Cycle News - Archive Issues - 1980's

while Ray Brown's 1965 BMW took the top honors in the Classic class. Frank Conley's 1967 Greeves won an award in the Special Interest class. The next Collector-Series event will be held in early December at the Motorcycle/ Consumer show at the Anaheim Convention Center in Anaheim, California. With six of 14 rounds completed, North Shore Racing's Ed Key and Gary Gibson continue to lead the AMA/MotoWorid U.S. Endurance Championshjp Road Racing Series with 2689 points. ew Haven Kawasaki is second in overall points and leads the GTU class with 2559, followed by GTO-c1ass teams New Haven Suzuki with 2438 points and Team Lockhart with 2190 points. Team Sunset is fifth in points and second in the GTU class with 2182. The championshjp is still up in the air because each team can only count points from its best six finjshes during the season; 137 teams have earned poims in the series 10 date, with 40 teams competing in two or more more events. The series continues August 2 with a 500-kilometer race at Mid-Ohio in Lexington, Ohio. Long-time racing fans will recognize the name of Calvin G. "Buddy" Rayborn III, seen in the results of an AFM Honda Interceptor Series road race held at Willow Springs Raceway in Rosamond, California July 20. Rayborn, now 26, is the son of the late Cal Rayborn, who won 11 AMA Grand National Championship road reces and one mile dirt track in his professional racing career; Rayborn also sat the world motorcycle land speed rec- ord in a Harley-Davidson powered streamliner constructed by Denis Manning, at Bonneville in October, 1970; the record stood until 1975; Rayborn was killed in a racing accident in New Zealand in December, 1973. Buddy Rayborn started dirt track racing in 1974; he finished sixth at Willow Springs. Team Hammer's Doug Toland and Dave Sadowski are leading the WERA/EBC alional Endurance Road Racing Series with seven of 14 events already held. with 437.07 points. M&M Racing is second with 426.28 points. followed by Out &Out Racing with 383.54. The Human Race Team with 372.11 and Sol max Racin/!: USA with 356.15. Teams can count their best nine finishes - includ· ing only one of two 24-hour'events - IOward the championship; 177 teams have raced in the series to date, with 81 entering two or mOIle races. The series continues with a 24-hour at Nelson Ledges in Warren, Ohio on August 9-10. The Las Padres National Forest has scheduled a public meeting to discuss its Forest Land and Resource Management Plan, which may closa riding trails in the Gorman, California area. The meeting will be held August 21 at 7:30 p.m. in Cuddy Hall, Lake of the Woods, Fruier Park, California. A previous meeting _s held July 17. As submiued 10 Congress, President Ronald Reagan's initial tax reform proposal called for eliminating tax deducations for corporate entertainmerit at sporting events; that could have hun the chances of securing Dunlop's latest entry in the war for street-legal, high-performance tire supremecy is the MC207, seen during recent testing by Greg Tysor at Faulkville, Georgia's Roebling Road Raceway (near Savannah). The new tire, which comes in a 160/70-18 for the rear of Suzuki GSXR760s and a 140/80-18 for the rear of Yamaha FZ600s, is made in two compounds. Dunlop spokesmen won't say if the tire features bias-ply or radial construction. sponsors [or motorcycle races. But as modified by Senate and House confe- Pirelli's latest entrant in the streetlegal, Production-racing tire field is the bias-ply Demon, recently seen being tested at Willow Springs Race_y in Rosamond. California. Richard Moore's SUzUki GSXR760 ran a 140/70-18 Demon MT78 rear tire and a 110/80-18 Demon MT79 front tire in competitive testing against the bias-ply Michelin Hi-Sports which currently dominate U.S. Production-class road racing. rees, the proposal currently would aJ)ow an 80% deduction for corporate entertainment at events. (Continued to page 22)

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