50
Years Ago
SEPTEMBER 14, 1971
40
Years Ago
SEPTEMBER 9, 1981
P118
LOOKING BACK
Marco "Lucky" Lucchinelli had the Cycle News cover after clinching
the 500cc World Road Race Championship 40 years ago… Hank Scott
and Terry Poovey scored wins at the Indianapolis Mile, but Gary Scott
still had a generous points lead in the AMA GNC... The championship was
decided in Holland at the final round of the World Championship 250cc
MX, with Neil Hudson winning by just two points over Georges Jobe… A
Cycle News extra, ATV News, was included with the issue.
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Marco "Lucky" Lucchinelli
the 500cc World Road Race Championship 40 years ago…
and
still had a generous points lead in the AMA GNC... The championship was
decided in Holland at the final round of the World Championship 250cc
MX, with
Cycle News
Yvon Duhamel made the Cycle News cover 50 years ago with his
Talladega 200 win... Outlaw motorcyclists showed up at the Talladega race
prepared to cause mayhem, but the "nasties" were corralled and expelled
by the law before race start… At Bonneville Speed Week, 71 new AMA
records were set… A young Danny LaPorte won the 125 class at Cal-Expo
MX… Harley-Davidson revealed its newest racer, the four-speed alloy-head
XR-750… An electric motorcycle built by a Lockheed engineer was said to
be capable of 40 mph with the wind.
40 40
Years Ago Years Ago
(Above) Ricky Carmichael (4) Sebastien Tortelli
(13) and John Dowd (16) battle for the holeshot at
the Binghamton National 20 years ago.
(Below) At Bonneville Speed
Week 50 years ago, Don Vesco is
captured cussing out his 350cc
engine since his other liner, with
a 250cc engine, ran faster.
