Cycle News - Archive Issues - 1980's

John Ashmead of the Rough Stock Racing A ll-Stars leads Da le Quarterley of Dutchman Rac ing II through the co rnfields of Heartland Park Topeka. M ike Harth replaces Donald Jacks at t he hel m of the Dutchman Racing Suzuk i . A lo ng w ith teammate Kev in Rentzell. the team f in ished t hird . AMA/CCS EBC Brakes Endurance Ch~lIenge Road Race Series: Round 8 Dutchman II wins one in Kansas By Brian Catterson Photos by-Paul Carruthers and Catterson TOPEKA, KS, SEPT. 2 In years pas t, Dutchman Racing team captain Dave Schlosser would h ave been satisfied with win n in g the AMA/CCS EBC Brakes Endurance Challenge Championsh ip . But this year, with th e seri es 30 titl e already under his belt and I three races remaining, Sch losser is not co nten t with th e Team OTS' Robbie Petersen (left) and Frank Klementich won GTU. team 's number o ne p la te - he now wa nts n umber two as well. T hrougho u t thi s seaso n, Sch los ser has ente red two teams - Dutchman Racin g wi th Dal e Quarterl ey 'a nd Mik e Harth o n the number 2 1989 Suzu ki G SXRllOO, a nd Dutchman Ra cing II with Tom Kip-p a n d Donald J acks o n th e number 7 '88 GSXRlIOO . Th is weekend, Schlosser a ltered th e sta tus quo , a nd showed up with a seco nd '89 GSXRl lOO bearin g the number 7 o f Dutchman II. The plan was for Quarterley, a lready this year's co-cha m p ion , to join Kipp on th e Dutchman II ma chine in an effort to secu re second place in the season points standings. The plan appea rs to be working. Quarterley and Kipp wo n the threehour race a t Heartland Park Topeka, vaulting from eigh th to third in points, and Dutchman II now lies just one point sh y of the secondpl aced Ro ugh Stock Racing AllStars, 65 to 64. Tied with Dutchman II for th ird in p oints is Team Gibsonia /Englert Racing, whil e just another point back is T eam Motor Sport. It's lik el y to be a clo se fini sh. Dutchman II com p leted 93 laps of th e new 2.5-mile, I-t-turn H eartl and Park T opeka ci rcu it a t a n average spee d o f 77.226 mph to defeat th e AllSta rs ' John Ashmead a nd Doug Brauneck by a marg in of o ne minute, 37 seco nds, nearl y a r o m p lete lap. " Victo ry lan e never felt this good befor e," sai d Kipp a fter the race . Du tchman is sponso red by Ara i, Fox, Sudco, Michelin , Petro vich , FBF , Bentley's, Mikuni , T subaki , - PBl, EBC and Penn zoil. Dutchman II ma naged to go the d istan ce on o ne set o f tires, in sp ite o f th e rubber-hungry asp ha lt, wh ile the All -Star s' Honda RC 30 required a len gth y tire cha nge. " We made a wrong decision on th e front tir e and we had to change it at the second sto p. It cos t us th e race," sa id Brauneck. Adding to th e All- Star s' troubl es was th e fact that for th e seco nd consecu tive ti me, they were docked a lap for passing under a waving yell ow flag. But unl ike the Sears Point race, here th ey were not a lo ne: n in e teams were pe na lized for the same in frac tio n, a ll occ ured in th e same location. The waving yellow was di splayed for 20 laps whi le o il was cleaned up after Stephen Matthews of th e Roswell H onda Racin g tea m , th e GTU lead er just sho rt o f the halfway po int, cras he d in right-hand turn fiv e, sp litt ing th e engine cases and dumping oi l o nto th e racing line. Joining the All-Stars in accruing o ne-la p pe na lties were Dutchman Ra cing, South Florida Ra cing, Lucky Dog Racing, T eam Boulder Yamaha, Just For Fun, T eam Fuzzy and R ice Burner; Insulate Industries and 3-D Racing were do cked two la ps. Natura lly, th e penalties wreaked havoc on the resul ts, but in the end, a number of th e penalized teams managed to finish well. Among them were Dutch ma n Ra cing's Harth, who tea med with Jacks and the returning-from- injury Kevin Rentzell to finish third, just one lap behind the leaders. The unpen alized Gibsonia /Eng lert e n try of Dave Smith and Eric Moe took fourth place on their Yamaha FZR I000, with Insulate Industries and Boulder Yamaha both ov ercoming

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