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Belgi an Stefan Everts (Kaw) moved
into th e fro n t o f the World Cham p ionship 250cc MX Series point sta ndings
by winning bo th motos at the Du tch GP
in Valkenswaard, Hollan d, on April 9.
Fe ll o w Be lg ian Marnicq Be r voets
(Suz), w ho wo n b oth m oto s a t t h e
series ope ne r las t week in Sp a in ,
crash ed during the first lap in the firs t
moto and climbed back to 11th, and he
failed to finish the second mot o. The
runner-u p on the d ay was Du tchman
Pedro Tragte r (Suz) after going 4-4,
while American Tallon Vohland (Kaw)
finish ed third overall via 2-8 moto finish es. Voh land is curren tly seco nd in
the series point stand ings, 11 poin ts
beh ind Everts. Belgian Werner Dewit
(Suz) and fellow cou ntry ma n Peter
Iven (Kaw) rounded out the top five
overall.
At t he seco nd rou nd of th e World
C ha mpions hip 125cc MX Se r ies in
Bell pu ig, Spa in, on Ap ril 9, Italian
Mikael Maschio (Hon ) scored the
overall wi n after finishing 1-5 on the
day. Second overall we nt to Holland's
Da vey Stri jbos (Suz) who rode to 4-2
mo to finis hes . Roundi ng out the top
five ove rall were Alessandro Puzar
(Ho n), Alessio Ch i o di (Yam) and
Mauro Dal'Lago (Ho n). Chiodi hol ds
a s li m o ne-poi nt adv a n tage ove r
Pu za r in the se ries poin t sta ndi ngs,
59-58.
Scott Summers (Ho n) was the overall
w inner at the com bined Nationa l Hare
Scra mbles and Grand Na tion al Cross
Coun tr y Series r ou nd a t th e Lo retta
Lynn's Ranch in Hurricane Mills, Tennessee, on April 9. Summers broke free
of Guy Cooper (Suz) in the lat e stages
of th e race to score th e win. Cooper
held on to second, while To m Norton
(Yam) finishe d a distant third. Fourth
went to th e d efend ing GNCC cha mp
Scott Plessinger (KTM), while defe nding H a re Scrambles champ Rodney
Smith ende d up fifth. Steve Hatch finished sixth.
Four-time N a tion al Ha r e & Hou nd
Champ ion Danny Hamel (Kaw) pos ted
the overall win at the Jericho Na tional
in Jericho, Utah, on April 8. Hamel finis hed ahea d of teammate Ty Davis,
wh ile Greg Zitterkopf (KTM), Donnie
Book (Ka w) a nd Todd Hoy (KTM)
completed the top five overall.
Finn Tommi Ahvala gave the new Fantic Se ction a winning deb uf at the
Worl d C hampi onsh ip Trial s se ries
opener, held April 8-9 in Warken , Luxem bo urg. The 1992 World Ch ampion
topped Spaniards Marc Colomer (Mon)
a nd six-time World Champion Jo rd i
Tarres (G- G ). Fr enchman Bruno
Camozzi (Bet) and Brit Dougie Lampkin (Bet) rounded out the top five.
The round of the 500cc World Championship MX Series sched uled for July 9
a t Hawks tone Park in En gland ha s
been replaced by a round in Bielstein,
Germany, on the sam e date.
Former road racer and cu rrent ad vertising sales man ager for American Roadracing magaz ine, Andy Leisner, underwent hip rep lacement s u rgery in
Phoenix, Arizona, on Monday, April
10. Leisner shattered his hip wh en he
crashed after a hose clamp broke on his
Aprilia's cooling sy stem at Daytona
I-< Interna tional Speedway in 1990,
0.. prompting his retirement from racing.
Get-well cards for Leisner can be sent
to American Roadracing at P.O . Box
3320, Carefree, AZ 85377.
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