Cycle News - Archive Issues - 1980's

Team Harley's Scott Parker overcame a broken piston, then a third row start, to finish second. The nation's top milers raced before a sell-out crowd. The third and final Junior heat was led wire-to-wire by polesitter Duvall. Randy Bird was second the entire event, and Robert McDonnell was in the bronze spot for the major portion of the contest. Don Roberts passed McDonnell on the back stretch on the fourth of the six-lap heat to claim third, which he held for the remaining laps. Michael Arthur, who narrowly missed transferring from his heat, motored to an uncontested win in the semi-final, trailed the whole way by McDonnell. James Dunlavey p~ssed Dana Perri on lap three to lay claim to the last spot in the l2-rider main. Carr and his Shoei/N D/Blendza III Hi-Paint-sponsored Wood-Rotax led the final for the first two laps, but Thompson was closing. Thompson finally out-motored Carr on a straightaway, and began to pull away. Duvall was firmly' in third, a distance in front of Felicia, Bird and Estep. Carr began to drive deeper in the corners in an attempt to calch lhe fleeing' Harley. On lhe while flag lap, the two were side-by-side allhe start/finish line, but Thompson won. Duvall was running all by himself in lhird. Felicia and Bird rounded OUl the top five. National final There were five leaders of the San Jose Mile in the first 10 laps, but the majority of the laps, including the. last one, were led by Shobert. He led at the start, with Poovey not far off the pace. A four-way contest for third was going on between Graham, Boody, Filice and Alex Jorg~nsen; all ~ere in striking distance of the lead. Jorgensen finally edged a wheel up for third, with Graham fourth. Positions then started to change rapidly. Poovey passed Shobert going into turn three, then Shobert got the lead again going into one. Graham moved Poovey down another notch and went after Shobert. Parker was making his way through the pack after a third line start, and joined the leading fray, dropping Jorgensen to sixth, where he stayed until the end. Poovey began to slow, dropping back .to finish ·IOth. Up front, Parker, Graham and Shobert were taking turns with the lead, never far apart. Boody and Filice were drafting their way to the front. By the 10th lap, they were in the top three, along with Graham. Shobert and Parker were in fourth and fifth, sti]) in a close-packed group typical of a mile race. Filice was ,leading, twhen Graham moved by going into the first turn. Then, coming out of turn two, Graham pulled by going into the first turn. Then, coming out of turn two, Graham pulled to the side with his hand up in the air. A broken chain caused the DNF. That was the second one of the final. Goss pulled out in the early going. "It broke something inside, we're not sure what it is yet," commented Harley-Davidson's Bill Werner. Gary Scott, was looking real good and started to move up, but dropped out near the halfway point. "The ignition just quit," Scott said, "both cylinders at once, like someone threw a switch. At least it wasn't something expensive like a rod or a piston or something. " On the 13th lap, Shobert pulled alongside Filice and got by for the lead. This was to be the last lead change of the afternoon, as Shobert pulled out a little breathing room and wasJ;l't challenged again. Behind him, Hank Scott surprised a few people when he joined the top five in fourth spot. The top five settled in on the 15th circuit. Boody was in second for the next four laps, with Hank Scott and Parker swapping for third. FtJ ice was fifth, Jorgensen sixth, and Chandler moved up to seventh. -Scott and Parker caught Boody and a new three-way fight started. On the 24th lap, the order had been Boody, Scott, Parker (or three laps, the longest stable time of the race. On the white £lag lap, the Scott/Parker train rolled by Boody. Coming out of turn (our (or the final time, Parker got a good drive and edged a wheel by Scott, to the thriH o( the 22,000 spectators. "I went out there to beat everybody. I was starting to get nervous on the last lap, worrying about the (inish. I made a couple of mistakes in turns three and four. If those guys would've been closer, they probably could've passed me," said Shobert after the race. "I was trying so hard to catch Bubba that I was making mistakes. Then Scott (Parker) and Boody would get by me, then I'd get back by them -it was a real tug-of-war out there," said third-place (inisher Hank Scott. Results • 1. Bubba Shobert (Hon); 2. Scon Parker (H-D); 3. Hank Scon (H-D); 4. Ted Boody (H-D): 5. Jlmmv Filice (H-D); 6. Alex Jorgensen (H-D); 7. Doug Chandler (Hon); 8. Scott Pearson (H-D); 9. Steve Morehead (H-D); 10. Terry Poovey (H-D); 11. Pete Hame. (H-D); 12. Tim Mertens (H-D); 13. Eric Rausch (H-D); 14. Gery Scon (H-D); 15. Ricky Grahem (Hon); 16. Randy Go•• (H-D); 17. Billy Herndon (H-D). . TIME~ 1'5':38.295 • •• • , National point leader Randy Goss failed to score Natio'nal points in the mile. the first time in 35 races. . Roger Thompson celebrates his Junior class win. Jimmy Filice accepts the trophy for top qualifier. JR FINAL: 1. Roger Thompson (H-D); 2. Chris Carr (W-R); 3. Duane Duvall (H-D); 4. Chad Felicio(W-R); 5. Randy Bird (Tri); 6. Donald Estep (W-R); 7. Michael Arthur (Rot); 8. Donald Roberts (H-D); 9. Jim Taves (Rot); 10. Robert McDonnell (H-D); 11. James Dunlavey (H-D); 12. Tim Skov (W-R). TIME: 7:50.682. CAMEL PRO SERIES GRAND NATIONAL POINT STANDINGS: 1. Randy Goss (63); 2. Ricky Graham (62); 3. Bubbe Shobert(61); 4. Ale, Jorgensen (53); 5. (TIE)'Doug Chandler/Scon Pernr (50); 7. -Jay' Springsleen (39); 8. Ted BoOdy (35); 9. Pete Hames (29); 10. Steve Eklund(25); 11. Hank Scan (24); 12.. Terry Poovey (23); 13. Steve Moreheed (22); 14. Ken Roberts (20); 15. Garth Brow(19); 16. Freddie Spencer (16); 17. Fren Brown (15); 18. Eddie lawson (11 r. 19. Randy Green (10). • 9

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