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Bike Week's AHRMA Competitions
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CLASS C HAND: I. Blake Wilson (Ind); 2. Rusty
lowry (Ind); 3. AI Knapp (H-D): 4. Doc Batsleer
(Ind); 5. A. -Moon- Mullins (H-D).
ClSC ;60s: 1. Josef Brenner (BSA): 2. Pat
Mooney (Nor): 3. John Cooper (BSA): 4. Rusty
Lowry (H-D); 5. Allan Johncock (Mat).
BEARS: 1. Steve Maney (Nor); 2. Robert
Goodpaster (Nor); 3. Glenn Campbell (BMW); 4. Rich
Earnest (Tri): 5. Tom High (BMW).
F-125: 1. Jack Seaver (Hon); 2. Bruce Clark
(Hon): 3. Terry Gates (Hon): 4. Larry Peons (Hon); 5.
Michael Schneider (Hon).
F-250: I. David Wright (Yam); 2. Jerry Herman
(Hon): 3. Kris Jepsen (Yam): 4. Billy Kennedy
(Yam): 5. John Walters (Hon).
F-500: I. Kyle Corser (Yam): 2. Robert Hurst
(Yam): 3. Robert Bryson (Suz); 4. Jerry Herman
(Yam); 5. Billy Kennedy (Yam).
During AHRMA road
racing in Deland,
Kemp Archibald
took the win in the
Sportsman 250cc
division.
F- 750: I. Adam Popp (Hon); 2. David Fulkerson
(Guz): 3. Steve Maney (Nor): 4. Jon Schultz (H-D); 5.
Jean Basselin (Tri).
F-VINT: 1. Gary Nixon (Hon): 2. Jean Basselin
(Tri): 3. Will Harding (Han): 4, Kyle Corser (Yam); 5.
Shin'ichi Yokoi (BMW).
$PTMN 350: 1. Blake Wilson (Hon); 2. Kemp
Archibald (Hon); 3. Scott Johnson (Han): 4. Gary
Raff (Han); 5. Edward Sensenig (Due).
SPTMN 500: I. Kemp Archibald (Hon): 2. Tim
Stancill (Hon); 3. Ralph Auer (BMW); 4, Andrew
Cowell (Tri); 5. Richard Herrington (Hon).
$PTMN 750: 1. Geir Jacobsen (Ric); 2. Todd
Welch (Tri); 3. Shin'ichi Yokoi (BMW): 4. Cliff Murray
(Yam); 5. Ed Brill (Nor).
S·MONO 2: I. Chuck Campbell (Yam): 2. Colin
Fraser (Hon): 3. Randy Grove (Hon): 4. Mike Skrbin
(Hon): 5. Bill Stoneman (Hon).
S-MONO: I. Per-Olov Ogeborn (Rtx): 2. Tesfai
Konig (Duc); 3. AI Charles (Due): 4. T. Bruce Brown
(MuZ); 5. Bill Birchfield (MuZ).
SOS 2·S: 1. David Podolsky (Hon).
SKORPION CUP: I. T. Bruce B'own (MuZ); 2.
36 points, respectively. The top three
finishers all rode Yamahas.
Racing 197 ] Honda 750-4, went bar
to bar for seven laps with Kyle Corser
on a Yamaha RD400 in an exciting
back-and-forth match in the Formula
Vintage class. ·Then on the eighth
time around, Nixon used an effective
race tactic: "I just made that Honda
real wide the last lap," he said, denying Corser any opportunity to get
In a field of interesting motorcycles
- a Moto Islo, a rigid-frame HarleyDavidson two-stroke and a Saracen the GRMs stood out. These rigid-frame
machines, powered by small-bore
two-strokes, are as unorthodox as they
come. Yet both GRMs won their class-
past.
The Formula Vintage battle was
the cherry on top of a near-perfect
day of racing in AHRMA's pre-Daytona warm-up. Held under warm,
cloudless skies on a temporary circuit
laid out at Deland Municipal Airport,
the event attracted nearly 400
entries.
es, Bruce Carman taking the Classic
Intermediate and James Ellis the lone
entrant in Classic Expert.
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Hardrock Cycle Park
Ocala, Florida
Results: March 5, 2000
GIRDER EX: I. Beno Rodi (Enf), 26 pts.
RIGID NOV: I. Brad Kennard (H·D), 44.
PREM L/W EX: I. Bob Ginder (Jam), 2; 2. Mike
Parsley (Tri) , 6: 3. Merlin BJausing (Tri), 22.
PREM L/W INT: I. Steve Glinski (Gre). 0; 2.
Dennis Brown (Gre), 5: 3. Rob Meadows (BSA), 14;
4. Dan Moriarty (Tri), 26.
PREM LjW NOV: 1. Ray Corlew (Tri), 19; 2. Ian
Most successful among the large
international contingent was English
Kerr (Gre). 19.
PREM H/W INT: I. Ron Winget (BSA). 50.
CLSC EX: I. James Ellis (GRM). 39.
Norton specialist Steve Maney.
Aboard a 1968 750cc twin, Maney
bested class champ Bob Goodpaster
who was riding another Norton in the
BEARS class, and he beat a field of
current machines with his 32-yearold mount in Battle of Twins Formula
2. He rounded out his day with a third
in Formula 750 behind a blisteringly
hot Adam Popp on the M3 Honda
CR750 and David Fulkerson on a
Moto Guzzi.
elSe (NT: I. Bruce Carman (GRM), 49: 2.
Daniel Boone (Sar), 64: 3. Richie Baulch (lsI), 69.
MOD elSe EX: 1. Harry Heilemann (Yam), 14;
2. Dan Brown (Yam), 30: 3. Charlie Roberts (Yam).
36: 4. Ryan Davie (Bul). 45: 5. Keith Dunlop (Yam).
50.
MOD CLSC INT; I. Randall Bailey (Hon). I: 2.
James Smith (Hon), 8: 3. Gene Brown (Suz). 19; 4.
Scott Dowler {Bul}, 20: 5. Robert Brown (Mon), 26.
MOD elSe NOV: 1. David Ellis (Yam). 1: 2.
Greg Gillum (Yam), 4: 3. Michael McPeters (Suz). 4:
4. John Knapp (Yam). 6: 5. David Reynolds (Hon). 6.
BEG: 1. Ben Stevens. 14: 2. Ken Bales (Tn). 19:
3. nmothy Bard (Yam). 19: 4. Bill Martin (Suz). 31.
AHRMAlProgressive Suspension
Historic Cup Series: Round 1
De Land Airport
Among the domestic crew, West
Virginian Blake Wilson had a pair of
wins and a second-place finish on
three very different machines. His
first victory came in Class C Handshift on a ] 940 Indian V -twin ahead
Nixon's
the lDan
of Rusty lowry on another Indian. In
Sportsman 350cc, Wilson came out
atop an excellent battle with Kemp
Archibald, with Wilson on a '68
Honda 350 and Archibald on a '69
model. Wilson's second-place trophy
was earned in the Skorpion Cup, on a
'69 MuZ Skorpion single. His bid for
four trophies ended when a cylinder
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DE LAND, FL, MARCH 3
G
ary Nixon still knows how to win
races. The two-time AMA Grand
National Champion, riding an M3
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broke off another old Indian as he
chased the Pre- ] 940 leader, BMWmounted Ralph Auer.
The Classic Sixties race was a
scorcher, featuring Swiss rider Willi
Rutenacht on a Matchless G50, Josef
Brenner on a Gold Star and Pat
Mooney on a Norton Manx. Mooney
Blake Wilson (MuZ); 3. Craig Hunley (Mul); 4. Bill
Birchfield (Mul); 5. Alex Mclean (MuZ).
BOT F-3: 1. Steve Maney (Nor); 2. John Staske
(Kaw): 3. John Ryti (Lav): 4. Guenther Weickert
(Suz): 5. T. Bruce Brown.
BOT F-2: 1. Mark Galbauch (Due); 2. Russell
Aylward (Guz): 3. Paul James (Bue): 4. Karl Kegel
(Bue); 5. Guenther Weickert (Suz).
BOT F·l: 1. Jonathan Glaefke (Suz); 2. Scott
Webb (Suz); 3. Rolf Knecht (Due); 4. David Podolsky
(Apr): 5. AI Charles (Due).
BOT 2-5: I. Eric Saul (Bim): 2. Glen
Christianson (Yam): 3. Kevin Brown (Yem); 4. Gilles
Hampe (Arm); 5. Michael Wild (Rtx).
LAVERDA CUP: I. John Ryli (Lav).
INTL 2-5 GP: 1. Gilles Hamp (Arm): 2. Michael
Wild: 3. David Wright (Yam); 4. Thierry Binoche
(Yam); 5. Thierry Tchernine (Yam).
SND OF THNDR: 1. Jonathan Glaefke (Suz); 2.
Per-Olov Ogeborn (Rtx); 3. Scott Webb (Suz); 4. Rolf
Knecht (Due); 5. David Podolsky (Apr).
ran off the course around mid-race,
and never quite got back up with the
leaders aga in. Brenner passed into
the lead late in the race and man-
BRIEFLY•••
aged to hold off Rutenacht's
advances until the checkered flag.
After the race, however, it was determined that Rutenacht's bike was
ineligible for the class, and he was
AHRMA's Battle of Twins Formula 3 is a
place where new meets old. The class
is open to push·rod machines up to 850cc,
removed from the results, giving
Mooney second.
Mooney then got an outright win in
500cc Premier on another Manx,
keeping fellow Norton pilots Stu
Carter and Jay Richardson at bay.
Auer was fourth on another BMW.
overhead cam machines up to 6S0cc,
Harley-Davidson 883s with stock bore and
stroke, and BMW 900s. As with all of
AHRMA's Sound of Singles and Battle of
Twins categories, there are no age restrictions. In addition to current machines such
as the Suzuki SV650 and Kawasaki
EX500s, BOT F-3 attracts the occasional
vintage racer looking for more track time.
At Deland the class winner was Brit Sieve
Maney on a 1968 Norton 750. and Frank
Shockley ran up fmn! With his '70 Triumph
750 twin until pmblems Sidelined him.
In AHRMA's modern-bike classes,
Suzuki rider Jonathan Glaefke doubled, taking Battle of Twins Formula
1 and Sound of Thunder. The latter
was a close one, until on the last lap
Glaefke turned up the throttle on the
TlJ 000 and blew past Swede PerOlov Ogeborn on a Rotax 660cc
single.
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Results: March 3, 2000
200 GP: 1. Vic Nowak (H-D): 2. Dennis Poneleit
(Hon): 3. Johnny Demoisey (Tri): 4. Bob Barker
(par); 5. Charles Sexton (Bul).
250 GP: 1. Dean de St. Croix (Due): 2. Jay
Richardson (Due); 3. Charles Sexton (Bul); 4. John
Stephens (Due): 5. Robert Bryson (Bul).
350 GP: Jay Richardson (Due): 2. Johnny
Demoisey (Tri): 3. Charles Sexton (Bul): 4. Edward
Sensenig (Due): 5. Lee Trotter (Suz).
500 PREM: I. Pat Mooney (Nor); 2. Stuart Carter
(Nor); 3. Jay Richardson (Nor); 4. Ralph Auer
(BMW); 5. Rusty Lowry (H·D).
PRE-40: 1. Ralph Auer (BMW); 2. Norbert Nickel
(BMW); 3. Alex McLean (Nor); 4. AI Knapp (H·D); 5.
Beno Rodi (Nor).
CLASS C FOOT: 1. Carleton Palmer II (Vin): 2.
Alex McLean (Nor); 3. Norbert Nickel (BMW): 4. Willi
Benlsch (BMW): 5. Ed Fisher (Tri).
All eyes were on two·tlme AMA G,and
National champ Gary Nixon as he took a
decisive victory in Formula Vintage. and
there was much disappointment that for·
mer MV Agusta factory rlder Gianfranco
Bonera was a no·show in the SOOcc Pre-
mier class on the Made-In-Eumpe MV. Relatively unnoticed on the track was another
racing legend, dirt tracker Ronnie Rail. a
contemporary of Nixon's who was out hav-
ing a blast in the
His ninth-place
diminutive Ohioan
a wide grin under
goggles.
250cc Grand Prix class.
finish didn't eam the
a trophy, but he did have
his dirt track helmet and
Deland had a huge contingent of overseas entries, and a lot of them placed
quite well. Unfo,tunately, an imperfect
understanding of English saw some of
those performances nullified as riders
entered the wrong classes or ran equip-
ment that was ineligible fa< their class. One
was Swiss rider Willi Rutenacht. who
crossed the line second in Classic Sixties
on a 1960 Matchless G50 that was modified beyond the class' allowances and
should have