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Griffith can be reached by calling 209/84 7-5558. Scott Plessinger (Ka w) was the overall winner of the AMA National Championship Hare Scrambles Series round held in Saline, Louisiana, Febru ary 26. Ro unding out the top five were T erry Cunningham (Kaw), Ed Lojak (Yam), Kevin Brown (Ho n) and Joe Zierman (Yam). The Camel Cycle Week AMA National Championship Hare Scrambles scheduled to take place March 10 in the Tomoka State Forest near Daytona. Florida. has been canceled. BMW of North America is offering rebates of $300 to $1000 to purch asers of select new 1988 and 1987 BMW motorcycles, which are purchased between February I, 1989, and July 31, 1989. Purchasers 'of a 1988 K75, K75S, xioons ABS or KlooLTBMW receive a $1000 rebate, purchasers of a 1987/88 KIOORT or 1987 xioot.r get $800, and purchasers of a 198,8 R IO ORS, RIOORT or K75C receive $300. Buyers can choo se to have the incentive paid directly to the dealer to reduce the purchase price of the motorcycle or directly to themselves. MOVED: The American Federation of Motorcyclists L.A. Chapter to 25101 '/2 Feijoa. Lomita. CA 90717; new phone number is 213/326-5679. you run into them, th en you feel a little bit more important." Suzuki Cavalcade owners -who ride their bikes to Daytona for, Camel Motorcycle Week will be eligible for a complete oil change. free of charge. Each day between March 6 and 11 the first 10 Cavalcades brought to J im Walker's Honda/Suzuki. locat ed at 2385 S. Ridgewood Ave. in South Daytona Beach . will receive the free oil change which includes a Suzuki oil filter and oil. For mare information ca ll J im Walker's Honda/Suzuki at 904/ 761 -2411 . The entry lists for the opening three ro unds of the Daytona Budweiser/Wiseco Dirt Track Series March 3-5 at Vol usia County Speedway in Barberville. Florida. show 47 riders with National numbers in the 69 Experts preentered. Among the entries are defending series champ Chris Carr and former series winners Steve Morehead ('87). Ronnie Jones ('8 6) and Terry Poovey as Do ubl e-Barrell ed Racing. will campaign a H arl ey-D avi dso n XR looo in the 1989 AMA Pro Twins Mod ified Prod uction Series and a t several AMA/ CCS an d WE RA Twins events. Rockett, 47, will do th e ridi ng while La Belle will serve as team cap tain and tuner. The bike is the same o ne that wo n the 1985 AMA Battl e of th e T wins H eavyweigh t Production race at Daytona in th e hands of Do ug McClure. West Coast British Racing (WCBR) will again team up with Hap Jones Dist.• Avon Tires and Castrol Oil for the 1989 American Historic Racing Motorcycle Association (AHRMA) and California Vintage Racing Group (CVRG) road race and MX series. Mike Green and Bret Morshead will take no less than five machines to Daytona for the AHRMA season opening v intage road races on Monday. March 6 . Later. Green will be joined by Eric Tucker 'and John Anderson at round one of the AHRMA West /CVRG MX Series at Gambonini Ranch in California on April 9 . Tuner Jerry Griffith, who for years has prepared Camel Pro Series bikes for son-in-law Doug Chandler, is selling all h is Honda race bikes and pan s. According to Griffith's wife, he's "burned out. " · While Griffith will no longer travel the circuit, he will help prepare dirt trackers for SuperTrapp-backed Tricia Lyons. Chan dl er will campaign a Ro b Muzzy-prepp ed Kawasaki in the National Championship Superbike Series and Hank Scott-prepared H ondas in the AMA Grand National Cham p ionship/ Ca mel Pro Series. Daytona Trivia: In 1948 Floyd Emde took his Indian to an 18-second victory over Norton rider Bi ll y Mathews in the Daytona 200. A field of 155 riders started the race on the beach course and 45 were still running at the finish. The purse was $5500 and an estimated 24,000 people lined the course to watch the racing. (Continued to page 2) The June 4 Portland, Oregon, round of th e Motocross Northwest Super Series has been selected to be part of the Portland Rose Festival, a month-long celebration that ranges in events from an Indy car race to the R ose Pa rade. The Albany, Oregon, round of the series will take place on July 23, not July 2 as originally scheduled. For those planning on competing in the Mammoth Mountain MX at Mammoth Lakes . Cal ifornia. the event has been expanded by a day and will include M ini. Vet and Senior classes and will take place June 22-25. The 500. 125. 250cc and Women's classes will still run. in order. from Friday through Sunday. An added f eat ure will be the Expert class shoot-out. where the rider who scores the best overall f inishes in all three Expert classes will be awarded $5000. Riders who are claimed to be confirmed for the event are last year's big winner Rick Johnson. Johnny O·Mara. Ron Lechien and Jeff Ward. For more inf orm at ion call 619/934-2571 . Veteran road racers Ed La Belle and ~George Rockett, collectively known ('81 . '82 and '85). Action in the Friday and Saturday night races begins at 7 p.m. while Sunday's Busch Half Mile gets underway at 2p.m . The 1989 California Off Road Vehicle Association (CO RVA) Convention will take p lace March 10-12 at the Sheraton Newport H o tel in Newport Beach , California, and will feature exhibits and displ ays, guest speakers a nd the latest on the Anza Borrego Perm it system and Cranston's new desert wilderness bill, S11. For more informatio n call 800/23 75436. Joe Patton of J&J Cycle in Ypsilanti. Michigan. recently passed away due to a stroke. Cards and letters can be sent to his wife. Ann. at J&J Cycle. 1196 Ecorse. Ypsilanti. MI 48198. Eight-year 250cc GP road race veteran Martin Wimmer is the latest entry for the Daytona 200 By Arai on March 12. Wimmer, 31, of Munich, West Germany, will ride a Suzuki, backed by Hein Gericke Motorsport. Wimmer will then head to Japan for the GP season opener. He'Il ride an Aprilia in the 250cc World Championship title chase. Jamie Whitham. one of Britain's rising road race stars. is headed for Daytona with a Heron Suzuki GB -backed superbike for the Daytona 200. Whitham is a protege of former GP and Isle of Man TT veteran Mick Grant. Team Honda's Roger DeCoster says that it's important for one of his riders to win the Daytona Supercross to impress the Honda factory technicians. "Daytona is the only time we get to race in front of the road race technicians and engineers from the factory," explained DeCoster. "You want to do good because when you go to the factory in Japan and These photos from Team .Lucky Strike Roberts' recent Australian t est session at Phillip Island shows t hat the Roberts squad definitely has some tricks up their sleeve for t he 1989 season. (A bove) Check out the two-p iece gas tank which to the best of our knowledge houses an on -board computer system designed to monitor goings on inside the Yamaha VZR500. Computer cables are also v isible on the frame below the seat on Kevin Magee's Yamaha. (Below) Team member Warren Willing works on the carburetion on the new Yamaha which appears to be changed from the 1988 model - we doubt. however. that the bike is fuel-injected. but something is definitely different. Roberts reportedly chased the photographer. who had snuck into the facility. but was unable to catch him. 0") 00 0") ......