Cycle News - Archive Issues - 1980's

FZR IOOO were ru nni ng eigh th overall and sixth in GTO, and were having problems left over from their two cras hes the previous week in Memphis. Ru nnin g the m ost , consistent and highest pl acing Yamaha team in the series up to this ro und, bu t not in th e hunt today sti ll su ffe ri ng fro m th ei r Me m p h is crashes. Ka yo Racing had fixed the brok en cush drive an d p ut Dean Swims on to try and ga in some valuable po ints . Swims reentered th e race 26 laps down to the leaders. On lap 64 Swims crashed hard as he cam e down th e hill under the bridge going into turn 12. " We were ' quite a few laps down after th e cus h dr iv e bro ke a n d just goi ng fo r mileage points. I was cruis ing, I came down under th e bridge not doing anything different th an befor e. I cam e up on the inside and ro lled the pow er on lat e to compensate for th e tighter apex a nd th e next th ing I kn ew, I was dow n," Swi ms would lat er say. J am -Up II' s Glen Cooper who was just beh ind Swi ms wh en he cras hed added, " Deano passed me ou t of th e bridge, both wheels just brok e loose , and it pitched him off." Lap 106 saw both Lockhart and Du tch man go a lap up on Sanibel. Dut chman contin ued to run a str o ng ' seco nd after suff ering 'th eir first mechanical DN F th e weekend before with a blow n motor. " We p itched up six second s in the p its o n Lockhart th at last time. We've got Kevin Clar keridi ng with us tod ay to help out. I was up three str aight ni gh ts building th e motor after Mem phi s to get read y for th is ro und," said Du tchman 's Dave Schlosser. Normall y both H yper-Cycle Racing. and H igh T ech R acing ar e in contention for th e lead , but both su ffered mechanical DNFs at Road Atlanta. H yper-Cycle los t aIoot peg early in the race dropping th em a lap down, later dropping out with a broken val ve o n the Carry Andr ew/ J eff Herzog Suzuki. H igh T ech 's Larry J uerink a nd Eri c' Moe DNF when their Suzuki GSXR II 00 reti red wh en the push /pull throttle return cable setup especiall y ' for Keihin carbs broke. On th is same lap, th e da y finally ended for all the Kayo entries wh en th e Hurricane slu ng a rod through th e cases while runnin g second just 18 laps from th e end. This mov ed Out & Out Racing's Marc Lautzenhiser a n d Lenn is Combs into thi rd in GT U. Near the end (lap 110) with Quar terley riding th e last leg for Lockh art and Bra uneck on for Dutchman it loo ked like it cou ld come down to the wire. Closing at th e rate of one to two seconds pe r lap o n Lockh art a nd just 18 seco nds behind on la p 112, Brauneck soon realiz ed he would run out of laps and backed off with Quarterl ey doing the same. Lockhart too k th e win follo wed by Dutchman and Sanibel. Lockhart finished on a S021 1 radi al Michelin mounted to a three and one-half-in ch Perfo rmance Machine fron t wh eel. They used a SOl 124 rear radial on a five a nd o ne-ha lf -i nc h Perform a nce Machine rear wh eel. Dutchman used the same Mich elin tire compound, but were o n T echno-Ma gnesi so wh eels, (five a nd o ne-half rear, three and one-half fron t). Sanibel fin ished on Metzeler bi as pl y slicks (front II 0/ .70· 18's J compound, rear 170/60B18 MBS) also a J com po und tire mo unted to sto ck Suzuki wh eels. . . " It was great to win before our home crowd, I wa nt to say thanks to all ou r riders, th ey ro de a great race , and thanks to our sponsors ," said UN O 's crew chief/team cap tain , G raham Clark with UN O rider Sorenson adding, " Adam was close to me ou t th ere today o n la p times, we're rea ly consistent to each other. Me and Donnie (Ro we) got hooked u p today (handlebars) going int o tu rn o ne, and j ust had to ride it ou t." " We were down on power today, but I won't take anyth ing away from th ose guys (U NO and Kayo), they were ridi ng grea t today, " said Pa u l Smith of Paul Smith Racing. " We made sure we had pl enty of fuel to finis h th e race today; we weren 't taking any chances of ru nn in g out," said Lockhart 's tu ner, Keith Perry. ' Top Gun Racing fin ished fourth overa ll (fo urt h GTO ) , with Never Ready Racing taking six th overall and fifth in GTO. South Florida took seven th overa ll (sixth GTO ), eigh th overa ll and second GTU was Pa ul Sm i th R a cing wit h T eam Florida ninth overall (seventh GTO ) and Echo Racin g rounding ou t th e top 10 (eigh th GT O ). . Du tch man was the big gainer in points moving int o th e GT O points lead and second overall in the series, just 27 poi nts behind first overall and first in GTU Kayo Racing. Asp halt Aviators co nt in ued their slide in the points droppi ng to thi rd, (seco nd in GTU ), H ig h Tech Racing rem ains in fourth overall, (second in GTO), a nd Second City Racing holds fifth overa ll in poi nts (th ird in GTO ). Even with their fifth win of th e series, T eam Lo ckh art must win th e la st three o ut of four rou nds to keep their ' number one p late in 1988. Lockhart averaged 95.044 mph for the win covering th e ~03 kilom eters in three ho urs and 17 mi n utes. In AMA/CCS Regi onal sprint actio n follow ing Sa turday 's En d urance round, Experts Graham J ames and Greg Tysor ca me out th e bi g win ners in th e eig h t-la p final s. James rode to wins in Lightweight Su perbi ke comb ine d and H eavyweight Supersport com bi ned and took second in H eavyweight Superbike. 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