Cycle News - Archive Issues - 1980's

New Mellico.Colorado-Wyomlng-Montana.Nol1h Dakota -South Duot Central Pipeline 2nd GRAND ANNUAL STADIUM CROSS IN CONJUNCTION WITH THE FIESTA del SOL Mexlcall, Mexlc~ JoIn In the fanfare of old MexIco! • - Moclelo Beer - Marlaccbl Bands Rooster FIgbt Motocross style Stadium Racing Sunday June 1, 1980 Practice - Saturday May 31 5:30 -7 p.m. Race - Sunday 11 a.m. $10.00.Entry Minis - 125 - 250 - Open Novice - Experts 3 Motos .. Cross Border and follow the motocross signs. Take Lopez Mateos Boulevard approx. 3 miles and turn at the first monument on right. Out of town guests park in special area with Police Guards. For more Info contact: Oscar Lujan Lllas 1126 Mexlealll. Mexico Los Pinos Telephone I s (dial direct) 1·903·76-837·16 after 9 p.m. 1·903·76·833·23 • Want to save money? K·A·N·S·A·S Plat T'ack $2,000.00 500cc· Open $1.500 $300 to w in 250cc $500 $100 to w in Sunday, June 8th 2 pm New! Salt City Speedway - Hutchinson. Kansas 1 Yz miles west on 4th, cross Arkansas River Bridge. turn so uth at sign. ..-- # 42 No entry fee No t ime trials 3/8 m ile dirt oval Rider can enter both classes Bike can enter one class Restrictors required for 750s Prairie Pit Pass $5 Grandstand $5 12·under Free Rain date - June 29 Lee · 316/942-4313 Pit Opens 10:30 a m Practice 12:30 pm Ra\:ing Promotions M icky pizzitola leads Pedro Perales. Jr. in Superdome. 520 Amateurs attack Superdome MX By John Rannikko NEW ORLEANS, LA , MAY 41980 Even whil e the Pros were riding the Sunday round of Supercross at the New Orleans Su perdom e, the Amateur Supercrossers were first official final event of the evening on a Suzuki in the Minibike Junior class . There were two do uble winners at the Superdome this year. Todd Bray cleaned house on an E. C. Birt Suzuki and Yamaha in the Mini Senior and mini Stock classes respectively. The other double winner was Phil Reed of Sherwood. AR , riding Hondas to wins in the Open and 250cc Intermediate classes. Glenn Lofley , Jr. of Plant City , FL , on a Trim/Castre-sponsored Yamaha took all the gold in the Open Expert class. Can-Am riding Roger Brown of Perrin Cycles in San Antonio, T X , was the only one to make a challenge on the lead , but a tangle wit h haybales kept him from getting the leader. A distant third was T im W agn er (Hon) of Garland, TX , fol lowed by Lo uis Keb ert (Kaw) and Mark H utcheson (Mai). In addition to the Lafley/Brown battle, a great ra ce went on for third between Wagner, Kebert and Hutcheson. Hi -Po int-sponsored Yamaha rider , Todd Hempstead of St . Petersburg, FL , took 100cc honors ahead of Scooter Stafford, on the Yamaha Support program, and Tim Butler of Ayle,TX, riding a Team Race Ready Yamaha. The Yamaha trio pulled away from the rest of the class , earning the tallest of the ten place trophies with a five-footer going to Hempstead. Yamaha completely dominated the top seven places in the 100cc class. in the pits and pa rkin g lots preparing their minds, machines and equipment for a 4 p .m. takeover of the 'd ome. When the pros cleared out, Jerry Surber's crew m oved in to set up for staging, scoring , starting and running the event for 520 riders. Bulldozers mov ed onto the track for a little track re pair and to make a few changes. The jumps were reworked to fill in the ruts that had developed during the Supercross and a j um p was removed in the sweeper entering the starting straightaway. Other than these minor changes, the track remained the same. Among the great sponsors that helped with the Amateur race were Hi - Point. Bosch, C.C . Specialties, E.C . Birr /Rote Guide and Wells Cargo Trailers. O nce again, the racers were glad to have the services of Dr. Howe and the Texas Emergency Services ambulance, paramedics and emergency technicians at the track. Imagine mini motocross replicas of Let's title the Over-Sf) racing wrinkles class " Bai ley vs. Click " . The Bob Hannah proportioned to a famous professor of motocross . Gary motorcycle with 10 inch wheels . They were there! Some of the riders were so Bailey, dropped teaching to rerum to racing for a day at the Superdome, small they had to stand on tip toes over their ma chines and they are called the Billy Clic k of Ho uston, TX, riding Teeny Minis. Crispy Vreeland of with Texas Cycle Report er colors, stole Pearland, TX, rode a Yamaha to the the holes hot on a Honda ahead of Bailey and the rest of the Geritolwin leading from holeshot to the finish sippin' wrinkle racers. By the second line in the exhibition event. Crispy lap, Ba iley had passed Click and the usually rides with the number "~" on his number pl ates. I d on't kn ow what two were pulling away from all other the n umber means, but Cris py rid es traffic. The m an with the checkered fla g wa tch ed Ba iley cross first, far qu icker th an ha lf-fast. Donna H owell (Ita) of Pen saco la , fl, and Mike Reeves ahead of Click, T roy Rapp (Yam), Robert Guy (Mai) and Richard Adams (Suz) of Arca dia . LA , filled the top three Tenny Mini positi ons. (C·A). If a rider wants to do well in Amateur Incl ucing the exhibition class of teeny Minis, there were 15 classes of Supercross, the start is ultra im po rtan t racing which completed their final because the final motos were only seven-laps long . Mickey Pizzitola roared events at 12:24 a.m. Monday. B. B. McLeod of Laurel Hill , .FI,., won t!t~ .... into the 125cc Expert lead right off the

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