Cycle News - Archive Issues - 1980's

same m istake in the fourth tu rn and scattered the same set of haybales. T his tim e h e didn 't re-mount, however. T he 35-year-ol d Czech was ta ken to th e hospit al wi th a broken kneeca p. Kasakov eas ily won the heat and stayed perfect. Kasakov 's style wo u ld later in ci te th e r u les co m m ittee to co nsider a r u le change. He was taking the co rners so tightly that he wo uld drag h is kn ee on th e inside led ge of th e ice an d, a t one poin t, even rode there. T he co rners ar e marked wi th six inch es of blue d ye and it is p ermitted to rid e o n the. d ye, but many rid ers. Bondarenko incl uded, advoca ted a rule th at would move the blue line o u t and not a llow ri ders insid e of it. " Kasakov was wi thin th e rules by rid ing o n th e blu e line," a Sw edish officia l sai d . " T o ri de ins ide o f it h e would h ave been o n th e co ncrete." Sten lu nd was finishe d for th e night after win n ing th e 17th h eat. H e kn ew th at , a t wo rst, h e had a tie fo r th ir d with Srnvslaiev a nd whe n th e R u ssia n won th e 19th heat th e run -off was o n . Bu t i t was th e 18th heat that p rovided a ll o f th e fireworks a nd d rama tha t the cro wd ca me for. T he 29-yearold World C hampion agai ns t the 33year-o ld former Wo rld Champion . Throw a ll team orders o u t the wi ndow . Kasa kov led and, as he did most o f th e n ight, stuc k to th e insi de groove. There was no li fting h im O U I of it so . Bo ndarenko opted for the h ig h lin e and sli ngshot up the lon g straigh ts. Kasak o v led th e first. th en it was Bondaren ko, a nd up th e straigh ts th ey were side- by-side . Bo ndaren ko was ge tti ng th e better drive o u t of th e fourth tu rn an d pu lle d the most tenuous o f leads o n the second lap. Kasak o v looked to be a ble to close it a t a ny p o int, but, in fact, cou ldn' t. and had to sett le for a . hard-fought seco nd. T he crowd lo ved it a nd when th e a n nou nce r bell ow ed tha t they were tied at 28, it wasn 't news to t he kn o wledge abl e Du tch fans. Fi rst ca me th e run -off for th ird. Smyslaiev led , fell to seco nd in the . th ird turn , devel o p ed mome ntary eng ine p roblem s, and th e race was over. Sten lu nd was tos sed in to th e a ir by h is crew a nd cou n try me n . It wa s a po p u la r th ird pl ace. Kasa kov vs. Bondarenko . Ka sak o v led th e first la p . bu t betw een the firs t two turns of the seco nd la p , Bondarenko got o ut o f sh a p e a n d o n ly h is years of ex perience kept him o ut of the ha ybal es. Kasak ov rod e u ncon tested to th e win in no record time. " T h e ice was n ot in such good co n ditio n a nd th e ba ck wh eel went o ut," Bo nda ren ko o ffered. " I felt ca lme r today th an yesterda y," Worl d Cham p ion Kasak ov said . Explai n ing wh y the ri ders from the sem i-fina l a t Assen p lace d bett er than those fro m the sem i-fina l a t InzelI. Kasakov sa id, " It 's th e track , it speaks fo r itself. For us it is no d ifferent, however. \" e've raced o n bo th tracks before. We a lso ha ve the So viet cha mpio nsh ip co mi n g up and I wi ll h ave to race th ese sa me riders. It wi ll be a tig h t fig h t." Sten lund was ha p py with his third, but felt he sho uld ha ve go tte n it wit ho ut th e run-o ff. " It' s stimu lating to rid e agai ns t th e Soviets. T hey are rea l ge nt lem en . You feel confident tha t yo u ca n ri de very close to th em wi thou t fear o f the m slid ing tow ards yo u. As for my a rm , 1 was a little both ered by it yester day, but today it had no effe ct a t a ll o n my performa n ce." • THE CAliFORNIA SUPERBIKE SCHOOL BELIEVES THE ONLY WAY 10 LEARN RACING IS ON AMOTORCYCLE THATl 1000 E OUIH 10 WIN. You don't go to racing school to A fact that continues to plague the become a good loser. You go t o learn competition year after year. how to win. As a street bike, the So it shouldn't be any CALIFORNIA SUPERBIKE SCHOOL GPz550 has even more 1983 SCHEDULE surprise that the Kawasaki going for it. Bulletproof GPz550 is a key part of the APRIL power from a fourAUGUST Willow Springs Laguna5eca 2 6 curriculum at America's cylinder, OOHC engine 15 Riverside 1S Riverside 22 Laguna 5eca 26 sears Point leading road- racing that's smooth and 29-30 TexasWorld SEPTEMBER civilized in city traffic. Im- . school. 3* Willow Springs MAY 1- TexasWortd 6-S- Brainerd After all, you can't peccable road manners 23-25- Mid-Ohio OCTOBER . find out what racing is all from race-bred UniJUNE 1* Willow Springs 6·S** Road America LagunaSeca 3 about unless you're on a Trak® rear suspension. 20-22** Loudon 21 Riverside motorcycle that's actually 27-29** Pocono And styling that , Atlanta NOVEMBER 11 Laguna5eca JULY winning races. And says it all. 10 Road DECEMBER 1lH9 Laguna5eca winning is something 17 Riverside The new, 1983 25 Portland 'Tentative that the GPz is incredibly (213) 484-9323 Kawasaki GPz550. **Advanced Schools good at. The motorcycle that As a race bike, there's can take you as far as . not another production you want to go. Even 550 that can touch it. Let the good times roll. to the winner's circle. .Kawasaki Result s 1. Sergei Kasakov ; 2. An ato ly Bondaren ko; 3. Erik Ste n l u nd; 4 , Alexa nder S m ysla iev ; 5 . Anal oly G te dyc hev; 6 . Vladi m ir Su ch ov ; 7 . M ax N ied e r m a ie r; 8 . Wall er Wa rtbich ler; 9 . Roelef Th ijs : 10 . Per-Ol ov Se re ni us . 17

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