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/127783
(Right) Terry
Cunningham gave
the home crowd
something to cheer
about. The four-lime
champ won the
200cc A class,
finis hing ninth
overall.
(Below) KTM's Mike
Lafferty placed
fo urth overall.
"The firs t secti on right off th e start, at
ab out the 2.9 mark, I thought about quitting right th ere it hurt so bad," sai d
Stavish . "I don' t kn ow if I had to loosen
it up or what, I hit it ea rly on a couple of
times and it hurt bad but by the last section it didn't affect me much at all."
Some controversy aro se at the end of
the r a ce wh en a few of the riders
protested a checkpoint th at w as right off
the side of a pa ved road. The riders
complaint was tha t the officia ls left the
ch eck point an d h ad come out on to the .
road and w aved th em to come in even
though they w ere still 200-300 yards
d own th e road . H atch was o ne of th e
'ben eficiaries of th e ruling because the
burned checkpoint w ould have cost him
17 points.
.
"It w as dangerous because of all the
cars parked along the side of th e roa d
and the mot or cyclists had to pull off to
the side of the road due to the oncoming
car traffic, a n d th en what they were
d oing was com ing ou t of th e checkpo int
and writing down so m e numbers but
not all of them," sa id Hatch. " You can't
come ou t of the che ckpoint according to
the AMA rules . So they made it an
ob servation checkpoint and didn 't
penalize anyone th ere. "
.
With this victory, H awkins was able
to close to within one poi nt of the series
leader, Kawasaki's Ty Davis, who was
out in California participating in the
National H are & Hound event. Da vis is
after multip le championships th is ye ar
and needed to ea rn some points in that
se ries since he had es tablished a sizable
points lead in the enduro series.
(~
Little Raccoon Classic National Enduro
Wellston, Ohio
Results: April 28, 1996 (Round 4 of 9)
OIk 1. Ran d y H awkins (Suz~ 2. Steve Hatch (Suz);
3. Do u g Bla ckwell (Yam ); 4. Mike Lafferty (KTM) : 5.
(Left) TM's Kevin
Bennett carded a
seventh overall
finish.
(Below left)
J oh n Eric
Burleson, son of
eight-time
Nat ional champ
Dick Burleson,
finished second
In the Four-Stroke
A clas s.
(Left and
right) The
Little
Raccoon
Classic
Enduro lived
up to Its
reputation as
a tough and
challenging
eve nt.
Du ane Conner; 6. Mat Stavi sh (l