Cycle News - Archive Issues - 1970's

win . I don 't want to see Bell , Mosport, Ontario, Canada . After a Karsmake rs or Bu rg e t t blocking stop for bike prepartion in Sturgess, La Porte so he can't ha ve a chance of Michigan at a friend's Honda shop , win ning. They [Yamaha) are just Warren got in a litt le practice at th~ . putting those guys in so La Po rte will Red Bud track , then migrated into have more people to pass . And they Canada for the 11th round of the are fas ter than a lot of the guys Danny · I25cc. World Championship. would have to pass normally. But for " In practice on Saturday .1 really me I'm going to do as good as I can , didn't push it. Some people said that I I'm going for it! If La Porte or Glover had th e fastest time and others said . were behind me and they had to get that I was eight seconds per lap slower around to win I wouldn't show any than Gaston" so I didn't pay too much favoritism by letting either of them attention to the times. In Canada we around , I'll try to beat them for the were having a little problem with the · sake of winning. I don't think about front end diving down so we changed being passed in the point standings, I the fork oil and that helped a little. In could be but I'm not going to let it qualifying times [on raceday) I had happen ," Warren said. seventh fastest time but I knew I could The AMA has not yet decided what go a lot faster in the race," said they will do with the 125 Nationa ls Warren. . next year. There has been talk from "Gaston is fast b~t he isn't that fast. the Ohio headquarters that there will In the first moto I was ahead of him be an outdoor and . indoor National and he was catching me b u t he wasn 't Championship . T he indoor , of course , catching me that fast. I was catching will consist of the Super Series and the Massant faste r tha n Gaston was outdoor will be a combination of catching m e . Then I tangled with. a 500cc and 250cc races with one la p ped rider and went down . I was still · winner. In the plans for th e outdoor a head of Ra h ier when I got up a nd events the suppo rt classes will be ,l25cc took off, but I lost m y r hythm and . class machines . Gaston passed me. On the last lap he , "If the AMA doesn't ha ve a 125cc was about 20 yards in front of me Nati~nal next year I think it will be a when he lap ped a rider just before a stupid mistake, " Warren said. " I've corner so 'l would have to follow the heard that the reason the AMA is guy all the way through the turn, then · thinking about cancelling the series is try to pass .t he lappee on the · because they can't ge t any promoters straightaway. That happened a~out for the races , I have seen bigger four times. Gaston would lap a rider advertisements in Cycle N ews for just before a turn and the guy would , 'victory ads' than I have for any of the hold me back through the turn . I'd 125cc . Nationals , except for start to go around him and he .would Hangtown . They [pro m ot ers) expect start swapping all over the track. One people to come just because it's a time I hit the fence trying to miss the national championship race. I think lapped guy and got all the dust. I went the AMA is getting just like the V.S. from 20 yards behind Gaston to 15 Government - it's ridiculous , seconds behind in one lap!" Warren "Like last year in the Grand Prix in said as he recounted the first moto . America , I raced and I was onlyl ? but " In the second moto I got a second this year Broc Glover and Mark place start behind a Canadian but I Ba rn ett were refused because they passed him about two turns after the were too young. Those guys are a lot , start. AboUI halfway around the first faster than some of the Europeans but . lap Kud iak ov passed me for the lea d . I they couldn't get in the race. d idn't think too much about it because "When the AMA goes to change a he took a really erratic line , and that major rule they should have the line doesn't work everytime . He was members vote on the issue, not just the really swapping around the track so I representatives. There isn't a 125cc just followed him for a la p or two the n rider on the board at all. " pIssed him on th,e long uphill. From About his future, Warren said , "If then on I j ust rode my race . I got they have a 125cc cha mpionship next signa l th a t I was 10 seconds ahead of year I'd like to go for it one. more rea.r, Massant after about seven laps . Then I'd like to ride a few Grands Prix In the lead kept getting bigger every la p Europe as well. I'd like to get some antil the end when I was 22 seconds experience over in Europe . I ta lked ah~ad . " Warren's second moto victory with some of the Europeans at the was his first in Grand P rix V.S.GP and they said that the Grands .. competition, . .. Prix are a lot faster in Europe. But the For the first 125ct' Natio",il back 'in Nationals are a lot faster than the V ,S , April, . Warren didn't have. the works > and the Canadian GPs as well. The b ikes from the factory. He was forced Russians and Czech riders seem to go to compete on an embarrassingly stock too fast a t the beginning of the race. I Elsinore. When the R C s finally never had any close battle with any of arrived , sorting out prob lems came ' them except when Kudiakov crashed with the new red bikes, me in Canada, " he said. Warren is very concerned about the "The Honda works good now that future of the 125cc Nationals - they we- have the Fox Air Shocks on," are his livelihood. W arren said, He continued to exp la in "The promot ers of the n ation a ls th e im p r o vem e nt s ma de in ·t h e don't get any of the rider entry fees, a ll Iiandling department. " Before, we they ge t is the gate mon~Y . And ou ~ of ha d a d iffe ren t kind of shocks and they that they have to pay for the secu rity, just 'weren't sui ted fo r the bike. They track prepara tion, rider purse , a nd were too ~tiff, didn' t go down easy_ labor of those who hel p a t the race. enough and j ust kicked a ro u nd , Afte r T he n he ha s to pay the AMA to put a few races we fou nd ou t that t he fro nt the race on . I ca n see him having to end wou ld dive down going int o the pay the AMA officials who come to corners a nd bottom out and top out in sanction t he eve nt but if they do n't get the chatter bumps before a turn. It a hu ge crowd it's prett y hardto b re~k . turned ou t that somethi ng in the fork eve n . I t hi nk the attention should be In damping mech a n ism wears out aft er track prepara tion, flagme n, referees about -two races , So afte r tha t we a nd a good starter, but it's not. " started replacing th em every race. A nd' sin ce then we haven' t had any Motocross ' is a serious spo rt and trouble. . W a rren Reid is a serious contender. "What I hope happens in the final He has worked very hard in his career National is t hat La Porte , Glover and . and his results have echoed that dedication . For t his year 't he 125cc Hannah get out in front of all those Nationals are over. Let's just hope Yamaha blockers, or whatever those there will be another in '78, so we can guys are. there for , and run their own again see Warren Reid going for it. race and see whichever guy is ~h~ best I • • " r -,. . j ~) I I ( 1" /::::. ...... f \ I ....... ! , , tty l _ _ _If you're_like most bikers, you re pre ~ ' . ~ fussy about your bike. 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