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'85 Camel Pro Awards Banquet WERA/Wiseco National Endurance Road Racing Championship Series: Round 12 Cycle Tech dominates Texas World Six-Hour By Scott Schafer CO L LEGE STATIO N, T X, ..0 o .... u ocr. 5 John Kocinski a n d Joey Osowski too k the Cycle Tech R acing Suzuki GSXR750 to victory in the Texas World Speedway WERA/ Wiseco National Endurance Series race put Chris Carr's eighth place finish in the 'S5 Camel Pro Series earned him Dirt Track Rookie of the Year honors and $SOOO in po int fund money. Camel's Kathie Ny lan li stens as Doug Chand ler ackno wl edges re ceivin g tJ1e Clutch A w ard . The m edia njl. med Ch and ler the m o st cooperative.rider • • . • ( I ..... ~ Ra cerback . Speed Boys of Pennsylvania ca p tu red third overall with 169 laps. T he T exas ro u nd o f th e nationa l series has had its detractors before. It uses a LeMans-style sta rt w ith dead engines as co m pared with th e grid sta rt a t all of th e other series even ts. The track itself is exceptionally rough, . es pecially arou n d th e high banking. T eam H ammer, last yea r's ch am pions, ende d a frustrating day w ith a sn apped steer ing damper a nd suspe ns io n failu re a fter five hours. Bu t for local rid er s m ore used to the co n di tio ns , it was a good da y, w ith five T exa s teams a nd two Arkansas teams fini shing in th e top 10. Kenny Payto n and S teele Kennedy led th e local assault, placing seco nd overa ll on their 600 Ninja. Kocinski b la sted into the lead a t th e sta rt, pulling severa l hundred ya rds on Vernon Davis of Team Devia te at th e fi nish of th e first lap. Surprisingly, whe n th e pai r re turned from the second lap, Da vis held a similar margin over Kocinski . After th e th ird lap, though, Kocinski set up a pace that was to hard to fo llow, so me times turning I :56 laps. Team H ammer missed most of practi ce repairing cra sh damage; wi th Doug Toland at th e helm , Hammer began p icking up places a fter fin ishing th e first lap around 10th. By th e en d o f th e first hour, four teams were still o n the sa me lap, with Cycle T ech h olding o u t on T eam Deviat e. Northwest Honda 's Inter cep tor Superbike with Ronnie Lunsford a n d Bob Retoff held third o ver T eam Hammer with T ol and , J ohn U lr ich , an d Dave Schlosser o n th eir S uzu ki Pro totype. Tea m Screa m on a stoc k 750 In tercep to r followed with Pa t Tharp on th e O celo t FD50 in sixth. Afte r two h ours, H amm er had m ov ed up a n ot ch to third , o n th e sa me lap as Cycl e T ech , a nd T eam Racerba ck , wi th Speed Boys in tow , had m oved up to sixth and seventh p laces, two laps do wn o n th e leaders. C ro ssroads Yamaha h ad put thei r FJ 600 into the top 10 a lo ng wit h Reflected Light Racing 's FZ750. Before th e th ird hou r was fin ish ed , T ea m Deviat e's day ha d co me to a n end wi th d ropped va lves o n th eir FZ750. Cycl e T ech now had 86 la ps a nd wa s sti ll u p a lap on Speed Bo ys, who had moved u p to seco nd. Racerback had moved to th ird , Reflected L ight to fourth , a nd EI Faco Ba in fi fth·\ tia J!l\l1er. hap , ,p,i ltr d ilft~~ , 'I o bro ken steering damper sent the bike into tank-slappers a nd full-l ock swaps on th e banki ng, with U lric h a lm ost h ittin g the wa ll in fifth gear. Hammer an d Northwest H onda had dropped to eigh th and I I th pl aces. Aft er four hours, Cycle T ech held a one-lap advantage against new-threat T eam Racerback. Reflected Li ght had become third with Speed Boys now ho lding fourth. three la ps down o n th e leaders. Northwest Honda had sp ru ng ba ck to sixth place and Hamm er had dropped to 12th. T eam Scream h ad a lso sta rted back a march to th e top in fifth pl ace o n th e sa me lap as Speed Bo ys. on by CR RC. They covered 173 laps around the deteriora tin g 3.25-mile course with a one lap margin of victory over Team Miss Camel Pro, Vivian Chadbourne, j o ins ' S4 champ Ricky Graham, new champ Subba Shobert, and master of ceremon ies Dave Despain on stage. o .... Il) eo Cycle Tech 's John Kocinski. Wi th 143 lap s co m p leted a fter five ho urs, Cycle Tech co nti n ued to cru ise with Racer back a n d Reflected Light still holding second a nd th ird. North west Honda a nd Tea m Screa m had both p assed Speed Boys, and T eam Wanker was stead y in sevent h pl a ce. EJ Fa co Ba , Coons Racing and T eam O celot rounded out th e top 10. At the conclusion of th e race, Cycl e T ech h ad won a fte r leading every hour. Team Racerback in seco n d overall won th e Mediumweight Production class . Speed Boys, th ird over a ll, won th e H ea vyweight Su pe rbi ke cla ss. Refl ected Li ght took first in H eavywei ght Prod uctio n , fo urth overa ll. T eam Wanker too k top honors in Mediumweight Super bike a nd fifth overa ll. Your In On It Racing won th e Light weight Pr oducti o n class with 12th o vera ll o n a RZ350 . H a rvey, Ba iley, a nd Mason won th e L ightweigh t Su perbike with 19th overa ll. • Results OVERALL: 1. Team Cycle Tech (John Koc inski. Joey Osows ki/S uzuki GSXR750/Prototype Classl 17 3 laps); 2. Team Racerba ck (Kenny Payton . Steel e Kennedv /Ka wasak i 600R/MWP/172 lap s); 3. Ref lect ed Lig ht Racin g (Davi d Bearden . Bob Sell ers/ Yamaha FJll OO/HWS/l 69 laps); 4. Speed Boys (La r ry Burkhold er . Bob Fr ank. M ar k He iser / Yamah a FJ1 100 / HWS/ 169 Iaps); 5. TeamWanker (M .S. Murph y. Dick Bran ton . DickAl lery /Kawasak i/ MWS /l 67 laps); 6. Ocelot Racing (Pat Tharp, Mike McAda ms. Car l CorbinlYamaha FZ750/HWS / 167 laps I; 7 . EI Faco Ba (Reg gie Her tsf ield. A lston J enn in g s/Su zu k i GS550 /MWS /166 laps ); Coo ns Racing (T. Coons . M ik e Coo ns. Ray Coon s/ Kawasak i /MWP/164 laps); 9. Team Scr eam (Brian Grave r. M ike Ryan. Richar d Presco tt /Honda 750/ I HWP/ 163 laps); 10. Team Felch (Mi chael Sigm an. Sh ,ilwp j> ~ ~~ I(Honda/JVI,W¥ l ~~ lallS!' I • I I r - 23