Cycle News - Archive Issues - 1980's

Greg Wing won the Stock Production A race at Arizona's Firebird Raceway aboard a new 1986 Kawasaki GPz1 ODOR f rom Motorcycle Marine. th e overa ll victory, Slu rnski e' s 3-3 ea rned him a second overall, an d Deckert was third wi th a I-7. Cagiva factory rid er ' Ron Turner dominated th e 500cc Pro class, taking th e holeshot in both motos and runnin g 'awa y with th e lead. Sh awn T racy was second over a ll with 3-2 mot o fini sh es, a nd Crai g Hofmeister was third with a 2-3. Resu lts BO BEG DIV 1: 1. Kurt Rood (Kaw); 2. Jeff Griffin (Han); 3. Jonatha n Knig ht (Kawl. BO BEG DIV 2: 1. Richie Sher man (Han); 2. Nc rman Gaumond (Yam); 3. AndrewRasmusse n (Yam ). 80 JR: 1. Travis Muss elman (Kaw); 2. Eddie Gaumond (Vam); 3 . Fred laValley (Kaw ). BO INT: 1. Sloan Cooper (Vam) : 2 . Gu y Deckert . (Kawt 3. Kevin Bussey (Kaw ). 80 EX: 1, Coli n Karcher (Yam); 2 . Craig Miller (Kaw) . 125 BEG DIV 1: 1. J immy Wilkey (Kaw) : 2. J im Conn or (Yam l; 3. Chris Overland (Kawl. 125 BEG DIV 2 : 1. David Lockhart (Han ); 2. Robby Kelsey (Vam ); 3. Bryan Reynolds (KTM). 125 J R: 1. David Wodaszewski (Hen); 2. Brian Si um skie (Hen); 3 . Guy Deckert (Kaw). • 125 INT: 1. Ch ris You ng (Yam); 2. Kevi n Maret (Hon); 3. Dann y Barn ett (Hon). 125 PRO: 1. W illi e Surratt (Hon ); 2. Tim Ruth er ford (Kaw ); 3. Ron Turne r (Cag). 250 BEG DIV 1: 1. Chr is Hicks (Vam ); 2. Bry an Tenberge (Kaw) ; 3 . Frank Shir oma (Yam). 250 BEG DIV 2 : 1. Wa yn e Schr iver (Kaw) ; 2. Tommy Hu nt er (Hon); 3. Andrew Van He uve n (Kaw ). 250 JR : 1. Tim Tu cker (Yam); 2. Ron Bu ccieri (Vam ); 3. Mitch Boehm (Kaw ). 250 INT: 1. Ch ris Boic e (Han); 2. J eff Healey (Hon); 3. Ste ve Sequeira (Kaw) . 250 PRO: 1. Russ W age ma n (Yam); 2. Willie Su rratt (Han); 3 . Dave Graff (Han). 500 BEG: 1. Todd Bar sby (Han ): 2 . Ch ris W ile nski (Han); 3 , Gary Schrechengosl (Han). 500 J R: 1. Scott Kinner (Han I; 2. Rex Wh ite (Kaw) . 500 INT: 1. Chris Boic e (Hon); 2 . Larry Gr oss (Yam); 3. J ohn M cGinnis (Hon ). 500 PRO: 1. Ron Turn er (Cag); 2. Shawn Tracy (Han); 3. Craig Hofmeister (Hon). VET JR : 1. Rick Glass (Han); 2. Charl es Brewer (Suz); 3. James Sheppard (M ai ). . VET INT: 1. Karel Kramer (Kaw ). VET MSTR : 1. Ross Maeda (Suz); 2. Robert Johnson (Han ). That stack of Cycle News p i led o ver in t he corne r cou ld become an attractive add ition to yo u r living room or trophy shelf. All you need is o ur new bright-red, top quality binder. Each one holds 25 issues of America 's Weekly Motorcycle Newspaper. They also provide a handy filing system when you need to refer back a few issues to an informative article, and they 're a positive statement about the sport you like best: Motorcycling. Just f ill out the _ rder blank below, mail it to o Cycle News, and we ' ll ship you the Cycle News Product that's bound to please -. I I I I. ----------------------Please send me binder(s) at $16.95 each or 2 for $30.00 (includes shipping and postage). +6% Tax (CA res. only) (Los Angeles County +6112%) .CIC '" -- Nam e • I Add re ss • C it y • I 26 .. S ignatu re S tate - - Zi p S e n d t o : C ycle News /West P .O . Box 498 Long Beac h . CA 90B 0 1 ' - .Williams takes in at Firebird RR By Michael Ross CH AN DL ER, AZ, NOV. 10 Ri ck Williams, aboard his selfsponsored RZ350, scored the . win in Stock Production D and seco nd overall in the Sto ck I I I I . • . Expirat ion D a t e I V isa # MC # • • -----------------------(21 31.4 2 7- 7 433 CNW47 Producti on race by beating the best efforts of Norm Benedum on a n RZ350 spo nso red by Ris ing Sun Cycl e at Fi reb ird tod ay. Mike Williams, (no relation to Ri ck ) left everyone in th e Stock Producti on C class a board hi s 600 Ni n ja. With n o co m pe titio n, Willia ms enterta ined himself by seein g h ow sideways he co u ld ge t while exiting slip pe ry turn 12. About half a lap back, Mi ch ael Ross, on hi s selfsponsore 550 Yam aha , held down the second spo t in C Stock. Stock B competit ion belonged to Rick T etrick on his FZ750 Yamaha . T etri ck a lso took home gold in Superstree t and Formu la One. T etrick taunted th e 10GlIs with , " If you want some of th ese (tro p h ies) back come on up to Denver." Stock A was a relatively un con tested cla ss as Greg Wing got some track time on hi s brand new GPzlOOO R from Motorcycle Marine. Th e Vintage cla ss hosted one of the best races of th e day betw een Craig Ski n ne r a nd j ohn Scott. both aboard Triumphs. The two were very even ly mat ched with Scott having a little more horsepow er down the straightaway a n d Skin ner th e edge in the turns. At the green flag it was Scott first into tu rn one, but b)' lap two Ski n ner was in first. Lap th ree saw th e lead cha nge aga in. In fact the lead woul d cha nge every lap of the IO-Iap event, with Skin ne r taking th e win . Th e Superstree t race was a very hecti c a ffair as Mike Williams go t the hol eshot in to th e first turn o n hi s 600 Ninj a, on ly to have th e Yamaha of Bob Sm ith put him into second. Sm ith was cha rgi ng o n hi s Fj600, but Will iams wo u ld n 't ta ke no for an a nswer and a ttemp ted a pass in the " S" tu rns, but thev mad e co ntact a nd both bi kes went down . T he corne r work ers were rig h t o n top of the acci dent un der the d irect io n o f Ch ief Ste ward Mik e Mahoney, wh o redflagged th e race . At the resta rt , Willie Adam s pulled a big lead o n Win g 's 1000R. Adam s went on to win Supe rstreet, but th ere was pl enty o f di cing go ing on behind him a s j eff Franks, Tim Bergstrom a nd T om Dahl debated first and second in Superstreet D. Randy Denza and David Wright went a t it all race lo n g even though th ey were in different classes. Th ere was a definite dog fight in Superstreet B among Brian Enos, Dennis Scull y and Rob Leatham, These three ch an ged positions several times during th e 10 laps. At th e checkered flag, Adams was first by a co nsidera ble margin in Superstr eet A. T etrick took th e win in Superstreet B with David Wright getting ' seco nd. Thi rd went to Brian Enos with Scu ll y a n d L eatham rounding out the top five. Superstreet D winner Franks had Bergstrom' a nd Dahl in to w at the checkered flag. Gary Kozuma a nd Marlin Bia lls fini shed one-two in Su perstreet C. Results STK PROD A : 1. Greg Wing (Kaw). STK PROD B: 1. Rick TetriCk (Yam); 2. Lance Baker; 3. Kn ut Jen sen . STK PROD C: 1: M ike W illi ams (Kaw); 2. Mike Ross (Yam); 3 . Gary Kozuma . SS A: 1. Willie A dams (Kaw) ; 2. Pau l Pet rocelli (Suzl; 3. Ran dy Den zer . STK PROD 0 : 1. Rick W ill iams (Vam ); 2. Norm Bened um (Vam): 3. Jeff Franks.

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