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Cycle News 1988 02 24

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00 00 0") Former 250cc National Champion Donnie Greene rode a Yamaha TZ250 to the F-USA 600cc class win. topping Rotax-mounted Danny Coe. 12 Duane Summers won the Superbike A class on his Ducati, and finished fifth in the F~USA 600cc cIau; Summers is a former desert racer. - National Championship-winning Yamaha TZ250. Greene, who this year has a choice of Yamaha or Honda machines, put his TZ past Pave for second on lap two. and set his sights on Coe. At the halfway point, he passed Coe for the lead and held it to the finish. Greene had 'ear lier tied Wayne Rainey's 1985 250cc record.of 1:30.1 at 100 mph, but this time it was Coe 's tum , breaking the record with a 1:29.31 at 100.1 mph. James Domay was awesome on Jim Dickinson's bike race , finished a come-frombehind seventh, the first rider on a Japanese production-based bike. . When asked how he was able to beat Coe after losing beforehand, Greene replied. "We changed everything - the jetting, played with the suspension - it's a brand new bike and a new season so we'll just have to see how it goes. " Coe, who like Greene will be contesting the AMA 250cc Grand Prix Nationals, said simply, "I was pretty close, but not close enough." • Action Fours Honda Hurricane. passing Pave for third before ground109 out and crashing in tum four on lap three. Eugene Taki crashed his Yamaha FZ600 in tum one on lap four; both were unhurt. A three-way battle for fourth developed between Ducati riders Kevin Erion and Duane Summers and Wood Rotax thumper-mounted Fred Eiker. They swapped places 'constantly, with Eiker event u all y finishing fourth, Summers fifth, and Erion sixth. Kent Kunitsugu, later to win a hotly-contested 600cc Super- Results F-USA OPEN: 1. James Domay (Sull; 2. Wes Cooley (SUl); 3. Chuck Magnusson (SUl); 4 . Earl Roloff (Kaw); 5. Carry Andrew (Han). F-USA 600: 1. Don Greene (Vam); 2. Daniel Cae (Rtx);3. Bjorn Pave (Vam); 4. Fred Eiker (Rtx); 5. Duane Summers (Due). F-2 : 1. Daniel Cae (Rtx); 2. Don Greene (Vam); 3. Fred Eiker (Rtx). SIB A: 1. Duane Summers (Due). SIB B: 1. Peter Chr istianson (Kaw) . C PROD: 1. Steve Cardillo (SUl). SIB C: 1. Kent Kunitsugu (Han). A PROD: 1. Chuck Graves (Suzj. B PROD: 1. Pete Diles (SUl). PROD: 1. DavicfEdwards (Han). OPEN TW: 1. Bud Riddle (Vam). S/BIKE CHAL 55: 1. Daniel Lizardo (Hon). S/BIKE CHAL OPEN: 1. Shoun S_oey ($uzj. o

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