Cycle News - Archive Issues - 1990's

retiring fro m racing in 1983. "I just let people go fro m there and worked my way towards the back." Scheffers' neares t Vet rival was Os tbo th ree pl aces back in 12th overall. James Summers was 21st overa ll, three .spo ts ahead of Braasch in the battle for 125cc ho nors, and Tom Holmes held the lead in the Over 40 Expert class. Loop two headed out through Victo r Pass, skirted Ga lla way Dry La ke and took the racers to the end of the Marine Base. It came back through a tough enduro-like sectio n the n hit more fastpaced terrain nea r Means Dry Lake and Melvilled Dry Lake. H amel stayed at the head of the pack. all the way. "The first loop was pretty fast lot s of valleys, but the second loo p was rea lly technica l. It had a lot ·of technical canyons and stuff," Hamel exp lained. Hamel caught Desert M.C.'s hare in a rock y cany on on the second loop, an d earned a $100 donation to Rescue 3' in his name, but the rest of the 40mile secon d loop was unevent ful. Krause was still . hard on the gas in second. All he saw of Hamel was an occasional cloud of dust , bu t the re was enough goi ng on behind him to make the race exci ting. "I pa ssed H unnicutt about halfway around the last loop," said Roeseler. "We got into some tight stuff and I could finally close in. T hen I caught Krause bu t I woke him up. H e gassed it up and j ust dusted me out and there was no more tight stuff, so I couldn't catch him." Lew is was chasing hard trying to stay with the 250cc class leader, but he too was having trouble with the dust. "I kep t pushing but I had a lot of problems passing people in the dust," Lewis explained. " It was a real desert race. It had some techn ical stuff, but it was a lit tle fast for my taste." Further back in the pack, Os tbo was ma king ground fast and ha d taken over the Vet class lead and a close ba ttle was shaping up in the Over 40 di vision, as Bob Wad low, Ri chard Jackson, T om Holmes and Bill Maxim were all wit hin striking distance of the round one honors. . Out in front , Hamel continued to race all by himself and ther e was no surprise when the checkered flag fell just before noon. The Kawasaki /Pro-Circuit/ Answer/Maxima/ Acerbis/F&L/RK/ N-Style/Scott /Sprocket Spec./Scot ts/ Shoei/ Ca mel Back Canteen-backed racer completed the 79-mi le cour se in j ust un der two hours and scored a wireto-wire win more .than thr ee minutes ahead of secon d-place Krause. "Everything just fell into place today," said the new Kawasaki hero . "I got ou t in front where I like to be a nd just rode my own race. T his makes it four wins in four races for me on the new bike." Krause reported a flaw less ride on his way to secon d overall. "The bike worked perfectly and everythin g went well, " said the Kawasaki/Bridgestone/ Answer/Maxima/Sprocket Specialist! F&L /Sm i th /S hoei / Ceet/ Ts ubakibacked Kawa saki KX500 pi lot. "I thought the course was pretty good. Desert M.C. made a lot of thei r own trails so it wasn't so beat up. You coul d tell they took tim e to la y it ou t." Roeseler arrived to take the 250cc hon ors in third overa ll half a minute behind Kraus e, and H u nni cutt made it four in a row for Kawasaki less th an a minute later. " I' ve been fighting a cold. It 's taken a toll in th e last coup le of days," said Hunnicutt. '' '1 hung in th ere better than I thought 1 would." . Paul Krause was the runner-up, crossi ng th e finish line approximately three minutes behind the winner, Hamel. Lewis charged home in fifth on his KTM a head of Ondas and Gerber, and Ostbo topped the Over 30 ' field in eighth overall. Scheffers took second in clas s on h is Suzuki RMX2 50 and Kenny Parry finished thi rd . "It's been seven months since I was out here and it took quite a while to work up LO the pace," said Ostbo. "At the halfway point I bro ke my pipe and I had no speed in the fast stu ff, but I wasn 't getting tired. If I'd had another loop 1 cou ld've won it. " Parry had been off th e race course al most as long. "I ha d my accident six mon th s and 26 days ago. I'm ra cing again and I wasn't even sup po sed LO be going back to work aga in until February," said Parry. The 125cc battle went all the way to the wire but when J ames Su m mers crossed th e lin e in 19th overall , racelon g rival John Braasch was nowhere to be seen. "M y Na tionals luc k continues from last year," Braasch exp lained. " I was righ t beh ind him and 1 had a transmission problem abo ut a mile and a ha lf from the finis h." "He (Braasch) was close to me all da y," said Montclair Yamaha, O'Neal, F&L , Scott, Pro -T ech-sp o n so red Summers . "I ran ou t of gas fight after the sixth or seventh check and he caught me, and whe n I was stop ped on the dry lake for gas I could hear his bike. It was a good race." Richard J ackson fin ished 39th overall and was surprised to come ou t on top of Class 40. " Really? I thought Wadlow had me for sure," said the Kawasaki racer. '~I bet I lost 15 or 20 places in the last loop. I'm just not in good enough shape for it." T o m H o lmes wa s second on a borrowed ATK; Bill Max im battled an upset sto mac h all the way to third, and Wadl ow ap peared in fourth after losin g the lead whe n he took the wrong trail on a down hi ll. Art More took Super Senior honors in 70th overall, an impressive 37 places ahead of second in class. "The bike Feeling the effectsof a cold, last year's race winner Ted Hunnicutt was fourth overall. isn 't running worth a damn. I'm old and I'm tired ," said More . "It was LOugh for an old gu y like me." Yamaha YZ250-mo unted Mike Edmonds headed the Ama teur pack in 83rd overall, two p laces ahead of Dal Truvey's Kawasaki KX500, and Jon Parks grabbed third on a Hon da CR250. ov Results O/A: 1. Dann y Hamel (Kaw); 2. Pa u l Krause (Kaw): 3. Larry Roeseler (Kaw): 4. Ted H unnicutt (Kaw): 5. Jimmy Lewis (KT M); 6. David Ondas (Kaw ): 7. Brandon Gerber (Kaw); 8. Pau l Ostbo (Kaw): 9. Chris Crandall (Kaw); 10. Dan Richardson (Ka w) : 11. Roger Hurd (Kaw); 12. Jo h n Ru dder (ATK): 13. Lee Schellers (SUl); 14. Sca li Morris (Kaw): 15. Kenny Parry (Kaw): 16. Bill Fu ll mer (Hon); 11. Todd Peugh (Kaw): 18. Charlie Morris (Hus ); 19. James Summers (Yam); 20. Brent Fox (Kaw). OPEN EX: I. Dann y Hamel (Kaw) ; 2. Paul Krause (Kaw); 3. Ted Hunnicull (Kaw). 250 EX: 1. Larry Roeseler (Kaw); 2. J immy Lewi s (KT M); 3. Dan Richardson {Kaw) . 125 EX: 1. James Su mm ers (Yam ); 2. Jason Ingersoll (CR). OVER 30 EX: 1. Pau l Ostbo (Kaw); 2. Lee Schellers (SUl); 3. Kenny Parry (Kaw). OVER 40 EX: 1. Richard Jackson (Kaw); 2. T.V . Ho lmes (AT K); 3. Bill Maxim (Kaw). OVER SOEX: 1. Art More (Kaw) . 4·STRK EX: 1. Bill Fullmer (H a n). O P EN AM: 1. Dal Trubey (Kaw). 250 AM: 1. Mike Edmonds (Yam); 2. Jo n Par ks (Han ). AMA NATIONAL CH AMP IONSH IP HARE II: HOUND POINT STANDINGS: 1. Dan ny Ham el (30) (I win); 2. Pa ul Krause (25); 3. Lar ry Roeseler (21): 4. T ed H unn icu tt (18); 5. Jimmy Lewis (16); 6. David O nda s (15); 7. Bran don Gerber (14): 8. Pau l Ostbo (13); 9. Chris Cra ndall (12); 10. Dan Richardson (II ): 11. Roger H urd (10): 12. Jo hn Rudder (9); 13. Lee Scheffer> (8); 14. Scali Morris (7); 15. Kenn y Parry (6); 16. Bill Fullmer (5); 17. T odd Peugh (4); 18. Charlie Morris (3); 19. J ames Summers (2); 20. Brent Fox (1). 13

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