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BY p~p~ Wf~LfY ~ Terry Cunningham (Hus) was the .-t overall winner of the May II Buckeye C'I 150 National Championship Enduro >- in Athens, Ohio. Cunningham C"::l dropped 27 points in what was described as a "real tough enduro" to eage out Kevin Hines (KTM) who dropped 28. Third overall was Dave Bertram (Hus) at 30. ::E Team Husky's Dan Ashcraft won the May 11 Lost Angels M.C. AMA 0-37 Hare Scrambles near Red Mountain, California, beating Ted Hunnicutt (Vam) and Paul Krause (Suz). Dominant desert force Dan Smith missed the event, instead taking an annive....ry vacation with his wife. Cagiva North America has announced that 1986 Cagiva street bikes were declared legal for sale in California as of May 8; California's emission standards are stricterthan those in the rest of the U.S., but Cagivasare now certified as meeting the tougher standards imposed by the California Air Resources Board (CARB). Belgian Eric Geboers (Hon) won the fourth round of the 500CC Motocross World Championship 4 in Finland on May 11. Geboers posted 1-1 moto finishes to beat defending World Champion David Thorpe's (Hon) 2-2 tally. Third place overall wentto Georges Jobe (Kaw) 6-3; American Phil Larson (Mai) finished out of the points in the first moto, but came back to take sixth in the second moto. Thorpe maintains his points lead over Andre Malherbe, 123-105, with Geboers moving into third placa in the standings with 99 points. press. The 250 and 500CC Road Race World Champion suffered tendonitis in his right wrist in the Spanish GP and has since been treated by the same physician who helped baseball star George Brett overcome a similar problem. "If I ride (the Italian GP)and it feels like it does now, it won't be a problem. It either works or it doesn't," said Spencer in a Monday, May 12, phone conversatio", Spencer also told us that he missed a flight from Frankfurt, West Germany, to the U.S. after the Spanish GP due to a bomb scare in Madrid, Spain, that delayed his £light out of that city by an hour and a half. Cycle World Magazine's Steve Anderson won the La Carrera Mexican Road Race on May 10 in Baja California, Mexico. Anderson completed the Ensenada-to-San-Felipe trip in I hour, 17 minutes, 4 seconds for an average speed of 106 mph on a 750cc F-I Ducati/Cagiva.Secondplacewent to Motorcycle Industry Magazine's Rick Mitchell on another 750cc Ducati/Cagiva with third overall and first 500cc going to Team Obsolete's Dave Roper on his G-50 Matchless. The 650cc class was won by Motorcyclist Magazine's Nick Ienatsch (Cag), who finished fifth overall. The Onl Off road class was won by Mexican road racing champion Jesus Rodriguez (Cag) with former AMA Grand National Champions Mark Brelsford (Kaw) and Gary Nixon (Kaw) finishing second and third. Parapalegic Jeff Smith won the Sidecar class on his 1969 BMW with Jerry Cornellius passengering. Jeff Barclay won a crash-marred 750cc round of the Suzuki GSXR Cup Series May 11 at an AAMRR road race held at Loudon, New Hampshire's Bryar Motorsports Park. Dave Sadowski finished second with Mark Bouges third; all three rode Suzukis in the event, which saw six riders land in the infield pond after crashing in tu'rn three; Edgar Hinton broke his arm in the incident. Mark Mastrangelo topped the Open GSXR Series round, ahead of Tim Ropes, both on Suzukis. John Ramsey, Rick Burdick and Lars Berggren finished one-two-theee in the Honda VF500F Interceptor Series race at the same event. Freddie Spencer, who dropped out of the May 4 Spanish GP while leading (s.. report on pages 2425), will be jetting his way to Europe for the May 18 ltalien GP as this paper is coming off ~he Eatherly Racing's Dave Schlosser and Jeff Heino.won the third round of the WERAIEBC National Endurance Road Racing Series at Road Atlanta on May 10, beating 52 teams. The race, scheduled for six hours, was red- flagged after 5l> hours due to crashes. Team Hammer finished second, with Horn Brothers Racing third and series points leaders The Human Race Team fourth; the finish moved Team Hammer from fourth to second in series points. Motocross great Jim Pomeroy, the first American to ever win a World Championship Motocross Grand Prix, will teach four two-day motocross schools at Kincaid Park in Anchorage, Alaska on May 27-28, May 29-30, June 2-3 and June 5-6. Pomeroy will also teach a three-day motocross school at Kincaid on June 9-11 . More information is available from Richard Butler at 907/333-6033. Shawn Moran and Bobby Schwartz will make up this year's American World Speeday Pairs team, according to thl! AMA. Schwartz and Moran were set to compete on May II in the semifinal round in Lonigo, Italy. If the team is successful in Italy, the next step is the final round in Pocking, West Germany on June 15. The U.S qualifying round in Long Beach, california, for the World Speedway Championships has been rescheduled from June 7·to June 21 in an effort to avoid a conflict with the Los Angeles Supercross on June 7. A top four placing in Long Beach will give riders a chance to ride in the finals held in Bradford, England on June 29. Keith Code, ex-racer turned teacher with the California Superbike School, has entered the Formula Two class at the May 16-18 Sears Point National