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in his wrist. His latest endeavor was a fourth place finish in a car race last month dur ing the Del Mar , Cali fornia, rou nd of the Barber Saab Series. ~y P4l'P~ Wf4lLfY Dam on Bradshaw (Yam) won and Rick J ohnson (Hon) was second at the Osaka Supercross in Nishinomiya Stadi um in j apan, November 13. Bradshaw and j ohnson reportedly ba ttled for 15 laps before Bradshaw was able to secure the win. Gu y Coo per (Ho n) was thi rd, foll owed by Ronnie T ichenor (Suz) and Johnny O'Mara (Suz). the Greenfield Armory in Greenf ield. Massachusetts. on December 10. starting at noon. In addition to a long list of random drawing prizes, one lucky NESCregistered ride r will win a trip for two to Florida for Daytona Cycle Week (air fare . motel accomodat io n s and $200 to spend on whatever). Larry Roeseler. Paul Krause and Danny laPorte (Kaw) teamed up to win the SCORE Baja 1000 in Baja Ca liforn ia. .Me x ic o . November 11-12. The trio finished the 700-mile race t h a t started and ended in Ensenada in 11 hours. 33 minutes and 45 seconds at an average speed of 58.94 mph . The Dan Ashcraft/ Kurt Pfeiffer (Yam) team took second. followed by the AI Baker/ Randy Norman/Scott Summers (Hon) team. The first 250cc (Class 21) team across the finish line was Ted Hunnicutt Jr. and Brett Howe ll (Kaw) at fourth overall. while first 125cc (Cla ss 20) was the team of John Braasch Jr. and Ro n Jennings (Ya m) in fifth overa ll. Eighty-seven motorcycles started t he event . 49 finis hed . The lastest rumor regarding Grand P rix road raci ng has three-ti me World Champion Freddie Spen cer coming out of retirement to join G iaco m o Agosti ni's Marlbo ro Yamah a tea m . The Sh revepo rt , Louisiana, resident retired fro m motorcycle racing aft er the 1987 season du e to a tendonitis prob lem Cam Roos, winner of the WERA C Produ ction , C Superbike, D Super. bike and For mula 2 Ch am pion ships a t the Grand Nat ina l Fin als at Road Atlan ta, November 3-6, crashed in Sunday's fin al race, breaking hi s ankle. Roos underwent surgery on Monday, November 7, to im plant two pins. Cards and letters can be sent to Roswell Honda , 11270 Elkins Road , Roswell, GA 30076. When Roos fell . he became the first rider to crash test the newlyplaced, protective hay bales in Road Atlanta's turn 12. In previous years. WERA had re lied on the permanent tire wall to protect fallen riders from the adjacent ' embankment. but this year they set up hay bales. and Roos was reportedly the firs t-eve r rider t o re m ai n conscious afte r falli ng there. Human Race T eam 's Kurt Hall was the recipient of the Steven L. Sullivan Award at the WERA GNF at Road Atlanta, Novem ber 6. The award, in memo ry of Sullivan , a turnworker who was killed in a street accide nt on his way home from a race, is given to the person who receives the most votes from his fell ow racers on the grou nds of sportsmanlike conduct and contribu tions to th e sport. The 31st Annual New England Sports Committee (NESC) Awards Program will be held at If Spencer does return to motorcycle racing it 'll not only send shock waves through the road racing world, it'll cause American expatriate Dennis Noyes indige s tion. Noyes. who covers GP road races for the Spanish weekly motorcyc le newspaper Solo Moto. has gone on record as . saying he'll eat his Chicago Cubs cap if Spencer races GP bikes next year. ("Si Freddie vuelve al Mundial . . . me como la gorra de los Cubs de Ch icago!") No one in racing can remember ever seeing Noyes without the cap except w hen he was wearing a helmet. Ironically. Spencer la st rode fo r the Rothmans Honda team and Erv Kanemoto was his crew chief, the same combination that w ill support defending World Champion Eddie Lawson who has left the Marlboro Yamaha team for the Honda ride. Speaking of Lawson , a van occupied b y , self-procla im ed " ex-Law so n fans" was spo tted at the recent WERA Grand Natio nal Fin al at Road Atlanta, sporting a crossed-ou t p oster of th e three- ti me Worl d Ch ampion on a Yamaha a nd a sloga n reading, "Lawson is the antiChr ist." Hmmm .. , wonder if they rid e Yam ah as , . . Eddie Lawson will be appearing at the Power Sports Expo at the Anaheim (California) CollV8l1tion Center on Saturday, December 3. Lawson Will be a guest of Shoei Helmets and will be signing autographs at the helmet manufacturer's display area from 10 a.m. to 12 noon and from 1 p .m. to 3 p.m. MARRIED: Debbie Winkler, Cycle N ews advertising coo rdinator, and former Nichols a nd Motorcycle Indu stry magazin e sales rep Dave Weller, in Lo ng Beach , California, November 5. Regarding last week's Wind item about Yamaha fielding a "works" FZR600 in the '89 Daytona 600 Supersport race: Supersport competition is for production bikes and that's what the bike Yamaha fields will be. The "works" was in reference to the fact that the manufacturer's American arm is field ing the bike . San Franci sco ' s Motoring Press Association will honor two northern Californ ia mo torcycl ists a t its ann ua l awards banquet on J anuary 21. Bubba Shobert will receive the Motorcycle Racer of the Year award for winnin g h is fou rth Came l Pro Series titl e and the Superbike title. jim Filice will be presen ted a special Contrib u tio n to Motorsports plaq ue for his Cinderella win in the 250cc U.S, GP at Laguna Seca earlier this year. As we reported last week. former MX National Champion Ma rk Barnett will ride S uzukis f o r Dekalb, Illinois-based Tuf Racing (Continued to page 2) Wh ile the Yamaha FZR750R won't be available in the U.S.• it will be sold in Canada and in other parts of the world . The 437-pound (3 8 8 dry) street legal replica of the '88 YlF750 factory machine features a 749cc. 72 x 46mm bore and stroke, 11 .4:1 compression ratio. 40-degree slant block. liqu id-cooled. fourstroke. five -valve-per-cylinder. DOHC engine with titan ium-alloy connecting rods and two ring pistons (o ne compression ring a nd one oil control ring). The exhaust va lve diameter is 24.5mm, intake va lve d iameter is 23mm. The powerp lan t is hous ed in an a lum inum "diamond" De ltabox frame with alum in um Delta box swinga rm w ith YZF-type c ha in adjuste rs . The fully a djustable (s p ring preload. compress ion a nd re bound da mping ) 43mm front f ork ha s a 24.5 degre e fork ang le w ith 1 0 0 m m of tra il. Rising -rate Monocross rear suspension features a full y adjustable Ohlins shock absorber. Dual 320mm, fu ll float ing , d rilled front discs w ith Nissin fo ur-piston o pposed calipers with d ifferent size pistons (le a ding piston is 30.23m m. t rail ing piston 33.96mm ) a re found up f ront a nd a t the rear a 21 Omm float ing- m ount ed disc wi t h two piston-o pposed calipers. Seventeen-inch hollow spoke a lloy w heels (MT 3 .50 front, MT 5 .50 re ar) ca rry Michel in ra dial tires (1 20/ ,.7 0 front 170/6 0 re ar). Other feature s incl ude ' Exup exhaust cont ro l system w it h stainless stee l four-i ntoo ne exhaust pipe, four Mikuni BDST38 flat s lide carburetors. six-speed close-ratio t ra ns mi ssion . la rg e capacity radiator and liquid-cooled o il cooler. t ransistor-controlled digital ign ition. and a inst ru ment panel t hat includes an electronic tachometer, w ate r temperature gauge and speedometer. Overall le ngt h is 82.7 inc hes, whe elbase 56.9 inche s. seat height 30.9 inc he s a nd ground clearance 4.72 inches.