Cycle News - Archive Issues - 1970's

Cenlral Pipeline Paul "Hogrnan" Stephenson picked up two more wins: in 750cc Production class on the same bike beating Alan Pagan on a Honda and Greg Thoede on a Suzuki. Stephenson and Thoede quickly led the start of the 750cc Cafe event and at the finish Paul had a convincing margin over Thoede and Ronnie Lundsford with a Honda. BU,cky Patterson swept both the 250cc Production and 250cc Cafe classes with a Can-Am TNT. Patterson, a safe bet for the National Championship in both classes, .clobbered Mark Toth and William Barnett in the Production class and Barnelt/Tolh in the Cafe category. Charles Brothers and Tim McGuire raced inches apan for 30 miles in the 410cc Production race and returned for an instant replay in the 655cc Production event. The results the same in both; Charles the winner 'by a wheel-length over 'arch-nemesis McGuire. They were last seen heading back to Houston, their vans in a 90 mph draft on Highway 6! James Haecker led a Yamaha sweep of the 410cc Cafe class over Tim McGuire and Duncan Paul. Andy Robbins was barely challenged enrou te to the 655cc Cafe honors on a Yamaha RD beating Glen Heintschel's Kawasaki and Ronnie Lundsford's Honda. ~ ..... 1-0 Q.) ~ e Q.) > o Z ... Results Freddie Spencer was"ou.ts sight" at CRRC's National Sprints. (File photo.) Central Road Racing Club Nationar Sprints By Mike Reilly COLLEGESTATION:TX, OCT. 14 Louisiana Lightning (Freddie Spencer) aboard California hotrods, (Kanemoto TZ's and a Kawasaki KZ) fueled by Texas • greenbacks (Howard Racing, Inc.), literally vibrated the three-foot thick concrete retaining wall surrounding Texas World Speedway, highlighting the ~entral Road Racing Club/WERRA National Sprints on this beautiful autumn day. Freddie's most impressive performance involved the Kawasaki Motor Co. KZ 1000 Mk. II in the Open Superbike class. Spencer was beyond sight of his competition by the second of 10 scheduled laps aTound the three mile TWS road course. The factory Kawasaki Superbike had about 20 mph top-end over anything else, including second place Paul Stephenson on the .D&D Ent. Honda Four. The first· two positions of Spencer and Stephenson were unchallenged for the duration but not so the excellent contest for third. Joe Patton on a Honda CBX managed to hold back Hugh Humble on the Sam's Motorcycle Sales Ducati Desmo and Steve Darley, piloting another CBX. Freddie Spencer and Benny Delmonico, teammates with Howard Racing and both Daytona Novice winners, paced a 1-2 finish in the Fo,rtDula 3 250cc GP. Freddie powered 26... -- the Erv Kanemoto TZ 250 which has proven itself to be about the fastest around and sufficiently powerful t~ hold at bay the inspired drive by Delmonico who stayed within 10 seconds of Spencer during the 30 mile feature. Spencer's ride in the Open GP FortDula I on the Kanemoto TZ 750 was advertised as worth the price of admission alone. "But, unfortunately, it only lasted two laps; Feddie felt. the crank to be a bit fatigued and parked the silver missile early i!l the race. The race itself suffered none for the 10Sl; as Joe Patton with a rare RCB 900 Honda and Benny Delmonico, back with his Howard Racing TZ 250, locked horns for the remaining 24 miles. At the finish line Patton's superior top-end power thwarted Delmonico's slingshot off the draft to win by six feet. Behind them, youngsters Kevin Brunson and Tommy Shields fought for third with veterans Mike Herzing; all on TZ 250s. On lap five of tlte Formula 2 500cc GP contest Gerold Smith slipped his TZ 250 into the draft of leaders Benny Delmonico ilDd Steve Darley; the pair too occupied with each other's strategy to notice Smith's intervention. But it wasn't long before Gerold made his presence felt by picking off Darley and then harassing Delmonico. With two laps to go he took the lead and the win by a five secondrnargin. Paul Stephenson won the Open Production class with the D/FW Honda 750F that actually outran (even on the banking) Jon Minonno's CBX and Hugh Humble's Ducati Desmo. A post race protest teardown revealed that the 750 was a "legal eagle": pToving once again that horsepower is where you find it. In this case it was located in the talented right wrist of P.aul Stephenson. 250 PROD: 1. Bucky Patterson ICAl; 2. _ Toth (C·A); 3. William e..nen (YOfOI. 410 PROD: 1. Charles Broth..-s (Yam); 2. TIfll McGuire (YOfOI; 3. Bob Sellars IYOfO). 655 PROD: 1. Charles Brothers (Yam); 2. TIm McGuir. (YOfOI; 3. Glen Heintschel (Yam). 750 PROD: 1. Paul Stephenson IHen); 2. Allan Pagan IHanI; 3. Greg Thoede ISuz). OPEN PROD: 1. Paul Stephenson IHan); 2. Jon Minonno fHonI: 3. Hugh H~m~e (Due). 250 CAFE: 1. Bucky Patterson IC·AI; 2. William e..nen IYaml; 3. M..k Toth IC-AI. 410 CAFE: 1. James HaeckerIYOfO); 2. TIm McGuire IYaml; 3. Duncan PauIIYOfOI. 655 CAFE: 1. Andy Robbins (YOfO); 2. Glen Heintschel (Kaw); 3. Ronnie lundsford IHenl. 750 CAFE: 1. Paul Stephenson IHenl; 2. Greg Thoede ISuzl; 3. Ronnie Lundsford (Hon). OPEN CAFE: 1. Freddie Spenoer IKawl; 2. Paul Stephenson (Henl; 3. Joe Patton (Hen). 200 GP: 1. Tommy Shields (Hon); 2. Gerold Thrush; 3. James Gardner. 250 GP: 1. Freddie Spencer IYam); 2. Benny Delmonico (Yam); 3. Gerold Smith (Yaml. 500 GP: 1. Gerold Smith {Yaml; 2. Benny Delmonico (Yam); 3. St...... Darley (Yaml. OPEN GP: 1. Joe Patton IHen); 2. Benny Delmonico (Yam); 3. Kevin Brunson (Yaml. Last chance GNC Texas State Championship qualifier Marshall, TX. Keith Eldred (Yam) continued his assault on the 100cc class with double moto wins. In the dirty -30 class all tbe big guns were out plus a few new faces. Two time Astrodome winner Billy Click (Hon) aced the first moto, pursued the entire round by one time AMA Pro Greg Graham (Hus). A seconQ moto win by Ernie Mitchell (Suz) wasn't good enough; Click still won the overall. The biggest turnout of the day was the 125cc Novice class. Sixty entries caused the gFoup to be split up and both divisions received trophies. John Reeder (Yam) won in group A and Scooter Lagione (Suz) in group B. It'll be interes~ing when these .two meet in the state competition. Rose Rich Yamaha support rider Ricky Glaiser aced a pair of moto wim in the 125cc Expert, proving that when you don't break, it helps. John Pollard, Honda of Pasadena, swapped positions all race long coming out second overall. Action in the first turn of the 250cc nervous Novice class was hair raising. Half the class stopped to check out the track but all the riders remounted and took off. David Sherer (Mon) put together the overall win. Randy Choate (Yam) continued his winning ways in the 250cc Intermediate class. After trading moto positions with Ron Sussman (Hon), Choate took the overall. Derek Wedding (Howard Racing Honda) I:lasted the first 250cc Expert moto with a substantial win. Wedding crashed early on in moto two and Louisiana's Ricky Madole (Suz) capitalized for a moto win and the overall money. . Open class action saw Randy Waldrop (Mai), grab the overall win. Waldrop a National Expert flat tracker is really getting off on motocross. Steve Randall (Suz) squeezed in for a second overall. Results OVER 30: 1. Billy Click; 2. Emie Mitchell; 3. Troy Rapp. MINI STOCK: 1. Bo Pendley; 2. Billy Whinley; 3. Richie Hull. MINI 50: 1. Joe Bob Ebers; 2. Brant Wedding; 3. Gilbert Bayer. 100cc: 1. Keith Eldred; 2. James 11ey; 3. Jason Elder. MINI JR: 1. Kit ViC; 2. Mark Coch

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