Cycle News - Archive Issues - 1980's

arrived wi th his new ca r at Buckeye Speedway in O h io , and a Buckeye press release says that sponsor names th at were painted on th e car included Grand National Champion Bu bba Shobert, tuner Tex P eel. Laube's Cycle City a nd J im Herd s Honda. Meetings concerning land use in the San Bernadino (California ) National Forest have been scheduled for May 1 O'atthe Rim ofthe World High School in Arrowhead. More meetings will be held at tobe-announced locations on May 13, 14 and 27 and June 10. / KT M-mounted Kees van der Yen won th e third round o f th e 500cc World Motocross Championsh ip in.Swede n on May 4, posting 3-1 moto scores. En gl and's David Thorpe (Hon) fin ish ed seco n d overall with a 2-3 tally whil e Ha ka n Carlqvist (Yam) fin ish ed third wi th a 4-4. Leif Persso n (Yam) finished fourth with Andre Ma lh erbe (H on) roundi ng o u t th e top five. Malherbe, however. ma in ta ins h is point lead with 92 poi nts to T horpe' s 89. Persson is th ird with 78 follo wed by van der Ven's69 and Eric Geboers' 53. Rothmans Honda's Wayne Gardner won his first-ever 500cc Grand Prix in the opening round of the World Road Racing Championship in Jarama, Spain, on May 4 . Gardner beat Marlboro Yamaha 's Edd ie Lawson by three seconds with · Team Roberts Lucky Strike pilots Mike Ba.l~w.in and Randy Mamola finishing.third .and .f o urth, respectively. Frenchman Christian Sarron (Yam ) finished fifth with countryman Raymond Roche (Hon) six th and Lawson's teammate Rob McElnea seventh . Last year's double World Champion, Freddie Spencer (Hon) got off the line f irst and led the first lap by four seconds when he suddenly pulled off t he track w ith a reported circulatory problem in his left arm. In 250cc action, Venezuelan Carlos Lavado (Yam) avoided an five-rider crash on the start line and survived his own first lap crash to take the w in. Lavado switched to a back-up Yamaha for the restart after totally destroying his race bike on the first lap and went on to beat Anton Mang (Hon), Sito Pons (Hon) and Martin Wimmer (Yam ). Fast qualif ier Tadahiko Taira couldn 't get his Marlboro Yamaha started and was clipped on t he start li ne, causing the five-rider pileup; Taira suffered a broken toe in the m ishap. J acky Vimond used his wor ks Yama ha to wi n the May 4 250cc Motocro ss World Cham pions hi p G rand Prix a t Villars-sur-Escot, France, wit h 1-2 rnoto finishes. G ert J an van Doorn was seco nd on h is KTM wi th DNF-I finis hes. ahead of Maurice Fan ton 's 2- 14 moto fin ish es. Vimond leads the points. 106 to van Doorn 's 70. Dave Strijbos.,w on the 125cc Motocross World Championship Grand Prix in Genk, Belgium on May 4 . Strijbos, riding a Cag iva, went 2-1 in moto finishes. Masaim o Contini was second with 4 -2 fin ishes, also on a Cagiva; John Van den Berk was third with 1-7 fin ishes on a Yamaha. Strijbos is lead ing the season point standings with 111 to Pekka Vehkonen 's 108; Vehkonen finished 3-28 at Genk. 4 Doug Pol en had another $2700 weekend when he topped th e 750cc Stock Prod uction . Open Stock Production a nd Honda VF500F Interceptor Series races at an MRA road ra ce in Pueblo. Colorado May 4. In '75Occ Stock Prod uction . a round o f th e Suzuki GSXR Cup Series, Polen beat . . . Racers wanting to enter the Ma y 10 La Carrera Mexican Road Ra ce ca n Wayne Gardner Dan Walker a n d Dan T u rner. all three o n Suzukis. In Open Stock Production , al so a GSXR Cup round. Po len beat Erin Turner a nd Ricky Orlando , with all th ree again on Suzu kis. In th e H onda race. it wa s Pol en ahea d o f Wal ker an d Geoff Cesrnat, a ll o n VF500Fs . KTM 's Kevin Hines won the May 4 Pine Barons AMA National Championship Enduro in Chatsworth, New Jersey, w ithJack Lafferty Jr. second on a 250cc Husqvarna and Donnie Tomlin third on a YZ250 Yamaha. Hines dropped 13 po ints to Lafferty's 16 and Tomlin 's 18. st i ll d o so . Ca ll 818 170 3-508 3 o r 213/ 464-5720 for ent ry in forma tion a nd en tr ies will be avai la ble prior to the sta rt o f th e 150-mile race. In add ition, a ny industry relat ed banners will be a llo wed to be hung witho ut cha rge a t th e sta rt or fini sh line. acco rd in g to co-p romo ter Cliff Ca rr. The team of Scot Harden and Garth Sweetland used their Open-class Husqvarna to win the May 4 Best in the Desert/Duralube Las Vegas 300 desert race near Las Vegas, Nevada. Anthony Pasqualotto and Grant Palenske were second on an Open M-Star; Daryl Fo lks and Scott Morris finished third overall on a 250cc Husky, while Duane Summers and Brian Folks were fourth overall, first in the 125cc class on a Cag iva . Larry Roeseler and Kurt Pfeiffer fi nished f ifth overall, on a four-stroke Husky. American Ph il Larson has signed a factory Maico co n tra ct and becomes th e third member of the International WuHsport Mai co team. incl ud ing Brito n 's .Will ie Simpson a nd T ony Caig, to co m pe te in th e 500cc World Motocross Championships in 1986.The 22-year-old Larson pl aced 12th in th e o pen in g round in Austria. April 20, sco r i n g M a i co ' s o nly p oint s ; in Holland, Larson gai ned no points despi te a second-moto six th. America's only other 500cc GP hope in Austria was ATK's Randy Rodgriquez, but he failed to qualify. According to Rodriguez, "I was qualif ied 16th fastest and heard t hem anounce it over the P.A., which meant that I was in , since the top 17 qualified. Then w hen I got the official form , they put me back to 18 t h for some reason . I have a sneaky suspicion that KTM (A ustria) di dn't want me in the race, since they were debuting t heir four-strokes t here and I was going faster than t hey were on my ATK (f our- stroke). It was real disheartening not qualifying ." Rod riguez returned to the U.S . afterwards and doesn't plan going back to Europe. Road racer John Betten court had surgery on h is kn ee o n Wednesda y. April 30. to rem ove ca rtilage, Bettenco u rt and Crane Raci ng WIll be back for th e Brainerd Na tional o n May 3 1J une I. Cards a nd-letters ca n be sent to Bettencourt a t 760 Eas t Washington St. , W. Atten boro , Massach usetts. The Portuguese round of the World Endurance Championship scheduled for May 11 on the Estoril ci rcuit has been cancelled by the Portuguese Motorcycling Federation, according to the FIM . Vet eran dirt tra cker S teve Moreh ead recently became a sprin t car o wner a nd pl ans to race both motorcycl es a nd cars this year. Moreh ead recent ly In the continuing tire war at Rosamond, California'. Willow Springs Raceway, Dunlop brought outthis new rear tire to challenge the domina~t Michelin Hi-Sport on April 27. Scott Gray tried the experimental tire, but crashed. Th e Bar stow (Ca l i fo rn ia) Ar ea Chamber of Commerce a nd 'th e City o f Barstow will host a public forum on p roposal s to expa nd Death Vall ey and J oshua T ree National Monuments. create a n ew Mojave National Park a nd to crea te 85 n ew wilderness a reas (tota ll ing 4.3 million acres) throughout th e California des ert. Areas affected by th e proposal s would . be closed to off-road motorcycle and ATV use. The Ma y 14 forum will be h eld a t Kennedy Jun ior High School (Armory Road and Muriel Driv e in Barstow) a nd will sta rt at 7:00 p .m . Members of th e public ca n submit written quest ions or written comments at forms available a t th e forum. or can submi t written pos ition papers (th ree cop ies required ) at th e forum. More in fo rma tion is available from th e Barsto w Area Chamber of Commerce. Don't miss Cycle News night May 9 at Costa Mesa Speedway in the Orange County Fairgrounds; anyone showing a valid class four motorcycle license will be admitted for $1 off the regu lar price of admission. Kees van der Ven A WER A road racea t Grattan. Mi ch igan saw Dan Chivington win A Producti on a nd B Product ion , bo th ro un ds o f th e Suzuki GSXR Cup Series. Chiving ton used h is Suzuki GSXR750 to win in B Production. beating T erry Hampton 's FZ750 and Mark T anner 's Suzuki. In A Pro duction. Chivington won on a GSXR1100. followed by Do n Gray-Wheeler on another GSXRllOO an d Hampton o n his FZ750. Kurt H all won th e Honda VF500F Int ercep tor race. beating Fritz Kling and Steve Campisano. J im Knipp won the inaugural race in the anything-goes Michigan Cup series. Team New Haven Suzuki won the May 4 round of the AMA/MotoWorld U.S . Endurance Championship Series at Elkhart Lake, Wisconsin 's Road America. New Haven riders Edgar Hinton and Kevin Rentzell used their Suzuki GSXR 11 00 to lead a Suzuki sweep; Team Lockhart's Wendell Phillips and Lynn Miller were second and Eatherly Racing's Dave Schlosser and Jeff Heino were third. '; :Ie May 5 roa d race sched u led for ' Sea rs Point Raceway in So noma. California was rai ned o u t a nd ca n celled. . Barnett Tool & Eng ineering has established $2000 po ints fund for the Sidecar class in AFM road races for 1986. Awards w ill be based on final AFM point standings for races at California's Willow Springs Raceway and Sears Point Int ern at ional Raceway. For more inf o, contact Barnett's M ike Taylor at 213 /941 -1284. ," T he Ultima te Tra il Ride" is how the C ycl e Conservati on Club o f Mi ch igan is billing th e Six Da ys of Michigan scheduled for August 1723. T he rid e will cover approximatel y 125 mi les o f trail eac h da y a nd p articipants will never see th e sam e trai l twi ce. Sign-up closes Au gust I and cos ts SI 15 for CCC members. and $ 125 for non-members (CCC members hip is included in th e latter fee). Truck s wi ll be a va ila ble to carry equipment. check points and gas stops Wi ll be loca ted a lo ng each da y's trail , primitive ca m p ing is provided. and a list o f mot els will be sen t upon receipt of sign-up fee. For an ap p lica tion o r more info , co ntact CCC of Mi chigan. 26 N. S ta te St .• Han, MI 49420. . ' ., ~ ;"-' n , ~· , -" I .-.•• "I I" 1 .. .. •', "lr . ' rr- '

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