A LeMans start was eliminated at this year's event. There were no
accidents at the start.
Danks Racing's Jan Jolles (18) and Northridge Special's Ralph Johnston
mixed it up.
14th Annual 24 Hours of Nelson
Team Lyte wins grueling race
By Larry Smith
Race.
The Don Mills, Ontario, Canada
based winners race " on ly for the fun
and the team effort," according to
crew chief Tony Battaglia. Team
Lyte members Rob Whelan, Ri ch
jagoe, Bob Miller and Paul McMilIan covered 955 laps through almost
every type of weather, incl uding searing heat and heavy intermittent rain
showers.
WARREN, OH, AUG. 7-8
Team Lyre took a Kawasaki
GPz750 : to the overall win: in
the 24 Hours of .Nelso n road
race . The event was sanctioned
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by WERA for th e first time and was
th e second round of the Nippondenso Triple Crown of Endurance
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(Left to right) Second overall Team Good Times Racing, overall winners
Team Lyte and third overall Northridge Special.
Tragedy struck at the Ohio road
race course when Team Heschimura's
Dale Richey collided with Suzuki
rider Joe Kenesky early in the race.
Reportedly, Kenesky had to nearly
stop his Trick Cycle Suzuki when a
rider who had gone off th e track was
waved back onto the track near the
beginning of the carousel turn. Richey
ran into the rear of Kenesky 's Suzuki
at a high rate of speed and died as a
result of injuries suffered in the accident. Kenesky was hospitalized with
serious injuries.
On the third hour Team T.O. Racing took the lead with K&L Racing
. . . second . . . .Team .Cowboy third, as
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the heavyweights moved to the front.
The Eddie Lawson replica Kawasaki
of MS&S Racing went down in the
first of two falls, which eventually
sent the winner of the first round, in
Texas, home.
The Barry Metson tuned and built
Kawasaki GPzIIOO from T .O. Cycle
Salvage ran undisturbed out front for
16 hours. Rider/mechariic Ralph
White, Norm Murphy, Ralph Stokes,
Steve Nelson and Barry Metson held
a record-setting pace, but at IO A.M .
on Sunday a broken transmission
ended their assault.
Team Lyte lost time when temperatures over 90 degrees on Saturday
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