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Kawasaki Winter Warmup Series will begin at Castaic in Southern California, November 17, followed by round two at the new Lemon Grove MX Park in Piru, California, with the third round scheduled for Hungry Valley in Gorman, California. The series will conclude with a second round at Castaic. For more information, call SSC at 805/294-0020. Malcolm Smith Motorsports will hold its fourth annual dual sport ride on Sunday, November 17, in the San Jacinto' Mountains of Southern California. The ride will feature roughly 150 miles of trails and roads laid out by Malcolm Smith with challenging A sections with B section alternatives. Five dollars of the $39 fee will go to the Make-A-Wish Foundation. The entry fee includes breakfast, lunch and an event T-shirt. For more information, call 909/6871300. The L.A. Trade Tech motorcycle repair alumni and faculty will hold a reunion banquet and show at the Brookside c.c. restaurant at the Rose Bowl in Pasadena, California, November 30. The reunion will mark 30 years of the motorcycle repair program at the trade school in . Los Angeles and founding advisory board member Pete Coleman, National TT winner Eddie Mulder and former Honda team manager Dave Arnold are scheduled to attend. For more information, call 818/9630. A total of $10,000 was awarded to the top eight riders in the AMA Fall Classic Motocross Series by a trio of companies that supported the series. Series champion Mike Brown was awarded $3,000 from a bonus fund created by Dirt Shirts, Pro-Action and Karcher. . The Harley-Davidson Motor Company and American Suzuki have signed on as sponsors of the 1996 AMA Awards Banquet which will be held on November 16 at the Imperial Palace Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas. Harley and Suzuki join other banquet sponsors Honda, Kawasaki, KTM, Glen Helen Raceway, K&K Insurance, Spring Creek Motocross, Pace Motorsports and the American Motorcycle Institute. Bike Week, the weekly motorcycle show tha t airs on Speedvision and is hosted by Larry Maiers, is doing a feature on Cycle News Online. The show will air Friday, November 29, at 7 p.m. (Eastern). Check your local listings. FMF Racing will hold a test day November 23 in Ocala, Florida, for those wishing to warm up for the Florida Mini Olympics. All FMF riders' are invited to attend and both suspension 'and engine tuners will be on hand from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. For more information, call 310/359-6884. The 16th Annual San Luis Toy Run will be held on Sunday, December 1, beginning in Vila Beach, just north of Pismo Beach, California, at 11:30 a.m., and ending at the Pozo Saloon in Pozo, California. The toys will go to approximately 10 different charities, including the Salvation Army and the Homeless Mothers organization. For more information, call 805/466-8779. The Gold Wing Riders Association will sponsor a Christmas Toy Ride to collect toys for the Salvation Army on November 16. The ride will begin at the First Baptist Church in Alpharetta, Georgia, at 10 a.m and will conclude at the North Georgia College in Dahlonega. For more information, call 404/888-3849. According to WERA, its 1997 National Challenge Series will continue in 1997 with very few changes over the 1996 series. The program will continue to feature the National Endurance Series on the Saturday of each race weekend and 10 National Challenge Sprints on Sunday. The Sprint Series classes will include Formula 1, Formula 2 and 125cc GP offering a .minimum purse of $30,000 for the 10-race series. In addition, WERA Experts can compete in 1100cc, Team Green again in Baaa 1000 Davis K Zitterkopf Di rt. dig--=-its=---T _ he 1997 AMA Grand National Championship Series numbers list was released by the sanctioning body Friday, November 8. There have been 25 bumps this year, up three from 1996. Some of the more noteworthy changes include youngster Paul Lynch, who will campaign National number 19 next year; Recil Hart, who grabs the number 32 vacated by Mike Hale; and Rookie of the Year J.R. Scjmabel, who will now be National number 33. Other additions include Tommy Hayden, who is now number 90; Canadian Scott Buchan, who has grabbed Larry Pegram's number 72; Greg Teague, who will now wear the number 58 formerly used by Dave Durelle, and Randy Shank II, who now carries the Natio"nal number 92 formerly associated with the late Rodney Farris. Former National number 53 Tim Mertens also checks back in at National number 36. 1. Scott Parker 3. Ricky Graham 9. Jay Springsteen 10. Greg Sims 11. Ben Bostrom 12. Rex Fisher 13. Mickey Fay 14. Joe Winston ill 15. Chris Evans 16. Ronnie Jones 17. Aaron Hill 18. Terry Poovey 19. Paul Lynch 20. Eric Bostrom 21. Will Davis 22. Dan Butler 23. Kevin Atherton 24. Mike Varnes 25. Randy Texter 26. Steve Beattie 27. Dave Camlin 28. Lance Jones 29. Dale Jenneman 30. Ron Waters 31. Kenny Coolbeth 32. Recil Hart 33. J.R. Schnabel 34. John Wincewicz 35. Eli Price 36. Tim Mertens 37. J.P. Simonsen 38. Steve Mayfield 39. Del Schnitzer 40. Jeff Annen 41. Brett Landes 42. Steve Morehead 43. Joe Kopp 44. Robert Knapp 45. Jim Sumner 46. Kris Armentrout 47. Ryan Anderson 48. Ian Segedy 49. Chris Fitzhugh 50. Trapper McDaniel 51. Nate Wait 52. John Faulkner ill 53. Gary Rogers 54. Doug O'Boyle 55. Troy Rose 56. Lonnie Pauley 57. Ken Yoder 58. Greg Teague 59. Willie McCoy 60. Dan Stanley 61. James Hart 62. Paul Bergstrom 63. Robert Buffington 64. Alan Eadie 65. Jason Fletcher 66. Geo Roeder II 67. Mike Hacker 68. Robert Miller 750cc and 60cc Superstock classes and Novice riders can race in four classes during the series of 600 and 750cc Production and Superbike. The series will begin on April 11-13 at Talledega Gran Prix Raceway in Talledega, Alabama and will conclude with the WERA Grand National Final at Road Atlanta in Braselton, Georgia, October 8-12. Seals Communications Corporation will be presenting coverage of the 1996 Incas Rally by Acerbis. The MotoWorld and MW2 production crews are currently in Peru to document a lO-day "madefor-television" odyssey. The rally will showcase racing in the Andes Mountain, the Amazon basin as well as the coastal desert, but neither Sealsco nor Acerbis are saying exactly what's going on down there and which off-road stars have teamed up to ride. This one-hour edition of MotoWorld will be hosted by Bob Varsha. The Incas Rally by Acerbis will aii on ESPN2 Thursday, December 5, at 7:30 p.m. ET / 4:30 PT; Saturday, December 7, at 11:30 a.m. ET / 8:30 a.m. PT, and Sunday, December 8, at 12 noon ET /9:00 a.m. PT. 69. Roger Durkee 70. John Hlebo ill 71. Georgie Price IV 72. Scott Buchan 73. Brent Armbruster 74. Billy Martin 75. Pat Buchanan 76. Jeff Harsha 77. Scott Stump 78. Don Howard 79. Doug Scaggs 80. Rich King 81. Speedy Kell 82. Ken Mohler 83. Paul Morgan 84. Chance Darling 85. David Rayburn 86. Jerry Vanderkooi 87. Charlie Orr 88. Jim Rosa 89. Kevin Varnes 90. Tommy Hayden 91. Andy Tresser 92. Randy Shank II 93. Danny Koelsch 94. Jess Roeder 95. Matt Wait 96. Donald Paul 97. Robert Gette 98. Bret Beyer 99. Keith Jacobsen facilities. Indianapolis Motor Speedway Corporation, through an affiliate, IMS Events, built the one-mile Walt Disney World Speedway outside Orlando, Florida, where It promotes two events, the Indy 200 at Walt Disney World (Indy Racing League) and a NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series event. Menard is the sole owner of Menard Inc., a midwest regional chain of lumber and home improvement stores based in Eau Claire, Wisconsin. The 120-store chain had fiscal 1995 sales of more than $2.5 billion. Menard also owns Team Menard, an IRL team based in Indianapolis. ISC operates Daytona International Speedway; MRN Radio, the nation's largest independent sports radio network; the Daytona USA motorsports attraction in Daytona Beach; Darlington Raceway in Darlington, South Carolina; Talladega Superspeedway in Talladega, Alabama; and Tucson Raceway Park in Arizona. ISC also. owns 50 percent of Watkins Glen International in upstate New York. BORN: Greg Fraser, to Cycle Nf!WS contributor Colin Fraser and hjs wife Marianne, a former WERA 125cc National Champion, in Toronto, Canada, November 6. Krause awasaki Team Green riders Ty Davis, recently crowned AMA National Hare & Hound Champion Greg Zitterkopf and Paul Krause teamed up to win the 29th running of the SCORE Tecate Baja 1000 in Ensenada, B.C., Mexico, Friday, November 8-10. The trio covered the 714.6-miJe course in 14 hours, 11 minutes and two seconds with an average speed of 50.381 miles per hour on a Kawasaki KX500. The win was the third for Krause, the first for Zitterkopf and the fourth for Davis. The Honda team of Johnny Campbell and Jeff Capt, aboard a Honda XR600, took second, finishing approximately 14 minutes behind the winning Davis/Krause/Zitterkopf team. Taking·third-place honors was the winning 250cc team of Steve Hengeveld and Jason Kawell, aboard a Team Green Kawasaki KX250. Fourth overall went to another Kawasaki team of Tim Morton and Ronnie Wilson, followed by Team Honda's Fred Willert and Tim Staab. In the Over 30 class, Chris Haines and James Degaine (Kaw) scored the win. The above results are prov.isional. A full report will be in next week's issue. Officials at International Speedway Corporation (ISC) announced on November 11 that they have begun consideration of the feasibility of developing a new motorsports facility in the Chicago area. Although discussions are preliminary and no agreement has. been reached, the proposed faciti ty bei ng considered would be a joint venture between I~C, Indianapolis Motor Speedway Corporation and John Menard. One of the sites being considered is a section of the DuPage Airport, which a private study determined could accommodate a 1.5mile closed track and related parking OPENED: Sport-Twin News' home page on the World Wide Web. The site can be found at the following address: http://www.sport-twin.com. \0 0\ 0\ ...-l MARRIED: Road racer John Sweeney and his longtime girlfriend Lisa Carmel, in Mill Valley, California, October 13. APPOINTED: Tom Finley, to pr~sidentlCEO of BoswelI Energy Systems lntemationallnc. OPENED: Trail Boss Off Road Tours' home page on the World Wide Web. The sib! can be found at the following address: http://sd.znet.com/-trailbos/ MOVED: Hyper Cycle to m2 Gloria Ave., Suite 8, Van Nuys, CA 91406,8181988-8860. (N