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' 1brrtia' !'o"ltte sti ll ' ha e' HOV ' llln l:S th at do not a llow access to rnot orcycles, Team Hammer's Doug Toland. Pat Hernon and Dave Sadowski rode their Gary Hilgenberg-tuned Vance 8< Hines Suzuki GSXR 11 00 to victory in the April 12 opening round of the 1986 WERA/EBC Nationa l Endurance Road Racing Series at In dia na po lis Raceway Park in Indi anapolis. Indiana . High -Tech Racin g's Larry Jeurink and Dave Lub berts finished second. fou r la p s behind on their Rel iable Cycle /larry Scheidt-backed FZ750 Yamaha in the s ix-hour race. Hernon rode Hammer's Suzuki to A S uperbike and Fo rmula O ne wins t he next day. April 13. Laguna Seca Raceway has n a m e d Laura Goetz of Monterey; California Miss Laguna Seca for 1986; her reign will include the Camel Pro Series road race scheduled for July 12-13 at the Monterey, California track. Goetz is a fu ll-time student at Mo nterey Peninsula College. Wind (Con tin ued from page 3 ) which will be h eld on Aug ust 30 in Kato wica , Pol and . Vance 8< Hines Performance Motorcycle Center in Anaheim, Californ ia, has sched u le d its grand opening o n Saturday, April 19 from 9:00 a.m. to 5 :00 p.m. Terry Vance and Byron Hines will be on hand, at 828 West Vermond Ave.• near 1-5 and Ball Road. The ihird a nnual Ca lifornia Mo rosport Club 's (C MC) Aloha Su percro ss is sched u led for Ma y 3 1a t th e Aloha Stadium in H on olulu, Hawa ii. The race will in clude fo ur riders fro m th e mai n la nd: Mi ke a nd Phi l Lar son . Jim T ara ntin o a nd Ru ss Wagem an. Defend ing Alo ha Supercross Champion Bria n Myersco ugh will no t cornpe te. Pennsylvania's Mike Jones and Jeff S urwall of Illinois both took backto -back wins a t the third round of t he Un ited States Hot Rod Associ a t ion, Wo rld Sports Arenacross C ha mpionship Series. he ld April 11 - 1 2 at t he Rosemont Horizon in C h icago . Kawasak i-mounted Jones won both the 125 and 250cc c lasses during racing Friday n ight, wh ile Surwall (Kaw) claimed both classes Saturday night. 32 The Ca lifornia Department of Transporta tion ha s opened three H igh Occupa ncy Vehi cle (H OV) lan es in the Sa n J ose a rea to motorcycle tra ffic. accordi ng to a report from th e AMA. Mot orcycles were allowed in the HOV la ne on S ta te Ro u te 237" for the first tim e April 7. T he follow in g day. HOV lanes were opened to bik es o n the Sa n Tomas Expressway a nd the Montague Ex presswa y. T he open ing o f th e la n es co mes fo u r years af ter the 1982 Surface Trans porta tio n Assist· ance Act (STAA), which req uires sta tes to a llow mot orcycles access to suc h special lanes. or ri sk losin g Ied eral h ighwa y fund s. Ca lifornia used a looph o le in th e law to keep motorcycles o ut o f HO V lanes. cla im ing th e presence of bikes in car poollant;s is a safety hazard. A tota l of 12 Ca li - Mark Anderso n of the SVIA, MI C a n d the State o f Ca li forn ia 's OffHighway Mot o r Veh icl e Recreation Commission wa s serio us ly inju red while riding in Baja Ca lifornia, Mexico o n April 12. Anderson wa s riding a t th e back of a group o n a dirt roa d a nd crashed a t low speed; so m ethi ng protruded th ro ug h the eye port o f his Iu ll-Iace helm et a nd fractu red h is jaw, nose a nd sk u ll. Anderson was dri ven to the U.S . bo rder, where he wa s ai rlifted to the Universi ty of Ca liforn ia San Diego Medical Cen ter 's inte ns ive care un it ; at presstime , Anderson remains unco nscious. Cards a nd letters ca n be sent to the SVIA, 3151 Airway Ave. Bldg . K107, Costa Mesa , CA 92626. Team Honda 's Micky Dymond rode in Saturday's practice session at the Pontiac Silverdome, but reinjured his foot after landing off a jump. Dymond then sat out the rest of the two days of racing . The Nipponden so Su pe rcross Special will be show n in Phoe n ix, Ar izona , on April 27 a t 11:30 p.m. o n KNX V Cha n ne l 15 as a p review for the Ma y 10 Ph oenix ro u nd o f the AMA /N ipp on d en so S uper cross •C ha m pionship . Rick Kennedy of Taylorville. Illinois. won an all-expenses-paid trip to the April 26 Dall~s AMA Supercross; Kennedy won the trip in a drawing held by the USA Network's MotoWorld. The April 26 Da lla s AMA Supercross will featu re a spec ia l show ing o f Monster Trucks immediately Iollowing the race. Big Foot a nd many others are schedu led to a p pea r. Road Racers Dale Franklin and Steve Haug w ill use TZ750 Yamahas while contesting the entire 1986 Formu la One Nat iona l Championship as the Dinosaur Racing Team. According to a press release. Dinosaur Racing plans to prove that Formula One is not financially im po s s ib le. Dick Mann will be on ha nd a t Asco t Pa rk o n Apri l 18 whe n Steve Eklu nd a tte mpts to break th eir joint reco rd of eigh t Na tio na l TT wi ns; Ma n n won th e Ascot TT in 1963. Mike Green, the winner of the 1986 Daytona 250cc Vintage road race and teammate Bret Morshead will compete in the May 10 La Carrera Classic road race in Baja California. Mexico. Green will ride his BSA Rocket-3 while Morshead will be aboard a 350cc Ducati. The two will be riding under the West Coast British Racing banner and the team is now taking pledges ($ 5 a mile) to raise money during the race for Danny Chandler. Donations can be sent to WCBR /Ma- goo Fund, 6398 Dougherty Rd. #34, Dublin. CA 94568. T eam Ro berts Luck y Strike's Rand y Marn ol a took hi s seco nd ove ra ll win in two a ttem pts when he bea t teamma te Mik e Baldwin in the j ahoor Grand Prix in Mal a ysia o n April 13. Mamo la , wh o won th e o vera ll in the Ma la ysia n GP ea rlier in April. beat Baldwin in the first leg by four seconds a nd ca me back in th e second leg to n ip his tea m ma te by o ne seco nd. Motocrosser Ricky Ryan won both of h is heats in the two back-toback AMA Supercrosses held in Pontiac. Michigan on April 12-13. but faltered in the main events. The San Jose. California . Kawasaki pilot is recovering from asthmatic bronchitis so 20 laps is a little much at th is point of h is recovery. Ele ctro He avy Equipment and Mert La wwil l Pro d ucts have joined fo rces in 1986 to sponsor secon d-year Expert Chris Ca rr, who fin ished th ird in th e H o uston Astrodome opener a nd fifth in th e April 13 Sacra me nto Mil e. Texan Kevin Schwantz may make h is 500cc Road Racing World Championship debut next month in Spain and Germany. followed by the Dutch TT in Assen in June. Schwantz's im p re s s iv e performance at the recent Trans-Atlantic Challenge Match Race Series in England landed h im a ride on a works Suzuki RG500 Suzuki in the events; if early-season results are good, Schwantz could be on a new Suzuki V-four by the end of the year. T he Pl anning a nd En viron me nta l Review Boa rd of th e County o f San Diego , Ca lifornia approved th e p lans / for the p roposed San Diego Interna tional Raceway in a meet ing h eld Ap ril 10. The 2·1 review board vo te a llows p romot ers to co ntin u e tow ard cons tructio n of th e faci li ty loca ted 20 m iles from the ci ty o f Sa n Diego on th e Mexican bo rde r. Current p la ns incl ude a 2.65· m ile road co urse design ed to FIA Formu la O ne (car) speci ficatio ns . a 1.33·mile ba nked ova l and a natura l-terr n motocross track, ai Former ro ad racer S teve McLaug h lin is Vice P resident a nd Directo r o f Ma rketing for the p roj ect. Promoters of the May 10 La Carrera Road Race across Mexico's Baja peninsula say that three former AMA Grand National Champions will contest the event. including Gary Nixon , Mark Brelsford and Dick Mann . All three will ride KLR600 Kawasakis. says La Carrera's Cliff Carr, contrary to earlier in d ic a t io ns that Nixon would enter on a vintage Triumph Trident. • ~TORCYCLE INDUSTRY "ANGES 'e m p lo yee o f Bell for "9 yea rs, i ncl ud · · 1 in g seven in th e Racin g Department. McN abb spent th e last th ree years as Assistant Director o f Racing . Hired As Mot orcycl e Sa fety Fo undation Eas tern Reg ional Office (Colum bia, Marylan d) P rog ra m Ma nager, Elizabe th Randazzo : Iorrnerly with the Con necti cu t Mo to rcycle Rider Education Progra m, Promoted Joh n Yurej efeic to Na tional ervice Manager for Yamaha Mo to r Corp. USA, based in Cypress. California; formerly Ya rn a ha 's Eastern Reg ional Service Man ager and member of th e Speed Boys end ura nce road raci ng tea m . Appointed Former roa d ra cer Cliff Carr to Director of Sa les a nd Mar ketin g fo r Au to-Tee, a cornpany that p ro vides a utomotive co mputer management systems in Sa nta Mon ica , Ca lifornia . Hired Former Cycle News Eas t Associat e Ed it or Gary Van Voorhis, as Acco u nt S upervisor/ O ffice Manager for Tom T uc ker & Associa tes. Inc., a publ ic relat io ns firm whi ch ha s rel ocated to Ormond Beach , Florida from Atlanta , Georgi a ; T ucker 's acco unts incl ude Saa b, Daytona In tern at ional Speedway a nd th e IMSA cha m pions h ip-win ni ng AI H olbert Lo wenbrau Po rsch e Ra cing Team . Moved CMS Manufa cturin g Service. manufacturer of co untershaft sprockets owned by Sonny Ken yon a n d wife Pa t. a fter 30 years in the San Franci sco . California a rea , to 5692· B Mother Lode Dr.• Pl acerville. CA 95667,916/ 622-8459. Moving Apri i2 1.25.Kawasaki Motors Corp. U .s.A. corpora te headq ua rters, incl ud ing the co m pany's western region sa les a nd parts distribution centers. to 9950 Jeronim o Rd ., Irvin e, CA 92718·20 16; mailing address rem ains u nch anged a t P.O . Bo x 25252. Sa nt a An a. CA 92799-5252; . p hone num ber cha nges Ap ril 2 1 to 714/770-0400. Named Compet ition hrakepad supplier to th e Rothmans Hon da a n d Skoal Ba nd it Heron Suzuki road rac in g teams based in Engla nd. Fe rodo, Ltd. Bom Rich a rd All en Ra us, to Rick a nd Vick i Raus of Barnett a nd Raus Advertising in Lo ng Beach . Ca lifornia . March 10. Hired Andrea Statz by Cl ymer P ubl ica tions as th e compan y's sales coordi n a tor; S ta tz was formerl y with All en Al varez' Motorcycle Market in g Servi ce, Bought T he Suzuki fra nch ise in O sh kosh . Wisco nsi n, Performance Suzuki. by pro racers Mike Wa lsh a nd J ess Doe ring: N arnedNa tional Sales Manager , Named' Design Engineer in th e Resea rch and Develo pment Department of Bell H el m ets, Eq Ro throc k; a n em p lo yee of Bell for 11 years. Roth rock spent th e last n in e years as Director of Raci ng . Named Directo r of Racin g fo r Bell Hel mets. Radn ey McNabb; an Mot orcycle Carbu retor Division of Mik u n i Am eri ca n Corpora tion, Lee Cha pin; for me rly with Cob ra Engin eerin g . Married Cycle N ews Associate P u bli sh er / Na tion al Ad vert ising Ma nager Skip J ohnso n , 32, to Den ise Letellier. 27. of Ba rn et Ra us Advertising. Apri l 12, in Las Vegas. Nevada. •