Eric Geboers (9 ) gets a good j ump out of the starting gate in the second mota. Geboers went on to finish second in the mota.
Broc Glover (44) took the early lead in the second mota, but crashed
into a lapped rider, costing him a possible mota win .
World Championship MX Series:
Round 7
Geboers wins
Hollister U.S. GP
By Kit Palmer
Photos by Kinney Jones
HOLLISTER HILLS, CA,jUNE 26
Belgian Eric Geboers did what no European
m o tocrosser has done in five years, and that's
bea t the Americans on their h o me turf. The
factory H o nda rider used consistency as the
key to success to capture the
overall victory at the 500cc U.S.
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GP at H 0 IIrster H I s, b ut most
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Importantly for Geboers he
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lea ves th e U.S. o ne po int closer to
th e series points lead er from Great
Britain , Honda teammate Dave
Thorpe.
" Winn ing here mak es me feel
good, but 1 would 've liked to hav e
won a heat (mow)," said a rather
calm Geboers after th e second moto,
" I used cons istenc y today because 1
need th e points. It' s nice to win the
GP , but points are wh at's
important."
Thorpe finished second overall via
a 1-5 tall y to Geboers ' 3-2. Thorpe
heads back to Europe to contest the
next 500cc GP in his home country
of England, July 10, with a threepoint advantage over Thorpe, 211208, with five rounds remaining in
the seri es. Third in points is Great
Britain's Kurt Nicoll, who finished
sixth overa ll at H ollister with a 74 tall y.
America's hopes of stopping the
European a ttack at Holhst~r went
down th e tubes two turns mto the
first moto wh en the two U.S . favorires to win, Kawasaki 's J eff Ward and
Ron Lechien, crashed. Remounting
near th e back of the pa ck, both Ward
a nd Lechien put in half-hearted
attempts at a com e-from-behind ride
only to pull out of th e race. Neither
rider started the second moto Ward complaining of a sore shoulder
and Lechien of a n injured thumb.
Riding under th e Australian and
American flag was Honda 's Jeff
Leisk, an Aussie riding under the
Honda U.S.A. banner and residing
in America during the raci ng season.
Leisk finished six th in the first mo w
then came back and surprised everyone with th e second-moto victory.
Leisk , who says he plans on campaigning th e 1989 500 cc Worl d
Championship Series full-time,
claimed third overall.
But capturing th e crowd's heart at
H ollister was Yam aha's Broc Glover.
When Ward and Lechien drop ped
