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Cycle News 1987 02 04

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ent. I couldn't refuse it." Burnworth will leave on February 4 and will be training prior to the season opener with fellow KTM rider Heinz Kinigadner. "I will do the first four GPs and my finishes will depend on how many I do after that. But I will definitely be doing all of the Spanish National Championship rounds." Multi-time National MX champ David Bailey was scheduled for surgery to stabilize his injured spine on January 26, but a high temperature caused doctors to delay the operation. This was the second time surgery has been postponed; Bailey was injured in a practice crash at a CMC Golden State MX Series round in Huron, California, on January II.· Cards and letters can be sent to Santa Clara Valley Medical Center, 751 S. Bascomb Ave., San Jose, CA 95~28. Frenchman Cyril Neveu (Hon) beat his Italian teammate Eddy Orioli and former winner Geston Rahier (BMW) to win the Paris-Dabr RaHy in Dabr, Senegal. Neveu beat Orioli by one hour, 43 minutes, completing the 11th annual event in 90 hours, 47 minutes, 23 MeoncIs. The January 25 Florida Winter AM· MX Series at Gatorback Park in Gainesville, Florida, saw Guy Cooper (Hon), Bob Hannah (Suz) and Jo Jo Keller (Kaw) win the 125, 250 and 500cc Pro classes. respectively. Cooper, Hannah and Keller also wrapped up th.e series championships with their wins. Former AMA road racing chempion Mike Balclwin hes re-signed with three-tima World Champion 'Kenny Roberts' Lucky Strike Grend Prix Team for the 1987 season; B"dwin finished fourth in the 1986 600cc World Championship. The Teem Lucky Strike Roberts squad will be the seme as In 1 98& with Randy Mamola and Baldwin riding Vamaha VZR500s in the GPs. The signing ends speculation that Bald- ' win would switch to Suzuki for the 1987 season. Roberts was due to leave for Japan on January 23 for "some Vamaha racing shows and a bit of testing. " Jamul, California's Scott Burnworth has inked an agreement with the Spanish KTM importer, Marsimoto S.A., to ride 250cc KTMs in the Spanish National Championship MX Series and selected Grands Prix. "I didn't really have anything over here," Burnworth said of his decision. "I decided it would be something differ- MOVED: The motonportseles and marketing offices of Ball Helmets, Inc., to Its manufacturing facility in Rantoul, lIlinois, effective February 2; the Ball racing department Is also included in the move. Major changes have taken place in . ·the structure of Yamaha's motocross racing effort for 1987. For the past two years racing and competition ..support have both fallen under the motorsports category, but now the two have been split up. Racing has been taken out of the motorsports division and will have its own separate identity under manager Kenny Clark. The motorsports division will be run by Larry Griffis, who served as motocross team manager last year. Griffis will be handling the motorsports di vision's administration and the Pro-support program will see him at selected motocross and supercross events in 1987. Duties as motocross team manager will go to longtime motocross tuner Keith McCarty. Ya~ha has hired ex-Jeff Ward mechanic Tom Halverson as the West Coast support man and he will be in attendance at the remaining Golden State Nationals. giving technical help and guidance to Yamaha riders. In the east that job will go to Greg Quador, formerly of Team Green, who will be helping Yamaha riders in the Florida Winter-AM series. According to Dunlop's Tony Mills, Team Honda will use Dunlop tires in the 1987 AMA/Camel Pro Road Racing Series. Mills said that the team of Wayne Rainey and Bubba Shobert were very happy with the Dunlops in December test sessions at Daytona International Speedway. Rainey used Michelins last year on both his Formula One bike and his Superbike while Shobert opted for Dunlops. The February 28-March lAMA Championship Cup Series road races at Daytona are pre-entry events only, and that applies to both the 25O-mile endurance race and the Novice and Expert sprint races. For entry forms. call 704/684-4297 between noon and 4 p.m. eastern time. Keith Code of California Superbike School fame. was recently named Citizen of the Vear by the Motocrossers at the Florida Winter AM Motocron Series line up to sign a giant get well card that was later mailed to 500ee National Champion David Bailey, who remains hospitalized in San Jose, California. Photo by Mike and 'Anne Adair. This is the track racers will attack in the opening round of the AMA/lnsport Supercrou Series at Anaheim, California, on January 31. Los Angeles Police Department. Code hes been working with the LAPD on motorcycle training programs. A review of Code's latest "how to" road racing book can be found elsewhere in thl. issue. Art Glauke. the public relations director of Monterey's Laguna Seca Raceway, announced that the track is putting together an intensified effort to gain a F-l car GP and a motorcycle road race GP at the northern California facility in 1988. Glauke made the announttment at the San Franciscobased Motoring Press Association's banquet on Friday, January 23. Entries are now being accepted for the April 1 1 running of the 2nd Annual La Carrera Classic In Baja California, Mexico. More information on the 125-mile road race aeron Baja California is available from La Carrera, 3049 Laurel Canyon, Studio City, CA 91604, 818/703-5083 or 213/4645720. Larry Pegram, Lyle Barber Jr., Jon Collins and Jack Warren were the big winners in the January 24-25 AMA Amateur Ice Racing Championships in Allbright Shores, Michigan. Pegram took the 250cc A class while Barber, Collins and Warren won the 500cc A, Open A and Senior A classes, respectively. Burmah-Castrol, the Hackensack, New Jersey-based lubricants coinpany, has announced a corporate name change to Castrollnc. Castrol Inc, remains a mamber of the Bunnah Group of companies. a worldwide organization with over $2 billion in sales, which ranks among the top 100 companies in England. HosPITal STOP: Bob Applegate of Apple Promotions, the Asheville, North Carolina based promotional 'organization producing "Roadracing," was involved in a head on colli· sion with a person suffering either a hean attack or seizure and is currently in traction at Asheville, North Carolina's Memorial Mission Hospi. tal, Room #681. Cards and letters can be sent to Apple Promotions, P.O. Box 2594, Asheville, NC 28802. 2 The Orange Bowl in Miami. Florida, will be the site of the Saturday night, Fltbrury 21, Miami Inter- national Supercroa, round four of the AMA/lnsport Supercross SM'ies. Sponsored by Vamaha, Coon and Penthouse magazine, the event is being promoted by Camel GT driver Chris lvey. John Savitski has been contracted by Ivey to buikl the track. For ticket info, cal 305/372-0777; for general info, contact Suzi Henry at 306/374&061. Officials form the Specialty Vehicle Institute of America were puzzled by a January 26, USA Today report which said the consumer Product Safety Commission has recommended that refunds be paid to consumers who voluntarily return two types of all-terrain vehidesoriginaily marketed for use by children. The news story said the commission urged consumers to voluntarily return child-sized, three-wheeled ATVs and adult-sized ATVs orginially sold'for use by children under age 16. "We are baffled by the report," said SVIA president Alan Isley. "We are not aware that the CPSC has taken any action." Due toa snowstorm in Washington D.C., CPSC spokesmen could not be reached for comment. An official in the commission's Western Regional Office in San Francisco, California did say, "It doesn't sound like a good story, but I can't comment. I haven't seen the story and I haven't heard about anything like that." Cycle News received unconfirmed reports on press day that similar stories had appeared in other publications, and on at least one southern California television newscast. The CPSC voted in December to ask man ufaeturers to vol untarily cease the production and marketing of child-sized ATVs; the motion included a provision to notify manufacturers by letter and to give them ample time to respond. When asked for an update last week, CPSC ATV Task Foree Chairman Nick Marchica told Cycle News the letters would be mailed sometime in February; he made no mention of any refund recommendation. AMA/Camel Pro Formula One Champion Randv Renfrow has purchased two Honda RS250s for the 1987 road race season, Renfrow will contest the 250ee Grand Prix class at Daytona and will also ride a Terry Vance-sponsored Suzuki GSXR750 in the Daytona (Continued to page 5)

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