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.'.(Honfwon bottrmotos. Jo Martens . (Hus) was second overall with 3-3 moto finishes. while third overall went to Dirk Geukens (Hon) who had a 4-5 day. Frenchman Jacky Vimond. who had already clinched the World Championship. was fifth in the first moto but DNF the second moto. Newly crowned World Champion Eddie Lawson ended the 500cc GP road race season by riding his faotory Yamaha to victory in the San Marino GP in Misano, Italy, on August 24. Lawson finished 10 seconds in front of runner-up Wayne Gardner (Hon). Randy Mamola (Yam) finished third and Mike Baldwin (Yam) founh. Texan Kevin Schwantz (Suz) finished ninth. Japan's Tadahiko Taira (Yam) won the 250cc GP at Misano. Taira took over the lead for good when Carlos Lavado (Yam). who had clinched the World Championship in the previous round, crashed with just two laps to go. Sito Pons (Hon) was second and Dominique Sarron (Hon) finished third. The 125cc GP at Misano was won by August Auinger (Bar) with Luca Cadalora (Gar) second and Fausto Gre-sini (Gar) third. Cadalora leads the point standings over Gresini, 110 to 99. Spain's Jorge Maninez (Der) clinched the 80cc World Championship by finishing second to PierPaolo Bianchi (See). The final 250cc MX GP of the season took place in Sweden on August 24 and Gert-Jan van Doorn 2 'Iems.the remainingAFM.sanOtioned road race dates at northern California's Sears Point Raceway are in doubt. To avoid showing up and finding a locked gate. call 415/327-0908. AFM events at southern California's Willow Springs Raceway are running on schedule. Former AMA competition diTector Jules Horky, 77, diedofa heanattack on August 18 at his Pon Orange. Florida, home. Horky's lifelong career in motorcycling began in 1927 in a Philadelphia Harley-Davidson dealership. He became an AMA District referee in 1931, an AMA field representative in 1946, and thencompetition director for the Association until his retirement in 1974. He is survived by his widow, Millie, sons Ray and John, and daughter Carol Hall, the AMA's mem bershi p development and sales manager. The family has requested that donations be made in Jules' name to either the American Diabetes Association or the American Motorcycle Heritage Foundation. Defending champ Scott Head clinched the '86 National Championship with wins in both the August 23 Massa· chusetts and August 24 Rhode Island rounds of the AMA National Championship Observed Trials Series. The annual Bonneville Salt Flats Speed Week in Wendover, Utah, was cut in half when rain fell on Wednesday, August 20. flooding the course. Fast time prior to the rain was logged by the HarleyDavidson-powered streamliner, Tenacious, at 274 mph. Prizes totaling over $19,000 will be given away in a drawing which will be conducted following-the Sunday, August 31, Sequoia Summer MX Series finale at Troy Campground in California's Sequoia National Forest. Due to continuing insurance prob- CORRECTION: The U.S. Tsubaki ad which appeared in last week's paper had Chris Carr riding a Harley-Davi~son to his first National win in the Peoria TT. Wrongl As . was reported in the race coverage. Carr rode a Wood-Rotax at Peoria. SUPPORTED: The U.S. ISDE Junior World team consisting of Husqvarna riders Randy Hawkins, Fred Hoess. Jeff Russell and alternate Jim Stanfield by Acerbis Plastica Italia S.P.A. All four received cash donations from Acerbis to help defray the costs of competing in the ISDE in Italy. RESIGNED: Tom Watson, asgeneral manager of Road America in Elkhart Lake, Wisconsin. Watson had been at the road racing facility since 1982. Prior to that, he had been in charge of Road Atlanta in Georgia. The AMA has a new toll-free number for membership information within the state of Ohio (8001 AMA-4567). A national toll-free number (8001 AMA- · JOIN)- ha:J been in- ~Joaet for'So,fTle time, but was not available to Ohio motorcyclists. · The U.S. Forest Service has approved intervenor status for the AMA in all appeals relating to the controversial Hoosier National Forest Land Management Plan. The action will ensure the AMA a voice in the appeals filed against the plan by groups such as the Sierra Club. The new status will be the key in the AMA's effort to include motorcycle trails in the Hoosier National Forest. located in southern Indiana. The Hoosier is the only National Forest without a plan for off-road riding. · Byron Hines, of Vanc~ and Hines Racing, crashed his Pro Stock Suzuki while competing in a Dragbikel drag raceat Fremont, California, on August 24. "His foot might be broken and he is scuffed-up, but otherwise he's OK as is his bike," said Terry Vance, Hines' partner. Hines will be out of action for two or three weeks and will miss the NHRA U.S. Nationals in Indianapolis, Indiana, over Labor Day weekend. I.nformed sources from Europe say that Wayne Gardner's British GPwinning Honda V-four featured computer-controlled fuel-injection. Reportedly, the fuel-injected 500Cc GP machine was tested and raced at Silverstone, but Gardner used his normally-carbureted Honda at the August 10 Swedish GP. Team Yamaha's John Kocinski and Jimmy Filice will ride in the Castrol Six-Hour endurance race at Sydney,