Cycle News - Archive Issues - 1990's

"E EScottS' '. V N Rousseau T .Edited by :- . the m a in. Th e g a te dropp ed a n d i t was the favo re d w in ne r Brown with the holes hot. Sm ail, Lawrence a nd H olland were all figh ting for position d u rin g the early laps . Smail took over the lead on lap three and wicked it up . Lawrence passed Brown and the battle began. Lawrence wanted the win bad ly, b ut co uldn't get b y Smail, w ho was r id in g a fla w le s s r ac e . H oll and ran . in fou rth u nt il Schnell made his pass on lap six. His determina tion pa id off as he mad e a pass on Brown to take over third. Smail continued to lead , and with fi ve laps to go , La w rence knew h e had to make a move. With th e fa n s sc reami ng, the two rid ers hammered the w ho op section si de by si de. They mad e co n tact and Lawrence went to the ground, knocking him unconscious. The race wa s red-flagged on th e 15th lap, and the results were declared final , Smail won with Schnell second, Brown third and Holland and Moural rounding out the top 10. Holland had a so re shoulder bu t didn't need a trip to the hospital. CllI (Top) Bob Miller nabbed th e Spo rtsman A clas s victory at t he Leftover Turkey Trial. (Left) Lance Smail styled In the tight confines of the Reno U vestock Events Center, scoring 250cc clas s wins on bo th nights at the fourth annual Aren ocross. L.awrence, Smail cashin By Joa n Tieamey RENO, NY, NOV. 18-19 h il Lawrence and Lance Smail dominated the 125 and 2SOcc classes, respectivel y, at the Reno Livestock Center' s Arenocross. Each rid er won his d ivision on both Friday and Satu rd ay. The su pe rcross-type track consisted of gnarly whoop sections, d oubles, an over-under section and a 70-foot triple. A $10,000 Pro purse was posted. Friday's 12Scc heat races sent six riders to the main. Rusty Holland, David Pingree and Ryan Huffman won their heat races, and runners-up Casey Johnson, Mike Brown and Lawrence also made the direct transfer. Lowell Moural Jr ., Cory Keeney, Greg Schnell and Shane Esposito transferred via semis, and the LCQ sen t Jeff Willoh. The main proved to be intense, with Holland pulling the holeshot. The Kawasaki-mounted Lawrence - wearing Suzuki riding gear pushed through the grueling whoop section to take the lead on lap four. Pingree also passed Holland to take second. Mike Brown had suffered a poor start, but managed to move up to third by the 10th lap. Passing 'in the tight turns requ ired aggressive .riding, and the crowd was P > on its feet, cheering as Lawrence performed aerial maneuvers over the huge tab let op fi nish jum p . Holland a n d Moural ran fourth and fifth for most of the race while Willoh held off Schnel l fo r six t h. A t th e end of 15 laps, Lawrence held off Pingree to emerge victorious . Brown wa s third, ahea d of Holland and Moural. The 2SOcc qualifiers saw many of the sam e riders, and Moural, Huffman, Ray Crumb, Smail, Pingree, Holland , Brown , Cha d Burleson, Shawn Highlan d, Greg Schnell and Shane Esposito all lined up for the main. When the gate dropped, Huffman snagged the holeshot, but Smail quickly took over. Br own gated fou rth and chased down Moural and Huffman, settling in behind Sm ail after lap four. Lawrence also passed Pingree and Huffman to move into a podium spo t. The 20-Iap race was taking its toll on some riders, but produced only a few Iappers. Smail dominated the race, sailing over. the finish line with th e w in . Brown was second while Lawrence settled for third. Pingree finished fourth and Moural Jr. fifth. Local firemen; police a nd s he riffs provid ed the halftime entert a inment, with the fire department taking the trophy. Some of the riders were su rprisingly fast. A Yamaha RTl OO was also raffled off courtesy of Yamaha Corpo ration and Mi chael's Cy cl es of Reno. Ryan Morals inspired the cr ow d in th e pee wee exhibition race. On Saturday, Lawrence continued his tiddler dominance, winning his heat. Pingree and Willoh tangled in the whoop section at the start of their heat, knocking each other out of contention. Moural was another heat winner ahead of rookie Burleson. Brown and Holland also wo n, and Brit John Tidey rounded out the field. Law rence was relatively uncontested in the main , with Brown crossing the finish as the runner-up. Schnell got it all together for third, followed by Holland and Huffman. . The 2SOcc main was the finale, pitting the toughest, fastest, hungriest gate of 12 to hit Reno thus far. The anxious crowd was on its feet for th e start of Results Friday 125 : 1. Ph il Law re nce (Ka w) ; 2. Da vid Pin g ree (Ka w); 3. Mike Brown (H on ); 4. Rusty Holland (Suz); 5. Lowell Moural Ir. (Hon). 250: I. Lance Small (Hon); 2. Mike Brown (Hon); 3. J'hjJ Lawrence (Kaw); 4. David Pingree (IU w) ; 5. Low ell Moural Jr. (Hon). Saturday 125; I . Phil Lawrence (Kawl; 2. Mike Brown(Hon); 3. Greg Schnell (5 uz); 4. Rusty Holland (Suz); 5. Ryan Huffman(Kaw). 250: I . Lance Smail (Hon); 2. Greg Schne (5 uz ); 3. ll Mike Brown(Han); 4. Rusty Holland (5uz) ; 5. Lowell Moural Jr. (Hon). Miller devours Leftover Turkey Trial By Seymour Bettys LUCERNE, CA. NOV. 27 It may ha ve been three months since he las t threw a le g ove r h is Fantic K-Roo, bul tha t didn 't sto p Bob Mille r from romping to th e win in the Sportsman A class at the Tech nique Tri a ls Club-promoted Leftov er Tu rkey Tria l, held in the Co ugar Butt es area of Lucerne Valley. Miller , own er of Section On e Tr ials Product s and the U.S. import er o f Italian Fantic mo torcycles , bested ru nner-up Sheldon Parker with a slim two-point margin of victory, eight to 10. " I had a feeli ng tha t I wa s doing pretty well," sa id Miller. " Bu t wh en I had a clean third loop, I figured I was in a good po sition to win." Miller started off the opening loop on a sou r note, as he rode out of bounds and recei ved a five in the fifth section. "Th ere was a guy taking pictures. sai d Mill er . " And yo u know what happens w he n someone points a came ra a t H you." Miller regained his composure and turned in a seven- poin t loop card, one be tter th an th e eigh t-poin t scores of Parker a nd Waldo Weir. Miller and Sheldon remained sepa ra ted by only a s ingle poin t after tw o loops, as bo th riders came home with one-point loops . The third, and final loo p proved to be the deciding factor. While Mill er rod e flaw lessly a nd cleaned all 10 sections, Pa rker set his foo t down once and saw his ch ances o f victory fad e aw ay. In the end, it w as Mill er over Pa rker, while Kevin Quine nabbed the third-p lace position with a tota l score of 13. Resu lts EX: 1. Oli vin Oam.gira nd (9 po intl /2S cle..na); 2. To m Hamonn (21 /Z!~ 3. J..... ...Imquiot'''/IS). ADV Ai 1. Lon Br. nd rZJpointl/20 deans~ 2. Thon:UIWOn (28/11); 3. Kent Gratwn (30/ 17); • . Qivt' ....nnon (46/ 11); S. Pftr Croft (48/10). ADV 8: 1. I::u rt Roll (56 poi nt s/l0 cw . m); 2. J.O . Mill" (64/9); 3. o.vId Il

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