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Cycle News 1989 04 26

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That I was still at Laguna, here with the joys and the sorrows of this U.S. GP. I was having breakfast in Monterey, the race over, the weekend gone. It was Monday and I was going to ride home again - another time, another long road, another motorcycle adventure. But I sat there alone in the hotel restaurant, gazing at the pines and rich green cypress under the Penninsula's gray marine clouds. And I thought about the 1989 United States Grand Prix that our road racers Wayne Rainey and John Kocinski had won the day before at Laguna Seca. Another double American 2501500 victory! The second in three GPs this year! How proud we were, how exciting it was to see our own Wayne and John and Kevin and Jimmy and Eddie among those races' Top Three! The GPs had all the drama and humanity of the best oj' theater. The Laguna crowd saw it, here again on the grassy hillsides. American and foreign journalists jammed the Media Center above Turn One, sending the word to the world. The television crews did their live and video tape coverage - for showing the 250 race here in the U.S. on ESPN on April 22 at 6 p.m. Eastern, and the 500 on NBC at 3 p.m. Eastern April 23. It was all so beautifully done, with the produc~ tion style and talents of Scotty Connal, Mark Gleckl, and Jay Hansen -.and the absolute artistry and bravery of the international GP riders themselves. Those incredible road racers who are the real thing in our own wildest dream to take a motorcycle and make it into a Godlike Spirit we ride toward another dimension, toward the checkered flag. To Victory! And the rewards of having done it! And then this fantastic vision became a sudden nightmare. Two of the world's finest riders were down in a clash of postrace elation and ironic tragedy. And the saddness enveloped the place. It ate at our senses and brought tears to our eyes, prayer to our lips. And that dark realization that our own health and vitality is perhaps the most fragile of all things. Bubba Shobert. Kevin Magee. Words fail me to write more. Th'ere are none. Only what the heart will say is left to be said. William Edgar WIND: All the latest from gossip and race results 2 ROAD RACING: Rainey rails to Laguna Seca U.S. GP win 6 SUPERCROSS: Lechien, Ward score 12 big in Pontiac doubleheader HARE & HOUND: Roeseler/Parry top Las Vegas 300 16 HARE SCRAMBLES: Cadiz National win to Summers 20 MOTOCROSS: Trampas Parker scores 125cc G P win in Italy 22 ULTRACROSS: Tyson Vohland collects New Orleans gold 24 LOCAL RACING: Who's going fast in your neck of the woods 26 CALENDAR: Race dates and 38 places to race WANT ADS: Lef your fingers . do the shopping .. : '.. 43 ON THE FRONT PAGE: Team Lucky Strike Roberts' Wayne Rainey couldn't be caught at the Laguna Seca U.S. GP in Monterey, California. Check out page six for GP race I coverage. Photo by Henny Ray Abrams. ----~------------------------------------------------- -----------, . SUBSCRIPTION ORDER FORM _ Name--=-7:'::-::-::=~-::-:C='-- tPlEASE PRINT CLEARlYI Address --:--.: _ City State OrderDMe: -,--<.Zip _ _ OK, please stilrt my subscription to Cycle News and send me the newspaper ___ ~ 2nd _ ca I __ or ~. M••1co .nd .n ocher foNign coun1ria Charge my 0 Visa 0 Mastercard .-arc· Signature o every week for one year (50 issues) for $35.00 o every week for two years (100 issues) for $66.00 o six months second class (25 issues) for $18.00 OM _ , (50 Fint o This is a renewal o Please bill me o Enclosed is check or 'money order MC /Visa# _ _-'-875.00 fU.S. fundal· ~ .,....-,...:::-:: Expiration Date _ _ _ u _ ~ . Send to: CYCLE NEWS, Inc., P.O. Box 498. Long Beach, CA 90801-0498 / (213) 427·7433 ~ ~-~-- ~~~ __ I. ~3

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