Cycle News - Archive Issues - 1990's

cutting o u t o n top, b ut we don 't th ink it's the rev limiter. " . Ha rth took over th e lead on th e 48th lap and, tu rn ing la ps in the mid 1:58 s, quickly built u p a lfi-second lead over Q ua rt erl ey. Almost a la p behind, Northstar Racing ran in third wi th South Florida fou rth ahead of FasilineM.C.M. Northstar would run near th e front until th ey ca me in with cord showing o n th e rear tir e with 15 minutes to go . They replaced th e wh eel , b u t did so im properly and were forc ed to pull o ff th e track, ending up eigh th overa ll. The Tea m SBS Bra kes' day would co me to a n end o n th e 65t h lap wi th a blown eng ine. It had been sm o king for severa l la ps before ' it blew a nd Qua rterl ey had to park it, Barring sim ilar mech anical misfortu nes, th e race was Mad Dog 's a nd so it wo u ld be. "T oday I co uld n't keep the back end from slid ing," Schwarzbach sai d in th e winner's circle befo re da shing o ff for a spri nt race th a t followed th e endu rance race. " We changed th e ti re a nd sent Mike bac k OUI. " Jeff Rheaume of th e seco nd-placed Fast line- M.C. M, Racin g team said , " It's rea lly a th rill. This is the firs t time since he re in '89 that we've been in' th e winner 's circle. We tr ied real hard and now we 're here ." . T he ir rid e wasn't without trouble, th ough. " After 13 la ps I th ought it felt real greasy. I thought I was covered with o il. I ca me in , looked it over, a nd th ey sent me back out," Rhea u me's riding partner Jeff tern said. T h ird place went to the Team Magic coupli ng of Svensson a nd Shambaugh, a lap behind seco nd place. " W e ' re both reall y surprised," Shambaugh said. "When he handed m e th e bik e he said the thrott le was brok en. It wasn 't brok en , it j us t didn 't return. It p robably cos t a seco nd to a second and a half a lap." Sa m McDonald dominated th e GTU class, taking th e fir st sh ift o n the K&N Yamaha and taking it to th e front a hea d of Team Toomer's J eff Farmer , . Northstar GTU's Sco tt Rueh le and J o hn D. Ru e R aci n g ' s P aul Sch wem mer, By th e 15th lap McDo nald was into eigh th overa ll .a nd pull ing away as Toome r and Northstar took turns in second place. Schwemmer crashed th e Rue Ra cing bik e at th e 45-minUle m ark, rode back to th e pi ts and handed off to Pounders. At th e end of the first hour they found th emselves in 3 1st place. • Just after th e fir st hour Sam Mcfronald turned the bike over to older brother Phil who said h is la p ti mes would be a bo u t three seconds slo wer than Sam's. St i II, he held th e lea d until near the halfway po int whe n he was pa ssed by Toomer's Mike Moores wh o took over for Scott Ru ehle. Rueh le explained th at th ey'd lo st seco nd gear in the first hour a nd had to use th ird th rough th e in field. " You ha ve to carry a lot o f speed o nt o th e high banking," h~ sai d. " Moo res cras he d in the in field on th e 50th lap and ca me in o n th e 56th to rip th e flapping fai ring off. " We've go t ~n over- sized tank, " R ue h le said. " Hope fu lly we can go th e rest of the time." ~l The cra sh pu t th e K&N Racin g out front again wi th Sam in the sadd le a lter Ph il had com pe ted o n the high bankin g for the first time since riding a Yamaha TZ750 in th e 1977 Da ytona 200. ' '' Sa m 's ou t th ere to the end," Phil said. " We don 't have to cha nge tires . I was doing '5s and sp u n a co u p le of times o n the bowl. Sam steers the front .... V ..0 S V ;> o Z (From left to right) Team Magic, Team Mad Dog and Fastline-M.C.M . Racing celebrate in Daytona 's Vict ory Lane. a whole 101. For me the thing wants to tuck under," The K&N effort came to an end o n the 65th la p with a blown engine letting I Can J a m 's J im Les lie into the lead. When Les lie pitted on th e 77th lap for a rider cha nge, Northstar went into th e lead, butonl y briefl y. The lead went back and forth u nt il the 80th la p when the engine blew o n I Can J a m 's Ro bert Zerbisias. "They had us on horsepower, we had them on ski ll," I Can J a m 's Jim Les lie said af ter the disappointing DNF. "We made some mi stakes like not havin g eno ugh gas in th e beginn in g, so we broke th e riding do wn to 45-mi n ute conve rsio ns. He was going to do 15 m inu tes a t th e end. H e o n ly ended up do ing 10." Wh en I Can J am blew, th e Northstar GTU pits became a scene of ca u tio us celebration, th e caution removed a few laps la ter when the checkered flag fell after 81 la ps. T eam Ameri ca 's Frank Slaughter and Brian Gristick finished second, o n th e same la p as th e leaders, with Lee Pounders bringing the John DiRue Racing en try home in third, hi s hands bli ste red from the longest racing sti nt o f hi s brief ca reer. Of T eam Toomer Too (12) leads Two Brothers Racing's Freddie Spencer (67); Spencer used the race for track time in order to prepare for the Race of Champions. Northstar GTU cap tured the AMA/CCS GTU class championship with its win a t Daytona; it was the Minnesota-based team's second win or the series. Resul ts GTO: I. Team Mad Dog (Ya m); 2. FastfineM.G.M. Ra cing « SUL); 3. T eam Magic (Ya m); 4. Rick Burner (SU1); 5. South Florida Raci ng (Yam); 6. Keysto ne Ra cin e (S uz); 7. Fast Lane Racing (K4I w); 8. Northstar Ra cing (Yam ); 9. Addicted R aci n g (SUl ): 10. Dutchman II (SU1); 11. T am Adventure ($ uz); 12. V:O; R Roa d Racing (Su .); I!. A· Hamm

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