Cycle News - Archive Issues - 1980's

support class and it will be international. Apparently there are a group of European riders who're interested in going after the Pontiac Trans-Am that'll be presented to the overall series winner. Honda-mounted Mickey Fay won the AMA Regional TT in Clackamas. OR. after early leader Brad Hurst coasted to a stop when . his Triumph's primary chain broke. Tom McCollough p"ced second in the Expert race at the July 13 event. Topping the Juniors was Yamaha rider Jeff McDaniel; Mark Rooks won the Novice race on a Honda. o 00 O"l The sound of four-stroke thunder will aga in echo from the hills of Carlsbad at the July 20 CMC Four-stroke Championships. Magoo, Rocket Rex and all will be on hand to go for the prize money Wind, horses shuffle Winston Pro Series schedule 1. WESTERVILLE, OH,JULY 10 A severe summer thunderstorm .nd • ch8nge In hemeu rlIClng d8tes h8ve brought.bout two revisions In the Wlnaton Pro Series achedule of American Motorcyclist Auoc:latlon Gl1Ind National Chemplonahlp motorcycle rac:ea. AMA offtc:IlIla h8ve .nnounced that the helf mile dirt treek event origInally acheduled for July 6 Itt Topeka. KS. will now run SundBy night. Aug. 31. Thltt 111C8 wes postponed when • severe thundentorm dlImeged the roof of the gl1lndstand Itt the Sunahlne S _ Expo. 11I1Idering the feciIity temporertly unMfe. M....whIIe. the Aug. 31 dltte beceme lMIiIabie due to • chenge In l'n8nlIg8ment and subsequent racheduHng of horae rlICIng d8tes Itt The M ••dows.. fIv. . .htha mile Umeatone oVIII Mer Plttaburgh. PAThe achedule ch8ngea Itt The Meedowa forced cancelllttlon of the Winston Pro SerIea event there••nd that cIeered wey for the Aug. 31 runrMng of the Topeka h8If mIle. Due to the mOltt recent echedule ch8nge. the first leg of the Winltton Pro SerIes. orIgInaly slltted to encIltt Topeka on July 6. w_ declered official _ of the June 21 roed rece Itt Roed Atleme. The .36.000 tim leg point fund wIR be dlatrlbuted July ZlItt the mile dIrt nck event Itt DuQuoln.IL 1980 AMA Winston Pro Series first-leg point fund 1, 2. 3. 4. 5. 6, 7, 8. 9. 10. Name. home town Hank Scott. And..y. OH Steve Moreheed. And..y. OH R.ndy Goss. High"nd. MI Billy Labrie. St. Petersburg. FL Ricky Gl1Ihem. Pecific Grove. CA Alex Jorgensen. Stockton. CA G.ry Scott. SprIngfield. OH Rich Schl.chter. Old Lyme. CT Ted Boody. l.Ilnsing. MI Mike Kidd. Eu..... TX American Bernie Schreiber. defending Observed Trial. World Ch.mpion. edged out M.rtin Lampkin (SWMI. ' UIf Karls.on (Monl and Yrjo Vesterlnen (Monl for the win in the July 13 Italian round of the World ChBmplonship SerIes. Schreiber. after two round. of fini.hing out of the points, bounced back in style. However. Karlsson hold• • commanding le.d in the title cha.e with 92 points to Ve.terinen·s 73. Schreiber i. third with 66. 2 Kees Van der Ven (Mai) swept both motos of the July 13 250cc MX GP in Holland. Benny Wilkin (KTM) and Georges Jobe (Suz) followed in moto one while Ekki Sundstrom (Hus) and Jan Van Mierlo (Suz) did the same in moto two. Jobe was fourth . jobe holds a commanding points lead over Points 92 rt 73 67 66 Winston P.yoff .10.000 6.000 4.000 3.000 2.500 63 2.200 59 56 2.000 1.900 50 48 1.800 1.600 Dimitar Rangelov, 179 to 112, as the GP circuis heads for the July 20 Bel-Ray 250cc USGP at Unadilla Valley Sports Center in Edmeston, NY. Tony DiStefano. seen spectating .t the Coca-Col. Bottlers' Superbowl of Motocross. i. recovering from hi. eye injury and is p"nnlng • return to the AMA Nlttional MX circuit. He'. .waitlng • contact len. which will correct hi. vi.ion in hi. d.maged right eye to 20/40. Then he'll .tart riding in Augu.t with an attack on the Nation.1 MX Serle ••Iated for next year. According to AMA officials, there remains some confusion regarding the state of the 1980 Trans·USA MX Series . It will be a 250cc series only both the featured class and the Bobby Schwartz i. back in SoCal racing the .peedway circuit this week, Shawn Moran is due back on July 20. and brother Kelly is expected to arrive .tateside on Aug. 5. Th~n••ometime in September. Bruce Penhell will be returning for hi. brother's wedding ... and .ome rlICing. Papa has contacted a correspondent in Washington. IX: - someone who'd like to serve the same audience as our friend in Sacramento: C.N. Deepthroat - to keep Cycle News readers aware of what's really going on behind the toooften closed doors of our lawmakers. His first column is expected to deal with EPA noise regulations, another with the Walker anti-motorcycle gang task force resolution. Stay tuned for the first one in next week's Cycle News. Desplte the heat. AME President Jerry Shol1l reports thet rlIClng is going well on the Honda American Minlcycle Championship Series. now in Its .eventh of 10 .events. This weekend away from Oklehoma and off to Clark'. Branch motorcycle track at Ro.eberg. Oregon. After that. it'. Aztec Raceway In Colorado Spring•• and then the Gl1Ind Nation.1 Anals at Lake Whitney Cycle Ranch. Lake Whitney. Texas on Augu.t 1-3. Shore and wife Shirley are personally conducting each I1Ica in the series. "We're glttting a feel for what'. going on In the field." say. Shore. whose Honda mini serle. is his tim truly netional progl1lm. it·. Statistics. as any good bureaucrat can tell you, can tell you anything you want to hear. Papa heard on the TV news the other night that West Germany - about the size of Oregon - leads all other nations in international com merce, with a 20.8 percent share ofthe market. The U.S. is second and Japan third. West Germans also have the highest per-capita consumption of beer, and there is no speed limit on West German freeways . Care for a cold one, Joan? The Desert Daisie. ran into trouble with the hell arrangements for their trophy pre.entation••nd have had to po.tpone It by one day. So mark Seturday night. July 19. on your calendar as the evening to head on over to the American Legion Hall. 330 N. Azuse Ave.• We.t Covina. and enjoy the free beer. live band. dancing. door prizes and buffet. The banner drop. at 8 p.m.• everyone's invited. and there's a $3 donation, For more info. call Lynette at 2131332-6249 or 71416284975. The Mount Baker Motorcycle Club in Bellingham, WA, will be running an AMA Amateur Scrambles qualifier on their c1ubgrounds track , Saturday, Jul y 19. This race will replace the on e scheduled for the now out- of-action Castle Rock track . For further details, call 2061733 -1694. Bob Hayes' Assembly Bill 1987 was signed into law by California Governor Jerry Brown. The bill al lows ham operators to put their call letters on their motorcycle license plates. just as they could do previously on their automobile plates. Hayes introduced the bill on behalf of motorcyclists who wished to use their ham radio-equipped bikes in civil defense/disaster relief work. If you've got three weeks to spare next summer, and three weeks on a motorcycle roaming the Canadian Rockies and the Pacific Northwest appeals to you, then check in with Harry Jaako and John McEwen , founders of Canadian Alpine Motorcycle Tours, Ltd. Beginning May 6, 1981, they'll conduct five three-week tours that take riders from Vancouver up to the beautiful Jasper and Banff areas of the Canadian Rockies , then down to the U.S. on a stint through Washington and Oregon. Use your own bike or fly to Vancouver and rent or purchase one. For additional info, contact Reed's Travel, 1202-325 Howe St., Vancouver, B.C. , Canada, V6C IZ7 . Don't call here; Papa's gonna be busy negotiating for a three-week vacation next summer. Want to see the Winston Pro Series ch8l1engers gltt the gas on 7 Then check out the TT I1IC8S July 22-23-24 starting Itt Valley Raceway in Albuquerque. New Mexico then moving to Amarillo ITexasl Speedway and Devil's Bowl Speedway in 0.1.... Texas. The Rolling Thunder Show wiD be heading baCk from the July 19 Ascot TT National on their way to,

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