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Dou g Sears /Col leg e Bik e Sho p Honda, earned o ur Quot e o f th e Week Award wh en he ans wered a n nou ncer Dave Despa in 's in quiry as to wha t he th ough t of Kenn y Ro berts ridi ng the mi le agai n. " It's OK with me . He's a lillie old. bu t he might be a ble to hang on ." said Bood y. .......~ ....... [) ,D c::::: I=< ~ 0.. Cl,) er; Marl boro Yamaha 's Eddie La wso n cru ised to a 17-second win in the San Marino ro u nd o f th e 500cc World Champi onship in Misano, Ital y o n Sep tem ber I. Seco nd pl ace went to Au strali an Wa yn e Gardn er (Hon) wi th Am erican Randy Mam ola (Hon) tak ing third p lace. Raymond Roch e finish ed fourth and Ron Ha slam ro u nded out the to p five a fter battling with Fren chman Ch rist ian Sarron (Ya m) , wh o crashed on th e la st la p . Am eri can Mik e Ba ldw in (Hon) fini shed eighth . Law son brok e th e lap record afte r qualifyin g with a o ne -m in u te, 19.6-seco n d lap a nd turning a o ne -m in u te, 20A-second lap in the race. Newl y-crowned World Champio n Freddi e Spencer was a nosh ow a t Mi sano after a lleged ly hurting hi s thumb whi le weight train ing a t home in Shreveport, Louisiana. Th e fina l 500cc point sta n d i ngs showed Spen cer with h is tit le win n in g 141 points, follow ed by Lawson with 133 and Sa rro n with 80. Gardner a nd H asl am fini sh ed the seaso n in a tie for fourth wi th 73 points . Ma mo la ended the year sixt h with 72 po ints . The San Marino 250cc GP was won by Car los Lavado (Yam ) wit h A nton Mang (Hon) second and Lo ris Reggiani (Apr) third. Spencer heads t he f ina l 250cc po int stand in gs w ith .1 2 7 , f o llowed by M ang in second with 1 2 4. and Lavado in thi rd with 94. Faust o G resin i (Gar) w o n bot h the Sa n M arino 1 2 5 cc G P and t he t itle in t hat c lass. PierPaulo Bianchi was lead ing t he po int sta ndings going int o the race but DNF and f ell t o second behind Gresin i in the final standings. 109 t o 99. Jorge Martinez (Der) won the San Marino 80cc GP. but th ird place fi ni sher Stefan Dorflinger (Kra) won the t itle. Joh n Martin (CA) won the Septe m ber I Mi llvil le, Min nesot a. ro u nd of th e AMA Na tion a l Cha mpions hip Hare Scrambles Ser ies an d was the o n ly ride r to complete seven laps of th e co urse . ;\Ia rk H yde (H us), Ed L<;>jak (Hus), Geo ff Ba lla rd (C-A) a nd Jeff Sore nsen (Honjrounded out the to p five ove ral l. . Te rry Vance (Suz) won the Pro Stock class at the Labor Day weekend 's NHRA U .S. National in Indianapolis, Indiana. Vance turned in an 8 .292 /160.54 ru n down t he quarter-mile drag strip to top t he 8 .500/156 .52 ride t urn ed in by Mike Keyte (Suz) . BMW recentl y don ated S25 .000 to th e Moto rcycle Safety - Fo u nda tio n. T he gra nt will be used for th e prod uction o f a video ta rg etin g touri ng a nd experienced moto rcycle riders. Ron Lechien has signed a contract with Kawasaki Motor Corp. to ri de the 1986 National motocross season with Jeff Ward . According to team manager Roy Turner, Billy Liles. Goat Breker and Mark Barnett are currently under contract. and t he future of those three riders depends on contract negotiat ions. raci ng budget . etc. 2 Ted Bood y, wh o finis hed second in Su nday's Spring field Mile aboard the Steve Morehead (H - D) topped the Expert class in t he September 2 Zanesville. Ohio. rou nd of the AMA Eastern Regional Championship Dirt Track Series. The Junior class win went to Les Washbon (C -A ). while Brian Villella (Hon) was the Novice class w inner. Denmark's Er ik G un dersen wo n h is seco nd co nsec u tive World Speedway C ha m pions h ip o n August 31 a t Oldso l Stadi urn in Bradfo rd Engla nd . For th e first time in 25 vea rs, a threewa y ru n-off was held 'to determine the wi n ne r as Gundersen. Dan e Hans Ni elsen and Sam Ermo len ko (US A) were tied with 13 points. Ni elsen was secon d in the ru n -off, mak in g Ermalenko third overa ll. Pr e-m eet favo ri te Sha w n Mora n was fourth with 10 poi nts whi le J o h n Cook en ded with n in e po ints for sevent h p lace and La nce Kin g ea rne d six po ints. for 11 th . Don Vesco crashed his turbo charged Offenhauser-powered streamliner at close to 350 mph in a speed run at the Bonneville Salt Flats on August 23. Vesco suffered a broken bone in his foot. a chipped vertebrae in his neck. a black eye and some bruises w hen his car lost air in the right rear tire, made a sharp left tu rn. and fli p ped when he tried to co rrect its path . Whe n Vesco rel eased t he parac hutes. t hey ripped off t he t ail sec t io n and th e re st of the stream li ner w ent en d- ov er-end . Vesco had run 299 mph the day before the accide nt. bu t said the run in which he crashed woul d have bee n his best effo rt of t he week. The Desert Sands to Mountain P in es Road Touron Sep tember 7 will be ru n in conj u nctio n wit h the W ill ow Springs WER A 24-Hour Endura nce race . There will also be a D-37 AMA Poker Run for Sport /Touri ng mot or cycles a nd an ATV rodeo incl uded in th e weeken d' s events. For more informat ion ca ll J im P ilon a t 818/3535409. Hot rumors: 1986 mode ls w ill include a Yama ha FZ1000 , a Suzuki oil -cooled GSXR600 w ith 80 bhp and a to p speed of 140 mph . and a 20 - va lve FZ600 Yamaha . The Honda-mo unted team com prised o f Jon G ray, T im Ropes a nd Stu T horne turned in 265 laps en route to the overall win in the September 2 six-hour round of the AMA U.S. Na tio na l Ch am p ionship Endura nce Road Race Series held at Brvar Motor sports Park in Loudon. N~w Ham psh ire. Second fell to Team Elephant (Hon) wit h 261 laps, wh ile th ird went to Team Un lim ited (Yam) . T he ser ies po int lead ers. Dr. J ohn 's T eam Mot a Guzzi, carded a DNF.• The Coors Light Women's Motocross Nationals are scheduled for September 29 at Sunrise Cycle Park in Adelanto. Ca lifornia and will include A TV classes for firsttime racers and experienced raeers. Sponsors of the event include Scott USA, Malcolm Smith Racing Products and California Cooler. I n f orm ati o n is available f rom De nise de Vines at 818 /798-6118. Mik« Quaschnick, a 250cc Novice fro m Fresn o , Ca lifornia. was the big wi n ner in th e H uron H awa ii Mot o- Three-time World Champion Kenny Roberts recently tested the Cagiva ' V-four at Misano, It aly; Roberts did close to 100 laps on the Italian bike during the test session wh ile consistently turning times in the low 1minute. 21-second range , Dale Singleton, three others killed in S.C. plane crash Two-time Daytona 200 winner Dale Singleton, 30. died Sunday evening, September 1. in a plane crash near Winnsboro, South Carolina. that killed three other people . Singleton. who was piloting the plane, and his passengers were en route from the Southern 500 stock ca r race in Darlington. South Carolina. to Chattanooga, Tennessee. Singleton lived in nearby Dalton. Georgia. According to Fairfield County coroner Joe Silvia, the crash occurred at 5:35 p.m, and Silvia speculated that thunderstorms in the area were the cause of the crash. Federal Aviation Administration offi c ials said that the plane was flying at approximately 10,000 feet when it disappeared from their radar. Eyewitnesses told Silvia that they heard the engine sputter and when they lo oked u p they saw the plane coming down nose first. Richie Panch. 30. who was also killed in the crash , was at Darlingt o n t o hopefully close a deal on a NASCAR Grand National stock car ri de for 1986. Panch. who has been working as a coord inator for live t elecast s f or the f irm wh ich produces the weekly TV show MotorW eek Illustrated . competed on the Grand National circuit in t he late '70 s. Th e two other vi cti m s were ident ified as Barbara Fai rbanks, 25, of Hixson. Ten nessee. and Rosemary Pard us, 20. of Marietta, Georgia. Sing leton first raced motorcycles professionally in 1974 when he competed as a Novice in road race events. Sponsored throughout his professional career by Taylor White, owner of a Maryland-based construction company, Singleton's proudest accomplishments were his 1979 and 1981 wins in the Daytona 200. He retired from motorcycle racing in the m iddle of the 1982 season to pursue a ca reer in stock car racing. He made his stock car racing debut in this year's ARCA 200 at Daytona and followed that up wtih a ride in a similar event in Atlanta. He was at Darlington seeking to obtain a ride forthe 1986 racing season. Singleton is survived by his parents. Mr. and Mrs. C .E. Singleton. and brothers Spencer and Perry. Funeral services will be conducted Wednesday, September 4, at the Love Funeral Home chapel in Da lton, Georgia. . cross Series held a t Huron Cycle Park in Huron , Ca liforn ia. Quaschn ick wo n a seven night, eight da y vaca tion in Ha wa ii for bein g the ove ra ll series points winner for a ll classes. Suzuki 's Herve Moineau. Richard Hubin and Jean-Pierre Oudin won the Belgian 24-hour round of the Endurance Road Racing World Championship Series. The race was stopped for six hours due to extremely thick fog during the night and r a n for 18 hours. Gerard Coudray, Patrick Igoa and A lex Vieira finished second on their works Honda, w ith Dom inique Sarron, Pierre Bolle and Jean-Luc Battistini third on another works Honda that Sarron crashed early in the race. American Rich Oliver was scheduled to enter the race on a Eurosport-backed Yamaha. but the deal fell through days before Oliver was to leave for Belgium. A co lo r ca ta log of vehi cles o ffered in the Septem ber 27-28 Harrah 's Veh icle Au cti o n in Ren o. Nevada is ava ila ble for S7.50 fro m P.O. Box 10. Ren o. NV 89504. Larry Huffman's Motorcycle W <;>rld has added XTRA / AM 69 in San Clemente. to the li st of California radio stations that air the show every Sunday night from 10-11 p .m. • MOTORCYCLE INDUSTRYS CIIANGE Wadded A 1986 three-cylinder BMW K75C on an Alpine road durin g th e worldwid e press introducti on in German y o n Au gust 30. by T ed West. represen ting Road & Track magazin e: m otorcycl e d estro yed . r id er unhurt. Selected J eff Irw in . fro m Ranch o Cordo va. Ca lifornia, for the ISD E team : a benef it raffl e/picn ic wi ll be held Sep tember 15 at Goeth Pa rk in Ran ch o Cordova to he!