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ville Salt Flat competitors to sponsor. Send resumes (include your 1990 racing plans) to Hildreth at Triton Internationa l. 1111 Lake Cook Rd .. Buffalo Grove. IL 60089. o 0') 0') ...... fiY P.AP.A Wf.ALfY Four-ti me Nationa l Hare & H ou nd Champion Dan Smith (KT M) was the overa ll an d Open class winner a t the ope n in g round o f th e AMA Nati onal Championship Hare & H o u nd Series in L ucerne Valley, Ca liforn ia, J anuary 28. T ed Hunnicu tt (Ka w) finished second overa ll a nd Ch ri s Crandall (AT K) was third. La rry Roeseler (Kaw) was fourth overa ll a nd first in th e 250cc class. J immy Lewis (KT M) was the 125cc class winner. Ted Hunnicutt and Dan Ashcraft (Kaw) were the unofficial overall and Open class winners at the SCORE Parker 400 in Parker. Arizona. January 27 . Second overall went to Larry Roeseler and Danny laPorte (Kaw), while Charlie Morris and Joey Lane (Kaw) topped the 250cc class. ern California's Carlsbad Raceway. January 28 . After finishing 11th in the previous night's Anaheim Supercross. M ike Fisher (Kaw) topped the 250cc Pro class. Kyle Lewis (Kaw) scored the - 125cc Pro class win and Rex Staten (Hon) was the Vet Pro class w inner. T allon Vohland (Kaw ) to p ped both th e 125 and 250cc Pro classes in ro un d three o f th e G FI Ca liforn ia Winter MX Series North at Wh it e Wolf Raceway in Arvin, January 28. Ra y Crumb (Kaw) fin ished seco nd in both classes, while Rick LUll (Kaw) an d Bria n Ro th (Kaw) fin ished third in the 125 and 250cc classes. Irv Achz ige r (H on) wo n th e Vet Pro class. BORN : Shannon Ashley Howell. daughter of Team Green off-road racer Brett Howell and his wife Vicki, on January 10 in Apple Valley. California. T he fi na l rou n d o f the Fl orida Winter AMA MX Series ran J anua ry 27-28 a t G ainesvi ll e 's Ga torback Park. Chris Co lem an (Kaw) turned in a pair o f runner -up performances to top th e 125cc Pro class a nd win th e series tit le in th at class. Gene Naumec (Kaw) went 4-3 to top the 250cc Pro class, but J ohn Dowd (Kaw), wh o fini shed third overa ll o n th e da y, won the series cha m p io n sh ip . Road race r Jimm y Adamo tells Pap a th at he was " the first entry for th is year 's Da ytona 200 a nd Pro Twins G ra nd Prix I " roa d races. " I 'Il be racing a T eam Leoni Du cati 851," said Adamo , " with sponsorshi p fro m Arai , Agip, T sub aki , Aut olite, F&L Ra ci ng Fuel a nd Gi a Ca Mo to ." Mike Healey (KTM) was the 500cc Pro class winner at the fourth round of the CMC/Dodge Truck Golden State Nationals at south - Gary Hi ldreth . Kiwi Helmets' national sales manager. says Kiwi is looking for road racers. dirt trackers. drag racers and Bonne- Multi-time Supercross and National Champion Rick Johnson was presented a Ferrari 308 by apparel sponsor"JT Racing USA's John and Rita Gregory at a ceremony in Anaheim. California. January 25. The car was formerly owned by motocross legend Bob Hannah. who received it as part of his salary when he rode for JT. Hannah returned the car when he left the company -a year before his contract with JT was due to expire. 2 Team Honda MXers Rick Johnson a nd Jean- Michel Bayle wi ll be o n h an d a t a n open h ouse at Bob Lu nsford 's Northwest H onda in H ouston, Texas, o n Friday, Feb ru ary 2, the day before th e H ouston ro und of the Ca m e l Supercross Series. Joh nson a nd Bayle wi ll be signing autograp hs bet wee n 5:30 ' p.m . a nd 7:30 p .m. For m or e informa tio n, call 713/ 447-3476. From Matt Lindsay of San Diego. California. comes word that Scott Thompson. 38. passed away recently. the victim of a heart attack. Thompson was a long time figure on the southern California motocross scene and he worked as a mechanic at many companies. including Wheelsmith Motorcycles and the Horsepower Factory. He assisted in the development of the Four-Btroke -National-winning HPF Specials. Godspeed. Scott. HIRED: Jim Leonard, as a mech anic for Vance & Hines' road raci ng effort; Leona rd previ ousl y worked as a tuner for roa d racer Barry Bu rk e, whose Yamaha s a re n o w b ein g prepared by J im 's brother, Mitch. The Mid-Atlantic Road Racing Club is seeking cornerworkers for Daytona Cycle Week. March 2 11 . Cornerworkers will receive special event T -shirts . free lunches and. of course. an upclose view of the races . For more information. contact Roger Lyle at 301 /933-2599. J .H. " H owdy" Lee, 80, passed away on Decem ber 8 in Victorvi lle , Ca lifornia. The opera tor of Lee's Mot orcycle Shop in Pomona, Ca liforn ia, wh er e h e so ld - H arl ey-D av id son , T riu m p h a nd Velocett e m o torcycles for over 30 years until it s closing in 1966, Lee was th e fa th er of long-time desert "race r Monte Lee. Gods peed , H owdy. REMINDER : The February 10 HR780 hearing will take place at Beverly Hills High School. 241 Moreno Drive. Beverly Hills. California . The meeting starts at 10 a.m . Take the time to attend and protest this bill that calls for offroad vehicle use to be banned on over nine million acres of California's desert. You don't have to speak at the hearing but your prese nce will help send a clear message to lawmakers that we don 't w ant to be locked out of our desert. If yo u ca n' t a tte nd the February 10 hearing, wr ite a letter to Honorable Bru ce Vento, Chairman, Subcomm iu ee o n National Parks a n d Public Lands, U.S . House of Rep resen ta tives, Wash in gton, DC 20515 a nd tell Con gressman Vento tha t you stro ng ly oppose both HR780 and SRll , th e California Desert P ro tection Act. T ell him tha t you feel th e Bureau of La nd Managemen t is p rotectin g the deser t adequate ly under its current desert m anagem ent pl an. Tell him th at th e desert is for a ll responsible user s, not just hikers. Send cop ies to you r ow n Co ngressman (yo u ca n find o ut who your Co ngressma n is by -referr ing to th e whi te pages of yo u r phone book in the Go vernment sectio n under Vot er Reg istra tio n ) an d to Sena to r Pete Wil son, U.S. Senate, Wa shing to n, DC 205 10. According to Bieffe USA. Inc.• the North American representatives - of Bieffe Helmets. the firm has posted approximately $200.000 in contingency money for the following : AMA road race. dirt track. motocross and supercross; and the WERA Formula USA. Endurance. Superstock A and Superstock B series. For more information . contact Bieffe at 408 /436 -8098. J im Bat es, Ame rican Honda's public relations d irector, called Cycle N f!WS to clarify last week 's Wind ite m on Bubba Shobert. Accordi ng to Ba tes, Shobert is no t employed in Am eri can H onda 's public rela tions depar tm ent; ra ther h e's em p loyed as a co nsu ltan t, Butch LaCroix. former mechanic for road racers David Sadowski, Jamie James and Team Suzuki Endurance. and who last year worked with Eddie Law' son's Rothmans Honda GP effort. is now offering his performance services at Jack Smith's Sport Cycle Products in Kintersville. Pennsylvania. British Na tio na l Ch am p ion Julian Ra wso n o f Dunstable, Engla nd, will co mpete in both th e 125 an d 250cc classes at th e 7th Annual Budweiser Indoor MX Championshi ps a t Sa n Franci sco 's Cow Pa lace over th e February 9-11 weekend. Ra wso n will ride Yamah as ou t of Dick Bran dt 's Concord Ya maha. Rawson and th likes of Aren across National Champion Dennis Ha wthorne, Ultracros Nat ional C ha m p ion Jim H olley, a nd Tallon Voh land, who wi ll b ma ki ng h is arenacross de bu t, wil l co mpete in the Semi-Pro race pro grams Friday a nd Sa tu rday ni gh ts. Youth/Amat eu r raci ng will be co nducted o n Su nday . HIRED : Mike Meredith Suzuki/Kawasaki Country of Norco. California; Meredith. formerly of Ceet, will be working in the racing department and will handle the rider support program as well as advertising. A $ 100 rewa rd is bei ng o ffered for the return o f, or in for ma tio n leading to the recovery o f a Kin g two -way radio th at was lost in th e Im pe rial Sa nd Du nes (G la rnis, Ca liforn ia ) by a member of th e Volun teer Im perial Dunes Pa tro l o n J anuary 14. The radio is marked as property of the Bureau of La nd Ma nageme nt a nd the serial n u mber is 303004. The radio was purchased with OHV Green Sticker fun ds. Radios are used by the Dune Pat ro l to coordinate eme rge ncy assi stance to injured or stran ded riders. If yo u h ave a ny information that co u ld lead to its recovery , call 619/352-5842. Enrollment f or t he sp ring semester Motorcycle Repair Class a Citrus College in Glendora. Californ ia, is now open . Both beginning an d advanced classes are b ei n g offe red an d subject covered include four-stroke and two-stroke engine theory. carburertion, electrical diagnosis and chassis systems. For more information on the night courses. call 818/914-8511. T he p romot ers o f th e Ca mel Su percross Series have a n nou nce d th a Du nl op is th e offi cial tir e o f th series, NG K th e o fficia l spark p lug an d H ondalin e th e o fficia l ap parel. Other firms interested in becomin