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Beginning m id-April , Zap Superspo rts will be h old ing race events at the Santa Clara Motorcycle Park in San jose, Ca lifornia, incl uding mot ocross, hare scrambles, a nd ATV races. For more information, call 408/2244989. lr') 00 O"l BY'PfI'Pfi WfflLfY trophy. Last Year the event raised $35.000 in pledges for M DA; event organizers are expecting to get up to $250.000. This year's theme is " Ri de the Rockies for Jerry's Kids." For details. call Freedom Harley-Davidson at 303/2380245. Suzuki's new GSXR750 won its first time out at the hands of Australian Rob Phyllis. who captured the Western Underwriters ThreeHour production race at Adelaide International Raceway in Australia. March 24. Second was Team Kawasaki A ustralia's Len Willing . Look for a race report next week. j ay Springsteen , three-time AMA Grand National/Camel Pro Series Champion and winner of. 38 National races, missed the Ascot 1T due to the recurring stomach illness that has p lagued him since 1979. The condi tion has defied all attempts to identify and treat an organic cause. Larry McBride (Suz) topped Elmer Tren (Kaw ) for th e Top Fuel win in the Mar ch 31 Dragbike! Dixie Nationa ls at Atl anta Dragw ay in Commerce, G eorgi a . McBride turned a 7.65 second, 151 mph run in th e final aft er Trett lo st tra ction a t the start . Trett debuted his n ew titanium-framed fu eler and posted top speed of the m eet - a 193.l 3-mph pass. Th e J une 21-23 Pocono Cycle J am at Long Pond, Pennsylvania's Pocono Raceway has been expande d to inc lude Dragbike l Nation al Championships drag racing as well as t he fu ll AMA National Championsh ip road racing program. Friday. June 2 1, w ill see practice and quali fying for road race an d drag race compet itors. Saturday's program will include the Battle of the Twi ns Superbike finals plu s Dragbikel class eliminations. The drag raci ng f inals w ill be in cluded in Sunday's program w it h t he Formula One Camel Pro Series National and Formula Two road races. The drags will take place on the straightaway in front of the grandstands. Ride rs Rick M iller (left) and Bobby Schwartz pose w ith promoter Ch ris Agajanian after t esting at the new speedway t rack at Gardena. Cal ifornia's Ascot Park. Regular racing starts April 18. According to Team Honda Racing Manager Gary Mathers. nobody else will be rid ing Ricky Graham's team bike while the Grand National Champion r ec u perat es from a broken leg sustained in a practice ride accident March 13. Graham is expected to be out three months. California Su p erbike School's Keith Code will be holding a series of racers-only seminars, beginning Tuesday, April 9. The seminars are limited to 10 riders and will consist of four 2l2-hou r sessions. Prospective students must have lap times and have competed in at least three races. Cost is $150. Call 213/484-9323 for details. 4. Continental Rubber Company is throw ing their 10th annua l motorcycle rally at t he factory's Wes t German research facility April 2728. The rally is co nsidered the largest and most popular in Europe. and is held atthe 1 80 -acre Co ntidrom where riders can t ry t heir ha nd at the test track' s hi gh banked oval and road course, or watch safety demonstrations by Continental eng ineers. For more information. write Continental Products Corp., 1200 Wan Street West. Lyndhurst. NJ 07071. Dick Mann is organizing a vi ntage machine motocross to be held at Sand Hill Ranch in nort h ern California, in conjunctin with a regular motocross on April 14. The event will be run u nder California Vintage Racing Group rules and has classes for pre1975 (that means up to and through 1974)motorcycles with original wheel travel. More information is available from eVRG at 415/829-6091 or from Mann at 415/234-6556. The Western States Rac ing Associ ati o n - sp o n so r ed V irg i n ia City Grand Prix is sc heduled for May 11-1 2 . Ent ries are now available by send i ng a legal- si zed se lf addressed. stamped envelope t o P.O . Box 7244. Ren o. NV 895 1 0 7244. o r by ca llin g 7 02 /322 8083 . d ay s; 702 /358 -2407 . evenings. Th e foll ow ing is the 1985-86 Motorcycle Dealern ews Expo schedu le: An aheim Convention Center, Anah eim , CA, November 8-10 ; Cobo H a ll, Detroit, MI, january 2-5, Long Bea ch Convention Center, Long Bea ch, CA, january 18-20, Houston Astro Arena, Houston, TX, january 31-February 2; Cincinna ti Convention Center, Cincinnati, OH, February 15- 17; Boston-Bayside Exhibition Center, Boston, MA, February 28March 2; Daytona Ocean Center, Daytona, FL, March 6-8. Call 714/ 250-8060 for information. . A number of rare and vintage motorcycles, including many other classic motor vehicles. will be auctioned off September 27-28 at Harrah's Automobile Collcetion in Reno. Nevada. Up for bids will be a 1924 Ace four-cylinder. a 1938 Crocker twin, and a 1960 Honda GP road racer. For information. call 702 /588-6611. Correction: Cycle News East did not predict the Dick Mann would win the 1975 Daytona 200, as mentioned in the Ten Years Ago column. That actually happened for the 1971 Daytona preview issue, which was put together by the staff of what was then call ed Dixie Cycle News. The item was pi cked up out of a colu m n reflecting on the overa ll history of Cycle News, and didn't me ntion what year it happened. Cycle News East's 1975 Daytona preview issue actually featured Giacomo Agostini and Kenny Roberts on th e cover, a nd predi cted that th ey would fill th e top spots G ene Romero won. Freed om Harley-Davi dson of De nver. Co lorado, has set June 30 as the date for its second annual Freedom Run for Muscular Dys- Maybe Bob "Hurricane" Hannah should be known as Bob "Iron Man " Hannah; he rode the March 31 Hangtown Motocross Nationals w ith a fractured wrist suffered in practice. Hannah finished 7-7 fo r the day. T eam Moto-Guzzi won the March 30 AMA Champion Cup U.S. Endurance Series round a t Bra selton, G eorgia's Road At lanta. At the end of th e sixhour race, Team Moto-Guzzi held a two-lap advantage on second overall finish er Quester Sullivan (Yam). . MOTORCYCLE INDUSTRYS CflANGE Lost An appeal by the Sierra Club before th e U.S. Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals in Los Angeles , California, to keep Dove Springs Canyon cl osed to off-road motorcycles use; in a decision handed down March 25, the court stated that though environmenta l impact on the lan d in question w~s "severe," itcould not!Je judeged on a parcel-by-parcel bas ts, bu t as a whole; Dove Springs Canyon is loca ted near Ridgecrest, California. Burned As in to the ground, 1984-85 model Honda VFI IOOC Magnas, VF IIOOS Sabres, Nighthaw ks, and Aeros, totalling a reported 5300 units, in a fire a t th e manufacturer's Newark, New jersey, wa rehouse last month; according to Honda officials, there will be no interruption of product flow to dea lers ; there are no firm plans to re-bu ild the facility. Closed G .S. Perform a nce, distributor of high-performance motorcycle and ATV parts and accessories' no 'explanation for the closure has been given . Awarded BytheAMA's R ider Legislative Contingency Fund, grants the Freedom of Road R iders in Missouri, the Nevada Association of Concerned Motorcyclists, AMA District 15 in Indiana, and the Magic Valley Trail Association of Twin Falls, Idaho; grants were made to help defray the costs of legisla tive programs by these groups. Opened Geese Engineering, by Larry Geese, formerly with Yamaha Motor Corp., Kawasaki, and Ancra Corp.; company will specia lize in product research and development, prototype fabr ication and do cumentation; address is 1552 East Edinger, Unit C, Santa Ana, CA 92705 , 714/ 550-9323. (Continued to page 22)