Cycle News - Archive Issues - 1980's

...... 00 0') ...... IClockwiM from top IeftI Randy Go.. 111. here battling with Alex Jorgensen In their hut. fin.heeI third In the Nationel, Trophy rece winner Bubbll Shobert. who rode Bill Werner'. penonel XR7&O. mike to announcer Dave Deapaln, Winner Kldd • lmervl_ad for ABC'. WJcIe World of Sporta. lap battle for third between Ricky Graham and Ted Boody went in Graham's favor. Kidd and rookie Rich Amaiz battled in the early laps of heat two with Kidd finally breaking free for the win. Goa then came up to challenge after getting by Alex Jorgensen. Wayne Rainey then moved in and the Goss/ jorgensen!Raine trio c10lIed on Amaiz, but only Goss got past to finished second with Amaiz third. Gary Scott and Scott Pearson engaged in some of the best racing of the day in the third heat. It was pass and repass time all over the track. Just past halfway Pearson 1000t his brakes - "The chain chewed through the brake line." - and the chase was over. Steve More· head then dropped Pearson back a notch to take second, behind winner Scott. Scott Parker split from the fourth heat to win leaving fint Shane Parrish and then Billy Schaeffer to squint at this rear tire. Parrish eventually slipped back to fourth after much pressure from Willie Crabbe. Crabbe pushed second place finisher Schaeffer hard and Parrish got a second win at the end clasing to within two bikelengths at the finish on third place finisher Crabbe. Semis The first semi was worth the price of admission alone. Tim Mertens holeshot the start with Bubba Shobert coming from the back row on a rim ride to sec· ond by the end of lap one. Ted Boody moved in and the lead began to shuffle each lap. Mertens dropped off the pace and Wayn~_ Rainey ap.pearc:d, seemingly out of nowhere. The high/ low line show went to the last lap with Rainey rocketing into the lead on the back straight. Shobert took Boody, but lost second at the line when he went low and Boody high. Rainey's margin of victory was less than two feet over Boody. The second semi and the final two places in the National up for grabs also produced a good race. Taylor White was fint off the line, but coming off tum two it was Garth Brow who waved goodbye to the field. White stayed close in the opening laps while Steve Hall moved up. White and Hall then went at it with Hall getting by on lap seven. White's race ended when his bike's chain came off. Brow and Hall motored into the National as a dejected White watched. "I just know 1 could've finished if 1 hadn't broken," said White. Nlltional The program was flopped with the National running before the Trophy Race due to threatening weather. The track had set up as a somewhat narrow groove, but there was still room to pass, and it was possible to run high and low. Scott Parker put his Tex Peel/KlotzWiseco XR out front at the start with Kidd, Gary Scott, Poovey, Schaeffer, Goss and Morehead in tow. Scott went from third to fint and back to third on lap two with Parker taking the lead back from Kidd on lap three after losing it. Parker opened breathing room by lap five of the 25 to be run. Kidd and Scott, riding ~~ee:l:to-~~eel!n ~c0!1?' then began to close as Goss moved past Graham's Ron Wood Harley. The 10th lap saw Parker park his bike near the haybales in tum two. The brake rod had snapped in two and one shock was close to being useless. Kidd had the lead over Scott with Goss a good distance back leading Graham and Jones as Morehead and Amaiz led the rest of the field. Poovey was way back with electrical problems. On lap 12 Graham went down in tum three and Hall couldn't avoid contact. Hall, riding for the injured Billy Labrie, sustained a broken left ankle. The red flag came out. There was feverish activity going on prior to the restart - Goss changed jetting, Amaiz replaced a chunking rear tire, Parker's bike was semi-repaired and hurried repairs on Graham's bike weren't finished in time to restart. 1 don't like to have the race split like this," said Kidd, "but I'm confident it won't make a difference." "There's plenty of laps (15) to go. A lot of things could happen," said Gary Scott. Kidd and Scott played one· two for the remainder of the laps. Once Scott lost his brakes, his objective changed from catching Kidd to not being caught. The battle behind was heating up. Jones was trying his hardest to hold off Goss for third. He did until the 18th lap. By that time Arnaiz had been shuffled from fifth to seventh by Schaeffer and Boody with Morehead and Rainey yet to move by. A mix-up in the tive-laps·to.go signal and ~~ ~hite fla~ signalin,g. the. tina! lap caused griping among Jones, Schaeffer, Boody, Morehead and . Rainey with each saying he was setting up the other for a last lap pass. At the checkered flag Kidd held about a 50-yard advantage over Gary Scott with Goss a similar distance behind. Trophy Race Rob Crabbe put his Mills H·D sponsored XR out front in the Trophy Race, but it was Bubba Shobert, riding H-D factory mechanic Bill Werner's personal XR 750, who took the money. Scott Drake moved his South East H·D spon· sored mount to second after a great battle with Crabbe and Tilley's H-D's Shane Parrish. Crabbe took third over Parrish. "It's too bad things didn't start going my way until late in the program," said Shobert. • Results 25- LAP NAT1ONAL: 1. Mike Kidd lH-O); 2. Gory Scon (tH»; 3. fW>dy Gc.- (tH»; 4. l.Ince Jar.- (tH>I; 5. IIiIIy ~ (tH»; B. Ted Boody ftH>l; 7. S _ _ (tH>I; B. W.,... Roinev (tH>I; 9. Rich_ (tH>I; 10. Willie ftH>l; 11. Scoll _ ftH»; 12. Scon " - - (tH>I; 13. Tony """""v (tH>I; 14. Gorth Brow (tH»; 15. RicII; 6. DoIIO lItedley C,_ (H-D); 9. Ttm Mortons IH-DI; 10. M8rty Bushmen (H-OI. TIME: 7 min.• 34.69 Me. • lIMA GRANO NAT1ONAI. CHAMPIONSHIPlWINSTON PRO SERIES POINT STANDINGS: 1. Gory Scon 1125); 2. Mike Kidd 111 B); 3. Rondy Gc.- 11 (6); 4. S _ Eklund 11 031; 5. J., S"'~ 1951; 6. Honk Scon 193); 7. Scon " - - l79I; B....... J o r _ !741; 9. StlMl _ !72l; 10. Ricky Grohom (68); 11. Scon _ (801; 12. Tony Poowv 1541; 13. Jimmy Filice ISO); 14. Ted Boody (44); 15. W.,... Roinev 1401; 16. GortI1 _ (38); 17. 0010 SingIoIon/Mike ~ (38); 19. Mickey Fey (34); 20. Bubbo Shobert 133). me ~ ,-- .~~ ~~ ..

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