Cycle News - Archive Issues - 1980's

bern Nevada· "atber. Callf.r.la·Arlz••a-S.atber. Nevad.. S.atber. Callf.r.la.Arlz••a-S.atber. Nevada.S.atber. Call Raceway doubleheader in April, the Westernationals at Sacramento Raceway in June and the recently completed Orange County Classic at OCIR, is the third year of the series, which began in 1978. In Top Fuel. the Wayne Davis Engineering supercharged ZI was titlist for the second straight year. Davis' ride is aided by American Performance Engineering and R.C. Engineering. Norris Bruce of Performance Fours ~f P~nix, AZ. was tbe top points man in Super Eliminator on his sit-up Pro Fuel/Alcohol turbocharged Kawasaki Zl. The Bruce machine is Dften street ridden. (It bits high 150s on the strip witb ease.) In Pro Stock, Larry Cook of Milwaukee. OR. rode tbe Baisley High Performance Kawasaki ZI to the title with consistent near-record performances and high finishes. Pro Dragster results marred a near total Kawasaki sweep of professional classes as Bill Biggs of Ramona, CA. rode his Harley-Davidson to the divisional championship. In sportsman racing, Tony Dell of Alphabet Headers and High Performance International narrowly outpointed Jobn Griego of Las Vegas for the Number One plate in Competition Eliminator on his AA/ Altered Z1. In Modified Eliminator, a points tie resulted in co-champions named. with Ed Malkewicz and Marc Walker carry- ing the Iw/Mod plate throughout tbe 1981 season. The Walker machine. an extremely powerful A/Modified national record holder, dropped tbe A/Modified national mark from 9.58 seconds to 9.11 seconds at OCIR. Marc's machine is a Zl. Ed's C/Modified entry. former record holder both in C/Modified and Ultra Stock, is a Suzuki GS1000. Stock Eliminator was won for the second time in three years by tbe Kawasaki entry of Roger McPhail. His B/Stocker set tbe national standard at OCIR in September. McPbail races out of theVance and Hines shop. Pro ET was won by Richard Hamilton. known to his friends and opponents as "Cap'n Queeg," on a CBXHonda. OL • o L. Champion, Harley-Davidson MA/Castrol Superbike Champion, J<.awasaki EDDIE LAWSON * A/Castrol S Sidecar Champions, Kawasaki ESSAFF-HARROLD-BRYANT e~t Peterson topples R.A.C.E. OCIR MX By Tom Corley IRVINE. CA, SEPT. 25 The R.A.C.E. is currently having a Pro series and they are trying to bring more Pro riders into the weekly program. For the one ends ur witb the most points at tbe close 0 tbe series there will be a $500 cash prize. Right now the two top riders are Juan Benavidez and Todd Peterson. It should be interesting to see wbo wins it all when tbe series comes to a close. Juan Benavidez has been coming out to OCIR and this evening he was after Todd Peterson. He came close but Peterson won it overall. In tbe first moto Benavidez got the jump and held it to the end ahead of Peterson and David Behlings. It all turned around in the second moto and Peterson was unstoppable as he led every lap. Don Gibbons led Behlings the whole time. When the two motos ended tbe riders finished like this: Peterson, Benavidez, Beblings and Gibbons. Scott Cavness cracked his Suzuki's frame last week and this time he had troubles again. He was second in the first 500cc Pro moto behind Bob Marino but DNF tbe final race so Marino bad to ride by himself. It was a similar match race in tbe 1251"1" Pro race and Peterson took two first place wins ahead of Micky Dymond. The KX Kid in the 1251"1" Beginner division one class was Doug Hawkins. Doug is fresb out of the Mini class and be is doing better on the bigger bike. He led the class in the first moto, taking tbe win over Dave Blehm and tbat sbould make supponer Captain Marvel happy. In the final moto Blehm had an easy lead over Hawkins and that ~ore gave bim the first place trophy. The top finishing riders were Blehm. Hawkins. Jeff Travis and Jose Nunez. o 00 0') .-4 CN CN I-< Q.) ..c o .... u 0 .. • Results MINI BEG DIV 1: 1. Lee _ IVom): 2. Roy Watkins tKowI; 3. Lou G8b

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