Unset left) Tony 0 burned out a clutch, Unset right! Pomeroy , still clean.
(Below ) Bob Hannah pauses briefly from supervising the cleaning of his
bike for Sunday's race - which never came.
Hannah slithers
past Pomeroy to
Texas Stadium
•
Wl-n they were going to get that·
or, "I thought
leak in the roof fixed last year!" ,
By Jim Gianatsis
DALLAS , TX , MAR . 26
,I
For the first time , an AMA Supercross event
was ca lled off on account of rain, but not before Bob "Hurricane" Hannah on the big yellow banana (h is ·Keith McCarty prepared
6
Yam aha YZ250D ) won th e first ro und
of raci ng in Texas Stadium. Hann ah
won the Saturday nig h t Super cross in a
quagmire of mud that left co nt enders
Kent Howerton a nd Jim Pom eroy
st uc k up to th eir eyeb ro ws in Texas
adobe as rai n poured in through th e
op en roof. Condition s had become so
bad by th e time the evening's racing
ended that Sunday afternoon's clash
on th e stadium floor had to be
cancelled.
All the riders. their m echa n ics and
teams, see med rel ieved . Most of t he
factory mechanics were up u nt il five
a .m , Sunday morning just tryi ng to
wash the m ud off their bikes , and then
they were n't too sure th ey cou ld have
t h e m prepared in ti me for t he
afte rnoon's race , At seven a .rn ,
Sunday morning, AMA Professional
Motocross Manager Mik e Di Prete ,
together with Pace Manageme nt ,
announced ca ncella tion of the race,
The rai n was still fall ing a nd the mu d
a nd wa te r in Texas St adium was knee
deep.
Some 17.000 spec ta to rs bra ved th~
weather on Saturday even ing, and if it
wer en 't for th e hyper a nnou nci ng of
Larry Huffman , none of th em would
. hav e known on e mud -clad rider from
another. For Huffm an . " It was one of
the hardest crowds to get pumped I' ve'
ever had ." Still, he managed to do an
excellent jo b.
e,
For Bob Hannah , his win ove(
Honda 's Ji m Pom ero y gav e h im the
points lead in the Supercross Seri es
after they became tied t he previous
weekend in Ho uston. For " Bim bo" th e
even ing was a nother heart bra ker, the~
same as at Atlanta Stadium and the
Astrodome . as he held the lead on the
last lap of the feat ure race on ly to lose'
it a nd ha ve to settle for second , T his'
tim e he fell , and it took him over 30
seco nds ju st to p]ck his bike up out of
