Cycle News - Archive Issues - 1980's

o Z Hyper-Cycle 's James Domay (5) leads High Tech Rac ing's Eric Moe (4) during the early stages of the race . Team Bad News (153) reti red early. Lockhart's Da le Qua rt erley (1) and D utchma n 's Kev in Rentzell (3) raced for th e champio nsh ip, but Qua rte rley crashed and Dutchman brok e. AMA/CCS . EBC Brakes Endurance Challenge Series: Final Round Hyper-Cycle wins, takes title at Daytona By Brian Catterson . Photos by Daytona International Speedway, George Hoffman and Catterson .DAYT O NA BEACH , FL , OCT. 30 Hyper-Cycle's Car ry Andrew and J am es Dom ay took advantage of their op p onents ' misfortunes a t D a yto n a I n ter n a ti o n a l Speedway to WIn the final round of the AMA/CCS Endurance Ch al lenge Series, in th e process ' clin chin g th eir fi rst -ev er National Ch ampionship. The so u th ern Californ ia d uo rode a fl a w less r a ce o n . their S u zu k i GSXR I IOO, turn ing 84 lap s of the 3.56-m ile ci rcuit (299.04 mil es) at a n average spee d of 98.005 m ph. H yp er-Cycle's r ace was not wi th o u t dr am a , however, as once aga in Andrew was at the cen ter of co nt roversy. At the halfway po int of the race track an nouncer R ich ar d Chambers report ed th at Andrew had passed th e pace car (used in lieu of a red flag) a nd was do ckeda lap , g iving th e lead to T eam Wyom ing, and it was some tim e befo re th e p ace car d ri ver .. ad mitted waving Andrew past, and the lap was reinstated. Runn er-ups in th e th ree-h our .co n test were High T ech Racing' s Larry j eu rink a nd Eric Moe o n .a GS XR I IO just o ne lap short o f the O, lead ers a fter com ing back from a n early pit stop which cos t them th ree la ps, Third pl ace went to J eff Stern a nd J eff Rheaum e 0'£ RS Racin g with 81 laps, who had their GS XR 750 cons istent ly in th e to p 10 th rou ghout th e race. First in th e GTU class , a nd sevent h overa ll , was a team ca lled, sim p ly, Daytona, mad e. up ' of local riders Larry O 'Brien (competing in his fina l race before retirin g ) a rid Ma rk Schmidt o n a H onda CBR600 Hurricane. Seco nd pl ace went to Team RS Racing's Jeff Stern (show n) and Jeff Rheaume rode a spirited race on a Suzuki GSXR750 w ith Dunlop K59 1 street tires to finish third . . . . Verti cal's Greg Siez and Jim Ronan on another Hurricane, with Asphalt Aviat ors - Andy Deathrage, Chuck Fo lley, Mik e Sturdavent a nd Steven Rawls - taking third on a Suzuki 600 Kat an a. . Co ming into this race, th e tenth . o f th e series, three GTO teams had a sho t at th e tit le - po ints leaders Dut chm an Ra cing with 108 points, defe nd ing cha m p ions Tea m Lockha rt with 101, a nd H yper-C ycle, a lon gshot with j ust 100. T he end result was that in 'a season marred b y n u me rou s protest s wit h the ou tcom es determ ined 'in th e boa rdroom , th e cha m p io ns h ip . woul d fin a lly be decided where it belongs - on the race track. To repeat as cha m p io ns, Lock hart's Dale Quarterl ey and Dou g Bra un eck needed to fin ish first with D u tchma n th ird or wo rse. Arid in o rder to increase th e lik elihood o f th is happening, Lockh art entered a seco nd team. T h is seco nd effort , ca lled Cr imson Tide, featu red Paul Br a y a n d To m Kipp ridin g a GS XR II 00, but both th ey and th e reg ula r team were do omed befor e the co m p letio n o f th e fir st hour Crimso n Tide retired wi th mech anica l problems a nd Lo ckhart cras hed out. Wh en th e Dutchman machine a lso b ro ke, th e win - a nd th e cha mpio ns h ip bel onged to H yper-Cycle. Du tchman pi cked up one point to tak e second in th e fina l point standings, whil e Lo ckha rt's zero po ints left th em in third. T he GTU titl e was handed to R o swell Hond a Racin g' s Mik e Smith and Cam Roos back in September a t T a llad eg a, but th e cha se for seco nd place sa w fiv e teams within 13 poi illS of eac h o ther. Wh en th e race was over it was Asphalt Aviators wh o secured the position, with thei r 12th overall a nd thi rd in class finis h. Cycle Connecti on Racin g ended up third in points. A new addition to th e familiar . Daytona roa d co urse was th e topic o f much discussio n in th e paddock. Rather th an th e usu al ch ica ne a t th e end o f Daytona's ba ck stra ig h taw ay, a d iIfere n t, lo ng er ch ica n e was em p loyed. Now, in stead of havin g to q uickly tu rn left-ri gh t-left, th e riders had a sm a ll stra ig hta way between th e two tran siti ons. The usu al , later turn off the stra ig ht wou ld be used as a return roa d for riders who m issed th e new chica ne. Ma n y comp lai ned th at thi s " new" ch ica ne (wh ich existed previously a nd was used for ca r races), was bumpy, but most favored the add i- tion on the grounds of safet y. The a ddition added approximately two seconds to lap times. Dutchman's regular rider Kevin . Rentzell was ag ain jo ined by Canadian Steve Crevier, wearing th e now .permanentl y departed J eff H eino 's far-too -large leathers (He ino was r eportedly g ive n hi s pink slip ). Dutchman took th e bold step of entering their endu ra nce bike in a Sat u rday a fternoon sprint race, with Rentzell finishing second to Mark Chin in th e Unlimi ted Grand Prix class. " We usu ally don 't race it (the end u rance bik e) in sp rin t races," said Du tchman Racin g Tea m Captain Dave Schlosser, " Bu t we don 't want a n yone on the tea m to think we're ge tti ng too co nserva tive." . H yp er -C ycl e' s An d rew ec h oe d Sch losser's senti me nts, saying "You just have to thin k o f th is as a regular ra ce; yo u ca n ' t think a bo u t the cham pions h ip ." . • For th e second time ever, a Monsterbike Shoot-Out preced ed th e endurance race (the first one was held at Talladega in September ). The premise of th e Shoot-Out is similar to th e Camel Challenge held at AMA Nationals, with six riders going five laps in a da sh for cash (albeit far less than Camel 's $17,500 - the ShootO ut winner receives just $700). The twist is that th ere's a mandatory rider change on the second, th ird or fourth lap. The start of the Monsterbike Shoot-Out saw High T ech 's Jeurink grab th e h o leshot, fo llow ed by . Hyp er -Cycl e 's Doma y a nd Bob Englert on th e Team Gibsonia! Englert Racing Yam ah a FZRIOOO. By th e tim e th e field reach ed the . banking for the fir st tim e, Crevier had pu t th e Dutchman ma chine o u t front, and it was he that led Dom ay a nd Brauneck across th e stripe to co m p lete lap one. Reuben McMurter held fourth o n Dr. David ' Kieffer' s T eam Wyoming H onda RC30 , with J eurink fifth a nd En gl ert , suffering from suspec ted ign itio n problem s, now way back in sixth. L o ckh art 's ch a nce a t th e win effective ly ended during their second la p rider cha nge wh en the bike fell over in the p its . Quarterl ey pi cked it up a nd co nt in ued o n, a ma zing ly netting the seco nd positi on by th e checkers . D ut ch ma n a nd H yp erCycle bo th pi tted on lap three, with Rent zell a nd Andrew racin g out o f th e p i ts toge th er, but Andrew s o vercooked the narrow pit exit road, ra n in to the hay bal es and fell down, end ing H yper-Cycle's charge. 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