ROAD RACE
AMAIMBNA SUPERBIKE NATIONAL
CHAMPIONSHIP SERIES
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The top three· Edwards,
Russell, Chandler - celebrate
In Daytona's Vle:tory Lane,
d~ring, pradic.e· on Friday·morniog. t1ayden
r;ent back out in. 600cc q'uallfying and'
.' 'e'n9~d .up 36th, unsure on, his .status for,
·.race day. "i'II.just wait ,and, see how it
gal'S: Hayden s/lid .. "I'highsidl'd i~ turn,
'. six (the turn that 'Ieads to the West, Bank;
ing). li was on a new tire, but'l didn't.have.
"any throttle:oo" I've' been' going faster'
before on' a new. tire, There was no warn-.
. ing '- it jus.t slid, and sent, m.e· Rying,. Proba;
. ,ely iff just' ride one class it'll 'be the tjOO.
!fs 'easier td hang qn .to. and if.s shorj:ei .
race." Hayden finished 19th in ·.the 600cc
'Supersport racEdiu.t EHecled to sit oui the
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'A i~rge turno~i esilm~ied:~t 40,000 peopie attended .tl)e 5!>th
:Da}i\ona ?OO'on asunny, and clear'day in·Aorida, Yamaha's'l!K:0tt
Russell pocKeted S16.09Pfor:winnirig· the race \(iIith .$1 0,000.
·,and'$7000 going to second.. and th(rd, place Ii.nishers Doug ,Chan~
d.Ie', and'Colin Ed''''ards II, .reope.ctively..
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·Tenth"place'm~n.p ..ul. Harrell may h~ye ended' up ~s l~ High:'est finishing privateer in the Daytona 2.00 by Arai, but It was fpr..
mer Daytona 200 \!'Iinner Dave SadOwski wl\o went home 'with
the $5.00 ·.Kinko·s' Privateer Fastest, l.:l1P ,A",ar:d. Sadowski ·ended·
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.Smokin,' Joe's Racing:s Shive eNvier' had:" .n~~ty. fall' ~arly in' Yamaha has, now'.won·,tHe event 17.times·, the last of .wh.lch
Phlladeiphi~ EllQ1e 'deten~lve' b~ck 'I:rOy ~nc;ei.t :was a gUllst of: the. week,'.crashln9 in.the kfnk' and '(lestroying his I;londa RC45,"1 . qame: When ient;a,r~cer ~ddie. La~~onwon' .ona Van~e Ii: Hine~ :
,the Fast :by :Ferra~ci D~ati team for Camet, Motorcycle Week., far.ed that one olgether,' bui. j. missed the moming: ,hough It )NelS ihitia Iy. are tp, ue muc .worse, I 13 w~rst .iojury .
first time. thouQh he ' has been, to . "seSSion an d ·I~ se t' me ae'k' a· b't 'My. fee t 'go, rUlse,d a"I·ttl e. b'l ' suffered' by Dee. n Mw,tal in.the ~Iosin,g st~ges of the race wa~ a
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several drag-rac.IOg .evej1ts, Vincem lia,s. o~es!n both Phlladel- and I'got some'road rash,. but everYthing 'shoald be ali right. ifthey broken left wrist. It,was,Mi~dal's crash, caused by a blQ.\lyn motor;'
pbla 'and Fort Lauderd~le aQd WaS oommutlng bto a'nd ·from· hiS '
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· Flci~da reslde~ce on Qoe.ofhi~ ~ight ~fiPrtbik~s:"
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the do·gleg,"his:F.ast by Femicci-bUilt Ducati .flying 'high, in the air.'
tona ?QO after .b r6i\king' his·col~ar.bone and suffering a se~ere con,,' Vance 8. 'Hines Ducati' ;ea';' owner .Terry Va~ca was .,j~ inter, . and landing on the' pn'vateer: Je'nni"gs ended ,up with brok'en
,CUSSlon ,d~nng'p'ractlce.for the.NA~BFo,!"ula USA ""ce .. held.the·. e'siedspectatar durirg 'Camel :Motorcycl.e \,tveek,' Vance was tight hand,· .
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we.,k. plior, to.. the 200: Wilson blamed,the. crash.o~ all .on the race. 'joined.by his 'crew chief Jim Leonard .arid team rt1an~gEir Ron
·track a. nd said that although he, cQuld .flde .wlth the .collarbone . FOster ,in cruising the Daytona paddock area_ Leonard. rec<;>ntly _. Multi-time 'At\1,A; Champion 'I'lan~ :Re~w 'drove. the' pac~ car
InJUry,. It wa~ hiS con.C.USSlan that. pr~vented ~Im, from participating - . returned 'ftom a, one-week visit to the Ducati filcto.ry· in .Italy: "!i.e
~ryder the' cautio.n.period'.iry the 2.00, just-two daysafter. finishing.
'In the 200. I hlt"my. head pretty."goodand It·S really, the ~ompltca-. . Vance &. Hines team ,will make. its AM,o; Supe.elOg abl<;> 10 . 'had arrived safely at Los Angeles International Airpor.t on Friday,
race. The, perso.n whp dropped t~e .oil' kn.ows wHo h~. is. He ~ame ,: March 7:
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and· we didn't have .time with thEl '97' OO,a hlgh:speed trac~_ It's'.
·in .with his feel pff lhe pegs.. spewing. oil". It was, totally' unprofes~ot: set up' fa, me yet. We had some ,difficulty adjusting 'it ,in limitsional and I'wpuld .never do' that to anybody. I dOn't'ope~te tliat
'!Id practice tjme, The 'S7 did some things real good ard' the '96
The press 'corps was worked'into a frenzy trying to:fig~re out
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way: The collarbone should be good to go. by Layun~:""
did scimll thin.gs real good.. I'm jtJ..s t "1ore·familiar with tl)e '96,"
some secretive rear:brake' system that Smakin Joe's Honda" s
Stev<;> Crevier .a:nd Miguel'DuHamel were "sing ,in practice anel . Oliver' said he t.ested· both ma~'hines during the week and endeq
Marco and Gregory Mojic~'becamethe first Venei~elan·. qualifying. Honda 'team perscinnel were tight-lipped about the sysup choQsing'the :96 mQdel'with which was, "sort of' a ccimposite
father and ·son coin.bo to compete in ih", International Lightweight
113m, :saying only. thai they were 'festing something.. They kept the' of many difl\!retit pieces.:' sbme as ·old·.as 1.992..The three-time
1001< race a( Daytona.,lnternational Speedr-ay. The'tWo ';: Marco. : ·device under wr~ps with' Precisely placed white rags. and only
defending AMA 250cc .GP"Chadlpion. used the '96' to Win ,his
,48, and ~Is son Gregory," T - were ra.cing Ven<;>motos~backe.d
Crevier liked it ,mough to' use 'it in' the 20Q. :Okay.. so what's the' heat race and decided after that to uSe it in the race. He -also said
Y~maha TZ250., finishing. 37th an9 l·Tth in. the Friday final. . big.·sec,et? Apparently, ·ihe'system. which is niounied under the
that. he'rj, usep the' '97' model towin. the ljrst AMA 250 GP ·of the.
respectively... Gresoi-y Mojica tihlshed sec'ond irfthe.199.6' seat, is baSically' a linked.braking·sy_m, that ,uses. hydraulics
seaso,; in Pho~oix ..
,Ve'nez.uelan ·250.cc Champi.of\Ship; Marco Mojica won.five - tp activate the rear brake when. th~ front brak.e is ap,plied :
,Venezuelan National. Championships in. ihe 350 !,rid SOOcc class,
William Hi~nielsbaclir~mai~ed in Intem,ive care· at 'Halifax. '
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I'''; goi;'g to 'DIsney World .... Day.tOna. 200 r~nne,-up Doug, . Medica;' Ceoter cin Sunday ·after crashlng;heavily in' the' 250cc
C"aitdle.· was plann.in·g to .take his wife Sheri and son Jett to
GP race on .Friday: For' unknown eing made at·
·bike oui. Thus"the New Engl~nder,went in ·after'i!. standing in,c"lf, high ·waterto. wrest' the bike .ou't of the. lake. . . "..: ' ,
.... ya all Can go. and put 'Yo'ur protest in .right .now,: Russell joked.. . the facto'!), well in ~dvar:rce of the raCe and: due' to the allJount 6f
:''It's Just flash, 'you' know me rm just flashy, and spl'nd all my time it'taki9.s to ship them by bOat, there 'was~o time to correct it.'
money and be an·.idiot and' whatever. These guys got way mbre ':Though Dunlop's Road' Race. Coordinator Jim Allen admitted that
, .Scott Russ~'II's pole~positiOo qualilYinll effort on the .factory·Yam~he' was' even more: impressive' when 'You realize those lap times
money than I do. I just have f u n : " : '
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; the factorY 'had ,made a mistake, he' added that safety. had in no
were set in' what. was: cinly.his: eighth day in.the 'saddle of the '.
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. :way.bee~ compromised, "They're.petfectly· useable. The technical
YZF.'750: "The Yamaha's a lot .different, -as far as.offset and
Defen'ding race champion' Miguel DuHamel should have se!,n .. side wanted to'· make; the 'pattern revers'ed', but the·commercial'·
geomelry goes, .than 'anything 'I've ever ridden' before," :Russell '. t~.e writing on the· w~II, fqr. what 'his ·day would ·b.e ·like when: he .. people thought t.hat i\ didn't· look' right: When ~ou' reVerse the bricrashEid exiting' the pit ,lane during Sunday morning's warmup se9- : entation ,of the grCloves It i~proves t~e' wet gQP_: Dunlop took the'
said, "It's funny, it doesn'.! feel' that different·like it should. There',s
a lot of differences between thaFand the Kawasaki' and the Suzusian,. "Tha\ ·was. not. a 90Ca deal.." DuHamel said. ."That 'was one. first 17 places in th~ Pro Honda Oils 60Qcc Supersport.race, but'.
Iii. I ~eed' some time and thai"s ,("hy I go'out' and do laps and do of ,hoSe con~ition.s where I had tq go out and sqrub in some more, [)oug .P~len· finished s~ond in t~e ·!50cc Super"porl' rac~ 'usi.ng
I.aps and d:ci lap~. ,. would~'t:stop' to, Worl< on iithi~ ·week:.I'm.·juS\. tires t.'!ecause we 'saw \1'1" ha,~ so"1e problems with, other tires'"
Pi,ellis,. ·Allen said that any·,tires ",h,lch ,,,!eren't us~d 'at Daytona·
,-tIY-ing to get, som,"ti"1e. What is this. n'ow? This is I'ight.days, for, When Iturned around and \!'las t~lking to them: __ the (Uel injection , would b~ used at ather.tracks·which halle a decided bias. tciwa(d
me on tHe biKe, Sci it's a pretty, big deal. We're riot doing too bad:
is touchy, ~nd .1 just touch,ed'it and it came' all tbe ,way ilrouQd. It
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·1 think direction-wise, I'rri sure Yaniaha's 'got a little bit'of dlrectidn . highsid!,d' me right off the bike. It didn't do too much 'dafOage to
, t.hal theY're going to.. go. I'm jUst' kind' of working. in that' program' 'the'blke', b~t it cost u.s all ofthat sessibn, It was more··embarrass-. Fa;"; ,,,;
noW bas "~Iie, on the' Worid Wide Web at
and seeing where j'fit.in, If Lcao help them, I'll help them. I'm not. jngthan anything else.~: .
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~ttp.r/WwW.feriacci.com. The ·site.was designed by.programmers
re~lly an Eddie. La'('son. development-type, guy who. couid' pick
who '("OiK at 'Industria! Light & Mi\gic, George Lucas's company,
,everything apart.. j""; seat of the pants' and Lalways have been.'. Yoshim~ra Suzuki's Larry Pegrain was credited with having.the . which speciali~es .in dlg\tally. enhanced .eff~qt~ for film.. Th~ Marin'
Sometimes when' \hings are wOrking righi jt .allows me t'o· slow 'fastest lap o( t,he raCe, but he said tne,timr~g had io ·have· be'en, County-based ~echnolo9Y. firm, one of the most respected i,n· the'
everything down and I!'t me figure it out well. I'm pro.bably'· not the' wrong. Pegram's lap" a claimed 1,50,338 - was registere,d alter
industry; most. recently.completep work on.the enhanceq "St>r
Pegram's Suzuki.h~'1.:started to lail ,him .. '.
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.best. feedback guy you can. lind .. .'fhe:Yamaha .is. more finicky,
Wars" trilogy, The programmers, who do. thi9 ·in lheir spa(e liri;te,'
W~en y.ou chanlle it ifs more like the Sl,JZUki.Qrand Prix, blkEl. It·
.are Ducati enthUsiasts, FBF' president' Lacy Fertacci' ~ald that the
.doesn't like to work if you go 'the wrong direction: It really makes
Am.rican Motorcycle- Raciftg 'Teams lAMRU will' continteam plans io include up-to-dal\! race trac~;info(1'Ylation".including
it hard: This:is eight days on It for m·e. The first five .. in Indone.sia· ue to function: ~spite rasing Yamaha ·as on\! of Its m.e'rTib'ers.
digital photos as well as,information taken from tbe team's PI data
and Australia. I was out there: and·l.couidn't find it until the last' AMRr's Malcolm.Hill said at Daytoha, The other ,teams -' acquisiti~n. sy.stems.
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Harley-Davidson and Vanc.e & Hines .Ducati - .wil! continue to make
Ihe.AMA ';"ent ahead with its. plans to Claim',the winnjr,g BOOce
up·AMRT.
SupersPo(t entry. and· it turned' out t,o be. Pascal Picotte··s
Yoshimura Su'zuki, The bike was then purchased by. Club. road
Muzzy Kawasaki's ·Tommy Hayen 'suffered ligament dam~ge
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