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Sadowski was happy to win after
a year full of disappointments.
AMA/CCS Yokohama 600cc
Supersport Series: Final round
Barnes-burner!
By Brian Catterson
DAYTONA BEACH, FL, OCT. 29
At last year's Daytona Race of
Champions, Florida's Michael
Barnes posted second- and
third-place finishes in the
Novi ce ranks.
My how times change . . .
This year, Barnes wa s a continual
threat to the Experts. His win in
Saturday's Middleweight Supersport
race (the amateur equivalent of th e
Nationa l 600cc Supersport class,
with some minor airbox rules differences ) in th e absence of the topranked professionals showed that h e
could beat the best of the rest.
And when the weather turned for
the worse shortly before the start of
the final round of th e AMA /CCS
Yokohama 600cc Supersport Series,
and the few pro riders crashed or
opted not to participate, the road was
paved for a re peat performa nce.
Barnes splashed his way to the lead
on the second lap of the restarted 10lap event, and ran the remaining
distance unchallenged. Floridian
Jeff Farmer, in just his second
National since his Mid-Ohio crash,
finished in th e runner-up position,
with Canadian Jacques Guen ette
third, all three riding Yamaha
FZR600s .
Since Barnes' Yamaha was shod
with Yokohama tir es, he became th e
long-awaited recipient o f th e first
$5000 Yokohama contingency check.
Barnes is spo nso re d by Margate
Motorcycl e World, Tony Doukas,
Lockhart, Ar ai , Phil Fl ack and
Fieldsheer.
A number of would-b e frontrunners were elim ina ted in the ea rlygoings.
David Sadowski had borrowed a
Yamaha from a Novice rider b y
promising he would help set the bike
up, and he won Frida y's first fivelap qualifying heat handily, beating
Ohio's Tom Kipp by nearly three
seconds. But what could have been
Sadowski's best-ever weekend ended
wit h a first la p crash in the final and
a resulting broken co llarbone. And
with just a week until th e Suzuki
C up Finals at Georgia 's R o a d
Atlanta, his was not an enviable
position,
The second ill-fated rider was
none other than Kipp, who was
fortunate not to be injured when he
dropped his Yamaha, attempted to
stand up whil e sti ll slid in g quite fast,
and ended up pl aying "Giant Step."
Perhaps Sadowski and Kipp
should hav e joined Scott Zam pach
and John Ashmead at tracksid e in
th e ro le of spe ctators,
" I didn't want to ri sk it th is close
to th e Suzuki Cup Fin a ls," sai d
Zampach , wh o was speakin g fro m
ex perience , h aving a lready " ri sked
it " a nd crashed on unscrubbed tires
in th e high-speed , left-hand ' in field
kink on th e first lap o f his heat race.
Zampach had borrowed a Yam aha
for th e fin al aft er his was foun d to
be too badly bent, and had pl anned
o n running his 750cc Suzuki as well ,
but wh en th e rains came he op ted
to sit this o ne o u t.
Likew ise Ashmead, who when
ask ed if there was too much rain for
hi~ : glibly replied, " No, too much
b.s,
With Zampach and Ashmead both
sitting out, th e point spread at th e
top of th e table remained th e same
(117-95), and Yamaha's Tom Halverson presented them each with contingency checks for their first and
second-place series finishes , Zarnpach poc keted $2000 i n Yamaha
money; Ashmead earned $1200.
Halverson also had an $800 check
for Cam Roos, who was the only
rider within striking distance of
Ashmead, but who was crippled in
a Colorado racing accident.
The first attempt at a start saw
K&P Racing's Farmer lead followed
by Florida's Jon Roberts , Kipp,
Barnes and Larry Schwarzbach. But
the race was red-flagged before the
first lap went into the books, and a
long delay ensued before the racing
resumed.
The restart eventually saw
Schwarzbach lead until lap two
when he lost the front end going into
th e Internationa l Horseshoe and
crashed. Barnes had been breathing
down Schwarzbach's neck, and with
the Texan gone the race was all his .
Farmer tried, but Barnes gradually
outdistanced him, both riders riding
ever-so-smoothly in the wind-driven
rain.
Behind the forlorn lead duo, a race
for third deve loped between New
J ersey's John Condron and Minnesota's Joh n J acob. Bu t both were
being caught by Guenette, a ' rookie
expert who began the year on a
Kawasaki ZX7 and now rides a limegreen FZR out of Simonette Yamaha.
Guenette had started at the rear of
th e grid and was working his way
through the pack, his Great White
North rain ex pe rie n ce obviously
paying off in spades.
On lap two, Guenette was seventh;
by lap four, fifth. On the seventh goround he outbraked both riders
through the deep standing puddles
of th e ch ica ne to claim third. Once
past. he simply motored away. Jacob
finished fourth , with Condron fifth.
Kevin Lenzm ei er of Minn es ota ,
Mark H eiser of Pennsylvania, B.B.
Montema yor of Texas , Mi cha el
Lehning of Florida and Ken Staveski
of Connecti cut rounded o u t th e top
10; all but Lehning (H o nda CBR600)
on Yamahas.
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The 1989 winner of the National Championship
Hare & Hound Series is the same winner as in
1988, 1987, and 1986. Only one rider could
dominate so completely. Only Dan Smith. And this year,
only one bike was good enough for Dan. Only KTM.
Dan rode the "beastmaster" KTM 540 d/xc* to victory
in four of the seven events. And he led the final event,
in hot, fast, and dusty Lucerne Valley, wire to wire.
With dominance like that, it's no wonder KTM is being
hailed as the King of the Desert.
We knew it all along. We designed the 1990 540
d/xc to be the ultimate open-class machine. The
revolutionary new 540 cc powerplant and new chassis
setting combines for maximum power.
And this same 540 d/xc is available to you now, at
your nearest KTM dealer. It's waiting impatiently for you
there, along with the complete line of 1990 desert,
enduro, and motocross sport motorcycles.
Results
A MA/CCS VOKOHAMA 600 S/S PRT FINA L:
1. Michael Barnes (Yam); 2. Jeff Farmer (Yam);
3 . Jacques Guenette (Yam); 4 . John Jacob (Yam) ;
5. John Condron (Yam); 6. Kevin lenzmeier (Yam);
7. Mark Heise r (Yam); 8. B.B. Montemayor (Yam);
9. Michael Lehni ng IHonl; 10. Ken Staveski (Yam);
11. M orris Foor (Vam); 12. Gerard James Hoppa
(Vam); 13. Sam M cDonald (Varni; 14. Gary Lewis
(Vam); 15. Pat Jo hnso n (Vam). TIME : 25 min.. 41 .57 sec.
AVERAGE SPEED: 83.136 mph
A MA/CCS VOKOHA M A 600 S/ SPRT SERIES
FINAL POINT STA NDINGS: 1. Scon Zampach 11 17);
2. Jo hn Ash mead (9 5); 3. Cam Ros (9 1); 4 . J eff
Far mer 1
841; 5. (TIE) M ike SarneslTom Kipp (65);
7. Larry Schwarzbach (45); 8. (TIE) John Jacob I
John Eidenberger (361; 10. M ark Chin (35); 11. (TIE)
Kevin Rentzell /Nick lenatseh (30); 13 . (TIEl 8ill
Graef/M ike Moores (24); 15. Mark Heiser (23); 16.
John Kocinski (20); 17. Glenn Barry (18); 18 . (TIE)
David Sadowski /Doug Tosten/ Robbie Petersen/
Jon Robert s (16) .
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