Cycle News - Archive Issues - 1980's

racing facility th ere. A new site is now being sough t. The proposed facility wo uld ca ter primaril y to drag races, but wou ld likely include a 1.5mile road co urse to be used for testing and club racing o nly. The ultimate goal, however, is the co nstruction of a pa ved o val for NASCAR stock car races. T he new facility would not affect the current Brai nerd , Minnesota, circu it in a ny way , according to Ferro ni . "We're very serious ab out it ," sa id Ferro ni . " It 's go ing to hap pen; the questio n is 'when ?'" ~YP.AP.A Wf.ALfY AMA/ CCS't hree-hour Endurance Challen ge at Road America. June 24. Hyper-Cycle 's Carry Andrew and J eff Farmer (Suz) finished second: with the second Dutchman entry. Dutchman Raci ng II's Tom Kipp and Donald Jacks (Suz) fin ish ing third. Team Toomer's Jon Roberts and Glenn Barry (Yam) won the GTU division. Kurt Hough (Kaw) was the overa ll a nd "250cc class winner at the TwoDay Trask Mo untain Na tional Reliability Trials in Yamhill, Oregon, June 24-25. Other class winners incl uded Joey Lane (Kaw) in th e 125cc division, a nd Dave Bertram (Suz) in the Open cla ss. Wayne Rainey (Yam ) won th e June 24 Dutch TT at Assen, H olland, scoring his third"World Championship Road Race Series victory of the year. Rainey inherited th e win when leader Kevin Schwantz (Suz) wa s forced to retire from the race when his engine broke on the next to last lap. Defending World Champion Eddie Lawson (H o n ) finished second, nearly seven seconds behind Rainey. Third went to Christian Sarron (Yam), fourth to Kevin Magee (Yam ) and fifth to Pier-Francesco " Chili (Hon), Randy Mamola (Cag) finished II th and fellow American Freddie Spencer (Yam) 13th. Rainey extended his leading points total to 143. Lawson is second with 127, Sarron third with 97, and Magee fourth wi th 83. Reinhold Roth (Hon) scored his first GP win of the year in t he 250cc race at Assen , topp ing runner-up Sito Pons (Hon) and " third place finisher Jacques Cornu (Hon) after a race long battle. Defending 250cc World Champion Pons still holds a commanding lead in the point standings, leading Roth 164 to 103. Cornu is third with 100 points. Rick Johnson (Hon ) returned to racing action at the Mammoth Mountain MX at Mammoth Lakes, California, June 23-25. The multitim e National Champion has been sidelined since br eaking hi s wrist in March. Johnson won all th ree professional cla sses, the 125, 250 and 500cc classes. In th e 125cc class, J ohnson was followed by T y Davis (Suz) and Doug Du bach (Yam). In the 250cc division, second p lace went to Er ik Kehoe (S UI) w ith Larry Broo ks (Hon) finis hi ng thi rd. In the 500cc d iv ision, Dubach claimed second with Bri an My er scough (Hon ) tak ing thi rd. Dutchman Racing's Dale Quarterley and Mike Harth (Suz) won the On Thursday. June 22. The Cali- " fornia Fish and Game Commission put the desert tortoise on the state's list of threatened species. Recreational desert users and ranchers feel the action will restrict public access to the desert. i n that the listing will permit fencing along highways on which tortoises are frequently killed and that events such as the Barstowto-Vegas race may not be allowed. In fact. M ike Bishop. w ho joined the likes of District 37 legislative officer Dana Bell and CORVAvice president Steve Kueh l at the Fish and Game Commission meeting at which the listing was announced. said. "The l ot t ery drawing for B-to-V was scheduled . to be held July 1. but it is now on hold ," Kuehl said. "This is - war : ' . Kurt H all (Ya m ) won th e WE RA Toyota/Dunlop Formula USA road race at Pennsylvania's Pocono linernational Raceway, June 25. Hall finished 31 seconds ahea d of runnerup Paul Bray (SUI). Third went to Don Canet (Suz). H all took over th e series point standings lead with a 158 to 120, over Chuck Graves (SUI ) who DNF. ma y be used in, which is the July I Camel Pro Half Mile at Hagersto wn Speedway in Maryland. Eddie Ad kins , who fields bik es fo r Rodney Fa rri s, said, " 1 doub t if we'll use them a t H agerst own. They're defi nitel y n o t a bo l t-on item a n d machine work has to be done on th em . Plus, we "have to mak e new i nt a ke man ifol ds a nd b ui ld new exhaust systems du e to the different exhaust port a ngle. I'd like to test them befo re we use th em in a , Na tiona l." Gary Hildreth. sales coord in ator f or Dyna Tour - t he U.S . distribut o r of Nolan and Kiwi helmet s. rec ent ly issue d an official rep ly t o " t he Snell M emorial Foundation's de ce rtif ica t io n of Nolan's M 4 2 helmet . Accord ing to Hildreth . Dyna Tou r believes t hat for t he Snell Memoria l Fou ndation to make public the iss ua nce of a t em p o r ary restrai n ing order. w hich was allegedly obtained by Snell without h av i n g all owe d Dyna To ur adeq uate ti m e t o respon d. is " unconscionable . " The complaint was se rved i n Chicago on April 24. 1989. an d was heard in New York on May 2 . during w hich time Steve Payne. president of Dyna Tour. was in Europe. Hildreth said that Dyna To ur categorica lly rejects th e claim that any decertification is justified or warranted; that on ly t he model N42 is involved. and that this model represents . less t han 1000 helmets in tota l. Dyna To ur int ends to vigorously contest th is cla im. and feels that this action was ta ken by the Snell Memorial Foundation as a retaliatory measure. taken as a resu lt of an ongoing invest igat ion conducted by Dyna Tour wh ich Hil dreth cla ims w ill expose the inadequacies of the foundation. N A M E D : Ga ry V an Voorhis. f o r m er C ycle Ne w s associa te ed itor. director of publicity for D ay tona Internation al Speedway; in addition t o hi s Camel Cycle Week duties at D aytona . Van Voorh is w ill help promote other events at Daytona. Tall adega. Darlington and Wa tkins Glen. The AMA has approved, effective July I, new cylinder heads for th e Harley-Davidson XR750 dirt track e ngi n e. "T h e new ca stings a re updated versions of the two -valve heads used on th e XR since its introduction in th e early 1970's. Changes include the use of oval intake pons a nd a different exhaust port angle. The fir st heads were shipped last week and there's doubt whether they 'll appear o n co mpe t-, itors bikes at th e first National they. H ow ard Belmont, 76, died of ca ncer on June 14. Belmont o perated a H arl ey-Davidson dea lershi p in St. Paul , Mi nneso ta, for 42 years, from 1939 to 1981, an d was a life member of th e AMA a nd a member of the Minneso ta Ant ique M.e. H e celebrat ed h is last birthday by tak in g one of hi s grandsons for a ride on his Harl ey. His fun eral p rocessio n included a pp roxima tely 200 motorcyclists a nd th eir bikes. Godspeed , Howard . The 3 rd Ann ua l Wegman Benefit Endurance Race w ill be he ld at Blackhawk Far ms Raceway in So uth Belo it. Illinoi s. J uly 8 . The three-hour road race w ill be ru n in conjunction w it h AMA/CCS M idwest Region races. The Wegman Benefit is he ld to raise f unds to help AMA /CCS M idwest Region racers who sus tain serious injuries while racing". Past benefits have bee n held to assist indiv idual racers. but this year's event w ill establish an ongoing fund and non-profit organization to assist more riders and expand t he pro"gram in t he f ut ure. An auction will be conducted following t he endurance race. Motorcycle an d race relat ed it em s will be auct ioned as well as non-motorcycle item s. Donations can be sent to th e Wegman Benefit Fund. Accoun t #1700086898 . c /o Re public [Co n tin ue d to p ag e 62) BMW is now offering a red-and -white Paris-Dakar ve rsion of their popular R100GS enduro . to be sold both as a complete motorcycle and in kit form . The kit. which will retail for approximately $2000 (individu al components are available separately). will orig inally fit o nl y t he R1 OOGS. bu t a retrofit kit for t he R80GS model is also being p rep ared - t h is in addition to that model's existing Paris-Daka r ki t . Incl uded in the new ki t are a 7 .7-gallon plastic fuel tank with lock ab le storage compartment . fa iring . rectangular headlamp. tachometer. quartz clock. alu m inu m engine protection plate. plastic engine cover. f ront fender. and a solo seat with a luggage rack . Details are ava ilable from BMW dealers. Gary Callahan. 31. of D rexel Hill. Pennsylvania. succumbed t o injurie s he suffered in a crash d u r i ng a WERA r oa d r ace at Pocon o Interna t iona l Raceway. Ju ne 24 . Calla ha n was pro nounced dead at the scene. Godspeed. Gary. • Brainerd Interna tiona l R acewa y officia ls are p lann ing to construct a new ra cing faci li ty in southeas t W isconsin, midway between th e metro p o litan area s of Chi cago , Ill in ois, and Milwaukee, Wi sconsin . According to track sp oke sman Dave Ferro ni , a si te was p urcha sed in Mount Pleas ant To w n sh ip in Racine County, but zoning ordinances prev ented constr uctio n of the 1

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