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Jeremy McGrath (Hon) was the big
winner at the Paris Bercy Supercross in
Pari s, France, November 12-14. McGrath
w ent 1-1 in th e 250cc class on Friday,
with Jeff Stanton (Han) fini shing secon d, Larr y Ward (Suz) third and
Michael Craig (Yam ) fo u r th . Ryan
Hug hes (Kaw) top ped Frida y's 125cc
cl ass comp eti tion, with Frenchman
Mickael P i ch o n (Hon) second a n d
Craig Decker (Hon) third. McGrath also
won ,the Superfinal, which pitted 125
an d 250cc rid ers head to head. Stanton
was second ahead of Ward and Craig.
On Saturday, McGrath again went 1-1 in
the 250cc class, beating Stanton, Craig
and Belgian Stefan Everts (Suz). Hughes again won the 125cc division, with
Pichon second and Decker third. In the
Superfinal, McGrath won over Stan ton
and Frenchman Fred eric Bolley (Yam).
Sunday saw Stanton win the 250cc class,
wi th McGrath second, Frenchman Yann
Guedard (Kaw) third and Craig fou rth.
Decker won th e 125cc cla ss a he ad of
Hughes and Pichon, and Stanton won
the Sup erfinal over McGrath, Ward and
South African Greg Albertyn (Hon).
Brian Sw in k (Suz) won the main event
a t the Osa k a -Supe r cr o ss in Japan,
November 13. Dou g Henry (H on) was
second, with Mike Kiedrowski (Kaw)
third and Steve Lamson (Hon ) fourth.
Scott Summers (Hon) scored the ove rall
w in at the Green eville, Te n nes see,
roun d
of
t he
AMA
W iseco !Yamah a /Dunl op N ational
Cross Country Series, Novembe r 14. The
runner-up was Steve Hatch (Suz), while
Sco tt Plessinger (KTM), Tom Norton
(Kaw) and Canadian Bla ir Sharpless
(Suz) rou nded ou t the top five.
Patrick Garrahan (Hon ) won the overall
at the Wilsey vill e H ar e Scrambles in
Ca lifornia's Sierra Nevada Mountains,
becoming only the third ride r to do so
on a 125cc mot orcycle. Eri c Mas h b ir
(Hus) was second wi th Kipp Classen
(Hon) third.
Australian Daryl Beatti e ha s sig ne d a
two-year contract with Marlboro Yamaha, according to rep orts from Aus tralia.
The 23-year-old will be pa id a reported
$2 million by the Ken ny Roberts-owned
squad to team with Italian Luca Cada lora. Beattie rod e a Rothmans Honda to
third in the 1993 500cc World Championship Road Race Series.
Th e Marlboro Robe r ts Yamaha team
was testing the 1994 Yamaha YZRSOOs
in Au st ralia th e week of No vember 15
with ri ders Luca Cada lora and Randy
M a mol a. N ew recruit D a ryl Beattie
won' t be able to test until his Ho nda
contract e xp ires on Dec ember 3l.
Mamola will again serv e as a test rid er
for the Roberts squad in 1994, helping
the team sort through Dunlop tires
while also helping d e velop th e n ew
bike.
According to tea m owner Rob Mu zzy,
Brit Terry Rym er will join World Sup erbike Champion Scott Russell on the
Muzzy Kawasaki team in 1994. Muz zy
was courting Aaron Sligh t to return to
the team, but Slight mad e a d ecision to
go elsewhere. Rymer signed a one-year
contract. "I think it' ll be good," Muzzy
said on Novembe r 15. " I d on't know
w here Aaron will go. H e ha s an offer
from Honda and from Ducati ." Muzzy
also reports that his bikes did make it
back from th e ca nc elled Me xico City
round of the series, sched uled to run on
N ovember 7. " Th e bikes a re in L.A.
tod a y (N ove mb er 15), " Muzz y said .
IIFinally."
Span ish road racer Alberto Puig looks
set to move up to the 500cc Grand Prix
class for the 1994 season. Puig, who finished n inth in th e 1993 250cc World
Cham p ions hip on a Ducados-backed
Ho nd a NSR250, will be Sito Pons' only
rider in the 500cc GPs, replacing Alex
Criville, who rep ort ed ly will ta ke his
Spa nis h Marlboro m oney to ano ther
team in 1994. It is also likely that Puig 's
250cc GP r id e w ill be take n over b y
Spaniard Carlos Giro, wh o rod e in the
125cc GPs this year.
Nobby Clark, the man who wo rked on
man y of the factory Honda road racers
in the 60s, multi-cylinder mo torc ycles
rid den by the likes of Mike Hailwood
and Ji m Red man , is cu rrently working
for Team Obsolete. Clark has been hired
D vis Hamel Roeseler ace Ba'a 1000
a
L
a rry Roeseler, Danny Hamel
and Ty Davis (left to right)
tea med up to wi n the Tecate
Beer /Score Internatio nal Baja 1000,
which started and ended in Mexicali,
Baja California, Mexico, on November 13-14. The KX50G-mounted team
completed the 762.4-mile cou rse in 13
hours,5T minu tes, 23 seconds, ave raging 54.627 mph.
This was the sixth-straight win for
Kawasaki's Tea m G reen , an d it
rnarked Roeseler's nint h vic to ry in
the event. It was Davis' first win and
Hamel's secon d . Hame l's firs t win
came last yea r, whe n Roeseler's bike broke before his rid ing stint s tarted .
Finishing second on a Honda XR600 was the relatively large team of Charles Halcomb, Geoff Sanborn, Bob Ru tten , Dan Ash craft, Dave Donatoni, and Chuck Miller.
The la tter three ride rs started the race as a separate team , bu t joined with Honda' s'