Cycle News - Archive Issues - 1990's

five more hard rounds in Europe and the competition's gonna be tough there too. I'll be back next year." Sugai continued to lose ground and was overtaken by Michael Gage on the 1997 Triumph T595 on the 12th lap. He ended up fifth, Gage fourth, about seven seconds behind Cathcart. Earlier Cathcart had led a breakaway in the Superrnono class where he was campaigning the 1996 MZ Skorpion. He led a seven-rider pack, the group of seven dropping to five in quick order. Soon they were joined by 1G-K Racing's Michael Barnes as he made his way from the seventh row on his 1995 Ducati Supermono. He was up to fourth by the end of the second lap, then third on the back straight. The next lap he went through to second in the International Horseshoe and roared past Cathcart on the banking. At first his lead was slight, then, as the laps wore on, he turned it on, ending the race about six seconds in front. Cathcart had a pair of riders keeping him honest - 1994 Ducati Supermonoequipped Eric Wood and 1997 RotaxYamaha-mounted Aaron Turner - up from the last row, fighting it out for~ third. Until Barnes joined the front, the pair h.ad second and third to themselves, then Barnes dropped them and they started swapping the spot. Wood last had a definitive grasp on the spot on the fourth lap. After that, though he was close, he wasn't ever decisively in front. Fourth wasn't a bad place to be- on the final lap and Wood tried to make the most of it. In the end, he came up about a bike length short, the Rotax-Yamaha outmuscling him to the line. Craig McLean, on a 1995 Ducati SUpeJ:ffiono 570, took fifth from Dutchman Lex Van Dijk on the final lap. The first Sound of Singles race went off in three waves - Formula 2, then Formula 3, then Two-Stroke. At the finish, the order was scrambled with a twostroke winning and a Formula 3 machine finishing second overall. Jim Struke rode his 1993. Honda RSl25 to the win in his class and managed to beat all three fields in the pro.cess. Even starting in the third waves, with about a 1G-second penalty, Struke knifed his way through the pack and took over the lead on the seYenth of eight laps. He went on to win with Randy Smith second, on a 1991 Honda RS125. Struke had passed 50S F-2 winner Chuck Davis for the lead. Davis, aboard a Honda 500, was about seven seconds behind leader Norman Lastovica, on a 1997 Rotax-Yamaha, when Lastovica dropped out on with fewer than three laps to go and handed him his shortlived lead. Erik Myhre ended up second in the Formula 2 class on a 1992 Wood-Rotax with Chuck Campbell third on a 1978 Yamaha TTSOO. (."1 ~'A P':i';G:.::E:~~~ W'LLOW SPR'NGS 'N'f'ERNA'f"ONAL RACEWAY GET YOUR ADVANCE TICKETS AT THESE PARTICIPATING DEALERS: 8uEu. Of GuNDAlI HAluY's 818.246.5618 619.433.2060 HouSE Of HMLETS BUs". Of VlCrORVlW Los ANGB.E5 619.951.1119 310.408.6088 CALIFORNIA BuEll. 310.539.3366 ORANGE CO. HAIwT-DAVlDSON ·714.835.91~1 SKIp FORDYCf BuELL 909.785.0100 619.329.1448 NuTS 818.994.2882 MAIlINA CYeu: SIMI VALID' YAMAHA VENTURA BUEll. 310.306.8595 805.522.3434 805.642.2100 BUELL PAlM SPIlNGS BuELL ~FORMULAUSK HRC ,merlcanGB,. IDEMITSU _Il j,.~.,. iJi'ERlES MICHELI" SUZUKI Of VAN • • • • KIDS 12 AND.UNDER FREE. GATES OPEN AT 8:00 A.M. RAONG BEGINS AT NOON. WEEKfND TICKET INCLUDES PADDCXK PASS & CAMPING. • GATE TIO

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