Cycle News is a weekly magazine that covers all aspects of motorcycling including Supercross, Motocross and MotoGP as well as new motorcycles
Issue link: https://magazine.cyclenews.com/i/126452
Roberts, Sheene, etc. form association, sign "no GP" agreement By Chris Carter Only you and Ma Bell can save us now! Papa received a last minute phone call from california AaMmblyllW'l J. Robert Hayes, notifying ua an that the opportunity for an AS1. veto over-ride Is t8Idng pIlIce • you read this pege. h'. too late to write. Phone your Sma Aaemblyman'. office now and let him know that you favor AB1407, the 5agebruah RebellIon bIL Hayes repot1IId that he has commitments for 46 of the 64 votes MC.llery. Only a rnauIve _Iage of telephona caRs can away the remaining nine votes our WIlY. h .. com. down at 11 a.m. on Thursday morning. Jan. 10. Phone now, or live with the COf1MCIU8ftC8lI Who Is this malked man and what'. he doing on that Yamaha 7 Complete details next week. DAYTONA BEACH, FL. JAN. 7 Road rac:erS from several countries met in Belgium last week and formed the Professional Riders Association. At the same time, 15 of the 16 riders present signed contracts which call for a .100~ penahy for their participation in any of six named AM World Championship rounds. Those rounds are the Venezuelan. SwecIiah. Rmliatl. West German and Czech GPs. Also llated was the Belgian GP if it Is held at Spa before a complete resurfacing of the course Is carried out. Among the 15 signing the contrIICt were Kenny Roberta. Berry Sheena, Randy Mamola. VIrgInio Ferreri, Franco Uncini, Boat Van Dulman and CIwiatIan sarron. Dutchman Wli Hartog refused to sign the contract and reportedly stormed out of the meeting after a heetecl argument with the other riders. To confirm their faith In the proposed World Series, Roberts, Sheana, ferrari. Mamola and Unclnl also signed an agreement thet they will not rece in any GP event In 1980. Jt was announced at the meeting that four tracks have confirmed they wiI run World Series road races. The four f1IdIdes and the ~ are • follows: Imola (Italy) AprIl 13, Mona (Italy) June LeMana (Franca) September 8, and Donnington (England) on a date to be announced. Usted • tentative sites for World s.- rounds are Laguna saca (USA), salzburgrlng (Austria) and ZelIdvoort (HoIand). A January 18 meeting has been set for representatlvea of the World SerieslProfeuioMl Riders Assa elation to meet with AM officials Also reveeledlast week via a telex from Yamaha to Englalld'sllotor Cycle ..... . . that defandlng 500cc World ChampIon Kenny Roberta has not signed a contrIICt with Yamaha for 1980. Roberta uId. "h's true I haven't signed. I had a meetillg scheduled. but I mis.edlt. We'" get together In Loa AngeIea on January 22. and I don't axpeet any problems:' The telex from Yamaha also made it clear that they are "em_II •• ed" by the World SerIes va. World ChMIpioI. . . . aIIuation. Yamaha also announced that they have no Intention. to use the rumored V~ In 1910. a. California Aucmblyman Gene Chap' pie announced his plans to run for the U.S. Congress. Chappie has always been a good vote for riden. and will be in a real position to do us some good if he makes it to Washington. Those of you who live in the nonhern California counties of Placer, Yuba, Glenn, Plumas, Shasta, Trinity. Siskiyou, or Modoc. might want to volunteer to help him. You can get more details by calling his campaign office at 9161 Honda macbiDes - both Superbike and GP/F·I/WiDitOD Pro bikes will be four-strokes, overbored full race versions of their 750cc four-c:ylinder motor. Four-atroke single maestro BII Bell (Mike'. decI) has 11Ift Honda to assume a new position at Yamaha" presumably auiadng Team Menag. Ken Clark with the all-new, all-pro off-road recing effort. 675-~11l2. Terry Vanca and Byron HI,.. have left R.C. Engineering to It8rt their own compeny. The pair took with them their Suzuki COIltiect. blk. and the dyno and set out to form VHR. V_IC8-HInea Racing. Among the first products of VHR . . be speed parts for Suzuki's GS1100. "We aren't that happy with the WIlY things were going. 10 we dec:IdecI to go off on ow own." Terry Vance told a reporter. VHR wi! be located at 14010 Marquardt. Santa Fe Spr:IIgI, CA lI087O, and their phone number Is 2131921· 7461. 2 Team Honda has signed supeneenager Freddie Spencer to ride their Superbikes along with Steve McLaughlin and Ron Pierce in 1980. Spencer. according to Honda's Dennis McKay, penned a two-year agreement on Dec. 26 that will keep him in the U.S. for the Superbike events and - while bikes are not expected to be ready for Daytona - perhapl some 750cc class racing. Spencer apparently is free to ride in Europe on another brand if he chooses; Honda will not back him in a 250 or 500cc World Championship attempt. The Honda deal also may include "some" racing abroad such as the 801 D'Or and Suzuka endurance events. McKay also reponed that the Representing Honda on the AMA National Championship Enduro Series trail in 1980 will be Ted Worrell and Mike Godfrey. The pair will concentrate on enduro and Two-Day/lSDT riding. MIke KIdd has signed an ........It with the U.s. Army to continue his sponsorship for dirt track racing In 1980. Mlka exprllild an IlIterest in road racing since there are nine pevement events llated In the WInston Pro schedule. but Army didn't buy that PfOtII-II. The Road America event, tentatively slated for June 1 at the Ellr.ban Lake, WI road course, bas been confirmed as a 1980 Winston Pro road race. AMA legislative Analyst G-v Wlnn delivered testimony to the Department of Energy regarding the ~ent~ ~Nd gaaollne rationing plan and the AMA's viewpoint on motorcycle allotments. WInn proposad that motorcyclea be excluded endreIy from the rationing plan • an incentive for UN to 11M ow .....gy efficient two-wheelers. But DOE . . "not overly enamored" by the Idea. • Wlnn put It In a preuday phone conversation, and seId there