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H ann ah a pit board reading " Let Bro c Bye." H annah did . G lov er was champion, but w ha t foll ow ed was a flood o f bad p ub licity. In stead of basking in th e limelight of his first cha m p io ns h ip. G lover was suffering through his fir st bad rap. " T he fir st cham p io ns hi p is a lway s kind o f neat, o f co urse, but m ine was mocked up by th e fact th at Bob let m e bv in the last race. ' Glo ver rem em bers. " 'r he med ia . Mot oc ross Act ion and th ose g uys. reall y decided th ey were goi ng to go 10 town o n that o ne a nd ha ve a good tim e. Th ey really ac ted like it was my fa u lt or so me th ing. It happ en ed a nd I took a lot o f flak for il. " At tha t time I was up- and -com in g and th e medi a co u ld have pe rsuaded fa ns o ne wa v or th e o the r. T hev di d a lot of negat ive work for me a t th at p oiru a nd I don' t th ink I'v e ever reall y gotte n o ver th at . I' m not sa ying i t's held my ca reer back . but I think m y a tti t ude towards th e press and ยท h o w th os e things arc written was cha n ged , I'think th ey kind o f took a bleedi ng heart attitude towards that a nd th en w hen it ca me aro u nd 10 ot her times wit h pe ople getting screwed by th e ru les, th ey just didn't prim it, T h ey are tal ki ng about tea m wo rk a nd tryi ng to blow up m y thing. th ey acted li ke he rod e my mot orcycle for me." Las t yea r Gl over found him self, once aga in. in th e m iddle o f a ch amp ionship con tro versy. The 1985Supercross Championship went down 10 th e fin a l ro u nd in th e Pasadena Ro se Bowl - Glover a nd Ward were ti ed goi ng in an d th e ch ampionship would be decided th at n ight , In his h eat race. \\'a n l crashed a nd rode ha ckwards o n th e track - a violation o f AMA rules. H e later beat Gl over in th e fina l, was fin ed 500 for th e infracti on a nd awa rded th e cha m pi o nship. Yamaha and Gl over protes ted the o urcome o f th e race and the AMA's appeal process was tested. Th e o u tco me went in favor o f Ward , ca us i ng Gl over to lose a ll fai th in th e AMA. " I hav e a very negative attitude to wa rds th e A:\IA," he said. " W ith th e way th ey ha ndled th e appeal. Th e protest , from what I understand from Ed Carro ll (a board member d u ring the ap pe a l process), was ru led in m y fav or. H e (Ca rro ll) acrually left th e meeting a nd go t in hi s ca r a nd left th e h ot el. At that point I heard th ere was mo re di scussion a nd th e decision was o vert urned by th e o ther two appea ls board mem ber s (Bo b H ansen a nd Dick Miller ) while Ed Carroll wasn't th ere. From wh at I understand. th e wordi ng of th e protes t in Kenn y By Paul Carruthers Yamaha Motor Corp's. Kenny Clark has seen many to p motocross racers in his IO-year tenure as the company's racing team m anager, bu t he has the u ltima te compliment for on Iy one - Broc G lover. " Race for race a n d dolla r for dollar. he is th e best in th e busi n ess." G lover's lis t o f ach ievemen ts 6 is remarkable. Si x Na tio na l Motoc ross cha mp io n sh ips - three in th e l25 cc class a nd three in th e 500cc ra nks. Throw in a Trans-USA ti tle and a co u p le o f FIl\I Wo rl d Championship medal s fo r his partici pa tio n o n wi nning Trophee des Nationsand MOIOcross des Nations teams for th e Uni. ted Slates. and you are talk ing about ., o ne o f th e most succes sfu l riders in th e recent h isto ry of th e spor t, And just wh en h is co mpet ito rs think he's read y to ret ire to h is E I Ca jon, California. home. h e sig ns a no the r th ree year co nt rac t for Yamaha . H e may be the h ig h est-pa id mo tocro sser in the U.S.; hi s new three-year deal is ru mored 10 be worth $1.0 mi lio n. but th at figure may be a li tt le low. At a press co n ference held p rior to the J anuary 18 Anah eim Supercro ss, the announcer mention ed Glover 's co n trac t as being worth $1.0 million; G lover gla nced to a nearby table wh ere-. Yam. . officials were . . aha . . . sea ted a nd as ked " Did yo u g uys cut my pay?" Th rough hi s 10 years at th e top of th e sport, the relativel y-reserved G lo ver has rarel y artracted the spotlight , There has always been a Many Smi th. a Bo b H a n n a h , a David Ba il ey or a J eff Ward soa king up most o f the m ed ia a uen uon , But Gl over has beat en th em a ll a n d while o the rs co me and go, G lo ver has remai ned steady a nd co n sisten t. W hen th e sea so n ends a nd th e points are a dded up , G lover is a lways somewh ere arou nd th e to p . G lo ver 's ca reer sta rted in co ntroversy whe n he wo n th e 125cc Nat iona l C ha mpio ns hi p fo r the first tim e in 1977, as a 17-yea r-ol d h ig h schoo l honor student . G lover needed to win th e final moto of th e year in order to beat Dann y LaPon e for th e cha m pi ons hip, but wa s running seco nd behind his Yamaha teamma te. Bo b Ha nna h .. Team Ya m ah a showed . , . 1 1