Cycle News - Archive Issues - 1990's

(Yam) beat ]. Andrew Milton (Yam) and Dana Sadlon (Yam) to win the C Superstock class. A chicken barbeque will be held on the big island at Laguna Seca International Raceway in Monterey, California, on Friday, April 19 in conjunction with the United States Grand Prix. The barbeque will take place between 5:00 and 7:30 p.m. at a cost of $10 per Person with all proceeds benefiting Children's Services. Movies will also be shown at the race track on Friday and Saturday nights in a tent at the Trylon area (where the Budweiser Scoreboard is located). There will be no admission charge for the movies. Various restaurants and bars along the world famous Cannery Row i n Monterey will be ' offering special prices on food and drinks from 6:00 to 9:00 p.m. on Saturday night, April 20 in honor of the Grand Prix. Motorcyclist magazine will host free seminars at Laguna Seca on Saturday , April 20. Topics include suspension setup; performance tires, street survival, performance riding techniques, and helmets. The seminars begin at 10:00 a.m. and run through 3:30 p .m, in a tent on Barbeque Island. An autograph signing party will take place prior to the United States Grand Prix at Laguna Seca on Thursday , April 18, from 5:00-6:30 p .rn, at the Sheraton Hotel i n Monterey, California. If you make it to the United States . Grand Prix at Laguna Seca, be sure to stop by the Cycle News booth on the in field midway and sign up to win our 4x6-foot, full-color cover blow-up of last year's U.S. GP preview issue , featuring four-time World Champion Eddie Lawson. No purchase is necessary and the drawing will be held on April 22. Due to the cu tback in their ra ce progr am, Michelin has been shorthanded at the roa d race GPs. Accord ing to one team owner, the company that Michelin has sub-contracted to service the G Ps is charging $25,000 and that doesn't include the cost of the tires . According to crew chiefs from th e Rothmans Honda 500cc GP team, Jerry Burgess and Stuart Shenton, they have a choice of two front and two rear Michelins for th e dry , though they said only one rear really 'worked, They said they did all their preseason testing on the one tire, designated the SC-1860 (last year it was called the 2157 and was one of the "A " vich cras hed and bruised hi s foo t o n th e fir st night of th e Ap ri l 13-14 Pontiac Supercross doubleh eader, but while sitting out the second day of racing at the Silverdome, he managed to crash again wh en he " looped o ut" as he was leaning back in a ch air. Crash number two came wh ile he was watch ing the race acti on from the press box. grade tires). The other tire th ey have available is useless unless the track temperature exceeds 45 degre es Centigrade. A partial list of the televised road race GPs on the Prime T icket Network has been released. The following times are Pacific Dayligh t Time: Japanese GP - May 3, 2:30 a.m.; Australian GP - May 9, 9:00 p.m.; Spanish GP - June 6, 10:30 p.m.; German GP - June 27, 6:30 p.m.; Austrian GP - July 4, 6:30 p .m.; Yugoslavian GP - July 18, 6:30 p.m.; Dutch GP - August I, 6:30 p .m. Matiasevich and Kawasaki team- ' mate Jeff Ward recently too k part in the filming of a made-for -Japan TV co mmercial for Fuj i film in Monument Valley, Arizo na, which con tai ns the pictures que rock formations that have been the ba ckdrop of many m o vi es , commercia ls a n d music videos. Acc ording to Wa rd , local Indians ra ked th e ground to cover th e tracks left by the motorcycles. The 500cc United States Grand Prix will be taped for a delayed telecast on Saturday, May 4, at 1:00 p .m. Pacific Dayl ight Time by CBS; the 250cc GP will be taped for airing on June 9 at 10:00 a.m. by ESPN; the Sidecar GP will be aired by Prime Network on May 16 in a time slot yet to be announced. HosPITal STOP: Motocrosser J eff Pestana suffered co llapsed lu ngs , several broken rib s, a concuss io n and a gas h to the chin wh en he cra shed in the l25cc Eastern Regional mai n event in the first n igh t of action a t th e Ponti ac Su p ercross doubl ehea der . P estan a is i n sta b le co ndi tio n a t P on ti a c O steo p a th ic H o sp ital i n Pontiac, Mich igan. Cards and letters can be sent to Pestana, in care of Suz uk i Co untry, 2057 N. Hamner, Norco , CA 9 1760. Where's the first Jllace three-t ime World Champion Kenny Roberts ever dragged a knee? Texas World Speedway. "Kel (Carruthers) was pissed," Roberts said. " When he asked me what I was doing I told him it was my new style. He kept telling me I was going to kill myself." The attendance of many of the top teams at the Canadian round of the World Championship Superbike Series in Mosport, on June 2, could be in doubt following a negative n;p<>rt !>y superbi ke ri der representative Rob McElnea. " They've done some work on turn three where (G ia n car lo ) Falappa crashed {last year) ," McElnea said. "They've pushed the bank back, they 've done a good job wi th that. " The problem areas are tum one and tu rn fou r, according to McElnea. It is no w up to th e individual teams to decide whether they will en ier the race or not, but McElnea believes that most will ab ide by his report, " I think they wanted me to go a nd whatever I brought back th ey would go along with,' McElnea said. "I've spoken to everybody who matters and th ey don 't wan t to go, even (Doug) Polen." Ducati team manager Marco Lucchinelli said he has yet to enter World Champion Raymond Roche and teammate Giancarlo Falappa for the Mosport race : " If they go , I go, but I prefer if possible not to go ," he said. " I think it is not correct for su perbike to race in a place if it is not sure. There are many, many tracks. I don't understand why we have to go. In Sweden , for example, 500 (Gra nd Prix) doe sn 't go . If it is no t su re for 500, it's not sure for us." Camel Pro Series Champion Scott Parker was among the spec tators a t th e Pontiac Supercross. " I just came do wn to wa tch the guys p u t o n a nea t show, " said Par ker , who li ves in nearby Swartz Creek, Mich igan. " I like to get ideas for th in gs to add to my motocross track back hom e." Alt hough cu rre nt Ca mel Su percross Series p oints lead er an d two -time Worl d Ch amp ion Jean-Michel Bayle den ies that he has married his gi rlfr iend Edwige Malysza, sources wi thin the Hond a team say that Bayle go t ma rr ied in December. Bayle says that ii 's all ju st a mi sunderstandin g th at arose in the pr ocess of obtai ning a U.S. visa for Malysza. Five-time 500cc MX World Champion Roger DeCoster o n the many inci dents of riders sla mmi ng into each at , th e Pontiac Supercross: " Whe n I raced, if we could n' t bea t th e guy we'd sit out a lap and wai t for him to come back on the next lap (in order to slam him )." Our coverage of th e April 6 Sacramento Mil e ha d J un ior Na tiona l win ner Wink Freitas ridin g a "selfsponsored Wood-Ro tax." Ma ke that a Ron Wood Wood-Rotax . It turns out that at the last minute, Freitas was offered the ri de and accep ted it. Good move , Wink . It was bad eno ug h th at Jeff Matiase- SOLD: Ocala Motocross Park in Ocala, Flo rida , to Brazilian Alvardo Goulart, whose son , Louis, will manage the 100acre, facility. Plans call for motocross racing to continue with po ssible expansion to incl ude o ther motorized sports. The facility will be renamed Florida Motorsports Complex. BORN: Kathryn Ann Wright, daughter of Clymer Publications technical writer a nd former Suzuki Ra cing Service su pervisor Ron Wright and hi s wife, Penny, in Clo vis, Ca lifornia, Ap ril I. RESIGNED: Rod Anasta sia , from his full-time marketing po sition at AXO Sport Am erica. Anastasia will be retained as a consu ltant to Jim H ale, presid ent of AXO Sport. " Severa l projects I' ve been working on req u ire mor e of my perso nal involvement to fin ish . Also, many op portu nities have come up that will be much mo re beneficial to both of us if I pursu e th em in depen de nt' of AXO Sport," sa id Anastasia, wh o can be reached at 8051 297-0397. NAMED: Harper's Mo to Guui of Kansas City, Missouri, as dis trib u tor for Ben ell i parts in th e U.S. Harper's Moto Guzzi has been a Moto Guzzi dealership for th e pa st 20 years. T hey recently acquired all Benell i 750 and 900 N.O .S. parts stock and all Moto Guzzi single-cylinder and moped parts wareh oused in th e U.S . For mo re in formation, call 8001752-9735. OPENED: J&W Perfor mance Cycles, In c., a Du cat i, Husqvarna and GasGas dealersh ip , by Wayne Fri cke and J ames McKen zie in Colorado Springs, Colorado. 719/ 594-6007. CORRECTION: O ur coverage of th e Sacramento Mile coverage listed Terry Poo vey (H -D) as th e eigh th pl ace finisher in the fin al ahea d of Rodney Farris (H -D). The officia l results list Farris in eig hth, and Poovey n inth. Our report was based on the resu lts first pos ted. APPOINTED: Chris Morton to the p osition of sales a n d promotions represen tative for JT Racing. STOLEN: A 1990 H onda CR250, fra me #J H2 ME030I LM201084/motor #ME03E-520 1252, fro m Ted Sta mas of . H in gham , Massachu setts. Stamas is offeri ng a $500reward for recovery or informatio n leadi ng to the recovery of the bike th at has VP E+ engraved on the left side of the cyli nder. Stamas can be reached a t 6171740-0776 or 720-0220. 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