Cycle News - Archive Issues - 1990's

______ B-"--yP_apa Wealey Anchorage, Alaska, on March 14. The Triple Crown Award program will reward a rider who can win all three rounds with $10,000. Should that same rider repeat that feat in 1994, his take will be $15,000. And if he can do it again in 1995, $25,000 is his. If no one grabs the top prize in this year's series, any rider who can win two of the three events will pocket $2500. For additional information, call 602/299-0206. Three-time World Champion Freddie Spencer will host a benefit dinner in Seattle, Washington, on Saturday, January 16. All proceeds from the dinner will benefit Project Family, a local child abuse prevention organization. Tickets are $100 each and in addition to dinner, . includes beverages, a picture with Spencer, and autographs. Spencer will be in Seattle in conjunction with the International Motorcycle Show and he'll join Mike Velasco at the The Brothers/Mike Velasco Racing display throughout the weekend. For dinner tickets, call Chris Larsen or Bill Halbert at 206/ 479-6943. According to a press release from the good doctor himself, road racer Dr. Bob Meister has taken delivery of both a Suzuki GSXR600 and a GSXR750 for use in the AMA/CCS 600 and 750cc Supersport Series. Meister received the bikes through American Suzuki's support program, and he will continue to be based out of SuzukiMan in Oak Creek, Wisconsin. Meister's bikes will be tuned by Pat McGivern of Mototune. Former WERA Formula USA Champion Rich Oliver has inked a deal to ride for Performance South Racing in the 1993 WERA Pro Series and selected AMA 250cc GP events. Oliver will be joined on the team by Chuck Sore'nson. Owned and operated by Nathan Lundy and Steve Clark, P,erformance South is a motorcycle accessory and service shop in Wilmington, North Carolina. According to a press release from WERA, the Suzuki Cup Finals from the 1992 Grand National Final at Road Atlanta will be aired on ESPN on Saturday, February 27 (8:00 p.m. - Pacific Standard Time), Saturday, March 13 (10:30 p.m.) and Wednesday, March 24 (11:30 a.m.). In addition, WERA has confirmed that· Prime Network will televise the opening round of the 1993 WERA Pro Series from Moroso Motorsports Park, and the final round of the series at the Road Atlanta Grand National Final. According to WERA, a special program featuring the Pocono Cycle Jam will also be aired on The Nashville Network (TNN). Air dates and times will be announced at a later date. the feature. Unearned awards carry over to the next event. Two thousand dollars will be available for the taking at the Houston Supercross. . Doug Dubach showed up for the opening round of the Camel Supercross Series in Orlando, Florida, but decided not to race after riding practice. The Team Yarnaha rider injured his left ankle in a collision with Suzuki's Guy Cooper at last month's Japan Supercross. After the practice sessions at Orlando, Dubach was still in too much pain to race. It is not yet known whether or not he will compete at the Houston Supercross, January 16. Harley-Davidson Twin Sport National Champion Scott Zampach and veteran dirt track racer Garth Brow took part in a December 30 test session at Florida's Daytona Beach Municipal Stadium in preparation for the inaugural race in the H-D 883 Grand National Dirt Track Series. Roy Janson and Merrill Vanderslice of the AMA were on hand to see how well the machines ran on the banked, quarter-mile track. "The obje~t of the test was to see how the 883 would perform on the quarter-mile," Janson said. "We've tested on both a 3/8ths and a 5/8ths mile track and felt we needed to see how things went here." Zampach said, "I've ridden the bike on the ,halfmile and it's a lot of fun. The quartermile is quite a bit more work." Brow felt the bike performed quite well. "We made a lot of progress on suspension settings and that's the key on any track. Actually, this bike, the 883, seems to be more fun than riding a 600 here. 1 never got a chance to try it with the right gearing because the test got cut short because we sheared off the rear sprocket bolts." The opening round of the H-D 883 Series will take place on Friday, March 5. It will run in conjunction with the Daytona Budweiser-sponsored AMA 600cc National Championship Series program. The racer scoring the most combined points from the dirt track and the H-D Twin Sports road race final at Daytona will win $3500 from the $10,000 Daytona H-D 883 Challenge Awards. Michael Craig was involved in a firstturn pile-up that knocked him out of the main event at the Orlando Supercross, but he was not seriously injured in the crash. According to his wife, Joanna, his back :was slightly burned by an exhaust pipe, and his body was covered with knobby marks, but he was otherwise okay. A broken clutch lever was the culprit that kept him out of the race. Kyle Lewis, who broke his ankle at a supercross in Switzerland during the offseason, is expected to return to action at the January 16 Houston Supercross. The Team Noleen Yamaha rider will compete in the Western Regionall25cc Supercross Series. Jeff Ward, who retired from professional MX racing following the 1992 season, will still be attending many selected supercross and National MX events. Ward, 31, who spent his entire career racing for Kawasaki while earning every AMA National MX and Supercross title in the book, will act as a "consultant" to the Kawasaki MX team. "I'll be going to many events and doing whatever I can to help out," said Ward at the Orlando Supercross. "It sure feels weird coming to a supercross race to watch and not race. But it's not too bad." The inaugural issue of Inside Motocross is now available. Edited by fran Kuhn, the $6-per-issue quarterly magazine is a jewel. Magnificent photography (all color) by Kuhn and a host of other talented photographers such as Cycle News contributors Kinney Jones and Jim Talkington is the 84-page publication's strong point. The photographs and words are beautifully presented by art director Heather Hane-Karr on quality paper reserved for only the finest magazines. Jeff Stanton and Damon Bradshaw interviews are featured and the lead photos of the two are awesome. Published by AXO Sport America of Valencia, California, the magazine is available at dealers nationwide. Despite the threat of rain at the Orlando Supercross, attendance was good at the Citrus Bowl for the opening round of the Camel Supercross Series, although it was slightly less than last year's event. This year's race attracted 36,524 spectators, as compared to last year's turnout of 37,918 race fans. No one claimed the $1000 up for grabs in the Coors Light Silver Bullet Showdown at the Orlando Supercross. The Showdown offers $1000 to any rider able to post the fastest heat race time and also win the feature. Jeremy McGrath of Team Honda was the fastest heat race winner at Orlando but finished fourth in HP4, oil marketed by American Honda will be the name-in-title sponsor of the 1993 AMA/CCS 600cc National Supersport Series. As title sponsor, HP4 will offer over $12,000 in cash contingency prizes to riders competing in the series. The awards will be paid in a' combination of per-event and championship bonuses. Per-event payouts are $150 for first place, $100 for second and $50 for third. Championship bonuses of $5000 for first, $3000 for second and $1000 for third will be awarded at season end. To be eligible for the awards, riders must register prior to the first event in which they will compete, display the HP4 Supersport patch on the chest or upper body of their leathers, and place HP4 Supersport or HP4 oil decals on both sides of their machines. EBC Brakes has upped the amount of money it will award to participants in the AMA/CCS EBC Brakes Endurance Series in 1993. As they did last year, EBC Brakes will award $1000 to GTO and GTU class winners at each event if they use EBC brakes. If the winning team is not using EBC brakes, a $500 prize will go to the highest placing team that did use the company's brakes. In addition, EBC Brakes president Andy Freeman has announced that ,an additional championship award of $5000 will go to the GTO or GTU team that scores the most points during the season. In addition to its sponsorship of the endurance series, EBC Brakes will be posting contingency awards in the AMA/CCS National Supersport Top Expert program and in the Harley-Davidson Twin Sport Series. Gary Gallagher of MRSI has been retained by EBC Brakes to act as the company's' road race coordinator. For more information on the contingency programs, contact Gallagher at 206/4857610. Day of Thunder? AMA/CCS HarleyDavidson Twin Sports Series road rae:ers will take to the paved mile oval at the Wisconsin State Park in West Allis, Wisconsin, on Wednesday, June 9. The famed oval will play host to the Indy Car circuit just three days prior to the Twin Sports Series round. The points-paying series round will be part of the 10th Annual Harley Owners Group (H.O.G.) Rally which will take place at the fairgrounds June 9-11. The H.O.G. Milwaukee Mile brings the anticipateQ schedule of series races for 1993 to 14. 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