Bu dw eise r Gra nd Pri x
B ry an t/ G re ig er
w in Se ar s Po in t
SOOkm
By Mark Kariya
SONO MA, CA, MAY 16
Kerr y Bryant and Tra cy Greiger teamed up
on the Tom Ball anty ne/P erfo rma nce Works
Suzu ki Katana to earn the win in the Budweis er 500 kilo met er end uran ce race at Sears
Point Intern ationa l Racew ay.
Harry Klinz mann , who rode
with T had Wo lff on the Racecrafte rs Kawa saki , acr ua l ly
ial500 k wi n.
(Top) Kerry Bryan tteamed wi th Tracy Griege r f o r t he unoffic
Stock time and walloped the field on his
(A bove) Frank Mazur set fa st Box
Kevin Peltz.
550. (Below) Form ula Two winne r Dave Emde leads third place
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crossed the finish line first, but an
early race penalty for ri ding too fast
in the pits knocke d them down a la p .
Said Bryant , who first rode the bike
Friday , " I' d hate it to go down to
politic s 'cause my job is just to ride
the bike, but you have to stay with the
ru les. I'm happy either way it comes
out. first or second ."
Unlike " typ ically boring" endurance races , the Racecr afters Kawasa ki
team and the Team Hamm er Suz uki,
ridden by Bruce Hamm er and john
Ulrich . forged a lead with only a
second or two at most separa ting
them much of the time, especia lly in
the ea rl y going.
Howev er. an early pit stop to fix a
broken sh ift lever droppe d the Kawa saki back. and Team Hamm er continued to lead as th e Bryant/Greig er
Katana closed in on them and started
excha nging first.
Klinzm ann and Wolff made up
ground , though . and got Bryant l
Greige r lat e in the race and were pressuring Team Hamm er when Ulrich
crashed . Klinzm ann crossed the finish line in the lead but with a dead
engine . his engine having run out of
gas in the last turn . Third went to
Carry Andrew s and jon Woo on a
Van Nuys Cyde/Derale /N D Kawasaki;
they were very close to runnin g on
fumes at the finish.
100km Box Stock
Saturd ay's one-lap q ualifyi ng runs
reveale d a surpris ing fact - the 600cc
class Box Stock bikes were quicke r
than their 750 and l200cc big brothers. Frank Mazur set the fast time for
the 100 kilome ter Box Stock race with
a 1:58.55 on his ND I Arai Kawasa ki
GPz550 , an "old" twin-sh ock model
no less.
joe Monto ya on his Berkel ey,
Yamah a Seca ยท550 was the only other.
Box Stocke r to qualify under two
minut es with his 1:59. 98. Th ird
quicke st was a relative newcom er. in
his seventh road race, Mark Kull y, on
a Ho nda CB750 F wit h a 2:00.44 . R iv-
