Cycle News - Archive Issues - 1990's

INTHEWIND~P~_aW_~~~~~~~~~~_ Kevin Magee (Yam) won the Australian round of the World Championship Superbike Series in Phillip Island, October 18. The Aussie topped Doug Polen (Due) in the first leg and finished behind Raymond Roche (Due) in the second race to emerge as the top point scorer. Stephane Mertens (Due) finished third in the first leg and Aaron Slight (Kaw) did likewise in the second leg. Polen, with his 2-4 tally, leads Roche, who did not finish the first leg, by 26 points. Dutchman Racing (Suz) won the final race of the AMA/CCS EBC . Brakes Endurance Challenge at Daytona International Speedway in Daytona Beach, Florida, October 18. Dutchman's Scott Zampach and John Choate combined to give the team its first victory of the season. Second place went to N2 Racingl National Car Rental (Hon) with Jim Sabin and Mike Myer handling the riding chores. Bowman Honda (Hon) finished third, ridden by Jamie Bowman and Danny Roberts. Fastline Racing/MCM (Suz), who clinched the championship last week at Texas World Speedway, was forced to make a lengthy pit stop to replace a burned clutch and finished well down in the standings. Dutchman's win moved them into second in the championship with 134 points while Team America, who were disqualified at Daytona for re-fueling away from the pits, finished third with 131 points. The GTU class win at Daytona went tp Yamaha of Leesburg (Kaw). The trio of Glenn Barry, Jon Roberts and Mike Barnes topping the Glenn Szarck and Larry Goldstein team of IRC Racing (Yam). Hornblower Racing (Hon) finished third with Jon Cornwell and Bill Hornblower at the helm. Road racer Scott Zampach successfully defended his number one plate in the Harley-Davidson Twin Sports class with a second place finish at Daytona, October 18. Zampach, ·who crossed the line less than a second behind Richard Koehler, finished the year with 162 points, topping Nigel Gale, third at Daytona, who had 154 points. Zampach won the U.S. Twin Sports race, held on October 17, beating Gale by a little over a second with Chuck Blackmon finishing third. American Flyers' Todd Harrington was the big winner at the Daytona Race of Champions. The 21-year-old from Naperville, Illinois, set a new record w.ith six wins, coming in first in Amateur Middleweight Superbike, Amateur Heavyweight Supertwins, Amateur Solo GTU, Amateur Solo GTO, Amateur Lightweight Supertwins and Amateur Middleweight GP. The previous record of five wins was set last year by Colin Edwards II. Edwards went on to win the 1992 AMA 250cc Grand Prix National Championship. The biggest money winner at the Race of Champions was Rick Kirk. The Oklahoma rider won $5000 from the $20,000 purse for capturing the championship title in the Honda CBR900RR Challenge Series. Kirk led most of the race, easily beating Thomas Wilson and Jamie Bowman. Erik Kehoe (Hon) topped the 125cc Pro class at round two of the GFI Fall Series South, held at Perris Raceway in Perris, California, October 18. Dana Wiggins (Hon) was the runner-up, and Erick Hilton (Hon) was third. Shawn Kalos (Yam) bested Kehoe and Joel Albrecht (Yam) in the 250cc Pro Class, and Donald Upton (Hon) was the winner in the 500cc Pro class, with Tony Amaradio {Kaw) finishing second ~nd Gregg Young (Hon) third. Rusty Holland (Suz) aced the 125cc Pro class at round two of the GFI Fall Series North, held at King's Speedway in Hanford, California, October 17. Dan Paladino (Kaw) was second and Eric DuCray (Hon) finished third.. Pat Gomm (Yam) won the 250cc Pro class, besting John Stark (Yam) and Josh Boykin (Yam). Round three was held the following day, October 18, at Hollister Hills SVRA in Hollister, California. Paladino (Kaw) edged Gomm (Yam) and Holland (Suz) for the 125cc Pro class win, while Gomm (Yam) was again the 250cc Pro class victor, beating Paladino (Kaw) and Tyler Hummel (Suz). Scott Summers (Hon) won the final round of the AMA Wiseco/Yamahal Yokohama Grand National Championship Cross Country Series at Elkins, West Virginia, October 18. Jan Hrehor (Suz) was the runner-up, with Duane Conner (Kaw) third, Doug Blackwell (Kaw) fourth and Tim Shephard (Yam) rounding out the top five overall. Just two weeks after competing in his last National MX, Jeff Ward made his car racing debut, finishing seventh in the Indy Lights Series race at Laguna Seca Raceway, October 18. The race was run in conjunction with a CART Indy Car race at the northern , California facility. Indy Lights cars are powered by stock block Buick V-6 engines, housed in March chassis. Also competing in the race was four-time World Champion road racer Eddie Lawson and he finished 18th, reportedly contending with mechanical problems. Yet another car had ties with motorcycling; that one was driven to an II th place finish by Rick Hill and it is sponsored by Gary Densford, who is known for promoting speedway ice races. World Champion Wayne Rainey, Camel Supercross and 250cc National -MX Champion Jeff Stanton, Camel Pro Series Champion Chris Carr and the U.S. Motocross des 'Nations team of Jeff Emi~ Mike LaRocco and Billy Liles have been named as nominees for the 1992 MotoWorld AMA Athlete of the Year Award. Final nominees will be announced in coming weeks. The prestigious award carries a $5000 honorarium from Seals Communications, which produces the weekly ESPN program MotoWorld. The recipient will be announced on November 21 at the AMA Professional Awards Banquet at the Doubletree Hotel and Marina in San Pedro, California. Tickets are available for $60 per person. For more information, call Diana Mahaffey at 614/891-2425; for special room rates at the San Pedro Doubletree, call" 310/514-3344 and mention the AMA. Brazilian road racer Alex Barros has signed a· contract to race alongside Kevin Schwantz on the Lucky Strike-backed Suzuki 500cc GP team for the 1993 World Championship Road Race Series. Barros won the Big Road Race in Sugo, Japan, on October 11, riding Schwantz's 1992 Suzuki RGV500. Doug Chandler crashed in Japan as did Australian's Daryl Beattie and Kevin Magee. Beattie suffered a broken bone in his hand, and Magee broke five bones in his foot. Rumors that French Canadian road racer Miguel DuHamel had inked a contract to ride a Muzzy Kawasaki in the 1993 AMA Superbike National Championship were denied by DuHamel's manager Alan Labrosse on Monday,Octobe 19. "Miguel has not signed a contract, and he's still under contract with Yamaha France." Labrosse said. "We are still talking with several people about rides in'the States and also on a 500 in Europe. It's just talk right now and no decisions have been made." Another rumor has AMA 250cc Grand Prix National Champion Colin Edwards II signing a contract with Vance & Hines Yamaha to ride the new 1993 Yamaha YZF750 in the AMA Superbike National Championship. "We're working on it,. but there's nothing yet," team owner Terry Vance said on Monday, October 19. According to Two Brothers Racing team owner Craig Erion, no plans have been finalized for the team for 1993. Erion, though, did confirm that he had been contacted by Ducati about the possibility of running the Italian V· twins in the '93 AMA Superbike. National Championship. "I got a call from Ducati," Erion said. "But that's not surprising: I think they're looking for a second team for the AMA series. We've got an offer from Horida to do WERA, arid I've made a counter-offer. We're waiting for an answer. We don't want to leave the AMA series because we feel it is superior to WERA. I don't know what we'll do at this point, but we will be racing. We have a vested interest in it. At the very minimum, we'll have Rick Kirk on a 600 (Honda CBR6oo) in Supersport and we'll run a CBR900 in endurance. We won't run superbike unless something comes up." Terry Poovey, the dirt tracker who suffered a broken collarbone and ribs and a punctured lung in a crash at the October 10 Pomona Half Mile, underwent surgery to repair his broken collarbone and to inflate his punctured lung in a Texas hospital, October 13. "I went to get checked up when I got home and the doctors couldn't believe that I had been released from the hospital in Pomona," said Poovey. The 17-year veteran of the Camel Pro Series had pins inserted in his broken collarbone and spent five days on a lung machine before finally being released on October 18. "I never realized how many things you take for granted," added Poovey. ''I'm not going to smoke anymore after this. That should help with my conditioning next year. I think I have one more season left in me." Themosl i a s -n k 0'11 everread. kHON'DA If OwNeR'. MA~ ~---- What should you look for .when you check your motorcycle's brake system? Information like that can save your life. And the best place to find it is in your owner's manual. Responsible riders also wear a helmet, eye protection and pro·tective clothing, and have a proper motorcycle license. And, of course, nobody should ever ride under the influence of drugs or alcohol. Read your owner's manual before you ride. Because when exam time comes, the safest riders are the ones who have done their homework first. cf'HONDA Cmne ride with us. ©1991 American Honda Motor

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