Cycle News - Archive Issues - 1980's

Da y five p rov ed a lmost d isa srerous for the U.S . T ro p h y team wh en Mul l' s 125WR H usk y seized during th e seco nd loop. " I was go ing up rh is long and gnarl y hill ," said Mul l. "and there were riders stuck halfwav up. I ga l abo u t h alfwa y up a nd go'l stu ck. The eng ine was revved o u r-bu t th ere was no a ir circu la ti ng a ro u nd th e engi ne , so th e water started bo il in g o u t o f the rad ia tor. Wh en I got 10 th e top, I had 10 let it coo l dow n and lost 30 minu tes. Afler th at th ere were no hill s to ride down 10 keep it coo l wirh o ut wa ter in the radi at o r, so it seized. I managed 10 get it runni ng aga in a n d make it through the day . It was a maj or detun em en t." Ruesd~r was sti ll blazing th e tra ils a nd th e specia l tests , tu rn ing th e fastest times in his class o n th e fifth day . " I sti ll ha ve a cha nce for th e c1a~s win ," sa id Roeseler . " bu t onlv if Andrein i makes so m e kind o f ~i s tak e, w h ich he ha sn 't don e yet. H e hasn 't had a flat tir e or any th in g." Ma rt in had a scary moment on day five. " I cras h ed a nd b umped th e radi at or ," said Mart in. " T he lo wer part cracked and I had 10 rep lace it. T he major pa rt was getti ng it; I had Fred H oess' fath er get on e for me, bUI we kep t mi ssing eac h 01her by a few minutes a t three ch ecks. Lucki ly, I carried wa ter with m e, because I ha d 10 fill up th e radiator abou t every 10 minut es." Even w ith h is prob lem s, Mart in di dn 't lose any points. Denn is Larra tt , rid ing a Honda CR5 00 for th e T allah asse Trai l Ri der's team , broke h is seco nd pipeof th e wee k. " T oday I hi g h- sid ed goi ng about 10 mph ," sai d Larra u . " It was a sill y cras h, but it p u nc hed a hole in th e pipe. T he p ipe go t pushed back a nd a bolt hol ding on the wa ter pump cov er ca used th e hol e. T he day before, th e exact same thing happened wh en I h it a rock th at pushed th e pipe into that same bolt, I didn 't lose any route points and I won tod ay's acce lera tio n test. " Kevin Brown , riding hi s fift h ISD E, cras he d a co u p le o f times on thi s da y a n d lost 680 p oi n ts. " Before I even got to th e firs t chec k," sa id Brown , " I was trying 10 pass this g uy, and th e dust was so bad I didn 't see th e turn up a head . I hit th e em ba n kme nt a n d endued. Two gu ys ca me ar ound a n d cras hed inr o m e, Then I m essed up in the ar re lera rio n test wh en I go t off th e line croo ked a nd m issed a shift. I cras hed agai n in th e second loop, bu t I don 't rea lly kn o w wha t ha p p ened . Ali i faintly remem ber is ha vin g d irt in my eyes and squinti ng a 101, th en th e nex t th in g I knew, l wa s sta nd ing al ongs ide my bi ke w ith my helmet o ff. reli eving mvself. I got back go ing a n d I sa w (.Jim ) Garm o n ahead of me, so I kn ew somethi n g was wro ng , beca use h is number is aft er m in e. Back a t the hotel at th e end o f th e da y, I wa s tol d I blasted through a chec k six minutes ear lv a nd th at I didnt even sto p or s l~w dow n. I do n' t rem ember going through that chec k a t all. I m ust of banged my' hea d p re t t y good; m y he l m ci 's prct t y scra ped up." Broken Ioo t a nd all, Miller kept o n ridi ng. He sa id , " I' m ge ll ing by, bUI my foot is hurt in g pr eu y bad . One ti me I crushed a nd bro ke m y dutch lever j ust befor e this big h ill. I' got about halfwa y u p befo re I got stuck in a ravine, A m ar sh al walked up to me a n d n ot iced I had a big limp; I laid him m v foot as broken . H e felt so so rry for m'e, he called u p two more marsh al s and th e three o f the m carried m y bik e to th e lOp ." Kadl ec had 10 repl ace hi s carbu retor a t one chec k wh en it go t clogged a nd wa s starvin g th e engine o f gas , but he d idn 't lose a ny tim e. Sm ith picked u p a flat tire a nd had 10 cha nge il in one of the tigh test sectio n s, so he lost o ne m inur e to th e nex t chec k , mai nlv because hi s bik e fell off th e sta nd I\~ i ce. Thi s was a lso the da y th a t th e leading Italia n team' lost a ny cha nce a t th e overa ll wh en Gualti ero Brissoni hou red o u t with hik e problems. T h is put th e Swed ish back into first p lace w ith o ne day left. Da y six had o ne 65-mile loop th at n on e of th e U.S. riders lost a ny rou te poi nt s o n. Following th e loop was the fina l event o f th e six - the morocross special test. Laid out over grassy, ro ll ing h ills, th e co urse was fai rly fast, wide, had man v off-ca m ber turn s, but was very d ust }: a fter a couple of motos. In the o nly 125cc race, Sweden's Peter H ansson had ti ll' ea rly lead whi le Am erica n Ford Ta n nock held down seco nd . Mull was sevent h a nd Perkin s was 11th . On la p th ree 0 1 . the seven -lap race. Tannock flew by H an sson wh en Ih e Swed is h ri der crash ed . H ansson quickly reco vered in second a nd was press uring Ta n nock . Wilh th ree laps to go, Ta nn ock dev elo ped fro nt and rear fla ts and d ro p ped o ff the pace. Ha nsson took over th e lead, bUI he, too , was str icken with a Ila t tir e and gave the lead to Ital y's Alberto Sa la (T M), wh o went o n 10 wi n the race. Th e first o f three 250cc motos wa s blea k for th e Ameri cans. Both Ma rt in a nd Fredett e were involved in a th ird turn pile-up tha t dropped them to th e back of Ihe pa ck . Then H oess had problems whe n his sh ift lever bent back u nde rneat h the foot peg. Kad lec was ru n ni ng si xth by the end of th e th ird lap , whi le a not her Ital ian , Tullko Pellecrin elfi . ridi ng a Kra rn-I r, was lead ing th e way, fo llowed by Fren ch rider La lay and G rea t Brita in 's Derrick Ed m onson (H a n) . Pel Iecr in elti lost h is lead two lap s fro m th e finish w he n La lay mot ored by 10 tak e th e win. Ed monson also passed Pell ecrinelli before th e finish 10 lak e seco nd . Kadlec event ua ll y dropped ba ck a nd fini sh ed 10th, wh ile Martin worked up 10 16th. Gil cr a -rnouru ed Giorgio Gra sso ( Ita ly) co m p letely dominat ed the second 250cc race, despite h is exha ust p ipe p u ll ing o u t of th e manifold. By the fini sh of th e race, Grasso had a bo u t 45 seco nds o n the seco nd pl ace rider , Aus tra lia n Mi tch Heffernan (Ma i). Top America n was H awkins, wh o pla ced fifth , whil e G arman fin ished six th. T he fi n a I 250 c("' m or o had n o America n riders en tered, a nd it was Aus tra li a n rider Pell e Granqui st (KT ;\I) th at led fro m start to finish, despi te having a broken hand he suffered o n da y three, Seco nd went 10 H o lla nd 's Wim Palthe (KT M), whil e Crear Britaiil ', Lars H ag m a n too k third. In th e fir st o f two 500cc moro s. a seco nd -tu rn cras h took o ut American r ider Ll'S Wolfe a nd two o the r ride rs. AI the end o f lap o ne , Sweden 's Svene ri k J onsson (H us) was lead ing , bUI. was passed by Czech osl ovakian Libo r Podm o l wh en J onsson crashed . Podmol held o n 10 th e lead for a la p before former worl d GP motocross co n tender Gerard Rond (KT M) of H olland flew by a nd went o n 10 ca pture th e win . Lar ratt was top Am erica n , in sevent h, foll owed bv Wolfe in 16th . Both Kevin Hines ;md Drew Smit h suffered fla t tires , Brown lifted th e sp irits o f t lu - l ' .5. ream when he and hi s Ya ma ha YZ-J 90 blew o ut o f the ga te and into th e lead a t Ihe sta rt of· t ht~ seco nd 500cc mo lO, Bro wn wa s flyin g hi gh as he pu lled a way from Ihe second-pl ace rid er . Czech Rad ek S lod ul ka . In Ih ird and fourth were Ball ard and Spa in 's Carlos Montan es (KT :YI). Sho rt ly lh ereaf ter. AmeriGm Bob Shi ll inge r (KT :\I) slipped inl o fourth , pu tting th e Amer ica ns in the firs t, Ihird and fo urt h posit ions. Jeff Irwin placed 15th overall in the 500cc class and took home a gold, Water was a rare obstacle in the ISDE; rocks weren 't, With Brown runn in g wa y o u t in front. Ball ard wa s hea vily press uri ng Stodu lka, bu t co u ld n' t mak e th e pass. Nea r th e end o f th e race, Brown fell do wn , but had pl ent y of tim e 10 remount a n d keep hi s hu ge lea d int ac t. Brown wo n th e m ot o , fol low ed by S tod u lka , Ball ard a nd Shil lin ger. " H iked that a lot ," said Brown, " bu t it doesn 't make u p for yesrerda v. All I wa s think in g o u t th ere was, 'do n ' t screw up !', but I fell whe n I hit a clo ud of dus t a n d got ca ugh t in a ru t. L uck ily, I p ulled the cl u tch in a n d th e bike kep t running ." The last race o f the day, a nd the last even t of th e IS DE, wa s th e FourStroke m ot o th at wa s expec ted 10 be a Roeseler and Andreini sh owdown: Roescler tim ed th e gal l' perfectl y a nd ja mmed int o th e lead , clo sel y follo wed hv Andreini , but Roeseler look ed t~ be in co m ma nd; Andrein i co u ld n' t mat ch Roeseler's pace a nd sta rted d ropp in g back. Nobodv co u ld mar ch Roese ler a nd hi s fou r-strok e Husk v, as he eas ilv too k th e win . Alidreini finished seco nd . bUI it was enou gh 10 tak e the Fo u r-Strok e clas s win by a mere 11 3.i point s over Roeseler - less th an two m inu tes. Eigh t America n riders fi nis hed on go ld: Martin, Hoess, Fredett e, Ru ssell. Bertram , Smith, Roeseler 'and Irw in . Irw in , R ussell an d Ma rtin were th e on lv Am erican ride rs who di d ntl o se a llYro u u- points thro ug h OUI th e si x da vs. " T h is was ~)IJe of th e best ISD Es I've ever been to, " said S m ith aft er ea rn ing his fifth go ld meda l. " Everybody on the suppotl erew did a falmlo us job , and wilh oul the m we co u ld 'no l have don e as well as we did. " :Ylark H ynes, Bill y Fu lm er , Mikt, TooJe and Ray Mun genasl were Ih ree o f 12 sil vl'l'-medal winners represent ing Ihe U.S . " T he week went by rea l fast," said H ynes , "and the pa in of day five, when I go t lost a n d dropped seven m inu tes, broke my chai n a co u p le of times, and lost th e wat er pump sea l ca usi ng my bike to a lmost seize, is slo w ly dr ifti ng away. I got a silver medal a nd I really proved so mething 10 m yself. " " It was a gre a t expe rience," said bronze medal ist Ta n ucxk , "Finishing is the bigg esl th in g . As tilt' end nea red , it was very nerve-wracking. My sto mach got tig h ter a nd tighter, a nd after th e motocross test. it was a • big sigh of reli ef. " Res ults 80: 1. Pier F. Muraglia (Accosato. Italy). 125: 1. Renato Pegurri CTM . Ita ly). USA SILVER: W illiam Perkins (Hus) 7433 .75 /17t h . USA BRONZE: Br ian M ull (Husl 9145 .36 /25th ; Ford Tannoc k IHu sl 11290.53 /33rd; John M ill er (Kawl 155 15. 15 / 36th . 250: 1. Gilles Lalay (Hon. France) 6121. B2. USA GOLD: John Ma rtin tC·A ) 6507.0B /14Ih; Fred Hoess [Hual 66 30 .29 / 2 1 Sl; Jeff Fredene (Kaw ) 672 0.39126th: J eff RusselllHus) 672 5 .75 /27 Ih. USA SILVER: Randy Hawkins tHus ) 7035 .BI /35.h ; Fritz Kadl ec IHus) 7072.74 /36t h : J im Ga rmo n (KTM I B08 1.93 /55th . USA BRONZE: Mark Hynes (KTM) 9 114 .97165th. 500: 1. Bohu m i l Posledni (J aw 8. Czecosloviquia ) 6246.30 USA GOLD : Oave Bertram (Hus) 6629.45/1Oth ; Dr ew Sm it h (Ho n I 6668.14 / 1 l th ; Jeff Irwi n (Hus ) 6727 .59/15t h. USA SILVER: Kevin Hines tHus) 689B .35 /19th : Denn is lar rat (Ho n) 6963.31 / 22 nd; Bob Shilli n ger IKTMI 6994 .31 /24 t h : Ge off Ba ll ard (C· AI 6995.12125th; Kevin Brown (Yam) 7 390.96 / 3Oth; Bill y Fulm er (Hon) 7501 .13 /32 nd ; M ike Toole (Husl 786 1.67/37t h; Les Wolf e (Hus) 786 1.99; 3B.h ; Ray Mungenast (Husl B070.92 /42nd . USA BRONZE: Ala n Randt IHus) B90/ .90/4 7. FOUR · STROKE : 1. Giuglie mo Andre ine (Hu s. l.a lyI63 69.4 5. USA GOLD: Larry Roeseler (Hus) 6483. 15 /2nd . USA BRONZE: John Haaker (Hus) l 0001 .16/12th; Tom Buck les (Husl l 0754 .9 1/13th ; Bob Pearce (CAI 12547.2 7117'h; Joe Coppege (ATK) 1447~ . 7J I 2 1st , . WORLO TROPHY OV ERA LL : 1. Sweden (1792.2B) : 2. Spain (2788.B5): 3. Eas. Germany (2900.60); 4. United States (5442.72); 5. England (687B .92); 6. Au str a· liaI2 1561 .511 7. Czechoslovakia (19457.421; 8. Italy : (31516.29 ): 9. Aus tr ia (55920.51); 10. Poland (97129.1BI. JUNIOR WORLO OVERALL: 1. East Germany (17BO.0 51: 2. Soain (226 1.67); 3. Sweden (2390.66 ); 4 . Czechoslovak ia (3072.56); 5. lIaly 13513.37 ): 6. Fin land 11 0502.25); 7. Canada (209 BO.06 ); B. U.S.A. (6 2393.121: 9. Gr eat Br itain 1 5 28 .69); 10 . West Ger many 82 (113891.11). 15

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