Cycle News - Archive Issues - 1980's

Bast, Ingels scorch BaylandS Speedway By Bill Spencer Dale Gingrich (94) won the 600ec Expert final in Hanover ,following a, fierce battle with Tom Cerciello (90B), who finished fourth. Rickman ril!S RichmondST By Joe Kelly RICHMOND, VA, JULY 15 Chris Rickman proved La be the dominant force aL Wednesday's round of the short track racing aL the Virginia Slate Fairgrounds. Rickman picked up vicLories in Lhe 250 and 500cc classes on the fairground's 114-mile ov.al. RiPunan, ridinga Yamaha, got a good sLart in the firsL 250<:c quali- . fying heaL. Jay Williams, on a Honda, battled from second for three laps, Lhen succumbed to Lhe pressure applied by Billy Ellis. Ellis pressured Rickman, but ran out of laps. The second heaL was a differem story. Ellis got the holeshot with Rickman and Williams allover his rear wheel. Ellis held off the persisLant challenges to win. As the' feature lined up, Ellis was having trouble with his water-cooled Honda, but he chose to compete anyway. As the light turned Ellis shot to the fronL, Rickman was less than a bike length behind. The-two riders diced it out with neither having a' clear advanLage though Ellis was still in command. On the white flag lap Ellis' engine finally expired, blowing steam all over his leg and giving the victory Lo Rickman. Wayne Eckert finished second, after closing hard in the final laps. Rickman showed he was for real as he blasted the field in the 500cc qualifying heat. Ellis put up "- good battle, but went out after three laps. Eckert came across in second, just inEhes ahead of Williams. The main evellt saw Ellis jump the gun and lead the field into the first tur~. The event was resLarted putting Eilts on the penalty line. On the resLart Rickman led the field with Honda-mounted Rusty GaiLa working hard from second. Ellis was picking up positions from his rear-of-the-pack SLart, on lap four he was in third. As the halfway flags flew Ellis had closed to less than a cycle length behind GaiLa. Again, it wasn't ,to be. Ellis' leg was badly scalded from the earlier encounter, and the pain would not let him keep going. Rickman held a good lead over GaiLa at the checkered flag, for the win, while Jay Willi~ms closed on GaiLa's rear wheel as the laps ran down. Results 250: 1. Chris Rickman (Yam); 2. Wayne Eckert (Yam); 3. Jey Williems (Hon). 500: 1, Chris Rickman (Yam~ 2. Rusty Gaita ·(Hon); 3. Jay Williams (Hon). 50: 1. Chris Copley (Yam); 2. Kenny Long (Suz~ 3. Ben Wahera (Suz). 60: 1, -Iohn Nickens (Suz~ 2. Mike Hacker (Hon~ 80: 1, John Nickens (Suz~ 2. Mike Hacker (Suz~ 3. Michael H... (Hon~ , Wood nails Sacramento MX By Nuklear Neukam SACRAMENTO, CA, JULY 17 Malcolm Smith/DMC/Fairfield Kawasaki-supported Dave Wood rode a consistem race to win the Pro ' class in the MotoBow1at Sacramento Raceway Park's regular Friday night SLadium Motocross races. In the first combined Pro class Kawasaki-mounted Ron Allen pulled the h6leshot and motored in to the win, while Wood kept his Kawasaki KX250 in second to the checkered. Kraig ConsLantino finished third aboard his Yamaha YZ490 while Honda CR125mounted Greg Tirheimer had to settle for fourth after crashing while challenging Woodlor second. Hi-Point-backed Honda rider Shaun Wooten was hot in the second moto and flew into the first turn, dueling with Kawasaki-mounted Shawn Freiling and Wood. Wooten was on a roll, however, and there was no stopping him this time around. Wooten flew to the win while waving at the crowd in the air off the jump in front of the sLands. A sixth in the first mOlD, after Lasting a little turf late in the moto, was still enough for second overall. Wood got around Freilin,g for another second and the overall victory. Allen was stuck in sixth this moto and ended up with third . overall, with Constantino (~-5) fourth overall and Jim Inglebright (5-4) fifth overall. Freiling finished the race in third, but a first moLo seventh held him to sixth overall. Results ,PRO: 1. Dave Wood (Kawl; 2. Shaun Wooten (Han); 3,. Ron Allen (Kaw). 1251NT: 1. Steve,Arena (Suz); 2. Russ Putnam (Hon); 3. Eddie Reed (Kaw). . . 250 INT: 1. Tony McGrath (Han); 2. Steve Lawrenee (Hon~ 3. Scott McCoy (Hon). ' 50 BEG: '1. Bryan Schulz '(Yam); 2. Mikee Paterson (Suz). 50 NOV: 1. Linle Shawn (Kaw); 2. Ty Kim 1Kaw); 3. Steven Young/Knutson (Kaw). 50 BEG: 1. Joel Wallis (Yem); 2. James Foran (Suz~' 3. Kan Anderson (Kaw).50 NOV: 1. Doug Wagner (Hon); 2. Jan Opperman (Kaw); 3. Brian Wilson. (Han). 50 INT: 1. Casey Johnson (Kaw); 2. Tagen Kim (Han); 3. JoSh Boykin (Han). 125 BEG: 1. Doug Hoskins (Kaw); 2. Derrik Walker (Han); 3. Jeremy Cash (Hon). 125 NOV 0-1: 1. Ken Briggs (Kaw); 2. Donny Tillery (Kaw); 3. Tim Riggs (Han). 1.25 NOV 0-2: 1. Jason Johnson (K_): 2. Jerry Reiter (Hon); 3 John Shipman (Kaw). 250 BEG: 1. John Dimuccio (Hon); 2. Lae Kirk . (Yam); 3. Scott Morrison (Suz). 250 NOV 0-1 : 1. Randy Lewallen (Kaw~ 2. Man Brown (KTM): 3. Cortney Smith (Yam). 250 NOli 0-2: 1. Man Brown (KTM); 2. Randy Jonel (Suz~ 3. James Sanchez (Han). OPEN BEG: 1. David Coates (Han); 2. Jeremy Cash (Hon); 3. B i l l _ (Hon). OPEN NOV: 1. Randy ·Lawallen (Kaw); 2. Jack Buoy (Hon~ 3. Mark Berquist (Yam). ENDR: 1. Marty Walden (KTM~ 2. Steve Baccini (Yam); 3. Sam Saracco (Hon). VET NOV: 1. Ja.:k Wheeler (Han); 2. Clark Plummer (Han); 3. JaIl Burrows (Suz). FREMONT, CA, JULY 16 Bart Bast and Eddie Ingels are quite an ite!ll when it comes to Thursday night Speedway racing under the lights of Baylands.Raceway Park. In another night of strange circumsLances, Ingels rim-rode the one-seventhmile oval for his third Handicap main event win and Bast walked away with the Scratch main victory. While the race track had been rather heavy all night, it only made for better racing in the Handicap main as Felicia led early over Leduc and Solis, while Bast and Ingels were mired in the middle. Ingels finally -took to the rim side and put together two fine laps that saw him rocketship past Bast on the last corner of the last lap to score the victory and cheers from the large crowd. Tiron (;irello had the pole, but with Bast, Ingels and Steve Martin on hand he could only muste,r a midpack SLart. The four riders diced it up with Martin looking like he was in control with Bast in tight over Cirello and Ingels looking to go wide. ' Down the back straight on lap two, Ingels took the A & A Racing/HiPoint special to the wide side and the fans got real excited expecting one of his famous rim rides, but Ingels threw it away in turn one, ending his chance at the win. Bast made the move around Martin on the final lap to claim the win. Kerry Puccio survived a heated battle with Joe Leonard to win his second Division Two main in just three weeks while Brian Pecore rode the Jim Williams racer to third after a first lap get-off. Mecirl Barnett still has class C style left in him, but rode well enough to cop the Division Three main with Dean Newnham second over Mike Browne. Tommy Heddon held on to win the Junior main over Dustin Schroeder. Results SCRATCH: 1. Bart Bast; 2. Steve Martin' 3. Trinan Cirello; 4. Eddie Ingell. • HDCP: 1. Eddie Ingels; 2. Bert B8st; 3. Joe Leduc; 4. Mike Solis; 5. Vance Felicia. 0-2: 1. Kerry Puccio; 2. Joe Leonard; 3. Brian Pecore; 4. Shawn Venables; 5. Shawn R_rt. 0-3: 1. Mearl Bernett; 2. Dean Newnham; 3. Mike Browne; 4. Ron Clevenger; 5. Eric Chambers. Gingrich grabs . TraB-Way ST vidory By Len Breech HANOVER, PA, JULY 188 Dale Gingrich survived a heated battle with Tom Cerciello in the early laps of 'the 600cc Expert final to take the first of his two feature wi.ns at Trail-Way Speedway. Gingrich came back later to claim the 250<:c Expert win in a fairly easy fashion. The closest race of the evening was the 750cc Expert final as the George brothers crossed the· line almost even, with the nod going to the younger of the two, Eric. Gingrich put his Zechman's Cycle Center-sponsored Yamaha in front of Cerciello, Mickey RuSden and a close battle for fourth between Richard Foard and Tom Majeski. Cercielo slipped into the lead as they entered the third tum on lap three. For the next two laps, both riders went at it almost side-by-side, until Cerciello went down hard in the fourth turn. On the previous lap Majeski had displaced Rusden fo; third spot. Off the resLart"the order remained the same, as Cerciello began to knife his way through the pack, moving into fifth after two aps, an movmg mto ou n Foard when Rusden bobbled on the . sixth lap, dropping back a few spots. The battle in the 250<:c Expert final was over third as Gingrich and Dave Lesnick put a lot of disLance between themselves and the Mike Klopp, Paul Crumling, Mike Varnes and Tom Cerciello battle for third.- Crumling finally secured the third spot by the sixth lap. Hard luck rider award for the second AMA District 6 short track in a row has to go to 'CerCielIo as he grabbed the lead from Eric George, Nick Taylor, and Max George at the SLart of the 750cc final, only to have the big Triumph lock up as he came off the second turn on the second lap, narrowIy avoiding getting hit from the rear by another rider. With Cerciello out, the George brothers pulled away from the field that SLarted.to resemble a battle of the .fittest as a few riders failed to complete the event. They raced side'by-side, the quickness of Eric's Triumph against the raw power of Max's Harley, At the flag, it was Eric by inches, according to the scorers. The 600cc Amateurs traded the lea~ three times in the opening lap, as fIrSt Gary Foard, then Jim Chapman had the lead, before Dave Smith charged past at the beginning the second lap, with Roy Collins and Dallas Baer close behind. While the top three remained very close, Baer slIpped into second as they began the final lap. At the checkered flag the top three were Smith, Baer and Collins. Resuhs 250 AM: 1. Todd Hurst (Suz); 2. Dave Smith (Yam); 3. Gary Foard (Yam); 4. Mike Walton (Yam); 5. Berry Wolfe (Yam). BOD EX: 1. Dale Gingrich (Yam); 2. Tom Majeski (Yam~ 3. Richard Foard (Rtx); 4. Tom Cercieno (yam); 5. Dave Lesnick (Rtx). 750 EX: 1. Eric George ITri); 2. Ma. George (HD); 3. Joe G,ately ITri~ 4. Clarence Bull (Yam); 5. Den Maring (Yam). BOD AM: 1. Dave Smith (Rlx); 2. Dallas Baer (Yam~ 3. Roy Collins (H-D); ,4. Gary Foard (Hon); 5. Darryl Baer (Yam). , _ SR: 1. Richard Foard (Rtx); 2. Joe G8tely ITri); 3. Harold Hillard (Yam); 4. Joe H_rling (Yam); 5. Jey Maher (W·R~ 55: 1 RickyWinsan (Yam~ 2..John Winsett (Yam)' 3,. Dan Halligan (Yam). . • B5 EX: 1. Mike Span"'''' (Han). B5 AM: 1. Jeremiah Aleoander (Kaw); 2. Jason Lheureux (Kaw). . 65: 1. Ricky Winsett (Kaw). 200 AM: 1. Jeff Kehne (Han); 2. Mike Thomas (Yam~ 3. JaIl Clark (Han); 4. Dean Sto/fus (Yam); 5. Denny MlI1SOn (Yam). 250 EX: 1. Dalll Ginprich (Yam~ 2. Deve Lesnick (yam); 3. Paul Crumh"v (Han); 4. Tom Cerciello (Yam); 5. Mike Varnes (Yam). .Henson, Norris control IdahoST By Mike Thuleen BOISE, 10, JULY 14 Miller Products/Atkinson Glass/ Aluma Glass/Steve Young/Team BRT/ Al Russell Sport-sponsored RiCKy Henson turned in an outsLanding ride in the 250cc Expert main, with a still-healing hand injury, at round seven of. Owy.hee M. c.' s , Summer Peaceful Cove Short Track, again taking the Open Expert win. AI Russell Sports/Motion Pro Cables/Western Power Sportsbacked Jeff Russ~ll was..the first one out of the hole m the ~50<:c Expert 'main, with Henson, Todd Peugh, Rod Reynolds, and Joel Huskey b,!-nged bars in the first turn. Henson didn't waste any time atLacking Russelland quickly gained the advanLage in the early laps, squeezing by underneath to Lake over • first. Then Reynolds began working on Russell. Russell fended off all of Reynolds' attempts for several laps until Reynolds made a bold move on the inside to gain control of second. Reynolds strove to catch Henson, but had to be content with second, as Henson auised in for the win. Russell captured third, despite Peugh's constant challen~s, while Huskey finished a strong ftfth.·

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