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Gerald Smith filled out the entry blank at the Cycle News booth for Charles Hunll'r's shop. How's this sound? Honda Ontario Six Hour Classic. Right. Honda is backing the 1980 Arnericen Fed.-ation of MotorcycIIsta 0nt8ri0 Six Hour road race to be held on April 26-27 weekend. Naturally. Team Honda will compete. and keeping them honest will be the works Kawesaki Superbikes and the formideble Yoshknura rnachiI-. Should be absolutely outstendlng. o 00 O'l ...-4 Robbery underway of Green Stickie Fund In all our years of following the activities of the bureaucracy and the legislature, we have never seen such a blatant anti-ORV Aldana/Yoshimura question Daytona 200 results NORTH HOllYWOOD, CA. MAR. 17 In a Mar. 14 press conference held at Yoshimura R&D of America. Dave Aldana and Fujio Yoshimura presented members of the motorcycling press with copies of lap cherts. the protest/appeal form and an explanation of why they tl BIBve Aldana finished second in the Daytona 200 rather than sixth. as AMA results indicate. Aldana's grounds for complaint were listed on the protest form as foIows: "1303 (Pons) never lapped 1109lA1dana) nor did I miss any lap." Aldana hed gridded late. at the back of the sterting grid. As a result. early Ieeder Freddie Spencer lapped him on the seventh lap. When the race was red-flagged on lap 10, Aldana wes considered down one lap although only Spencer (who would later drop out! hed lapped him. Rather than use standard single file starting procedure, AMA opted to use a re-grid system that put everyone on the starting grid, five abreast in the order that they'd been running on lap' nine, one lap before the red flag. Aldana was gridded in 37th place according to a gridding chart obtained by the writer of the Daytona 200 report for Cycle Ne.,.. From there, he passed everyone except Pons during that last 42 laps. after the restart. But he wes ruled as being one lap down - In sixth place even though the present leader and eventual winner had never actually lapped him. Aldana has a 1lktay period to submit evidence to support his protest and appeal which ends on Mar. 19. Then AMA Commissioner of Pro Racing, Mike DiPrete has 30 days (from the race datel to make a decision on the appeal. If DiPrete rules against Aldana, David may file a final appeal. and a three-man board will decide. Until then, over $33,000 in purse money will sit in the AMA bank account. 8 move as happened last week. This matter requires the immediate allemion of every reader. On March 6, Assemblyman Mike Gage, the Democrat Assemblyman from Napa and Sonoma counties, introduced a bill to abolish the offhighway vehicle fund and transfer the monies to the general fund. That's rightl All the money which has been accumulated since 1971 which was to have gone to finding good ridi'!g areas, will be stolen by the bureaucrats and used to finance the Governor's bankrupt welfare programs, arts council and other pet projects. After 10 years of promises from the Depanmem of Parks and Recreation; we finally were gelling some glimmer of hope that there would be some positive things done with the Green Stickie Fund. Now Governor Moon· beam, has sent his loyal campaigner Mike Gage forth to put a stop to our hopes once and for all. Do this today! Call your local Assemblyman. Then write him. tell him that he must stop AB 2914. This bill should generate more negative response than any other bill ever imroduced. Let you Assemblyman know that his vote on this bill pure and simple will decide how you will vote in June and November. Let him know that your {,riends feel the same way. Be polite. but let him know that there is no middle ground on this bill. C. N. Deepthroat . Confusion was the name of the game regarding our coverage of the Vl8wf1nders Grand Prix lincor· rectly called the Great Bear GP in our headline). Contributor Terry Whytal originally entitled the report "Vl8wf1nders Grand Prix" but an ov_orked editor suffering temporary brain fada changed it to read as printed. Terry summed up his story by thanking the Orange County M.C. (along with the othersl for producing the event. Wrong. According to Jim Kilpatrick who phoned Papa to correct the article. the OCMC did not help put on the event. That's one for the editor and one for Terry. let's call it one for the Viewfinders, too, for even mentioning the name Great Bear in their advertising. Sure got confusing. Bottom line, however. is this: We sincerely apologize to all who may have been disturbed by the inaccuracies in our published story. Winner of the Hemer Wheel Aligner at the Motorcycle Dealernews Daytona is Hunter Honda in Expo Montgomery. AL. Parts Manager As a result of round table discussions between the FIM and representatives of most of the major manufactures, minimum weights for FIM motocross competition have been increased starting with the 1980 season. For 125cc machines. the new minimum is 193.6 pounds. for 250cc, 215.6. and for 500cc, 224.4 pounds. The minimum weights had been approved by the FlM's General Council last fall, but a decision to postpone them for one year was made early in 1980. Following the round table, the FIM's Bureau Central decided to go ahead with the new minimums for this year. District 38's Mer. 9 hare scrambles overall winner was Leon Uvingston on a VZ 466. It wes leon's second win in a row. Second was Maico-mounted Mike Stearns, followed by Paul Eddy on a Kearny Mese Yamaha-sponsored VZ250G. A couple of issues ago, when we said Bob Hannah would be driving a fourwheeler in the Off-Road Championship GP at the L.A. Coliseum, we said the event would take place June 10-12. Incorrect. The correct date is June 20-21. The offending staffer's fingers have been welded to the proper typewriter keys to avoid future errors. Husqvarna has joined forces with RPM in sponsoring a professional and amateur motocross team. Based in Toledo, OH. RPM riders will be trying for honors in the new AMA Pro Regional Series es well as the AMA Nationel Amateur Championship. Riders will provide technical feedback to Husqvarna through Gary Chaplin. a principle in RPM. Jeff Snider will be riding the new regional Pro Series as wall as the Trans-USA suppon class. Chaplin. elong with Jim Lowe. Rody Schroyer and Paul Walker will be riding state and regional MX qualflers In their quest for the AMA National Amateur Motocross Championship. "Superbike Mike" Kyle blasted his Pro Stock Kawasaki to a winning e.t. of 9.196 seconds at 140.18 mph in the Mar. 16 NHRA/NMRA Gatomationals in Gainesville, FL. Second to Kyle was Harley·Davidson rider Ed Ryan with a 9.443/139.31 run. Melco's Thea Holznienkemper announced that Malco hes raleesed Danny "Magoo" Chandler from their 1980 egreement. listed as reasons for the spilt were lack of material and performance - less equipment than they felt they needed from the factory and less than sufficient performance from Magoo. Here's an interesting one: Those controversial Goodyear tires (see p. 30) that won the Daytona Short Track on Friday night apparently were available at Houston. According to Goodyear, at least two dozen sets of the new din