Cycle News - Archive Issues - 2000's

• popular Vintage One class, which consists of mostly 350cc Hondas. Lipert came from behind to take second, and veteran vintage road racer Royce Eaton, from Daytona, took third. Coming back from his spectacular crash in race one, Joyce took his Triumph 500 to the race-six win in Heavyweight Classic after a close battle with Eric Green, on the AJS 350. Jesse Morris, also on a 500cc Triumph, handled third. Next up was ForRoebling Road RacewaY' John Stephens (442) leads the way over eventual winner Bradford Morrison (71V>, mula 500. Lipert as Chris Kelleher (14), Chris Marshall (46) and Zens zastrow (415) give chase In the Lightweight Classic race showed them the at round one of WERA Vintage Racing in Faulkville, Georgia. fastest way around the track again as he took the win, over Phillip Busch, on a WERA Vintage Racing Honda 400, and Morrow. Round 1: Roebling Road Raceway In race eight, the USCRA sidehacks took to the track for their invitational race. In the crowd-pleasing contest, the BMW-mounted Demetrius/Sargent team took the win after a close battle with the Courts/Courts team, also on a BMW. The Murray/Harris Yamaha 650 took a distant third. Harsh, who is also the defending champion in Vintage Two, recorded Race Two featured the Ughtweight his second win of the day in race By STEVE STASER Classic machines. John Stephens, on nine, over Lipert and Mike Mathews. FA(]LKVILLE, GA, MAR. 2 a Ducati 250, took the lead, but A former champion in this class, Mathews had to come from the last Bradford Morrison got around him to ERA Vintage road racing kicked row of this 21-rider field. lead lap one and never looked back. off its 200 I season at the After a bad start, Doug Bowie was southeastern Georgia track. The fifth closing in on Stephens every lap for annual event attracted more than 250 No Fear Series second. The two swapped the posiRound &: Competition Park entries, including United States Clastion for several laps; Bowie won the sic Racing Association racers, and, as drag race to the checkers to take secan added attraction, sidehack racers ond by about a bike length. from the Northeast for an invitational Morrow made a sleeper out of race race. three as he ran away from the field Vintage Four and Formula Twofrom start to finish to win Vintage Stroke started the day off. Defending Five, over Hurst and Rick Guirey. Vintage Four champion Mark Morrison and Bowie repeated their By JOHN BETHEA Nadelkov grabbed the holeshot as one-two finish in the Mediumweight they stormed into the first tum. Last SAN JACINTO, CA, MAR. 9 Classic contest. Stephen Mahanes ature and technology took one year's runner-up, "Fast" Frank took his Ducati home third. final swipe at the No Fear ClothShockley, and D&D's Cycle Tim Stanley Lipert, the defending ing Friday Night Motocross Series at Joyce were in close pursuit. In turn champion in Formula RD, had little Competition Park and nearly put an three, Shockley dived under competition last year as he dominatend to the series' final event before it ed the field in about every race he Nadelkov to take the lead. As Joyce began. Interrupted twice by bad entered in 2000. On a couple of tried to follow, he lost the front end weather in recent weeks, this occasions, he lapped the entire field. and went sliding across the track. evening's finale was due to get under Upert might have a tougher time this Joyce and the Triumph cartwheeled way two weeks later than was origiyear; Morrow mounted a charge, and as they hit the grass. Joyce was okay nally scheduled when the entire prohe and Lipert battled the entire ",!ce, but out of the race. By lap three, gram was placed on hold due to a with Morrow even leading across the power failure. For the full 45 minutes Shockley was half a straightaway line on lap six. As they exited turn of the blackout, the event's cancellaahead of the field. Nadelkov faded nine for the race to the flag, it looked tion was a real possibility. with mechanical problems, while close. Lipert got the drive as Morrow "Earlier today," reported CompetiEngland's Peter Crew, on another Tricame up about a bike length short. tion Park general manager Ron Turnumph, and Chris Hurst, on a TZ750, This could be the beginning of a er, "we were doing general maintecame from the rear to take second fierce battle all the way to the GNF in nance to the speedway/TT scrambles and third. Tony Smith took his 350cc October. track [adjacent to the night Yamaha to the win over David Fabian In race five, another defending motocross facility] and the 'dozer and Mark Morrow in Formula Twochampion, Atlanta's Buff Harsh, inadvertently dug up the underground Stroke. checked out on the field in the very electrical line and snapped it." Morrison Slams the Doors at WERA Opener W "A few more laps and I might have given Buff a run for it," said Mathews afterward. Dale Burroughs and his GSXRIIOO took the Vintage Six win over Ray Hickman and Eric Bozell, both on Suzuki 750s. Shockley muscled his fast Triumph to his second runaway win of the day in the Vintage Three race. Yet another defending champion, Ducati jockey Chris Marshall, took second, ahead of Morris on the sweet-sounding Trident 750. CN RoebUng IIlIlId IIloceway F8UlkYille, &eorgill Results: MlIn:h 2, 2001 [Round 11 LIW eLSe: 1. Bradford Morrison (Duc); 2. Doug Bowie (Duc); 3. John Stephens (Duc); 4. Bucky Sexton (Duc); 5. Jens Zastrow (Hon). /iI/W CLSC: I. Brodford Morrison (Due); 2. Doug Bowie (Duc); 3. Steven Mllhanes (Duc); 4. John Stephens (Duc); 5. Chris Kelleher (Duc). H/W eLse: 1. Tim Joyce (Tri); 2. Eric Green (AJS); 3. Jesse Morris (Tri); 4. David Roper (AJS); 5. Jeffrey Caiazzo (Due). VINT 1: I. Bull Harsh (Hon); 2. S"'nley Lipert (Hon); 3. Royce Eaton (Non); 4. Peter Crew (Hon); 5. Thomas Turnbull (Hon). VINT 2: 1. Bull Harsh (Hon); 2. S"'nley Lipert (Hon); 3. Mike Mllthews (Hon); 4. Jeffrey CaIazzo (Due); 5. Thomas Tumbull (Hon). VINT 3: 1. Frank Shockley (Tri); 2. Chris Marshall (Due); 3. Jesse Morris (Tri); 4. PhHip Busch (Hon); 5. Stanley Lipert (Hon). VlNT 4: 1. Fronk Shockley (Tri); 2. Peter Crew (Tri); 3. Chris Hurst (Yam); 4. Fred Hopp (Yam); 5. Doug Bowie (Due). VINT 5: 1. Mark Morrow (Yam); 2. Chris Hurst (Yam); 3. Rick Guirey (Yam); 4. Fred Hopp (Yam); 5. Joey Navel (Kaw). VINT 6: 1. Dale Burroughs (Suz); 2. Ray Hickman (Suz); 3. Eric Bozell (Suz); 4. Ch8r1es Rudesyle (Yam); 5. D. Reed Compton (Yam). F·RD: 1. S"'nley Lipert (Yam); 2. Mark Morrow (Yam); 3. Paul Garland (Yllm); 4. Lynford GarJllnd (Yam): 5. Duncan Forbes (Yam). F·500: 1. Stanley Lipert (Yam); 2. Philip Busch (Hon); 3. Mark Morrow (Yam); 4. Lynford Garland (Yam); 5. Paul Gaskin. F-2: 1. Tony Smith (Yam); 2. David Fabian (Yam); 3. Mark Morrow (Yam); 4. Mark Reil (Yam); 5. Rick Guirey (Yam). SDCR: 1. Demetrius/Sargent (BMW); 2. Cou ..../Courts (BMW); 3. Murray/Harris (Yam); 4. Tumbull/Marshall (BMW); 5. landstrom/Puis (BMW). Wade Wades to the Win N 50 APRIL 11, 2001 • cue • _ n __ s Emergency repairs were made, and the lights came back on early in the evening. However, just as practice began, the lights flickered several times, and - puff! - a power fuse had blown, and there was no replacement. Then an electrician who happened to be in the pits came to everyone's aid, replacing the fuse with one he happened to have on hand! The program began only about half an hour late, with the Pee Wees first out of the gate. However, just as they hit the first turn, it began to rain. It was soon over, but by the time the Pee Wees came up for their second moto, the moisture began falling, again . a bit harder this time. Then, after subsiding briefly, just in time for the third moto to start, it really came down, prompting finish-flag marshal Wes Holland to utter over the walkie-

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