard
swingarrns (bracin~ a llowed ) a ffec ted
most co m pet ito rs, as their wobb les
sho we d . Ne ilson 's a nd Emdc's bikes
didn't shake their he ads a t a ll. .
~ear
CARTER'S YAMAHA
Results
1. Cook Neilson IDuel . 2. David Emde IKawl. 3. W es
Cooley, Jr. (Kaw l. 4. Reg Pridm ore (BM w), 5. Mi ke
Baldw in IMGI. 6 . J ohn- Bett enc ourt IKaw l . 7. Kurt
Liebmann (Due l. 8. Dan Sorenson IKawl . 9 . Keith Code
IKaw) , 10. Will Harding IKaw). 11. J ohn Fuchs (Honl.
12. Art Kowrtz (Kaw ). 13. Jim Haberlin Itavl. 14. Jerry
W ood (Duel. 15. Marco Mancini IDuc.!
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