Cycle News - Archive Issues - 1990's

ROAD RACE Round 6: Laguna Seca Raceway WORLDCHAMPIONSH IP SU PERBIKE SER IES for them to make a mistake. I wanted to get around him (Dul-larnel), but he was riding well. I did all that work to get him , but he wasn't about to move over for me. I almost crashed in the last corne r, but managed to catch it. The bike went really well and the ti res were good, it was just the starts - I've got to get them hooked up. " DuHamel, naturall y, was pleased Briefl .6 Texan Mike Hale (ri ght - pictured with his chief Co lin Davies) and New Zealander Aaron Slight (Iar ri g ht) both had m iserable weekends at Laguna Seca. Hale had brake pro blems while Slight never got hi s setu p t o the point where he could run co ns istent ly fast lap ti mes. cre ~ Cbendler said. " lt would be hard right now with the Enmity, lt'd be too hard to 'pac k every on e up ••• Accorchng to lnguna Sees Raceway o ffic ials. the three-d ay crowd count for th e W o rld Superbtke weekend was 43.200 - a 20 per cent increase o....er last year'a attend ence . and go to Europe. ~ Chandler. a fat her of three . did say that he' d like to do one-off World Super- bike rides at tracks he partic ularly likes . suc h as A ssen . "I' d like ' working t o fInd a c ure t o the overCarl Fogarty' s two second-plac e fini shes were by far rus best . to do some races, but not the heatinq problems t ha t. a re .being e ver at Laguna Seca . B ut he was at a lo ss for words in explaining whole season . Assen... a c ouple of the Eu ro p e an round s that experienced by Ducen 1 485 ' riders in wha t the difference was o....er his previous visits to California . ·Ml've d on 't conflict w ith "t he A MA the World Supersport Series. got. no idea what' s gone wrong in the past . M Fogarty said . ," It see med t o be .going wrong in qualifying , but I see m to be struq- . schedule ., S ure. if you get" the right offer. but. I'm pretty content World Supe~ike 'racer Jame s Hay· gllng a rot thls year in qua lifying,"1knew what sort of tim es I could here . 1 also wan t t o ,try to help don was visited by Monterey homldo in the race o n the race tires. and I wasn't sure the other guy s my new ' teammate s that' I have ctdc detec tives o n Wednesday nigh t co uld do that . It proved to be right reelly. I knewl co uld run low this year: (T o mmy Hayd en and . after his rented van was stolen fr om 27 s mthe race . Whene ver I tned to put a so ft tire on to doa fa!'\t Tod d Har ri ng t o n) .' the younger the pa rking lo t o f h is hotel. The ume i~ pract ice . I just went backwards . I just seemed to be able to guys co ming up - and try 't o get detectiv es were concemed 'over- the I do my best times on race tires, I thought aft er I tested here that I them go ing better. " whe reabo uts of Hey de n' s two I could qc well here . It's all come good. I'm happy to tak e sec mechanics, The van wa s found : two I o nd places fro m fl track I haven't had muc h luck on in ; he past. " . Chandler als o did mu ch to d tsp el the myth of th e infamou; ·thieves were arres ted, .and when the-mechanics returned to the Cork screw . the left-rtqht ' hotel. they were unaware of,wha t had happened. The sto ry made The partisan American cr owd lost two of d ownhill co mbi na ti o n c orner the front page of the loect Monterey paper. its favorites earty in pra ctice when Yamath at is lik e no o t he r m.roed he's Colin Edwards II (piCtured), and r acing .' Wh il e other s may Ga stral Honda's Aaro~ Slight ·had a run-in .wi th the pol ice on Yo shimura Suzuki' s Larry Pegram plac e ext ra im por t a nc e on ' S aturday morning ·d un ng the 600cc Supersport race . " O nly in ' we re forced out of the race due to injury . their speed th ro ugh that secAmerica . M Sligh t .said in his defense , " Some guy .wa nted to sue Edward s attempted t o .ride .in the fir st ti on of the co urs e. Cnandler . me f o r pu shing him off th e roof. whi ch I didn't 'do , ln the 600 race: se ss ion o n Friday. but the broken wri st dOWfi~yed its i ~orta n ce to I was up o n the garage or whatever it is. one of those co nta iners, he suffered in the last round In M onza, 'a quick la p . time . A le t .of and a couple of guys wanted to ju mp up on the roof, One did and Italy. proved to be too pain.ful for him to '. pe ople th ink ' tha t . " Chand ler ' th e guy wa s coming up and I said. 'You can 't come up her e, co ntinu e . Edward s spent the re st of the 5ald" ·But It'S actually not that lt'a private property.' He kept tTying to get up . kept trying to get ' weekend signing autographs and o ffe ring impo rt ant. A rot of nmes. l feel . up and the other guy kept pu shing' me arou nd: They got down arid encouragement to .his teammate . S co tt , I screwed up d own through went a nd found so me police who are go ing to ch ar g e me for Russell. Pegram c rashe d in turn six o n there. but the lap "ti mes aren't assault. They're going to file it thrcuqh .: but they don 't hov e

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