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Penhall jokingly pointed to another similarity that may have given the team an edge over their rivals in Florida. "We don 't have any brakes on the boat either." . The AMA National Championship Indoor Ice Race Series will get underway December 17 at the Ohio State Fairgrounds Coliseum short track in Columbus, Ohio. The event is being co-promoted by dirt tracker/road racer Larry Pegram and Action Sports Promotions, Inc., and will offer Pee Wee and 60cc classes in addition to the premier 250cc Pro class. For more informat ion call 614/594-6686. The North American Trials Council has announced the 1995 National Trails Championship Series schedule. The 11round series will route the nation's best trialers across the country, with only the best six of 11 finishes counting towards the series championship. The series is as follows: April 22-23 - Prescott, Arizona; April 29 - California (city TBA); May 20Cuyuta, New York; May 21 - Harrisburg, Pennsylvania; May 27-28 - Exitor, Rhode Island; August 26-27 - Canon City, Colorado; September 2-3 - Tillamook, Oregon. Sixth-ranked National Championship Trials Series competitor Lonny Halsted has switched sponsors for the 1995 season . Formerly sponsored by the Tryals Shop aboard a Montesa, Halsted will contest the '95 series aboard a Beta, with backing from Cosmopolitan Motors, Axo, Renthal and Powerbar. Other news in the trials world has Marc Colomer being courted by both the Spanish Montesa Honda and Italian Fantic factories. Though Colomer was expected to sign with Montesa, reports from Europe have him going either way. In addition, Japanese rider Takumi Narita has yet to re-sign with the factory Beta squad. Apparently, Japanese HRC personnel are trying to recruit him for the Honda Montesa team. According to Gas Gas USA's Dale Malasek, the first few shipments of 1995 Gas Gas JT35 and JT25 models have arrived from Spain. Both of the trials motorcycles carry the same retail price of $5195. For more information call 816/741-7615. Germany's road race sanctioning body the ADAC - has made Keith Code's newest book, A Twist of the Wrist, Volume II, mandatory read ing fo r all Junior-level racers. Axcel Fast Graphics is currently accepting resumes from professional motocross racers for helmet painting sponsorships. Qualified parties should send resumes to P.O. BOX 3453, South Pasadena, CA 91031-6453. Bob Harvell of Rainbow MX Park in Rainbow, California, reports that an allnew vintage-friendly course will greet ' competitors at the November 20 round of the AHRMA Cal-Zona Winter Series. Because of the race, the normal Saturday practice session at Rainbow will not be held November 19. The track will, however, be open for practice on Thanksgiving morning, November 24. For more information call 909/926-4646. F&S Racing has announced the addition of Guy Cooper, Jeromy Buehl, Jeff Curry, Mike Treadwell and Dale Spangler to their team of sponsored riders ยท for the 1995 season. F&S still has a limited amount of spots available and interested riders can send the ir resumes to Jeff Stolzengurg, c/o F&S Team Racing, 7200 N. Dixie Dr., Dayton, OH 45414. Fastrack Riders School has released its 1995 schedule. The sessions - which are all held at Willow Springs Raceway in Rosamond, California - begin on Friday, January 13, 1995 and end on Friday, December 15, 1995. For more information call 805/256-7320. American Italjet, Inc. is planning to give a new Italjet Buster to the overall PeeWee class champion at the Florida Mini Road America U.S.GP "imminent" O n Thursday, November 10th, a meeting took place in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, involving Jim Haynes, president of Elkhart Lake's Road America , and other board members, Carmelo Ezpeleta, marketing director of Dorna, Dennis Noyes, president of GP Promotions and Kenny Roberts regarding the location of next year's U.S. 500cc Road Race GP. At the conclusion of the meeting, the general agreement was that the U'S, GP, for many years held in Monterey, California, at Laguna Seca Raceway, will be held at Road America on August 6 and again in 1996 on a yet-to-be-determined date. According to Noyes, the agreement has not been signed "but looks imminent." "If there had been any way to keep the event in Laguna Seca we would have done so," said Noyes. "Both Kenny Roberts and Wayne Rainey live in the area and they certainly made it clear that if they had their "'drethers" the U.s. GP would stay in Laguna Seca, but we were told by SCRAMP (Sports Car Racing Association of the Monterey Peninsula) that there was no way they could restructure the deal in such a wa'y that our risk would be greatly reduced. If Monterey County wants to get their GP back and can help SCRAMP become competitive, we'll listen to any offer they make. It looks like 0\ we'll be in Wisconsin for at least two years, but if the right offer came along from ~ SCRAMP and Monterey County we'd ask the FIM for authorization to hold an additional Grand Prix at Laguna Seca under the title of Grand Prix of the Americas, just as we run a second GP in Spain under the title of European Grand Prix. Kenny Roberts has said from the beginning that the United States is big enough for two Grand Prix events and we agree with that, but the U.S. GP, providing there are no last -minute problems, will be at Road America for at least the next two years and probably will continue for some time after that." The Road America event will still be promoted by Dorna in association with KR Sports Promotion Corp. The Monterey Herald recently published that the amount of income Monterey County will lose by not hosting the United States Motorcycle Grand Prix is estimated at $30 million. et. LaRocco .crowned King of Berc . ea m Kawasaki's Mike LaRocco (right) was crowned King of Bercy after three nights of racing in France's Bercy Stadium. The reigning 250cc National Champion posted consistent 2-2-1 finishes to earn the title and dethrone defending King of Bercy Jeremy McGrath, who turned in a 1-3-12 tally. Team Honda/1-800-COLLECT's McGrath rediscovered his fast-starting technique, but still only won one of the three races. McGrath established a healthy lead earl y in Frida y's main, but the race was halted on the four th lap by a horrendous crash tha t in volved Doug Henry, Larry Ward and LaRocco. Henry was knocked unconscious, Ward's Noleen Yamaha was left hanging from the stadium wall, and LaRocco 's Kawasaki had a smashed radiator. The race was rest arted 10 m inutes later, and McGrath again established a healthy 10-second lead . The twotime Supercross Champion's lead shrunk at the fin- . ish, however, as both Frederick Vialle and Yves Demaria blocked McGrath as he was lapping them. laRocco closed in and finished a close second. Suzuki's Jimmy Button was third. . McGrath holeshot again on Saturday, but was passed by Henry and laRocco. The three ran in tight formation, but the race was stopped and called at 18 laps when Button crashed hard and lay in the middle of the track. Henry was the leader when the red flag came out, and was declared the winner over laRocco and McGrath. Ward was the early leader on Sunday night, but McGrath ran him down and looked like he was on his way to victory. It was not to be, though, as clutch problems dropped him to an eventual 12th. laRocco made a late-race pass on Ward for the win, while Henry moved up to third after a so-so start. With only one round of the FIM World Championship Supercross Series remaining - the Tokyo Supercross - McGrath holds a slim one-point lead over laRocco, 73-72. Henry is third with 65. . T Olympics, which will take place November 22-27. aboard a 1991 Kawasaki KDX200. He finished second in Class 21S (Sportsman). This year's race totaled approximately 620 miles. In 1992, Keaveny soloed the Baja 1000 when the course finished in laPaz. "This one (Baja 1000) was a lot tougher than the one in '92," said Keaveny. "It seemed as though this one had nothing but whoops. I also had to ride 40 miles on a flat tire." ~ Bringing your kid to see the November 18-20 Arenocross, at the Reno livestock Center in Reno, Nevada? On Friday night, a free ticket will be given to all kids who accompany an adult and brings a coat to donate to underpriveledged children. For more information, call 702/267-4392. The Mickey Thompson Off-Road Racing Series, including the motorcycle Ultracross class, will air on the Nashville Network in 1995 . TNN will feature the MTEG events 16 consecutive Saturday afternoons starting August 5 and' running through November 18. "This tele- L vision agreement will allow Mickey . . Thompson Racing to climb to the next level in motorsports," said MTEG president Danny Thompson. - Promoters of amateur off-road and motocross series around the country should contact EBC Brakes if they're interested in being a part of the company's contingency program for 1995. Call 716/529-3750 for more information." If you're concerned about your rights in the California desert, you may want to attend the California Desert Coalition's November 19 meeting at the Baker Community Hall in Baker, California. Meeting time is 1:00 p.m. i '1 Though not exactly outside industry, the sponsorship deal of Italians Alessandro Puzar and Mauro Del Lago is quite unique. The duo will be backed by the Federation Motoclistica Italiana, the italian version of the AMA, to contest the '95 MX GP circuit. Puzar, the 1990 250cc World Champion, and Del Lago will both race Honda CRl25s, and will be managed by Corrado Maddii. How would you like to ride a true point-to-point hare & hound on Saturday, No vember 26, during Thanksgiving Weekend? No, we're not talking about Barstow to Vegas, but instead, the Fallon to Lovelock Desert Challenge, a 13o-mile Nevada event. For more information, call 702/358-5905. Chris Keaveny earned the unofficial "Ironman" award atthe recently con- . eluded Baja 1000. The 30-year-old from Costa Mesa, California, soloed the event in approximately 23 and a half hours MTEG also reports that they exprienced a 28% increase in attendance for the seven-race Off-Road Racing Series in I 1994, thanks in part to a major surge at second-year venue Salt Lake City, Utah. This is despite the fact that the Ana heim, California, round saw a 10,000strong drop in attendance because of earthquake damage to the stadium. CORRECTION: A couple of the 1995 AMA Motocross National numbers we printed last week were incorrect. We listed Shaun Kalos twice; his correct number is 68 and Jim Kapitan will proudly display 66 on his number-plate. Also, we left out number 83, which will be attached to William Dzie1ak'smotorcycle. HIRED: Gary Hazel, to the position of race support cooridanator, by FMF Racing. Hazel was formerly a technician at Kawasaki Team Green. OPEN HOUSE: At H&H KTM in Douglasville, Georgia, on December 2-4. Former National Enduro Champion Jeff Russell is scheduled to appear. ~