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The five-ra ce series will begin with the
24 Hours of Le Mans in Fran ce on April
19 before going to an und isclosed site in
England for th e second round o n June
28. Round three will be the 24 Hours of
Spa in Belgium on Ju ly 26, w ith the
Suzuka 8-Ho ur in Japan ma king up the
fourth round on July 26. The fina l rou nd
of the seri es will be the Bol d'Or at Paul
.Ricard in Fran ce on September 13.
stream publications such as Men 's Per spec tive and Heartland USA magazines .
It was also o ne of the few teams in AMA
road racin g that was abl e to secure non toba cco, o u tsid e-the-ind us try sponsorship, in the form of its Kinko's backing.
Nutt and APEX MotorSports Mar ketin g
are hoping to stay involved wi th AMA
road racing for 1998. For more information , call utt at 423/ 671-1450.
Former 500cc World Champion Ke vin
Schwanlz finished 31st in the NASCAR
Busch Grand National Series-race a t the
California Speedway in Fontana, Ca lifornia, on October 19. 5chwa ntz retired
on the 141st lap with a broken wheel
bearing.
AMA Grand National dirt track racers
Rich King and Joe Kop p took hom e the
top mon ey from thi s season's $10,000purse Beer Nuts Ch all enges - fiv e-lap
dash events held a t selected AMA
Gra nd National Dirt Tr ack ra ces this
year. King won $1900 while Kopp took
home $1800.
AMA 250cc N ational Motocr oss a nd
Supercross Champion Jeff Emig, AMA
Su pe rbi ke Na tio na l Champion Doug
Chandler, and AMA 600cc Su persport
Champion Miguel Du H am el a re th e
fi rs t three n omine es for the 1997
AM A/S peed vi sion Pro Athlet e of the
Year Awa rd. The awa rd is th e hi gh est
the AMA bestows on profession al racers
and will be presented on December 13 at
the A MA Award s Ban qu et at th e
Flam ingo Hilt on in Las Vegas, Nevada.
Irs officia l: Kawasa ki Mo tors Corp. USA
will no t renew its co ntract with APE X
Mo to rSports Market in g' s Rob er t Null,
th e own er of th e Kin k o ' s Kawasaki
team tha t co ntested th e AM A Su persport Seri es on Kawa saki fr om 1995
through 1997, for the 1998 racing season.
Kinko's Kawasaki racers appeared on 29
AMA Supersport podiums, finished second and third in the 600cc Supersport
Cha mpions hip, and twice finished third
in the 7SOcc Supersport Championship
with rid ers Thomas Wilson, Jason Pridmore, Thomas Stevens, Mike Smith and
Jamie Hack ing. In add ition tu its success
on the race trac k, NUll'S team was also a
pu b licity s uccess, a p pea ri ng on su ch
tel e v is io n s h o w s as " MTV Sports,"
"Real TV" and ESPN's "Extre mists with
Gabrielle Reese," as well as in main-
American Honda, Kawsasaki, the American Motorcycle Institute and American
Mo torcyclist Magazine have signed on
as sponso rs for the AMAlSpeedvision
Awards Banquet, sched uled for December 13 a t th e Flamingo Hilto n in Las
Vegas, Nevada.
Tu f Racing has announced that it will
be headi ng the Thor /Honda tea m of
Jero my Buehl and Denny St ephen son
in th e 1997-98 PJI National Arenacross
Series. Th e team plans to debut the new
aluminum-framed Honda CRI 25 at the
o pen ing round of th e series in Des
Moines, Iowa, on November 14. Defendin g se ries cha m pion Budd y An tu nez
will not be pa rt of the team. Uncon fir med reports are th at An tunez w ill
defend his title aboa rd Primal Impulsebacked Suzukis.
The AMA has also anno unced its AMA
Pro Ra cin g Roo kies of the Yea r . Th e
awa rd s go to di rt tracker Johnny Murphree, roa d racer Tommy Hayden an d
rnotoc rosser Brock Sellards. Murphr ee
finished fifth in the AMA Ha rley-Davidson 883 Series; Ha yd en finished 12th in
th e AM A Superbike a tio na l Champions hip; and Sellard s fini shed eig hth in
th e 125cc East ern Regi on Supe rc ro ss
Series, as well as 18th in the AMA 12Sec
National MX Championship.
On Wednesday, Nov ember 12, Pro Line
Mot orsports will hold a pr em iere of two
new videos - "Crus ty III " and "Stee l
Root s" - at the Gwinett Place United
A rt ists Theater in D u luth, Geo rg ia .
There will be two s howi ngs (6 and 8
p .m .) a nd all admiss ion fees will go to
th e Pedi atric Brain Tumor Foundati on :
For m ore information, ca ll 770 /497lJ9