Cycle News - Archive Issues - 1990's

~ ROAD RACE AMA 250cc Grand Prix series: Round 4 ~ ~~ Sti ll , D'Alu isio was ab le to ho ld off, the charge of T exan J im Sab in on the N2 Raci ng Yamaha TZ25 0. Hall 'N , St ill 's Bru ce Baldus, Del Arne's 250c<:) first-timer Tomm y Lynch , Vicious Raci ng's Fabian Cortez III and Lint; Bori ng 's Jimmy Mosley ro u nded ou t the top 10 finis hers. Defen di ng AMA 250cc Grand Prix, Cha mpion J im m y Filice di dn 't start th e race aft er injuring his foot in a qua li fying sessio n crash. T he Califor:) nian p ulled off after th e sig hti ng lap: ( " I j us t cou ldn 'tpu t a n y pr essu re on 1 the pegs, " Filice said. "It was a hard i decision a nd it screwed me ou t of the po ints ra ce. I' m pretty disappointed." So the race bega n after a lengthy delay withou t Filice . Instead it was ' Robert s jetting ou t to th e lead and trying to mak e a break for it. At the end o f the first la p he held a slight lea d o ver Kir k, w ho h ad Wal ker , breathin g do wn hi s neck. A lap later a nd th e three were together, each taking turns at o ut brak- , in g th e others en tering turn thr ee: Behind the battl ing trio ca me Rob erts' teammate Ri ch Ol iver and Del Arn o's Robbie Petersen, a nd th en a ga p to ( Sabin, D' Alu isio , Edwards and Lyn ch. On th e fifth lap, Oliver highsidedj , his .TZ250, le~ving Petersen t,lowhere, '); to go . T he Zirnb adwean native who " . no w calls Mod esto , California, home, ended up launching hi s Yam ah a over th e f~ llen Oliver b~fore al so cras h ing.) , Ironicall y, th e parr were teammates d Kenny Roberts, Jr. (25), Rick Kirk (hidden) and Danny Walker (4) were never further apart than thi s in the 250cc GP final. Robbie Petersen (16), Kirk (5), Walker (4). Tommy Lynch (29) and Chris D'Aluisio (2) give chase to Roberts on the opening lap; Kirk and Walker caught him. . Kirk w shis first in at Texas World By P aul Carruthers COLLEGE STATION, IX, MAY 31 exas has been good to me ," Two Bro th ers Racin g's Rick Kirk said wit h a smile, an d indeed it has. The C lare more , O k la ho ma , r id er pa rlayed hi s choice of hand -cut Brid gestone slicks in to the first AMA 250cc Grand Prix Natio nal o f hi s career as the seri es visit ed T exas World Sp eedway. And th e w in was h is second of th e day a fter he ha d ea rl ier do mi nated th e 600cc Supersport fina l. Kir k's first ma jor victory also ca me in T exas wh en he too k h is Two Brothers Racing Honda CBR600 to th e win here a year ag o. . . Kirk and his H onda RS250 wer e foll ow ed clos ely across the lin e by th e Ya maha TZ250s of Rain ey Racin g Ots u ka 's Ken n y Rob erts, J r., and Mo to Li bert y-backed Danny Wal ker. T he trio had ba tt led th rou ghout with Kirk T 6 eventuall y gett ing th e better of the stri fe on th e I I th o f the 20 laps, holdi ng on to edg e Roberts by .583-of-a-seco nd. Fo r hi s effo rts , Kirk ea rned th e wi n ner's share of th e $10,000 p urse, $ 1920, Bu t. Rob ert s may have ga ine d th e most o u t o f a day of rac ing tha t was delay ed by ra in storms. The 18-year c o ld Californ ian too k over th e cha mpionship point stand in gs lead (rom fellow teen ager Co lin Edwards II, wllo cou ld manage no better th a n a six th 'place finish in h is hom e sta te as he battled both practice cras h in juries and a poor tire choice, Rob ert s now leads Edwa rds by a single po int, 66-65, with Kirk climbing back into conte nti on with 53 po ints . Fo urth place toda y went to Edwards' Sout h west Mot o r sp o rt s teammate Chr is D'Alu isio, th e New Engla nder also struggling with a poor ch o ice o f tires as the team elected to fit th e du o 's Yam ah as wi th Dunlop interm ediates whi le th e maj ori ty of th e field used slicks.

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