VOL. 55 ISSUE 15 APRIL 17, 2018 P135
30
Years Ago
APRIL 20, 1988
20
Years Ago
APRIL 22, 1998
We featured the two big winners at the Laguna Seca U.S. GP—
Eddie Lawson and Jimmy Filice—on the cover of Cycle News
30 years ago… Danny LaPorte and Randy Morales teamed
up and took top honors at the SCORE Great Mojave 250…
Ricky Johnson was a double winner at the Pontiac Silverdome
doubleheader Supercross… We tested Kawasaki's latest
KDX200 off-roader… Jean-Michel Bayle won the opening
round of the 125cc MX GP Series in Italy... James Domay won
the WSMA Formula USA round at
Willow Spring.
Noriyuki Haga won his way onto the cover of CN at the British
round of the World Superbike Series at Donington Park… Former
motocrosser Fred Andrews was proving to be quite the off-road
racer after winning his second GNCC in a row at Loretta Lynn's…
Mike Lafferty was the big winner at the Greenbrier National
Enduro in New Jersey… We interviewed three-time U.S. National
Speedway Champion Mike Faria… Destry Abbott topped the
Shawn Gerber Memorial National Hare & Hound in Delta, Utah.
(Left) Dominique Sarron (4) leads John Kocinski
(80), Sito Pons (3), Carlos Cardus (5), Anton
Mang (1) and Jimmy Filice (65) at the 250cc GP at
Laguna Seca in 1988. (Below) A young Mike Kidd
was so fast in Texas 50 years ago that his helmet
was hanging on to his head for dear life.
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