McDowell finished second to Villella's single-cylinder Wood-Rotax on a
restricted Harley-Davidson XR750
lwin.
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The $475,000 in Camel booty is
being divided into an overall point
fund ($160,000) which will be
paid to the top five riders in all
Camel events and in Camel Challenge races ($315,000) which will
be five-lap "trophy dashes" open
to the six fastest qualifiers at each
Camel event.
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Team Hammer (Suz) ~on the October 4 Texas World Speedway S-Hour,
a round of the WERA/EBC National
Endurance Road Race Series. Team
Hammer's Doug Poland and Peter
Carrol! finished six laps in front of
the runner-up team, Reflected Light
Racing. Hammer now tops the series
point standings with a 66 point lead
over Solmax USA, who finished fifth
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in Texas.
The Camel Pro champ will receive
100,000, second will pay 25,000,
third 20,000, fourth $10,000, and
fifth 5,000. The winner of each of
the Camel Challenge races will receive
10,000, the runner-up will earn
2,500, and third through sixth will
pay $2,000, $1,500, $1,000 and 500,
respectively.
Team Honda's Ricky Johnson won
the 125 and 250cc classes at the
fifth round of the CMC Dodge
Dakota Trans-Cal MX Series in
Carlsbad, California, on October
5. Supercross and 250cc National
Champion Johnson beat Bader
Manneh (Yam) in the 125cc class
and Jeff Stanton (Yam) in the
250cc class. Billy Frank (Yam)
beat Stanton to win the Open
class. Billy Grossi (Yam) topped
the Vet Pro class and Chris Neal
(Yam) won the 80cc Expert class.
BOR : on Brock Austin, to Cagiva's COt Harden and wife Kristi, on
Augu t 30 in Escondido, California.
Tadahiko Taira (Yam) nipped Marlboro Yamaha's Eddie Lawson at
the finish line to win the Big Road
Race in Sugo, Japan, on October
5. Lucky Strike Roberts' Randy
Mamola (Yam) finished third, eight
seconds behind the leading duo
- and his teammate Mike Baldwin
(Yam) finished fourth. In Formula
One action at Sugo, Frenchman
Christian Sarron (Yam) beat Australian Kevin Magee (Vam).
For those wondering just who Tadahiko Taira is, he's the multi-time
japanese road racing champ who
campaigned the World Championship 250cc Road Race Series for
Marlboro Yamaha this year and won
the final Grand Prix in Italy. Taira
finished ninth in the 250cc GP point
standings after breaking his foot in
the opening round; he also beat Rothmans Honda's Wayne Gardner in the
non-champion j