Cycle News - Archive Issues - 1980's

loca l favorite Alan Randt captured f ifth overall on his KTM . He tied Fredette with 12 points, but Fredette edged hi m on the tie-breakers. dropped II poi nts . Anyway, I fin ished th ird overall and d id better th a n Ra ndy, so tha t helps. I didn 't fall down all day and I finished safely a nd that also is som ethi ng. We had a visibi lity prob lem in the morning d ue to the rain a nd fogging goggles. The club did a n excelle nt Job marking th e tr ail but o ra nge a rrows instead of th e bl ack would have been nrce. T eam Kawasaki 's J err Fredette, riding a KDX200, dropped 12 poin ts but had to go to th e tie-break ers to beat out KT;V( riders Alan Randt a nd Rick Sha rphorn for fourth overa ll. Fredett e started slow, goi ng 1-2-3 through th e first three chec ks wi th R and t posting 1-1 -4. Sharpho rn had 0-1-3. Fredett e the n bli tzed the tiebreak er a t 132 (10 m inutes). Randt went 197 (three minu tes) with Sh ar p horn droppi ng 214 (four minutes). All th ree hit th e seco nd tie-b reak er a t four minutes. " I tore som e liga men ts a t th e Po le Pen Nat ional in Mississi p pi," said Frede tte, " b ut it' s o key; I j ust put the foot in the boot and forget a bo ut it. I had a fu n time toda y slipp ing aro und on th e good a i' roo ts. I kep t my feet o n th e pegs a nd o rr the stum ps. The stumps ta ke a lot of peo p le o u t u p here. You 've gotta keep your feet tu cked up ." "I bega n having brake problems two iniles fro m the start," said the series poi nts leader , H awki ns. " I went th rough three sets of bra ke calipers a nd five sets of shoes. In the last sectio n the whole ca liper assem bly carne loose and wrapped a ro und the rear wh eel. I had to ta ke the back wh eel o rr to ge t th e mess stra igh tened o ut. If I would have had a ny kind of brake I co uld have zeroed th e last two sectio ns a nd tha t would have given m e seco nd o vera ll. But I ' d ro p p ed 16 a nd fini shed ninth overa ll." "I had a real bad mornin g," said KTM 's Allen Gravitt, eigh th overall at 15. "I co uld n 't see. I like the terrain and all but wh en you ca n' t see, you can 't go. Good trai l and it was well marked. They might have used a few more danger arro ws. 1 carne up on a littl e whoop and I didn 't think much abo ut it and sta yed on the gas, only on the othe r sid e was a IO-footwid e, five-foot deep 'd itch with two big oak trees o n th e far side. I scared myself but 1 mi ssed the trees. Anyway, thi s is th e best J ack Pine th at I've ridden , as far as being tough enough for the AA guys. If they hadn't lost that other sectio n which Series points le a de r Randy Hawkins suffered rear b rake problems late in the endu ro , w hic h d ropped him to ninth overall in the day's resu lts. Russell is c u rre nt ly ranked third in the series po int s t a nd ings. was suppose to be the AA and A loo p , I'm sure many more points wo u ld've been tak en. " ( do wish th ey would cu t those p ine limb s orr [lush wit h the trees in stead o r letting them sti ck out," said Gravitt. " I had one go into m y jersey and under my shou lder pad. The wa y 1 got out of it was to let go with the throttle ha nd a nd turn backwards in the seat a nd j ust let it slide ou t. I go t lucky, yo u kn ow you did n't get much practice o n th ose kin d of moves ." Kenny Brown , riding a Kaw asaki KDX200 o n m inute 40 with Fredette, dropped 16 poi nts to edge a nother KDX200 rid er , Shawn Luca, who was keyin g o rr Hines on minute 30, by one point and won th e 200cc A class. J eremy Garber, Scott Luca and Steve H at ch scored 16 in th e 250cc A class . Their tie-breaker scores were 446, 474 and 477, resp ectively. T he Keen s a nd Sharphorns, prominent Michigan motorcycling families, cont in ue to generate top-notch motorcycl e ta lent. Lenard Keen, riding a KTM 125 became an in stant A by winning th e B class with a score of 25. Ron Sharphorn, on a KTM 250, mad e a sh ambles of th e C cla ss with a Hi gh Point effort of 30 points. Elizabeth Byrne rode her KTM th rough six ch ecks a nd won th e Women 's trophy. Byrne said sh e KTM-mounted Rick Sharphorn a lso dropped 12 points, tyi ng Fredette and Randt. Sharphorn lost out on the t ie-breakers. fin ishing s ixth overall. would have gone farther but her husband didn't hav e any ga s at th e second gas stop . • Results 0 / A: 1. J eff Russell (Yam). HI PT EX: 1. Terry Cunnin gham (Kaw). HI PT A : 1. Brad Ma lon (Kaw). : HI PT B: 1. Lenard Keen (KTM). HI PT C: 1. Ron Sharphorn (KTM I. AA: 1. Kevi n Hines (KTM I; 2. J eff Fredette (Kaw ); 3. A lan Randt (KTM ); 4. Rick Sharphorn (KTM). 125 A: 1. Bill Catro n (Han): 2. John Hoffman (KTM). 200 A: 1. Ken Brown (Kaw); 2. Shawn Luca (Kaw): 3. J eff Bromley (Yam); 4. H. M cAlli st er (Kaw); 5. Rob Schul te (Kaw). 250 A : 1. Jeremy Garber (Han): 2. Scott Luca (Kaw); 3. Steve Hatch (SUl ); 4. Steve Narel(Yam); 5. Pat Waldie (Han). OPEN A: 1. Todd Weaver (KTM); 2. M ike Wood s (Hus); 3. Dan Holksema (KTM ); 4 . Ron Wh ippl e (Kaw ); 5. Larry Brown (Kaw) . WMN: 1. Elizabeth Byrn e (KTM ). SR A: 1. Denn is Wega ll (Kaw); 2. Harold Hall (KTM ); 3. Garry Doerr (Kaw); 4. John Bombyk (ATKI; 5. Tim Coleman (Han). S/S R: 1. Carl Sharphorn (KTM); 2. Richard France (Kaw) ; 3. Dick lenever (Kaw); 4 . Telford Proffer (KTM); 5. Farr el Lord (Kaw). 4· STRK A : 1. Robert Bennett (Han); 2. Kevin Alle n (KTM I; 3. J ustin Boyers ; 4. Frank Phill ips (Han); 5. Randy Ma stin (Hus). 200 B: 1. Scan Bassen ; 2. Mchael Garvey; 3. Greg Ellis; 4. Dan Polan; 5. Cory Brook lehurst. 25 0 B: 1. Gregg lett; 2. Robert Cook; 3. Greg Clark; 4. Brian Sousa; 5. John Fisher. OPEN B: 1. Allen Scan; 2. Mike Deckeson: 3. Ken Brown; 4. Been Angi ; 5. Randy McCau ly. 4· STK B: 1. Chris Murphy; 2. Tom Tolerder; 3. Dennis Walsh; 4. Chas Daely; 5. Ear l Wilk elm . SR B: 1. Tom Kendall; 2. Davis Sedcrumb; 3. Jame McV icar; 4. Chuck Woods ; 5. Tom Ma ckey. 200 C: 1. Chuck Au stin; 2. Pat Ruddy; 3. Oave Coobs: 4. Glen Meldrun. 250 C: 1. Doug W ilhem; 2. Dua ne Hoff er; 3. Thos Price; 4 . Mark Oswald; 5. Richard Helgr en. OPEN C: 1. James Boyce: 2. Garry Odell ; 3. Bill . Pcrs: 4. Mark Wo lski; 5. J eff Jefferson. 15

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