Cycle News - Archive Issues - 1980's

(Top) Steve Reynosa's weli-disguised Honda 500/4 took the 600cc Super-street win. (Above left) Mike Spencer leads Roberto Pietri '(7), first heat winner Fred Merkel (34) and Dave Bu~y (6, hidden). (Above right) Earl Roloff took second overall as a result of his first ride on' a SuPerbike. rejoin the race two laps down after it was repaired. Mike eventually worked his way up to eighth by the end, to take sixth in the overall standings. Roberto took the lead after Spencer dropped out, and the race was on! He and Klinzmann were nose to tail the rest of the race and spent 22 laps swapping the lead.. Earl Roloff was alone in third, followed by Hypercycle/LockhartiPerformance Works lI35cc Katana in fifth. But on the very last lap, Roberto was chasing Harry down the hill into tum five and Pietri's front end washed out and he fell off, unhurt~giving the win to Klinzmann. Klinzmann was also given the honor of being named AFM Pro Sportsman of the Year in the winner's circle ceremonies. Roloff impressed everyone by taking second in the second heat and the same overall on a bike that he was unfamiliar with. Carey Andrew took third in the heat and fourth overall, after starting last on the grid because he missed qualifying. 600cc Super Street Race Steve Reynosa took one more in his string of victories on the 10 year old Honda that he has been successfully campaigning. all year in club races. In qualifying Reynosa ran only eighth fastest, with Howard Monise number one ·with a 13-1:·8, fel-Iawed by Frank Mazure with a 138:9 and Jay Tanner with a 139:0. Monise led most of the· early laps, followed closely by Renosa, Clint Whitehouse and Jay Tanner. Mazur was up there battling with Reynosa until lap II when he dropped out with a bad ignition. By lap five Monise had stretched his lead over Reynosa a bit and the races to watth were between jay and Clint for fourth, and Between Michel Mercier and Doug Toland for sixth. Toland crashed in some oil on Saturday and injured his foot and bent up his KZ550. He borrowed. some parts and ,taped up his foot and went for it. By hip II Monise, Reynosa and Mazur were really at it out front, with the otner two duels still going on behind them. But pylap 12 everything had changed - Mazur was out and Mercier had crashed in tum one. Reynosa had also taken the lead, and held it to take the win. Monise was a close second. Jay Tanner, who had siezed his motor earlier in momingpractice, took a squeak~r over Whitehouse for third and Toland ended up with fifth. Formula Two In the 20-lap Formula Two race David Erride put in a r.are appear:arice and flew to the win piloting the Bob Endicott Goodyear/Castrol sponsored TZ250. It wasn't an easy victory; Dave had C.P. Enterprises N~D.lGastroll Arai sPonsored Donnie Greene and D.E. Machina sponsored Danny Coe to contend with. In the first lap of the race, two front-mnningriders, Kurt Bickel and Mike Haller, went down in tum four at the top of the hill. Haller got up and continued the race, finishing fifth. Emde led the first three laps, but on the fourth Donnie slipped by into tum one taking over the lead for the"next two laps. By, lap six Emde had regained the lead with Greene right on his tail. , Danny Cae was. in third, and there was a really fierce battle for fourth between Howard Monise and Tracy DeMuro. Monise was riding a bike .borrowed from Ken Stack and Tracy was o.n his RD400 with a new TZ250 frame that was not quite sorted out yet.· On lap nine, Danny Cae took the lead going into fast tum eight, leaving Emde and Greene on his tail. By the 10th lap Emde was back in the lead, and Cae had slipped back to third. The battle for fourth was getting intense and both riders almost went off the track in turn three as they tried to outbrake each other, but they . both saved it. On lap 13 Greene took. the lead followed by Emde and Coe got stuck in traffic. By the 17th lap Coe moved up to tak~ .second·from Greene, who was then caught in more traffic. On lap 18, fo~rth place DeMuro broke his shift lever and was out. On the last lap of the 20-lap race, ElI!de put in his fastest lap, a 133:5 and took the win by just a hair over Danny Coe and Donnie Greene, who had missed a shift on the last lap and lost some time. Green took third on last year's old, tired bike. Rudy Galindo and Jim Moore did a great job of putting on the race program. and everything went smooth as could be. Scoring was done unerringly, as usual, by. the SCCA. • Results 600 SUPER STREET: ,. Steve Reynosa,(Hon); 2. Howard Monise (Yam); 3. Jay Tanner (Yam); 4. Clint Whitehouse (Yam); 5. Doug Toland (Kaw); 6. Ken Green; 7. Mike Johnston; 8. Quenten Hogan; 9. Rick Soloway; 10. Bob Mapp8S (Yam); 11. Jim Lastelle(Kaw). FORMULA TWO: 1. David Emde (yam); 2~Danny Cae (Yam); 3. Don Greene (Yam); 4. Howard Monise (Yam); 6. Mike Haller(Yaml; 6. Rob Rodrick (Yam); 7. Steve Reynosa (Yam); 8. Chris Steward (Yam); 9. Bryan Chona (Yam); 10. Tracy DeMuro (Yam). HEAT ONE: ,. Fred Merkel (Suz); 2. Mike Spencer (Suz); 3. Harry KUnzmann (Kaw); 4. Robeno Pietri (Han); 6. Earl Roloff (Kaw); 6. Dave Busby (Suz); 7. Carey Andrew (Kaw); 8. David Emde (Suz); 9. Rick Mitchell (Kaw); 10. Kevin Bracken (Due). HEAT TWO: 1. Harry Klinzmann (Kaw); 2. Earl Roloff (Kaw); 3. Carey Andrew (Kaw); 4. Robeno Pietri (Han); 6. David Emde (Suz); 6. Kevin Bracken (Due); 7. Rick Mitchell (Kawl; 8. Mike SpenCer (Suz); 9. Mike Williams (Kaw); 10. John Wells (Han). OVERALL: 1.' Harry Klinzmann (Kaw); 2. Earl Roloff (Kaw); 3. Roberto Pietri (Han); 4. Carey Andrew (KIIW); 6. Mike Spencer (Suz); 6. David Emde (Suz); 7. Fred Merkel (Suz); 8. Kevin Bracken (Due); 9. Rick Mitchell (Kaw); 10. Milut Williams (Kaw). ,

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