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Emesto Fonseca (Yam), Tommy Harrison (Suz) and Casey Johnson (Kaw)
were the big award winners in the 24th
Annual Florida Winter Olympics, held
in Gainesville, Florida on November
23-26. Fonseca was awarded the Arai
Helmet Award and the AXO Bronze
Boot Award for being the highest-scoring rider in any division and the highest-scoring Youth-division rider. Harrison earned the Scott USA Golden
Goggle Award for being the highestscoring Amateur racer, while Johnson
was given the Dunlop Silver Tire
Award for being the highest-scoring
Expert.
The AMA has announced two new
venues for the 1996 AMA Superbike
National Championship. The fourth
round of the series will be held at the
Metro-Dade Homestead Motorsports
Complex in Florida, on May 10-12, and
.the series will conclude with a round at
the Las Vegas Motor Speedway in Las
Vegas, Nevada, on October 3-6. The $58
million Homestead facility features a
2.1-mile road course which utilizes the
front and back straights of a superspeedway, and the event will be promoted by Ralph Sanchez, the man who
promoted the AMA Nationals held in
downtown Miami and 1990 and 1991.
Las Vegas Mot