Cycle News - Archive Issues - 1980's

ary co ·O ne more season By Gary Scott 22 but th e profit wouldn't have been th er e. In the years when I've handled th e program myself I haven't done G'ary Scott, for t he fi rst tim e. in 13 A M A G rand Na tiona l Championship seasons, qu ite as we ll in races bu t, genera lly, fi n is hed ou t of th e to p JO in th e / 984 Camel Pro Se ries fina l stan dings. It w as a I've made m o re mon ey at th e end of p oor seaso n for Scoll by all acco un ts, H e w as ready to q u it, to hang up h is stee l th e year. Being a p ro fessional racer, shoe. Hon da, at t he en d of t he seaso n, offered to sell t he en g ines f ro m th eir team or businessm an , th ere's a bottom line. bi kes or f resh spa re engines after th e f in al N atio na l. Scott bought one of th e I' ve n ever bee n af raid to work ha rd so " used " race engines. Th at purcha se laid th e g ro u ndw ork for season '85. Scou I u suall y do m ost of th e work o n m y wa nts to go racing again. If you list en carefu lly to h im talk , you can detec t a new machiner y m yself. I' ve m ad e as much fir e within. H e has challenged h imself to make w hat he calls h is last season one he and h is fan s w ill want to remember, , . G ary Van Vo orh is. o r more mon ey than the two or th ree g uys a head of m e in the point standI' m n o t sure where th e turning p oint a ny ti me yo u ca n run co m pe ti tively ings m ost o f th e time. However, it 's ca me in m y deci sion to race a nother th e m aj o rit y of th e time th en even tu ge ttin g harder to do that now. One of season . We were n ea rl v two-thirds o f a lly you 're going to come up a winner. th e reasons I res igned as rider repreth eway th rough 1984 and I was rnakH yo u 're always kn ockin g at th e sen ta rive to th e AMA's dirt track ing pl an s to rid e o n ly a few selected door yo u 're going to w in. I'm not ad viso ry board was that I co u ldn 't get Nat ional s a nd local races in 1985 sayin g I ca n go o u t an d beai everyth ejobdone. I kept co m p lai n ing that because I h ad co me to th e co n cl u sio n body a t this race o r that race, bu t I feel th e co st of racing is rising so much th a t I j us t wasn't ge tti ng th e job I ca n run up fron t. and th e eq u ip m ent is so technical done. I wasn 't sure wha t th e p roblem My pl an is to go wi th better eq u ip th at a rider needed a $40,OOO-a-year was, wh ether it wa s m y riding or just rnent - ' th e H onda RS7 50 th at I m ech anic to keep things running, m y o vera ll p rogram . It got so bad bo ugh t - so I do n 't have to ri de over wh ere, if th e machinery was sim p ler, tha t durin g a good p art o f th e sea son m y head to make.up a lack o f ho rsethe rider co u ld do so me of th e rnainteI didn 't even ca ll (my spons o r) J.R. po wer o r wha teve r. In turn , with betnance himself and save so me m on ey. Kell ey. I got so tired o f te ll ing him ter eq u ipme nt I'll be sharper because Few rid ers ca n a ff o rd to p a y a things weren' t go ing good . I had a lo t I'll be ri ding more. You don't ge t a mechan ic th a t kind o f money, That, of peop le co m e u p to me a nd tell me lot o f practi ce wh en yo ur bikes break . in turn , keeps a lot of good rid ers not to sto p raci ng. I a lso had so me Th ere' s n o q uestion th at ha ndling fro m goi ng racing co m pe titi vely. people concerned tha t I wo u ld race my o wn p rogram and doin g basicall y I'm a good mechanic - alt houg h I on ly p ar t-rim e. Th ey told me if l Ielt I e very t hi ng m y s el f h a s so medon ' t co nside r m yself in th e big bu ck co u ld do well the n race full-ti me an d wh at hu rt my racing program over ca tego ry - a nd I co u ld n ' t keep m y if not, th en qu it. th e p ast few years. I to o k a n easier eq u ip ment running fast enough to . I feel 1 ca n.sril l be co m pet i ti ve a nd . _ . _ ro ute. Lcould.have, wo nmore .r

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