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to pos t-enter." Teams interested in competing in the 500-ki lometer race at Sears Point should call 704/684 4297 immediately. The April26-27lDBA SpringNationals at P iedmont Dra gwa y in G reens boro, North Carolina, saw Jon Ba ugh (Suz) come up the winner in the Funny Bike fina l, Willy Foster (Suz) take top P ro Co m p honors, and George Babor (Kaw) win the Pro Stock final. Dan Smith continued his domination of southern California AMA 0 -37 desert events by w inning the Vikings M ,C . First Annual Warren Wilson Memorial Hare and Hound on April 27. Smith and his Husqvarna topped the Kawasaki of Don _ Griewe and Suzuki-mounted 250cc class winner Paul Krause. Husqvarna 's Dave Bertram rode his 430cc auto to the Little Polecat National Enduro win, April 27. in Twaine Harte, California. Bertram took the win by three points over teammate Terry Cunningham, also ' riding a 430 auto. KTM's Kevin Hines (35Occ) placed third ahead of Husky's Jeff R ussell , John Haaker and Larry Roeseler. Haaker finished first FourStroke. Honda-mounted Shaun Kaios captured the 125 and 250cc Pro class wins at round seven of the World Sports USHRA/ AMA Arenacross Championships at the Silver Bowl in Las Vegas. California. April 26 . M ike Bias. however, leads both c lasses in points. Over 12.500 spectators watched. Team Yamaha's Broc Glover showed up at the Dallas Supercross, April 26, with a cast on his righ t wrist. He inj ured the wrist prior to the race, a nd it's unknown at this time how long he'll be in' the cast. According to Yamaha 's race team manager, Ken Clark, Glover is going to have a bone scan Tuesday: April 29. More information will be available after the scan, Australian Jeff Leisk is back in action for the first t ime since a terrible crash at the February 8 San Diego Supercross. severly breaking his jaw. Leisk f in ished 16th in the main at the Da llas Supercross. but said he felt a little rusty. The Honda rider now ri des with a fullface helmet. instead of an openface helmet he wore before. .3 G tJ O D I 4 · O Il Hj ...., ~ l Roger Edmondson, who heads up the AMA Championship Cup Series, says tha t 40 post-entry slots are open for the May 17 round of the AMAI MotoWorld U.S . End urance Road Race Championship Series round a t Sonoma, California's Sears Point Racewa y. "This is the first endurance series round we're runni ng this year in conjunction wi th the Camel Pro Series," said Edmondson, "and I thin k there might be some teams whose members are confused a bo ut the entry system. We annou nced tha t we will hold only IO post-entry slo ts for each race run at Camel Pro events. The ent ry deadline for the Sears Point round is May I, an d I think a lot of the teams are now thinking they 've procrastinated too long and can't compete, so we' re allowing 40 teams The traditional Ohio dirt track seaso n opener took place on the half mile track at Springfield . Oh io, on Su nday. April 27. Ch ris Evans. Chuck Springsteen and Don Estep, all riding Harley-Davidsons, f inished 1 -2-3 in the Expert final. Rod Comer (Ho n) won the J unior f ina l, and David Rayburn (W -R) won the Pro-Am final. Road racer Marty Vogel suffered a serious spinal injury when he crashed his RS250 and hit a barrier following a collision with SCOtt Gray's GSXR1100 during practice for the April 20 AFM event at Sears Point International Raceway. Vogel is in the Spinal Treatment Center in San Jose, Ca lifornia; cards and letters can be sent to his home, 4811 Vineta, La Canada, CA 91011. As a result of the co llision, Gray has started a fund to purchase p lastic-wrapped hayba les for turn I I (where Vogel crashed) at Sears Point; the Iirst donation of $250 was made by Bill Huth, owner of Rosamond, California 's Willow Springs In tern a tio na l Raceway, and th e fund has already topped $3000; informa tion on donating is available from Willow Springs at 805/256-247 I. The President's Commission on Americans Outdoors has scheduled an additional public hearing in San Bernardino. California on May 12. The m eeting . scheduled to beg in at 9 :00 a.m.• w ill be held in the City Council Chambers in t he San Bernardino City Hall at 300 North o Street; subjects expected to be covered include desert ORV use. with a strong turnout by anti-ORV el itest preservation groups. Persons wishing to testify should contact John Luga r. President's Commission on Americans Outdoors. P,O. Box 18547.1111 20th St. NW, Washington, DC 200368547.202/634-7310. T he Checkers M.C. 34th Annual AMA D-37 Check Chase Hare and Hound desert race will be he ld on Saturday, May 17 as scheduled; the entry deadline has been extended to May 6. According to Checkers M.C . Presi dent Mike Sixbery, the 1986 co urse is fast, fun and relatively virgin afte r three years of non -use. An official entry blank was published in the April 16 issue of Cycle News. Mo re information is available from Sixbery at 4030 Adam Rd ., Simi Valley, CA 93063,805/584-6975. Jim Holley and Ricky Ryan are the latest riders to sig n up for the June 14-15 Magoo 'l nvitational World Old-Timers Championship motocross being held at Sacramento. California's Prairie City OHV Park forthe benefit of Danny " M agoo " Chandler. Over 17,000 motorcyclists called the AMA's toll -free membership hotline number (1-800-AMA-JOIN) last year; operators manning the number exp lai n membership benefits, and the number is the basis of a new commercial airing on USA Network's MotoWorld program. The American Women Road Riders' Alliance of Beverly Hills, California will host the June 22 2nd Annual Cruise-Aid for Diabetes. an AMA-sanctioned parade. 50 7 mile road ride and barbeque to benefit the Juvenile Diabetes . Foundation research center. Registration will begin at 8:00 a.m. at (Left to right) Team Honda's Ricky Johnson. promoter Mickey Thompson. announcer Larry Huffman. off-road truck racer Ivan Stewart. and Team Kawasaki's Jeff Ward said "cheese" following the Sunday, April 27. edition of Hufman's weekly satellite-broadcast radio show. Motorcycle World, Johnson and Ward. who jetted back to southern Cal ifornia from the previous night's Dallas Supercross. and Stewart will compete in MickeyThompson's Off-Road Championship Gran Prix in Pasadena. California 's Rose Bowl on Saturday night. May 3. Photo by Rich Hurtado. the Carriage Inn, 5525 Sepulveda Blvd. in Var:'! Nuys. Cal ifornia ; celebrities expected to participate in the fund raiser include Lorenzo Lamas. Jimmy Van Patten. James Keach. Bruce Penhall. Ken Norton and others. More information is available from the American Women Road Riders' Alliance at 213/395-1171 . The 46th Annual Black Hills Motorcycle Classic wi ll be held on August 4-10 in Sturgis, South Dakota; events planned include a trade show, tour and poker runs, a ra lly, the three-race Yamaha Pro-Am Championship Short Track Series, a Yamaha Classic AMA U.S. Western Reg iona l Championship Short Track, a Pro-Am half mi le, an AMA U.S . Weste rn Reg io nal Championship Half Mi le and an amateur hi llclimb. T he events are sponsored by the Black Hi lls .Motor Classic and the jackpine Gypsies Motorcycle Club. Radical environmentalists have banded together to attempt to block a proposed 75-mile ORV trail in southern California's San Bernardino National Forest, The group, which calls itself The San Bernardino National Forest Coalition, has alreedy started a localmedia publicity campaign to oppose the trail. which is part of the U.S. Forest Service's forest management plan and which would start at Baldy Mesa. northeast of Wrightwood. The Forest Service • will hold a plan workshop at Chaffey College in Rancho Cucamonga. California on May 1 from 7:00 to 10:00 p.m .• as well as a public hearing at the Lytle Creek Ranger Station in Fontana. California from 1:00-4:00 p.m. on May 28, Eatherly Racing 's Dan Chivington and Da ve Sch losser used a Suzuki GSXR l loo to wi n the second round of the WE RA /EBC Nationa l Endura nce Road Racing Series, a six- hour held in Rocki ngham, North Carolina on Apri l 26. Team Hammer's Do ug Toland crashed whi le lead ing Ch ivington in the first hour, and Hammer's Pat Hernon crashed in th e second hour; Hammer eventually fin ished 26th after extensive repairs. The Human Race T eam of Kurt Hall and Dave Zupan finished second overall and took over the series points lead on their FZ600 Yamaha . Eatherly Raci ng 's margin of victory was seven laps. Texan Doug Polen dominated WERA National Sprint action at Rockingham, North Carolina on April 27•winning the Suzuki GSXR National Cup Series A Production and B Production events and a GSXR11 00 and GSXR750 respec tively and also topping the Honda Interceptor 500 race . Dan Chivington finished second on Suzukis in A Production and B Production. and Doug Chancey third in A Pro duction on a Suzuki and Thomas Stevens third in B Production on a Suzuki. Kurt Hall was second in the Honda Interceptor race, ahead of Greg Tysor: Nursing an injured shoulderfrom an endurance-race crash in North Carolina on Apri l 26, Doug Toland j umped on an overnight flight to an April 27 AFM race held at Willow Springs Int ern a tio na l'Raceway in Rosamond , California. Toland won the Open Stock Prod uctio n and 750cc Stock Prod uctio n events, part of the Suzuki GSX R National Series, but was then docked one lap for passing Malcolm Hill in the 750cc class while a standing yellow flag was displayed; the penalty made Toland 26th. Hill was credited with the 750cc victory, ahead of Earl Ro lo ff and David Langford, Rol o ff on a Yamaha and Langford on a Suzuki. Scott Gray finished seco nd to Toland in Open Prod uctio n wi th Robert Reinen third, a ll on GSXR I IOOs; Gray led bu t crashed out of the 750cc race . Billy DeBere co ntin ued to dominate the Honda Intercep to r 500 Ser ies at Willow, beating Steve Reyn osa a nd Richard Moore. Ji m Vreeke won the Kerker Superbi ke race, beating Toland and Jeff Stern; Vreeke wo n the Toyota/ Bud weiser/ Coke Formu la USA event ahead of Rol o ff and Gra y;Toland led the Formula USA race, but his bik e broke. The new Willow Springs Transportation Technical Center has opened