WERA Vintage Road Racing
Round 1: Jennings GP
Tim Joyce, on a Tom Sharp 750cc
By STEVE STASER
Triumph. Chuck Campbell handled
Race two saw David Roper take
machines;
Douglas
Roper, again on the Aermachi 250,
won the 350cc GP after a good battle
event, ahead of Phillip Turkington
with Stuart Carter. Turkington took
third.
and Chris Kelleher.
Morrow came back in race three
and took the Vintage Five win over
Mercer and Honda 500cc rider Fred
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and Dick GnIhn (3)
staved this close
throughout the entire
Formula 500cc race.
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Formula Two-Stroke and Vintage
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finish In .Iennings,
Florida.
Four started off Thursday's races, as
32 bikes blasted off the line in the
two-wave start. Chris Hurst won the
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In the
battle of the two-strokes, taking the
win over Mark Morrow and Tony
Smith. Eric Mercer took the Vintage
Four win on his Yamaha single over
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GP
Aermachi 250, in the 250cc GP
tage groups joining together for the
first time in several years, the result
was one of the biggest all-Vintage
events ever.
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Donelun won that battle over Samara
Talkin and Scott Smallwood.
one of his two wins of the day on his
JENNINGS, FL, FEB. 27
ore than 400 entrants converged
on this northern Florida track to
kick off the WERA Vintage 2003
season. This was also the AHRMA
kickoff, and the two Vintage organizations shared the facility with WERA
racing on Thursday, February 27, and
AHRMA on Friday. With the two Vin-
125cc
third on a Yamaha 500.
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Hull. Sharing in this race were the
250cc GP event.
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Dick Gruhn from Quick Bikes took
the win in the Formula RD class, over
Kevin Brown. Lynford Garland, last
year's Southeast Regional Champion
in this class, came in third.
The Vintage Six class had a little
bit of everything. William Mayfield
grabbed the win on his FZR 1000
Yamaha, and Morrow brought his
RZ350 home second, while Keith
Sanderson was third on a Ducati 888.
In Vintage One racing, Buff Harsh,
on the Todd Henning Honda 350, and
Eric Cook, on the WKR/Bore Tech
Honda, went at it again after a fierce
battle for the championship last year.
Harsh pulled away at the end to take
the win, over Cook. South Florida's
Tash Zarvalas came in a close third.
Joyce brought his D£,D Cycles/
Teknic Leathers-sponsored 500cc
Triumph home first in the 500cc GP
event, over Norton rider Carter
