Cycle News - Archive Issues - 1980's

Southern California-Arizona-Southern Nevada- Southern California-Arizona-Southern Nevada- Southern Callfornla-Arlzon Western hotline Mud wa. part of the fun at the Perri. Grand Prix. Desert star Mik e Sixbery and T eam Green Min i rider Frankie Brundage teamed a nd dusted everyone in sight. The ra cin g was serious, th e rider chan ges hil arious. High Desert Kawasaki 's KX60-moun ted team of Scott Brown a nd Greg Quadon stole th e show by stayi n g in strik ing distance on their midget, at least com pa red to the Brundage/Sixbery KX80. bike. The Saturday n ight finale was a drag racing exhibition featuring 1982 Widowmaker Champion Kerry Peterson and his 1500cc n itro-burnin g Harley and a friend. The two ma chines provided a spectacu lar di splay o f speed and power. The Sen iors and Veterans ' co ntest saw 500cc Expert Fred Edwards tak e com m a nd and hold it to the en d with 500cc Expert Ed Ellis sett lin g into second. 500cc Expert Sen ior Rick Wa tson taking thi rd overall and first turn leader Bill Larson. 200cc Expert. settling for fourth by the end of th e race. When a mixed bag of 200, 250 and 500cc Vets and Pros shot orr the lin e. Randy No rman 's 500cc Yamaha was once more in command wi th Mike Sixbery taking co ntro l of the 200cc division . A tight dice went down between 500cc Pro Kevin Davis and 250cc Pro Roy Yokum. Yamaha su pport 125cc Pro Mark Dennin g. of Orange County Cycle. took a spectacu la r win for his division. running n inth overall. . When th e ch eckers came out. Davis led the way with the 500cc as well as overall win for Wheelsm ith Maico and KTM . It was a gr eat da y for Wheelsm ith with Davi s' teammate. 500cc Vet Randy Rodriguez, win n ing h is division as well as fin ish ing 11th overall. Norman claimed seco nd overall and Craig Adams wa s first 25Occ. third overall. Rincon Kawa sak i Amateur Jason Prater led the 81-200cc charge in ta n dem with Larry J ones. Prat er broke aw ay and soo n was ou t'of sight of hi s n earest competitor. Prater em erged the victor. Nor m Francis . handicapped with a missing seat. held tenaciously to second and Jones claimed th ird overall. Results MIN I BEG: 1. Mitch Eber; 2. Scon Lloyd; 3. Paul 1. Derek Nve: 2. Anthony French; 3. SconHolloway. M INI NOV: 1. M ike Burdene ; 2. Steve Burdene ; 3. Ronnie Jordan. M INI PRO: 1. Bader Ma nneh : 2. Scon Brown; 3. Frank ie Brundage. 100-200 BEG: 1. Mike Neff ; 2. Danny Drake; 3. 22 M ike Hall.han. 100-200 AM : 1. J ason Prater; 2. Larry J ones: 3. flandV Maletta. • 1 •• , I . Matthews, Millar get CRC trophies togo By Lee Taylor VAN NUYS . CA, JA N. 12 HO~:'AM: . i. : 100-200 NOV: 1. Scon Holloway; 2. Keith Mora. bito; 3. Bruce Monensen. 100·200 EX: 1. Norm Francis. M INI TEAM RACE 13 PLUS: 1. M ike Sixbery/Frankia Brundage; 2. Mark M ilazzo/Bill Eisen8che r; 3. Ronnie Jordan/ Hank Sento n. 10/12 VRS: 1. Seen Brown/Greg Quador; 2. Anthony Frenc h Jr .lAnthony Sr.; 3. Ron Thomas! Jeff Sher ill . 7 /9 VRS: 1. Shae Howell/Bill Larson ; 2. Ron Glynn/Ronnie Glynn; 3 . J im Peterson/Jimmy P~.~on. . 250 SPRTSMAN BEG: 1. John Townsend; 2. D. Rocovins; 3. Doug Phalan . 260 SPRTSMAN AM: 1. Charle s Wertz: 2. Ray Groom ; 3. Scon Kinnier. 250 SPRTSMAN NOV: 1. Bill West; 2. Andy Sixbery; 3. Steve Hostetler. 250 SPRTSMAN EX: 1. Luc De Ley: 2. Randy Norman . 500 SPRTSMAN BEG: 1. M ichael Crough ; 2. Keit h Schroeder. 500 SPRTSMAN AM : 1. Dan Ayers; 2. Robin Busse; 3. Mark Hall . 500 SPRTSMAN NOV; 1. Lanny diMagg io; 2. Ru. sell Long; 3. Chucln.d. \J1 !Jiot.9. ~~~fi e.:~\I~~ : ~~I " l 1\,I .. ,u)

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