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(Top) Jamie Greicar won two classes and set the fastest time of the day at the AMA Pro-Am
Hillcllmb on the Jackplne Gypsies Me dubgrounds on August 4.
(Above) Mark Shafer finished second to Grelcar in the 401·500cc class
local Pro-Am rid er , wa s un catchabl e, as
was Isb ell. Foringt on fini sh ed fourth,
ahead of McClell and, William Berger,
Tim Sears and Arizona's Gary Pettit.
Schieffe r ea rne d a wi re- to-wire win
in the Open Pro Twins class, capping off
h is two-class ta ll y, w hile the battle
beh ind him, co ns isting of McCl ell and
a nd McG ee, w ent th e wa y of McCl elland 's Yamaha.
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Jackpine Gypsies Clubgrounds
Sturgis, SOuth Dakota
Results: Augus1 4, 199 7
orEN rRO TW: L r"lricl Schidfl"l" (y.jI m); 2. Joh n
McOella nd (Ya m); 3. Step he n Mee-- Hf·O) ; 4. Mile
Ha rrin (Yam); S. Bob Braun reiter.
&00 PR O: 1. Rand y Coughlin (Yam); Z. Bria n l!obell
(Yolm) ; 3. Patr ick Schid fer (H on ); 4. Jim Fori ngton
Jackpine Gypsies Pro-Am Hillclimb
Greicar
stops the
clocks at
Sturgis
By Clay Ught
(Yam); 5. John McOeiland (Y.am).
250 PRO: I. Pa tr ic k Sch ieffer (Ya m) ; 2. Joh n
McClelbnd (Yam); 3. Stt"pht!'n McGee (Yam); 4. Jim
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ForinKlOR (Yolm); 5. Ch.u k."iBeving (Yarn).
010 + AM : 1. John M cClellolnd (Ya m ); 2. Mule:
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.rid.-.on (Hnn); 3. (lAn Deub......(Bul); 4. [)uaOO;" Prlt"No n
(Yam l; S. Cha rI" 8eving (Yam).
600 AM : 1. Dani el Row land (Yam); Z. Bill Heerman
(y .u n); 3. Tom m y Rou nd ~; 4. Roy HaInC:!l IBuU.
250 AM : I. Dan Ha n ~ c- rson ; 2 . Mar k Eri cks o n
(Ho n); 3. Dan Deubl..,. (Bu l); 4. G reg Joh nst on (BuI); 5.
Roy Hai nes (Bul) .
40+ PRO: 1. jerry Cheoey IYam l; 2. Will iam Bergee
(Ya m ); 3 . Ga ry Pettilo (Bull; 4. Willia m Bu rr; 5. Lee
P.ukt'T(y dm ).
STIJRGI5, 5D, AUG. ~
hile th e City of Sturg is echoed
wit h th e sounds of th e 57 t h
annual Stu rgis Bike Week Rall y
th roughout the 'Black Hills, the hill s of
the [a ckpine Gypsies' Mot orcyd e Club
thundered with the sound of the AMA
Pro-Am hilldimb .
Jami e Grei car , who just a week earlier had finished 11th in the 250cc class at
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th e AMA National Hil idimb Amateur
Cha mpionships, contested three classes
aboa rd a pair of modified CRs and came
away wit h tw o wins, the 126-20Occ and
401-5OOcc events, and also set the fastest
time on the nO-foot climb.
Machinery on hand ran ged from the
ex o tic, specia lly-bu ilt 1200cc HarleyDa v id s o ns , 1000cc Suz u k is and
Ka w a sa k is to sligh tl y m odified
moto cr os s machi nes . as well as s tock
mot ocro ss and dual spo rt mot orcycles ,
T he tw o-strokes, th ough, w orked th e
bes t.
"It (the hill) will favor the big twostrokes," sa id AMA District 17 Champio n Steve Shafer, who rod e several classe s dur in g th e da y . "T h e hill' s a bit
s m a ller t ha n m o st cli m bs, ea s ie r to
climb, but it' s a hard one to go fast on."
And favor th em it did, as Greicar,
wh o m ade th e jo u rn ey fro m G ra n d
Forks, North Dakota, set the Black Hills
abla ze with his time of 7.29, which came
in his first of tw o ru ns.
" 0 1 bad for my first run on the bike,
wh ich is a CR500," Greicar said .
Th e sec ond -best tim e in th e class, a
7.70, was posted by Kawasaki-mounted
Mar k Sha fe r , whil e a n 8 .68 pla ced
a no th er of th e m any lIIin oi s rid er s on
hand , Michael Winberg, in th e third
spo t.
The seco nd -fas test rider overall, tied
with Sha fer, was Will iam Myers, w ho
ro de a T riu m p h- po were d machine of
880 cc di splacement to a win i n th e
751cc-and -u p d ass. Myers, wh o posted
a n 8.94 to lea d going in to h is se co nd
climb, sa id, "I'm not sure if I sho uld just
take it easy, o r go for it."
Myers. ho we ve r. we nt for it. to
applau se fro m th e well over 1000 spectators that wa tched from the base of the
h ill. Second to M yers in the class w as
M inn eso ta's Jon atha n For ester a t 9.12,
follow ed by Suz u ki-mo u n ted Wa lte r
Humphries of Rogers, Texas.
St e ve Shafe r, w ho ju s t a few d ays
p ri or to th e e ve n t put th e fi n is h i ng
tou ch es o n a 1200cc Harley-David son,
overca me a poor performance in his first
run in t h e H arl ev-Da vid s o n cl a s s w here he toppedout a t the 106-foot
ma rk ana spu ttered to a halt - to bounce
back to sto p th d ock a t 8.55, beating
Jim Petty, who, w ith a d ista nce of 180
feet, was one of the many on hand w ho
failed to crest the top .
Another crowd -plea sing cla ss, th e
86-125cc, went to newly crowned 80cc
Senio r AMA Na tiona l Amateur Champi on Will iam Myers Jr. Myers made it
ove r th e top on his first run with a time
of 9.93, then went 130 feet on his sec o nd run. However, his 9.93 beat all
(Above) Clyde Jones won the s oee A class
and finished fifth in the 125cc C class at
the Jackp lne Gypsies St urgis Motocross
on August 3.
co me rs, de
spite his being 80cc-mounted .
Five-year-old Troy Finn of Sturgi s,
So u th Dakot a , the youngest rid er in
a tten da nce. may not have n ot w on the
Pee Wee class , but he d id win over the
crowd, as he was the first to a ttempt the
hil l. takin g sixth in th e class . The win
w ent to A MA Na tio na l 80cc Junior
Cham pion Dan iel Myers . Second-best in
the class , wh ich ranged from 50 to 85oc,
was Suzuki rid er Jacob Kelverleber with
a second run of 97 feet, well beh ind the
187-foot m ark of Myers but ahead of
Cobra rid er L.N Waggener' s 79-foot
mark.
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Jackpine Gypsies Clubgrounds
Sturgis, South Dakota
Resutts: August 4, 1997
P/W : I. Daniel ~ yc-n (Hon) ; Z. Jaco b KC'i rlc- er
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lSuz); 3. L.N. waggcecr (Cob) ; 4. Dani el Allard (Ho,, );
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