“Rocket” Ron Ewerth leads Donnie Rowe in a WERA B Production race at Talladega Grand Prix Raceway in August of 1986. Ewerth was able to hold off Rowe at the checkered flag in this one. Ewerth was smokin’ hot in 1986. He ended up winning three WERA National Championships at the GNF that year. Rowe was a first-year expert in ’86. He was coming off winning a CCS Novice National title in ’85 and carried that speed over into the expert ranks. Ewerth and Rowe were just two of the stars that made WERA’s Southeast Region an amazing hotbed of talent in the late 1980s.
“Rocket” Ron Ewerth leads Donnie Rowe in a WERA B Production race at Talladega Grand Prix Raceway in August of 1986. (Larry Lawrence photo)
Deano Swims says:
Thanks Larry, You said it…they were both incredible young talents and gave much credibility to the awesome group of fast riders coming out of the Southeast in that time period. More specifically they were both “my boys” and came out of the Cycle Nuts-n-Bolts Racing stables in Clarkston Ga on the N.E. side of Atlanta during the Vic Fasola years.I take more credit for working with Donnie than I do Ron all though I did help Ron win his first WERA B-Superbike Championship at Road Atlanta in 85 at the GNF riding my Larry Brown/Cycle Performance Yamaha FZ-750 Superbike.
April 20, 2010, 11:03 pmadmin says:
Dean
Agreed. WERA arguably had more talent in the mid-1980s than any other time in its history.
Larry
April 20, 2010, 11:19 pm