--Doug Chandler (10) leads Dale Quarterley (3 2 ), Dan Ch iv ington (53) and the rest of the Superbike National int o turn one at Mid-Ohio .
Chandler's win makes him the fourth rider in AMA history ·to .complete
a grand slam; he'd previously won in every form of dirt track racing . .
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AMA Superbike National Championship
Road Race Series: Round 5
Chandler completes,
grand slam at Mid-Ohio
By Brian Catterson
Photos by Bert Shepard
LEXINGTON, OH, AUG. 6
Doug Chandler joined an elite group today
at the Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course, becoming only the fourth rider in AMA racin g
h istory to complete a grand slam by posting
wins in each of the four types
of dirt track racing _ mile,
h If '1 h
k d'IT
a -.ml e, sort. trac an
,
and In road raang.
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-T he Salinas, California-based dirt
tracker-turned road racer became the
newest (and at 23 years of age the
youngest) member to be initiated
into the prestigious club which also
includes Dick Mann, Kenny Roberts
and Bubba Shobert.
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In claiming the Wiseco Superbike
100 win, Chandler ga ve Kawasaki its
first road race victory since Wayne
Rainey won the Superbike crown at
Willow Springs in 1983, and ' kept
alive this year 's string of no-repeat
winners - there have now been five
different winners on four brands of
motorcycles. The win was also
Chandler's first-ever finish on the
Rob Muzzy-tuned ZX7 Superbike.
Chandler rode a flawless race,
dicing with Dale Quarterley until
Quarterley's Fast By Ferracci Ducati
851 broke, then circu lating unchallenged to defeat Yoshimura Suzuki
pilot Scott Russell by 12.71 seconds.
Chan~ler
complete,d 2~ l!1ps of the
2.4-m tle, IS-tu rn circu it in 40 rmnutes, 55.239 seconds at an average
speed of 87.975 mph. A crowd
estimated at 40,000 for the two-day
event watched the proceedings, the
largest SuperCycle Weekend
audience on record.
''I'm pretty proud of myseI£ for
being able to do this (the grand
slam), " said Chandler. "The only
thing is those other guys (Man n ,
Roberts and Shobert) a ll won championships. I haven 't won one .. ."
Russell had sta lled his bike at the
start of his heat race, but overcame
th e problem in the final , launching
from his third-row starting postion
and fighting his way past Canadian
Rueben McMurter and Floridian
Donald Jacks en route to his run nerup finish.
A well-deserved third p lace ' went
to a coming-out-of-retirement Dan
Chivington , who used his notinsignificant home track advantage
to the fullest to pu t a George Vicensiprepared. Honda VFR750 on the
bottom step of the rostrum. Chiving-
