Cycle News - Archive Issues - 1980's

......------_._------ -_.- Ted Boody (12) leads Garth Brow and Jimmy Filice (hidden). Terry Poovey (18). Randy Goss (1). Scott Parker (11). RonnieJones (16). Steve Morehead (42). Jonathon Cornwall (25) and Ricky Gra_ham. Morehead and Graham battled over third. Poovey lead,s Boody late in the National final. AMA Grand National Championship/Camel Pro Series: Round 10 produced follow-the-leader racing. Time trials Unlike last year when three riders logged qualifying laps in the 25second bracket, fast time this year was 26.052 seconds. That time was turned in by Team Honda's Bubba Shobert and he took the $100 awarded to the fastest qualifier home to Lubbock, Texas. Roundingoutthe top five qualifiers were Poovey at 26.162, Boody at 26.268, Graham with 26.32, and Goss at 26.345. Only 47 Experts posted for the event and everyone who took a qualifying lap automatically qualified for what would normally be a 48man field. Heats Grand National Champion Randy Goss led the field through turns one and two at the start of the first 1O-lap heat race that would see the first three finishers advance to the National. Goss led all the way to score a seemingly easy win, but behind him nothing came easy. Pole sitter Buhba Shobert was buried back in the pack at the start and after working his way up to fifth behind Randy Texter, Shobert pitched it away in turn three on the final lap. "I was trying too hard and went down in turn three," said Shobert. "It was my fault, but that's racing." Texter was a victim of Shobert's get-off: "I had no choice. I had to lay Poovey leads Harley sweep in Delaware By Jack Mangus HARRINGTON, DE, JUNE 9 Texan Terry Poovey led Ted Boody and Steve Morehead past the checkered flag at the conclusion of the Pabst Classic Half Mile which was run at Delaware State Fairgrounds in Harrington. The trio turned in the first HarleyDavidson sweep of a Camel Pro Series event this season. Both winner Poovey and runner-up leader Ricky Graham of Team Honda. Graham extended his point lead over Randy Goss, who finished ninth on the day, with the former Grand National Champion's total now at lOS and the defending champ's 89. Boody were aboard XR750s outo[the 12 Promoter Jay Milligan reported a it down to avoid him. I got up real Tex Peel stable. Poovey was riding the XR normally ridden by injured Matt Rosowicz, which was being tended to by former dirt track ace Corky Keener. FoLJo~ing the Harley-mounted trio across the finish line was series point crowd that was "up from last year." The crowd and competitors had to tend with record-breaking temperatures that saw thermometers soaring to nearly the lOO-degree mark. The blistering sun contributed to a narrow groove track that with few exceptions quick and completed the lap so I advanced to a semi. I'll have another chance in that race and if I don't make it there I'll have to win the Last Chance Qualifier." While Goss romped away up front, Canadian Jon Cornwell held second until three-time Grand ational . Champion Jay Springsteen, who was making his first appearance on the circuit in oVer a month, took over the runner-up spot for good on the seventh lap. Cornwell held on to third with Pete Hames finishing fourth. Poovey ran away with the second heat, leading every lap. Garth Brow held second all the way and after the initial lap shuffling it was Honda's Doug Chandler in third {rom the second lap to the finish. Tim Mertens and Gary ScOtt finished fourth and fifth, respectively. That the groove was completed was ohvious when the second heat turned out to have been run some three seconds faster than the open ing heat. The track was watered after the second heat. Heat number three turned out to be the fastest of the day and the fastest of the fast was winner Ted Boody. The checkered £lag saw the tall Michigan rider crossing the line a good distance ahead of the Harley Owner's Groupsponsored, Eddie Atkins-tuned XR of Jim Filice. Third went to Oklahoman Ronnie Jones and his Warren H-D/Megacycle/Shoei XR. Former Grand National Champion Steve Eklund provided the fireworks in the third heat as he tried to make the outside cushion work. Only once did he come down onto the groove and that was on the sixth lap when he squeezed in between Filice and Jones in turn one. Eklund finished fourth. The fourth and final heat was a 0.£ the crowd~pleaser and the stars race were Morehead and Graham. Morehead and his Esquire/KK Motorcycle Supply/Storz/Dragoo-sponsored, Paul Cheiml-tuned XR led every lap but the one that counts. Dogged relentlessly by the Honda of

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