Gary D’Aluisio accelerates his Cycle Ranch sponsored Honda RS250 onto the back straight out of Road Atlanta’s turn seven during the 1988 AMA 250 Grand Prix race. Marcello del Giudice (9) and John Kocinski (1) can be seen in the background. D’Aluisio raced Supersport and 250 Grand Prix in the late 1980s. Gary’s brother Chris was one of the leading contenders in 250 Grand Prix racing during the early 1990s.
Gary D’Aluisio accelerates his Cycle Ranch sponsored Honda RS250 onto the back straight out of Road Atlanta’s turn seven during the 1988 AMA 250 Grand Prix race. (Larry Lawrence photo)
Gary says:
anybody know what Marcello is up to these days?
July 11, 2010, 9:33 pmadmin says:
Gary
He tried a singing career after racing, but that’s about when I lost track of him.
July 11, 2010, 9:52 pmGary says:
I believe he’s got family in Vegas,my understanding is that he went to school here. Met him before he started racing when he worked at a Yamaha shop near my home.
July 11, 2010, 11:43 pmadmin says:
Marcello was a character, no doubt about it.
July 11, 2010, 11:46 pmGary says:
My opinion was that if he was going to advance in racing he killed it with his PR skills
July 12, 2010, 1:23 amadmin says:
I’m not sure if the Mid-Ohio incident hurt or helped his reputation.
July 12, 2010, 10:07 amMark Long says:
Not that it mattered, but after the Mid-Ohio incident the 250 riders had more respect for him.
July 12, 2010, 6:06 pmGary says:
anyone remember his best finish?
July 12, 2010, 10:41 pmadmin says:
Gary
If you’re talking about Marcello, his best result was a fifth at Road America’s AMA 250 Grand Prix in 1993. He had several top-10 finishes in 250GP during his career.
As far as Gary D’Aluisio is concerned, he never scored a points-paying finish in AMA 250GP that I’m aware of (back in the days where you had to finish top 15 to earn points), but he had some good results in AMA 600 Supersport. Gary had several top-10s with a best of sixth in the Loudon 600 Supersport race in 1987.
July 12, 2010, 10:52 pmGary says:
I was referring to Marcello,but it was good to hear about Gary
July 13, 2010, 2:13 pmrick burdick says:
Back then a top ten in a Supersport national was quite an accomplishment.Especially when the names in front of you were Polen,James,Ski,russel,Ashmead.Those guys were just nuts on cold tires!
July 13, 2010, 4:56 pmadmin says:
You got that right Rick. Top 10 was always a big deal in Supersport.
July 13, 2010, 5:57 pm