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Edited by SCott Rousseau
Hislop takes it to
the streets
Lon ny Hallsted rocked and rolled to the
Expert class victory at the salem Indoor
Trial .
trum this time ou t. A good second-place
finish , just 3.14 seconds behind Hislop,
B Chris carter
y
in the fir st leg was follo wed by some
bad luck in the second. With his SOOcc
MACAU, NO 19
V.
Millar Racing Yamaha running intermitcotsman Steve Hislop rode one of
tentlyon two cylinders because of faulty
the Sh ell Team Harris Yamaha
spark plug caps, McCallen was forced to
YZRSOOs to his third overall victory
pit when the red flag came out fo r a
in the accident-hit Macau Grand Prix ,
crash ·tha t inv olved Eng lis hman Dave
held in the streets of the city.
Leach. But with the results tallied on the
It took three attempts to get the secbasis of running order the previous lap,
ond leg underway after a spate of crashMcCallen was credited w ith 10th and
es, and by then the d istance had been
third pla ce overa ll.
cut from 15 laps to just seven. Even then '
It was not a great day for Joe Millar's
it failed to go the distance when ye t
team. In the morning while preparing
another crash forced the red flag to go
. for the two-l eg race, the team's minibus
out, and the results to be calculated after
wa s towed away by local police fo r
just five go-arounds of the 3.B-mile Guia
being illegall y parked. McCallen's hopes
street circuit.
.
for v ictory were then d ashed b y th e
That ga ve the 32- yea r-old H islop
electri cal problem, and to cap it all off
overall victory after winning the first
he had h is $1500 prize money s tolen
full-distance race in spectacular and
whil e th e team ate din ner at a local
convincing style, and taking third in the
restaurant after the race.
s h o rten ed second leg. The first race
Belgian Stephane Mertens was anothproved to be hard work for Hislop, at
er man lucky to score a pod ium pos ition
least in the early going. The Scot strugin the second leg. His Ducati, which was
gled for several laps to get the carbonsu pplied to him by" Macau GP regular
fiber brakes on the Harris Yamaha to
Peter Rubatto, also hit electrical sn ag s
w ork effectively. Eighth at th e end of
starting the sixth lap . But like McCallen,
the firs t lap, Hislop quickly went to
Mertens' effort didn't go to waste as the
work and he finally moved into the lead
red flag ca u sed o fficial s to base the
on the eighth lap . From there it was eas y
results on the running order on lap five sailing as Hislop and the Yamaha pulled
so Mertens earned a second place in the
away to victory.
leg, ju st 1:5 second s behind Edwards
The event was marred by ilie death
and onl y a quarter of a second in fron t
of Japan 's Katsuhiro Tottori, w ho
of Hislop. In fact, only 2.5 seconds covcrashed with German Lothar Neukirchered the top four as they diced it ou t at
ner in the seco nd leg. Tottori and
the front of the pack.
Neukirchner's bikes locked together
If the race had indeed gone one more
before separating at high speed, throwlap, Ne w Zealander Andrew Stroud - on
ing Tottori on top of the trackside wall.
the second ROC Yamaha - wo uld have
He was pronounced de ad on arri va l at
jo ined Edwards on the podium w it h
the hospital.
third place overall. The third fastest
Second overall on the day we nt to
qualifier ins tead had to se ttle for tw o
Englishman Mike "Spike" Edwards, ridfourth-place finishes .
ing one of the two ROC Yama has
The Kiw i had grabbed the lead
entered in the race. The 32-year-old was
momentarily from teammate Edwards
invited to compete on the ROC bike after
before taking to the slip road at the
Belgian Laurent Naveau was forced to
Melco Hairpin on lap six, dropping him
pull out due to injury. It was Edwards'
back four places and causing him to lose
first visit to Macau and his first-eve r ride
contact with the lead group.
on a "prope r" race bike. Still, th e man
The best of the Americans in Macau
who has made his reputation in Europe
were newcomer Glenn Szarek on th e
racin g Sup ersport machinery astonished
Virginia Breeze Yam ah a 1000, and race
his rivals and the fans by qualifying .1 regular Ch uck Graves on the Valvoline
fourth and following that up with a third
Suzuki GSXR11oo.
place and a victory in the two legs.
Graves' plan each time out was simWhen aggregate time was calc ulated,
ple - he would use the power of the big
four-stroke to blast his wa y to the front
Edwards was only 2.97 seconds behind
of the pack from the third row of the
Hislop in the overall standings.
, Phillip McCallen is still searching for
grid to "grab some TV air time." In practice, Graves' Suzuki had been clocked as
that elusive first Macau GP win, and he
the fastest of all, encouraging him to
was fortunate to even finish on the ros-
S
7. L Pullan (Ka w) ; 8. Chuck Graves (suz); 9. stephane
believe he could at least run w ith th e
Mertens (Due); 10. Dave leach (Yam).
front-runners early on .
The plan worked. In the first leg, the
diminutive Californi an wa s seco nd a t
Hallsted hops to
the end of the op e ning lap behind
SalemTrial win
Edwards' Yamaha 500. He then slipped
back to third place on lap two and three
By Ted Burg ler
before dropping a place or so from then
SALEM. OR, NOV. 19
on to finally finish inside th e top 10 in
Lonny Hallsted was on ha nd to dominate the
ninth place.
Expert class aboard his Powerbar-backed Beta in
Graves d id it again in all three starts
the Salem Arena during the first of what many
for the second leg. He was fifth on the
will hope to be the beginning of a great indoor
tria ls series.
opening lap of the second restart, and
Afrer the firs t loop, Beta rider Dennis Sweetfinally took the powerful but cumberen posed a real challen ge for Hallst ed, as the
some Suzuki to eighth place in that fivetw o r iders were tied in p o ints . Th e two
lap event to take eighth overall.
re mained d eadlocked right to the end , w here
If Graves' effort wa s go od , then 32Hallsted had to make a clean over the big van to
year-old Szarek's was even better. Onl y
take th e win. H e revved h is bik e to the m oon
12th in qualifying after slashing almost I and made the big jump onto the top of the van,
cla iming the only zero-point rid e for th e day,
nine seconds off his ea rly lap times,
w hich gav e hi m th e win.
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Szarek got away seventh in the opening
I • Swee te n fa ltered in the seco nd loo p a nd
leg and rode to a steady eighth, passing
picked up five more po ints , giving him seco nd
Graves and German Tho mas Ochsenreplace for the day.
iterger two laps from the finish .
Scott Stewart had the crowd roaring when
he flipped off the 2Q..foot pyramid , but amazing'
And the WERA 600cc Superstock
Iy only his handlebars a nd his pride were broChampion was even more impressive in
ken. Stewart didn 't let the mis hap affect him,
the second race, running fourth for ' the
and he was able to put together so me incredible
first two laps and then dropping back
rides to finish third behind Sweeten.
one place to finis h fifth. He end ed up
Another rea l battle took p lace bet ween the
ju st behind a fou r-way dice between
consistent Bill Estes and Dennis Tolle fson in the
Intermediate class. Tolle fson ha d the clea r lead
Edward s, Mertens, His lop and Stroud.
o n the first lap , wi th only three marks lost, a nd
Tha t s p le n di d performance netted
they were a ll in the lasr section o n the five-foo t
Szarek sixth ov erall and he was only
un dercut log . Estes was seven poi nts back. bu t it
five or si x secon d s away from takin g
co uld easily be ma de u p if Tollefson let it sli P .
fifth from Scotsman Roge r Benne tt on
again on the log ,
aggregate time.
It all came down to the last lap and the last
section. as the y were bo th gunning for the w in.
The other Americans had a miserable
For Estes to win, he would have to dean the log
time with only Eric Moe classified in the
and Tollefson would have to take a five. Tollefson
fina l res ults . Mo e rode his C&C /Moe
blew it under the pressu re of the crowd and took
Knows Racing-backed Kawasaki to 11th ., the big five. But Estes somehow slipped on the
overall. The two other Americans who
dirt surface, hit the log a bit too low and ended up
taking a one, handing the win back to Tollefson.
di d n' t figu re in th e fin al results were
Ad vanced rider Al Pereria took a big win
Ricky Orlando and Pau l Harrell.
again ov er up-and -com ing riders Dan Dwye r
Harrell's practice was plagu ed w ith
an d Blake Landon. Pereria mastered the gig antic
engine problems and in th e very firs t
pyramids of section six while also cleaning the
untimed session on Thursd ay morning
tricky exit off the to p of the van in section four.
the motor on his Yamaha expired, SeemResults
ingly putting him out of the even t. But
EX: 1. Lonny Halbted (Bd); 2. Drnni. Swl"l"t1"n (Bet ); 3. Scott
g ro u p leader H enry d eGouw swu ng
Stewart (G-C);". Scott Tyler e
GG); 5. }oM IWrwood (Bd ).
ADV : 1. AI Pererilo (C-C); 2. D.anDwyer l ~; 3. Blak~ Laninto act ion, p er suad ing the in jured '
do n (e.G); 4. BrlIn Ow)'" (G-C).
.
Arpad Harmati to loan the 750cc Yam alNT: 1. Dennis Tol1cflon (G-C); 1. Bill Est" (ya m); 3. o.le
To llefson (Bet); 4. MiU GiVl."n ev.l m ); 5. W.le Wookoy (CC).
ha eng ine that he d idn ' t n eed after
NOV; 1. Monte Eby (ya m): 2. GeN" Ch ittim (C-C); 3. Lou
cr ashing and breaking a bone in his
.. H.1dett (GG); 4. 0.... udy (F~n); 5. Dan utes (Yam) .
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shoulder to Harrell. Sadl y, the generous
offer d idn 't pay great divid ends. In the
Hess strikes again at
fir st I S-la p race, Harrell mad e a bad
start and eventually finished 13th. In the
Surry 100 Hare Scrambles
second leg the borrowed engin e gave up
By Mary Jacks on
one lap from the end of the third restart.
Orlando's pra ctice was also 'troubled ,
SURRY, VA. NOV, 13
After suffering with carbu retion probMark IV. Ha vcline / Eugen e Co mptom, Aitorney
a t La w / N eeley Ra ci n g /Oury G rip s /Wor ks
lems, he eventually qualified 14th. In the
Enduro Rid er/ Jerry 's Trucking /Scoll US Af
race, Orl ando's Gold H ill Racing
Un de rware Glove Uner/ Metzeler TirelJ&J ConKawasaki was still misfiring. He crossed
tractors-backed Brian Hess claim ed his 10th trithe finish line in 16th in th e first race,
umph of the '94 season wi th an overall victory at
bu t he ran out of gas on the last lap of
the VCHSS Surry 100 Hare Scra m ble in Virginia.
Hess failed to ge t the holesh ot, and he trailed
the second leg.
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George Greer for tw o la ps. G reer s ta r ted o u t
stro ng, but Hess kept up the pressure. Before the
third lap, Hess pulled u p and made the pass on
. Greer to brin g ho me yet another overall win for
the '94 season. With tw o throwaway rides, Hess
QUALIFYINC, 1. Phillip McCallen (2;26 .35); 2.
.
Steve Hislop (2:36.6 1); 3. Andrew Stroud (2:37.19); 4. ., • has chalked up a pe rfect sco re wi th a to tal of 10
Mike Edwards (2:38.56); 5. Stephane Mertens (2:39-06);
overall wins out of 11 races.
6. M. Rutter (2:39 .89); 7. T. Ochsenrei ter (2:39.92); 8.
The next class to wa tch was the 250/ SOOcc C
Roger Bennett(2:40.68) 9. Chuck Graves (2:4125); 10. L
;
class. C asey C ycl e Cil y /Ha voline /Reg ina
Pullan (2:4 1.39); 11. Dave leach (2:43.38) ; 12. Glenn
Chain-backed Jason Greer claimed the first- place
Szarek (2:43 .65) ; 13. Eric Mo~ (2 ,45 .86); 14. Ricky
finish . Greer, who was fourth off the line, pulled
Orlando (2:48.13): 15. Paul Harrell (2:48.13).
R.ACE ONE: 1. Steve Hislop (Ya m) ; 2. Phillip
up and was read y to pa ss the firs t-p lace ride r,
McCa llen (Yam); 3. Mike Edwa rds (Yam); 4. And rew .
w hen he we nt down and had to make. up seven
Stroud (Yam); 5. Roger Be
nnett (Kaw); 6. Mike Rutt er
positions. Even so , Greer prevailed for the victo(Due); 7. L Pullan (!