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| 1991 Season 3/4 350GP Daytona 3rd 3/4 Premier Daytona 3rd 3/30 350GP Firebied 2nd 3/30 Premier Firebird DNF (rear axle broke) 8/31 350GP Las Vegas First 8/31 Premier Las Vegas First 9/14 350GP Steamboat DNS (broke chain & engine cases - rode 250) 9/14 500SP Steamboat DNS 9/14 Premier Steamboat DNS 1991 AHRMA-West 500-Premier Champion - Mike Green 1991 AHRMA-West 350GP Champion - Mike Green 1991 AHRMA National 500-Premier Championship, 5th 1991 AHRMA National 350GP Championship, 4th 1991 AHRMA National Showcase Class, 5th |
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| 1991 wasn't a good season for the 350, or was it? Sure we won two championships, but had we not had the 250 to fall back on, we wouldn't of won those... the 350 had some troubles. For '91 AHRMA had impossed a new rule, some called it "another Mike Green rule!", This "new rule" was to prevent bumping a 250cc machine into a 500cc class. Hummm. Also, colored number plates were dropped in favor of white ones with black numbers (remember this when reading).. Unlike years past, the weather at Daytona was just plain nasty... cold winds and later spits of rain, making it one miserable place to be. In the 350GP race Mike Green grabbed the lead from the start and motored away... Dave Roper and Craig McLean both in hot pursuit. For 10 laps Green lead the pack, but with two turns to go the 350's shifting problem, the one we thought we'd cured, reared its ugly head. Just when Green needed all the gears, he instead found a box of nothing... Dave & Craig motored past to win, leaving our man 3rd. In the 500-Premier race, which was some 18 laps, and if memory serves, they showed an oil flag (and pointed up - for rain) as they dropped the green. All was ok until half way down the banking when the pack ran into rain and wet road... Green dove for the bottom and missed the top four machines going down. By half way the 350 was up to 3rd place, where it would finish. Not bad at Daytona for a 350. AHRMA went to Firebird Raceway (AZ) for the first time... it was/is a fun track. Craig McLean and Mike Green battled the whole distance in the 350GP race, Craig won. In the Premier event the 350 was out front until the rear axle broke near the end of lap one, thus a DNF... there was also a small fire! No damage done. At Las Vegas in August the 350 was in top form, winning both the 350GP and 500-Premier hands down!. Steamboat Springs, our favorite event of the year, would find the 350 side lined for the day. During the warm-up lap for the 350GP race it threw the chain, Mike stopped and refitted and continued around, only to have it come off again and damage the cases! A motorized turn worker gave Green a ride back to the pits to get another bike, the 250. Since the 350GP & Classic-60s machines had already gridded (or process of), Green would start from the pit lane on the 250 (Bret Morshead was on the grid with WCBR9 350) after all machines had cleared the grid. Green took off as instructed and proceeded to make his way throught the pack. At the bottom of the hill he caught and passed Morshead on lap 5 (bret later said to Mike, "I thought you'd lappped me!" In the end Green would take 3rd in the 350GP race (then go on to win the 500-Sportman race & take 2nd in the Premier race in driving rain & hail!, and all on the 250). Now, remember the new number plate rule? Well, so did we. Had we still used colored number plates there would of been no way we would of gotten away with this hat-trick. As we were leaving Steamboat (in the pouring rain), Jack ran over and asked Mike, "which bike were you riding in the Premier race?" Knowing that both bikes were now cold & wet, Mike replied, "you pick one" and smiled as he drove off. So much for white number plates eh? Read the rest of the story at WCBR5-1991. |
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| Below: Mike Green unloads the 350 at Steamboat Springs... Bret Morshead (in red) looks on with Dave Russell. #29 is WCBR9/350 that Bret would race, and #21 on far right is WCB7R/200 of Mike Green. |
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