yes i remember 1986 wera gnf b superbike race well. i had the lead all race on that larry brown tuned gsxr 750 and let ron ewerth jake me and steve nardiello, ewerth was on a fasola cycle nuts and bolts gsxr 750 and steve o was on mike harths fz 750 with different body work so no one really knew what was up. very sad day, i had motor on them and didnt know what to do with it back then. oh well, i was 23 and squirting all over myself!!!!!! just my 2 cents worth.....troy sorensen ps larry lawrence how the heck are you?? larry brown how are you??
1986 gnf not 1985.... history corrected it was the 1986 gnf b superbike race with ron ewerth 1st steve nardiello 2nd troy boy 3rd..........were refreshing that memory motor man!!!!!
Wow an old post for sure. I was at the '88 GNF to spectate, I saw Cam Roos do the business on the FZR400. A guy from my hometown in North Carolina was also racing in the FZR400 class (his name was Nick Waycaster), he got 3rd or 4th IIRC. I vaguely remember a guy named Fabian Cortez doing okay too, and of course Kurt. First road racing I ever saw in person, good stuff! Been hooked on the sport ever since that day. I also remember one racer who didn't have a left hand, he had rigged up his bike somehow to work the clutch. Inspiring as hell.
Going back to the original thread, why to histories of the founding of WERA focus on Peter and Patty Frank, and leave out Avrum and Laurel Gudulsky? Ther Franks later bought them out, but they were crucial to the actual founding. Avrum was later killed in that horrific crash at Mosport in 79.
It was an oversight in the original program article for sure but in anything I've said about our history since I found out about the Gudulskys has included them. Most people who weren't involved in the NE/MA area at the time just never heard of them sadly.