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Old racers never die...
... they just go from two to four wheels. Even though 28-year-old Ted Boody is hardly an old man, and is still actively involved in the Camel Pro dirt-track series, he’s already thinking about life after motorcycles. To that end, he recently competed in his first car race, the IMSA SunBank 24 at Daytona. Boody and teammates Paul Gentilozzi and Irv Hoerr entered a Camel GTO division Oldsmobile Toronado, but a crash put them out of the running only two hours into the race. Boody’s plans for the future? “I’m not going to be going at motorcycle racing quite as hard as I have in the past, and I’m going to try and become known in the car-racing crowd.’’ Boody currently is on the Whitehall Rocketsports team and will be racing in more automotive endurance events this year.
A Ward winner
The 1987 Supercross season has just started and already its looking real good for former Supercross champions Jeff Ward and Kawasaki. Not only did Ward win the opening round at Anaheim, California, but he followed that up with another win the next week in Houston,
Texas. On top of that, his two toughest competitors, Ricky Johnson and Johnny O’Mara, have already chalked up a DNF each. Johnson came back to win the next two rounds with Ward getting seventh in San Diego, California, and third in Miami, Florida, but that still leaves Ward as the runaway points leader and in an excellent position to take a second title.
Yanks on ice
in the rather long history of international ice racing, no American has so much as competed in a world final, either in the team or individual competition. But in 1988, that might change. Last January, Americans Patrick Goldsmith and Kenny Piper, along with Canadian Jon Cornwell, went to Gavie, Sweden, to learn ice racing from the current dominant force in the sport—the Russians. Former world champion Vladimir Suchov and new Soviet star Vasily Koptashkin agreed to tutor the North Americans in the unique art of ice racing. The threesome came back with valuable insights into the sport, along with three Jawa ice-racing machines and a determination to challenge the rest of the world next year. IS
