(Left) Chris Cooley
dom inated the 250cc
Interm ediate aetion at
carlsbad Racewa y MX.
(Abo ve, left to right)
Mike Faria, Bobby
SChwartz, Steve Lucero
and Andy Northrup mix
It up at th e inaugu ral
The Track At Victorville
Speedw ay, at th e former
Speedway USA f acili ty.
Sch wartz won It.
Wei..·"iblin gs Rya n a nd Chris Cooley dominated the race acti on at th e Racing Enterprisesp ro m o te d mo tocros s ra c!;'s a t the legend ar y
Carls bad Rac eway . Ryan. on s u m m er break
from Ari zona Stat e University aboa rd his FMF
Yama ha YZl 25, wrapped up his vaC'a ti on in
sty le by s w ee pin g both motos in t he 12Scc
Bt>oginntT C' la ~~ aboard his FMF Yama ha VZl25.
" I ha ve to go back to summer school on Mon day," Ryan said. '1bis is a pretty tangy wa y to
wra p up my vaca tio n....
Big br other Chris, me an while, sh owed the
250cc Int ermediate class th e ba ck side of hi s
FMF Kawa saki KX250 with a pair of resounding
win 5. "I wa~ hoping that we would get matched.
up with the Pr o classes today," Chris said. "I
wanted to set" how I'd match up again st Willy
Musgrave."
But there would be no such luck, as the 250cc
Intermediates started on the seco nd gate beh ind "
the Pro classes . As Coo ley ran away with bot h
mota wins w ith rela ti ve ease , th e re was litt le
dou bt tha t he had the speed to ru n with Vet Proc1 a~~ wi n ne r Musg rave .. Coole y s n a red t h e
holeshor in each moto a nd outdis ta nced Suzuki
rider Bob Zingg Jr. in both motes. Each time ou t,
Coo ley dosed the ga p on the first-g ate Pros" and
served no tice that his time is comi ng.
Ryan Coo ley, meanwhile, had his way with
th e 12Scc Beg in n er cla ss . Ev en t ho u gh h e
d wa rfed his borrowed. YZl25, Cooley made it
look like chi ld 's pla yas he trounced th e en tire
field o( Beginner'S- 250cc riders included. Suzuki
rider Kevi n Jennings was a dista nt second in
both mut us.
Tea m Hon da' s Johnny Ca m pbell pro ved that
he's as fast on a motocros s course as he is in the
open desert. Mount ed aboard a Honda XR400R.
Campbell thumped his way to both 500cc Pro
moto w ins, ah ead o ( Ka wasaki Tea m G reen
rider Pau l Kra use, yet anoth er o ff-roa d hero .
An other Ca m pbell, Jami e, nabbed thir d aboa rd
another XR400R.
Results
IIOBF.C,; I.K.::ony Sr:ivrnCY.amI; 2. Tiff... y HoltmAn ~aml.3.
C rt150 ry ' o no (5)lz ); 4. Ad ...m Sho ldct (V..m); S. C hn.top he r
Nl.I.!um un.
tsuz.J.
!IO JR: 1. Dumy !l.4nhr (Hon l.
iy ..n Cool.." ev. m); 2. kt'Yi n J....niT ev.t.m J; 3
r . Kl a ev..m ); Ii. Srotl St..... m ; 2. Moll< c.lbgar CHon); 3.
~br" H.., 0' .11'; . IUd... S!tow.. (5uzJ ; S Rub R.nwtt (K.wl
U
)
4(}+ MSTR.. I. Rich Ei...ted l ty.. m); 2. c.ry 'onn (l lon l; 3.
Alan 0I»0n (YII"'); 4. P...uJ VOK ,.", (Y.t. ); S. ~e KohJn
d
m
(k..t. l.
w
50+ l''T·I . Oftua loaombftg (K.tw):2. (]i~~(k.t.wl:
3. SU-V.. 0.__ < ..I; • . Ot.,- C.I~ (Suz); S. Oo.d P..... (!CAw ).
Ho
MST1t 1. 8mcl ~ (Y.t.mJ; 2. Jody .....md OJon);
3. HonI: Lntrw:r~; 4. UtI')' Popp (5uz); 5. TIIJI, Dhly(Yam).
VET BIiC: 1. RUMdl StraW-wI (k..t. ); 2. DDnc.yo Qion); l .
w
so..
~Con.m
(lUw l; Ii
c.rt FoI..y (K.l w); IIj DDn Mohr' ( Hon)
VEt' JR: 1. Jeff Gra y (lion); 2. M.-ty rrmo !K.t.w); 3. VIctor
Padilla (Koiw) ; 4. Marir. McKdIop (Honl; S. Tom MeIIoIl'(Hon).
VET lfI,;'T l nan Sdmoudl.. (lion); 2. Jtm Henn OCTM). 3.
:
Bryan Danid (Suz);4 . Roa.La_ (Hon);S. Man: Croaby (k.t.w l.
VETI"RO: 1. Willy M~", Ginnl.
Victorvi lle c10S4..'CI. its gates to join the tracks at
GteI\ Helen an d Perris as a pp aren t memo ries .
But und er the guidance of a new own er, former
motocross legend Goat Brek er, Speedway USA now called 'The Track At Victorvill e"- mad e a
triu mpha nt comeback as a pa cked. house tu rned
ou t on the Fourt h of July tl? see fireworks both
on and off the track as speedway made its return
to the high desert.
Bobby "Boog aloc" Schw artz mad e his return
count as he won the scra tch main even t in an
exciti ng ba tt le with his arch rt v al, cu rre nt
National Cha m pion St eve "Bad Boy " Lu_
cero.
The pair carne ou t of th e starting gate side by
side, wi th Lucero on the insid e and Schw artz on
the out side, and the pair stayed tha t way for
most of the race. Finally, Sch wartz wa s able to
gnin sdm e ground as they carne ou t of the tinal
com er , and. he ou td ragged Lucero to the finis h
lin e . "Flyi n' Mike" Fa ria fi n ish ed thi rd , and
And y No rthru p was fou rth .
Pau l Binnquist took th e ea rly lead in his first
Handicap main event, onl y to hav e the red flag
fly w hen a bobble by Jim Estes forced Faria into
the infield . Binnquist go t th e jump agai n on the
restart, bu t his mor e experienced competition
soo n reeled him in. with Rick Pearce taking th e
lead a nd. holding on to take the win o ve r Faria ,
Estes, "Rad Brad " Ox ley , Binnquist and "Fast
Eddie" Castro , who apparen tly forgot to tu m his
gas on a nd dropped too far b ack to reco ver .
In th e Side ca r main event, Duane Carmont
a~d Richard Tatting raced sid e by side with
Rand y McIntyre and Jeff Medberry, until Mcln tyr e /Medberry sp u n and co llected Ca rmont/
Tarling and Jeffery Ca rr / Mike Moreno. On the
res ta rt, Mcintyr e a nd Medberry look the lead
but. two laps tat er, Carmont and Tarling spun
and 5to1lll;'(l on th e tra ck, bringing ou t the red .
Cannont and Tarting were forced. to restart from
th e pena lty li ne as Mcintyre a nd Medbe rry
again took th e lead, wi th Ca rr ilnd Moreno cha.1.
Im ging.
Ca rmo nt and Tarling had just worked their
way int o thi rd whe n, on the fina l com er . th ey
spu n o ut and C
Olle<:tL I. Chr is Jon es and G len
'C
McCl e llan . Mci nt yre a nd Med berry won tht"
race, with Ca rr and Mor eno seco nd. Jon es and
McCl ellan t h ir d , and Carmont a nd Tarl in g
droppCOred victo·rieo on both the short
track and TI. AnSt"lmi timed the ~tarter in la....
