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Cycle News 1987 02 25

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cisco, california-based Western Scooter Distributors; replaced on order desk as a salesperson by Miguel Mestayer who left Daly City Yamaha. Three-time World Champion Freddie Spencer is a confirmed entry for the March 8, Daytona 200. Tendinitis in his right wrist wiped out Spencer's '86 season, but after testing his Hondas at Daytona in December, he pronounced himself fit to return to competition. Spencer, who underwent, surgery in the latter part of '86, won the 250 and 500cc World Championship titles in '86, and that seme year he swept the three major road races at Daytona - the Daytona 200, the Formala One race, and the 1OO-mile Ughtweight (now called the-250cc Grand Prix) raee. According to American Honda's Gary Mathers, Spencer will limit his racing to the Daytona 200 this year. Spencer will ride a Honda superbike that is being prepared in Japan by HRC. MotoWorld, the Larry Maiers-hosted cable TV 'show on The Nashville Network, will devote the entire March 15 (repeated on March 22) show to coverage of '87 Daytona Cycle Week races. Camel Pro Series competitor Ted Boody and Houston Kawasaki dealer A.J. Foyt came up empty handed in the two major car races at Daytona this month. Boody, making his "big league" car racing debut, was a member of a team that campaigned an Oldsmobile Toronado in the GTO class of the Daytona 24-Hour. Boody's team ran up front early in the race but DNF. Foyt. driving a $300,000plus Porsche 962, and his team were in the lead nearthe end of the endurance racebutalso DNF. Foyt was then in a car-destroying crash in a qualifying race for the Daytona 500 stock car race. The fourtime Indy 500 winner then borrowed a chassis, installed one of his Oldsmobile engines, but again DNF. MOVING: Castrol Inc., currently based in Hackensack, New jersey, to, a newly constructed headquarters building in Wayne, New jersey, in March. Donnie Hansen Motocross Academy summer camps will be held in San Antonio. Texas. on June 1-4. July 6-9. and August 3-6. All camps are for beginner. novice and intermediate level riders. The fee is $399.and that includes food and lodging. For more info. call 512/494-6019. The john DeMoisey II Memorial Scholarsh ip has been·a warded to Cel· ina, Ohio's Kelly Bowlby. The $1000 scholarship was created by john and Ginny DeMoisey of Burlington, Kentucky, in memory of their son, john, who was involved in pro dirt track . racing and \yas unfortunately killed in a racing mishap. Bowlby, who is studying tool and manufacturing engineering at Wright State Lake Campus, isalso involvt:d in dirt track racing. Bowlby is the first recipient of the scholarship. 2 PROMOTED: David Gensey. to warehouse manager of San Fran- NAMED: Bill Payne, general manager of Greensboro, North Carolina's Tri-City Honda-Yamaha; Ed Sherrill, Tri-City's top salesperson in 1985-86, has been named to replace Payne as sal~s manager, acoording to Sam Chalk, president of Tri-City. The annual Six Days of Michigan trail ride will take place on August 16-21 this year. For information write to the Cycle Conservation Club of Michigan, 26 N. State Sot., Hart, Mr 49420. NAMED: Brothers Distributing of Salt Lake City, Utah;-]R Distributingof Ellensberg, Washington; Road Runner Distributing of Bedford Park, Illinois; Shilling Products' of Yuba City, California; Southern Motorcycle Supply of San Diego, California, and TFW Distributing of Kailua, Hawaii, as new distributors of Torco Lubricants. NAMED: Thomas R. Crane, Jr., to succeed Martin J. Donahue as president and CEO of Castrollnc. effective July 1 when Donahue retires from the company after 40 years of service; during the transition period, Crane will hold the title of executive vice president anCl CEO; Crane is a motorcyclist. PURCHASED: Rights to the name and inventory of Amherst, Ohio-based Hi-Point Racing U.S.A. by Riverside, California-based Malcolm Smith Products; john Penton-owned HiPoint will continue to manufacture and sell Hi-Point Trailers and market Motoplat ig!1ition systems; Malcolm, Smith will- operate the fort;J1er HiPoint facility in Sacramento, California; Hi-Point products in the Ohio facility will be moved to Malcolm Smith's facility' in Chicago. NAMED: Mark Johnson. as head of Team Green, Kawasaki's amateur MX and ATV racing support program; Johnson, who had served as assistant Team Green manager, replaces Bruce Stjernstrom, Team Green ma",ager for the past four years, who left to assume a new position as vice president of the International Jet Ski Boating Asso: ciation; no replacement has been announced yet for Johnson's former position. NAMED: Erick Posten, as field tec!)nician for Kawasaki's Team Green; Posten will be based in Dallas, Texas, and will be at Midwest events assisting Team Green riders. . . MOVED: California Racing Club (CRC), to 37045 Ran Dr.• Palmdale, CA 93550,805/272-8889. . Motocrosser jason Cannon, 16, was seriously injured on Saturday, February 14, during amateur racing in the CMC Golden State Nationals at Sunrise Cycle Park in Adelanto, California, At presstime, Cannon was in . intensive care at Lorna Linda University Medical Center in Lorna Linda, California, where he remains paralyzed from the waist down, according to a hospital spokesman. The Motorcycle Safety Foundation's new 12-minute videotape on touring, On Tour, which was made possible by a grant from BMW is now available. On Tour covers basic pointers on touring, including good planning, a pre- ride check, packing and balancing the load, weatherproof clothing and protective equipment, passengering and group riding. Single tapes in VHS (#528) or Beta (#529) cost $22.50 each and can be obtained by mailing a check to the Motorcycle Safety Foundation, P.O. B.ox 5044, Costa Mesa, CA 92628-5044. Ten to 49 tapes cost $19.90 each, and 50 or more $13.50 each. are stapled to copies of AM going to members whose membership is about to expire, were attached in error to all the complimentary issues which the AMA sends out to advertisers, other publications, etc. If your AMA membership number and membership expiration date weren't on the mailing label disregard the wrapper (an easy way to check whether or not the wrapper's information applies to you is to check your AMA membership card for the expiration date of your membership). Hugh Fleming, AMA amateur competition director, has announced a sponsorship agreement with RK Chain for the '87 AMA National Championship Enduro Series. The one-year deal calls for RK to post $~OOO in rider awards for the series through its U.S. distributor, FTM Be_ Associates. In keeping with the sport's amateur status, the RK Chain National Championship Enduro Series will offer $50 in expense money to the top five" A" class riders at each of the 12 events on the schedule. In addition lO the enduro program, RK is offering major contingency awards in the AMA's National Championship road race, dirt track 'and MX series. RK is also a major sponsor of the U.S. Endurance Road Race Series and the AMA/CCS Pro-Am road race program. Castrol's Walter von Schonfeld relayed the following: Pacific Northwest Bell Telephone Company employees have a motorcycle club. Members are known as "Bell's Angels." , Australian Wayne Gardner suffered a damaged tendon in one of his ankles in a test __on crash at Surfers Paradise in Queensland, Australia, on Wednesday, february 11. Gardner's doctors have said he will be out of action 3-4 weeks, but the Rothmans Honda pilot, whd" finished second in the 1986 500Cc World Championship, says he will return in one week. Gardner had just completed two days of intenliveMichelin tire tests when hecrashed;'Gardnerwes riding around the ouUide of another Australian, Malcolm Campbell, when he slid off. "It was a stupid mistake," Gardner said. Gardner is scheduled to race in an international race in Suzuka, Japan on March 8 as a warm-up for the Grand Prix season opener in Suzuka on March 29. For the second year in a row, Daytona International Speedway has extended a special offer to AMA members who are planning to attend the Daytona 200 by Arai road race on March 8. AMA members can raeeive a free pit road credential with each grandstand ticket they order using a special order form available only from the AMA. Pit road credentials will be good' from 7 a.m. until n~ on Sunday, March 8 - the day of the camel Pro Series Superbike raee. For further information and a ticket order form write: AMA Daytona Tickets, P.O. Box 6114, Westerville, OH 43081-6114, Attn: Carol Hall, or call 614/891-2425. Ticket request forms can also be picked up at the AMA booth at all Great American Motorcycle Shows. Ticket ritquest forms can be turned into the Daytona ticket office in person prior to Sunday, March 8, subject to available seating. Southern California's AMA District ~7 Competition Committee will host a Best of the West Series this year. Competition will take place in the form of hare and hound, grand prix, enduro, MX and scrambles events. Competitors will take their best score from each type of event. The highest score in five events (one in each catagory) will determine the series winner. There'll be two roundsDf each type of event, except MX which will be the form of competition once. The opening event is a hare and hound race hosted by the Badgers M.C. at Red Mountain on March 15. for an entry blank or more information, write to: Art More, D-~7 Referee, P.O. Box 5044-428, Thousand Oaks, CA 91~59. Yamaha personnel will be on hand in the garage area at Daytona Iilternational Speedway during Cycle Week to sell racers FZ parts. YPDI will also have a limited amount of FZR race kits parts available. The recently concluded Florida Winter AM MX Series saw six ProAm riders qualify to compete in the 125cc National MX at Gainesville, Florida's Gatorback MX Park on March 1. Four more 125cc ProAm riders can qualify for the Gatorback National by nabbing the top spots .in their class at Gatorback on Saturday, February 28, the day before the National. Kawasaki Motors Corp., U.S.A. is making race kits available for the Ninja 750R. The racing-only kits consist of parts sets of valve springs and retainers, camshafts, pistons with rings and pins, connecting rods, car-, buretor assembly, oil cooler adapter, clutch and transmission. A lOtal of 50 Ninja 750R race kits are now availa-. ble through Kawasaki dealers at a suggested retail price of $2999. Hundreds of AMA members were a bit surprised to receive their March issue of American Motorcyclist with a wrapper that was headlined "This May Be Your Last Issue of AM... The wrappers, which The Leverda Owners Club/USA will host its '87 Daytona Italian Motorcycle Rally on Saturday, March 7, at 1:30 p.m. atDaytona, Florida's Howard Johnson Motor Lodge just off 1-95 near Daytona International Speedway on Volusia Avenue. o NAMED: Ken Lizotte, as marketing services manager of Kawasaki under the dir.ection of director of communications Mike Vaughan; Lizotte has been with Kawasaki for 10 years, most recently he served as national training manager; technical publications manager Don Church has as- . sumed the additional responsibilities of the training department to become the training and technical publications manager for Kawasaki. . Texan KevinSchwantz recently returned from Japan where he tested Suzuki's new 500cco V-four Grand Prix bike at the company's road race test track. Schwantz was extremely pleased with the new bike and said, "It steers good 'and it's pretty fast." The Suzuki V-four engine is now in its second (Continued to page 12)

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