Cycle News - Archive Issues - 1980's

00 CJ') lAbovel H.laln C8rIqvIat took the ov.,..1 win with • ,-4 tlIIly. (Below) Andre Melherbe creahed before the rece, stili po8tIKIe 4-2. (Above) Andre Vromana won the InOwy I8COI1d moto. (Belowl Brecll.8ckey turned In e first moto third. but then crahed twice In the HCOnd. 500cc World MX Championship Series: Round two had to settle for second, with Lackey getting his fint 10 points of the season for third. Both Ma1herbe and Vromans cruised home to take the fourth and fifth place spots. Jaak Van Velthoven (KTM), riding under the flag of Luxembourg, has been riding well all season and he came in sixth. 1980 British champion Geoff Mayes (Suz) placed seventh. Gerrit Wolsink didn't even make the stan, later saying, "Last year I broke down on the staning line in Sweden, but this time I never got out of the pits. It must be a new record for me." W01sinlt, riding with half a factory Honda, snapped off the kickstaner shaft just as they were about to warm up the engines. The second moto staned in heavy snow. Vromans was away first, never to be bothered through the 4O·minutes· plus-two-Iaps race. Lackey took up second, Austrian Georg Reiter on the factory KTM was in third, and Carlqvist and Bruno were founh and fifth. F'mn Tapani Pillarinen (Mai), Malherbe and Noyce ran sixth, seventh and eighth. The mow was getting thicker and the track was starting to get very slippery. Noyce went down after IS minutes and restarted well down in the field, only to fall again. That was enough for Noyce to call it a day, knowing full well there was no chance of scoring any points. On a double jump, Bruno leaped put Carlqvist, and the Frenchman later claimed second from Lackey at the same spot. Malherbe, now in fifth, was trying hard to pass the Swede, but Carlqvist held him off for three laps until the World Champion proved to be too strong, and Carlqvist found himself in fifth. Malherbe then gave chase after Lackey. With 50 minutes gone, Vromans was well in command up front. At the Carlqvist takes it in Switzerland By Bob Gould PAYERNE, SWITZERLAND, APR.l!6 Twenty-five thousand people gathered in the small village of Payeme to watch Yamaha's Hakan Carlqvist put together a 1-4 moto tally and take the overall win in front of Honda's defending World Champion Andre Malherbe and his 4.2 sc e °Sr 'urda ' . . b'l at y 5 praet1ce was m n· 16 liant sunshine and the track was hard and fast as Carlqviat, Honda's Graham Noyce and Suzuki's Brad Lackey turned in the fastest times. Malherbe crashed heavily on a downhill section and brui8ed his shoulder, but still choee to race on Sunday. Clouds covered the sky on Sunday, and there were a few drops of rain as Lackey shot out of the gate and into the lead. In hot punuit were Carlqvist, Jean Jacques Bruno (Suz), Malherbe, Noyce and Andre Vromans (Yam). Carlqvist passed Lackey after only half a lap and Noyce had slipped in behind Bruno to take up the fourth spot. Bruno was soon to return to the pits with a broken rear brake, leaving Noyce with an easy third. As they came around to stan the third lap, Noyce slipped off his Honda, allowing M~~ and Vromans by. Remounung m fifth, Noyce charged back into third within a lap. Meanwhile, Lackey was staning to lOR contact with "Carla." Vromans had lOIt the use of his front brake and was slipping back from Malherbe. After the l!O·minute mark, Noyce had been chasing Lackey hard and two lapa later he dived inside of the American to take over second. The other Yankee rider, Husky's Many Tripes, was not enjoying himself too much. He had a bad stan and was well down in the field. With 50 minutes gone, Tripes had not improved his position so he just quietly slipped into the pits and did not bother to show for the second moto. Carlqvist had moved out fast and had a IS-second lead on Noyce with time running out. The Swede remained in the lead to collect his first points of the season. Noyce cIORd the gap to five seconds at the finish, but 55·minute mark, Malherbe was up to third as Lackey slid off over the back and dropped six places, behind Mayes. The Cailfornian carried on but fell again and dropped another two places to 11th. Carlqvist was hanging on to Malherbe and soon both were right behind Bruno. Pillarinen, riding well in the mud, stayed in fifth, but the lanky Van Velthoven was fighting hard through the pack and would once again score more points with a sixth place finish. Carlqvist was unable to stay with Bruno and Malherbe and slowed down to finish a full minute behind Bruno. With just two lape to go, Malhcrbe toolt the second spot from the Frenchman, but could not catch Vromans. who fmished with an II·second lead. Reiter, who held third for two laps early on, slid down the lap scoren' charts after a fall. He recovered to finish seventh ahead of Mayes. The overal1 top three were Carlqvist. Malherbe and Vromans. Malhcrbe has now increased his lead to 16 points over Bruno, and on his present form, he looks like he could well pull off his second world title. For the unlucky Noyce and Lackey, had the weather not changed, the two would have surely captured points and made the championship a bit more interesting. Now it looks liIte both riders will have to pull off something in Finland and Sweden. • Results ARST MOTC: 1....... c.rtqoisllVoml; 2. GrII8n Noyat lHonl; 3. _ I.oc:by tsuzI; 4. Andre _ lHonI; 6. Andre V....... lVeml; e. JeoI< v., VeI_ IKTMI; 7. Geoff Meyee lSuzl; F. Picx:o lV..,l; 9. Y_ _ _ _; 10.o-g _lKTMl. e. SECOND MOTO: 1. V.......; 2. _ ; 3...... .lecqo.-1Ituno tsuzI; 4. Certqviet; 6. T__ PiIclcerirWl 1_1; 8. V., V _ ; 7. _ ; Meyee; 9. IIer1iI a-

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