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~ PtiOP ! twPflPflWf~LfY O'l ....... the Santa Barbara Riders endurance team will be going after the 600cc victory. The team will be riding a Yamaha 550 Seca tuned by Chris Shroeder and sponsored by Cycle Racing Development and Yamaha of Goleta. Chuck Pace, Tom Sharp. Jeff Little and Marty Sharpe will share the riding duties. Pace and Little teamed up last year to win the 600cc class in the AFM Six-Hour. (Continued from page 3) Chris Carr, Class C Junior ,racer, missed the Louisville, Kentucky round of the Camel Pro Series' Junior National series. The reason? To maintain his straight-A grade average, the high school Junior class student had to take his final exams. Carr missed the rained-out Springfield round also, because the borrowed bike he was to ride wasn't available. The first time the race was cancelled, the ride was all lined up. However, the bike was already claimed for the second weekend of the rained-out mile. Carr will continue his campaign of the series in Harrington, Delaware, aboard a Mario Bernardini-prepped Wood-Rotax. At the Hinsdale TT, he will get his own bike back to compete on for the rest of the east coast swing. HosPITal STOP: Off-road racer Kevin Senn suffered a broken femur as a result of a crash while prerunning for the June 3 SCORE Baja in Barstow 500km. Senn, who won Class 20 (125ccl. at the San Felipe 250, is currently in St. Mary's Hospital in Apple Valley and will be released in a few weeks. Cards and letters can be sent to him at the hospital, 18300 Hwy. 18, Apple Valley, CA 92307. Applications for special recreation permits for commercial off-road vehicle events and competitive events in designated areas of the California Desert are now being taken by the Bureau of Land Management. Permit applications for 1985 events must be received by the BLM's California Desert District office by July 31. Application forms for the permits can be obtained at any BLM office and should be sent to the BLM office at 1695 Spruce St., Riverside, CA 92507. There will be a lottery on August 22 to insure fairness, should groups ask for the same date in the same area. second guy on a Kawasaki in the top three gets $1500; the third guy $500. So if Kawasaki sweeps the top three places, first will pay $3000, second $1500 and third $500. More likely Dale Quarterley will finish second or third and be surrounded on both sides by Hondas, pocketing $3000. Go get 'em, Dale. American Motorcycle Schools of Santa Fe Springs, California, will award a plaque to .the tuner of the motorcycle ridden by the highpoint rider at the June 9 Nissan American Speedway Final at Veterans Stadium in Long Beach. The event will qualify four American riders for the Overseas Speedway Final, the next step in the selection of the World Individual Speedway Final line-up. Honda's Takazumi Katayama is set to return to 500cc GP racing at the French GP. Katayama has spent the past eight months recovering from a back injury sustained in a racing accident. Quanerley cash: Kawasaki has posted $5000 in contingency money for the June 16 Superbike race at Bryar Motors pons Park in Loudon, New Hampshire. The first guy to put a Kawasaki into first, second or third in the Superbike final gets $1300; the Representatives of Hondaland, the Honda subsidiary that owns Suzuka Circuit and promotes the Suzuka Eight Hour, have been recruiting teams of American riders for the event, offering expense money. There's only one catch: they've gotLO ride a Honda. REAL MOTOCROSS THE NISSAN U.S.G.~ CARLSBAD • June 23rd & 24th The California Off-Highway Vehicle Recreation Commission will meet in San Diego on July 27-28. The first day, a Friday, will consist of a tour of the Otay Mesa area to look for a possible OHV facility site. The public will have to provide its own transportation. On Saturday the Commission will hold a meeting beginning at 9 a.m. in the County Administration Building, 1600 Pacific Highway, Room 358, in San Diego. The meeting will focus on review and endorsement of the fiscal year 1985-86 local grants and cooperative agreements program. After three events, privateer John Bettencourt and Honda's Fred Merkel are tied for the lead in the point standings of the AMA Superbike Road Racing Series. Both have 40 points, and are followed by Dale Quarterley (311, Sam McDonald (291. Rueben McMurter (241. Ri~ky Orlando/Freddie Spencer (201. Roberto Pietri (191, Jimmy Adamo (191 and Wes Cooley (181. The next round of the series is June 9 at the Elkhart Lake, Wisconsin, National. California privateers occupy the first seven spots in the AMA Formula Two Road Race Series point standings after the Sears Point Pro-Am. Chris Steward tops the list with 34 points, followed by David Busby (30), Tracy DeMuro (28), Don Greene (23), John Glover (21), Wayne Rainey (20) and Chuck Aksland (18). Washington's Dale Franklin is tied with Aksland; Oklahoma's Sam McDonald (16) and Connecticut's Joey Sommers (13) round out the top 10. 6 In the June 9-10 WERA 24-Hour Endurance Race at Willow Springs. THE OUTDOOR SPECTACULAR Enjoy the best of both worlds. Sit in the luxury of reserved Grandstand seats and see the world's most famous motocross spread out in front of you. OR, roam free along the track and get a close-up loak at·the world's greatest racers. The choice is yours. , . Hardcore outdoar or grandstand comfort. -----------------------------------ADVANCE riCKETS TYPE OF TICKET Two day GA Adult Two day 12 & under Two day resetved Grandstand' 'No child discount One day adult One day 12 & under One day Grandstand . 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