ltaly·sStef.noC....cchil••dsT..mLeonicom...deM.rcoLucchineiliduring Pro Twins GP action. For winning the race. Lucchin.1Ii collected $2310.
while C8I'IICchi took hom. $1565 from the $8260 GP purse.
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Pro Twins Road Race Series: Round J
Lucchinelli repeats in
Pro Twins GP
By Farren Williams
Photos by Henny'Ray Abrams and
Daytona International Speedway
DAYTONA BEACH, FL, MAR 6
G.n. Church (1) I.ads the Pro Twins Grand Prix during first lap action.
Church crash.d going into tum one at the beginning of lap two.
Douglas Gross power.d his Ducati to the win in the Pro Twins Modifi.d
Production rac•. Gross .arned $1890 for his efforts.
.
Former 500cc World Champion 'Marco
Lucchinelli, riding a prototype, watercooled, four-valve-per-cylinder, Weber fuelinjected Ducati, won the Daytona Pro
Twins' Grand Prix for the
second year in a row, but he
' h h
did It teard way.
The Team Leoni rider managed to come away with the win even
though the Ferrari-Fl-auto-racingbased fuel injection system on his
prototype racer began to malfunction at what should have been the
midway poirtt of the race.
The Pro Twins final, already
shonened from 15 laps to 10 laps
because of a rain delay was red
,
.
fJ';Igged on lap seven when an 011
sitek appeared on the track; the r~ce
was called comp~ete on I~p s~.
Ste~ano Caracchl, Lucchmelh s
Italian. teammate, passed the former
world champ on the seventh lap, but
had' to se~.e for second place when
AMA offiCials ruled the pass was
made after the race was over.
Third place went to Camel Pro dirt
track star Scott Parker, who was
riding the Don Tilley-prepared
H?rley Davidson knC?wn as Lucifier s Hammer, the bIke that Gene
Church rode to the National Championship in last season's Battle of the
Twins Series. It was Parker's first
appearance at Daytona, and his first
rac~ ever in A~A professional road
raang compeuuon. ..
Church, who was ndmg a new,
360~pound, XRI ()()() sporting a f~e
de~lgned b.y former ~arley engmeer .
Enk B':Iell~ crashed 10 turn one at
the beg10mng of lap two and broke
hiS collarbone. Church apparently
came into the iurn too fast, and the
big Harley started ,drifting to the
outside. When his motorcycle's tires
slid onto the grassy infield, the bike
• started wobbling badly, then threw
the defending champ over the
highside.
''I'm glad they had the red flag
because I'm first," said LucchinelJi
after the race. "The bike not fast, like
in practice, it was slow."
