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Jim Gibson took second overall. Gibson's performance secured third place _ in the final poim standings as the Czech round was the final 125cc MX GP of the season. Yamaha'. Haken Cerlqvist moved .nother step closer to a World Championship title when he urned the overall win at the S.n M.rino GP round of the World Championship 500cc MX Series on Sunday. August 14. Cerlqvist turned in 3-1 moto performences. while his only challenger. Hondll·. Andre Malherbe DNF the second moto after having won the first moto. Second C)V8g11 wu H.rry Everts (Suz) with a 2·3 day. Graham Noyce (Hon) wa. third overall with • 6-2 performance. Carlqvl.t now le.d. Malherbe in the point mndlng•• 249 to 226. with just one round remaining. the August 21 Dutch GP. Kawasaki Team Green manager Dave Jordan announced his resignation at the AMA Amateur/Youth National Championship MX awards banquet at Loretta Lynn's Dude Ranch in Hurricane Mills. Tennessee on SalUrday night, August 13. Also resigning is Dave's wife, Sandra, who has worked alongside Dave since the team's inception. Sandra, who has accepted a teaching position in the Atlanta area, will leave Kawasaki at the end of this month. Dave will remain with the firm through September. Bruce Stjernstrom has been named acting team manager. Yarrnlha·. Torleif Hansen turned in 1-2 moto finishes to score the ove....1 win in the Swedi.h 250cc MX GP on Sunday. August 14. Rolf Dieffenb8ch (Hon) W8. second C)V8g11 with a 2-3 day. while Amo Drech_ (Hon) wu third overall with a 5-1 performance. Suzuki'. George Jobe. who hed alre.dy won the World Championship. finished fourth in the first moto and DNF the second. 1982 World Chempion Danny LePorte DNF the first moto due to a f18t tire and finished 10th in the second moto. Suzuki's Eric Geboers, who has already clinched the 125cc MX World Championship, was the overall winner of the Czechoslovakian 125cc GPonSunday, August 14. Yamaha's As reported two weeks ego. Danny Ch8ndIer won the Unedilla GP·. 600cc Support r8C8 in ~. . r.shion he ero••• d the finish line at the end of the MCOnd moto riding on his bike. h W8. Magoo·. way of unofficially protesting Ilia clsquelificetion from • r8C8 88rller thl. yur when he rode .galnst tr8ffic. The Ulllldile Hill People loved it. -..-ds Two of the best-known czars of motocross in the northwestern United States, Bob "Action Oz" Osborn and Wally Brosamle, have come to a parting after many years of association, Brosamle intends to spend more time with his family, and Oz wanted to extend his thanks as well as thanks from the riders of the northwest to Brosamle. He will stay to help break in Osborn's new partner Bill Cantrell, employed till recently with Yamaha. Maico rider Micky Dymond won hi. qualifier on Saturday at the Weshougel Netionel M)(, but while running well up In the peck on Sunday. he caught his thumb In the banners treckside and wa. jerked from the bike by his thumb. It wu believed that he broke the bone betwNn the thumb and the hand. Honde rider louie Franco joined the teped ribs bripde with a couple of broken ribs In qualifyIng on Saturday eI8o. Washougal participants Billy Liles and Donnie Cantaloupi were both on the riding-wounded list. Liles tried to ride Wednesday after his Superbowl of Motocross crash and could not move his arm again'umil Friday. He su((ered from a torn muscle and nerve. Camaloupi tweaked a knee in Pasadena and just rode for a finish. Texes' Denny Storbeck (Yam) cIlIimed three cia•• win. in the August 10-13 AMA/Kewueki National Champion.hlp Amateur/Youth MX finel at Lorette lynn'. Dude Ranch in Hurricene Mill•• Tennes.... Storbeck topped the 125cc Youth Stock and Modified cia.... plu. the 125cc A Modified c . Michig.n·. Keith Bowen (Yam) won the 125 .nd 250CC A Stock cl..... while Kevin Foley. out of Florida. (Y.m) wu the 260CC A Modified and Open A cIIIu winner. lIIinoi. rider Junior Jackson (Kew) took wins in the 80CC (7·11 ) Stock and Modified rank.. A r18ld of 1000 riders competed in 26 d ..... for ch.mpion.hlp titles. "I thoroughly enjoyed myself although it was the toughest race I've ever ridden in," said Formula Two road racer Christine Baur of her ride in the July 31 Suzuka 8-Hour, a round of lhe World Championship Endurance Road Racing Series. "I rode with fellow Formula Two competitor David Olds on a Honda Interceptor and we finished 29th out of 62 entries which is pretty good consideringit was a stock bike and we incurred a IO-lap penalty for cutting the course to get back to the pits and replace a faulty battery." Baur is the first woman road racer to be on a finish· ing entry. In the August 14 World Tum Cup Speedway Ch.mplonship In Vogan•• Denm.rk. the defending titleholder. from America finished a dlHppolntlng third. Denmark won the event with 37 points. followed by England (29). the U.S. (27) and Czecho.lov.kl. (3). Among the four Yanks. Dennis Sigelo. wu the top KOrer with nine point.. Te.mmate. Lance King. Bobby SChW8rtz and Kelly Moran all chipped In six for their finel KOre. The Team Hammer trio of Boonie Knott, John Ulrich and Tony DeSimone won the lOth round of the WERA/Nippondenso Endurance Road Race Series, a four· hour event at Road America in Elkhart Lake. Wisconsin. Their Yoshimura Suzuki won by four and a half laps in an event that saw 76 teams start. We received a Hd report that New York motocrouer AI M o auffered severehe8d Inju in a cruh at the AMA Amateur MX N.tional. In Hurricene Mill•• Tenn..... The word we get I. thet M8iello is still In • com•. Hie perents h.d no Insurance. and at the event. Kllwe· nId Tum Green manager OlIVe Jordan helped reIee .4000 to help them. We were in error last week by saying that Honda's Freddie Spencer would win the World Road Racing Championship with a third-place finish in lhe final event of the year. should Yamaha's Kenny Roberts take the checkered flag first. Right now. Spencer is five points up on Roberts. and a Roberts win coupled with a Spencer third. would mean a points tie. And according to Yamaha's Kenny Clark, Roberts would be the winner in case of a tie. "Both would have six event wins," said Clark, "But Kenny has one more second-place finish than does Spencer." The final event is September 4 in Imola, Italy. Chip Hennen resigned from hi. poaition u director of pubilc .... tlon.forU.S. Suzuki on AugustB. Hennen. whose brother Pat wa. a worId·cl... road racer before an Injury halt8d his cereer. Hid he is returning to lew school. Replacing him wiI be Rob Senders. prwviouaIy • d.lstrlct Hie. man.ger with Suzuki. A highly reliable source teUs us that Russ Collins and the gang from R.C. Engineering will ressurect the V-8 Sorcerer and compete in Top Fuel action in the NMRA all-bike National at southern California's Orange County Internatinal Raceway on August 20-21. The Sorcerer, which has not been run in two years, still holds the official top speed record of 199.55 mph. Federal Judge A. W.llace T.shirrnl on August 3 ruled egelnstthe SiernI Club .nd three other environmentel org.niutions that brought a 1980 law.ult conte.tlng the BUrNU of Lend M.negement·. offroed vehicle designation for Dove Spring Canyon in Kern County. Cellfoml•. In March of thl. veer. the Americen Motorcyclist Aseoclation .nd the Aseociation·. District 37 joined the BlM. its C.Iifoml• •nd nationel directors .nd Interior S8cr8t8ry Ja.... Watt •• co-defend.nts In supporting the bu....u·. manegementofthe 3000.cre southern CalHomla site a. Continued to page 62)