Cycle News - Archive Issues - 1990's

Jt CRE SP.~NEL If you' ve been to the United States Gra nd Prix or the American round of the World Superbike Series in the past three years, you probably already know about James Cresp inel. His commissioned work includes portraits of Mikhail Gorbachev, Martina "Navra tilova , Michael Jordan , Brian Bosworth and Steve Largent, in addit ion to images of Jam es Dean , Elvis Presley and Marilyn Monroe. He is quickly becoming one of the most sough t after competition artists in th e United Stat es. Many world class riders themselves own original oil painti ngs by Crespinel and now lithographs of his works are available for both .the collector and enthusiast alike, through Cycle News Product s. e e . WAYNE RAINEY Team Toomer continued its winning wa ys, earning the G TU overall honors. Gold Hill's J oh n H opperstad, Danny Wa lker and Christian G ardner celeb rate. Though they were a rch rivals on oPJ?Osing tea ms back in 1989, Wayne Ram ey a nd Edd ie Lawson ha d previously stood side by side in Marlboro colors. That was in 1984, when lawson was the tea m leader for Team Marlboro Agostini Yamaha a nd Rainey wa s in his fir st season of Grand Prix racing contesting the 250cc World Championship as part of T eam Marlboro Roberts. In 1988, Wayne Rainey fin ished third in the 500cc World Champions h ip. T he following year he had moved up to secon d in th e title ch ase, and finally, in 1990, Wayn e Rain ey wo n a well-deserve d 500cc , World Championship. This pai nting of Wayne Rainey, which was completed a t the artist's st udio in Seattle over the cou rse of five days, depict s his agg ressive riding style. RAYMOND ROCHE in th e I :I 0 ra nge (proba bly th e reason wh y Mad Dog 's t ire ch un ke d, as Sad owski ran similar times before running ou t of ga s). After 20 minutes, Kirk a n d H arth pulled out a large lead ove r Zampach, wh o was fending H aldane o ff, th ough the situation wouldn 't last long. H arth pitted after 40 m inutes, at which time Haldane had turned up the wi ck and proceeded to reel in Kirk. Mad Dog pitted at 58 minutes to get Sadowski on th e bike , giving th e one· h our lead to Dutchman. From the first h our o n , the race wa s a bi t dull. Sad owski had put Mad Dog ba ck in front by th e halfway m ark, with only Dutchman on th e same lap in second. G o ld Hill , Yamaha of Jacksonville, O.T.S., Keystone Racin g, and T eam T oomer a ll followed in positions that would not change to th e end, except for "being bumped up a notch wh en Dutchman crashed. After the ra ce, th e Gold Hill guys, wh o averaged almost 87 mph around Texas' 12·turn, l.8-mile co u rse, were ' ecsta tic, an d Walker wa s especia lly so. He summarized th e la st la p in b ri ef detail; "Man, I was scared ! The thing started kn ocking really hard. It wanted to lock up wh enever I shut the throttle off .. . " Down in th e Mad Dog p it s, spirits were not as high . As exp lai ned by Kirk: "We should have won, we had it won , we ran out of gas . I feel we are the best team o ut there as far as riders and per sonnel., but the best tea m doesn 't al ways win." Sadowski wa s feeling better, and mused: " I raced clean for a change" and then a dded, a bi t more ser iously: " I had a sm ooth ride, just tryi n g to cut some good tim es. I ma de it dow n into the high lOs (I : 10.73 to be exact), which was not that far o ff the su pe rbike pace. I'm really happy ab out that." H e shou ld be, as th e series cha m pio nsh ip will be decided in a few week s a t Da ytona, a tr a ck w here Sado ws ki' s reputation precedes h im. Oddly en ough, Dutchma n owner Dave Schlosser wa s " glad that the cha m pions h ip is com in g down to (the final rou nd), that's th e way it shou ld be." . Indeed it will come down to th e last round, as Dutchman leads Mad Dog CN by a scant n in e points, 116·107 . Cu rrent ly, Raymond Roche is riding for the Ducati World Supe rbike Team headed by Marco Lucchinelli. T he Frenchma n has extens ive experience in 500cc Gra nd Pr ix racing, af te r spe nding many years with factory team s incl u ding t h e Ma rlboro Yamaha, Rothmans Honda, a nd Cagiva . Riding t he Ducat i 888 , he clinched the 1990 Worl d Superbike Champions hip . . T he original painting was conceived at the U.S. round of the Supe rbi ke World Championships in 1990 a t Braine rd , Minnesota, a nd was sign ed by Raymond Roche. (please allow 4 to 6 weeks for delivery) r~ - - --- - - - - - - - - - - - -~ - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - ~ ~0lL1J/(,HEHP'~EL ORDER FOR M 1 Fill out complete ly and print clea rly Name Address City State Zip _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ Order Date Ph one ( _ (No P .O. Box. APO /FPO or Fo rei gn Shi pme nts) QA U NTITIES W ayne . 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