Cycle News - Archive Issues - 1990's

Ray Crumb (~1) darts to the outside of Jon Nelson (6) in the 250cc Pro class. Crumb won both the 125 and 250cc Pro divisions. GFI California Winter MX Series North: Round 2 Crumb cleans :'up at Huron l . hi .bBy Donnetta and Bob Murray b JI H U RO N, CA, JAN. 21 u ~ Kawasaki . Team Green's Ray Crumb hit the . jackp o t at Huron Cycle Parkfor the second round of the GFI Winter MX Series North &, by winning both 250cc Pro motos for the , overall title and taki ng two second p laces in both 125cc 8 P d hf ~ ro moto~, ~oo enoug or an overall WIn In that class, too. I Crumb timed the gate just right in the first 250cc P ro moto and was • able to get th e hol esh ot by two bike ;{ lengths. From that point on · th ere .. was no stopp in g him as he rode an 1 unch all en ged race . Second ' off th e lr1 ~ tar t was Sven Stillmoc k, followed r .. closel y by J immy Cl ay , Rich ard Myth en an d Danny Pal ad in o. J on ~ Nelso n wa s pinc hed off in the .firs t t turn and ended u p back in th e pack. As Crumb padded his lead, Nelson was making hi s m ove a nd had sett led ~' into fourth pl ace by the en d of the first lap. Within an o ther h alf-lap, "' Nelson had moved u p another two , pl aces, o vertaking Sti ll mock 'a n d My then . Cl a y sto le third from " Myth en b y taking an inside lin e. By th e h alfway mark, Crumb was .f 12 seco nds ahead of Nelson who was ••in h ot pursuit of th e illusive lead. Clay closed th e ga p between seco n d ,,( a nd third, challe nging Nelson forthe a second place slo t. T ony McG rath .ch ad moved up th rough th e p ack to slip past Myth en for fourth. · Clay contin ued to push Nelson an d the l), t wo battled for seco nd th roughout th e rem ainder of th e mo to. Clay • wo u ld go wid e trying to ga in the advantage, but Nelson co ntinuously <, sh u t th e door o n h im . Crum b cautio usly picked th ro ugh lap ped rid ers to cru ise p ast the checkered flag. " O nce I got ou t front I just kept going," sai d the Team G reen Kawa saki's Crumb a t the fin ish. " I just tried to stay smooth a nd out of th e I, ruts. Once I got th e 'halfway flag, I slo wed down so me." . ( a Nelson an d Clay were still fightin g .., for seco nd a t th e finish line. Clay ' made one more bo ld attemp t to overt ake Ne lso n as the duo cro ssed the tabletop side-by-si de , but Nelson ~ agai!1 h eld h im o ff an d m anaged to stay Ju st 10 front of Cla y a t th e finish, McGrath h eld onto fourth pl ace, while Brian Ro th finish ed in fifth . Pal adin o grabbed th e h ol eshot in th e seco n d 250cc Pro moto follow ed o n the fir st turn by Roth an d Nelson. Nel son was quickly passed by Crumb and th e p ai r diced ba ck an d forth th roughout th e lap. 'Pa ladino relinq ui shed hi s lead to Roth, follow ed closely by Crumb who had passed Nelson for th e fin a l time. Crumb next put th e hea t on Pal adino with th e position p assi n g back and forth between the two riders. Wi th Paladino finall y p assed, Crumb was next after Roth, wh o wa s holding o n tightly to first during th e th ird lap. Nelson caugh t a rut in a sh arp rig hth and tu rn, wen t downand was out fo r th e moto. With Nelson o ut, Clay m oved into th e fourth pl a ce slo t. At the fro nt, Crumb co ntin uous ly ch a llenged Roth and th e top two were running ra gged trying to ou tpace on e another . In th e n ext la p, Crumb went down in a tu rn, but los t orily one position to Pal adino. Paladino got stuc k on a berm, surre nderi n g second place back to Crumb an d giving u p o ne ' m ore place to Clay. In th e next to last lap, Crumb o u tju m pe d Ro th on th e ta bletop but went wide o n th e following tu rn allowing Roth to m a in tai n . th e lead, but Crumb snagged th e lead from Roth on the backside o f the lap to fin ally tak e over first. Cr u m b, Ro th an d Cla y co n tin ued th e last lap way .ahead o f th e rest of th e pack a nd rem ain ed in that order to th e checkered £lag. R o bb ie Ba ke r pulled h im self throu gh th e p ack to manage a fou rt h p lace finish with McGra th rounding o u t th e top five. In additio n to Cru mb 's first p lace overall in the 250cc Pro class, Clay o n a Yama ha took second; Roth, aboard a Ka wasaki p laced th ird ; Honda-mounted Eric McKenna won both motos for the overall. victory in the Vet Pro class. Mike Shoemaker (58) finished second. McGrath ea rned a fourt h on h is H onda; a nd Brian Wil son, p ilo ting a H onda , took fift h p lace. Eric Pucelik snagged th e hol esh ot as the l 25cc Pros fired o ff th e line in th e first mot o. Cha sin g h im were N elson an d Pal adin o. Nel son go t P al adino in th e next turn an d was after Pucel ik a nd th e lead. The lead cha n ged hands between Pucel ik a nd Nelson three tim es in th e ne x t 200 yards with Pucelik p ulling it out o ne more tim e in th e swee per. The duo . co ntin u ed to be followed by Pala-, dino an d Crumb. Nelson fin ally nailed Pucelik midair as h e £lew across th e table top. Crumb, who had passed Pal ad in o, took adva ntage o f th e situatio n a n d 'pa ssed Pucelik himself. . Nel son hung o n to th e lead, wi th Crumb righ t on hi s tail. Crumb con tinued to hamm er at Nelson while Pucelik an d Pal adino dueled for th e th ird position. T he pair were s id e- by-s ide over a jump 'w h e n P al adin o tried to tak e him on th e in sid e, th en went ou tsid e a nd down, losin g h is position to Brian Sweaney. Crumb persistently pushed for th e lead, bu t was denied by Nelson as the twosome raced th rough th e turns and jumps of th e fin al laps o f the moto, " Nelson a nd I battled a lmost the whole firs t rnot o ," Crumb told Cycle N ews. " O n th e last la p o n the ba ck section of th e track, Nelson p us he d m e into th e side and I went over th e bars. We wer e so far a h ead of th e rest : th at I wa s able to ge t back on a nd cr uise in for seco n d." Nel son fini sh ed th e lap u nc hallen ged for th e first place, follow ed by Crumb , Sweaney, R oth a n d Paladino. Pal adino antici p at ed th e dro p of th e gate in th e second l25 cc Pro moto perfectly an d was ready to claim th e h ol esh ot. Following him around th e fi r st turn were Pu celik, Nel son, Robbie Baker and Crumb. Crumb passed Bak er midway th rough th e first lap, m oving into fourth, j us t behind Nelson, again . Nel son went down in a turn with Crumb running over h is bike a nd th en cl icking it up to catch the leader s. After th e first l a p , i t wa s P al ad in o , Pu celik , Crum b, Nel son an d Baker pursued by th e rest o f the p ack. Pucel ik laid h is bi ke dow n on a berm, giving up seco n d to Crumb and exitin g th e ra ce. Crumb closed th e ga p leading to Pa la d in o to four bi ke len gths and was riding hard. Nelson kept h is pace to mainta in thi rd, followed by Bak er an d Sweaney. As Pal a dino and Cr u mb pa ssed the w hite £la g , the race intensi fie d . Cru mb fl a t-tra cked the sweeper closi ng th e gap between th e duo. T he pair raced the final lap with Crumb trying to get p as t on th e ins ide of each turn an d Paladin o h olding him off. Pal ad ino won th e race by just a h air; Crumb was forced to settl e for seco nd. Nelson was able to ward off Bak er to . keep hi s th ird pl a ce posi tio n a nd Swea ney ro u n ded ou t th e top five o f th e mot o. • Results 250 PRO: 1. Ray Crumb (Kaw); 2. Jim Clay (Yam); 3. Brian Roth (Kaw); 4. Tony McGrath (Han); 5. Brian Wilson (Hon). 125 PRO: 1. Ray Crumb (Kaw); 2. Jon Nelson (Suz); 3. Danny Paladino (Suz); 4 . Brian Sw eaney (Han); 5. Robbie Baker (Suz). VET PRO: 1. Eric McKenna (Han); 2. Mike Shoemaker (Yam); 3. Irv Achz iger (Han); 4. Mike Newman (Yam). 500 INT: 1. Tomm i Hamalainen (Han); 2. Glenn Commans (Yam); 3. David Pile (Han); 4 . Kevin Green (Kaw); 5. Scott McCoy (Kaw). 125 INT: 1. Pat Gomm (Han); 2. Mark Kerling . (Hon); 3 . Pete Plantanida (Hon); 4. Jeffrey Brownlee (Suz); 5. Byron Walk er (Suz). 250 INT: 1. Brett Ham ilton (Kaw); 2. Mike Elsberry (Han); 3. Darren Gallagher (Kaw); 4. John Thomas (Kaw); 5. Pat Gomm (Han). VET INT: 1. Dave Eakin (Han); 2. Larry Lacey (Kaw); 3. Terence Huffer (Suz); 4. Bob Clark (Yam); 5. Gary Remmen (Han). VET NOV: 1. Ray Harold (Hon); 2. John Rocha (Han); 3. John Mazor (Yam); 4. J im Piyorio (ATK); 5. Gary Doggett (Kaw). ; 60 : 1. J erry Harwy (PET) 2. Jesse Ketcham (Kaw); 3. Dylan Crawford (Kaw); 4 . Mike Gonzales (Kaw); 5. Kevin Gonzales (Kaw). OT EX: 1. Richard Thorwaldson (Han); 2. Larry Lacey (Kaw); 3. J im Lamkin (Han); 4. Jerry Sage (Yam); 5. Richard Schilling (Han). OT INT: 1. Gary Doggett (Kaw); 2. Craig Watts (Han); 3. Gaoffrey Fox (Han); 4. Leon Price (Han); 5. Bob Jackson (Kaw). OT NOV: 1. Bob Rivenbark (Han); 2. John Kellet (Han); 3. Claude Wright (Kaw); 4 . Jeff W ikoff (Suz); 5. Greg Young (Han). OTHG EX: 1. Terry Huffer (Suz); 2. Dirk Timmer man (Han); 3. Bob Clark (Yam). OTHG INT: 1. Jeff Grub er (Suz); 2. Danny Hill (Yam). OTHG NOV: 1. M ike Thurlow (Yam); 2. Phil Mascorro (Hon); 3. Richard Torres (Kaw); 4 . Ron Carver (ATK); 5. Crog Austin (Yam). OTHG BEG: 1. Bob Reimer (Han); 2. Rick Mething (Yam); 3. Alan Stephens (Kaw); 4 . Bob Vaughn (Han); 5. Vicki Vaughn (Suz). 500 NOV: 1. Rick Hollenbeck (Han); 2. Tim Hickerson (Han); 3. Scott Medley (Han); 4 . Daren Kozenks (Han); 5. Blayne Hollenbeck (Han). . 500 BEG: 1. Joseph Grana (Hon); 2. Gary Groth (Han); 3. Lex Shpil (Han); 4. Richard Tousend (Han); 5. Robert Russell (Han). 250 NOV 0 ·1 : 1. Troy Wing (Kaw); 2. Mark Wemyss (Han); 3. Mark Klawsen (Kaw); 4 . John Detwiler (Han); 5. Troy Smalley (Suz). 250 NOV 0 -2 : 1. Scott Zachery (Suz); 2. Scott Stillmock (Han); 3. Matt King (Kaw); 4. Brian Ferro (Han); 5. Charlie Campbell (Han). 250 BEG 0 ·1 : 1. David Flashbergen (Han);· 2. John Laurence (Hon); 3. Keith Braden (Hon); 4 . Tom Johnson (Han); 5. Shawn Parks (Kaw). 250 BEG 0 -2 ; 1. Craig W irt hs (Han); 2. Ken Shirley (Suz); 3. Kirk Johans (Suz); 4. Bill Ferry (Han). 125 NOV 0 -1 : 1. Jo e Degano (Suz); 2. Matt King (Kaw); 3. Mike Roen (Han); 4 . Josh Boykin (Han); 5. Pete Whipple (Kaw). . 125 NOV 0 ·2 : 1. Greg Allen (Kaw); 2. Mark Klaveson (Kaw); 3. Jeff Ingram (Han); 4 . Chris Kawasaki (Kaw); 5 . Lance acnens (Hon). . 125 BEG 0 -1 : 1. Matthew Yulk (Kaw); 2. Ray Mclaughlin (Han); 3. Jason Joiner (Kaw); 4 . Ben Cipollina (Suz); 5. Chuck Bradshaw (Yam). BO NOV' 1. Val Schweizer (Kaw); 2. Donovan placenc ia (Yam); 3. Seth Young (Han); 4 . Brian Cruz (Kaw); 5. Nathan Wood s (Kaw) . BO BEG 0 -1 : 1. Eddie Benson (Kaw); 2. Greg Ohlsen (Kaw); 3. Nick Notte (Suz); 4. John Zinda (Kaw); 5. James Piedalu e (Suz). BO BEG 0 ·2 : 1. Brian Rocks (Yam); 2. Todd Koehne (Kaw); 3. Jason Hatch er (Han); 4. Mik e Baldwin (Suz); 5. John Purden (S~z). . 25 ·29 INT; 1. Garry Johnson (Han); 2. Darin Layton (Han); 3. Kevin Green (Kaw ); 4 . Scott McCoy (Kaw); 5. Jim Taves (Han). . 2 5- 2 9 NOV : 1. Dan All en (Kaw ); 2. Troy DeHerrer a (Yam); 3. Mike Roen (Han); 4 . Edward Kelly (Han); 5. Bob Major (Kaw). 25 ·29 BEG: .1. Paul Armada (Han); 2. Kelly Presch (Han); 3. Keith Mclaughlin (Han); 4. Tom Jo hnson (Han); 5. Dan Killian (Kaw). BIG WHL : 1. Casey John son (Kaw ); 2. Rusty Holland (Kaw); 3. Donovan Placenc ia (Kaw); 4. Jeremy Zipton (Kaw). .

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