Cycle News - Archive Issues - 1980's

Sout...ra C.llloral.ArI••a .....t ..era H•••"'. Sout"era Call1oral..Arlzoa.....t ...ra He••d. S.ut".ra Call1.ral.·Arlzoa : Western hotline Carroll tops CMC Ascot four-stroke TT By Den MehonylWlzerd GARDENA, CA,JUNE 19 The Continental Moto-sports Club hosted the fint of three "fourstroke only" TT races at Ascot Park and met with much success Bud CerroII took a flm and a third lit CMC'. four-atroke Aacot TT. 54 the extra la~ clalleS make each win more special. The 125cc Beginner division one race saw Craig Gardner (Yam) uae holesbots in both motOll to take the victory. But the real action was riJ(ht behind him in both motOll. In the tint contest Scott Hack wu lleCond Out of the gate with Clay Langhunt, Bob Garabedian and Ron Convery following clOlle1y. It wu like a snake of bikes winding around the tight track with zero space between them. It wun't until the fifth lap that IOmeone wu able to make a move. Garabedian caught Langhunt and Hack on the same lap. On the Dellt lap Hack fell and_was quickly paued up by the pack. Later on the same lap Convery went low in a tum and paued Langhunt for third. The moto ended wi.th Gardner winning, Garabedian 1leC0nd and Convery third. Behind Gardner's holeshot in moto two were Brad Cutle. Garabedian and Steve Mucke1rath. Gardner quickly pulled away from the ruckus. Second through founh were so tight that when Cutle couldn't negotiate the tum at the finish line all three fell like dorninOll. . Muckelrath recovered quickly and took lleCond, while Dave Johnson and Dirk Price rode around the mishap for third and founh. On lap four Johnson and Price took each other out and Langhunt and Convery were there to assume their pOllitions. When Mucklerath fell. Langhunt went into seCond and Convery took over third. By the checkered nag Castle, who had crashed earlier. worked his way up to founh. The 125cc Novice cluh wu another shootout. Larry Bird put his Orange County Cycle Yamaha into the lead. Greg Nash wu lleCond aboard his Honda with Dan Hovis third. Rob Trone, who typically gets bad starts and then moves through traffic, did it again. He wu fifth at the end of lap one aDd 1leC0nd by lap two. Trone moved behind Bird but Bird held him off each time Trone tried to take the lead.. Hovis moved into third on the fourth lap and that's the way the moto ended. Bird jumped into the lead again in the IIeCOnd mota with Hovis IIeCOnd and Dave Cole third. Cole crashed on the second lap and dropped out of contention. Paul Pontius was now third. Trone, just like in the first moto, charged through. the pack. He wu fifth after one lap, founh after two, and passed Pontius on lap three. On the lut lap Trone passed by Hovis in a hurry and set out after Bird al\d the lead. He wu close but his all-out style caused him to cruh in the final tum, just 10 feet from the finish line. Hovis took lleCond and undaunted, Trone picked his bike up and pushed it across the line in a hurry to take third by inches over Pontius. Greg Zitterkopf scored a double win in the 250cc and Open Pro. The Mammoth race took some of the regulan away but the 250cc class still had nine riden. Zitterkopf took the fint 250cc moto. In the 1leC0nd round he had a slow stan and moved into lleCond, but could never get by Fred Combs who fut to uae all the new tricks he learned at the Suzuki school the week before. Combs had a !I-I tally to finish second overall behind Zitterkopfs 1-2. Results eo BEG: 1. Ilobby o..id lVoml: 2. Kovtn Semlord lVoml. eo NOV: 1. - . _ lVoml: 2. Ilobby Dlugoo e_ lVoml. MiNI BEG DIY I: 1. Webb lVoml: 2. J.tf o..id lVoml: 3. Nidl Bat ... ,.lVoml. MINI BEG DlV II: 1. Jim ~ lVoml: 2. ~ _lVoml: 3. ee.. ~ lVoml. MINI NOV: I. _ _ lVoml: 2. Ron Woet C:<.wI: 3. Tam Combo lSuzl. MINIINT: 1. o.n _lVoml: 2. Jim _ lVoml. XR-750: 1. ee.. _CHon): 2. Greg _ tHan): 3. Doug W_ tHanl. 100: 1. Donny GadllVoml: 2. Stew o-no lVoml: 3. Chrio _lKMl. 125 BEG DlV. I: I. Ctoig ~ lVom): 2. C1ey ~ (yoml: 3. Ron lVoml. 125 BEG DlV II: I. ~ _ lVoml: 2. _ M001ei_i lSuzl: 3. Lannie livingIlon CSuzl. 125 NOV: 1. L.ry BIrd lVoml: 2. o.n _lVoml: 3. !lob T_lVoml. 125 :NT: I. Chrio _ lSuzl: 2. Chrio Fleming lVoml: 3. Mate _lVoml. 125 PAO: I. TIm Murphy lSuzl: 2. R-'v SIt_ lSuzI; 3. Ilich e:-lSuzl. ' 2IiO BEG: 1. ~ e.--lVoml: 2. CIrt Reod lSuzl: 3. L.ry',-, _lVoml. 2IiO NOV: 1. ~ GIaoIlVoml: 2. Mate Stoup lSuzl: c:on-v 3.JIm~ISuII. 2IiO INT: 1. .lodt _ lVoml: 2. _ R_ lVoml: 3. /Ivw!>t _lVoml. 2IiO PAO: 1. Greg ZItWllDpIlVoml: 2. Fted Combo lVomI: 3. _ KoIIy lVoml. OPEN lEG: 1. Bob Flobr8ntz CSuzl: 2. lee Nygord lVoml: 3. " ' - ~ 1HuIl. OPEN HI:N: 1. Dan ~ lVoml: 2. Jim SmlIh CHuoI. OPEN INT: 1. Gory 0.:.- !Moll: 2. Gory Shor-.lVoml: 3. o.n_lSuzl. OPEN PAO: 1. Greg ZIlWtulpI lVoml: 2. John o.-lHonl. and few complaints. The shortened, well prepared TT track (similar to the one used for Novices only back in the early 70s) held up well under the pounding of about 100 bikes racing about 120 laps, and the program wu even over at a res~table time. When everything WtIS over, AMA Pro rider Bud Carroll went back home to Torrance with the mOlt loot after an overall win in the Open Pro class and a third in the SOOcc Pro class aboard the potent Mike Mockbee Yamaha single. Carroll, who just recently acquired a 750 Harley to contest the 1982 AMA Junior wan with, got the jump ¢f the stan of both motOll, but lOIt the lead each time to the 750cc Triumph power of Rich Volk. Coming into the infield portion of the track off of the halfmile, however, Volk experienced gearbox problems in the fint moto and missed a tum, fmishing seventh to eventually score founh place overall. The standard CMC motocross point system wu used for the Class-C type event, and Volk led mOlt of the second moto to the end, Carroll chasing all . the way. Carroll emerged the biggest money winner of the evening, however, with a steady ride up through the field in moto two of the 500cc Pro race after an off-track excunion to avoid a fallen Steve Kanten put him way behind the leading pack. The 20-year-old worked his way up behind the dueling Mark Caia and his "mentor," John Sperry, only to watch the two friends collide and fallon the fmal lap, leaving Carroll to third in the race and a third overall. Salinas Kawasaki's Doug Chandler made the long tow wonhwhi1e u he hid from the field to win both motoa and the $75 top prize. JeffJohn'son rode to steady !I-2 finishes to gather up second overall bucks. Jay Lewis 1000t a race-long duel with Sperry in the ftist mota, finishing sixth behind Sperry. but ended up founh in the second race and founh overall. Sperry and Lewis also contested the O~ Pro class, finishing lleCond and third overall respectively. Allen Knowles "Triumphed" in the Open Sportsman class with a pair of second place runs. Yamaha-mounted Bill Banels won the fint moto, and Woody Lindsay won the second, but both riden had enough problems in their oppOllite heats to give the overall win to Knowles. The Whittier Triumph rider also took the Open Twin clus wllh a pair of wins. Bob Bell finished 2-2 and 01' Mike Boal turned in a pair of threes to -give Triumph riden the top three spots. In Veteran class action (!l0-40 yean old), Bob Bell won the Senior division uncontested, wtiile District !l7 rider Bob Walker rode his TT500 to the Junior win over Louis JOllePh and Hank San Miguel. Forty yean plus equals an Old Timer, and Bill Banels took that t!?phy while Suzuki-mounted Jim Chisom beat six other Old TIme Junion with a pair of fints-in-class. The 500cc Juniors were split up into two separately scored races, with transplanted Nonhwestemer Dean Sykes romping to a pair of aces in race number one over the pair of deuces by Bob Graves. Tony Herrera drove down from Santa Barbara to put together a third place overall fmish. Scene from division two, moto one: Robert Little ·on the gu, then Robert. Little on the ground. "Mercury Mane" picked up the win over Paul Ikeda. Revense wu Little's, howner, u he handily won the lleCond moto to finish a respectable fifth overall_ "Mercury" ran IIeCOnd to Little in moto two, however, to get the ftnt place trophy. Ikeda rode to 2-6 finishes for lleCond spot over ~nsistent Joe'Lundgren in the overall WIy. Stylish (but fast and stylish) John perez easily outran the field of 15 500cc Intermediates to a pair of wins. Knobby-shod Rick Atkins got past former AMA Pro shoe Steve Fonune to fmish up 2-2, while Fonune's stock XR500 Honda thumped to a pair of thirds. Somebody oughta give perez a high dollar ride and let him make moneY sOmewhere. He's good. fun KesI1er won the 250cc Intermediate class, being the only one there. He rode with the 250cc Junion, where "pie platen" Dirk Vandenberg and Keith Williams took home fint and IIeCond place r?ld. Honda-mounted .Mike Han fimshed lut in the fint mota and first in the lut moto for an eighth place in the ·final points. Terry Singleton ran 1leC0nd to Steve Honeycutt in the ftnt 200cc moto, but got the overall win by vinue- of a win in the second one. Both Honda-mounted, Honeycutt finished second in moto two, and IIeCOnd overall. Larry Blum rode the wheels off of his old Triumph "Cub" to finish eighth in a pack of Hondal. CMC motocross regulan made up the bulk of the Mini field, with top trophy going ta Eddie Granley with a double win over Frank DeROlla and David Heinselman. Watch C,ck News for the next CMC Ascot four-stro'lter in ~ugust. Results MINt I. _ ~ lAmxl; 2. _ ~ (HonI: 3. o..id Holo_IHonl. 2llO: 1.'Torry Slnglen lHonl: 2. _ Hofwy<:utt (HonI; 3. Stew S-1Honl. 2IiO NT: 1. Jim ~ lVoml. 2IiO JR: 1. Dirll v~ tHanl: 2. KeiIh _ _ lHonl: 3. _ Ctoig lHonl. • 600 INT: 1. John _lVoml: 2. Rid< A1Icino CHant: 3. _~lHonl. !iOO JR RACE ONE: 1. o.n Sykoo lVoml: 2. _ Tony_lVill'ii. 600 JR RACE TWO: 1. Mercury _lVom): 2.....1 _CHonI: 3. Joe Lundgren lVoml. OlD l1MER SR: 1. l1li _ lVoml: 2. Ed on lVoml. OlD nMER JR: 1. Jim ChiIam CSuzl: 2. Bob ~lVom): 3. WillIem~l8SAl. VET SA: 1. Bob IIeIllTril. VET;JR: 1. Bob WoIkor lVoml: 2. ~ Joooph lTril; 3. . . . Son M9leIlVoml. OPEN lWIN: 1. Allen K_lTrI): 2. Bob IIoIIlTril;3. Mike _lTrI). OPEN SPORTSMAN: I. Allen K . - lTn': 2. Bil _lVill'ii: 3. Mike_tHan). 600 PAO: 1. Doug a . - lVoml: 2. J.tf Johr-. lHant: 3. Bud c:.roIIlVlml. OPEN PAO: 1. Bud c.roIl lVom): 2. John Speny (Hon): J . ~ lVlml. ~lVom):3. .-v Torgerson, Ouellette, Cendro shlneatAME nlghtMX By Laure Richerd VALENCIA, CA,JUNE 19 As the sun dropped behind the mountains, you could hear the blast of bikes as the riden prepared for the American Motocross Enterprises Friday night MX at Indian Dunes. As the gate dropped to start round one of the Open PrOll it wu Foothill . Yamaha rider Joe Root taking the lead with Kern Sporteyele H_y-mounted Greg T ~ in hot punuit with

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