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will also be shown drag racing her 24karat gold-plated turbo Kawasaki , and by Canadian TV personality Mike Gormley. The show is being produced by Bar Hodgso n Productions of Toront o. The Yamaha Perpetual Gold Cup Saries in the Pacific Nonhwest has been expanded to 15 races in 1982. The $75,000 series will feature double AMA points, $3000 Pro purse per event. and Yamaha contingencies. The events and dates are : Jolly Rogers/Seattle, WA (Apr. 41: Seattle International Raceway, WA (Apr. 17-181; Clarks Branch, OR (May 21: Whidbey Island, WA (May 91: Colville, WA (May 161; Spanaway, WA (May 231; Washougal, WA (June 61; Bolae, ID (June 131; Mt. View, OR (June 201; Butte, MT (June 271; Missoula, MT (July 31: Corvallis, MT (July 41: Clarkia, ID (July 11); Mulkey ORV, OR (July 251 and ThrustoniGrays ORV, WA(Aug.11. For more info on the series, call 503/620-5301. Rumors are abundant these days that the new Yamaha Kenny Roberts will be campaigning in this year's 500cc World Road Racing Championship is a two-stroke V·4 layout. Wo rd also has it that Barry Sheene, Marc Fontan and Graeme Crosby will be riding th e square-fou r Yamahas, although Sheene migh t get one of the V-4s du ring the season. " Definitely a 500," was Kenny Roberta' reply to a what·will-youb&-ridlng-at·Daytona question. Roberta, a spectator at Houston, said it would be a square-four engine. "V1 What V1 Everybody asks me how the 'V' is, Do we have a V1" Roberta quipped to Yamaha Racing Manager Kenny Clark. "We certainly do," raplied Clark, "a Vision and a Virago.•." Simpson Sports has announced its "Hot Licks" contingency program for riders wearing Simpson helmets in AMA National MX , Trans-USA , USGP , Supercross and AMA /Winston Pro Series events . For the outdoor motocrosses, the payoff will $400 per moto, with the win paying $250 , second place $100 and third $50 . Supercross events will find $1150 on tap for the main event, paying $750 / $250 /$150 . Winston Pro Series main events will see $1000 posted and paid off to the tune of $600 /$300/$100. In the event that the above figures are not paid out, $50 will go to the highest Simpson finish er. To be eligible a rider must be wearing a Simpson helmet displaying a Simpson decal and have signed a standard AMA release form . There were moist eyes at Saturday night halftime in the Houston Astrodome as Miss Winston, Lynn Griffis, said goodbye after nearly eight years with the CamellWlll8ton Pro Series. Lynn was presented with flowers and a plaque following a parade lap around the track, Lynn, who is retiring for personal reasons, was asked what she'd miss the most. "The paople. There are so many wonderful people:' Susan Callicutt succeeded Lynn the following night. Yamaha has signed with the National Motorcycle Racing A880ciatlon to become a contingency sponsor. According to the NMRA. moat of the Yamaha money centers around cla88es that would Involve its 550 and 750cc four-stroke, four-eyfinder machines. Yamaha-mounted winners in Stock and Super Modified will receive $250 per event w;n, and $500 for a national record. Yamaha will also post Top Fuel awards for NHRA car meets. Kathy Wanta has been relieved of her job as director of the AMA's member activities department. H ugh Fleming , who has been manager of the department for several years . has been named acting di rector of the department which is responsible for ad ministration of all aspects of AMA ama teur competit ion . roa d riding, district programs an d club act ivities . The Polka Dots M.C. is proud to annouce that their Feb. 28 Prairie City Grand Prix will be an AMA National Hare Scrambles. Enduro, motocross and cr088 country riders will compete In the threehour event. This year's race is the fourth annual, and previous winners Include Donnie Cantaloupl, Eric McKenna and Danny "Magoo" Chandler. For more information, call Dennis at 9~74 - . ~ • • • _• • • • ••• r • • ~ , The World ofMotorcycles, a Canadianproduced, first-run series of 24 halfhour TV newsmagazine shows, will be released for U .S. and International syndication and cable sales at an upcoming NATPE convention in Las Vegas. The shows will feature celebrity motorcyclists such as Pet er Fonda and Hal Holbrook , as well as stunts and unusual racing events. The show will , be co-hosted by Kathy-K'Corbit, who ' Attention all you Washington State ORVersJ You and your state's OHV Accou nt are the latest targets of a legislative rip -off) Senate Bill 3823 , passed by the Senate and soon to be hea rd in the House, would take money from the state's OHV Account and use it to bu ild hiking trails with no OHV acc ess. Best moves at th is date are to call the state's Legislative Hotline (800/562-6000), where you can get information or leave a recorded opin ion . T he second step lies ID contacting the Chairman or ViceChairman of the Committee on Natural Resources, where the bill will first be heard. The Chairman is Wilma Rossbeck (206/753-7870) and the Vice-Chairman is Bob Chamberlain (206/ 453-7966). An American Federation of Motorcyclists-sanctioned 250cc GP race will be run as pan of the Apr. 3-4 Long Beach Grand Prix Formula One auto race. The event. which apparently replaces the sidecer event run at Long Beach last year, is an Invitational with a $5,000 purse plus contingencies. Desert racer Scot Harden has been mimed a Sales Representative for Husqvarna Motorcycles and their ac cessory line, Husky Products. The veteran Baja winner will be based in San Diego , but will travel extensively throughout the west. Stave Wise rode a production framed Honda to third In the Houston TT. When esked after the race if he would change his bike before the next race he said yes. We caught up with him later and aaked him to be a little more specific. "Same travel, le88 ground clearance and lower center of gravity:' Houston TT winn er Rick y Graham said, " I think I have the best pri vateer shot at the Championship . We'v e got a good program going. Kidd is going to be on the Hondas and though I think they will be competitive th is year, they are unproven . We will be running Harleys in all the events." "I've only ridden the NS750 on pavement to feel how the power feels:' said Honda's Mike Kidd. "We'll work on getting it to hook up to din in a week or so:' British bike buffs, attention pleasel British Motorcycle Parts and CAMA will host another British Motorcycle Pla y Da y at Kettleman City, CA on Feb . 21. As always , the free event will , feature .,plenty, of . hills'.. trails , trials sections, etc. Trophies will be awarded for best appearing single, twin and two-stroke. The event will run from 10 a .m. to 4 p .m . If you need more info , call Frank Conl ey at 408 /659 ·4958. Brad Lackey had a busy weekend. The day before he won the 500cc Pro cl888 at the Carlsbad Golden State Series round, he was running around in the desen near Parker, AZ. However, he didn't fare as well there. Driving a CIa88 1 car in the SCORE/Pemod Parker 400, Brad made it as far as the second check and was credited with 23rd out of 44 class entrants. Speaking of Parker, the Class 1 winner was none other than J ack Johnson who is usually seen aboard a Maico. His time of 5 :00:57.47 put him less than six minutes behind Class 22 and overall winner Bob Balentine and less than two minutes in arrears of Larry Roeseler/Chuck Miller . H is th ird overall time was ". . . a nice and easy cruiser run. It was th e kind of rac e I like to run - real fast. " The biggest factor that kept him from getting closer to , or even beating the bikes, was the du st on the Arizona side, since the cars start after all th e bikes . "T he bikes get one lap in Arizona totall y du st-free ," Johnson said. "On the second lap I had so much dust and traffic, there was no way 1 could turn a hot lap." Jim Vester, better known as Suzuki's mechanic for motocrosser Denny Bentley, spent a free weekend at Parker as a codriver, sharing a fourth'place run in Claas 5-1600. Aft er the 1981 season finished . Yamaha dropped their off-road effort, leaving Larry Roeseler with out a ride for '82. However, he showed up at the Parker 400 listing Yamaha Motor Corporation as his primary sponso r. Asked how that came about, Roeseler replied. "O riginally it was supposed to have been dropped . I submitted a budget and sat down and said , 'Shoot, I want to still do this ; I still want to ride Yamahas. ' So I came up with some figures on what it would cost them as far as bikes and parts and expenses. I don't have a mechanic this year; I'm doing it myself. The budget's a little bit smaller, but it doesn't really take as much - it's less involved and I'm sort of in charge of it myself. " His plans for this year? "We're gonna be going to some (AMA One-Da y) Qualifiers - I'm still gonna make the Six Days - and all the SCORE races. It 's going to be a good year; we'll be there." Sources in England showed Papa plcturas of the new Honda European works bikes, The 500cc classer looks similar to last year, alttiough it looks like the gas tank could extend below the seat. The 125 and 250cc models look very much like the new Honda stadium bikes with gas tanks that extend down beside the engine, The Euro models are not painted black to disguise the fact. Both of the smaller bores are water-cooled. Honda will have a support type program in Europe as well, with riders on modified production bikes . Contesting the 500cc MXGP series will be Gerrit Wolsink (33 years old this year), Henk Seppenwoolde and Toon Karsmakers on CR480s. Supported 250cc riders will be German Rolf Dieffenbach, young Italian Arno Dreschsel, Belgian Jean Claude Laquaye and Dutchman Peter Groeneveld . Factory tester Yoshimi Sugio will join with young Belgian Ala in Lejeune on 125cc machines. . . .. 5·