Cycle News - Archive Issues - 1990's

cham pio nship. "I feel like I'm on vacation or some thi ng," said G raha m . " I usually get a little nervous and psyched up befo re a race, b ut nowadays I'm p retty relaxed." Racing Enterprises will host its firs t-ever Southern California Veteran's Cup MX a t Carlsbad Raceway, Oct ob er 3. The Sunday even t will fea tu re classes for rid ers 25-years-old an d up . For more info rma tion contac t Racin g En terp rises at 619/484-1441. Th e 1993 running of the White Bros Veteran's World Championship MX will take place at Perris Raceway in Perri s, C alifornia , No vember 6-7. Saturday will feature the Vintage Ironsp onsore d vin tage b ik e race a n d th e Team Dual Dogs-sponsored dual sport bi ke ra ce, while Pro cla ss action w ill ta ke pl ace on Su nd ay. Free overnig h t camping will be av ailable at the tra ck. For mo r e in fo r m a tio n, ca ll Perri s Raceway at 909/ 371-3434 or White Bros at 714/692-3404. Malcolm Smith Motorsports will celebrat e its 25th annive rsary on Oc tobe r 9 by offering three free semi na rs at their facility in Riverside, California. Running hourly from 10:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m., the three seminars will include the following top ics: Pro suspension tips ; Malcolm Smith trail tips; and a session with Bob Hannah. Former Supercross Ch am p ion Mike Bell will also be·on hand during the day. For more in fo rm a t io n call David Rees at 909/687-1300. Race West Prod uctions held a press conference on Wednesday, Sep tember 22 to officially introd uce the LA. Superbike Championship, sch ed uled to run as the third round of the 1994 AMA National Championship Road Race Series at the Los Angeles County Fairplex in Po m o na, Ca liforn ia , April 8-10. The event w ill be held on a temporary, 2.1mil e race track in the Fairplex parkin g lot a n d will feature Superbike , 250cc Grand Pri x, 600 and 750cc Supersport, H a rl e y- Da v id so n TwinSp o rt a n d endurance racing. "Motorcycle road rac- " ing has been sorely missed in this area, " Bill Marcel of Race West Prod uctions sa id. "We are reall y excited about bein g able to bring it back. We plan to make this an a nn ua l event and look forward to p rod ucing the bes t two-wheeled spectacula r ever witnessed b y so u the rn Ca li fo rnia race fans ." The la s t AMA National Championship Road Race to be h eld in southe rn Ca liforn ia was at Willow Springs International Raceway in 1990 ; th e race w as won by Ra n dy Renfrow. Newly crowned 500cc World Champion Kevin Schwantz is th e th ird nomin ee for the 1993 AMA Mot oW orld Ath lete of the Year award . The Texan wo n four 500cc GPs in 1993 en ro ute to his firs t World Cha mpions h ip . Sch wa n tz jo ins AM A C amel Su p ercro s s Champion Jeremy McGrath and World Speedway Champion Sam Ermolenko as nominees for the award which w ill be presented at the A MA P ro Awards Banque t o n November 20 in Lon g Beach, Ca lifornia. Ban qu et reservations are available for $60 each fro m: AMA Awards Banquet, Attn : Co nn ie Fleming, P.O. Box 6114, Westerville, OH 43081-6114. Is a one half-hour Mo toWorid show no t enough to satisfy your weekly motorcycle television fix? Help is on the wa y in the form of MW2 (short for MotoWorld 2), a new bi-weekly program that will soon be airing on ESPN's new channel, ESPN 2. The show will be aimed at a you nger viewing audience than MotoWorld, a nd will be hosted by e ccen tric h e lm e t p ai n ter and radical in d ustry pe rsona lity, Jerry Be rna rd o. The firs t program is scheduled to air on Tuesda y , October 5, at 11 :30 p. m. Ea stern Standard t ime , with a Wes t coast repeat show to be aired at a yet-tobe-decided prime time hour. Krau se Racing , the manu fa c turer of Sidewinder motorcycle sprockets and cha in s, will be offering sponsorshi p Carruthers named editor C ycle News, Inc., publisher Mike Klin ger and presiden t Sharon Clayton have anno unced that effective Sep tember 22, Paul Carruthers (right) has ta k e n ove r as editor of Cycle News, Inc . Carruthers, who is in his eighth year as associate editor of the ne wspaper, begins his tenure wi th this issue. Ca rruthers will conti nue in his role as Senior Editor of Personal Watercraft Illustra ted a nd Motorcycle Road Racer Illustrated and will also edit the 1994 AMA Supercross Souvenir Yearbook. For the past eight years, Carruthers has covered nea rl y every facet of motorcycle racing fo r Cycle Neuis while concentrating his efforts on the AMA National Championship Road Race Series. In addi tion, Carruthers pr od uced the firs t issue of Perso nal Watercraft Illustrated in 1987 and has worked on every issue since. In 1988 , CN Pub lishin g began publish ing Mo torcycle Road Racer Illustrated with Carruthers as its editor, and together they have p roduced the last fou r Motorcycle Road Racer Illustrated Yearbooks. The 32-year-old began his jou rnalism career in 1985 as a sports writer for N orth Coast Publishing in Encinitas, California, after completing his ed ucation at San Diego State University in San Diego, California. He was hired by CycleNeuis in June of 1986. Carruthers, w ho was born in Syd ney, Australia, ha s an ex tensive background in motorcycle racing. As a yo ungster he traveled through Europe with his p aren ts and old er s is te r a s h is fa the r, Ke l, w orked toward s w inn in g a r oad r a ce Worl d Championship. After winning the 250cc World Championship, the senior Carru the rs mo ved hi s fa mil y to San Diego in 1971 and b eg an ra cing in th e AMA Na ti on al Championship series. Paul ha s been an active particip ant in motorcyclin g eve r since. Paul and his wife [oni have two children, Karly, 4, and Kyle, 21 months. "I'm excited with the prospect of leading Cycle Netos into its 30th year an d beyond," said Carruthers. "I've been preparing myself for this oppo rtu nity for a lon g time. I pla n to carry on the tradition and progress of this newspaper, and I'm thankfu l that Sharon Clayton and Mike Klinger have enough faith in me to give me this opportuni ty." Carruthers replaces Jack Mangus, who was relieved of his duties due to d ifferences in management procedures. Barros wins his first, Harada crowned in FIM G randP rix A fter four years of tryi ng, Brazilian Alex Barros (right) finally wo n a 500cc Grand Prix, his victo ry comi ng in the final round of the World Championship Road Race Series in jarama, Spain, September 26. The Lucky Strike Suzuki rider became the first Brazilian to ever wi n a 500cc GP, moving in to position to p ick up the pieces as three of the top four riders crashed out of the race . Fas t qualifier Joh n Kocinski a nd Shinichi Itoh were th e first to go as Itoh crash ed his Rothmans Honda right in fron t of Kocinski as the pa ir battled for the lead. Kocinski, on the factory Cagiva , ended up run ni ng over th e rider fro m Japan , and w ent d own. Tho ugh both esca ped wit ho ut injury, neither were able to finis h the race. Ten laps from the finish, anot her of the leaders was eliminated when Italian Luca Cadalora crashed his Marlboro Yama ha. That left Barros so me five seconds clear of Rothmans Honda's Daryl Beattie a t the finish line . Third place we nt to recently-crowned Worl d Champion Kevin Schwan tz on the Lucky Strike Suzuki, with Marlboro Ho nd a's Alex Criville and Cagiva 's Doug Cha nd ler ro unding ou tthe top five finis hers. . The final point standings in. the 500cc World Championship are as fo llo ws : Schwantz (248), Wayne Rainey (214), Daryl Beattie (176), Michael Doohan (156) and Cadalora (145). With the 500cc World Championship already decided, attention in [ararna shifted to the battle for the 250cc World Championship. In the firs t ra ce of the day, Japan's Tetsuya Harada won the 250cc Grand Prix, becoming the first Japanese rider to wi n a World Championship since Takazumi Katayama won the 350cc crown in 1977. The Telkor-Yamaha rider started the race 10 points behind championship leader Loris Capirossi on the Marlboro Hond a, bu t Cap irossi ran off the track on the 22nd lap and slipped to fou rth before finishing an eventual fifth. Harada went on to win the race, taking the championship by only four points over Capirossi, 197-193, af ter 14 rounds. Finishing 1.2 seconds behind Harada was Italian Loris Reggiani on the Chesterfield Aprilia. Italian Max Biaggi finished th ird on the Rothmans Honda with Ducados Honda's Alberto Puig and Capirossi round ing out the to p five finish ers . The 125cc World Champ ionship went to German Dirk Raud ies , who rode conservatively to finish eigh th . The race wi n wen t to fellow German Ralf Waldmann on the Marlboro Ap rilia over the Ho ndas of Takeshi Tsujimura and Kaz uto Saka ta. In the fina l s ta n di ngs, Raudies topped Sa ka ta, 280-266, w ith Tsu jim ura th ird with 177 point s. packages of all level s for the 1994 race season. Send resumes to Kra use Racing, Attn: Factory Support Dept., 3705 Stem Ave., St. Cha rles, IL 60174. Fo u r- time AMA Nati onal H are & Hound Cha m pion and 1992 SCORE Baja 1000 winner Danny Hamel will ac t as guest guide for the Dece mber 9 running of Chris Haines' Baja Off- Road Tour in Baja California, Mexico. If you 're interested in spending a couple of days trail rid ing with Hamel, contact Baja OffRoad Tours at 714/830-6569. Th e Lod i M.e-promoted lOOcc Fo u rStroke Na tio nals at Lodi Cycl e Bowl in Lod i, Cali fornia, has been rescheduled for October 16. Lau rie Davis La Plant , 29, the wife of Torco marketing representative Gary LaPlant died Thursday, September 23 at her parents home in Danville, California, after a long bou t with cancer . MARRI ED: Paul Butler, chief executive officer of International Raci ng Teams Associa tion (IRTA), to Vicky Mockett on Monday , September 13 in Re n o , Nevada. MOVED: N-S tyle, the number and decal com pa ny owned by Rob Healy, to 2781 1 Aven u e H o p k ins, Suite 2, Valen cia, CA 91355, 805/294-1118, FAX 805/294-9292. NAMED: Rich Wa lsh as in terna tio na l sales ma nage r/ purchas ing d ir ect or, Kurt Menslage as na tion al sales manager, Steve Werbe low as purchasin g manager/ di re ctor warehouse opera tions, ... \0 $-I Q) E u o and Val Pompa as warehouse manager, by O 'N eal USA. MOVED: Engi nes Only, the l00cc fou rstro ke mod ificati on com pany ow ned by Frank N y e , to 165 C r is tic h Ln ., Campbell, CA 95008, 408/371-6871, FAX 408/371-9383. BOR N: Molly Elizabe th Fraser, to RACE event director Colin Fraser and his wife Marianne, on September 22 in Toronto, Canada. Marianne Fraser is a former WERA 12Sec National Champion. PURCHASED: California Cycleworks, a full service motorcycle repair and accessory shop in San Diego, California, by road racers Br u ce Ba ts on and Mark Roberts . Fo r mo re i nfo rma tion call 619/464-4286. STOLEN: Two Honda XR250s from a storage bu ild ing in Charlotte, North Carolina. Chris Walton, the owner of the 1990 (VIN #JH2 ME0608LK600324) and 1986 model XRs (VIN #JH2 ME0600GK203759), is offering a $500 reward for in formation leading to the recovery of the two motorcycles. For fu rt he r information w rite Wa lton at 773 2 Water ford La kes D r ., #1635, Charlott e, NC 28210 or phon e 704/ 5527774. BORN: Amy Eli sa Gl eckl , to Mark Gleckl Produ ctions ' Ma rk and Maria G lec k l o n Sept emb er 15, in Lag u na Hills, California. BORN: Robbie Sassa ma n, to former d irt tra cker Eric Sa ss aman a n d h is w ife Lu cind a on Se p te m be r 11, in Schwenksville, Pennslyvania. ~ 3

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