Cycle News - Archive Issues - 1990's

Marion County in Reddick, Florida. Proceeds from the Florida Motocross Club-promoted event go to the Muscular Dystrophy Association. Bradshaw's sponsors Yamaha, AXO and Dunlop, who backed the race last year, are joined this year by Troy Lee Designs, Uni, Pro-Taper, Scott and Pro-Circuit. This year's activities will start Saturday evening, May 8, with a barbecue sponsored by Honda-Suzuki-Kawasaki of Ocala and a maintenance seminar conducted by Tom Morgan. Sunday will feature amateur and pro racing with the amateurs gunning for their share of over $10,000 in contingency prizes. For more information, call 904/591-2050. Three-time World Champion Wayne Rainey has fared much better with the 1993 Yamaha YZRSOO at his recent tests at Laguna Seca Raceway in Monterey, California. "I'm real pleased with the motorcycle," Rainey s,aid. "Like I've told, you before, it's something they've (Yamaha) never done. Things that worked before don't work on this bike, but this one's got a lot more potential. We've gone quicker than we did here (Laguna Seca) in '91. We've been doing 26s (one-minute, 26-second laps) so we're right there after only a day and a half of testing." The second round of AMA Grand National Championship Cross Country Series, which was scheduled to be run on March 14 in Greeneville, Tennessee, was postponed, as the area received a foot and a half of snow in the recent storms. The event will be rescheduled, and the next round will be held at Loretta Lynn's Dude Ranch in Hurricane Mills, Tennessee on March 28. Belated word of the passing of Henry Ford Scott Sr., 69, just reached us. Scott, the father of 1975 Grand National Champion Gary Scott and namesake Hank Scott, who fell one point shy of tieing Randy Goss for the 1980 Grand National Championship, died in Elsinore, California, after he suffered complications of a heart problem. Hank Sr. was a motorcycle racer in his youth. "I have just one trophy of his," Gary Scott said. "It's from a Jack Rabbits M.e. hiIlclimb where he won the 350cc class. That trophy is special to me." STOLEN: WERA Expert Tommy Warrick's 1991 Suzuki GSXR750 (VIN #JS1GR7AA4M2103415) that was in street trim along with a 1985 Kawasaki 600 Ninja and a red Cox trailer from the parking lot across from Daytona International Speedway during the Daytona 200 on March 7. Warrick requests that anyone with any information that can help him retrie e the bikes and trailer call (collect) 804/465-1408 (days) or 804/721-0751 (evenings). James Aamo,1957-1993 A s reported last week, James e. Adamo of Glen Cove, New York, died as a result of massive head injuries he suffered in a crash in the March 7 Daytona 200 at Daytona International Speedway. Adamo was the only rider involved in the 'accident which took place on the seventh lap of the 57-lap race. According to fellow competitor Raymond Roche, who was directly behind Adamo when he went straight at the speedway's turn six, the exit from the infield course onto the oval, "I was lapping him. AIl of a sudden, I saw tire smoke. I think his front brake broke because he just went straight." Adamo rode straight into hay bales lining the retaining wall; he died instantly. Adamo is the second rider killed in the 53 runnings of the Daytona 200. Rusty Bradley died in a first tum, first lap crash in the 1971 race. Adamo, 36, began racing as an amateur in 1970 and obtained an AMA professional license at the age of 16 in 1973. He was a tWo-time AMA Battle of the Twins Champion, topping the Grand Prix division in 1982 and 1983, the ·first two years of the division's existence. In 1982, he won seven of 10 series races, and in 1983 he won seven of 11. Although he never won another AMA Championship, Adamo remained a frontrunner in AMA Battle of the Twins, Pro Twins and SuperTwins competition, finishing third or better in the series from 1984 through 1992. He finished second in 1984, 1986, 1987,1990,1991 and 1992, and third in 1985, 1988 and 1989. Between 1982 and 1992, Adamo won a total of 32 events in AMA professional twincylinder competition, all on ltalian-built Ducati machines. He was the winningest rider ever in the A¥A's premier class for two-cylinder machines. His most recent AMA professional road racing victory came.in June of 1992 in the SuperTwins class at Brainerd International Raceway. In addition to his record-setting performances in races for twin~ylinder machines only, Adamo had three top-10 finishes in AMA Superbike and Formula 1 racing. He was the AMA's eighth-ranked Superbike rider in 1980, 10th-ranked Superbike rider in 1983 and 10th-ranked Formula 1 rider in 1985. Adamo owned and operated Gio.Ca.Moto USA, a shop specializing in Ducati high performance parts, in Glen Cove. He is survived by his wife, Melanie, and daughters, Danielle, 3, and Jamie, six months. Funeral services were conducted at St. Boniface Martyr Church in Glen Head, New York, on Friday, March 12. The Jimmy Adamo Memorial Fund has been established to provide financial assistance to Adamo's bereaved wife and children. Send all contributions to the Jimmy Adamo Memorial Fund, P.O. Box 369, Glen Head, NY 11545. MOVED: Finish Line Products Co., a firm that specializes in repairing damaged exhaust systems, to Route 114, Warner, NH 03278, 800/843-8745, effective May 1. MOVED: Extreme Lean Motorsports, the performance engine building company operated by Steve Biganski and Andre Castanos, to 2204 Gladwick St., Carson, CA 90220, 310/631-9235. HIRED: Mike Schield, by Shoei Safety Helmet Corp. as an independent consultant to Mitsubishi, the bankruptcy court's appointed overseers of the company's reorganization. Schield served as national sales manager of Shoo Helmets for the past eight years. REALIGNED: New Hampshire International Speedway's marketing and public relations departments. Susan Russo has been appointed director of public relations and Ron Mead has been named director of marketing. Joyce Caron-Mercier has been promoted to account executive. MOVED: Sinisalo Pacific, the motocrosS and off-road apparel company owned by Bob Rathcamp, to 27833 Avenue Hopkins, Unit #2, Valencia, CA 91355, 805/257-3455. AUTOGRAPH SIGNING: At Sammy White's Kawasaki City in Irving, Texas, Kawasaki works team riders Mike Kiedrowski and Michael Craig, plus Jimmy Gaddis, Mike Chamberlain, Dennis Hawthorne, Brian Deegan, Cory Keany, John Dowd and Scott Sheak on Friday, March 26, from 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. AUTOGRAPH SIGNING: At Suzuki Motorsports of Charlotte in Charlotte, North Carolina, Bob Hannah and Team Suzuki's' Guy Cooper and Ezra Lusk on Friday, April 2, at 7 p.m. For more information, call 704/394-6666. former Dunlop director of advertising and public relations, and, most recently, management supervisor on Dunlop's automotive, truck and motorcycle tire account with its ,advertising/sales promotion/public relations agency, Travers-Schutte. Newell says the new agency will focus on the motorcycle, automotive and truck aftermarket and motorsports segments. HIRED: Multi-time ISDE gold medalist and former factory KTM off-road rider Jimmy Lewis, by Cycle World magazine as assistant editor. AUTOGRAPH SIGNING: At Barnes Suzuki in Gastonia, North Carolina, Bob Hannah and Team Suzuki's Jimmy Button and Brian Swink on Friday, April 2, at 5 p.m. For more information, call 704/867-1273. HIRED: Fred Koplin, by Seals Communications Corp. as executive vice president and chief operating officer, effective April 1. Koplin leaves the Los Angeles-based advertising agency Lord, Dentsu & Partners to join Seals, the producers of ESPN's MotoWorld. Koplin, an Atlanta native who currently resides FORMED: Motivational Marketing Associations, a full service marketing communications agency based in suburban Buffalo, New York, by Bill Newell, in Pasadena, California, will split his time between the Seals headquarters in Atlanta and the Seals office in Los Angeles. HIRED: Kerry Bryant, by White Bros. to serve as operations manager and· head up export sales. Bryant joins Yorba Linda, California-based White Bros. after 11 years with SuperTrapp, where he was most recently director of marketing and sales. CORRECTION: In our coverage of the February 27 AHRMA/Vintage Iron National MX in Gainesville, Florida, we reported that multi-time National MX Champion Mark Barnett raced a Honda owned by Lisa Ford. The Honda Elsinores piloted by Barnett are actually owned by Lisa Powell of Port St Lucie, Florida. Powell is AHRMA's defending Women's Vintage National MX Champion. 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