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Cycle News 1980 09 03

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o 00 0') or four-stroke? Fay rides it. rror sItort tracle? Fay wins it. Mickey Fay doesn't seem to care what he races or where he races as long as he wins. In Clackamas, Oregon he rode a racer powered by an XR500 four-stroke to a blistering victory. ;And took home the AMA TT Regional Championship. . Then hetraveled all the way out to Sturgis, South Dakota for the Sturgis Classic ShortTrack. And switched to a flat tracker powered bya CR250R Elsinore™two-stroke motocross engine. I He won the heat race. He won the semi. He won the trophy dash. Then to top thingsoff, he won the main event the same _ way he won it last year. Flat out and sideways. (Meanwhile, teammate Jeff the Jet Haney was keeping Mickey company with a tough fourth place finish, not to mention a blistering second in the half mile the next day.) How did Mickey Fay ride away with all these sideways paydays? He had a powerful need to win. And thanks to Honda, he had the power to do it. H O N DA n IOUIIW JIll &I"" ALWAYS WEAR A HELMETAND EYE PROTECTION © 1980 American HondaMotor Co.,lnc. • • • • .• 6 ' " . ' • • • • • • • 17

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