In June of 1988 Yoshimura Suzuki’s Doug Polen was coming off his first AMA Superbike victory at Loudon. Just a week later Polen proved his win in New Hampshire was no fluke by scoring a second straight victory at Road America. Polen’s ride was flawless, leading the 60-mile race flag to flag, shattering the race record in the process. Finishing 6.6 seconds behind Polen was Bubba Shobert on the factory Honda VFR750. Third was Vance & Hines Suzuki’s Randy Renfrow, scoring his finest Superbike finish to that point in his career. Shobert went on to win two out of the next three rounds to nip Polen for the championship.
The winner’s rostrum at the 1988 Road America AMA Superbike round with Doug Polen celebrating his second series win. Sharing the podium with Polen was second-place Bubba Shobert (left) and Randy Renfrow, who was third. (Larry Lawrence photo)
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Randy Renfrow !
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1988 was a great and competitive season. Three legends pictured here. Doug is still a cool cat. Bubba? Well, they don’t come any nicer; he’s so down to earth and humble. Randy Renfrow. Great rider, super nice guy. If he were still around today, I imagine he’d be doing some kind of racing in some series somewhere. He was fast on Superbikes, 250s and everything else he swung a leg over. I was thinking just the other day how he’d be entertaining to watch in that XR1200 spec class ’cause he’d ride anything and could do it at a rapid pace.
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Sad, and hard to believe, that it’s almost been 10 years since Randy Renfrow’s passing.
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