Cycle News - Archive Issues - 1990's

___________~_A_~~~6wIDurnB I ........ Pascal Picotte dominated the SuperTwins race, topping Jimmy Adamo by 21 seconds. Picotte by acountry mile By Henny Ray Abrams LOUDON, NH, JUNE 21 he margin of victory in the SuperTwins race at New Hampshire International Speedway was 21.848 seconds with second place going to GiaCaMoto's Jimmy Adamo. Fast by Ferracci's Stephen Matthews was third after blowing up an engine in the morning warm-up and hastily replacing it. And, yes, Fast by Ferracci's Pascal Picotte won quite handily, despite having finished third half an hour earlier in the IOO-mile Superbike race on a hot 'afternoon in central New Hampshire. "It's important to win the championship," the French-Canadian said after winning his fifth SuperTwins race of the year and taking a commanding points lead over Adamo, 107-93. "Fast by Ferracci builds a very good bike and that's, maybe, why I'm in the lead in the championship." . Picoltle pocketed $2400 from the $12,500 SuperTwins race for winning the 22-lap, 35.2-mile race. He completed it in 29 minutes, 10.445 seconds at an average speed of 72.393 mph. Matthews took the early lead on his Ducati 888, Adamo second on a similar machine painted fluorescent green, with Picotte third on an 851 Ducati. On the third lap, Picotte got down to work passing Adamo going up the hill out of turn three and going under Matthews as they exited the downhill right-hand turn ten. He pulled away slowly at first, then more quickly building to 13 seconds at the halfway point and ballooning to over 21 at the end. Picotte lapped up to, and including, fourth place, but said he didn't have a problem with traffic. "I followed the lapped guys, then on the exit I could go past. My bike has a 'pretty good engine and pretty good handling. It's so light, I can't believe it," he said. Like Picotte, Adamo pulled away from his nearest pursuer putting up similar margins. At the halfway mark he was over 18 seconds in front of Matthews and would finish over 25 seconds sooner. "I was trying to stay with him (Picotte) a little bit in the beginning, then I said The hell with it.' I let him T go. I had a bad time in the Superbike race and I said 'Let him go,' " Adamo said, though he had a harder time with traffic, at one point ·making hand gestures to a pack of riders slowing him. "They went to the inside and went into the bumps and were all out of control. They don't take constant lines," said Adamo, who got extra help from MCC and Ferree Engineering. Never pressured from behind, Matthews said he "just rode a conservative race. 1 was just getting used to the different motor in there. We put it in real quick and just wanted to get some points." Matthews had broken a connecting rod on his Fast by Ferracci motor and replaced it with one that he'd used earlier in the year. Ducati 851-mounted Greg Kopp and Honda 700-mounted Ronald McGill held fourth and fifth on the third lap and also at the end, but had some company in between. Bartels' H-D's Nigel Gale moved into fifth on the fifth lap, before dropping back and then out on the seventh. "The throttle screw backed out and it kept sticking open and the exhaust gasket blew," said Gale, who also suffered mechanical troubles in finishing fifth in the Harley-Davidson Twin Sports race. Sixth went to local rider Russ Katzenberger, the Hooksett, New Hampshire, rider riding the Hooksett Kawasaski-backed EX500 against the bigger bikes. lJ'f Results SUPERTWINS FINAL: I. Pascal Picotte (Due): 2. Jimmy Adamo (Due); 3. Stephen Mathews (Due); 4. Greg Kopp (Due); 5. Ronald McGill (Hon); 6. Russ KAtzenberger (Kaw); 7. Mark Reynolds (Hon); 8. Daniel Frisbie (Due); 9. David Robertson (Due); 10. Steve Aspland (Due); 11. Mike TIberio (MG); 12. Joseph Santa Maria (Due); 13. Shawn HiKbee (H-D); H. Jerry Wallace (H-D); 15. David Karten (ii-D); 16. Chad Healy (Due); 17. Kiyo Watanabe (Hon); 18. James Whitaker (Kaw); 19. Nigel Gale (H-D); 20. Jerry Wood (Due); 21. David I<1asoen (Yam); 22. Steve Sottile (Hon). Time: 29 min.• 10.445 sec. DiswIce 22 laps. 35.2 miles. Average Speed: n.393 mph. Mallin of Vic.'tory: 21.848 sec. SUPERTWINS C'SHIP POINT STANDINGS: I. Pascal Picotte (107); 2. Jimmy Adamo (93); 3. Stephen Mathews (9); t. David Kieffer (59); S. Ronald McGill (57); 6. Greg KoJ'J' (50); 7. Ni~el Gale (40); 8. Mike T,berio (30); 9. (TIE) Shawn H'gbee/Kiyo Watanabe (21); II. Andrew Stroud (17); 12. (TIE) Mark Reynolds/Peter John9Oll (16); 14. Bob Boosardet (13); IS. Robert Holden (II). Scott Zampach (1) won the Twin Sports race at New Hampshire International Speedway, AMA Harley-Davidson TwinSport Series: Round 6 Zampach edges Leslie By Henny Ray Abrams LOUDON, NH, JUNE 21 illey's H-D's Scott Zampach won his fifth Harley-Davidson Twin Spons race in a row, but, this time, Moroney's Cycles' Jim Leslie made him work for it. The pair battled back and forth, Leslie taking the lead two laps from the end, but Zampach took it back and crossed the line .300 seconds in front to take over the series points lead. "I just wanted to prove I was a contender in the Harley-Davidson Twin Sports Series," Leslie said after , matching his best finish of the year. "I was using 600 SuperSport lines instead of Harley lines and I wore out my tires." Bartels' H-D's Mike Hale finished a season's best third, getting the better o'f a race-long battle with Harley-. Davidson of Missouri's Andy Fenwick. "I sure am glad to be here," the Texan Hale said. "Scott is too good and so is Jim Leslie. I was shooting for them, but I thought I was going to be going for third or fourth." Zampach completed the 16-lap, 25.2mile race in 22 minutes, 44.783 seconds at an average speed of 67.527 mph. From the drop of the green Zampach was in the lead, Bartels' Nigel Gale and Low Country H-D's Chuck Blackmon away with him. Leslie moved into second on the second lap as Gale began to slow. "I think it was the oil pump," he would later say. "It started losing power and slowed it way down like it was getting too much oil into the crankcase." Gale hung on to third until the 12th lap when both Hale and Fenwick passed him. He would finish fi£th. By the sixth lap, Leslie was less than a second behind Zampach and was in his shadow two laps later. Using a T radically different line in turn one, he went under Zampach to start the fourteenth lap, leading one more before Zampach took it back with a better drive out of turn two and outbraking him into the uphill turn three. Leslie made a run at the end, coming up just short. "His gearing choice was a little better. I was just a tooth off on the sprocket," Leslie said, adding that he was happy with second arter crashing in practice on Saturday. "I threw il down real hard. My tuner and Pat Moroney of Moroney's Cycles put it back together and did a great job_ " At the halfway point Hale was in fifth, passing Fenwick three laps later, the pair taking Gale on the 12th lap to complete the order or the top five. Ronald McGill moved into sixth a lap from the end passing Chuck Blackmon (seventh) and Tony Montenegro (eighth). m Results H-D TWIN SPORTS FINAL: I. Scott Zampach; 2James Leslie; 3. Mike Hale; 4. Andy Fenwick; S. Nigel Gale; 6. Ronald McGill; 7. Chuck Blackmon; 8. Tony Montenegro; 9. Shawn Higbee; 10. Bobby Kuhl; I I. Dennis Fortenbaugh; 12. Nancy Delgado; 13. Troy Roberts; H. Russ Mattson; 15. Robert Allison; 16. Jon Stauffer; 17. ~ne Cuismond; 18. Invid Yesman; 19. Pat Conroy; 20. Jerry Wallace. Tt..me: 22 min., 44.783 sec. Distance 16 laps, 25.6 miles. Ave..ge Spee.s, 6l.5V mph. MaJsin of Viclooy. 0.300 sec. H-D TWIN SPORT C'SHIP POINT STANDINGS: I. Scott Zampach (100); 2. Nigel Gale (93); 3. Ronald McGill (64); 4. Chuck Blackmon (63); 5. James Leslie (54); 6. Andy Fenwick (51); 7. Shawn Higbee (38); 8. Tony Montenegro (32); 9. (TIE) Mike Hale/Nancy Delgado/Randy Texter (28); 12. (TIE) Jerry Wallace/Richard Koehler (24); H. Jon Stauffer (17); IS. Bob Bcssardet (13). .As this issue ofCycle News was nearing deadline, we received revised results from the AMA on the Harley-Davidson Twin Sports final, listing second-place finisher James Leslie a~ having been disqualified. No technical representatives from the AMA were in their Westerville, Ohio, offices on Monday, June 22, afternoon to clarify Leslie's infractions. All finishers from second place on down were moved up a spot in the final results. See next week's issue for full details. .. Editor. 11

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