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CONNOR PENHALL
MEMORIAL CUP
T
he inaugural Connor Penhall
Memorial Cup kicked off
the 2015 Speedway Motorcycle
Racing season, Wednesday,
May 25, at the Grand Arena in
Industry, California. The packed
event was hosted to honor Con-
nor Penhall, son of AMA Motor-
cycle Hall of Fame Speedway
Racer and former CHiPs actor,
Bruce Penhall, who was tragi-
cally struck and killed by a drunk
driver while working as part of
a contract crew for Caltrans in
2012. Attendees came out to
raise awareness of the dangers
of drunk driving and the increas-
ingly compromised safety of road
construction
workers.
Notable
attendees
of the event
included Greg
Hancock,
three-time and
current Speed-
way World
Champion; CHiPs actors, Larry
Wilcox and Robert Pine; A&E
Storage Wars star, Barry Weiss;
and legendary race announcer
and AMA Motorcycle Hall of
Fame inductee, Larry "Super-
mouth" Huffman.
The final race standings
included champion Billy Janniro
(1), followed by Broc Nicol (4),
Billy Hamill (104) and Buck Blair
(39), respectively.
MOTORCYCLIST FATALITIES DECLINE AGAIN
M
otorcyclist fatalities appear to have dropped for the second straight year, according to preliminary
2014 data from the Governors Highway Safety Association. GHSA projects the final motorcyclist
fatality total for 2014 will be 4,584—about 1.8 percent less than the 4,668 recorded in 2013. This will be
the second straight year in which this number has decreased, and the third decrease since 1997.
GHSA adjusts its numbers to account for
underreporting. The report includes prelimi-
nary data from each state and the District
of Columbia for the first nine months of
2014. Compared to the first nine months
of 2013, motorcyclist fatalities decreased
in 27 states, increased in 19 states, and
remained the same in four states plus
the District of Columbia, according to the
report authored by Allan Willams, former
chief scientist at the Insurance Institute for
Highway Safety.
EDWARD
OLIVER/BLACK
BICYCLE
PHOTOGRAPHY
Bruce Penhall (center) together
again with fellow CHiPs actors
Larry Wilcox (left) and Robert
Pine (right) at the Conner Penhall
Memorial Cup.
Motorcyclist fatalities have dropped
for the second straight year.
