Cycle News - Archive Issues - 1980's

(as was the whole ser ies ) was cosp onsored by Acerbis P lastics, Shoei , Gear, Sidewinder , lCO , Bark Bus ters, Scott USA , Hi- Point, Klotz and Aljo Brak es, . T en years ago Sa m m y Bosnic was considered one of the fastest ama teur mo tocross riders in th e States, buta few u nfortunate inj uri es a nd some bad luck kep t him from rising to th e top. Now an avid woods fan , Bosnic had on ly competed seriously once in the past two years . With jbe High Point layou t featuring severa l open sect io ns and the Natio na l tra ck Bosnic was righ t at home, ou tg u nning early co n tender Scott P lessinger, th en slipping a wa y from a tro ub le-plaguedScott Summers lat e in th e going. Bosnic's overa ll win was the first for the Suzuki team thi s season . After li n ing u p in a mak eshift start area below the pits, the rid ers left th e dead-engine line .to funnel into a na rrow stre tch of trail , then dropped th ro ug h ' a field a nd strea m to en ter th e woods for the first tim e. P lessinger nail ed the start from th e o u tside and p la ced hi s KX a h ea d o f Summers, T oo le, and Sen ior pilot Stankiew icz, Bosnic sat fifth whil e Lojak was barely .in side th e top 10. The Yamaha pilot was loo kin g for a seco nd o ve ra ll se r ies ran kin g behind cous in Eddie Lojak, wh o was silting o u t th e Hi gh Po int round with a kn ee inj ury after havin g clin ched th e titl e a week ea rl ier at the Fa ll Fireball. When the pa ck went ba ck to the. in field area , Summers was on Pl essi ng er's roos t and loo king 10 pas s. j ustbefor e th e la p one check, Summers pushed his thumper into the lead spot and tried to establish a quick lead. Bosnic soo n moved by Plessi nger as well , a nd at the two lap mark he was approximat el y 15 seconds off of Summers ' pace. Mik e McCarren and Ben Hamrick (200cc A) went at it from start to fini sh before McCarren fina lly put th e win away with a late cha rge. H amri ck was another rid er with a class tit le in hand going into round 12, having sewn up th e 200cc A trop h y some tim e ba ck. But at High POInt it was McCarren 's turn to lead th e pa ck, a nd by th e end of the run he h ad mov ed a way from th e Kaw asaki-mounted co n tender to win the da y. In th e 200cc B class Pennsylvania 's John Petrilla claimed th e win a fter a 10 lap struggle with local sensa tio n David Dav ies. The two front runners were never mor e than a few seco nds a p a rt , and at th e e nd Yam ah a mounted Petrilla 's lead read less th an a minute on Davi es' KX. Pittsburgh's J oseph Stri tzin ger , West Virginia 's J oe H eckl e, a nd KTM-mounted Rob Mitch ell ro u nded o u t th e top five. The Four-Strok e A class belon ged to Honda rider Cha rles Dail ey from sta n -to -finish , but th e B class fo u rban gers went right down to th e wire. Seri es cha m p Tracy Wa rr in g ton cap ped o ff a terrific year with a close w in ov er Husk y- m oun ted Mik e Dinger and XR pilo t Kevin H o wser , th e number two man of the series. Warrington a nd Dinger ac tu a lly fini sh ed on the sa me m inu te in th e closest class o f the da y, wh ile H ow ser was trail ed by West Virginian s Mark Niggemyer a nd Kevin H agedorn. Su m mers still had h is four-stro ke ou t fro nt when th e lead ers chec ked in for la p three, but Bosnic had now po si tio ned him self o n th e big H onda 's rear fend er. Plessin ger had lost a m inute to th e top two with a la p three tumbl e, while Loja k co n tin ued to cl im b thr o ug h th e pack a fter co m p leting th e seco nd circu it in seventh place.' T oo le a nd Co n ner were pr esentl y occu py ing spots four and five. 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