Cycle News is a weekly magazine that covers all aspects of motorcycling including Supercross, Motocross and MotoGP as well as new motorcycles
Issue link: https://magazine.cyclenews.com/i/127767
'E E TS . .
VN
..Edited by Scott Rousseau .
fast, bald guy Scot Harden, and includes
everything from wide-open pa vement
s tretches, portion s o f the mo tocross
track , ha irball desert singletrack and a
flat-track section in the lower pits . The
bulk of the course is utilized just on~e a
year.
With the quarter-liter Pros running in
the first race of the day, Healey wasted
litt le time in bolting to the front and
lead ing the hour-long race to the finish his. baggy LBZ ge a r flapping in the
breeze th e en ti re wa y . Fo rm er 125cc
Natio nal Champion Marty Smith shadowed him in the early going before slipping to fourth, relinquishin g the second
and thir d spots to Scott Sheak and Donald Upton.
Many of the Old Pharts competed in
the second race, along with the traditional Cycle News class. Race announcer
Walter Crawford finally show ed u p,
rubbing the sleep from his eyes, and had
the crowd laughing as he ridiculed the
d efen seless competitors. This ou ti ng
was hand led by Smi th, who came ou t
ahead of Micky Dymond - a poe t an d
former Husqvarn a and Honda factory
rider who was back on a Hu sky at the
' Bad. Highlights of race two includ ed a
pavement crash by Greg Mitchell, photographer Kinney Jones snapping pictures while rid ing, and course sweeper
Kenny Mallow wadding hard enoug h to
break his broom.
Upton returned for race three, which
saw the hyper sma ll-displacement pilots
doing battle with the remai nder of the
geriatric se t. Up ton put his CR125 on
top of the Pro ran ks, with Ty Kad y
emerging as the runner-up.
0
Results
Healey cans 'em
By Chris Jonnum
Photo by Kinney Jones
CARSLBAD, CA, DEC. 10
hen forme r and fu ture World
Cha m pionship GP rider Mike
H ea ley hea rd th at Fra nk
Thomason and Racing Enterprises were
hosting their annual charity eve nt, he
apparently got the wrong idea. Whil e
most racers wen t the normal route of
don at ing several cans of food for the
needy, Healey turned the 250 and 500cc
Pro divisions into charities of his own,
W
(Top) A spode's-eye view of the race-tw o
competitors floundering through turn one
at the Carlsbad Chr istmas GP.
. (Above) Recil Hart (14P), Will Davis (21),
Dave Hebb (33) and Geo Roede r II (66)
battle for the lead in the 600cc Expert
main event at the Old Time Newsi es for
Charity indoor ST. Dav is took control late
In the race fo r the win.
no doubt depositing the class purses
into his tattoo fund.
The Christmas GP is quickly becoming a must-do event for Southern Califor nia motocrossers and off-ro ad ers
alike. The six-mile course is traditionally
designe d with input from San Diego
80 BEG: 1. Brandon Fox (Suz ); 2. Ma ryann Hobos
(!