Cycle News - Archive Issues - 1980's

Aselt ine picked up where he left o ff on th e restart. Rick Gruber held d own seco nd w ith Sco tt Scher b taking third from Ll oyd wi th two laps left. Wi lli e McCoy and Maj eski .were also headedto th e Last Chance Qualifier. The seco nd sem i was wha t sh ort track ra cing is a ll abo u t. Gary Dav is got th e hol esh o t and was pulli ng a way fr o m Fau lkn er , Gra yb ea l , Merten s (w ho st arted fr om th e pen alty line) a nd Ha rd in. At the halfway poin t Davis held a safe lead over Mertens, Graybeal and H ardin. As . they receiv ed th e whit e flag, Mertens took over ' b u t the last la p saw H ardin blast from th ird to th e win o ver Merten s, Davis, G ra ybea l, Faulkner a nd Steve Kasten . . T h e last cha nce was all Sco tt Scherb's as he rode to a n easy win o ver Merten s, Ma j eski , McC o y, Lloyd,'Gruber, j ohn Faulkner, Gary Davi s, who faded from an early th ird, Steve Kasten and Graybeal. . . The Pro-Am fin al h a d to ' be stop ped as Mike Eadie ' and Mike Varnes tangled in turn th ree. Eadie could not make th e restart a nd was rep laced by Du ane Sta nick. Larry Pegram, ma king the most o f his la te season advance me nt in to the Pro-Am ranks, too k com mand of th e restart on his KK Mo tor cycle Supply/DER Racin g/Mj USA/ Ri ley Cycl e/Pj ll Shoei/ Srni tty's H -D/Lou's Leatherssponsored Wood -Rotax. Kirk Hayes held second until th e last lap wh en A.J. Snoop slipped by. j ess Roeder moved up from a slo w start to finish fourth over Kyle Long. . Nobo dy was surprised whe n Steve Moreh ead led la p o ne o f th e Na tional. Will Davis forced h is wa y by on lap three a nd even tho ugh ' Moreh ead wo u ld con tinue to cha llen ge, the top two positio ns were set. " I had no brakes all day, so I couldn' t run under him ," exp lained Mor eh ead. Behind the two fro nt-ru n ners th e racing was furi ous with Mohan, Ingra m and Da ve H ebb battling over third. Series Cham pion Chris Carr held down sixt h over Kri s Kiser a nd Terry Poovey. By lap 10 Davis and Moreh ead had pulled away. In gr am was holding do wn third over Poovey, . Hebb , Carr, Kiser, Mark G ruber a nd Mohan. Lap 20 saw P oovey take ·third a head of In gram, H ebb, Kiser, who ' had passed Carr, and Stev e Aselti ne. T he final order was set. " I was h aving 'trou ble getti ng through turns one and two b ut Steve showed me the fast line the first cou p le of laps and I moved u p to his line when I got by," said Davis. " He showed me h is fro nt wh eel a co uple of ti mes a nd I co uld hear h im early. It 's a sli p pery track and you can' t look back wi thou t slipp ing o ff . the groove. I never look ed back a nd even whe n I got th e whi te flag, I was a Iittl e worried." Davi s ea rned 20 bi g po ints, but fell j ust short of second pl ace in th e final sta ndings as Atherton's l Oth p lace earned him five po ints a nd a four-point ad vantage over Davis. In gram's II po ints push ed hi m into fo u rth o ver ' Dav ey Du relle, who fail ed to qua li fy for th e Na tio na l. • Results . PRO-AM : t , Larry Pegram (W-R); 2. A.J . Snoop (W-R); 3. Kirk Hayes (Hon); 4. Jess Roeder (H-D); 5. Kyle Long (H-D); 6. Rick Knut h (Rtx); 7. Mike Varnes (Hon); B. James Han (Rtx); 9. Roy Gene Han s. Jr . (Rtx); 10. Duane Stanick (Hon); 11. J im Hinthorn (Hon); 12. Dave Duhaine (W-R). NATIONAL : t . W ill Davis (H- D); 2 . St eve Morehead (H-D); 3. Terry Poovey (Hon); 4. Dan Ingram (H-D); 5. Dave Hebb (H-D); 6. Kris Kiser (Rtx); 7 . Chris Carr (H-D); B. Steve Aseltin e (H-D); 9. Mark Gruber (W-R); 10. Kevin Atherton (W-R); 11. SC011 Scherb (Hon); 12. SC Mohan (H-D); 011 13. Bryan Hardin (Hon); 14. Craig Estelle (H-D); 15. David Mi ller (Hon). FINAL POINT STANDINGS: 1. Chris Carr (21 6); 2. Kevin Atherton (136 ); 3. Will Davis (132); 4. Dan ' Ingram (112); 5. Davey Durelle (102); 6. Bryan Vill ella (72); 7. Pete Hames (69); B. Don Estep (67); 9. 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