Cycle News - Archive Issues - 1980's

(Clockwise from top left) Bob Hanneh'. 3-3 tally _ good for second overall. Danny "Magoo" Chandler won the Support c.... for the ,acond weak In a row. Mark Barnett. here leading Donnie Hansen, won the second mota but _ DQ'd from the first. Darrall Shultz went HI for third overall. around the track." "I was thinking 'Bitchin', I'm catching Rroc and Bobl' Then Hannah got Broc and fell, and then I fell within 100 yards of Hannah," said LaPorte. "The throttle wouldn't ·work, the cable was loose or something," said Barnett as he mentally regrouped by listening to some tunes in the back of his truck. "It was an infraction of the rules, so I disqualified Barnett, " said AMA referee Rick Titone. "His throttle stuck, he went past the mechanics' area, he turned around and came back inside the banners." Glover and Barnett shared the moto two holeshot. Bailey came off last after his clutch fried and he looped his bike. Glover held his Jon Rosenstiel tuned air-cooler in the lead throughout lap one, but by lap two Barnett squirted by, never to be beaded again. Shulu and Hannah were a tight !l-4 when Darrell fell and Bob barely missed him. Hannah inherited third and Shulu picked up in seventh. Bentley, Bell and LaPorte were clustered in 45-6. While Barnett ran alone, Glover was trying to hold an eight second lead on Hannah, who was the sky king out / of Gravity Cavity. Bentley faded, then carne around dirt track style minus his qont fender. LaPorte and Bell tightened up in 4-5 with Shultz, Hansen, Yamaha's Rick Burgett, Wise and Martin spaced out behind. Shulu made it to fifth but shot off the track and dropped back to sixth. When the two lap sign came out Hannah, LaPorte and Bell tightened up, but never changed positions. It was Barnett and Glover with a big cushion on Hannah, LaPorte and Bell as Shulu, Burgett, Hansen, Wise and Martin trailed in. 'Wins usually evade me at Unadilla, but not this time," said Glover. "Dirt clods off the bikes in front of me slowed my pace and made it hard to see. I fell once all day; Hansen went down and I thought I'd go down with him. The traction was incredible but the bumps were the biggest ever. My sus~nsion was way too soft." Glover politely excused himself from winner's circle and rushed off to make a plane flight, explaining to the crowd he had to attend a Yamaha dealer show and was sorry he couldn't stay to sign autographs. 600cc Support For the third week in a row LOP's Danny "Magoo" Chandler dominated the Support class, this time with a perfect 1·1 score on his Eric Simison tuned Honda 480R with engine work by Laurens Offner. Magoo now has a commanding lead in the Support class . points race, 14!l to Keystone's jeff Hicks at lB. "I guess I'm gettin' lucky, said chandler when asked what put him on top. The next question from a fan concerned Magoo's crashless ways during the series. "If everyone would give me $10 I'd do it again (crash). because otherwise I wouldn't made any money." The Support class provided the best racing at Unadilla. In moto one Chandler 'and Honda supported jimmy Ellis took the holeshot and put a gap on the pack during lap one. Teammate Larry Woscik, Yamaha Pre Support's Kenny Keylon, Maico's ~ny Swartz, Tom Rice on a Yamaha and Hiclts set up behind. Chandler started..to loo~ a bit erratic on the gnarly course, getting sideways but closing on Ellis. Then Ellis dropped it while all alone and Chandler was the new leader. }Vosock moyed into second, Ellis picked up in third anq New Yorker Rice, in his first Trans-USA this season, went to fourth. As quickly as those positions set up they changed when Chandler was spit off on a downhill. WOlIick took. over with Ellis and Chandler breathing down his neck. Then Ellis fell again and it was a Wosick/Chandler blast for the lead. The pair, both Honda 480R mount· ed, brought fans to their feet. When Chandler couldn't get by a bit of the old Magoo surfaced. Danny pegged it out of Gravity Cavity, leaving the hole with twice the thrust Wosick had, bringing the crowd's decibel level to max. He flew up and over Wosick's head some 20 feet in the air, got over the bars to keep the front end down, then kicked out his left leg to counteract a clicker. Danny fell short of Wosick by inches, and on the next lap went into a triple tank slapper and bailed off. Then Chandler had to jam against Rice, Danny corning in hard trying to take second but Tom shutting the door. Rice tried to turn around and give Chandler "The Bird" but almost crashed doing it. Chandler skated by before dropping into Gravity Cavity. With two laps to go Chandler found some extra moves and shot by Wosick to win. Wosick was second followed by Ellis, Rice, Hiclts, Keylon, Honda's Rich Coona nd KTM/Keystone rider Andy Stacy, who came from the back. Chandler owned the next moto start with Hicks next trailed by the Honda trio of Coon, Ellis and Moto-X Fox's jo jo Keller. Keller crashed out and Hicks took the lead, repelling Ellis' set-ups. Chandler went inside with some hot moves and regained the lead with Coon in tow for second. Hicks and Ellis were !l-4. The rest of the !l0 minute plus two laps moto saw Chandler and Coon going for the win. Coon was aggessive, but went into a flying W through Gravity Cavity and gassed it hard to straighten it out. Ellis nailed Hicks for third in the late stages of the race. Through the final lap lapped riders were a problem for Coon, but he caught Chandler and the pair locked horns. Both went down with Chandler up first. Coon tried in vain to stuff Chand'Ier to the outside, but fell short by the checkers. It was Chandler, Coon, a long gap to Ellis, then Hicks, LOP's ,Mike Brown, Rice, Wosick - who had come from dead last - and Maico's Eric McKenna. . Ellis came up second overall, riding under a program headed by his father, George Ellis. "I hurt my shoulder a while back and took most of the summer off. It took a while to get back into it," said Ellis. .- Results 250cc: 1. Broc Glowr IY"",) 2-2; 2. Bob Honreh lYom)3-3; 3. DomIII Shultz ISuzl 1-6; 4. o.my I.M'or1e IHan) 4-4; 5. Milto Boll (Yom) 5-5; 6. Stove W.. IHan) 7· 9; 7. _ _ ISuzl '-1; 8. Donnie Her-. (Han) 98; 9. Stove M.un IHan)l Cl-1 0; 10. Denny IIenttoy (Suzl 6-15; 11. Marty Smilh ISuzl 12-11; 12. Jim Giboon IHan) 11-12; 13. Riel< 'ButgOtt mwn) ·-7; 14. Scott Burnworth IY"",) 16-13; 15. David a.iIey (~) 8-'; 16. Riel< ~ lYom!14-18; 17. Gr( Somic:s (Suzll518; 18. Ron Tum« (Hon) 17·17; 19. Johnny O'~ IHan) 13-"; 20. Miel

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