Andy Fenwick was renowned for his endurance racing achievements, primarily with the Human Race Team. Fenwick was lesser known for his sprint racing prowess, yet the Neenah, Wisconsin rider turned in some amazing rides, especially in 1988 aboard the Dave Zupan-tuned Yamaha FZR1000. Late in ’88 Fenwick showed up at a WERA Regional at Blackhawk Farms and set a track record. A month later Fenwick proved that his speed at Blackhawk was no fluke. In a WERA F-USA regional event at Grattan Raceway in September, Fenwick got a bad start then started working his way to the front. In the process he passed Paul Bray and Fritz Kling. Fenwick then reeled in race leader Scott Russell in the closing laps and nearly caught him at the checkered flag. In the process Fenwick set a new track record of 1:25:05 beating Kurt Hall’s mark (1:25:32) that was set on the same HRT FZR1000 earlier that summer.
Andy Fenwick (60) has just passed Paul Bray (5) and Fritz Kling (behind Bray) and sets off to try to catch Scott Russell in a WERA regional F-USA at Grattan Raceway in Sept. of 1988. Fenwick reeled in Russell, but came up just short at the flag. During his charge to the front Fenwick set a track record on the Dave Zupan-tuned Yamaha FZR1000. (Larry Lawrence photo)
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Andy’s a great guy, great competitor. Still see him ocassionally.
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The Humans were my favorite WERA team, being from Waukegan Illinois might have something to do with that!
I new Zupan from his time at Lake County Yamaha, It was great reading about their exploits in Cycle News
and seeing the coverage on MotoWorld back then!
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Andy was underrated. He did some amazing things on those Zupan-tuned bikes.
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Stumbled across this bit and I remember that day real well. Andy was riding some of Zupe’s Human endurace bikes and my sprint bikes then. That Yamaha was sort of a spare HUMAN bike, but with a better engine that the other endurance bikes and it was used in the Gratten Formula USA a run-what-ya-brung money event. Right before the event the rear brake messed up so I helped Zupan cable-tie it so it looked like the line actaully connected to the caliper. While most of the braking on the FZR was the front, Andy would use the tail some to “set the bike. Still, after a bad start he just flew and nearly got Russell at the end – he was certainly faster – another 200 yards of racing and “Sandwich” would have won. I had some great guys ride my bikes and I aso helped them with thiers – Ed Key and Andy were heads above EVERYBODY in class and NOT crashing.
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