Cycle News - Archive Issues - 1990's

METZELER METZELER STACKS UP THE CHAMPIONSHIPS In 1990 METZELER Chalked Up Over 20 Roadracing and Offroad Championships Throughout North America N igel Gale won the Twin Sport final. Bartels" Performance Products Tripp Nobles, were circling the track lik e a six-wheeled machine and Gal e, for one, hadn't a clu e as to how the sevenlap, 25-mile race wou ld fin ish. " I didn't know who wou ld win," th e .transplanted Englishman said. " We're bo th competitive on equal bikes , and we wanted to get away using the draft, but Randy (Texter) was in th ere." Texter wasn't in there at the end . however, blowi ng up hi s transmission on the fifth lap leavi ng it to the two Bartels' riders. "Then it was just the two of us and we're looking at each other saying, 'Who's it go in g to be?' " Gal e said. Minutes later Gal e answered the question , drafting past Nobles on the ru n to th e flag to nip him at th e line by a scant .560 seconds. The pair also finished one- two in th e inaugural Twin Sports race here las t year. " I got real lu cky, 1 mu st say," Ga le said. "O n the last lap , 1 nearly lost it in the chicane and 1 stilI managed to cat ch th e draft . On th e last lap 1 went into the chicane and 1 h it a bump and got in a big tank-slapper. 1 powered on through it, but 1 was probably 5060 feet behind behind Tripp after that. 1 was back on the ga s as soo n as 1 got it straight. 1 just tried to follow h is line and pi ck up some dirty air and get sucked along." "I thought 1 cou ld get away a coup le of times towards the end, but he tucked right into th e dra ft," Nobl es, of Macon , Georgia, said. " We managed to get some go od lap times by worki ng together. " ,1 Nobles th anked the Har ley Ow ners Group from Macon that were in H arl ey Heaven , a set of grandstands on th e o uts ide of th e backstretch chicane. " I could hear them over all the others," he said. Gale's average speed was 9 1.754 mph, slightly above last year's 91.202 mph mark. Third pl ace went to Scott Zampach after an imp ressive rid e consider ing he wasgridded on the back back row al ong wi th Kevin . Ren tzell since neither ran the series last year. Grid - positions were determ in ed from last year 's sta ndings . Aside from his position, Zampach had other problems with the start. " Whe n the one- mi n ute board went up, 1 kn ock ed the bike into gear and 1 couldn't find ne ut ral," Zam pach, riding a Don Tilley H -D 883, said. " When th e flag came out, 1 just held a finger on th e sta rter bu tton and it 0'1 chugged off the line." ROAD RACE OFFROAD WERA NATIONAL ENDURANCE CHAMPIONSHI # 1 Heavyweight Production Hall-N-Still Racing NATIONAL ENDURO CHAM PIONSHIP # 1 Overall Randy Hawkins - Team Suzuki #2 Overall Kevin Hines - Team KTM #3 Overall AI/en Gravitt - Team KTM M etzeler w ins Champ ionship 3 years in a row. WERA NATIONAL CHAMPIONS #1A Expert Production Bruce Baldus #1 B Expert Production TrayBatey #1 D Expert Production Matt Winnacker #1 A Novice Production Tom Wilson #1 B Novice Production Tom Wilson #1 C Novice Production Dean Hayes #1 C Novice Superbike Dean Hayes Metzeler w ins Championship 2 years in a row. NATIONAL HARE & HOUND CHAMPIONSHIPS #1 Overall Dan Smith - Team KTM #1 500cc Class Dan Smith - Team KTM #1 125cc Class Jimmy Lewis - Team KTM #1 Four Stroke Class Chris Crandle - Team AT!< WMRRA OVERALL #1 PLATE BruceUnd Met:Zelerw ins Championsh ip 5 years in row. CANADA RACE NATIONAL CHAMPION #1 Pro 750 Production John Ramsay #1 Amateur 750 Production Attila Szabo #1 Amateur 750 Superbike Attila Szabo BAJA 500 #2 Overall Dan Smith/Danny Hamel - Team KTM BAJA 1000 #2 Overall Danny Hamel/Jack Johnson - Team KTM #3 Overall Paul Krause/Garth Sweetland - Team Kawasak i WMRC CHAMPIONSHIPS #1 Pro 600 Production Darryl Fletcher #1 Pro 750 Production Darryl Fletcher #1 Pro 750 Superbike Darryl Fletcher .' Official Tire of the U.S. Six Day Team for 3 consecutive years. Look to METZELER for Championship Winning Performance. Photos (top to bottom ) ; Bruce Baldus·WERA Expen Randy Hawk ins -Team Suzuki Tom Wilson-WERA Novice Dan Smith-Team KTM Metze ler apologizes if we missed any of our winners. . 4520 - 107th St. S.W. • Evemt. WA 98204. (206) 348-4000 Gc:»t c. ... c:»pi ... ic:» ... ? ....... r y Vc:»ic::~~_ Michigan Harley-Davidson Dealers Association Presents AMA 600 NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP Results u.s. TW/ SPT fi NAL: 1. Nigel Gal e; 2. Tripp Nobl es; ,. Scou Zampach; 4. Kevin Ren tzell: 5. Richard Koeh ler: 6. Pal Moron ey; 7. Roger Reim an ; 8. John Lo ng; 9. Will Roeder; 10. Darrell Jones; II. Thomas Moore: 12. Timothy Seebold ; 13. Jon Stauffer; 14. Devin Baul ey; 15. John Breeden ; 16. . Richard Lydon : 17. Wayne Howard: 18. Brian T ill son ; 19. Brock Billan ; 20. AI Charlc:s; 21. Mark Bautzer; 22. Troy Roberts: 23. Lenn y Wehrle: 21. Ken Serakas: 25. Lee Parker; 26. Shoichi Osada ; 27. Randy Texter; 28. Bruce Nield; 29.Andy Fenwick, Time: 16 min., 17.740 sec, DislaD

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