Laguna Seca results/updated points
Ron O'Dell
Results listed as position, laps completed, bike number, bike type, name.
Superbike provisional results:
1 29 21 Ducati 955 Pascal Picotte
2 29 19 Ducati 955 Troy Corser
3 29 2 Yamaha 750 Jamie James
4 29 27 Kawasaki 750 Fred N. Merkel
5 29 25 Ducati 888 David Sadowski
6 29 41 Kawasaki 750 Takahiro Sohwa
7 29 14 Kawasaki 750 Steve Crevier
8 29 32 Kawasaki 750 Dale Quarterley
9 29 68 Honda 750 Mike Smith
10 29 23 Honda 750 Kevin Magee
11 29 16 Suzuki 750 Tom Kipp
12 29 59 Suzuki 750 Donald Jacks
13 29 119 Yamaha 750 Dan Turner
14 29 34 Suzuki 750 Charles Graves
15 29 57 Kawasaki 750 Eric R. Moe
16 29 49 Kawasaki 750 Keith Pinkstaff
17 28 77 Harley-D 1000 Fritz Kling
18 28 42 Ducati 888 Joe Pittman
19 27 115 Suzuki 750 Tommy Lynch
20 27 133 Kawasaki 750 Nick Felli
21 27 132 Honda 750 John Hilton
22 27 79 Yamaha 750 Rick Shaw
23 27 181 Kawasaki 750 Aaron Lanningham
24 27 95 Suzuki 750 Michael Smith
25 27 129 Kawasaki 750 Kevin Holman
26 27 84 Suzuki 750 Timothy Blasquez
27 25 76 Kawasaki 750 Brett Ray
28 23 103 Kawasaki 750 Lee Shierts
29 21 58 Kawasaki 750 Darrell Clingerman
30 16 17 Harley-D 1000 Miguel DuHamel
31 15 47 Yamaha 750 Paul Harrell
32 14 50 Ducati 888 Brad Hazen
33 13 37 Kawasaki 750 John Ashmead
34 13 124 Yamaha 750 Mark Schellinger
35 12 45 Yamaha 750 Colin Edwards
36 11 11 Suzuki 750 Thomas Stevens
37 11 18 Ducati 955 Scott Gray
38 11 123 Honda 750 Mike Hale
39 9 91 Ducati 851 David A. Kieffer, M.D.
40 3 29 Ducati 888 Pablo Real
Time of race: 1:11:21.194 (length because of a red flag)
Margin of victory: 0:01.345
Winner's average speed: 53.990 mph
Winner's average lap time: 2:27.626
Stevens lost his motor on the way to Turn 4, and crashed on his own oil.
Edwards, Gray and Hale were behind him and all crashed too. A few laps
later Ashmead joined them. Luckily no one on the scene was hurt by
Ashmead's bike. Ashmead did injure his foot, however. Details were not
known by the time I left.
The red flag was brought out after Ashmead crashed, so the track could
be cleaned up.
Pablo Real also crashed, but I don't recall where. I just heard
mention of "No, Real was not transported away."
Merkel had taken third from James in Turn 2 of the last lap, but James
came back with a very gutsy and likely dangerous move in the final
corner. He went in so hard that he nearly crashed into the front-straight
wall, but he got the position.
Kling's Harley-Davidson gave up on the last lap, making it to Turn 10
but no farther.
Apart from the starts, which James led, Picotte led the whole distance.
Current top-10 in points (I have the top 51 actually, along with all
their finishes to date, so feel free to request specifics for someone):
1 135 Troy Corser
2 112 Jamie James
3 104 Steve Crevier
4 99 Takahiro Sohwa
5 91 Mike Smith
6 90 Dale Quarterley
7 90 Pascal Picotte
8 80 Fred Merkel
9 70 Thomas Stevens
10 66 Colin Edwards
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250 GP provisional results:
1 22 97 Yamaha Rich Oliver
2 22 90 Yamaha Chuck Sorensen
3 22 2 Aprilia Chris d'Alusio
4 22 3 Yamaha Nick Ienatsch
5 22 22 Yamaha Al Salaverria
6 22 49 Yamaha Jon Cornwell
7 22 4 Yamaha Danny Walker
8 22 74 Yamaha Mike Sullivan
9 22 47 Yamaha Geep Terranova
10 22 42 Honda Takahito Mori
11 22 57 Yamaha Christopher Rankin
12 22 45 Yamaha Miles Baldwin
13 22 63 Yamaha Aaron Turner
14 21 11 Yamaha Jason Paden
15 21 62 Yamaha Bobby Keith
16 21 7 Yamaha Bill Quinn
17 21 19 Honda John France
18 21 16 Yamaha Bill Borselli
19 21 32 Yamaha Gregory Prinsze
20 21 64 Yamaha Leon Cortes
21 21 104 Yamaha Roland Sands
22 21 48 Yamaha Dave Avery
23 21 101 Yamaha Billy Dalu
24 21 14 Yamaha Edward K. Sadvar
25 21 105 Yamaha Peter Wensloff
26 20 92 Yamaha Frank Aragaki
27 20 60 Yamaha Andy Edwards
28 20 37 Yamaha Derek King
29 19 51 Yamaha Jeff Ortlip
30 17 119 Yamaha Warren Dunaway
31 15 12 Honda Michael Barnes
32 15 27 Yamaha Don Grijalva
33 12 120 Honda Gary Jervis
34 11 111 Yamaha John Fosgate
35 9 6 Yamaha Chris Taylor
36 6 106 Yamaha Mike O'Leary
37 4 78 Yamaha Bruce Lind
(Donald Hough was knocked off his mount at the start, so he's not listed
in the results. He nearly was run over (he started on row 2), but managed
to roll aside.)
Time of race: 00:33:37.100 (record)
Margin of victory: 0:11.027
Winner's average speed: 86.931 mph
Winner's average lap time: 1:31.686
Top 10 points:
1 137 Rich Oliver
2 108 Danny Walker
3 105 Nick Ienatsch
4 103 Chuck Sorensen
5 91 Mike Sullivan
6 88 Chris d'Alusio
7 77 Donald Hough
8 72 Al Sallaverria
9 70 Geep Terranova
10 69 Christopher Rankin
11 69 Jon Cornwell
There were many crashes, and two were serious. On lap 10, Taylor went
off at Turn 9. The ambulance was at the scene until lap 18. He was
transported from the race track for neck X-rays. On lap 13, Fosgate
(or Fugate if you believe the grid sheet) went off at Turn 6. He broke
a leg and possibly broke an arm too. Naturally, he was transported to
hospital.
The Aprilia of d'Alusio sputtered on the last lap, giving second place
to Sorensen.
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Harley-Davidson Twin Sports provisional results:
1 12 2 Shawn Higbee
2 12 1 Scott Zampach
3 12 95 Matt Wait
4 12 8 Billy Graef
5 12 19 Aaron Yates
6 12 4 Chuck Baldwin
7 12 29 Robert Cunnington
8 12 3 Andy Fenwick
9 12 15 Don Greene
10 12 27 Ben Bostrom
11 12 10 Shawn McNary
12 12 16 Brian Kohl
13 12 93 Nigel Gale
14 12 25 Matthew Guidera
15 12 32 Walt Dorsch
16 12 47 Eric Bostrom
17 12 36 Rick Hutchins
18 12 50 Daniel Kuttner
19 12 94 Jeff Hardin
20 11 33 Pete Demas
21 11 9 Jim Whitaker
22 7 26 Ronald McGill
23 6 14 Joe Winston
Time of race: 00:20:37.242 (record)
Margin of victory: 0:00.067
Winner's average speed: 77.305 mph
Winner's average lap time: 1:43.103
Higbee and Zampach swapped the lead I don't know how many times.
Often three or four times per lap. Yates joined them in the second
half, and even had the lead briefly. On the last lap he got snookered
by lapped traffic in Turn 10, then braked too hard on the way into 11
and dumped it.
The finish, as you can guess, was side by side.
Top ten points:
1 134 Shawn Higbee
2 134 Scott Zampach
3 113 Andy Fenwick
4 102 Matt Wait
5 97 Billy Graef
6 83 Shawn McNary
7 78 Don Greene
8 70 Robert Cunnington
9 70 Chuck Blackmon
10 65 Jim Whitaker
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HP4 600cc SuperSport provisional results:
1 22 68 Honda Mike Smith
2 22 11 Yamaha Jamie James
3 22 49 Honda Jon Cornwell
4 22 4 Kawasaki Steve Crevier
5 22 23 Honda Mike Hale
6 22 3 Honda Randy Renfrow
7 22 21 Honda Jamie Bowman
8 22 18 Kawasaki Robert Wright
9 22 32 Kawasaki Tripp Nobles
10 22 5 Kawasaki Gerald Rothman Jr.
11 22 7 Yamaha Jason Pridmore
12 22 169 Yamaha Thomas Wilson
13 22 8 Honda Owen Weichel
14 22 183 Honda Dale Kieffer
15 22 47 Honda Geep Terranova
16 22 74 Honda Todd Harrington
17 22 193 Honda Brian Parriott
18 22 65 Honda J. Andrew Milton
19 22 106 Honda Stu Morrison
20 22 14 Honda Hikaru Miyagi
21 22 123 Honda Josh Graham
22 22 38 Honda Jim Lester
23 21 190 Honda Lee Brown
24 21 35 Honda Mike Murphy
25 21 120 Honda Walt Dorsch
26 21 56 Honda Alan Schwen
27 21 168 Honda Troy Burstyk
28 21 170 Honda Todd Hoeft
29 21 166 Honda Jack Pfeiffer
30 21 137 Honda Don Becklin
31 21 186 Honda Matthew Brown
32 21 76 Kawasaki James A. Milroy Jr.
33 21 132 Honda John Hilton
34 21 99 Honda Brett Metzger
35 21 27 Honda Ronal Chiaratti
36 15 82 Kawasaki Anthony Lupo
37 10 29 Honda David Cook
38 9 12 Honda David Estok
Time of race: 00:34:48.369 (record)
Margin of victory: 0:08.619
Winner's average speed: 83.964 mph
Winner's average lap time: 1:34.926
An uneventful race from what I saw. I was not paying attention to the
first eight laps because of the post-race press conference from the
H-D Twin Sports division.
Top points:
1 128 Mike Smith
2 122 Steve Crevier
3 121 Jamie James
4 113 Mike Hale
5 103 Gerald Rothman Jr.
6 88 Jason Pridmore
7 85 Randy Renfrow
8 82 Jamie Bowman
9 79 Robert Wright
10 76 Jon Cornwell
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Unlimited Team Challenge revised provisional results:
1 38 1 Honda 900 Erion Racing (Ienatsch, Pegram)
2 38 2 Suzuki 1100 Fastline MCM Suzuki (Guenette, Lynch)
3 38 17 Kawasaki 900 Team Kawasaki (Sohwa, Nobles)
4 38 25 Honda 1000 Team Labelle (Sadowski, Harth)
5 37 63 Suzuki 1100 Dominator (Shierts, Emde)
6 36 46 Kawasaki 750 Indigo Sports (Canet, Moore) (why 36? dunno)
7 37 97 Honda 900 H.I. Racing (Kieffer, Hilton)
8 37 11 Yamaha 1000 Sportsland of Laramie (Morehouse, Turner)
9 37 5 Yamaha 1000 Blackhawk Racing (Higbee, Kohl)
10 36 6 Yamaha 1000 Keystone/Northstar (Jacob, Lenzmeimer)
11 36 55 Yamaha 1000 Van Mar/Gold Hill Racing (Hopperstad, Schellinger)
12 36 62 Kawasaki 750 California Kawasaki (Freeland, Krynock)
13 35 3 Yamaha 1000 Dutchman Racing (Taylor, Gray)
14 35 7 Yamaha 1000 Anderson/Dynamic Racing (Adam, Moe)
15 35 40 Kawasaki 750 Automania (Holman)
16 35 60 Honda 900 Team Dream (DiMuccio, McAllister)
17 35 58 Kawasaki 750 Team Bieffe (Banks, Handelman)
18 34 56 Honda 900 Neon Bandits (Ferry, Siebenhaar)
19 34 41 Suzuki 1100 P&A Racing (Hokenstand, Turner)
20 34 10 Kawasaki 750 Team Racelaw (McMahon, Felli)
21 34 4 Honda 900 Team America (Slaughter, Deatherage)
22 34 44 Suzuki Team Privateers (Monasterios, Baker)
23 34 47 Yamaha 1000 Zalecki Racing (Zalecki, Roy)
24 33 61 Suzuki 750 Cycle Riders (Barnes, Chadwick)
25 33 91 Suzuki 750 Team Bud (Winston, Gallagher)
26 33 95 Suzuki 750 Circling Dog Racing (Brutcher, McLarty)
27 31 39 Kawasaki 750 Two Husky Racing (Sharp, Evan)
28 26 42 Suzuki 750 Lariviere Racing (Lariviere)
29 13 85 Honda 900 Tall and Small Racing (Terranova, Ferry)
30 12 20 Suzuki 750 Stevens Racing (Stevens)
31 10 16 Suzuki 750 Team Yoshimura (Kipp)
32 8 38 Suzuki 750 Slot Car Raceway of Monterey (Shulte, Torres)
33 8 59 Suzuki 750 Jacks Racing (Jacks)
34 5 65 Ducati 955 Team FBF (Picotte)
35 5 35 Harley-D 1000 Harley Davidson (DuHamel, Kling)
36 3 57 Kawasaki 750 Central Coast Racing (Donaldson, Allen)
37 3 64 Ducati 851 W. Heller & Owen (Owen, Dorsch)
Time of race: 00:59:33.566 (record)
Margin of victory: 0:05.256
Winner's average speed: 84.754 mph
Winner's averege lap time: 1:34.041
Top points:
1 128 Erion Racing
2 124 Fastline MCM Suzuki
3 123 Team Kawasaki/Muzzy
4 115 Dutchman Racing
5 93 Blackhawk Racing
6 93 Sportsland of Laramie Racing
7 83 Keystone Northstar
8 83 Anderson Dynamic Racing
9 75 H.I. Racing
10 66 Team America
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I guess I'll post this now and then type up the full results from
Saturday's races.
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Ron O'Dell `Keeper' kee...@cats.ucsc.edu kee...@armory.com kee...@ucscb.ucsc.edu
Andrew Sharp
[...other results deleted...]
> Unlimited Team Challenge revised provisional results:
>
[...all those other fast teams deleted...]
> 27 31 39 Kawasaki 750 Two Husky Racing (Sharp, Evan)
[...crashers/non-finishers deleted...]
OK, you caught us...but we had fun! If you read the results carefully, it
doesn't take much to figure out that we were most likely DFL of the bikes that
were still running and on the track at the checkered. OK, so at the rider
change we had to adjust the chain and switch the shifting from upside down to
right side up (I like upside down, Kenny likes street bike pattern), but at
least we didn't have to add gas like the liter-bikes had to! I was fairly
slow, having never raced at Laguna, and I crashed in Friday's afternoon
practice, spent Saturday repairing the bike instead of practicing, and the bike
wouldn't shift during Sunday morning's practice, so...I had three whole laps of
practice. Also, my team (what little there was of it, but that's another
story) was waving and gesticulating and I thought they wanted me to pit, so I
did...they only wanted to let me know that they existed, so I went back out for
another three laps before pulling in with an exhausted brake hand. I could
have used at least one practice session and some contemplation time before the
race (Ken got 0 laps of practice, but has raced here for many years, before
they changed the track even, including last year's superbike race) to get going
something approaching fast I rode here once in '88 in California Superbike
School on a stock Ninja 600, which just doesn't prepare you for the way a
modified 750 connects the corners, and the track has changed a lot, especially
the corkscrew, which is rather wimpy (yeah, right) now as the exit is soooo
wide. I was told that I was doing 1:53's and Kenny was doing 1:43's. :-( I
still passed two people out on the track. Oh well, the track is a blast and
the corkscrew is a real trip. It's like running your bike into an elevator
that's busy falling down the shaft.
Mucho thanks to the NMP's and the corner workers (Butch and Gail, thanks!), who
are just the best in the world, I swear. Not only did they pick me up and dust
me off, but they also spotted me a couple of beers on Friday night. The AMA,
however, will be the death of us all. If we don't go bankrupt first lining
Roger's pockets.
It was a lousy-luck weekend, but I am smiling anyway.
a
Andrew Sharp
Interesting tid-bit from Laguna:
Something interesting to note, that will undoubtly be discussed in the next
issue of _Uhlrich's World_ is that Magee was running the regular SS swingarm on
his RC-45, and Hale was also on his RC-30, but Smith was running a conventional
superbike-style (actually fairly thin arm section with a curved bracing section
above) swingarm on his RC-45! He beat Magee (Hale was an oil-victim), so maybe
he knows something they don't?!
a