Cycle News - Archive Issues - 1980's

SLU .. .. ~ , ! " ......-I ......-I .... Q.) ..0. S Q.) > o Z Echo Racing (263) raced to fourth overall in Daytona. while Bad News (15 3 ) collected 3 1st and Kennedy Racing (2 1 0) fin ished ninth. Dutchman Racing led in the early going but suffered broken s.!tifting linkage on lap 10; the team ev~~tually ~nded up fifth . . Sore nso n and Ada m Srriith in th e battl e for the top spot. ,O n lap n in e, Tea m C hiclets ' Gordo n Petschke crashed in turn five aria dumped oi l on the track. T his set off a chain reacti on of cras hes with GP Cycles and Never Ready Racing crashing in the oil. l; Petschke, who was covered in oil, sai d, " I must have been spewing it. l: had no idea . We sta rted the race la te a nd my mechanic must not have got the oi l lin e on right ." ;IT he cras hes brought ou t the yellow flags and a pace car to bunch up the field for a single file restart. Officials were usi ng a NASCA R Winston Cu p Racing-style pace car for the first time in motorcycle road racing a t Da ytona; the field received the gree n two laps later. Brauneck was the nex t to retire, pitting the Dutchman Suzu ki o n lap 10 with a broken shi fter. T ak in g over first was the Ski Ha us Yamaha with ,Ch iving ton aboa rd, close ly followed by Andrew o n th e H yp er-Cycl e , Team Lockhart leads off the grid at the start. Lockhart led the first few Suzuk i. Ski H au s led throug h la p 14 on lap five with a broken crankshaft. whe n Andrew moved in to th e lead. After the restart, the Pa ul Smith T he ri des of Chivi n g ton a n d On lap 40, H yper-Cycle contin ued . Racing FZ600 Yamaha of Don J acks to lead , High T ech m oved in to Grush began to slow with a series and Paul Smith moved into th e GTU of th rown chains . "I th rew a cha in second, a nd South Florida held third ; lead as UNO and Kayo were caugh t all were o n th e lead .lap . One la p in turn five a nd got th e bike in, th en way'back in the field. lat er, So u th Florida Racin g overDanny got on it and we th rew it Andrew was turning in o ne of his cooked turn one, ra n in to the hay agai n. I gu ess we should have used best rides of the seaso n, keeping a n O-ring type chain," said Grush. bales, and dropped to fourth. Ch ivington at bay, until lap 23 whe n Their day fin all y ended when Chi.The charge p ut on by Kayo a nd Hyper-Cycle mad e the first of the ir . vington crashed in the ch ica ne. U NO in th e GTU division en ded o n sched u le d pit stops. Yam aha H ype r-Cycle co nt in ued to lead th e lap 43 wh en th ey boih cras hed in FZRlOOO-m ounted South Florida fi eld w it h Hi gh -Tech runnin g turn one whi le racing for th e lead . Racing's Rick Sh aw and Ken SteSloan was riding for Kayo a nd Sm ith second. They were th e on ly teams on phens inherited the lead. was on for UNO. Kayo's day was the lead lap with 20 laps to go . Domay took over for H ype r-Cycle finished , whi le U NO was able to ge t Bougas Racing ran third, ECHO and moved the team back into the back in the race, but not back into Racing held fourth, a lap down, and lead o n lap 28 whe n South Florida contentio n. th e HP R entry of Danny H yatt: J erry mad e their pit sto p. At the end of "Tommy tried to pass me goi ng Cook, and T om Fra ncis controlled 30 laps it was H yper-Cycle, So ut h fifth, two laps down. into turn o ne. He got a bo ut a wheel . Florida, Ski Haus, High T ech Racon me and then he sh u t the door on At the chec kers it was H yper-Cycle in g, Bo ugas Racing, a nd ECHO me a nd took me ou t," said a fru stak in g their second win of th e seaso n, Racing all on th e lead la p with the tra ted Smith. a nd after a la te-race charge, Brauneck Pau l Smi th Racing Yamaha lead in g moved the Du tchma n Suzuki into Sloan's versio n of the cras h was GTU, running sevent h overa ll a nd th e to p five, two laps off the pace. different. " I was going into turn one a la p down to the GTO bi kes. Kayo " We ran rea l good today," said a nd had been drafting him com ing took the GTU lead from Paul Smi th second-p lace Eric Moe of H igh Tech . off the tri -oval goi ng for an o utside on la p 33. Ra cing. "The traffic was rea l inten se pas s. It wasn' t even close. I blew by a nd La rry ra n a grea t race for us." him then we closed up and hit a t Larry Je urink and Eric Moe, on " We had a grea t time thi s seaso n least three times going int o th e turn. th e H igh Tech GSXRIlOO , and a nd we were always in the h u nt for The next thing I kn ew he went down Mark Bougas and Chris Eli a, riding t he wi n," said H yper-Cycl e' s and slid into me and took me out." th e Bougas Ra cing Suzuki, were Andrew. "The best time I had in the The Second Ci ty Ra cing II H onda locked in a battle for fourth , sep arrace was wh en I was raci ng with H urricane of J o n Cornwell a nd Alan ate d by no more tha n half a second Dan ny (Ch ivingto n), H e seemed to Ingl is in herited th e GT U lead . and swapping positions each lap. laps but dropped out of the race want to ru n hi gh on the banking a nd I wanted to come down a little lower in th e bowl. I wanted to pl ay it safe toda y. T here were a lot of bi kes ou t th ere but I like it like th a t." Fo llowing Second Cit y Racin g II hom e in the GT U division were West Florida Racing a nd O mi nous Racing; both were mount ed o n Honda Hurricanes. • Results GTO: 1. Team Hyper-Cycle (Suz); 2. High Tech Racing (Suz); 3. 80ugas Racing (Suz); 4 . ECHO Racin g (Suz); 5. Dutchman Racing (Suz); 6. Team Flor ida (Suz); 7. H.P.R. (Suzl; 8. Midwest Racing (Suz); 9. Kennedy Racing (Suz); 10 . Lyle Rapid Tran sit (Suz); 11. South Florida Racing (Yam ); 12 . Belisle Racing (5u z); 13. Gillene Racing Team (Suz); 14. R. J . Racin g (Suz); 15 . Instinct Racing (Suz); 16. G. K. Cycles (Suz); 17. Team Visa (Yaml; 18. 8ad News II (Yam); 19. Suda Racing (Suz); 20. Parkw ay Cycles (Hon). GTU: 1. Second City Racing II (Hon); 2. West · Florida Racing (Honl: 3 . O minou s Racing (Ha n); 4 . Am er ica n Speed y Prin t ing (Ho n); 5 . Tea m Obnoxious (Han); 6 . A utobahn Soc iety (Han); 7. Island Racing (Due); 8 . Bue Racing (Han); 9. M inor Racing (Hon); 10 . a .M .S. Racing (Hon); 11. R&D Racing (Yam); 12. W int er Park Road Racing (Suz); 13 . Un le-W right Racing (Han); 14 . Paraqon Racing (Suz); 15. Miller Low -Life Racing (Yam); 16. Team 8 ig Dog (Honl; 17.Team Phoe nix (Cag); 18. Robison Harley-Davidson (H- D); 19 . Fire Brew ed Racing (Yam); 20. Team Humble (Yam). . AMA/MOTOWORLD U.S. ENDURAN CE ROA D RAC E SERIES FINAL STANDI NGS : 1. Team Lock han (4 3 65); 2 . Kay o Racing (434 3); 3. Dutchman Racin g (43 13); 4. High-Tech · Racing (4253); 5. Team Hyper-Cycle (41 98); 6. Team Uno (4196 ); 7. As phalt Aviator s (4 174); 8. South Florida Racing (4064); 9. Second City Racing (40191 10 . ; Paul Smith Racing (4017 1 . 13

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