Cycle News - Archive Issues - 1980's

Hansen in the next tum. Hansen made one last dive at the last turn before heading over three jumps to the finish, but Holley held on for the win. Coffee held off strong charges all mota long for third, inches ahead of Rod Richardson and Todd Clark. . Round two would be a different story, however. Hansen again took the holeshot, but this time he refused to give Holley any passing room. For 12 laps, Holley stayed right on Hansen just waiting for either a chance to move up or a Hansen mistake, but neither came about_ Holley tried wrapping inside of Hansen in the turns, but those efforts were to no avail either. Time soon ran out, and Hansen rolled across with the mota and overall, with Holley second each way. As for Coffee, he was caught in a first-tum pile-up and wound up 10th, sixth overall, behind third place Clark, fourth man Richardson and then Rob Peeples, who racked up a 6-4. For 'the big bikes, the only rider who had a shot at the overall in each round was Bobby Kline. Kline, riding for EFG-Radical Ron, Yamaha and KalGard, flat ran away with both of the matos, and left only the runner-up money to the other riders. Bob Shulz was the rider to collect those earnings, as he came from behind in each round to finish second ahead of Tom Kelly, Brian Vargas and Razz Reed, all of them nearly a full lap behind Kline. In the 125s, Johnny O/Mara came up with the overall in the biggest of the Pro classes. In round'one' O'Mara grabbed the holeshot on his EFG Racing/Mugen USA machine, with Chris Heisser putting pressure on from behind. Taking his Mota-X Fox watercooled Honda to its limits, Heisser tried in vain to overtake O'Mara. Every attempt he made was shut off quickly by O'Mara, and the checkers came out to put an end to the chase. A.J.. Whiting came from the pack to run third by mota's end, while brother Matt Whiting trailed in fifth behind Kevin Steele. Mota two was another O'Mara win, but again· he had someone right on his tail the whole way. A.J. Whiting was the runner-up for the distance this time, and he too could make no move to ge.t around the Mugen. Heisser in the meantime was trying to work up from third, but he could not get up the steam to catch the front runners, and late in the moto, he went down in the sand, and by the time he remounted and got the Honda running again, he fell back to fourth. When the checkers flew, O'Mara and Whiting went across 1-2, while Steele grabbed third ahead of Heisser and John Langhammer. In the overalls, the top five were O'Mara, A.J. Whiting, Heisser, Steele and Langhammer, with Matt Whiting sixth after dropping to seventh in the second mota. Results 125 PlIO: 1. John O'Mera (MusIl; 2. IU. Whiting tvom!; 3. Chrio . . . . lHonl. 250 PlIO: 1. Donnie HoI-. lHonl; 2. Jimmy Holey !CoAl; 3. Todd ClIrk tv..,l. !lOll PlIO: 1. Bob KJine tvom!; 2. Bob ShuIz tv..,l; 3. Tom~lHuol. '500 BEG: 1. Mike Herz lHusl. 250 BEG: I. Tom Webb lHonl; 2. Mike _ e IHuIl; 3. Horry V_lHon). VET JR: 1. Roger IV..,I; 2. Raymond WII.maISuzl; 3. Bob IIIrr IV..,I. VET INT: 1. Corlos Merin lMai); 2. RA Moeller lHuoI; 3. Roneld Cole ISuzl. !lOll NOV: 1. e - d Wllhers IVaml; 2. Alan Lipslcy lKawI; 3. OlIve WIlhy lSuzl. 250 NOV: 1. Rob Monofield lHonI; 2. Lee Johnson IVaml; 3. Vince Di_ISulI. 250 INT: 1. OlIve Herrio (Multi; 2. Glen Wells (Honl; 3. John Biffle lHon). 100 BEG: I. Iltuce DeIgIIdo lSuzl; 2. Kelly IVaml; 3. 0... GIuoIcote lSuzl. 100 NOV: 1. BiI DeIgIIdo lSuzl: 2. Greg Johnson lSuzl; 3. mnltllerT lSuzl. . 80 INT: 1. WiIIiom SunaI IVaml; 2. Scoct MlMioon IVom!; 3. Eddie Hictu; IVam). 80 EX: 1. _ Laughlin IVom!; 2. Riel< Homme lSuzl; 3. ....., Brooks tvom!. -ev V_ 80 NOV: I. Ton Rutherlord~; 2. _ d WIlhy 3. B.J. HoM IV..,I. 80 NOV: 1. Chris Cole 1Suzl: 2. Sle..l KaIajorvi IVom!; 3. Ronnie llenoford tv..,l. 80 INT: 1. Donny a..nb IV..,). McCoy IVoml. 80 EX: 1. Kyle Lewis IV..,I; 2. _ 80 BEG: 1. Mart< Stuen IV..,I; 2. Mike Hugheo 1Suz1; 3. ....., illicit lKawI. 100 INT: 1. Jim lloyd IVaml; 2. C _ Oot8-dey IV..,); 3. JerTy Anl

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