Cycle News - Archive Issues - 1990's

COME S THE CHAMPIONSHIP WINNINGL O EE INE FDUCATIM TOR LES AT THES O CYC EFINE DEALERS ALABAM A CYUES INTERNATIONAL MSCLE SHOAiS U 205-381·9556 A LASKA THEM OTORCYCLE SHOP ANCHORAGE 907·561-11 65 ARIZONA DAVF.') CYCLE SERVICE MESA rm·8981J559 RENAI£SANCE MOTO CYCLE R TUCSON fJJ2 ·747·2647 CALIFO RNIA BU. MOTOR COMPANY UVERMORE 45-484-3053 1 BMWofMARlN SAN RAFAEL 41~54-204 1 BRlTAUA MOTORS SOQUEL 41Jh'47~ 3663 CONCORD MTOR O SPORTS CONCORD 511l-6B7·7742 CYCLE IM TS POR SANTA CLARA 408-2Mll1l ELCAlO AMAHA NY EL CA O N 6 ·3338 19-44 EUROCYCLE 5ANTABARBARA 8IJ5.961·7105 EUROPEANCYCLE SPEC. G RDE A NGROVE 74-5JiJ.1711 1 KAW O YAM FVENTURA VENTURA 1IIJ5.053.5BB4 LA HABRA 5U ZUKI LA HABRA 21W!1·3173 M EGACYUES S CRAM A ENTO 9 ·$446 16-482 MI£SION YAMAHA INC. LAGUNA NIGUEL 74-582 1 -11351 MUNROE M OTORS INC S FRANCISCO AN 4 15-026-3496 P o-lTA M R UA OTORS GLENDALE BI~249·5707 BEACH S PORTCYC LES C OCOA 407-631·5571 YAMA AGOLD COAST CAGIVA H MIAMI J05.685.8333 G EORGIA CYCLE SPEC. O THENS FA BOGART ~543-1ll1\ WAGONER CYCLE WORKS TUCKER 4114-934-2453 HW A AII SOUTH SEAS DUCATI H N LULU OO 8IJ&.B36.1144 IDAHO B IGTWIN BMW/DUCATI BOISE ~7l6-Il7l7 ILUNOIS BOLLENBACH ENGINEERING EAST D EE UND 7IJh'4~llIOO HALiS HARLEY DAVIDSON AELD . SPRING 2 17·528-8356 ILLINOIS KAWASAKI DES PLAINES 708-29%604 LEWRlX BMW N APERVILLE 708-369-6369 M CC VlLLAPAKK 7 7 0 11&- 82·201 MTOW O ORKS FREEPORT B I5-232·7433 N ORTHERN IWN IS O LIBERTYVILLE 7 ·7110 11&-362 INDIANA AClION CYCLE MISHAWAKA 29-256-1020 1 H O REENS URG· ONDA FG B REENSBURG G B 009 I2-66J.2 LAKE CYCLE M ILLVILL ERR E 2 9-7184 19-76 SUZUKI S PORTCYCLES E LKHART 29 1·264-4040 WTSON PORn POlVER A SS BOOKSTO R N 317·563-3755 IOWA MTO S O PORTS D MOINES ES 5J5.lB5-8Ol4 KANSAS LETKOC OMPETITION CYC LES KANSAS CITY 93-334-2410 1 LOUISIANA HEBERTCYCLES BATON R OUGE 504-293-6691 MAINE BUNSWIC CYCLE & R K SLED BRUNSWICK 207·n9·3Ol3 M AST MTDRSPORTS IOCO O S EARSPOR T P RO-TEAM C YCLE SAN BERNARDINO 9119-824-911B SALINAS M OTORCYCLECENTER SAUNAS 4IJh'442·1511 SONNY A G M N EL OTORCYUES N ATIONAL CITY 6 9-477.,\120 1 U p·TlTE HUSQVARNA SANTAANA 714-540-2920 WIi.IONS MOTORCYCLES FRESNO lIll-237-1lll5 COLORADO BMW C RlRT OLLINS RlRTCO LL1N5 3IJ3.21J.l8l9 207·54~2113 BOOKCLIFFCYCLES RODS CYCLE SHOP GRAND IUNOlO N SKOWHEGAN 3IJ3.24 649 2·1 207474-1J!J1 FAY MYERS MOTOR C O MARYLAND D ENVER BTILEY CYCLES A 3IJ3.7 44-<632 G ITHERSBURG A ROCKY M OUNTAIN CYCLE 3111-948-45111 C OLORADO S RINGS P MASSACHUSETTS 719·591·9700 D UNBAR EURO SPORTS CONNEOlCUT BROCKTON • 508-583-4380 MIDTOWN KAWASAKI LTD. R OCKYHlLL EASTERN CYCLE S A E ALV G 2OJ.721-1l193 BEVERLY N RWALKKAW/Y O AM 508-922·J7U7 N ORWALK G& GCYCLES ~s-m S UY ALISB R W1l.I.OWS KAWASAKI YAMAHA SlJ8.46 ·7900 2 CHESHIRE RIVERSIDEM /CSALES 2OJ.m·7lO1 SOMERVILLE DLAWARE E 6749 1 l·7IXTl TRACK & INC TRAIL VALLEY MOTOR SPORTS NEW CAS11.E NR O THAMI'f N O ~.323-91J44 41J.584-73Ill FLORIDA MICHlGAN A OlON SPORT CYCLES ROSENAUCYCLE RlR TLAUDERDAL E OETROIT J05.587·71l\1 313-m 5l1!3 M ESOTA INN DELANO SPORT CENTER DLANO E 612479-l53IJ LARSONSINC CAMBRIDGE 612~17fJJ WHEELS UNUMITED ROCHFSI'ER 507·288-56311 MISSOURI DONNEiSON CYCLES ST ANN 3 1Hl7·1l04 FREEDOM KAWASAKI G V RAND IEW BI~761·5552 HARLEY/KAW FM O I£SOURI COLUMBIA 3 14.,\75-4444 MONTANA POE! MOTORCYUES BOZEMAN 41l\-~7147 N A EVAD DYNA/RENO RENO 701·323-8846 N HAMPSHIRE EW BCM MOTORSPORTS LACONIA fJJ3-5244B98 HAMILTON SPOR TCYCLES INC HAMPSTEAD fJJJ.329-7115 N RSEY EWlE AMO MOTOR CYUES INC D MNT UO 201 ·384-1103 CYCLE CON E N NOlO CARiSTADT 201 ·935-4797 RK CYCLES DEI'ff{)RD fJJ9-m5175 RlZZONCYCLES M IDDLESEX 908-271·1616 N M EW EXlCO ALBU UERQUE YAMAHA Q ALBUQUERQ UE 505-292·8011 C HAMPIO NOUTDDORSPORTS R OSWELL 505-024-0151 N YORK EW B ENNm M /CSALES FLY CREEK 607·547·9332 GHOST MOTORCYCLES S LES A PORTW A5H1NGTON 516-8&J.5300 HOWNK M OTORSPOR TS S PENCERPOR T 71~252·19311 ~LAND CYCLE SALES,INC STATEN 5LAND 718-966-1l61J6 JERRY HIBBS INC P ALBANY 518-459·7231 MOTO FlXX CORP POR TCHESTER 9 14-937·3342 NEW Y MTORCYCLE L ORK O TD Q UEENS VILLAG E 718-479·7771 WlLLlMISVILLE WELDING H OLLAND 71~537·l3IJ9 NR C O TH AROLINA RlRSYl1l MTOSPOR INC. O TS WINSTON SALEM 919-767·2020 MIDWAY CYUES U LLINGTON 9 19-893-6647 MYERS D TI & UCA HUSQVARNA ASHE VILLE 7 114-2744271 OHIO GREATLAKE HAR SON LEYD' M R ENTO 21~94~9600 HINDS KAWASAKI YAMAHA COLUMB US 64-2 8 1 67-031 H BMW/DUCATI OLT A THENS 614-593-6690 OKLAHOMA A CYCLE S TLAS ALES TUiSA 91~9'J59 OREGON S LEM H NDA/BMW/DUC TI A O A SALEM 5OJ.364-67Sl PEN SYLV N N A IA B BSALES & LAN CASTER 717·569-5164 BLACKMANm CLE S HOP EMMAUS 215-965-9865 K CYCLE SHOP INC OOPS OBERLIN 7 17·939-3940 M lKI.lARMTOR ERV ES O S IC PAXINOS 717~n·911 0 MONTGOMERYVILLE CYC en M ONTGOMERYVILLE 25-699-7511 1 M OTD-CYC LE SfAHiSTOWN 4Il·59J.6l1JB R ODEISLAND H KAZEE MTORCYC ECENTER O L NOR K TH INGSTOWN 4 01·295-8837 S OUTH CAROLINA CAROUNA WHEELS & PROPS MYRTLE BEACH 803-193-J6(lI TEXAS BILL KASSON MOTORCYCLES A STIN U 5 2-444-7482 1 EUROSPORTCYCLE RlRTWORTH B 17ml15 MOTO LIBERTi' CAR LLTON O 2 -M41l 14-142 STORMS CYCLE S LES A GRANDP RAIRIE 24-262·1113 1 USCYCLES UNIVERSAL CITY 210-659-1 971 V ERMONT CYCLE SPEED W ELD AITSA 8OH~ 1 VIRGINIA MOTO EAST INC FREDRICKSB URG 7OJ.37J.68IX> VALLEY CYCLE CENTER INC WINCHESTER 703-667·1893 WASHINGTON B ELLEVUE S ZUKI U BELLEVUE ~747·7360 BROTH B W ERS M BEMERTO R N lO6479-0943 1 PLUNKEfTS M S 1M /C UPPLY S POKANE SIJ9·924-1l771 WISCONSIN BOB B KAW ARR ASAKI MDISON A 611&-1ll-6BOO GOH ER RPOW WAUKESHA 4 14-547·31JB8 HANSEN MTDRCYCLES O MANITOWOC 41H84-1ll37 WYOMING EURO PEANCYCLE VIL LAGE CASPER 3117·2664930 CANA A D B RAMPTONCYCLE B RAMI'fON NT 'O 41~7914011 B B M SPORT URNAY OTOR B ABY · B URN .C. 604434-1llB5 MNETTE SPORT O LAVAL· P . .Q 514-668-6406 PEfERHURST M OTORCYCLES O TTAWA·ONT. 63-71 1 4·1221 S&MCYCLE VlClORIA· B .C. fJJ4474-20B8 S PORTCYC LEUMITED CALGAR · ALBERTA Y 4OJ.27m5 AMA 250ccG PSeries:Finalround ROADRACE~ The Was h ing ton ia n was batt lin g fo r fourth w i th Ien a tsch an d Sa la verria w hen he nearl y cras he d going throu gh turn six. After losing the draft he se ttled for fifth. Com ing into the final race Ien a tsch was lo cked in a ba ttl e with Dan ny Walker and Jona tha n Cornwell for third in the championship. The highest placed finish er would likely get the spot and, today, it was lentasch. "Thi s, to me, is a major th rill ," the Sport Rider magazine ed itor said . "We ca me up h e r e to b ea t Walker and Corn well and we did." Corn well was ch alle ng ing Iena tsch for fourth w he n he oversho t the firs t tu rn ea rly in the race, d ropping we ll bac k before recovering to finish seve nt h. Walker was still feeling"the effects of a concussion suffere d in practice and said he felt disoriented the w ho le ra ce. He ende d up 10th. The final points in the bat tle for third r ea d: Ienatsch - 236, Cornwell - 227, Walker - 225. Most of the races this year have been - for seco nd pl ace, b ut tod ay woul d be d ifferent. It wou ld be for third. Rid in g before a la rge ga thering o f family and friend s, Filice jetted to the lead and, less tha n 20 min utes later, the w in. By th e fourth of 19 laps he held over a three-second cushion which he see med to be s tre tching a t about a second a ·Iap. Hal fway into the race he was up by close to 12 seconds, a cushion he would amass on the next lap before he backed off to the finish. "Halfwa y th rou gh the ra ce I was slow ing down a little too much, being too easy on the bike," Filice said. "1 was d o in g thin g s that I wa sn' t d oing all weekend. I p icke d u p the pace and it went grea t after that. They gave me plus 11 and plus 12 and then I calmed myself back down. The last five lap s went pretty quick. Th e last la p I was cra w ling around there." Second place was de cided as swiftly as Filic e h ad decided first. Moto Liberty /Nankai's Mo ri, though unable to run down Filice, was putting ground on third place almost as quickly as he was losing it to first. Halfway into the race he had close to ei gh t seconds on Terranova and that's about what the margin would be at the end, the battle .for fourth forci ng th e pace that und id Terran ova. "1 tried at first for Jimmy Filice and I s tud ied his lines, but it was ver y diffi cu lt," Mori said. The ba ttle for fourth was the one to watch, four rid er s o u t to cha se down Terranova, two of them inv olved in the championship . Southwest Motorspor ts ' Dann y Walker was off the line fourth ahead of Ienatsch, Cornwell, Mike Sullivan, and D'Aluisio , But by the third lap he was down a spot and, as the race wo re on, Walker wore d own and ende d up holding o n fo r 10 th aft er thinkin g ab ou t pulling in. "I was so di sorien ted, I didn't want to do something stupid," Walker said. "1 had no percep tion of braking or speed. Many times I thought abou t pulling in, bu t 1 thought that was the sissy thing to do . All I could d o is hope that Nick would d ice w ith Co rn well and th ey wo uld take each other out." On the seventh lap lenatsch headed the battle for fourth w ith Cornwell fifth and Salaverria sixth in front of Walker. The next lap would be Cornwell's undoing , the Can ad ian overshooting the first turn at the star t of the eighth lap as he tried to outbrake Ientasch. He got back on the track, but not before losing seven spots. . "1 ca me up beh ind Nick and I was go in g to sh oot past h im when I sa id ' Whe re' s he go ing?' I'd missed my bra ke-ma rker because I was concentra ting on him," Cornwell said. "I was just trying to cool it and stay with Nick and Dan ny a nd see wha t transpire d. What transpired wasn' t what I wan ted to transpi re ." Ne ve r o ne to quit, Co rn we ll fought hi s way back up to a seven thplace finish. Cornwell' s depa rture made it a threerider race for fou rt h, le na tsch lead ing Salaverria and Sullivan, tho ugh all three would lead in the co urse of th e next th ree la p s. On th e 14th Ienatsch was back in fro nt, Salaver ria fift h a nd Sull ivan a close six th. A lap lat er an d Sullivan lost tou ch, p ushing th e front end going down through turn six a nd losing the draft on the run up to tu rn seven. " I go t o ff lin e a littl e bit. There's so me rip ples there that the fron t end was wa lkin g over," Sulli van sa id. "I go t o ff th e gas a litt le b it a nd tha t's when I los t Al and Nick. It was a close ca ll and 1 wa nted to ma ke s u re I finished ." For the final laps, Salaverr ia st uc k close to Ienatsch, but was foiled in every attemp t to pass. " It co ul d'v e been bet te r," he said after finish in g fourth . "I s tarted from d ead last because I broke my crankshaft on the first lap of qualifying. My crew spen t all night piecing it together from worn-out parts. "Ienatsch had serious motor on me. H e could beat me o u t of turn six and up to seven. He was hanging me up in turn 10. I had to go in the dirt to try to pass him. The last lap , when Geep fell, 1 pretty much had N ick figured out. I th ought I was going to hit Geep and Ni ck go t a way. I reeled him back in a nd w ent tight in turn 11 , but he blocked m e and that was that, " Salav erri a said. Sullivan was fifth with Chris D'Aluisio finishin g sixth. "It hurts," D' Aluisio said after the race, his broken righ t foot hooked up to a mu scle stimulator and wrapped with an ice pack. "It hurt a lot the whole race. Af first 1 was with the lead group and my bike lost power and I dropped back . It jus t wouldn 't pull at all. Laps six through 10 were the fastest, then I started to fade." COl ~ Results 250 GP QUALIFYING, 1. Jim Filice (1,43.343); 2. Takahi to Marl ( 1:44 .410); 3 . Gee p Terranova (1:44.588) ; 4. Dan ny Wal ker (1:44.616 ); 5. Jona than Co rnw ell (1:45.046); 6. Nick Ienatsch (H 5.383); 7. Mike Sullivan (H5.279); 8. Chris D'Aluisio (H5.614); 9. Chri s Tay lor (1,45.635); 10. Doug Ca r micha el (H6.078); 11. Jason Paden (1:46 .625); 12. Pet e r Wen sl oH (1:46.977); 13. Bo bby Keith (1 :47 .809); 14 . Christophe r W~ l1 er (1:49.665); IS. Greg Esser (H9.786); 16. Grego ry Pn nsze .479); 18. Tommy Hayden (1:50.039); 17. Jell Ortl ip (I ,SO (1,50.238); 19. Ada m Faussett (1:5J.J 22); 20. Wayne Montoya (1:51.261); 21. Do n Gr ija lva (1:52.093); 22. James Williams (H2.316); 23. Todd Bowma n (1,52.487); 24. Edw ard Sadva r (1:52.577) ; 25. Ken ne th Morrow (1 ,53 .047 ); 26. And y Edwards (1 ,58 .05 1); 27. AI Salaverria (2:04.147). 150 GP FINAL: 1. Jimmy Filice (Yam ); 2. Takahito Ma rl (Yam) ; 3. N ick lenatsc h (Yam) ; 4. AI Sa laverria (Apr); 5. Mike Sulli van (Yam); 6. Ch ris O'A lu isio (Yam) ; 7. Jonathan Cornwell (Yam); 8. Chris Taylor (Yam); 9. Jaso n Paden (Yam ); 10. Dan ny Wal ker (Yam ); 11. Oeep Terra nova (Yam); 12. Bobby Ke ith (Yam ); 13. G reg Esser (Yam); J4. Christo pher Walle r (Yam); 15. Je Or tli p ff (Yam); 16. Adam Fa ussett (Yam); 17. Todd Bowm an (Yam ); 18. Do n Grijalv a (Yam); 19. James Williams (Su z ): 20 . Edward Sadvar (Yam); 21 . Kenneth Morrow (Yam) ; 22. A nd y Ed wards (Yam): 23 . Peter Wens lo ff (Yam); 24. Tommy Hayden (Yam); 25. Doug Carmichael (Hon ). Time: 33 minutes. 13.409 seconds. Distance: 19 laps, 47.88 mi les . Average spe ed : 85.783 mph. Margin of victory: 8.793 seco nds. FINAL 250 G P C'SHIP STANDINGS (After 10 01 10 round s ): 1. Jimm y Fili ce (320/ 9 wins); 2. Ch ris D'Aluisio (296 ); 3. N ick le na tsch (236): 4. Jonathan Cornw ell (227); 5. Danny Walker (225); 6. Chris Tay lor (188); 7. Rich Oli ve r (163/1 ); 8. MHo, Sull ivan (158); 9. Takah iro Mori ( 154): 10. Will iam Quinn (149 ); 11. Andrew Trevitt (147); 12. Marcello del Guidice (145); 13. Greg Esser (139); 14. Todd Ha rring ton (138); IS. Doug Carmichael (133): 16. William Himmelsbach (132); 17. Jason Paden (120): 18. (TIE) John France / Adam Fau ssen (82): 20 . Mich ael Barn es (8 1); 2 1. (TIE) Pet er Wenslo H/Chuck Sorensen (71): 23. Bruce Baldus (69); 24. (TIE) John 5harra rd l AI Salav e rria (63); 26. Keith Cod e (59); 27. Bruce Lind (54); 28. Jimm y Mosley (51); 29 . Geep Terranova (42). 9

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