Cycle News - Archive Issues - 1990's

ager for the EarthLink Network, a national Internet Service Provider located in Pasadena, California. Morey can be reached at 818/905-8519 or via e-mail at: cmorey@earthlink.net. especially under editor. Art Friedman, was fantastic to me, and now I'll try some things I couldn't accomplish while at the magazine." lenatsch can be reached via fax at 714/651-8273. After 12 years at Petersen Publishing, part-time 250cc Grand Prix racer Nick lenatsch will also be leaving the company. lenatsch, as well as Sport Rider senior editor Lance Holst and managing editor Angela Barosso, have volunteered for severance packages, according to lenatsch. "We were working under a manager who doesn't ride motorcycles and has never written for a liVing, so it was a matter of time before I left this non-enthusiast environment," lenatsch said. "The severance package was too good to turn down, so I bailed... I'm going on an adventure. Petersen, Another to feel the "pinch" from Petersen Publishing since the company's sale to an investment group put together by James Dunning, formerly of Rolli.....g . Stone, is long-time Dirt Rider edi tor Mark Kariya. The magazine's sport editor was laid off from Petersen on Friday, October 18, but hopes to stay in the motorcycle industry. "I'd like to stay involved, especially in the off-road side of it," Kariya said. Kariya can be reached at 310/867-7510. Avon Tires is now accepting road racing resumes for its 1997 season-support 1997 AMA 125cc Su ercross Scheodule .:-==----=--1.-=----==-----=----=----==----=-----==----=----=--=----==-----=-----T he AMA and the producers of the AMA Supercross Series - 'PACE MotorSports, Daytona International Speedway and the Las Vegas Motor Speedway - announced that the 1997 schedule for the 125cc support series includes a realigned racing configuration. The 125cc class has two divisions, the eastern and western, and provisions have been made to ef)sure an equal amount of races will be held in each division. The alignment revision will result in an improved advancement system for Pro-Am riders by equalizing opportunities to gather advancement points. The advancement system was created to provide riders with an organized method of advancing to the premier racing class of Supercross, the 250cc class. . The highlight of this revised alignment will bring back the popular 125cc Shoot-Out during the series finale, which will be held at the new Las Vegas Motor Speedway on _ May 17. The Shoot-Out will provide, for the only time all season, the opportunity for riders from both the eastern and western divisions to square off and race for valuable season-ending points. The 125cc class has traditionally served as a launching pad to the 250cc class, and this realignment should strengthen the racing experience for all 125cc class riders. ~ Ylm1lf ~ Date January 11 January 18 January 25 February 1 February 15 February 22 March 8 March 15 March 22 March 29 April 5 April 12 April 19 April 26 May 17 Los Angeles, CA Los Angeles, CA Tempe, AZ Seattle, WA Indianapolis, IN Atlanta, GA . Daytona, FL Minneapolis, MN Houston, TX Orlando, FL St. Louis, MO Pontiac, MI Charlotte, NC Dallas, TX Las Vegas, NY LA Coliseum West LA Coliseum West Sun Devil Stadium West Seattle Kingdome West RCA Dome East Georgia Dome East Daytona International Speedway East HHH Metrodome West Houston Astrodome . West Citrus Bowl East Trans World Dome East Pontiac Silverdome East Charlotte Motor Speedway East Texas Stadium West Las Vegas Motor Speedway Shoot-Out Smith captures AMA Hare Scrambles title eam Suzuki's Rodney Smith (rignt) clinched the AMA National Hare Scrambles Championship with a win at the next-to-Iast round of the series held in Park Hills, Missouri, October 20. It is Smith's second Hare Scrambles Championship, as he also won the title in 1994. This marks Smith's·second championship of·1996 to go along with the AMA National Reliability Enduro Series Championship he won in June. Smith earned the win fn Park Hills over teammate Steve Hatch, followed by Jason Dahners (KTM), Blair Bersano (KTM), and Rob Kopp (Kaw). , The final round of the series wilJ take place in Millfield, Ohio, November 3. T programs. All applications must be received by December 31. Send resumes to Craig Knapp, Avon Tires, 407 Howell Way, Edmonds, WA 98020. The third annual motorcycle endurance ice race will be held on January 4 at the Sunset Tavern on Lake Koshkonong in Fort Atkinson, Wisconsin. This year's event will be run over two days with short track and TT races scheduled for January 5. The event will be a fund raiser to e.stablish a new non-profit organization to assist seriously injured dirt track racers. The funds raised by the Steel Shoe Fund will hel p those racers with outstanding medical bills from racing accidents. The fund is being organized by Al and Judy Sumner and Gordon Lunde Sr. president of the Wegman Fund, a similar organization for road racers. For more information, call 414/353-5920 (Sumner) or 414/871-5682 (Lunde). VP Racing Fuels has announced that it will have its fuel available at the following events: the White Bros. Vet Nationals on November 2-3; the Baja 1,000 on November 5-8; and the Elsinore Grand Prix on November 9-10. For more information, call 909/674-9167. Los Angeles Harley-Davidson will host a grand re-opening weekend on October 26-27 to celebrate its recently completed remodel project. The dealership's size has been increased by some 4,000 square feet. For more information, call 3101 408-{;088. Four riders still have a mathematical chance of winning the 1996 World Super- bike Championship, though Troy Corser has the upper hand entering the last round of the series on October 27 at Phillip Island in Australia. Corser leads Aaron Slight, John Kocinski and defending World Champion Carl Fogarty heading into the 6nal round of the series. Keith Code and Moto Liberty will team up again in 1997 to offer 125cc Grand Prix riding schools at select tracks across the country. Moto Liberty will update about half the school's bikes from !he existing 1994 model RSl25s to new 1996 models. The course will cost $550 on a 1994 model and $700 on a n.ew model Honda. For more information, call Cali. fomia Superbike School at 800 1530-3350. For more details on the Honda RS125s, call Moto Lib¢)' at 972-242-6440. OPENED: Honda of Troy's home page on the World Wide Web. The site can be found at the following address: http://www.hondaoftroy.com. MARRIED: AMA Grand National dirt tracker Bret Beyer to longtime girlfriend Kristine Kildsig October 12 in Oshkosh, Wisconsin. BORN: Jack Thomas Preston, to Kawasaki's personal watercraft race team manager Mike Preston and his wife Jeanne in Newport Beach, California, October 16. 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