Cycle News - Archive Issues - 1980's

visory Committee rules used at Daytona. According to organizer C liff Carr, the event, which starts in San Felipe and runs to Ensenada in Baja California, Mexico, will feature legendary race r and former AMA Grand National Champion Gary Nixon o n a vintage-1970s Triumph Trident . The event was res c hed ule d to avoid conflicts with Cinco de Mayo (Mexican Inde pendence Day) celebrations. The AMA Grand National Championship /Camel Pro Series TT Steeplechase was rained o ut at Ascot Raceway in Gardena, California , Saturday, April 5 . A spokesman for Agajanian Enterprises said the National TT has been rescheduled for Friday April 18, at 7:30 p.m. The regular Friday night Ascot CM C/ Suzuki Series motocross will be moved from April 18 to Wed nesday April 16 at 7 :00 p .m, Tickets purchased for the April 5 TT National will be honored on April 18. Over 500 riders are expected for the 12th Annual H illt op per s Rosar ita . Beach 100 Gr an Prix sched u led for Apri l 20 in Rosarita Beach , Baj a Ca liforn ia, Mexico. T he event, organized by th e Hillto p pers M.C. of Lon g Beach , Ca lifo rn ia and sa nctioned by SRA, is spo nso red by Sport Tracks Co. a nd drew 450 riders in 1985. A 14th AMA Eastern Regional Champi onship Dirt track Seri es round has been added to the sched ule. It 's a $5300 half mi le race at Buckeye Speedwa y in Orrville, Ohio o n July 18. Dan Smith won the Apri l 6 Los Coyotes Hare and Hound, the fourth round of the AMA National Hare a nd Hound Championship Series held in Plaster City, California. Smith led an overall Husqvarna sweep that saw Garth Sweetland fin ish se co nd and Dan Ashcraft finis h th ird , all in the Open class. Charlie Morris, Jr. finishe d fo urth overall and first 250cc, a lso on a Husqvarna. Bruce Taylor upset Duane Summers to w in the 125cc class. Watch for full coverage next week. A 250cc Pro mot ocross event will be run in co nju nction with th e Mickey Thompson Off-Road Gr an Prix in th e Pasadena (Californ ia) Rose Bowl o n Ma y 3, according to MJD Sport Entertainment 's Mike DeStefano. The race will feature a $ 10,000 purse; $2500 of tha t will be donat ed to the Pro Riders Benefit fund for Dann y " Magoo " Chandler. According to DeStefano , Broc Glover and Ricky Johnso n signed releases a t th e April 6 Han gt own Nation al a nd will be o n hand for th e race. The race is invitatio na l and will feature 30 Na tio na l caliber rid ers; for inf ormation rega rding ent ries call DeStefan o a t 714/ 5821286 or 8 18/359-5117. The Texas Motorcycle Deale rs As sociation has voted to abandon the association 's traditional neutrality regarding mandatory helmet legis lati o n and to support a mandatory hel m et law in the state of Texas. The vote was 41 t o 23. T he America n Recreati on Coa li tio n will host the Fifth An nua l Recreation Industr y Forum on June 9-11 at th e Vista Int erna tion al Ho tel in downtown Washington , D.C. T he foru m will cover the President 's Co mmissio n on Ameri can s Outdoor s, lon g-term recrea tion trends, liability in suran ce reform efforts a nd legi slat ion ; key members of Con gress and representatives of the Reagan admin istration are expected to attend. Inf ormati on is avai lable from ARC at 1915 Eye SI. NW, Suite 700, Washington, D.C. 20006. 6 The LaCarrera Mexican Road Race across the Baja peninsula, resched ul ed to run May 1 0 instead of May 3 , w ill inc lude vintage classes run u nde r the same AMA Historic Ad- Invitational World O ld-Timers Championship, a benefit motocross for injure d motocrosser Danny "Magoo" Chandler being held at Prairie City OHV Park near Sacramento, California, on June 15 . Meanwhile, the Boise, Idaho, National Motocross has been cancelled . Austra lia n Geoff Ball ard (C-A) won th e April 6 Hurrican e Mill s, T ennessee ro un d of the AMA Nation al Cha mpionship Hare Scrambles Series.' Mar k H yde (H us ) fin ish ed seco nd in the race, held at Loretta Lynn 's Dude Ran ch. Ed Lojak (H us) was thi rd. Ed Waldheim and Mark Anderson have been elected Chairman and Vice Chairman, respectively, of t he Californ ia Off-Highway Motor Vehicle Recreation Commission. Waldheim previously served as Vice Chairman of the Commission under outgoing Chairman Mike Bishop, and has been a member of the group since it s establishment in 1983. Anderson was appointed to the Commission in 1985 to fill a vacancy; since then he has been appointed to a full term by California Governor George Deukmejian. Waldheim is also an AMA 0-37 (so ut hern California) congressman; Anderson is Director of ATV Planning forthe Specialty Vehicle Institute of America. The 1986 International Bike Show sponsored by th e Motor Cycle Associatio n of Gr eat Britain has been sched uled for th e Ol ympia in London, England on October 29 through November 2. M ike Baldwin Mike Ba ldwin and Randy Mamola started their 1 986 season on a high note by splitting wins in their Team Roberts Lucky Strike debut at the April 6 Malaysian Grand Prix. Baldwin won the first leg of the two-heat event on his V-four Yamaha with Mamola second; the order was reversed in race two. The new Bell Ultra from Bell Helmets carries the heftiest helmet price tag in motorcycling: $1000. The vented helmet features a graphite/Kevlar co-weave cloth and Durvil fire-retardant interior, along with a fog-proof shield tested by Eddie Lawson la st year. Each helmet is hand-numbered. MotoWorld has signed o n to sponsor the remain in g rounds of th e AMA U.S. Endurance (roa d racing) Ch ampionship Series. According to th e AMA. MotoWorid will air coverage of th e 13 rounds still to be held; th e series will now be oHiciall y kn own as theAMA /MotoWorid U.S. Endurance Ch am p ionsh ip Series. Husqvarna Motorcycle Company's Husky Products has been named a distributor of Autolite Spark Plugs; the plugs, wh ich ha ve been used by Husqvarna 's race team, will be sold through Hu sq va rn a dea lers. T he first race of the 1986 Yamaha Ca lifo rn ia Classic Mot ocross Series sanctio ned by SMX was' resched u led for Sunday , April 13 at Perris Raceway in Perr is, Cal ifornia. Bob Hanna h w a s seen at the f irst CART Indy-ca r event of 1986, in Phoenix, Arizona, checking o ut t he equipment. Ha n nah has sa id he 'd like t o try car racing after retiring from motocross. Goodyear Ti re and Rubber Compa ny pl an s to return to AMA dirt track racing, producing tir es for Cam el Pro Seri es, region al and local event s. Two revisions have been made in the AMA Championship Motocross schedule. The AMA National Mo tocross orig inally scheduled for June 1 5 in Ho llister, California has been rescheduled to August 17 to avoid a conflict with the Magoo Frenchman John Paul M ingles (Yam) won a Superbikers-style race in France, over the Easter weekend. Americans rounded out the t o p five w ith Kent Howerton fin ish ing 's ec o nd , Mike Bell (Ya m) third , and Mickey Fay (Hon )fourth . Former speed way World Cha mp ion - Bruce Penhall will prom ote what .is being billed as th e richest speedway race ever th is co ming fall in Amsterda m, Holl and. Penhall san the even t will pay approxi ma tely '$40,000 to th e winner and will fea ture six -man heat races amo ng riders he will p ick to compete. Tentative dat e for the race is either Sep tem ber 20 or 21. When at first you fa il. try, try aga in . He re 's our thi rd shot at running the " off ici a l" res ults from the March 23 Honda 500 Interceptor Series race at California 's W illow Springs Raceway : Billy DeBere was the winner, Steve Reynosa was second, butthe AFM now tells us that Ben Williams was th ird , Joe Solis was fourth , and Nigel Gale was fifth. New York' s Sq ua re Deal Riders will host th e short track, half mil e and TT AMA Am a teur/Youth National Championships thi s year. The short tra ck Nat ionals will take place at the club's Harpersvill e, New York . facility o n Jul y 19-20, th e TT on Jul y 23-24, a nd th e half mil e onj uly 2627. For entry blanks and/or more informati on . write Jean Oakley, Box 11 5-B, Allen Rd. , RD # 1, Port Crane, NY 13833 or call 607/ 693-1975 or 723-1230. The April 6 opening round of the 500cc World Motocross Championship in Payerne, Switzerland was cancelled because of snow and fog . The first round of the championship will now be held on April 20 in Sittendorl, Austria. T eam Lockhart won round two of the AMA/MotoWorld U.S. Endurance Champion ships in St. Louis, Illinois on April 6. The Lockhart team of Wend aII Phillips and Lynn Mill er completed 200 laps and 440 miles on their Suzuki GSXRIIOO. Second place a nd second in th e GTO class went to the High T ech team of Larry j eurink a nd David Libbens with 192 la ps. Th ird overall went to GTU class winners T eam Sunset (T odd Bru baker , Peter Ca rro ll, T err y Statum) with 192 la ps co mpleted on their Kawasaki Ninj a 600. The 1985 500cc United States Grand Prix of motocross w ill be shown o n ABC on April 19. The 1985 USGP was won by David Ba iley . M a r c o Lucch inell i Former 500cc Road Racin g Worl d Ch ampion Marco Lucchin elli (Cag) won th e ope ni ng ro u nd of th e 1986 Formula O ne Road Racin g World Cha m pionship Series , a 200-mile event held a t Misano, Ital y o n April 6. Lu cchinell i finish ed 52 seconds in front of run ner-up And ers And ersson (Suz) with Aust ra lia n Rob Phill is (Suz) third, a lap down o n th e first two finish ers. Marlboro Yamaha's Ro b McElnea had a su ccessfu l debut on th e V-Iour Yamaha as he won the 500cc class at th e same event, beating last year's I25cc European Champion P .F. Chili (Suz) by 21 seconds wh ile Italian M. Messere finished third on a Honda. In th e 250cc class, West German Martin Wimmer and his Marlboro Yamaha beat Faldo Ricci (Hon ). by 1.29 seconds. Curre nt Battl e of T he T wins Heavyweight points leader Fred Eiker of Santa Barbara, California, has made a ten ta tive agreement with T eam Rennsporr 's owner/tuner C.B. Rice to rid e the Rennsport Guzzi in th e remaining 1986 AMA/Camel Pro Series BoTT events . An AMA Regional C hampionship TT in Salinas, California on April 20 will feature a $10,000 purse; a special challenge race at the event will include some of the top Camel Pro Series dirt trackers. Former Supercross and National Motocross Champion Do nn ie Han sen 's Motocross Academy is offering fourday motocross training camps starting in June in San Antonio, Texas; for more information call 512/&74-5480 . Entries for the 1986 Barstow-to~eg a s !''-ar~ !I!"d. Hound d~~rt rac~.

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