Cycle News is a weekly magazine that covers all aspects of motorcycling including Supercross, Motocross and MotoGP as well as new motorcycles
Issue link: https://magazine.cyclenews.com/i/126957
(adve-rtisement) MAXIMUM ACTION BEER SUPERCR!t~~S 011- Road C lassie ;¥ May 2nd & 3rd Sun Devil Stadium, Tempe, AZ The hottest motor racing doubleheader of the year hits Phoenix on May 2nd and 3rd with two sp'ectacular Mike Goodwinproduced shows at ASU's Sun Devil Stadium in Tempe, Arizona! The COORS BEER suPERCROSS is maximum action for fans on Saturday night May 2nd - with top 125cc/ 250cc factory Superstar teams and privateers in their only Arizona race 10 the 1987 AMA-sanctioned Supercross Series. Back the next day on Sunday afternoon, May 3rd, the Phoenix audience will thrill to the (ast-paced ON-DIRT MOTORSPORTS OFFROAD CLASSIC - a brand new event mat debuts Side-by-Side Top Fuel Mud Rails 8c Funny Cars, Three 8c Four Wheelers, Motorcycle Side Cars, Formula OH-Road Cars, plus an all-new Stadium Scrambles premierel Last year, (ans at Sun Devil Stadium went crazy with the outstanding racing and din-throwing motorcycles and cars; so the 1987 event has been split into two separate shows on two completely diHerent tracks (or a (ull weekend o( entertainment. Coors Beer Supercross Competition ranks second to none in Round 12 on the '87 INSPORT Tour at the one-night-only COORS BEER SUPERCROSS May 2nd. With only (our more races after Phoenix to build-up points toward the Championship, every moto is a maximum eHort. Factory aces like Team Kawasaki's JeU Ward and Ron Lechien, Team Suzuki's George Holland, and Team Yamaha's Keith Bowen are taking on Team Honda's Rick Johnson, who clinched the '86 Supercross Championship tiLle at Phoenix last year:. Knocking at the door every moto are transplants Aussie JeU Leisk and Canadian Ross Pederson; plus rising stars like Jef( Stanton and Rick Ryan, who are serious contenders this season. Ryan, has already put his name in the record books as the' first privateer to win a Supercross when he took the honors at Daytona earlier this season_ In all, 100 of the best 250cc and 125cc riders in the country will compete in a full round of Supercross racing on a track that promises to be un(orgettable. Supercross Battlefield The COORS BEER SUPERCROSS race track in Sun Devil Stadium at ASU has been redesigned this year to specialize all the obstacles just for pro motocross. (The smoother car track will be built lor Sunday only.) The highly engineered jumps and combination obstacles in the Dirt Bi/ce and Moto- 'Spectator Specials cross Action race repons for the Anaheim and San Diego Supercross events will be built in the new course. The results create a course that is safe and passing oriented, yet with lots o( challenging jumps and spectacular acrobatics! Since this track is designed exclusively for Supercross, more lanes have been added so that each lap will OfF ROAD QUAD RACE I be longer than last year's; ~ving MUD DRAG TRACt( riders more time to work therr way through the pack. The winning obstacle in the '86 Superbowl track, Cox's GhasLly Gorge, will be built in Arizona. Plus, there will be awesome Triples for a thrilling aerial show. The (irst jurop will launch riders 70 (eet down the track! 1600 OH-Road Cars will also SXI track builders have developed a compete in the OFF-ROAD new way to "race tune" the course CLASSIC sanctioned by the ADRA with "Equalizers" in the comers. on May 3rll. These Short Course These special Equalizers provide custom-built cars will do a (ull race riders with more places to pass by program on Sunday, with top drivers equalizing the lines through each (rom all over the Southwest that will corner - just like the press raved keep you revvin. Rooster tailing, about in Anaheim and San Diego. rip roaring, sliding sideways, and sometimes nipping; these Formula Off-Road Classic Desert Race Cars are like the ones On Sunday, May 3rd, get set (or you saw highlighted with Supercross a branq new motorsports extravalast year at Sun Devil Stadium. ganza, the ON-DIRT MOTORSSuspended Odysseys, threePORTS OFF-ROAD CLASSIC! wheelers, and {our-wheelers are also This is a combination of motor in the action-packed program. These racing like you've never seen before! are real competition vehicles with Wild nitros burning supercharged tricked-out Odysseys that cost Top Fuel Mud Rails and Funny Cars approximately $10,000 to, build! will compete in two classes o( SideSlidin' ....:. bUll hanging action from by-Side Mud Drag Racing on 300the agile wee- and (our-wheelers (oot long tracks! Completely diHerwill amaze the fans. In addition, ent from the slow, Mud Bog contests, drivers from Arizona and California Mud Drag Racing (eatures cars that will compete in the first-ever stadium are so (ast and so light, that they motorcycle sidecar racing! literally dance across the mud! The The prototype o( Mike Goodwin's . Side-by-Side dragster action is newest stadium racing show will screaming racing at high £Iyin' debut in Tempe! Stadium Scrambles speeds o( one and ~wo-se~ond drag are a cross between TT/130 mph umes'as these machmes shp over the Class C racing and Enduro racing. mud two at a time, side-by-side! These barely-limited motorcycles Controlled by Chrondex Timing will be four-stroke; up to 600cc, ,Systems, which are Christmas treesmooth-tired, well-suspended style drag strip light starts,' with thumpers. Piloted by motocross, instant computerized times down to enduro, and (Iat track veterans, the hundreth of a second, there will scrambles will be roaring high-speed be II heats of elimination-style action around the of(-road track. racing. "We are going to have a field New Off-Road Course o( the hottest cars around," says Jim MacCurdy o( Mud Mania. "By Sunday is an all new show on a completely reworked race track. invitation only, we have handOvernight, the bulldozers and conpicked the best drivers with the most struction crews will knock down the sophisticated vehicles to compete in radical motocross track and build the thIS event. "Hit and Run," "Holy very different type o( jumps to make Toledo IV 8c V," "Sundancer," the great desert-style racing. It will "Gentleman Mudder," "Spyder II," be wider and smoother. The 20-foot "Black Widow," and "The Alcowide Supercross track lanes (rom the holic" are just a (ew o( the machines night before will be combined to that will race in this heads-up make 4O-(oot wide OH-Road lanes competitionl" , with two parallel 15-(oot wide mud Thrillin~ spectators with their drag strips. daring anucs, a full field of Class adve-rtise-rn=t ~~ Gear-up (or the exciting COORS BEER SUPERCROSS with all your favorite stars by tuning into KNXVTVI5 in Phoenix on Saturday, April 25th from 10-11 a.m., and watch the '86 Anaheim Supercross, "Nippondenso Supercross Classic." On Saturday afternoon before the racing begins, come to the NE Gate area at Sun Devil Stadium for the free Moto(air (rom 4 p.m. 'til 7 p.m. During opening ceremonies, Dave Pratt, (amed disc jockey o( KUPD Radio, will welcome race (ans! And then on Saturday night following the Supercross, come join the (un and party at the Embassy Suites at Rural and Baseline Roads in Tempe. Everyone is invited to this post-race celebration! Never before has so much supercharged entertainment been seen in one full weekend of motorsports competition! Don't miss this brand new motor racing extravaganza in ASU's Sun Devil Stadium on Saturday and Sunday, May 2nd and 3rd. The one-night-only COORS BEER SUPERCROSS and the ON-DIRT MOTORSPORTS OFF-ROAD CLASSIC are also sponsored by 2nd Seat, EBCBr,akes, PJ-I, Dirt Bi/ceand Motocross Action magazines. KUPD Radio, Embassy Suites and KNXV TV15. -, .. /~. :, Tickets - Save $ With Combo Ticket prices (or the COORS BEER SUPERCROSS at $10, $12, and $16; children 10 and under, hal(price. Ticket prices for the OFFROAD CLASSIC are $12 and $14; children 10 and under, hal(-price. Military and Senior Citizen uckets are discounted to $8 on race day. Purchase your Saturday and Sunday tickets at the same time, and the admission price for me Sunday show is only $81 Tickets (or both events are available at Dillard's Department Stores, SuperShops in Phoenix, Mesa, and Tucson, at the Gammage Box Office" and at Sun Devil Stadium on race days. Charge your tickets by phone: Call' Dillard's at 602/8295555 or Ganunage at 602/965-3434. Don't miss this (ast-paced, actionpacked weekend motorsports masterpiece produced by SXI and Mike Goodwin! You won't have a moment to rest at this show o( back-to.-back racing, and breathless competitionl The COORS BEER SUPERCROSS gates open on Saturday, May 2nd at 6 p.m.; racing starts at 7:!lO p.m. On Sunday, May 3rd, the OFF-ROAD CLASSIC gates open at 12:!l0 p.m.; and racing starts at 2 p.m. •