Cycle News - Archive Issues - 1980's

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Results '- Third-place Pro Chris Fleming (911) and Andy Jefferson dice' at CMC's motocross at the briefly reopened Saddleback Park. past Houghten moving into sixth, while Rutten overtook Roesolisn for fourth. Then Rick Lee passed Ficarotta for sixth. Lapped riders came into Norman's realm as he tactfully used them to set distance between Lawrence. Gibson's strong third position was beingchallenged by Rutten. Rutten's persistence and aggressiveness dialed him into third. Rutten wasn't satisfied. Rutten was reeling in Lawrence. As Rutten closed in, Lawrence succumbed to the pressure and at the checkers it was Norman, Rutten, Lawrence, Gibson, Lee and Ficarotta. In the500cc Intermediates, Mike Price dominated all laps followed by Louis Peick Jr., Bryan Strathan and Jim Lichlyter. As the 250cc Pro division dove through the first off camber turn, Dale Dondel, Larry Rosseler and Greg Nash surfaced as the front runners followed by Bill Scot~, Mike Neff, Rob Hall and Shawn Mahn. By lap two precedence was set as Dondelled Nash, Scott, Neff, Hall, Rosseler and Mahn. Then Hall overtook Neff for fourth, whil~ Marc Johnson passed Mahn for sixth. The action was back on Hall and Neff as they tried to outsmart oneanother. Johnson slipped between them only to set them apart. By now Dondel had set quite a lead as Nash, Hall, Neff, Scott and Johnson pursued. Neff was back on the throttle as he caught Hall for third. Meanwhile, Scott moved in on Hall clinch fourth. At the finish it was DondeJ, Nash, Neff, Scott and Hall. The 250cc Intermediate action was dominated by Raymond Cates, John Townsend, Chuck Doran, Jcie Steffan and Kinney Jones. Cates lead Townsend, Jones, Duran and Steffan until lap four. Then Jones moved into first followed by Townsend and Cates. Duran and Steffan battled for positions. Jones and Townsend pulled away from the pack and finished one rider apart at the checkers. Top honors went to Jones, Townsend, Cates, Hosteller and Steffen. Results 32 WOMEN BEG: ,. Chamerie O'Donnell WOMEN INT: Lisa Peterson; 2. Barbara Perry. WOMEN EX: 1. Karen Leitinger; 2. Bonnie Warch; 3. Tam Tracy. MINI BEG: 1. Eric Haug; 2. Joe Hebdon; 3. Chris Haught. . MINI NOV: 1. Dunn Voyer; 2. Willy Drake; 3. Jeff Fine. MINI INT: 1. David Bress; 2. Phil Lawrence. 200 BEG: ,. John Garcie; 2. Tim Ryker; 3. Brlld Kelly. 200 NOV: ,. Greg Roybal; 2. Chris Gaine.; 3. Dave Herrera. 200 INT: ,. Kevin Montgomery; 2. Craig Lee; 3. Shelby Shamblin. 200 EX: 1. Jay Stranger; 2. Too Sciacqua; 3. Shannon Shamblin. 4-STROKE BEG: ,. Scott Stout; 2. Mike Kennard. 4-STROKE NOV: 1. Michael Robbins; 2. Frank Nenstiel; 3. Terry Gibbs. 4-STROKE INT: 1. Jon Wells; 2. Louis Peick Jr. 4-STROKE EX; 1. Bill Tarling; 2. Randy Norman. 250 BEG: 1. Patrick Mallis; 2. Richard Kent; 3. 'Jim Hawkins. 250 NOV: 1. Marc Crider; 2. John Shaw; 3. Kent Hawksworth. 250 INT: 1. Kenny Jones; 2. John Townsend; 3. Raymond Cates. 250 EX: 1. Daie Dondel; 2. Greg Nash; 3. Mike Neff. 500 BEG: 1. Rick Denison; 2. Mark Gibbs; 3. Curtis Powell. 500 NOV: 1. George Benedict; 2. George Rohler; 3. John Peaslee. SOOINT: 1. Mike Price; 2. Louis PeickJr.; 3. Bryan Statham. 500 EX: 1. Larry Lawrence; 2. Bob Rutten; 3. Randy Norman. 250 VET BEG: 1. Steve Youngberg; 2. Terry Hamel; 3. Bill Shul~. 250 VET NOV: 1. Mike Simpson; 2. Clive Chelfine; 3. Mike O·Leary. 250 VET INT: 1. David Reas; 2. Bryan Benson; 3. John Francis. 250 VET EX: 1. Sam Groce; 2. Alan Gerkey; 3. John Hall. 500 VET BEG: 1. Hal Wilday; 2. Dave Irvine; 3. DaM Thompson. 500 VET NOV: 1. Frank Nenstie\; 2. John Wells; 3. Tom Gamble. 5OOVETlNT: 1. Gerage Kohler; 2. J. Hawkins Sr.; 3. Ralph. 500 VET EX: 1. Ronnie Gibson; 2. Danny Sanchez; 3. John Perry. • 250 SR BEG: 1. Steve Smorick. 250 SR NOV: 1. Jim Learnihan; 2. Milton Roybal; 3. AI Lyons. 250 SR EX: 1. Rick Siemon; 2. Steve Bussell; 3. Jim Ellenberger. 500 SR BEG: ,. Michael Morgan. 500SR NOV: 1. Hank Mudbone; 2. Bruce Carnell; 3. M. Duncan. 500 SR INT: 1. Chuck Mcintosh; 2. Pet Dale. 500 SR EX: 1. Harry Thornburg; 2. John Rice; 3. Neil Fearing. Pastoret opens Dunes' inaugural CMC night MX By Kenneth Stein VALENCIA, CA, AUG. 17 Honda rider Pat Pastoret won both I25cc Novice motos as the Continental Motosport Club returned to Indian Dunes for the first time in nine years. Most of the riders held American Motocross Enterprises cards which, according to CMC President Stu Peters, will be accepted for quite a while. Honda-mounted Joe Gelson took the lead at the drop of the gate, but Pastoret squeezed past on the first lap. The pair battled until Gelson crashed early on the third lap, allowing Jerrhod Thames' Kawasaki to move up to second. Wase Gatlin pushed his Honda past Trestin Simpson's KX for third on cpe final lap. Simpson, from Phoenix, holeshot 500 PRO: 1. Kenny Donelson (Han); 2. Den DeYoung (Han). 250 PRO: ,. Ken Zahrt (Honl; 2. Greg Torgerson (Han); 3. Mark Harwell (Suzl. 500 INT: 1. David Rosen (Honl; 2. Scott Piper (Han). 250 INT: 1. Curt Farrar (Yam). 125 INT: 1. Jeff Reynolds (Kawl; 2. Jim Domay (Suzl. 500 JR: 1. Scott Welcher (Mai); 2. Chris Boice (Han). 250 JR: 1. Mike Dunlop (Han); 2. Daryl Hambleton (Han); 3. John Tucker (Yam). 125 JR: 1. Denny Jones (Han); 2. Richard Bates (Yam); 3. Jeff Clark (Yam). 500 NOV: 1. Travis Stake (Han); 2. Brad Sloan (Mai); 3. Darrell Graham (Han). 250 NOV: ,. Craig Fullerton (Suz); 2. Russ Rohrer (Yam); 3. Sandy Smith (Yam). 125 NOV: ,. Pat Pastoret (Han); 2. Joe Gelson (Han); 3. Trestin Simpson (Kaw). MINI EX: 1. Mikey Pascarella (Kaw); 2. Shane Trittler (Kaw). MINI JR: 1. JOOy Tapia (Kaw); 2. Doug Huston (Yam); 3. Erich Brossel(Kaw). MINI NOV: 1. Kenny Manning (Yaml; 2. Andy Payne (Yam); 3. Dean Dill (Kew). 60 O-B: 1. Jeff Willoh (Kaw); 2. Pablo Lara III (Kaw); 3. Dontae Johnson (Kaw). 60 9-11: 1. Joey Curtis (Kaw); 2. Nick Mairos, (Kaw). VET SPT: 1. Jim Theys (Kaw); 2. Robert Fortier (Kawl; 3. Dennis Warner (Yam). VET MASTER: 1. Bob Dunham (Yam); 2. Jim Smith (Yam). VET MASTER/PRO: 1. Nino Pollaccia (Han). sands bags CMC's Saddleback re-opener By Kenneth Stein ORANGE, CA, AUG. 19 Mid-Cities Honda rider Richard Sands was the big fish in Saddleback's little pond of a turnout as the park's re-opening stayed one of the southland's bestkept secrets. With the light turnout at the Continental Motorsport Club's first meet in over a month here, the Pros chose to com bine their classes for' a bigger 16-rider ante. Sands, on the only 500 in the field, wasted no time taking the lead, and stayed at the front all the way to the checkers. Craig Cable's 250 took second from similarly attired Tim Nash with only two laps left. Andy Jefferson's fourth-place Husky 250 broke the Honda stranglehold. Sands picked up where- he left off in the second moto with a holeshot ahead of the RM250s of Chris fleming and Jim Cobham. Before the lap ended, Cable took second, but fell on the next lap. He picked himself up and moved from next to last up to [ourth by the end. Fleming, meanwhile, charged after Sands and took the Il!ad with one lap left. Fleming bobbled and lost the lead on the last lap as Sands flew by for his second win. . . Alan Olson set the Intermediate class on fire with two wins aboard his 250 Yamaha. Brady Helm's RM holeshot the first moto, but it only took two laps for Olson to move from his third-place start to take Helm. Loren Pochirowski kept his Honda in the hunt and finished third behind Helm. Olson took command right at the start of the second heat and built up a I6-second lead on Helm by the end of the race. Pochirowski again salvaged third. The 125cc Junior class had their eyes opened, as in the mixed field of the first moto, Novice rider David Bress beat. the entire Junior field while massacring the rest of his class aboard a Kawasaki 125. He beat all but the top two Juniors in the second heat. Of those who are already Juniors, Todd Saylors' KX moved from sixth' to hold off the Honda of Zach Halopoff in Bress' wake for the firstmoto win. He took the lead from Doug Hawkins' Suzuki in the fifth lap of the second moto for the overall. Results PRO: 1. Richard Sands (Han); 2. Craig Cable (Han); 3. Chris Fleming (Suz). 250 INT: t. Alan Olson (Yam); 2. Brady Holm (Suz); 3. Loren Pochirowski (Hon). 1251NT: 1. Steve Kendall (Suz); 2. Scott McElroy (Honl; 3. Brad Johnson (Suzl. 500 INT: 1. David Wool more (PMT); 2. Relld Mayne (Hon); 3. Richard Boiteau (Suz). 500 JR: 1. John Lembeck (Hon); 2. Kent Griffin (Yam); 3. William Tifft (Hon). 250 JR: 1. Jeff Heliley (Suz); 2. Dlirrin Hoeft (Hon); 3. Brad Bendett (Kaw). 125 JR: 1. Todd Saylors (Kaw); 2. Doug Hawkins (Suz); 3. David Bauer (Kawl. 500 NOV: 1. Thomas St. Peter (Hus). 250 NOV: ,. Thomas Vitacek (Honl; 2. Shawn Hudspeth (Kawl; 3. Carl Ellert (C-AI. 125 NOV: 1. David Bress (Kaw); 2. Chad Saylors (Han); 3. Rob Ralph (Honl. MINIINT: 1. Sloan Cooper (Yam). MINI JR: 1. Darren Frederickson (Kaw). MINI NOV: t. Timmy Olson (Yam); 2. Erik Webb (Yam). VET MASTER: t. Jody Weisel (KTM); 2. Ron Tuzunslty (Yam). VET SPRTSMAN: 1. John Tartaglia (Mai); 2. Bangt Johansson (Hon). OT SPRTSMAN: 1. Paul Wilde (Yam). Hicks clicks at CMC Baylands MX By Mike Vancil FREMONT; CA, AUG. 22 Todd Hicks, the only racer at this Continental Motosports Club-sanctioned motocross at Baylands Raceway to have competed at Ponca City, showed why he was expected to do well in the big Oklahoma event. Hicks catapulted out of the starting gate and just plain ran away from the 80cc Junior/Intermedia te/Expert field. Hicks was expected to win and he did. His Moto-X Fox/Scott Goggles/ PJ-I Oil/Hayward Suzuki-sponsored RM ran flawlessly. The nearest entrant to Hicks' Expert ride was Jess Britain on a Kawasaki, the leading Intermediate, one quarter lap behind Hicks. Ricky Peixoto didn't get overly concerned about all the fast Interrnediatesand Experts in front of him; he just methodically went about winning the Junior class by putting together a 1-2 in the two motos aboard his Yamaha. In the bigger displacements, star of the evening was Phil Douglas on a Peninsula Honda-sponsored CR in the 250cc Pros. In the first moto Douglas got off to a rotten start but worked up to third behind Devon Joos. (Hon) and leader Tony Richards on his Maxev Portinj;1;/Kawasaki Motors West KX. Richards led seven laps before bailing off and giving the victory to Joos. Moto two saw Craig Chistianjump into the lead. At mid-race Douglas got under the Yamaha rider and held on to the checkers to earn top spot at the payout window. Results BO NOV: ,. David Mcintosh (Yam); 2. Jason Warren (~aw); 3. Tad Dia. (Kaw). BO JR: 1. Ricky Peixoto (Yam); 2. Lance Lucero (Vam). BO INT: 1. Jesse Britain (Kaw). BO EX: 1. Todd Hicks (Suz). 125 NOV: 1. Matt Motto. (Yam); 2. Mike English (Hanl. 125 JR: 1. Kant Gurrie. (Suz);2. James H8up, (Yam); 3. Tony P1Iixoto tHanI.

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