Wheelsmith
Maico
rider Gay'on
Mosier
showed
his race
face
on the
cover of
lssue
#7, only
he
wasn't
"Gassin'
Gaylon"
iust
yet. The cover
blurb
.alled
him
"Captain
Hook."
A
feature
interview
of Mosier
could
be found on
page
16...
Round two of
the
Florida Winter
AMA was
held in
Orlando
on February
8.
limmY
Ellis
(C-A) won the 250cc
Pro
class. and Bob
Hannah
(Yam)
won the
500cc Pro class,
Larry Roeseler
and
AC. Bakken
(Hus)
teamed up to
win
the SCORE Parker
4fi)
on Arirona on
February
7.
ZO YEARS
AEO"..
Febfl)ary
25, ,9AA
They were
stilldoinS
doubleheaders
in
Supercross
in 1988.
Doubling
up
at a
doubleheader
was
cool,
but
it didn't
happen
this time
around
at the Seattle
Kingdome,
as
letf
Ward
(Kaw) and
Rick
lohnson
(Hon) each
claimed a win
durint
the
Painier Beer
doubleheader at
the
Kintdome,
February
14-15.
Wardy
won the flrsr
night, and
Johnson
was sec_
ond.
Johnson
won the
second ni8ht, and
Wardy
was second...
George
"Larorbeam"
lazor
(law) won lhe
inau-
gural
Golden
state Speedway
lce
Championship
in Fresno, California,
on
February
2...
Mark Murphy
(Yam)
swept
to
four moto
wins
-
tlvo in the
25(kc
Pro
clasi
and two
in the 500cc
Pro class
-
at
the
Florida
February MX
Series
in West
Palm B€ch.
Florida, on
February
8.
,t]
YEARS AGO-.-
FebruarA
7, 1996
Tria.ls bikes
hopped.
skipped and
iumped
all over the
cover of
lssue # 17, our
Trials
Special
lssue.
Special
feature5
that
llt the
theme
includ-
ed
a
World Champ-
ionship
preview,
tests
of the Gas Gas
Camel
Yamaha
in Losail
The Carnel
Yamaha team
finished
its third day of testing at the
Losail
lnternational
Circuit
last week by themselves,
the other teams
having started
a day earlier and
finished up a day earlier.
That
left Valentino Rossi and
Colin
Edwards to con(lude
Yamaha's test with
long runs
in the afternoon.
Thouth neither
Rossi
nor Edwards improved
on their
times from day two
(a
l:56.53
for Rossi and
a l:56.81 for Edwards),
both
riders still lapped
under laP-
record
pace
on
the final
dey, according to the
team.
"Today was not
quite as good as the
last two
days. mainly because
the condi-
tion of the track
was sliShtlyworse
and
we didn't
have such
tood
grip," Rossi said-
"l
think that
last night
there was a lot
of wind, and
with only two bikes
on the
track today,
it wasn't enough
to clean the surfa€e
properly Anyway, we
