Cycle News - Archive Issues - 1980's

and all the rest. Bell moved from sixth to take the last transfer slot to the main. Final G lover had been close all weekend, and when he railed around the inside with Hannah, Bailey and Ward in a heap on the outside, things looked good for Yamaha. Bailey was on the bottom of the pile and said later, "In the first turn Johnny turned reall tight on a lillie berm, so tight that Ward couldn't stay inside of him. Ward hit him and Johnny came into me, and I had just grabbed a handful. All of the sudden he was right in front of me. The first turn is so tight and there are so many guys that you can't blame anyone. I went face-first into that jump and everybody piled on top of me. It felt like my leg was in a vice:' (Above) Hannah tries to fluster Jeff Ward. (Left) Dan Conway was the fastest of the local riders. He was the only Texan to make a final. . had to do it back. I'm glad I rode a safe race and got second; shoot, Hannah's going so damn fast right now, I'mimpressedlhatsomeonelhatoldcould come back after such a bad injury and have that much drive. I rode as fast as I could go without pushing it to the edge. He has more experience, he's been in this situation before, he can push it to the edge, he can handle it." Glover, likewise, was not pleased with his performance, but liked third better than something worse. Bell took fourth, but something happened to Johnson and he faded fast in the last few laps. O'Mara worked up to fifth with Ward sixth. "I was dead last. I got sandwiched at the start. This is a hard track to pass on," was O'Mara's comment. King, Reid, Breker and Hicks rounded out the top 10. Sunday 12 Hannah commented during his victory interview for the first qualifier that " th e bike is working a lillie better tonight." He grabbed the early lead over Bell and Lechien. Ward moved from fifth to second and seemed able to match Hannah's pace, but not improve upon it . Bell, Lechien,Johnson, Kenny Keylon and Myerscough were the next finishers. Liles holeshot qualifier two, but . Glover came around in the leadoflap one and stayed there to the finish. Bailey was second after a first-lap fifth, Liles third, then King, Carson, Tamm Racing's Dean Cates and Benolkin. Qualifier three was for Suzuki. Burnworth led the first lap, and Barnell the third through the last. The top five stayed close, but Conway crashed after a jump and dropped from it. Burnworth was second, followed by Reid, Cantaloupi, Bentley, Shoemaker anf Maico's Mickey Kessler - the only European bike entered. Johnny 0 ' led a Honda parade of Breker and Martin in the fourth qualifier. Hardick was fourth and MeClain fifth. Locey came up and swapped places with Hardick, but, otherwise, the top five stayed static. Bigelow holeshot the first quarterfinal ahead of Jeff Surwall. Holley and Larson were on the move, but Larson tangled with another rider in a turn and was out for the night. Holley continued his drive - all the way to the front and the win. Bigelow was second. Conway ran away with the second quarterfinal. Clay Hoenshell moved past Alvin Meyer for the final transfer spot. Sunday's semis seemed oddly stacked, with a heavy emphasis on works riders in the first. Glover added another to his holeshot record while Bailey, Ward, Hannah and Bell filed in behind. Hannah went by Ward, but went into the banners over the stadium whoops and came out a ways back in fourth, trailing about 30 feet of banners. The top three stayed close, and they were gone by the time he got through messing with the banners. Glover and Bailey fought over the lead, but Glover took it. Ward was third and Hannah fourth. Bell got out of shape over the sand pit wall and went off the track and out of the top 10. Johnson took fifth and Lechien sixth. O 'Mara and Breker led the second semi with Barnell, Cantaloupi and Conway in tow. Barnell and Breker put on the best show.of the weekend before Barnell set another multi-turnand-jump pass maneuver that left Breker a cleanly-passed third. That was the only pass, the rest of the position changes were the result of mistakes. Breker finished third, Cantaloupi fell and Conway was fourth and Reid was fifth. The Brian Myerscough Last Chance Qualifier was the next race. Myerscough has made this race his personal domain this year, but he has made nearly every final of the year; Keylon took the holeshot ahead of Liles and Myerscough. Myerscough flew high and inside over a set of doubles and went inside of Keylon and Liles. He gassed it, but Keylon didn't shutoff. Myerscough executed what looked like an impossibly tight turn and avoided an accident. KeyIon bobbled and Liles packed in behind him. Even though it was merely a fraction of a second, Myerscough shot inside for the lead on the first lap r J Barnell went to work on Glover. Glover stuck to the inside lines, but Barnell worked the grooves. He got beside Glover in the sand and set up for the turn and forced Glover wide. Glover set out to go back by on the second lap. " Mark got sideways, and I had had him squared up, I think. When I saw him get out of shape.I came across and he got real sideways." Barnell stayed up and Glover was off the inside of the hill. 1 O'Mara moved into second and Glover got back on the track in fifth behind Breker and Johnson. Lechien and Conway were behind them. Bailey had straightened his bike as much as he could and gotten underway behind Hannah and Ward. Han. nah jumped off of his bike and bulldogged it to a stop in the mechanic's area. Brian Lunniss grabbed the stub of Hannah's broken gearshift and shifted the bike into second for the remainder of the race. Ward led the three of them on a charge through the pack. Glover went around Johnson and they both went by Breker. Breker seemed to fade quickly, but no explaination was available. Conway went down and Cantaloupi and Bell tumbled in a turn together. " O'Mara continued to charge, out got no closer to Barnell. He said later that his bike was dying momentarily, but cleaned out towards the end of the race. Glover was back to third, Johnson fourth and Lechien fifth. King was next, ahead of Reid. They swapped places for the checkered fl.. I Ward moved to eighth, but a rock jammed his shift lever . He upshifted, hoping to release it and his transmission, but it stuck his bike in fourth gear. Bailey and Hannah both. went by. That settled the top 10. "I'm happy. I rode a good consistent pace so if I needed to charge in the second half I'd have plenty. I picked it up a lillie about the haHway mark; it seemed to work," was Barnell'S comment. "I gained what I lost last night, mainly." • Results fl SATURDAY: 1. Bob Honnoh (Han): 2. Dovid BlIiley (Hont, 3. Broc Glover (Yom); 4. Mike Bell (Yom): 5. Johnny O'Moro (Han); 6. Jeff Word (Kow); 7. AI"" King (Suz); B. Worren Reid (Yom); 9 . Goot Brekor (Han); 1D. Jeff Hicks (Han); 11. Donnie Cantoloupi (Yom); 12. Mork Bornen(Suz): 13. Soon Burnworth (Suz); 14. Brion Myerscough (Han): 15. Billy Liles (Kow); 16. Rick Johnson (Yom); 17. Jim Holley (Yom): 18. Ron Lechien (Yom). SUNDAY: 1. Mort Bernett (Suzl; 2. Johnny O·Mo.. (Han); 3. Broc Glover (Yom); 4. Rick Johnson (Yom) ; 5. Ron Lechien (Yom); 6.Worren Reid (Yomt, 7. AI"" King (Suz): 8. Dovid Boiley (Han); 9. Bob Honneh (Han); 10. Jeff Word (Kow); 11. Goot Breker (Han!; 12. Scan Burnwonh (Suzt, 13. Mike Bell (Yom); 14. Brion Myerocough (Han); 15 . Ross Pederson (Suzl; 16. Steve Monin (Han): 17. Doniel Conwoy (Honl: 18. Donnie Canhlloupi (Yam). AMA/WRANGLER SUPER SERIES POINT STANDINGS: 1. Bob Honnoh (206): 2. Dovid Boiley (1B7); 3. Mork Bornen (177); 4 . Johnny O·Mor. (163t. 5. Broc Glover (147); 6. Jeff Word (135t. 7. GOOI Breker (107); B. Alan King (96); 9. Donnie CanlOloupi (95); 10. Miko Bell (94t. 11 . Worren Roid (90); 12. Steve Monin (65); 13. mE) Rick Johnson/ Brion Myerscough (60); 15. Billy Liles (SOt. 16 . Scan Burnwonh (48); 17. Kenny Keylon (46); 18. Ron Lochien (43); 19. Phil Lorson (3B); 20. Kent Howenon (28).

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