Cycle News - Archive Issues - 1980's

I ~ I (, t I J ." I a •• I " ,., .. , • .... ... ...................._ ··········0·- iii TEN YEARS es AGO Men wit h m ot ocro ss backgrou nds p u t it to the desert reg ul ar s at the Mint 400. taking $6.000 from th e $56 .000 purse. The two m en wer e Rolf T ibblin a nd Bob Grossi, a nd th ey wo n th e race by 17 m in utes over Bill Silverthorn a nd G en e Fett y. Ma x Swi tzer a nd J .N. Roberts fin ish ed th ird to make it 1-2-3 swee p of th e race by 400 H us kys. Mi cke y Quade " a nd Mike Harper wer e the first 250cc team to fin ish , wh ile Bobby Da vidson a nd Dan n y Da vis took th e 125cc ho nors by a sca n t 17 seconds over th e 100cc Har ley Baja -m oun ted team of Earl arid Larry Roeseler . a Th e Pa ci fic-AMA motocro ss series go t un derwa y a t Sa ddle bac k wi th CZ ride r Brad Lackey the star of the show. Lackey won the 250cc Pro class over Bulta ro-rn ounted Tom Ra p p an d Mo n resa pil o t Mike R u n yard. In the 500cc Pro co ntes t. La ckev finished second to CZ-m o untecl Ji m Wilson wh ile J im West fin ish ed th ird on a Husky. Marty Tripes rod e a Ya maha to wi n the 250cc Expert cla ss a t a CMC motocross a t Escape Co u ntry. Doug Sh erma n was seco n d o n a CZ and Gaylon Mosier took third on a Mai co. er I • The Wrangler brand is proud to be the 1 982 sponsor of the Nv\A sanctioned S upercross Series. Daring, demanding, adventurous. That's the S upercross spirit. And that's the spirit of the Wrangler brand too. So come on out and watch the riders compete for points in the $75,000 Wrangler S upercross P oint F und. Wra A rech eck of the Dayto na lap sheets sho wed th at G eoff Perry had n ever led the Da ytona 200. Perr y had p roblems j us t before th e start of th e race. and joi ned the leaders in th e race but was two la ps down . er ® SUPERCROSS T he U .S. tea m for th e an n ua l Anglo Am eri can Mat ch Races was nam ed. O n it were Ron G rant. Art Baumann. Jody Ni cholas. Cal Ra yborn, Dick Mann an d Do n Emde, SERIES Event Stadium Date' Anahe im,CA Seattle, WA Atlanta, GA Daytona Beach, FL Hou ston, TX Pontiac, M I Kansas City, MO Los Angeles, CA SanDiego, CA Ossa int rod uce d th e Mick Andrews Repl ica trial s ma chines. O u t a t Dead man 's Point . Jim Hoover trou nced th e 250cc Senior cla ss. but th en ra n int o troubles in th e 500cc Sen ior a nd fini sh ed seco nd to Bob Hershey. T racy Walters, Morgan !\Ialocco an d Neal Wyckoff pulled o ff Intermedi at e wins. • A nahei m Stad ium Seattle Kingdome A t lanta / Fulto n County Stadium Daytona Inti Speedway Houston Astrodome Pontiac Silve rdome Ar rowhead Stadium Los Angeles Coliseum Sa Diego ChargersStadium n 1/30 2/ 13-14 2/ 27 3/ 6 3/ 19-20 4/24-25 5/8 7/ 17 Tentative Supercross Riders. They're some tough customers. ~ ' 982, -oates subjeCtto change. T h e Bu zza rd s M . C. h el d a h a r e scra m bles n ear Fo ur Co rne rs, an d Bill Friant p ulled off th e overa ll wi n o n a 175 Puch. Seco nd went to Bul taco p ilo t Larry Pfutzenreuter, and he ca p tured th e 250cc Ex pe rt wi n. BlueBell, Inc, IRS HRL Lu brica nt s debuted th e famous MoUy Blue. Russ March a p po in ted two regional AMA sta ffers. o ne in th e Los Angeles area . a n d th e ot her in Atla nta. The man on th e west coas t wa s Mike Hinshaw, th e Atlanta area rep was forme r eN editor Don Woods. Rick Vesco 's 360 Yama ha wa s th e fir st bike across th e finish lin e in an SRA hare scrambles. Seco nd went to Alan Knebel an d th ird to Gl en Bro wn. Pat Evans took three classes a t a n ACA road race a t Carl sbad Racewav. The cla sses were 250 a nd 350cc GP, and 250cc Prod uct ion .' • ..>;..:;~ . -:», 3 / 14/82 Post . TX POST QUALIFIER SCOT HAR D EN Husqvarna on D UN LOP . .: ".. .' .. : I 2nd Larry Roeseler Yamllha on DUNLOP Congratulation s Scott on a great overall vi ct ory and t hank you f or choosing DUNLOP t ires. More cycles ,.ide on Dunlop than any other tire in the world. !!x~lY:,f:!!P

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