Cycle News - Archive Issues - 1980's

Phil Collins. shown here leading the pack during Speedway USA action took the Scratch main victory at .A scot South Bay Stadium. . • Bobby ~chwartz won tht: Scratch main at Costa Mesa.1tis first at that track this year. after holdmg off charges from ,St eve Lucero. . Cook.again led Brown to the top of the hili to start moto two but Bill Perriton passed both directly after. Bro':Vn took the lead on lap two then received ahuge break when Perri ton crashed on a slick off-camber, taking Cook down 'WIth him. Brown now had a big lead over Jim Mitchell and Newell, Within six laps, Cook had regained second and slowly reeled in Brown, but Brown held on for the win and overall. . Cook led all of the first 125cc Pro moto, while Gil Murray and Sandell fought over second. Sandell gave the sp<;>t to !\1urray for good when he bailed WIth two !al?s remaining, but did remount to finish third. Keith Campbell led the first half of round two , then Sandell took over and rode to victory and the overall. Cook gated seventh and in an attempt to make up ground quickly crashed hard on lap two. It took a few moments for him to sort ·th ings out, but once done he charged hard t<;> ~ome from last to sixth. Murray finished thud . behind Campbell to earn second overall. The best lap of the day occurred on the last circuit of the Senior Expert's second moto. Dave Wollaston won the first .moto ahead of Ed Perri ton and Vic Barlish. Wollaston was leading Barlish to start the last lap of mota two, then Barlish went by a tum later. Wollaston retaliated a bit later, out Barlish cut back underneath. But Wollaston outjumped Barlish before the last tum to take his second win of the day . Results 42 60 NOV : 1. Nate Lebsack (Kaw); 2. Bren Rodmen (Kaw). 60 AM : 1. Joey Kendall (Kaw). BO NOV : 1. la.son Rush (KawO; 2. Quixote Lara (Hon); 3 . Dan W,enrank (Hon). 80 AM : .1 . Des Piihl (Kaw); 2. Lee Swink (Kaw); . 3. Alex Ne" (Kaw) . 80 EX: 1. Andy Atkins (Kaw) . 125 NOV: 1. Cory Fuesz (Kaw); 2. Scon Miller (Hon); 3. Mark Bennett (Kaw) . 125 AM: 1. Jeremy Middaugh (Kaw); 2. George Ashby (Hon); 3. Jeff Nolan (Yam). / 125 PRO:. 1. Kip Sandell (Yam); 2. Gil Murray (Kaw); 3. Keith Campbell (Yam). 250 NOV: 1. Many Hostener (Yam); 2. Stacy Rogers (Hon); 3. Paul Oben (Yam). 250 AM: 1. Mike Solis (Yam); 2. Mike Hainey (Hon); 3 . K.irk Adcock (Yam). 250 PRO: 1. Derek Brown (Kaw) ; 2. Stacey Cook (Hon): 3. Dave Newell (Kaw) . OPEN NOV: 1. Blaine Schubanh (Honl ' 2 Mike Brightly (Hon); 3. Frank Rogers (Yam). ., OPEN PRO: 1. Dave Newell (Kaw ; 2. Bob Hanrahan (Kaw). VET NOV: 1. Tom Wiltse (Yam) ; 2. Gra nt Stumbaugh (Kaw); 3. John Davis (Hon) . VET AM : 1. Phil Antonuk (Kaw); 2. Ke'nt Bratberg (Yam); 3. Bob Winter (Yam). VET EX: 1. Shawn Smith (Honl ; 2. Kirk Medina (Hon); 3. Bruce Field (Hon). SR NOV: 1. Harry Harju (Hon); 2.Jim Fulcher (Yam). . SR AM : 1. Tom Hamm (Suz); 2. Jim Robens (Honl . SR EX: 1. Dave Wollaston (ATK); 2. Vic Barlish (Yam); 3 . Terry Frydendall (Yaml. WMN: 1. Tracy Frydendall (Yaml. Oxley on toP. at Speedway USA By Scott Daloisio VICTORVILLE, CA, APR. 10 Brad Oxley, the defending National Speedway Champion, notched his initial win of the year when he de.fe~ted longtime veteran Billy Gray to wm the Scratch main at Speedway USA's season opener Sunday afternoon. Even though the temperature was hovering around the 1000 mark, O.xley had an enjoyable drive from hIS San Clemente home ' to the Victorville track. Once there he had an enjoyable ride on his' potent Weslake. The .real story in the Scratch main was Gray. The wily veteran, who had never qualified for a .Scratch main in Speedway USA's history, gave the National champ all he could handle. Phil Collins the winner of the season opening Scratch ~ams at Costa Mesa and Ascot , had hIS PPT on the pole for the main with Grayout of two, Oxley in three ami young Gary Hicks in four. Hicks was rolling backwards as the tapes ~ere released and that quickly took him out of contention. Collins was out first but Oxley swept inside of-him as they came off tum two on the opening lap. ~ray then pushed Collins back to third with an inside move as they came off tum four near the end of the first circuit. The crowd cheered when sentimental favorite Gray went by Collins but when he closed in on leader Oxley, the crowd stood up and roared. Gray pulled directly up to Oxley's rear tire as they came off tum two on the second lap. . Gray stayed glued to Oxley's back tire until they exited the final tum o n the .last lap. There, he went wide a nd tned to go around th e lanky National Champion. The fans went wild but th ere wasn 't enough drive <;> n th e outside for Gray to get the Job done and he had to settle for second behind the champ. Results . SCRATCH: 1. Brad Oxley (Wes); 2. Billy Gray (GM) : 3. Phil Pran (PPT). HDCP: 1. Greg Hancock (Wes); 2. Dubb Ferrell (Wes); 3. Andy Nonhrup (Wesl. D-2 : 1. Steve Russell (Wes); 2. Kelcey Gordon (Jaw); 3 . Randall .Dance (Jaw) . D·3 : 1. Bobby Stillwell (Wes); 2. Brian Pappar lardo (Wes); 3. Greg Molina (Jaw). MATCH RACE: 1. 8rad Oxley (Wes); 2. Phil Collins (PPT). . MATCH RACE: 1. Bobby Schwanz (Wes); 2. Scotty Brown (Wes) . Benedict wins D-4 Trials opener . By George Brinkwart LOCKE, NY, APR. 10 Expert rider Carl Benedit did a repeat performance of last year 's D-4 Trials opener by again winning the first even t today in Locke. Benedict's smoo~h style.of riding kept both rider a";d bike upright on the slimy course. ' HIS best ride was in section five where riders had to negotiate a threefoot log ledge covered by running water. Further up the creek there was a series of rock ledges where riders had to make a sharp right-hand tum and blast up the creek bank. Two small poles, about one bike length apart, lay across the side hill and stopped most riders. Those who survived that trap went on to scramble up a steep hill to find the exit markers: Benedict dropped only three Pl?mts here all day, giving him a .55 pomt total for the day. Those riders with a smooth touch de~inite1y had an advantage. Jody Bliss was no exception as he won the Advanced cl~ss with 69 points. Intermediate Charlie Camin seemed 'to be pleased with his new mount, winning that class with 41 points, while LaVern Bowen 'won the Senior A class and Ron Bors had his Fantic dialed in for his win in th e Senior B class . : Novice rider Jason Kusnecki won his class with only 28 points for the day. Kusneski was able to ace section f<;>~r with some very consistent TIding. . Results EX: 1. Carl Benedict (Yam); 2. Bryan Benjamin (Yam); 3 . Greg Bolt (Hon); 4 . Joe Justick (Bet)· 5 Chris Arnold (Yam). • . ADV : 1. Jody Bliss (Yam): 2. Raymond Peters (Yam); 3 . George Brinkwan (Bet); 4 . Jason Mankey (Bet); 5. Dave Reed (Yam). INT: 1. Charl ie Camin (Mon); 2. Many Terpstra (Bet); 3. Tony Cordi (Mon); 4. Fred Wood (Ysm)' 5. Mike Koval (Bet). • SR A : 1. laVern Bowen (Yam); 2. Wayne Larson (Yam); 3. R. Slater; 4 . Richard Clark (Betl. NOV: 1. Jason Kuzneski (Mon); 2. Frank MaYnard (Bul); 3 . Karl Heise (Yam); 4. Voss Fernandes (Yam)' • 5 . Mike Drum (Mon). SR B: 1. Ron Bors (Fan); 2. Gary Barnes (C·A~ 3. Bob Kuznesk i (Mon); 4 . John Knapp (Yam~ 5 Lee Perter (Yam). ' . RODKY: 1. Joe Bird ; 2. Sam Bryant (Mon). Collins collects Ascot Spdwy victory By Scott Daloisio GARDENA, CA, APR. 7 ~u~in9 intermission at Chris Agajarnan s Ascot South Bay Stadium sea~on o~ner on Thursday night, Phil Collins shook his head and said "I don 't feel right. I just don't feei good." That sounded like a good omen for his competition but less than one hour later, Collins raced away for the win in th e Scratch main event. . Collins was fresh off a strong win at the Costa Mesa season opener less ~han .a week earlier. The only flaw in hIS performance came in his Scratch semi. He had a sizable lead over Bobby Schwartz and Alan Christian when they came out of the . turn for the final time. Collins parked and his English built PPT . 500 did everything but stall. He managed to get the machine back under power just before Schwartz and Christian shot by. . Joining Collins on the main event . grid were Steve Lucero, Bobby Ott and Schwartz. Schwartz was never around for the stan of the four lapper, He rolled into the tapes and one of them made contact with the hot header pipe on his machine and ' melted through. That earned him an early trip back to the pits. Ot~, who ~as gating better than any rider all mght long, jumped into the lead at the outset but he did a wheelie off the turn and - headed straight for the crash wall. By the nrne he recovered, Collins had blazed a path by on the inside line and was gone. Ott's problems mounted when he went down in the next bend and let Lucero by. Collins had a big advantage and Lucero would have had to pull off a miracle to ca tch him in the remaining three circuits. Being that miracles are hard to come by these days, all he was able to do was put a small dent in the personable rider's advantage. _ Results SCRATCH; 1. Phil Collins (PPT); 2. Steve Lucero (Gdn); 3. Bobby On (Gdn).

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