Cycle News - Archive Issues - 1980's

not Just broken. bruIaed and awol.n. with a jemmed finger and knuclde... wid HarIey-DevIcIao RacIng Manager DIck O·BrIen. Springer. now MCOnd In the point .-1dInp following Steve Eklund'. runner-up ftnIah In the Apr, 4 event.. Ia expected to rae. the Apr. 11 Sacramento Mia. - HosPITal STOP: Junior·ranJr.ed Oat trac1r.cr Stcvc Haney remains hospitaized in serious condition following a cruh at the Gardena (CA) Gold Cup half mile at Ascot Apr. 5. Harvey wu initially liaed in critical condition following the fall, when his beImet came off before impact. Harvey is at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center, 1000 W. Canon, Torrance, CA 90502. In the following night's National TT, Washiqton'sJeff McDaniel and Olr.lahoma's bave Bradley were both talr.cn to Harbor, treated and releued. 00 0') Mare Ve1keneen (Yam) topped the Dutch 125cc MX Grand Prix, placiDg 5·1 ahead of Harry Everts who rode to a 2-5 eecoDd on his worb Suzuki. Guton Rahier piloted his Gilera to a .-5 third placiDg on the Va1keDawaard circuit ahead of teammate Michel Rinaldi who had to RUle for a 6-4 total. Rinaldi Itill leads the 12Sec World Championship MX Series 1taDd· inp with 40 poina ovu a tie between Rabier and VelkeDeen who have 27 each. Harry Everts and Eric Gehoen are tied for fourth only two poinrs back at 25. In 2IiOcc Wortd ChempIonehIp MX SeriM ec:tIon. .....11 chmIp Georga .lobe cOiltlnued hie wiming W8yS with a 1-1 . , on hie SuzukL Honcllt-rnounmd Rolf Diett.nbllch took ucond • the ....... SpMI event willi a 7"'~. K. . VIIn der V..., foIowed with a &-3 ride for KTM. Jobe . . . . the ..... with 48. Ven'" V..., Ia Meond.30: JeM.CIaIa ~ye Ia 1I*d willi 2D. Ameiica, MIw put In hIa beat effort yet for a 10-7. . .ven1h ovendI. V.......•• Neil Hudaon _ _ aomewIwt bdiIr ..... switching bllck to an air-cooled rMChlne thIa WMk following up a fIrat c:raahIDNF with a MCOnCI pIlIcing In round two, T_m..... o.va W.uon roH a ~r-cooled bike but c:ruhed In both motoa. au... ,.c. The opening round of the 500cc World Championship MX Series saw present World Champ Andre Ma1herbe ride his works Honda to a 1-1 victory over Suzuki·mounted Jean-jacques Bruno's 2-2 eecoDd place. KTM-mounted G. Reiter took tLird oveall. Malherbe leads the standinp with 50 ovu Bruno's 2., Reiter's I., Vroman'siVan Velthmen's tie at 10 and Schmiu's eight. Husqvama's Marty Tripes didn't show up in the top five in either moto. Brad Lackey suffered mechanical problems with his Suzuki in round one, then wu involved in a cruh at the start of moto two on the Sincndorf, Austria tradt. 2 Merco I..uccI*1eIIISuzJ beet Kenny Roberts IV.....) In the AprIlS ImoIII 200. a 7IOcc event the! _ the top four rIdera CGn1pedng on their '81 &OOcc Wortd Chempion8hlp RGed Aec. SeriM blk... Lucchlnell won both leg. of the two-rece progrem with Roberta pIlIcing MCOnd twice. Boet Yen Dulmen acored third on hla Suzuki over Michei Fruuc:hl·. Vamehe, fifth WM the Georgia PIgfarmer Da" Singleton. the beat· pieced rider on • 7IOcc machine. e Vamehe. Rich ~ did not atart the rae. due to • .,... that'. piaglled hIn1 aInce hie arrIveIln Italy. CIne 8ouv*d cId not qualify. Gregg Hanaford _ the faeteat quIIIIn. riding Kaw........ new IODcc GP rnacI*w. but he craahed the new ....1Ii. and cId not tInIeh the .... Wes Cooley won the Superbike eshibition race held in conjunctiOll with the Imola 200 on his Yoehimura Suzuki. Second place went to Team Honda's Roberto Pietri. Unoftlclel,...1ta from what's been celled the "beat T. . . . ever" hew T...... ttu.qw•••• Bob PopIel winning the ~ . _ mIe endwo with only a fM point loa. PopIel roH a Huaky Au10madc to hIa Meond conaec:utiw win at the Loa AI...... M,C. event. S1II undecided Ia the ...... award which could go to either the Malcolm Smith or the Torawn H.... manmam. American Honda hu ~ven "Fast Freddie" Spencer permisuon to compete in the Marlboro Transatlantic Trophy Races OYer the Euter weekend in England aboard a privately-lIpOIIIOied entry. The three day motorcycle race series will be held Friday, April 17 at Brands Hatch; Sunday, April 18, at Mallory Park; Monday, April 20, at Oulton Park. The IO·year-old series annually pits the best American road racers against the best in England. Last year it drew over 140,000 spectaton. s.tdIlI hie aIghta on the 1982 ~ World Champlonahip RGed Rae. &erIea. FreddIe Spencar .... e.1ed su-t AowIanda & AaMcIatea of Loa AlIllI.lar. CA to .. 8pOI18Or8hIp. ,.ted Ig. merchan- cIaIng ~ buein ••• affaIn, "My ... John N.laDn and I hew worked clo••1y with F'TeddIe for over a ,... now." aav- sw.t AowIenda. "We both feel he ... tremelidoua ...udng potential throughout the United Statea and Ewope." AowIaIIda wII lICCOIIII*'Y Spencer whMt he competea for the AmerIcan T...... In the 10th Annual Marlboro Traliwtlantlc Trophy Ser· a." .... Gracme Cramy, the Australian who won the Daytona Bell Superbilte 100 in 1980 and placed runner-up to Wes Cooley in '81, tied the mot with lovely Brenda Jury in New Zealand. The couple showed up at the wedding twoupona bike. Jay Sprinptaen wu • no-.how • the Aac:ot National TT. "Jey _ working out. out cow tnIHlng. and he hit hla hand agaInat a tree. h'. D G Performance SpecIaItIea .... moved to 1730 La Lome .CIrcle. AnaheIm. California . . . . TheIr new phone number Ia 714Il3o-l471. The new facility alowa DO to put under one roof. ......b''''''' Now here's a contest for youl Bel-Ray will award . es like jadtets, T ·shirts and oil to creative and outItan~y decorated minibilr.es in BeIRayon, using sticken and paint schemes" at th~~ri1 10-12 World Mini GP at ebadt Parir. in Orange,CA. r,_ A new MX racing orv--tIcHI .... been fanned: ............. RacIng A.aa .don (lAAJ Ia h•• ded up by Den ...... You eM reach Dew • 71~1433. U.S. National Champion Bruce PenhaU is slated to appear at San Bernardino's Inland Motorcycle Speedway for its ICYCIUh seuon opener on Sunday April 12 at 2:00 pm. PcnhaII wiD be challenged by many of Southern California's best riders, Alch as: Jim Fllhbadt, Lance King, Dave Sims, Dubb Ferrell, and Califomia State Champion Alan Christian. Gates will open on Sundays at 12:50, and the first race begins at 2:00 sharp. Pre-sale ticlr.ets are available at John Burr Cycles in Fontana and at Cycle Rider in San Bernardino. Adult admission is $4.50

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