Cycle News - Archive Issues - 1990's

/992 METZELER v,=~~ GRAND NJ;\TI NAL FINAL i t ' . " 00 1"""""1 ~ Q.) ..D- E Q.) :>- o Z (Left to right) Donald Jacks, Fritz Kling and Dave Sadowski celebrate their 31-2 finish in F-USA, while Jacks holds his nwnber one plate. Sadowski. Jacks then dropped back a bit to eventually finish third. Oliver had been running eighth, the highest placing two-stroke rider, until the sixth lap when he coasted to a halt at the exit of tum five with a broken third gear. Enter the last lap, with Kling leading out of the fateful turn seven that leads onto Road Atlanta's long back straight. Sadowski was trailing, and slung past Kling to lead at the crest of the dip. ':After Sadowski got to top speed (on the backstraight) his bike would wobble from my wind," said Kling. "I mean if I would move around in his draft at top speed it would make him wobble - I was doing it to him on the last three laps and when he did, I went past (under the Nissan Bridge)." Entering the final corner, Sadowski tried to motor around the outside of Kling, and almost made the pass stick, but he came up about a foot short as the two crossed the finish line side-by-side. "Both Fritz (Kling) and the Gold Hill bike were flawless today. I congratulate them." said Sadowski after the race, surprisingly content with second after victory was so close. Behind Jacks and Gardner came Shierts in fifth, followed by Martin, Chin, Graves, Ashmead and Tripp Nobles on his Muzzy Kawasaki ZX-7R supersport bike. Formula II Rich Oliver proved to be the fastest Formula Two rider present at the Road Atlanta round of WERA/ Air Tech Formula Two racing. He led every lap of the F-II event and took a commanding 13-second win over Southwest Motorsports' Chris D'Aluisio. A close third went to Hall'N'Still's Bruce Baldus. "Everything was great!" said a happy Oliver after the race. "My bike worked well, and once I got into the lead, I figured why not back down on the power then Chris had a little problem, and everything worked out." For his efforts, Oliver pocketed the $3000 winner(s share. of the $10,000 F-II purse. "I chose the wrong compound tires," said D'Aluisio, who nearly highsided in turn five a bit before the halfway poiIlt of the 14-lap race. "The bike just stepped out and threw my feet up over the bike it was miraculous that 1came back down right on the bike." D'Aluisio soon gave up trying to catch Oliver, and had to fend off an attack by Baldus; who had won the previous Road Atlanta round of the series in May. "I was just trying to stay away from (Southw·est Motorsports') Colin Edwards," expiained Baldus, "when all of a sudden, I -:ame up over turn ,ive and 1 knew the t D'All isiC' jid something because he had been ahead of me a ways, and 1had closed on him." Baldus fought D'Aluisio for second until the second to last lap when he almost crashed in the slow, bumpy turn seven - after which D'Aluisio pulled away to a safe second with Baldus third. Edwards took a solitary fourth and Canadian Jon Cornwell was ftfth. Then came the championship battle between Dianetics' Don Greene and Scott Hall Import's Kurt Hall, the latter in his rookie season on a 250cc two-stroke. Entering this round, Greene trailed Hall by 14 points, and his best hope was for Hall's bike to break. But Hall has finished every race on the Scotty Beachtuned Yamaha TZ250 and this round would be no different. "Scotty tuned the bike really rich to ensure that it would finish," said Hall. "I was a little disappointed to not be able to race for the win, but I guess there was a bigger picture involved." That "bigger picture" was the F-I1 title, and since Hall finished seventh, right behind Greene, he earned the championship in his first year iI1 the class by virtue of his 110 points. Greene stayed in second with 97 and Baldus ended the season third with 79 points. The start of the race was all Oliver. The Californian stormed off into the lead and never looked back. D'Aluisio did the same in second after fighting off an early charge by Greene. Baldus and Hall trailed in fourth and fifth. Within a few laps, Greene began to fade a bit with Hall dropping with him. Baldus soon took over the third place spot - where he finished - and Edwards. was charg.ing up after a relatively slow start to earn fourth. Cornwelt also moved around the Greene/Hall duo to take fifth, with the latter two finishing sixth and seventh, respectively. Bill Himmelsbach, Danny Walker, and Brad Sawyer rounded out the top 10. Rich Oliver (97) was unbeatable in Formula II action at Road Atlanta; here he leads second place finisher Chris D'Aluisio (2) and 1991 champion Donnie Greene (1). warning for Sunday's Suzuki Cl,lP Races· when Valvoline Suzuki's Kurt Hall took a convincing win over Hall'N'Still's Bruce Baldus and David Stanton. Kevin Rentzell and Andy Milton rounded out the top five. Before this round Hall had secured the 600cc Superstock title, and padded his points to 107 over secondseeded Baldus' 77. The 750cc Superstock race saw a thin field of eight riders grid for the start. When the race got underway, Stanton took the early lead, which he quickly lost to Muzzy Kawasaki's Nobles, who would remain in front for the entire race. Stanton faded back to fourth before eventually retiring on the fifth of 10 laps. Titian Bue trailed Nobles for the entire race and took second anead of 1992 class champion Tom Wilson. Tray Batey took fourth ahead of Andy Milton and his Honda CBR600 - the only 600 in the race. Stanton took second in the series with 66 points, well behind Hall'N'Still's Wilson, who has 90. The 1100cc Superstock victory was earned by Batey after a hard fight with Wilson; Batey beat Wilson to the line by a scant quarter of a second. Rentzell took third ahead of David McGrath and Billy Eisenacher. Again, Wilson had already locked up the title before this round, and extended his points lead over secondseeded Stevie Patterson, who was present but did not compete, 108-63, respectively. Batey took third in the series with 60 points. ~ Formula III Michael Barnes looked set to run away with his second consecutive Moto" Liberty Formula III event after leading the first few laps. Barnes, though, crashed out on the third go-around. Thus, Canadian Jon Cornwell earned a hard-fought win over Moto Liberty's Doug Carmichael, who edged out Mike Himmelsbach for second. Carmichael secured the F-I1I championship over Nicky Hayden, fourth today, by accumulating 49 points, five ahead of Hayden's 45. Cornwell finished third overall with 36 points. Superstock T~e Dunlop 600cc Superstock race was hdd on Saturday, and nroved a fair Results . I fORMULA USA OVERALL: 1. Fritz Kling (Yam); 2 David Sadowski (Suz); 3. Donald jacks (Suz); 4. Christian Gardner (Yam); 5. Michael Martin (Suz); 6. Lee Shierls (Suz); 7. Mark Chin (Yam); 8. Stephen Mathews (Due); 9. john Ashmead (Kaw); 10. Titian Bue (Suz); 11. Colin Edwards (Yam); 12. Tripp Nobles (Kaw); 13. Sieve Crevier (Kaw); 14. Chris D' Aluisio (Yam); 15. joe Brett Williams (Hon); 16. Rich Oliver (Yam); 17. Bill J-hlmelsbach (y"m); 18. Scott Zampach (Suz); 19. jay- Bartlow (Yam); 20. Charles Safley (Yam); 21. Chud Graves (Suz); 22. Richard Tripodi (Apr); 23. Mati Macheca (Suz); 24. Tommy Sloan (Yam); 25. Don GreenE (Yam); 26. Tommy Lynch (Suz); 27. James Bonner (Yam) 28. Brett Johnston (Suz); 29. Jamie Bowman (Yam); 30. Paul Harrell (Suz); 31. Michael Taylor (Kaw); 32 Jasor Paden (Yam). f-USA RACE 1: 1. David Sadowski (Suz); 2. Frio Kling (Yam); 3. Steve Crevier (Kaw); 4. Michael Martin (Suz); 5. Christian Gardner (Yam); 6. Donald Jacks (Suz) 7. Rich Oliver (Yam); 8. Lee Shierts (Suz); 9. Scotl Zampach (Suz); 10. Stephen Mathews (Duc). f-USA RACE 2: 1. Fritz Kling (Yam); 2. David Sadowski (Suz); 3. Donald Jacks (Suz); 4. Christiar Gardn.er (Yam); 5. Lee Shierts (Suz); 6. Michael Martir (Suz); 7. Mark Chin (Yam); 8. Chuck Graves (Suz); 9. Jobe Ashmead (!

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