Harry Klinzmann. Freddie Spencer. Wes Cooley and Ron Pierce blast off the front row. Unset) Spencer takes a quick check over his shoulder to see how
CooIey's doing.
Wes Cooley walks his Yoshimura R&D GS1000 Suzuki down the starting
streight en route to second place.
5uperbike Production
Spencer's sec
Production
By Charles Morey
MONTERY. CA, AUG. 5
Two races on the Team Kawasaki Superbike,
two trips to the highest stage in victory circle -"
it looked exactly that simple as freddie Spencer,
the 17-year-old from Louisiana, stole the sho
from green flag to che<:kered in
the Superbike Production race
,
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at Laguna Seca 5 ChampIOn
Spark Plug 200 weekend. Once
in the lead, a position established on
Laguna Sea's fast tum one, Spencer
steadily pulled away from Yoshimura
R&D· sponsored
Wes
Cooley
eventually winning by a safe margin of
over five seconds and establishing a
new race record of 24:00.491 at an
average speed of 94.999 mph. That's
26 seconds quicker than the old
record; in the 20·lap race, it took more
than a second per lap off the previous
average.
Team Yos~ura proved. to be
Team KawasakI s greatc:st threat as
Wes Cooley and Ron Pierce topped
the two qualifying races held late
Saturday afternoon. Spencer finished
close behind Pierce, earning the tbird·
from· the· pole grid position on th
front row: Racecrafters·sponsore
Harry Klinzmann completed tbe four·
rider first row line·up.
Somehow, before the Sunda
morning final, Team Kawasaki'
Randy Hall, Dennis-David and DaRn'
Dove reached a litde deeper into th
1015cc KZlooO motor and folln
power that seemed to be lacking in
Saturday session. As second p
