Cycle News - Archive Issues - 1980's

g OUTLAW : 1. Greg Brown; 2. Brent Peterson; 3. Kenny Howard. II: ~ t;; II: -c Szarek tops .Mother Nature at WV RR II: By Rodney S. Tosten Cl ~ SUMMIT POINT, WV, JULY 23-24 > Besides Glenn Szarek, th e biggest al winner of the weekend at Summi t o IPoint Racewa y was th e ra in. On o ::z:: Saturday, WERA officials isel y c, cancelled the heat races and postpone~ the endurance race to unday mo rm ng. Wh en th e ra in was n ' t fa ll in g , zarek was winning. Szarek 's first win, o n his uzuki 750, sponsored by MD Yamaha and Suzuki, was in th e endura nce race riding for Team Spike. Szarek obta ined th e lead by turn on e and was never challenged, finishing the race with three laps more th an second-place Team Ohio. Doug Tosten (8) grabbed second place in the Formula Open class at Szarek continued his winning Summit Point Raceway over Randy Hess (340). Glen Szarek won. through the B Production, B Superbik e and Formula Open classes. However, his perfect day was ruined BO B: 1. Robbie Drinkard (Hon): 2. Shad Greear 250 JR : 1. Sean Hummel (Suz) ; 2. Greg (Hon); 3. Bodie Betes (Yam). MacArthur (Yam): 3. Don Mendenhall (Suz); 4. Man by Randy Hess, on a Suzuki 750, in MICRO: 1. Danny Smith (Kaw); 2. Brian Sweaney King (Hon). .the A Production class. Szarek placed (Kaw): 3. Mitch Ward (Kaw). 250 INT: 1. Scon Lohr (Hon); 2. Phil Douglas (Hon). second behind Hess. OPEN BEG: 1. Scon Edwards (Hon); 2. Scon The only other person close Wr ight (Yam); 3. Chris Cameron (Kaw); 4. Kevin Arena on top at Yarnell (Hon~ 5. James Skelly (Hon). enough to Szarek to see his bike was OPEN JR: 1. Richard Wilson (Hont 2. Daryl BaylandsMX Doug ·T osten on his Yokohama! Hutchings (Yam): 3. John Lea (Hen). . RESlTurbo Blue/Coors/Pro EngiOPEN INT: 1. Jon Nicolaus (Kaw) . By Mike Vancil OPEN PRO: 1. Man Arena (Hon); 2. Randy neering/KAS /Ingram's Honda/ Denton (Yam~ 3. Mark Porter (Hon). FREMONT, CA, JULY 16 D&D Exhaust/Kayo Corp.o 250 BEG: 1. Shannon Barken (Suz): 2. Philip Matt Arena took his Honda to an Strong (Kaw). sponsored Honda CBR600 Hurrio 250 PRO: 1. Jon Delagnes (Hon); 2. Jeff Olk impressive double moto win in the cane. Tosten placed second behind (Suz). Open Pro class at the Friday night o OPEN BEG: 1. Fred Poli (Suz). Szarek in the B Production class. motocross at Baylands Raceway o OPEN JR: 1. Nielas Granlund (Suz). Tosten had led from the start in C VET JR: 1. Mike Sltlt'ling (Kawt 2. Ken Campbell Park. Randy Denton stayed close and Production and eventually built a 12(Hon) ; 3. P8ul Flores (Hon) ; 4 . Mike Dennis challenged several times on his (Kaw~ second lead. Tosten was helped by VET INT: 1. Gary Remmen (Yam). Yamaha but could not pass. Taking Jimmy Filice's ex-mechanic, James VET MSTR: 1. Duane Hughes (Hon~ 2. Phil th ird in both motos was Mark Porter Douglas (Hon~ 3. Larry Beker (Hon~ Michaels. OT JR: 1. Stan Wood (Hont 2. Charles Regruto on his Honda. At the start Arena was Even though David Murry fin(Cog); 3. Michael Malone (Hus). quicker off the line and never had ished behind Tosten in the C Proto look back. Each time Denton duction race , he and his crew were would 'close the gap Arena would Reynard rules _determined to win the C Superbike promptly open up to again have a Motorcycle Raceways race. Coming from third place, comfortable. mar~in. Murry obtained the lead in turn one. Motocross In 125cc Beginner class action Tosten, on his 600 Supersport Mark Klauser ~ot the win in division By Beth Cooper machine, was unable to catch Murry two with consistent good finishes in o n his 600 big-bore. When Tosten OKLAHOMA CITY, OK, JULY 16 both motos. His win came because and Murry exited turn 10, Murry In the heated competition at the his 2-1 positions totalled 5 to tie firstwould pull Tosten up the main Motorcycle Raceways Ninth Annual moto winner Ri ck O'Halloran, but stra igh t. Murry's sponsored by SkyDr. Pepper Race of Champions the second moto third of Klauser was line Honda/State Line Racing/ young Robbie Reynard seemed to be better than the fourth of O 'Halloran. Pugh Auto. unbeatable. Taking first in the Mini Bumble Bee Racing Team memMini, Mini Jr , and Mini Open Results bers Sean and T yl er Hummel F·OPEN EX: 1. Glen Szarek (Suz); 2. Doug Tosten clas ses, Reynard was definitely on cleaned up th e 125 and 250cc Junior (Hon); 3. Randy Hess (Suz); 4. Charles Elstener the gas . . (Hon); 5. Clarke Ohstrom (Suz). cl asses, winning all four motos F-2 EX: 1. Robert Von Nessen (Yam); 2. David Moto two started out to be a repeat en tered. T yler , on th e 125, had the Murray (Yam); 3. Ron Gelwicks (Yamt 4 . Larry of moto one until , in th e Mini Sr. Burkholder (Yam); 5. Fabian Cortez (Yam). tou gh er job because .he had to beat class, Reynard fell , dropping him VINT 4 : 1. Mike Tiberio (Guz); 2. Karl Myers seven other participants while Sean (BMW) ; 3. Jake Coye (Duc); 4. Jim Siemer (Duc); . back to 28th. This didn 't stop him took on three competitors. 5. Bob Vol

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