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everi and off ore; sh $1 ~oo drop'in the price of a barrel of oil costs the stete $20 'm illion in lost revenue. and California is looking at a $290 million shortfall in projected revenues. Programs threatened by cuts ordered to reduce spending include the state's ORV program; loeal assistance grants have already been cut from $39 m illion to $22.5 million. and the challenge now is to avoid deletion of the $13 million in grants already approved for 1986 by the state's Off-Highway Motor Vehicle Recreation Commission. Tcam Ha merWins TheWERA Indy 6-Hour Endurance Race "dhk.-R., ...... Scott Gray will ride a Vance & H in es Suzu ki GSXR 750 in th e May 18AMA Ca me l Pro Series Superb ike road race a t Sears Po int Ra ceway in Sonoma, Ca li fornia. Gray wi ll be riding a seco nd Vance & H in es race bi ke as a teammat e of Vance & H in es' current rider, Doug T o land. Gray formerl y rod e Yosh imura Suz u kis. $-< 0.. < Pittsburgh. Pennsylvania's KDVE FM 102 radio is featuring a Pittsburgh-area rider-of-the-week spot each Friday night throughout the season; the station is also airin'g weekend schedules and racing information, KTM Ame rica is producing an ow ner's newsletter for distr ibution to every cus to mer. Volume one of "das ist KT M" is in the mai l with the inaugural issue bei ng m ail ed to nearly 15,000 peop le who either own or are interested in own ing a KTM. With the dea ler netw ork incl uded . th e tot al circu la tio n is 20,000 copies; th e newsletter is sched u led for a quarterl y printing schedule. Doug Polen was the big winner in Suzuki GSXR National Cup Series and Honda Interceptor Series action at a WERA race in Oakhill. Texas. April 20. Polen topped A Production on his GSXR1100. beating Suzuki pilots Ottis Lance and Matt MlIIIChmann; finished first in B Production on his GSXR750 ahead of six other Suzuki riders. including second-place Merill Moen and third-place Danny Walker; and won the VF500F Interceptor race ahead of fellow Honda riders Mark Andrews and Alfred Bernard. Ronnie Na ylor won the Sh asta Dam round of the AMA National Hare Scrambles Ch ampi onship in Redd in g, Cal ifornia, on April 20 with Aus tra lian Geoff Ba lla rd (C-A) a nd Mark H yde (Hus) rounding out the top three; Eric McKenna (H on) finished fourth with Ron LaPointe taking fifth. The da y before th e National . Na yor finished second overall and first three-wheeled two-stroke in the AATVA H ar e Scra m bles. The Las Vegas Motocross Park in Las Vegas. Nevada hosted the 15th Annual NMA World Mini GP April 19-20; Ricky Simmet captured the 32-rider Kawasaki Race of Champions with a 2-2-2 score. Another big winner was Honda-mounted Kyle Lewis. who topped both t he 12 5 cc Modified and Stock Pro classes. Over 1000 riders entered the race with a total of 99 motos. .. T he rider who suffered mo st from excess ive tir e wear a t the April 12 Camel Pro Series Sacramento Mil e in northern Ca lifornia was hometown favor ite Alex Jorgen sen . Jorgen sen led the Na tio nal on a t least th ree different laps, befo re dro p ping o u t with a blo wn tire o n la p 21. Before his tire failed, J or gen sen raced for 20 laps e OneeAg C eckered Flag, &AKiss. To beat the toughest competition and survive grueling conditions, champions like Team Hammer go with Bel-Ray. Formulated with the finest basestocks andadditives,EXP delivers the performance toget . you out front and the film strength andheat stability tokeep you there. Isn't that whereyou want to be? Bel-Ray.The best is all wedo. BEL-RAY COMPANY, INC.- EO. Box 526 - Farmingdale, NJ 07727 MMER - DoUg'foland, tEAM KA e Sadowski" ational . I :. pat MernOn't~:YYlERA/E~~~ndianapol'S Ylinners of series 6-Mou Endurancpar~. . -Am Ylinner Raceway t"URPI" uEltK ercross 12Scc pro X" " S pontiac UP 0 ,'Winners Wear F E 520 McGlincy lane. Campbell. C 95008 (408) 371-1221 A • I , 7