Cycle News - Archive Issues - 1980's

w ch a rg in g Speed Boys with Mark H eisser at the controls. CoG Racing's Courtney Collins was on the same lap as Speed Boys. as was T eam Cava>- lier and Cycle Tech Racing. a: Cycle T ech Racing began charga: th e with :5 in g hard duringJohnthird hour a I iKocinski , >- new team rider '" year-o ld from Arka nsas, looking very Vl im pressive E Cycle T echon thei r Suzuki GSXR i50. fig u red to be in a good o :r position to overtake Northridge dura.. ing th e fourth hour after Kocinski brought th e team within striking distan ce. Da vid Ald ana took over the Cycle T ech moun t j us t beh ind Northri dge. with No rthridge due for a pit stop . Ald ana started pi ck in g up th e pace wh en sudde n ly he cras hed in turn one. "I got a bo u t three feet off the racing line in turn one and there was no traction. I looked down , saw the cran kcase cover was cracked, a nd tried nursing th e bike back to the pits. I'm pretty mad at m yself for the mistake," said a dejected Aldana after the crash. Bill Foster and the Cycle Tech crew chan ged th e motor in the Suzuki GSXRi50 in 49 minutes with some help from Hamm er 's cre w ch ief , H oogland. Cycle Tech was out of co n tentio n for th e win, and was now racing to pick up points. Cycle Tech finished 2ith. At the halfway mark, Northridge had pulled away from the field with 153 laps while Speed Boys and CoG Racing were both three laps behind. Team Cavalier and Solmax Racing Top three: CoG Racing (73) leads Speed Boys (5) and Z-P Racing through traffic. All rode Yamahas. (Below) Team were dueling for fourth at 143 laps. Hammer's Russ Paulk (1) leads off the start; Hammer was first until they broke. l-P Racing had moved to ninth at 141 laps after gaining 30 positions in three hours. Things stayed pretty much the same throughout the next three hours, and by the end of the seventh hour Northrid ge had a' to-lap lead over Speed Boys and CoG Racing, and looked as though th ey would easily win. Team ca p tain Ralph Johnston Sr. wasn 't as optimistic. " We' ve had nothing but bad lu ck so far this sea son. At Indy, our header fell off a n d we didn't have .a replacement. Then a t th e St . Louis ro u nd we crashed. I'm happy with th e wa y th ings a re going so far but I'm keeping m y fingers cros sed ," said J ohnston. With o n ly a half hour left, Northridge' s Sielschott didn't come around. J ohnston stare d a t the track in despair, waiting for hi s rider to a ppear. Som eth ing in th e motor had let loose, and again Northridge wa s pl agued with mi sfortune. th e 48-bike field . At the half hour Speed Boys assu med the lead , but mark , Heschimura Racing II a nd the CoG Racing was only abo ut 25 seconds J ohnson & Boyce, In c. Ninja 900 co lbehind. CoG's J ohn Lopez tried to lid ed co ming into turn five with the mak e up the difference. but Larry J ohnson & Boyce machine dropping Burkhol der o n th e Speed Boys entry a la rge a mou nt o f oil o n th e track. As pushed just a bit harder and took the a resu lt, ei gh t bikes went down, even checkered £lag 30 seco nds upon CoG. though many o f them had slowed to The celebration began in th e Speed under 20 mph. All of th e bikes excep t Boys pits, complete with champagne th e J ohnson & Boyce machine were su p p lied by th e very sportsman-like able to re-enter the race. Northridge crew . " It will probably Russ Paulk. o n th e Team Hammer take a few days for th is victo ry to sink S uzu ki. had a co m forta ble lead o n in," said an ela ted Burkholder. "T hi s seco n d pl ace Northridge a n d CoG is ou r fir st Na tio na l Endurance win By Larry Lawrence Racin g at th e en d o f hour one. Spe ed ever a n d I'm happy a nd relieved Bo ys' Bob Frank was involved in th e SUMMIT POI NT , WV, J UNE I we've fin ally done it." first hour crash. but th e team was Behind Speed Boys and CoG Ra cing back a n d running six th. l -P Ra cin g ca me th e l -P Racing entry, which also cras hed in th e firs t hour a nd fin had cras he d in th e fir st hour an d ished o ut the hours back in 39th pl ace. ca me from 39th p lace to take third. Du rin g the seco nd h our. the leadSo lma x Racing finished fourth and ing Team Hammer bike ca me into in doing so became the series' most th e p its with ignition problems. Th e co ns istent finish er with all top five Hammer cre w, headed by Ken Hoogplacings. . land, worked frantically on the Suzuki o verall were on Yarnaha s. Summit Point Raceway. Speed T eam Wanker was the first nonThe Pete's Cycle Fli50 of CoG GSl1 50-based mount. a nd a fter sevYamaha ' finisher , taking sixth overBoys recovered from an early era l .lost laps the Suzuki sounded Racing fini sh ed o n ly 30 seconds all an d first in Mediumweight Supercrash, and went on to cover 600 behind Speed Boys to grab seco nd. strong aga in. But after only another bike on their Kawasaki 600 Ninja. • miles - 300 laps on the twoto minutes back on th e track, more l -P Racing, on th eir D.E. Machinal Results problems ca me up a nd Hammer was mile co urse - a nd became the third Rick's Cycl e/Cam2/Klotz-sponsored ENDURANCE out for the da y. team in as many races to win the Yamaha FJllOO, finished third. OVERALL: 1. Speed Boys (Ylml: 2. CoGRocing (Vlmt 3 .Z-P Rl clng (Ylm): 4 . SoI""",Rocing(Yemt The beginning of the race saw Don Sielschott continued to run highly-competitive series. Yamaha 5. Tllm Covllier (ylm): 8. Tllm WInker (It"": 7. Northridge Racing and Team Hamconsistent laps to put Northridge in machines were ridden by the top five Telm Horizon (Honl: 8. Tllm Nonhrlclgl (Ylml: 9. the lead three laps up on the hardfinishers, and eight out of the top 10 mer open up a commanding lead on Flit Compeny(ylml: 10. Hewn Bros. Rlcing (ylml. U Z w a: ~ WERAIWiseco National Championship Endurance Road Race Series:'Round 3 Speed Boys tops at Summit Point The Pennsylvania-based Speed Boys endurance team, riding the Parts Unlimited/Metzeler-sponsored FZ750, headed a Yamaha sweep of the WERA Eight-Hour held at 14

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