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Gordon Lunde just sent me the coolest printout of Blackhawk Farms track records from 1982. I remember all of the riders on this sheet (with the exception of the Sidecar pilots). I still see Jerry Holm about every year up at the Peoria TT, Jim Knipp is the guy who got me into road racing in the first place, Ed Key is probably one of the winningest club racers of all time, Mike Harlow was part of the Quester/Sullivan national endurance team and Bobby Goodin was a fast Texan – a predecessor to Doug Polen – who chased contingency money all over the country in the early 1980s. I know Knipp, Key, Goodwin and Holm were all WERA National champs, some of the others might have been as well. Check out the 1:19.8 lap time Goodwin did on a Suzuki GS1100. I’m betting it was a bone stocker to boot. I know Bob Meister held the track record in the early 1990s at 1:13.70 on a 1000cc Yamaha OW01/FZR1000. I don’t know where the current record stands.

Blackhawk Farms motorcycle track records circa 1982.

Blackhawk Farms motorcycle track records circa 1982.

This entry was posted by admin on June 30, 2010 at 3:41 pm under Road Racing. Both comments and pings are currently closed.

4 Comments

  1. Mike 'Stu' Stuhler says:

    Pretty cool stuff. Mike Elmore was out of southern Indiana if I remember correctly and had one of the first trick Honda 500 triples in ‘86 or ‘87 that he ran as well. Nan Cheney (sp?) and I went to Mid Ohio in ‘86 or ‘87 and he ran it in the old F1 class there. He also ran it in WERA if I remember correctly. Somehow he was tied in with Greenwood Honda’s Superbike Factory at the time with Knipp and Mark Wurtzburger (sp?) and the guys from down there. Great guy and good times!

    Stu

    July 1, 2010, 8:18 am

  2. edward hessel says:

    so what happened to Bobby Goodin?
    eh

    October 27, 2011, 8:19 am

  3. admin says:

    I don’t know what happened to Goodin, but he was the prototype of Doug Polen. Goodin would show up at club races across the country and just kick butt on his Suzuki GSs. I remember an epic battle he and Jim Knipp had at the GNF the year it was at Roebling Road.

    October 27, 2011, 12:00 pm

  4. Gordon Lunde says:

    The new track record at Blackhawk, set by Jason Farrell this season on a Kawasaki ZX10, is 1:07.603. Yeah, freakin’ flying. I was there when he set it and it was amazing. Jason broke the old record like 4 times in this one race with this being the fastest.

    November 8, 2011, 10:35 pm