Cycle News - Archive Issues - 1980's

Scott Adams displayed his new Nat ional number en route to seve nth . (A bo ve left) J ubilant winner Terry Poovey. (Above ce nter) M ike Kidd took his own trophy dash awards. (A bo ve ri ght) Billy Herndon finished sixth. Poovey pops for Ft. Worth Regional indoor ST win By Frank Harrison FT. WORTH, TX, JAN. 8 Terry Poovey scored his first wi n for Team 'H onda by taking th e main eventof th e Mike Kidd-promoted $4000 AMA Regional indoor short track. It hap pened before a near sell-out crowd as the Tarrant County Conventio n Center hosted its first AMA Class C race in IO years. Kidd put it all together in cooperation with Great American Motorcycle Shows and almost filled the domed stadium - the 'largest crowd ever to see a Class C motorcycle event in north Texas to our knowledge. Kidd . not on ly did his homework, but took care of the press , radio interviews, the , hundreds of details for officials, program, etc. With only seven hours sleep in the previous 48 hours he still managed a third in the main (h is first race - in six months) and took home his own SIOO and the trophy dash. . . With a field of n ine Novices, 17 Juniors, and no less than 10 of the 20 Experts present with National numbers, all th rown .into the same races , the crowd knew they were in for a top notch and typical indoor polished concrete sla m bang show. The program consisted of eight scratch heats, four heats, two semi s, a trophy dash, and the main. Scrat ch heats of one row of riders showed no great action but were won respectively by Poovey, Bubba Sh obert, .10. Novi ce.Duane Duvall.Dave.Bradley, ~ Billy Herndon, Tim Mertens, Scott Adams and promoter Kidd. All this set th e stage for the real action of the regular heats with two rows each. T he first heat started off with Dave Bradley (Oklahoma Fixture Co.) leading Bubba Shobert only to have a red flag crash in turn one. On the restart Shobert (Megacycle Cams Kaw) was quickest with Bradley on his tail and T.J . Houghton in th ird, but another crash brought out the red flag . The third restart saw Shobert again quickest followed by Bradley and Team Grayboy's Dave Hebb. Houghton, from fourth, moved on Hebb fast and the finish was Shobert, Bradley and Houghton. Second heat was relatively tame with Belleville (IL) Honda's Tim Mertens taking the lead with Oklahoma 's Ro nni e J ones on his tail followed by Poovey and the lone California Nov ice Dan McDonnell in fourth. J ust before the white flag, Poo vey put .the make on J ones and got by for the finish order of Mertens, Poovey , Jones and McDonnell. The third heat settled down after th e first lap with everyone in front comfortably seated to finish Kidd, Scott Adams, Rusty Gourley and Rudy Oregorv; ...:.: : . ..a~ " " Disaster of the night was heat number four. At the start it was hometown Honda rider Billy Herndon leading Duane Duvall and Oregon 's Dan Bennett when a crash occurred coming out of turn two and another in turn four. However, the leaders kept charging while other crashes occurred and it took two more laps and a finish flag to stop the remaining riders amidst all the debris. Referee Teddy Poovey declared the race " no contest" due to all the oil that was spread around and a complete. re-run was in order. The restart of the heat again saw Herndon in the lead followed by Bennett and Kenney Tolbert on Terry Poo vey's old Yamaha. This time only one crash occurred and the finish order was Herndon, Ben nett, Tolbert and Duane Duvall. ,A brief intermission was filled with die grand entrance of well known west coast announcer Larry Huffman sitting on a headlight. Not just any headlight, the headlight was on a Honda three-wheeler with the front end balanced firmly in the air by Wheelie King Doug Domokos. Huffman introduced the evening's trophy girl, "Miss R icha rdso n , Texas, " a uburn-haired bea uty Karla Glover. Miss G lo ver will also be known as "Miss Wild West" for the Budweiser sponsored Houston IT/short track double header, Feb. 5-6. A trophy dash for $100 and a five foot trophy included Shobert, Mertens , Kidd and Herndon. From the start of the four lap event it was Kidd all the way followed by Shobert, Herndon and Mertens. As Kidd col.:lc;.

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