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Scott Keyes leads Mark Leckman and Robert Mason at Saguaro Raceway.
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Tom Geist leads Rolando San Pedro in HRRA's 1~i1e road race.
Sublett wins
JOG-mile RR
in HawaII
By Turkey L Sims
Photo by Colin Mciver
OAHU, HI, DEC. 16
The Hawaii Road Race Associa·
tion held their second annual
100-mile road race on the 1.5
mile track at Hawaii Raceway
16
Park. While you folks were trying to
figure out how to keep warm on short
rides, we were trying to fmd an air
conditioner to fit a TZ!l50. One
hundred miles, even on December's
"cool" days, is quite an undertaking.
In the beginning it seemed certain
that Gary Sublett (TZ!l50) would have
his hands full battling Dave Webster
on his Seeley-Suzuki TR750. On the
warm-up lap, the Suzuki decided to
disengage primary electrical power,
leaving Webster stranded on the track.
The grid shut down and waited, until
the track was clear. It appeared
Webster was out. The riders started
their engines and were flagged away.
Thirty seconds later, here came
Webster. Thirty seconds on a 1.5 mile
track is a long head start. but Dave
had the power, handling, and skill to
catch the pack, and by the 10th lap he
was in second place, still well behind
Sublett's TZ. Unfortunately Dave's
front brake 'SOOn developed a small
steam bubble and wouldn't completely
release. With Webster out of the race.
all the starter had to do was count the
number of times Sublett passed to
monitor the length of the race.
Far behind Sublett was number two
man Gary Kuesel on his BMW RSIOO
just cruising and yawning, while
scraping his crash bars in the corners.
Not enough bike to catch the TZ and
too much talent to be challenged.
With first and second places
dependent solely on no crashes or
breakdowns, the other 22 riders were
doing some hard racing. In Hawaii, all
seven classes are usually run on the
track at the same time, making for
some interesting competition.
Dr. Denny Gorlick's !l50cc Ducati
wouldn't outrun' a mongoose in a
straight line, but it dusted off many a
big bike in the corners until the front
brake overheated to the point where
even four stroke compression couldn't
help slow the bike enough, so he
parked it to cool off awhile.
Rolando San Pedro was having fun
with the big bikes on his hand-made
(well, he didn't actually build the
spark plugs or tires) fast 180cc
Yamaha twin until nagging engine
problems forced him out.
Tom Geist crashed his GS550,
rebuilt it in the pits, and was a strong
third in Open Cafe until Nick Rudisill
retired with a flat rear tire, moving
him up to second behind cruising Tom
Leighton.
Dr. Dick Williams flew in from Hilo
Sunday 'morning to ride his XSII
(despite a broken ankle) against Gipe
on a CBX and Red Proctor on an
RD400. Dr. Dick was doing quite well
in his first road race, until he fell while
battling the CBX in a high speed
sweeper. Once the bike was righted
(holy hernia) he took off in hot pursuit
until his foot clipped a pylon causing a
gradual, but defeating. loss of feeling
in his broken ankle. He parked the
bike and watched as the CBX later
spent several minutes in the pits
replacing a foot peg bolt that
"vibrated" out. Red Proctor just kept
circling the track on his stock RD400
to take the win.
The 410cc Cafe class was on by
Jensen Leong on his slide-around-thesweeper RD400 with Jeff Nooney
(RD!l50) in second.
Brian Kam dropped his final exam
cramming just long enough to ride to a
smooth victory in 410cc Production.
Brian is the quiet. shy type of racer
you never notice - until he smokes
you on his Box Stock CB400T.
When the racing ended, talk started
about how much fun the 100-miler
was, and no one wanted to wait until
the four hour race in June or July
for some long races, so HRRA will Iry
to incorporate some 50·mile events
into their monthly schedule. Any of
you mainland types who want to check
Saguaro MX starts
new year with AMA
By Nancy Keyes
Photo by Vicki Keyes
TUCSON, AZ,JAN. 6
Saguaro Raceway, by going AMA
and changing to three motos
brought quite a bit of excitement
for the first race of the new year.
The rid~rs and spectators felt more
excitement over the whole race. There
was no time for the riders to waste
getting their bikes ready for the next
moto, which came around quickly.
The 125cc Junior class saw Rick
Collins and Mike Rehm fight it out
with Collins taking the first two motos
and Rehm taking the other.
John Janssen pulled the jump on Pat
Eggman in two out of three motos, but
Eggrnan took two wins out of three
giving him the overall in the 125cc
Novice class.
The turnout in the Mini Class was
better this race_ Maybe it's because
we're now giving trophies to all of the
Beginner and Novice Minis. Bryan
Bruner pulled the holeshots with Scott
Keyes and Joey Rachwalk in hot
pursuit in the Experts. Rachwalk
worked his way to a first overall for the
Experts, Bryan Bruner was flTSt in the
Junior class, Tim Livingston was top
Mini Novice and Scott Dumm won the
Beginner class with Brad Wachs
second and Larry Moore third.
Timbo Richardson was first out in
all three motos of the 250cc and Open
Pros with Rick Watmore and Dave
Anderson behind him in moto one. Jay
Perkins quickly got around Anderson
and passed Watmore coming out of a
tum in the valley to take over second
place. Scott Wooks came in second in
the second moto followed
by
Watmore. The third molO gave
Watmore a second and Perkins a third
with Richardson first in all three
motos.
Results
MINI MINI: 1. K....n Carpenter (5UlI.
MINI BEG: 1. Scott Oumm (5UlI: 2. Bred Wechs
(Yaml: 3. L.a«y Moor. (5uzl.
MINI NOV: 1. Tim Livingston ('(am).
MINI JR: 1. Bryon Bruner (Yaml: 2.
Robert Meson
(Yaml.
MINI EX: 1. Joe Rachwalk (Yaml: 2. Scott Keyes
(Yaml.
100: 1. Scott Guerin (Yaml: 2. Mike Carpenter (Yaml.
125 BEG: 1. Mike Lafferty (Yam): 2. Jim Seeger
(Yaml; 3. Ned Moreno (Suzl.
125 NOV: 1. Pat Eggman !Yaml: 2. John Janssen
(5uz); 3. Don Adams (Yaml.
125 JR: 1. Riel< Collins (5uz): 2. Mike Rehm !Yaml; 3.
Bryan OBin (Yaml.
250 BEG: 1. Pat. Thompson (Yam): 2. Sherman
Mendez (Yaml.
250 NOV: 1. Hugh GogIin (Mail.
250 JR: 1. Wes Blair (Yaml: 2. James Geo