Cycle News - Archive Issues - 1980's

Gordon fired off th e lin e o n th e th ird try to run the eig ht- Iapper with Gray a nd Ken Berry nipping a t hi s rear tire. Berr y fell near the end of th e circuit and that allo wed Walt Farmun into th ird. Farmun go t by G ary near' th e end of the second revolu tion and just befo re the halfway poi nt, he attemp ted to push his wa y past th e leader. Farnum was forced to back off, gi ving Gordon a little brea th ing roo m. . Curoso and Keith Larsen were battl ing for th ird j ust beh in d the leaders. Farnum took another shot at Gordon at th e star t of lap six. He blew by Gordon but had too much speed for the upcomi ng corner and fell. T hat left Gordon with a co mmandin g lead with less tha n three la ps to go. A red flag flew at th e start of th e fina l la p for a nasty Curosol Gray a lterca tio n a nd the race was declared over and Gordon go t th e win . La rsen a n d Kevin Kru gh rounded ou t the to p three. Resu lt s SCRATCH: 1. Bobby Schwartz (Wes); 2. Brad Oxley(Wes); 3. Louis Kossuth (GM); 4 . Mike Curoso (Wes). HDCP: 1. Kelcey Gordon (Wes); 2. Keith Larsen (Jawl; 3. Kevin Krugh (Jaw) , 0 -2 : 1. Bob Bechtold (Wes): 2. David Perry (Wes); 3, Dan Fraley (Jaw l, 0 -3 : 1. Don Russell (Wes); 2. Charl ie Jones (Jaw) ; 3, Ron Kemp (Jaw), Schwartz unstoppable at Costa Mesa Spdwy By Scott Da loisio COS TA MESA, CA, MAY 13 Friday the 13th at the Orange Co unty .Fairgrounds brough t good fort u ne to Bobb y.Schwartz as he ca p tured th e Scratch ma in for th e fourth co nsecutive week. Schwartz a n d h is Budweiserl K8cN/Silkolene/Bell/ Answer P roducts Weslake was unstoppable in Scratch action . H e won hi s heat and semi and led every in ch of th e way in th e four-lap ma in. He got a tremendous gate o u t of th e number two slot and set the pace in to the first bend over Alan Christian a nd Dubb Ferr ell. Ferrell went outside Christian for seco nd on the back chute bu t Christian wrestled the position back before the end of the first go-around. ' Ferrell, switch in g strategy, ducked to the inside and ch ecked to see if Christian was vulnerable down low . He wasn 't and he maintained hi s second place standing. The Jerry King checkere d waved and once again Schwartz had the win. Christian was a close second with Ferr ell third. The Handicap main started off with a bang, wh en J ay G ianetti highsided in tum on e and came down on hi s head . The red flag was 'disp layed. Official s informe d th e woozy G ianett i th at he was eligi ble for th e restart but he kindly declined. Andy No rt hrup jumped to th e point o n the restart with Trinon Cirell o a n d Bi ll y H amill r igh t behind. Northrup 's lead was short lived as Ci rell o quickl y relegated him to seco nd. Shawn 'McCo n nell slas hed h is way to th e fro nt a nd went insid e both Hamill a nd Northrup fo r second. Seconds lat er , Hamill too k Northrup for second as McConnell was qu ickl y ga ini n g ground o n th e leader. McConnell was on Cirello's rear tire and when Cirello parked co ming out of turn four on lap five, McConnell rod e pas t for th e lead. Cirello continued to fad e and dropped all the way to fourth at the finish. McConnell was perfect to the end and bagged hi s first checkered of th e year. H amill fini shed second with Eddi e Ca stro third. Tony Bin ert won in Division T wo with Mike Finedo winning in Division Three. 00 00 0") ....... Scratch main event w in ne r Bobby Schwartz (left) lead s Handic ap ma in event winner Shawn McCon ne ll (behind Schwartz), Steve Lucero (18) and Keith Larsen (rig ht) in t urn one ac tion at Costa M esa Sp eedway . Results SCRATCH: 1. Bobby Schwartz (West, 2. Al an Chr ist ien :(J aw ); 3, Dubb Ferrell (Wes). HDCP: 1. Shawn McConn ell (Gdn); 2. Billy Ham ill (Wes); 3 , Ed Castro (Wes ); 4 , Tr inon Cir allo (Wes). 0 ·2 : 1. Tony Bienert (Gdn); 2. Mark M ila zzo (Wes); 3. Rod Saunders (Wes). 0 ·3 : 1. M ike Pinedo (Jaw); 2, Gary Ackro yd (Gdn); 3, Man Sto ut enberg (Wes), Head First team takes Square Deal ST By Denny Toaspern BINGHAMTON, NY, MAY 14 Eight trophies fell to th e Head Fir st Racing Team at th e Squar e Deal Riders' Saturday night short tra ck races. H ead First, a loosely kn it bunch of sem i-serious racers, di spl ayed just enough tea m spiri t to avoid taking each other out as th ey dominat ed th e 250cc Amateur and the Open Amateur classes. The lone interl oper was Ri chard Edwards, who snuck into seco nd place in the 250cc class. Christy Scheffer won th e 250cc Amateur class going away, with Lou DeLousia and Rob Bibbins scrapping over third. After a race-long battle, DeLousia, who is very hard to pass, came out on top. The order of finish was scrambled in the Open class with Bibbins th e victor over DeLousia in second and Sch effer in third. Two other members of th e team checked in with a win in th e Senior A cla ss by Dave Sch effer and a second in th e Senior B class going to Sco tt Hadaway and th e win go ing to Jim Reese. Crai g Estelle attempted to repeat last week's O pen Expert win. Estelle had th e spee d but mental errors relega ted him to fourth p lace as J ason Fletcher romped to the class win , foll o wed by an energized Bill Newkirk. J ay Skid more was the speedy, rolling roadblock in third, h olding Est elle's a tten tion wi th Du ane Veeder in fourth. Veeder did mu ch better in th e 250cc Expert class, with a win over Estelle and Brian Tillson in a race marked by a number of crash es a nd restarts. Two o f the a ccidents involved Fletcher, who was forced to scratch, on ly to return and win th e Open fin al. Resu lts OPENAM : 1. Rob Bibbins(H·DO; 2. Lou DeLousia (Hon); 3, Christy Scheffer (Suz); 4. Bill Adams (KTM ); 5. Mike Green (Yam). OPEN EX: 1. Jason Fletcher (W·RI; 2. Bill Newk irk (Hon); 3. Jay Skidmore (Hon); 4. Craig Estelle (H· D). SR A: 1. Dave Scheffer (H·D ); 2. George Kuh n (W-Rt 3. Mark Korythowski (Yam ). SR B: 1. James Reese (Kaw); 2. Scon Hadaw ay (Han); 3. Jo e Gould (Hon). Lazor wins wild APE Speedway opener By Todd Kroh (Kaw), GREENE, NY , MAY 7 The speed way sea son o ff ic ia lly opened on the East Coast at Action Park Eas t Speedway and th e fans wit nessed on e of the most exci ting races ever held a t th e eigh th -m ile banked oval facility. George Lazor and Warren Diem battled for four co mp lete laps with La zor stun ning the cro wd, Diem and himself en route to the Division One Scratch main win. John " Boogie" Lewi s left th e rest of th e field to battle for second as he ra n away with the H andicap cash.• As they lined up for th e main event Diem had the pol e while Lazor was up against the wall in the fourth spot. Lewis and Tom Burge, th e other two finali sts, jumped the gu n , breaking th e tape. Official Don H awkins docked th em both with a 10-yard penalty, setti ng up th e Diem -Lazor shoot-out. Diem took th e initial lead and stuck to th e inside down the back ch u te. Off turn four he cameout wide wh ile Lazo r sq uared off hi s Oury/ R ob in s.on /T sub ak iiS cott / JT / AXO/ Cody Jawa and grabbed th e in side line. The two battled back and fort h fo r th e lead , a nd as th ey came off turn four fo r th e fin al circu it Lazo r stuck his Jawa in fro nt of Diem 's Godden by a wheel. Lewis smoked th e field in H andi cap rac ing. Lewi s pocketed a first in h is heat race a nd the n co mbined that by narrowl y transferring with a third spo t in hi s semi. Flo yd Clar k led th e group for th e first two laps as Lewis and Dillon sorted o u t the number two spot. On lap three Lewis and Dill on made th e pass on Clark. Lewi s began pulling away from Dill on, leaving him to fend off the charges of Diem and Lazor. The checkered saw Lewi s seal the victory ahead of Dillon and Diem. Resu lts 125 AM : 1. Kenny Coolbeth (Kaw ); 2. Chr is Spylious (Hon). ' . 125 EX: 1. Jeff Earl (Yam); 2. Shayne Steinaure (Kaw); 3. Bob Weiss (Honl . . 250 AM : 1. Christy Scheffer (M- S); 2. Richard · Edwards (Suz); 3. Lou DeLousia (Suz); 4, Rob Bibbins (Alx) . 250 EX: 1. Duane Veeder (Hon); 2. Craig Estelle (Hon); 3. Brian Tillson (Han); 4. Jay Skidmore (Hon), 0 -1: 1. George Lazor (Jaw); 2. Warren Diem (Gdn); 3. Tom Burge (Gdn): 4 . John Lew is (Wes). HDCP: 1. J ohn Lewis (Wes); 2. Len Dillon (Gdn); 3. Warren Diem (Gdn); 4 . George Lazor (Jaw): 5. Steve Wa tson (Wes). . 0 -2 : 1. Kelv in Herrala (Jaw) : 2. Chris Lord (J aw); 3. Kyle Dixson (J aw ); 4. Jim McCarthy (J aw ). 0 ·3 : 1. Marco Morello (Hon t 2. Tad Uzzle (Jaw); 3. Kelly McMahon (J aw ). MINI : 1. Kenny Coolbeth (Kaw); 2. Dean Bush Lindeman logs Pine Ridge Enduro win By Roger Dowden CHA DRON, NE , MAY 8 DaveLin deman , in h is first end uro a ft er a n eigh t-yea r hi at us, took 'a dvantage of the worst co nditio ns to win at the 20th anniversary of the Pine Ridge Enduro, a cla ssic spring end uro with lo ts of rai n and mud. The ra in began Sa tur day ni ght and by midmorning on Su nday it was a torrential do wn pour, making an abundance of mu d. Open A r ide r Lindeman had retir ed from enduro riding to pursue trials ridi ng. H is trials' experie nce seemed to be a · huge adva n tage in the slip pery Nebraska clay. His score of II points dropped was two m in utes better than th e next best. There was a four-way tie for second and AA rider Kevin Davis came out o n top a t the tie-breaker , followed by 250cc A rid er Mark Mauz, AA rid er Dwain T aylor and AA rid er Mark Hynes. Competition wa s ti ght throughout th e AA class with all seven rid er s under a fiv e point blanket. The com pe tition was just as fierce in th e 250cc A class wh ere KTMmounted Mau z was only a minute ahead of Don Barr , aboard a Honda. . It was also close in the Senior A cla ss wh en Cap Kun ey beat o ut H oward Utsey by o ne minute. Open A class w inner Dav e Zehn er 's 16 po in ts topped secondplace Greg Huffer by five mi n utes. In th e Open B cl a ss, Robert Deines' score was 12 m in u tes up o n the seco nd pl ace fin isher. In the 200cc B class, Tim Herald's firstp lace score o f 43 points was 40 minu tes ahea d of second pl ace. La rry Feu erstein overa lled th e C class with an amazi ng score of 13 poi nts. H is nearest challenger was another Open class rid er, Jim Rob erts, with 19 points dropped. The only fin isher in th e Wom en 's class was Diane Kowardy. Resu lts 0 / A A : Dave Lindeman (Han). AA: 1. Kevin Davis (KTM ); 2. Kwa in Taylor (Han); 3. Howdy Hynes (KTM). OPEN A : 1. David Zehner (KTM); 2. Greg Huffe r (Hus); 3. Stan Sjostrom (KTM). 0 / A B: Kelly Wright (Han). OPEN B: 1. Robert Dein es (Yam); 2. Casey Colbert (Hon); 3. Mike Disney (Hus). 0 / A C: Larry Feuerstein (KTM). OPEN C: 1. Jim Roberts (KTM); 2. Anthony Holmberg (Hus); 3. Steve Siler (Yam). 250 A : 1. Mark Mauz (KTM); 2. Don Barr (Han); 3. Craig Beardsley (Hon). 250 B: 1. Martin Miller ( Hon~ 2. Greg Eno (KTM); 3. Ray W ittwer (KTM). 250 C: 1. Joel Sana (Suz); 2. Scan Ross (Han); 3. Lance TIust os (Han). 35

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