F a y M y e r s S u z u k i S u p e r m o t o Clas sic
After fin ishing sixth In the first of th e
two Fay Myers Su pe nnoto Cl assic s,
Kevin Sc hwantz didn't th ink he had
much of a chance of endin g u p wit h
the ov erall win. A w in on Sunday,
how eve r, change d a ll that, and
Sc hwantz did take the Big Kahuna
title .
$20,000 - with a $2000 bonus to be
paid to the overall winner of the
event.
Racing was held on a ] .5-mile
course that featured lap ti mes in the
57 -second range. Th e track featu red
a lon g uphill straightway and a ] OOmph downhi ll aspha lt section that led
to a double -lin ed motocross rhy th m
section fo llowed by two flat-tra ck -like
comers . Fina ll y , a three- foot jump led
th e riders back to th e asphalt sec tion .
T he ma j ority of the rid ers rav ed at the
q uality of the circuit, w ith some ca lling it th e best they'd ridden o n.
The big winner for the weekend of
racing was Suzuki's Kev in Schwantz,
the 37-yea r-old former 500cc Wo rld
Champion finishing sixth o n Satu rday
before going out and winning the final
on Sunday. That 6-] tally earned him
the tit le of B i g Kahuna - the title
give n to the overall winne r of the
ina ug u ral even t.
" A ft er a sixth -p lac e fin ish on Sat urday , I fig ured that I had no wa y of
be ing th e B ig K ahuana ," Schwantz
said . As it turns out, he was wrong .
Sat u rday 's w inner Jeff Ward
The former World Champion wins again!
By J O HN C LI FFO RD
P HOT OS BY D E J A E F O RT E' IMA GES
COPPER MOUNTAIN, CO, AUG. 23-24
he fir st -ev er RPM Presents Suzuk i
Cycle Fest , held in the beaut iful
Colorado Rock ies sk i res o rt to wn of
Copper M o un t a in , w as a sm ash i ng
success. Prom ot er s Kev in O 'G rad y ,
C am e ron G re y a nd D a nn y Walke r
came up with a m otorc ycling cocktail
of sorts , mixing different activities
with the main ingredient - the F ay
Myers Suzuki Supermoto Class ic.
D e s p i t e the fact t hat t he race
was n't a round of the AMA/Red Bu ll
S up er m o t o Ch am p i o n sh i p , it still
brough t a ll of t he big hitter s of the
sport to the Rockies, pitting road rac ers against motocrossers and other
off- readers in a battle for a purse of
No one could match the speed of Jeff
Ward during Sa t urd ay 's fi nal . T he
fo rm er m otocross/su pe rcross cha m p
do mi nated. A crash on Sunday forced
him to fig ht through to an eve nt ua l
seventh- place fi n ish.
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