30
Years Ago
SEPTEMBER 19, 1990
Team Muzzy Kawasaki's Doug Chandler was featured on the cover 30
years ago for wrapping up the AMA Superbike Championship at Heartland
Park Topeka with a third-place finish. Winning for the first time in AMA
Superbike was Yoshimura Suzuki's Miguel Duhamel... In Hungary, Rothman
Honda's Mick Doohan won his first career 500cc Grand Prix... Swede Per
Jonsson outdueled American Shawn Moran to win the World Speedway
Championship in England... Mike
Smith won the WERA Formula USA
round at Memphis International
Motorsports Park.
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20
Years Ago
SEPTEMBER 20, 2000
The winning Motocross des Nations team, made up of Ricky Carmichael,
Ryan Hughes and Travis Pastrana, was pictured on the cover of Cycle
News 20 years ago. The race was held in St. Jean D'Angely, France,
and the U.S. team was considered as underdogs going into the race...
Rich King won the Vernon Downs Half-Mile in New York... We featured
an interview with Valentino Rossi... Greg Hancock won the Speedway
World Championship round at the Danish GP... Mike Brown won both
motos at the 125cc MXGP final in Gaildorf, Germany.
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(Above) Don Vesco broke the
motorcycle land speed record 50
years ago on a dual-engine 350cc
Yamaha streamliner. (Right) Ricky
Graham won the Tulsa Half-Mile
National 40 years ago.
