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IN THE WIND P40 REED UNDERGOES SHOULDER SURGERY D iscount Tire/TwoTwo Motorsports's Chad Reed underwent surgery on his shoulder, June 19. Reed said via Twitter: "Getting surgery on my shoulder (for those asking). It's the one I hurt in Santa Clara and why I missed NJ. Quick turn around I'm told." Neither Reed nor the team has released an official statement regarding the surgery or its outcome, but Reed did Tweet: "All went good with surgery. Few surprises but got it taken care of now." Reed has been struggling in the Lucas Oil AMA Pro Motocross Championship, where he is cur- rently 18 th in points. GP LEGENDS LIGHT UP JEREZ History lived again at Spain's Jerez GP track, June 20-21, with the fire-breathing 500 V4s of the two-stroke GP era ridden by the skillful stars who raced them back then, contesting a trio of races that were very definitely the real deal, not just parades. 1987 500cc World Champion Wayne Gardner grabbed the first win of the weekend on Saturday aboard a 1989 ex-Randy Ma- mola Cagiva V589, just pipping Didier de Radiguès on a Su- zuki XR89 RGV500 and Kevin Schwantz on the very same XR84 Suzuki that he defended his world title on in 1994. It was a close battle between the legends, with pole-sitter Chris- tian Sarron dicing with Freddie Spencer for fourth place, both mounted on factory YZR500 Yamahas. Indeed, in the first of Sun- day's two races it was Fast Freddie's turn to take the flag ahead of Schwantz and de Radiguès—that was Spencer's first race victory of any kind since his AMA Superbike win at Laguna Seca in 1999. In the final contest, Schwantz grabbed the early lead, but was caught and passed by Spencer. Undeterred, the pair swapped positions sev- eral times before Kevin eventu- ally made the move stick to the delight of the sizeable crowd. The 500GP spectaculars were the highlight of a packed weekend in southern Spain, with support races for 250/350cc and 125cc two-strokes, the latter won by four-time world cham- pion Jorge 'Aspar' Martinez. "For us it's brilliant to be back on the 500s again," said Spen- cer. "I've been riding a bike I was actually racing against back in the '80s! It's a great connection between us guys up here, the collectors who have given us the opportunity to race these bikes again, and the fans who have come along to see us." Alan Cathcart Freddie Spencer (4) was unable to secure a track-worth Honda for the GP Legends race but rode Christian Sarron's spare YZR500 Yamaha. Here he leads Kevin Schwantz on his 1994 Suzuki RGV500.