Cycle News - Archive Issues - 1990's

Switzerla nd, KTM director J osef Au ering indicated that KTM works rid ers Trampas P a rke r and Gert -Jan Van D oom wouldn't co mpete in th e Jul y 15 U.S. MX GP at Una d illa Vall ey Sports Center. H owever , after Pa rker 's 3- 1overall winning performance in th e Swiss GP it a p pears certa in th at th e Ameri can, wh o now lives in Ital y. will co mpete in hi s home GP a nd H oIland 's Van Doorn w ill possibly join h im . KTM hasn't mad e a decis io n o n the size and d irecti on of its 1991 G P team , bu t Aue rn ig said, "The 1990 tea m is effec tive ly th at whi ch we in he rited from the lat e Erich T ru n kenpolz. My fell ow directors and myself are new to motorcycle sport a nd - it wo uld ha ve been hasty o f us to cha nge everythi ng right aw a y. We have spe nt thi s yea r lea rn in g abo ut the sport a nd th ere will p rob abl y be some cha nges for next year. Our rid ers fo r '9 1 must a ll be pot ential win ners, and I think th at it is p robabl e th at th ere will n ot be so manv rid ers o n o u r team ." KTM 's ream a Is,; includes Ameri can s Bob Moore and Mik e Heal ey in th e 125cc cla ss and Eng land's Kurt Nicoll a nd Holl and 's Kees Van der Ven in th e 500cc class. 1 Motocro ssers Joel Albrecht and Dave Castillo were both hospital ized with concu ssions suffered du rin g the Ma mmo th Mountain Mot ocross held June 28-July I in Mammoth Lak es, Ca lifo rn ia. Kaw asaki Tea m Green rid er Albrecht cras hed o n th e last lap o f the l25cc Expert fin al and a lso suffered a broken wrist. Albrech t was sc heduled to be released from Cen tinela Mammoth H ospital o n J u ly 2. Cas tillo, so n of Innovation Sports ' o wner Jim Castill o, was inj u red a t th e sta rt of th e 250cc Intermediate class final a nd was also sched uled ' to be released July 2. M oto M e dia, th e holder of th e excl usive televisi on and video rights for FIM World Championship road racing, has nnounced tha t more th an 21 million ho mes in th e U nited Stales will begin receiving th e road race Grands Prix o n the P rime N e t w ork beginning with the French GP on July 22. The oneho u r delayed programs will feature th e 500 and 250cc GPs a nd will be sho wn o n Thursda y ni ghts. Floridi~ road racer Thomas S t e v- e ns wi(I be contesting th e Suzuka 8Hour endurance race in Suzuka City, Japan on July 29 a part o f a Yamahabacked effort. Stevens will co-ride with Au stralian Peter Goddard. Reports from Europe sa y that Eddie w son will team with Tad ahiko Tair a on a factory Yamaha in th e Suzu ka 8-H our. , With Marlboro Robert s teamsters Wa yn e Rainey a nd J ohn Kocinsk i currently lead in g the World Ch ampion ship in th eir respective classes, te- m o wne r Kenny Ro bert s a apparentl y chose not to risk in jury with th em co ntesting Suzuka. Instead La wso n will lead Yam aha 's a ttack. There was a t least o ne spectator who sh owed u p at th e Ro ad Am er ica Na tio na l in El khart Lak e, Wisconsi n , on Jul y I, just to wa tch th e U.S, Twin S ports race excl usi vely for Har leyDav idso n 883 Sportsters. Wh o? Willie G. D a vid s o n , head o f th e Mil wau keebased co mpa ny 's styling department. Wha t d id Will ie G. think o f Sportster racing? " I th ink they sou nd r ight ," he said. Craig a nd Kevin Erion o f Two Broth ers, R a cin g a nd th eir tuner Mike Velasco took adva ntage of Road America's proxi mi ty to Milwau kee to visi t the Harley-Davidson facto ry. Wh en Velasco, a n ex-Ame rica n H onda Racing Department em p loyee, was asked if he managed to catc h a g li m pse of th e lon g -rum o red n ew superb ik e engine . Velasco rep lie d, "No. Our gu ide kept sayi ng tha t it was 'j us t in th e o the r roo m,' but Bob Co nway wou ldn ' t let us see it. " Co n way is hea d o f H arley's Racing Department. Road racer Jeff Farmer isn 't em barras sed tha t he's dyslexic. In fact , th e Lon gw ood , Florida-based rid er o ften tak es time o u t of his bu sy sched ule to work with d yslexic school ch ildren, a nd has been invited to be o ne o f four g ues t spea kers a t th e Na tio na l Convention in Washington , D.C.. this fall. Additiona lly, Farmer is donating 10% of his race winnings to the Nati onal Dyslexia Society. Dyslex ia is a readin g impairment dis ease wh ich o ften results in stude n ts bein g pl aced in slow lea rn ing clas ses ra the r "tha n reading class es. At th e Road Am eri ca Nati on al. announcer Rich ard Chamb e r s (a former ra cer himself ) asked former Bailie of th e T wins Champion Jimmy Adamo what th e diff eren ce is betw een Twins racing now a nd when he won his titles in th e early '80s. Replied Adamo: " T hey' re faster, th ey don 't leak oil, a nd th ey're fuel-injected ." According to Eraldo Ferra cci o f Fast By Ferracci, negotiations are cu rre n tly underwa y to yut Pro Twins GP2 points leader Fab ian Cortez in th e sadd le of a 250cc Aprilia V-t win for next yea r 's AMA 250cc Grand Prix Seri es. If everyth ing co mes together, expec t to see Cortez mak e hi s twostro ke ra cing debut befor e th e end o f this season. Snecial museum onening]ostmark allnroved T he Un ited States Postal Service has approved a special oneday-on ly postm ar k ca nce lla tio n to co m me mo ra te th e opening o f the Mot or cycle Heritage Mu seum in Westervill e, Ohio. T he postm ar k, depi ct in g a stylized versi on of the G lo ry Da ys HERITAGE MU SEUM bronze 'sta tue that will grace th e STAT ION foyer o f t he museu m, wi ll be used o n ly on August 16 a t an off icia l , tem po ra ry post office a t th e museu m. G ra nd o pen ing visitors are encou ra ged to br ing a nd post lett ers a nd postca rds 10 the mselves a nd friends . th us crea ting a co llec to r's item in celebra tio n o f th e o pe ning. Com edi an a nd mot orcycl e ent husiast Jay Len o will serve as gra nd mar sh al a nd guest o f hon o r a t the gra nd ope n ing an d he'll be joined in the spec ia l gues t ca tegory by Rob ert L Forbes. pr esident of Forbes FYI , vice p resident of Forbes, In c., a nd so n of the lat e Ma lcol m Forbes . T he Mo to rcycl e H eritage Mu seum is lo cated adjacent to the nat ional headq ua rters o f the America n Mo tor cycle Assoc ia tion o n Co llegeview Road in Westervill e, a no rt heast suburbof Co lumbus, Oh io. For the second week in a ro w m oto crosser Johnny O 'Mara was asked about retireme nt durin g p re-race rider in trodu ct ions at the June 23 Lo s Angeles Su percross, a nd th e O ' Show is ge lli ng tir ed of it. " I wish th ey (the tracksid e a n no u ncers ) wo u ld n ' t say it," sa id O 'M ar a after he fin ished fourth in th e main event. " I' m not pl anning o n ret irin g, everyo ne's just p redi cting it. It 's up to th e factori es. If th ey don 't wa nt to g ive me a ride th en I'll have to ret ire. I'm sti ll rid in g well enough 10 keep a ride , it's in thei r hands." Ca mel Su percross a n nou ncer Larry Naston was a mo ng th e cas ua lties a t the Mammoth Mountain MX. Na SIOn suffered a lumbar spra in o f hi s back from " th e worst ass -wh ip pi ng by a bi ke sea t I' ve ever had " du rin g a 250cc Juni o r class mo ll>. N a st on didn 't fall . but th e pain was so bad he co u ld n ' t recall riding the next severa l sectio ns o f th e trac k. After a tri p to th e ho spital , Na sion was back a t th e track wh ere he helped Mammoth race announcer H al Sangu in etti. whose voice was a ll bUI go ne by the end of th e seco nd of four da ys o f co m pe titio n , ca ll th e an io n. E NGAGED: Pro Twins roa d racer Rob ert Griffith s to long-time gi r lfri end Trish, on her birthday, Ma y 18, in Downingron , Pennsylvania . CORRECTION : Ri ck Kirk 's nam e was inadvertentl y left o u t of the WERA Formula USA Series po int sta nd ings in o u r co verage of th e June 9-10 series round from Fireb ird Ra cew a y i n Phoenix, Arizona. Kirk 's seco nd -place fin ish th ere puts him in a tie for sixth p lace with J eff H agan , Ch uc k Graves a nd David Sadows ki, a ll w ith 17 point s, SI DELINED: So u the rn Ca lifo rn ia MX er J oe Zip a y suffered a broken leg in a cras h a t Gl en H elen MX Pa rk in _ San Bernard ino, Cal ifornia, Ju ne 17. Ca rds an d leuers can be sen t to 463 Hupa Dr., Ven tu ra , CA 9300 1. HIRED: Ba rr y Seavers, as crew ch ief for AMA road raci ng effort Team Mad Dog; Seavers was previously employed by Sudco In tern a tion al. R E LO C A T E D : Donni e H an sen Motocros s Acade my, to 3218 Ga llop Court, Sacram ento, CA 95842, 916/ 338-2888, FAX 9 16/386-8984. BORN: J ack H yder Blevin s III, so n o f desert /MX racer a nd Arizona sta te representat ive of the Wom en 's Mo to cross Associa tio n Liz Blevins a nd her husband, J ack. in Phoenix. Arizon a, May 29. MARRIED: Ross Pederson, former Ca na dia n Supercr oss Cha m p ion, to long-tim e g irlfrie nd Li sa Vrab eck , June 22, in Medi cine H a t, Albena, Canad a. BORN : Neil King Storz, so n of Storz Performance's Steve Sto rz and h is wife J oan ie, in Vent ur a, Ca liforn ia , Ju ly I. 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