Cycle News - Archive Issues - 1980's

- Central Pipeline e II••••uco.Colo..ado-Wyo.1D9-.oDI. .a·.I'I.D"ola~Soal. Da.ola· a!K ·O.la.o.a·T.xal-•••.IlI.xlco·Colo..ado·WyolalJ Donnie Margraves who returned for race two and saw th e checkers first. Joey Hardin (Kaw ) h eld on to win th e class scoring 1-2 with Tom " Bucko" Cheavens (2-3) second and E.T. Stowell third (4-4). . The Novices ran well and mixed it up pretty well. In the l25cc Novice class, Ste ve Carrier (Yam ) went 1-2 for the win. m e-r 00 0') 1"'""4 . -e-r U") Results .-.,I . 80 JR : 1. Mike Franks. Jr. (Kaw ); 2. Robe" Baker (Hon); 3. Carl Keough (Yam). 80 SR: 1. Brad Lewis (Kaw); 2. Steve Hill (Kawl ; 3. Chris Lumley (Kaw). MINI OPEN: 1. Steve Hill (Kaw); 2. Mitchell Hulsey (Hon); 3. Mike Franks (Kaw). BEG: 1. Mark Payne (Hon); 2. Frank Taylor (Hon); 3. Allen Payne (Hon). ' 125 NOV: 1. Steve Carr ier (Yam); 2. Eric Lundquist (Hon); 3. Tony Lassiter (Kaw), 250 NOV: 1. Curtis Pittman ,(Hon); 2.,Stewa" Gaines (Yam); 3. Mike Gr iffith (Yam). BUDDY RACE MINI : 1. Tracy Clanton/Steve Hill (Hon); 2. Jason Gay/Robe" Baker (Hon); 3: Bobby EsteslTommy Mount (Kaw). BUDDY RACE BIG BIKES: 1. Mike Gr iffith/Stewa" Gaines (Yam); 2. Mitchell Hulsey /Mark Payne (Hon); 3 . Tony Lasitter/Eric Lundquist (Kaw). 125 INT: 1. Steve Carrier (Yam); 2. Tony t.asitter (Kaw). ' 250 INT: 1. Joey Hardin (Kaw); 2. Tom Cheavens f (Kaw); 3. E.T. Stowell (Suz). OVER 30 /0PEN (scored together): 1. Kevin Rivers (Suz); 2. Jimmy Moore (Suz); 3. Charl ie David- r'J :::3 OD :::3 < - sorr'(Suz). (Above) Frank Tello aviates to second in Austin's night MX. (Below) Intermediate Rob Ashton tries a turn on for size. M cDonald, A sht on .w in at Ca pital night MX By Donald Mueller AUS T IN, TX, AUG. 6 Friday's racing wa s on a sweat-. dampened track at , Austin's .R iver City Nigh t Motocross. The August heat forced some .., .Lewis flies, sighs at Swan·MX By Gary Willer TYLER, TX, JULY 25 Another fine day of racing on Swan Raceway's East Texas track, and for a time it looked like the big winner today would ' -. . 58 be "Bad Brad" Lewis. "Bad Brad" dominated both the 80cc Junior and 80cc Senior classes, until, while working on a perfect score after smoking his first three races, it came down to the final lap of the last rnoto, At that point, "Bad Brad" truly lived tip to his name - grounding with a bad get-off just one turn after taking the white flag. It resulted in a DNF for Lewis, putting him out of the 80cc Junior class. Lewis took home the top trophy in the 80cc Senior class. Second went to , Steve Hill 's 2-2. Third was Chris Lumley, 5-3. As it turned out in the 80cc Juniors, after Lewis exited, first was left to Mike Franks, Jr. (Kaw). Franks finished second to "Bad Brad" in the first go 'round. Second overall was bagged by Robert Baker (4-2) and Carl Keough of Mineola caught third place in both races. A similar situation developed in the Mini Open category. Honda rider John Britt DNF the first time out only to come back and beat everyone' in the second moto. The class was won by Steve Hill. Mitchell Hulsey on a Honda (2-3) was behind Hill while Mike Franks (4-4) finished third. Other doubles were scored by Kevin ' Rivers (Suz) in the Over 30 and Open (scored together) and in the Beginner class, Mark Payne was hot on his Honda both times out. Spectators were treated to the sight of one of the country's finestfemale -hotshoes in -the Beginner races. From Conroe came Julie' Jamail to mix it up with the boys. jamail jammed and jumped her 250cc Yamaha with the best of them and found fourth place at the end of rnoto number one. Charging hard after -a poor start in the second contest, Jamail, for what it's worth , looked liked she would possiblv reel in third place when she dumped where Mini MXer " Bad Brad" had lost it. The misfortune came shortly after the white flag signaled the start of the final trip around. By the time Jamail got going again she had dropped far behind and had to settle for ninth and seventh for the day. . The 250cc Intermediates saw more than their share of DNFs including riders to rid e with a sn orkel so th ey wouldn 't drown inside their helmets ; Ch arles McDonald rode his Suzuki from a fifth-pl ace start to a fir st-place finish in the first moto of the first group of 125cc Nov ice riders. He was followed by Frank Friedel 's Honda an d Mike Mewhart's Suzuki. Freidel parked his bike in the first turn of the second moto and tried to ru n the race on foot, but he abandoned the untraditional approach when h e found himself impeded by a hail strom of sweat-soaked dirt clods launched by the horde of bikes who ' were suddenly, inexplicably in front of him. Leading the horde were Mewhart an d McDonald. Mewhart held his lead for several laps, while Freidel passed rider after rider until he took th ird. McDonald finally took the lead near the end of the race, earning him a first overall. In the 250cc Intermediate division, Paul Horton took the holeshot on his Honda, but quickly lost the lead to Rob Ashton 's Yamaha and then lost second to Perry Mason 's Suzuki. The three riders remained first, second and third throughout the race . Ashton avoided falling for a change but did manage to show off for his fiance with so m e 's ty l i s h front-wheel landings. Wishing to improve on his performance, Ashton took the holeshot in the second moto, as well as leading the whole race. His only impediment was riding through the berms he had put in the air the. lap before. Chris Sharp came in second on his Yamaha, followed by Perry Mason. The starting gate may seem like an uphill sta rt for the Mini Juniors, but Gl en Starback overcame that obstacle with his Yamaha; a third and a first gave him first overall in the class the largest one of th e evening. The Experts rode alongside the Open and Over 30 riders - until the first turn. Frank Tello's Honda led the entire first moto, while Mike Farmer worked his Yamaha up to seco nd after being nosed out at the start. Second moto start saw Rusty Burns edge out Chuck Loftin's Yamaha for the early lead, Burns riding a Honda in the Open class. Loftin subsequently fell back to fourth behind Farmer and Tello. By the end of the second lap Farmer had taken over the lead, and Loftin had regained second. Bu rns fell back to fourth but led his class for the second time in a row. Results MINI JR : 1. Glen Starback (Yam); 2. Derek Hanson (Yam); 3..Chad Bailey (Yam). MINI SR: 1. Todd Hargroder (Hon); 2. Russell Deche" (Yam); 3. Michael Bailey (Hon). 125 NOV: 1. Charles McDonald (Suz); 2. Mike Mewha" (Suz); 3. Frank Friedel (Hon). . I 125 NOV B: 1. Bobby Guerin (Yam); 2. Brad Bur- I . ney (Suz): 4. Mike Bell (Suz). 250 NOV: t. Stephen Haag (Suz); 2. Andy Thomp I son (Yam); 3. Larry Stojanik (Yam). OVER 30: 1. David Milner (Suz); 2. Stuart Willner (Suz); 3. Frankie Hadeler (Yam). I 125 INT: 1. Ronnie Prado (Yam); 2. Tracy Tolbe" (Suz); 3. Jeff Wilson. ' • 250 INT: 1. Rob Ashton (Yam); 2. Perry Mason (Suz); 3. Chris Sharp (Yam). ' OPEN: 1. Rusty Burns (Hon); 2. Mike West (Hon); 3 , Bobby Lewallen (Hon). EX: 1. Mike Farmer (Yam); 2. FrankTello(Hon); 3. Chuck Loftin (Yam). Dodge City D ay's ,HM to Adams r By Ed Beckley , DODGE CITY, KS, AUG. 1 The Dodge City Day's Motorcycle Classic was a big success today with almost 1700 spectaI tors attending the event. T oday was th e first professional , motorcycle race at the speedway sin ce th e flood of 1965. , The riders came from places like Laramie, WY; Dallas, TX; Sco tts Bluff, NB, a nd parts in between. I The Pro races were run in three classes - Novice, Junior and Expert. Novice class winner, Max Wilson of Turpin, OK , was in his first professional race. Danny Haney fro m Lubbock, TX took third over local favorite Dallas Babcock. This was Babcock's first professional race also. In the Junior class , Brian Anderson from Colorado Springs, CO won the race very convincingly. Brian recently gained fame as a motorcycle racer by winning the , Pike's Peak Hillclimb. He won today's race with Oklahoma City rider Rusty Miskovsky nabbing second over third place finisher Kirk England from Wichita, KS. Fourth place went to Todd'Ratliff, another Wichita rider. Kevin Balcaen, from Wyoming, took fifth. The Expert racers are the top riders . in the Pro motorcycle racing world. Here in Dodge City, local rider Phillip Culver ran his first AMA sanctioned race with the Experts on, a volunteer basis. "It was a good experience for me, and being on a borrowed motorcycle made things tougher, but I enjoyed racing with guys like Bill y Herndon.rand Scott Adams. " Phillip took fifth in the Expert main event, but was credited with being the top Junior here for the classic. The ' winner 'of -the Expert main was Scott Adams 'fro m Oklahoma Ci ty. Scott won the race on an XR 750 Harley-Davidson, while Chubby Armour, from Tulsa, OK snatched up second after winning the $100 "Dash for Cash" nice. Third was Billy Herndon, the 18-year-old whiz kid from Dallas, TX. Billy had made a wrong choice for tires and gearing and he could do not better than third. Fourth was Mark Gibson fr om Denver, CO. •

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