Cycle News - Archive Issues - 1980's

Western iDe' Southern California-Arizona-Southern Nevada S outh'ern ClI1llornla-Arlzona-Soutbern Nevada· Soutbern ClI1llornla·Ariz, . OPE.N EX: 1. Bob Russell; 2. Kelly Larkin; 3. Pat Antonodes. TROPHY DASH: 1. Bob Russell: 2. Rick Williams' 3. Marlow Parks. • Nolan clinches Tripes series, Turkey Chase to Norman By Ivan Summers CARLSBAD, CA, NOV. 2i Robbie Nolan showed 'em again that he was the man to . be~t in D-38's Marty Tripes senes. He'd already piloted his (T(Ac:::1 pe)t~HamEes (87R) and Roger Thompson (3x) run it into II Corona tum ve rry arhart takes a look at the action in the rear. . . . .Williams, Russell take multiple' wins at Canyon By Peggy Stewart PHOENIX, AZ, NOV. 21 . It was beautiful Arizona weather for .the season's first day race at C~nyon Raceway today. Rick WIlhams, the season champion, 1'8 t~k wins in the 250cc short track and TT main events. The 250cc short track n:tain found several riders goir:tg down 10 turn two, so it was "start it again Sam." The second time seemed to be a charm as all riders made the first lap with no problem. This time Kawasaki-mounted Rick Witte and Suzuki-mounted Mike Ste~art fought for the holeshot. It was Witte, however, who inched into first. Rick Williams held off Darin Balderston to take third. On the third lap, Williams go.t ~y Stewart, then pursued Witte. Wllhams kept the pressure on and on the seventh lap passed Witte. Willi-' a~s kept. the. honor of being first. ~ltte, domg some fine riding, finIshed second and. Balderston third. Bob Russell seemed unable to make any mistakes today. After wins in the Open Expert short track and Trophy Dash, he pulled off his third win of the da~, winning. the Open Expert TT malO. Three nders went down in turn two of this race. Marlow Parks Craig Martin and Mike Yogerst ali found the earth a little too close for their !iking. Parks was the only one able to make the restart. This time it ~as Russell leading the pack into the fust turn, Parks riding in second and Kelly Larkin third. Parks and Larkin were both within touching range of Russ~ll. Parks put pressiue on Russell mto the corners, but Russell managed to hold his lead. Fourth place Pat Antonides really tried, unsuccessfully, to pass Larkin~ Halfway t~rough the race, Parks developed bike troubles which allowed Larkin to move into second and Anton'iaes to third. From the rear, Shaun Larkin,Kelly's younger brother, movedup to fourth. Shaun rode Antonides' rear ~heel, finally passing him in the nght hander. However, Antonides managed to get around Shaun in the s~eeper. Their passing games contmued to the end of the race. The c~eckered £lag found Russell taking fust, Kelly second, Antonides third and Shaun fourth. The time trials for the Trophy Dash were run on the TT track ,insteiidof the short track today. Fourt~en Experts tried for the five fastest urnes. Fast.qualifier was Craig Martin. The only 250 to make the Dash was that. of Rick Williams, with third fastest ume of the day. Bob Russell led this race from start to finish. Second place Marlow Parks found ~illiams too close for comfort. Wilhams, who rode with his usual fine style, kept the pressure on Parks. On the next to the last lap, Williamspassed Parks to finish second.' Bob Hinchcliff led Buck Burcham and Ron Masterson in the combined Open Novice/Amateur TT main Hinchcliff took the lead early bu~ went wide out of the sweeper. That allowed Burcham to' take over ·the l~ad. Burcham then went wide in the nght hander, which allowed Hinchcli~f to regain the lead. Masterson qUIetly ":l0ved.uP and passed Burcham. Hmchchff took the win and Masterson was second. Results SHORT TRACK . Y-ZINGER: 1. Mark Maynard. PEE WEE: 1. Danny Yogerst; 2. Marty Yogerst. 250 AM: 1. Enc Yogerst; 2. Aaron Eustace' 3 Danny Anderson. . • . 250' EX: 1. Rich Williams; 2. Rick Witte; 3. Darin Balderston. • OPEN AM: 1. Buck Burcham; 2. Ron Masterson' 3. Bob Hinchcliff. • OPEN EX: 1. Bob Russell; 2. Kelly Larkin' 3. Tom Burcham. • IT . Y-ZINGER: 1. Mark Maynard. ' PEE WEE: 1: Danny Yogerst; 2. Many Yogerst. MINI: 1. Todd Yogerst; 2. Cabot Peters. 250 AM: 1. Randy Jacobs. . 250 EX: 1. Rick Williams; 2. Dennis Parks' 3. Bryon HopkinS. .• OPEN NOV/AM: 1. Bob Hinchcliff- 2. Ron Masterson. . • 250.Yamaha to' overall wins in three of bve of the series' races. And after taking two or three of the four plus mile l.oops to get sorted out, he pulled the trigger on the rest of the field here today. His margin of three plus niinutes translated to nearly a half lap on the. next rider. PRO Racing's Turkey Chase was ~ost to D-38's Marty Tripes series fmale and also a points race for both organizations. Novices c?mmen<:ed the day with so~e very tight racmg in the early gomg WltO Dean Stockwell (C-A) and D.P. Wrig~tleadingamudsplat tered group of chargers including Mark Wilkie (Yam), Lee Dodge (Hon), Scott McEwen (Yam), Randy Anderson (Yam) and eventual winner Dana Hughes (Hon). Stockwell had started to build so~eth.ingof a lead by midpoint, but 250ct nder Anderson was making a move. In fact, Anderson was driving for the lead on lap 10, butwas betrayed by some wet stuff on the paved sweepe~, and the resulting get-off finished hiS ~ay. Hughes, meanwhile, was runmng comfortably in second or third position. The first bunch in the race looked more like ringsiders at Chipendales - so much mud that bike makes were hard to see. . Stockwell, ~ho had been running well all mor!1mg, elected to pit. This w~>uld pOSSibly have cost him the w.m, ,bu~ he crashed as well. Hughes dldn t pit or crash and, coupled with a very steady ride on his 250, earned the overall. In fact, the next two overall spots were 250s - Scott McEwen and Scott Bullard. Class 30 racers Don Walters and Mike Goodwin had a good duel going with Walters getting 'the win. After Robbie Nolan took the lead o.n lap three of the Junior Pro race, he Simply proceeded to bury the field. A spectator asked, "Has. Nolan come ~round yet?" A num~r taker replied, ~o, but the way he s going - if he misses a tu1rn he'll be in another area c~e by now!" Noland had the best time of an~ tak~n during all the day's ~aces - a SIX mmute 20 second clock109 - and this was late in the hour and a half race! Randy Hollenbeck got his OPen Husky around Carlsbad's turns for a second overall and first Open. Second Open went to Dan Ayers'(Yam). Bill Reams managed a class 30 win In som.e good racing with Tom Carroll .gettmg second spot. . . Senior racer Lars Larsen had a fine nde and won Class 38, edging Malcom McCassy and first time 38 rider Gordon Parham in the process. The day's last event was for PRO's Professionals - the guys who do it in the dirt for' money. Somehow even t~ough this group usually h~s the blg~est turnout, there were but eight· entries. Four Open and four 125s. It was decided that the winner' would take all in each class and still keep it a two and a half hour race. PRq Open racer Randy Norman went nght to work on the first turn. He had the lead and the talented Norman never had to look back. Randy's style fits this kind of racing and he made it look so easy - he was ~Iying over the jumps on the last laps Just as he was on the firsL Duel of the day, while it lasted, was between Bill Saltzman on an Open machine and Kurt Pfeiffer on a 125 Yamaha. Lap after lap they went at it about three lengths apart, looking like Pfeiffer was. towing. Saltzman .on a string untIl Kurt pitted when his gas tank hose came adrift and he found himself under a 90 octane shower. Saltzman pitted as well with a broken machine. He and Pfeiffer resumed their duel with Kurt taking second overall and Saluman in for third behind Norman. Results JUNIOR PRO OVERALL: 1. Robert Nolan (Yam); 2.Randy Hollenbeck (Hus); 3. Richard Baugh (Yam). OPEN: 1. Randy Hollenbeck (Hus); 2. Dan Ayers (Yam); 3. Steve Basin (Yam). 250: 1. ROben Nolan (Yam); 2. Richard Baugh (Yam); 3. Matt Hope (Yam). 125: 1. Ed Foland (Kaw); 2. Wayne Koski (Yam)' 3 Mark Agnelo (Suz). • . CLASS 30: 1. Bill Reams (Yam); 2. Tom Carroll (Yam); 3. Jon Wells (Hon). CLASS 38: 1. Lars Larsen; 2. Malcom McCassy (Hon); 3. Gordon Parham (Yam). . ' NOVICE OVERALL: 1. Dana Hughes (Hon); 2. Scott McEwen (Yam); 3. Scott Bullard (Hon). . OPEN: 1. Lee Dodge (Hon); 2. Dean Stpckwell (C-A); 3. D.P. Wright (Kaw). 125: 1. John Tarrant (Suz); 2. Mark Wilke (Yam). CLASS 30: 1. Don Walters (Yam); 2. Mike GoodWin (Honl; 3. Ray Wright (Yam). . CLASS 3~:.1 . Bruce Cornell (Hon); 2. Neil Fearing . (C-A); 3. Wilham Misener (Yam) PRO ' . OVERALL: 1. R~ndy Norman (Yam); 2. Kun Pfeiffer (Yam); 3. Bill Saltzman (Marco). OPEN: 1. Randy Norman (Yam); 2. Bill Satlzman (Hus); 3. Ed Ellis (Baby Huey-Yam). 125: 1. Kun Pfeiffer (Yam); 2. Rob Hall (Suz); 3. Don~le Momson (Yam). Thompson takes TT, Hames tops HM By Elaine Jones Photos by Dan Mahony CORONA, CA, NOV. 20 The Pros were on hand at Corona Saturday night and were greeted with an excellent track that many said was the best they ha~ ever ·seen. It was a night of surpnses as Roger Thompson wowed a lot of people with some outstanding rides on the TT. . In the 250cc Money TT, Pete Hames got off on top with Thompson second. ~n the second lap Hames got spiroff 10 turn four and ~ad him wondering why he opted for a MX bike insteadof his customary flat track machine. A red flag came out, and on the single file restart Thompson' had all the edge he needed. He was in control for the remainder of the race. Hames was second and Dave Ehrhart picked up the third. Both were back on the line for the Open MO,ney~.This tfme Thompson wasn t messmg around; he broke on top with his Mike Mockbee/KRW Yamaha. Shawn Leipold was second aboard his Taft Wheel Yamaha and Larry Earhart third on his Mike Mockbe~ Yamaha. Hames got off to a bad start, fo~ him, aboard his Harry D. Foster Tnumph. Hames didn't let any grass grow under his wheels' he started picking off riders and wa~ in second at the halfway point. Thompson knew Hames was back there, but the Corona youngster didn't lose his composure and was there at the end when it counted. Hames had to settle (Continued to page 22)

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