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50 Years Ago April 5, 1968
We dedicated our April Fool's issue to the spirit of laughter, and the reader
had to decide which stories were real or fake. However, our upside down
front page was pretty real… We gave you a preview of Evel Knievel's new
"Skycycle"… We started previewing the upcoming Daytona bike week…
The Dessert Doozies M.C., District 86's newest competition club was
featured. The all-female club liked to have fun, as was pointed out in our
un-politically correct story, which could've been real. Or not.
40 Years Ago
March 22, 1978
It was all Daytona 40 years ago. Kenny
Roberts took the Daytona 200 win;
he lapped the entire field, including
second-place finisher Johnny Cecotto.
Despite crashing twice, Skip Aksland
filled out the podium. Australian Gregg Hansford won the International
Lightweight class. There was a Superbike Production class and Steve
McLaughlin came from 34th place to take the win on his Yoshimura R&D
Suzuki GS1000. Guess who won the Novice class? Freddie Spencer. It
was Spencer's first official AMA race.
20 Years Ago March 18, 1998
Scott Russell was pictured on the cover of Cycle News 20 years after
winning the Daytona 200 for the fifth time. Our Daytona coverage included
Doug Chandler's win in the 600cc Superport class, Jason Pridmore's win
in 750cc Supersport and Takahito Mori's win in 250cc GP. Also, Jeremy
McGrath won the Daytona Supercross (it was McGrath's 50
th
career SX
victory), and Scott Parker won the GNC flat track. Just across the street
from the speedway, Mike Lafferty topped the Alligator Enduro. Fred
Andrews won the GNCC opener at Okeechobee.
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30 Years Ago March 16, 1988
We had full coverage of Daytona Bike Week. On the cover was Daytona
200 winner Kevin Schwantz who gave Suzuki its first victory in the 200.
John Kocinski won the 250cc Grand Prix, and John Ashmead won
the 600cc Supersport. Rick Johnson rode to victory at a wet Daytona
Supercross. Will Davis won the 600cc National Short Track at Memorial
Stadium's final race before being torn
down. Larry Roeseler won the Alligator
Enduro… ATK's Tony Hendon won the
AMA National Hare Scrambles opener.
LOOKING BACK
