Surely One Of The Strangest Press Releases We’ve Ever Received

Surely One Of The Strangest Press Releases We’ve Ever Received

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From Team Oliver Yamaha:

Atlanta race report: Perry Melneciuc puts in solo effort to finish 5th in the race and stay in 2nd place in the 250 GP Championship, Oliver missing in action, relaxing in hospital!

Melneciuc does it all!

Team Oliver’s Perry Melneciuc had an exciting day of racing on Sunday at Road Atlanta, but the really hard work was done during the weeks leading up to the race, as Perry and his wife Kellee had to take over Team Oliver Yamaha at Sears Point after Rich Oliver was airlifted out after a crash, semi conscious and broken up, babbling about missing air fence!

First Perry and Kellee had to drive the rig to Road Atlanta, then fly home and pick up their motor home in Florida. Then they had to do a round of work to keep their business going and their customers satisfied. Then it was back on the road to Atlanta in the motor home, to set up the team pits and tent, and install a new motor in their primary race bike to replace a fast but unridable and unreliable motor designed by Rich Oliver. All of that required that Perry miss Thursday promoter practice putting him behind the rest of the 250 riders on track time! Nonetheless, Perry Qualified 4th for the main event starting on the front row, and rode a strong race to finish 5th. Perry comments, “I want to thank my wife Kellee, and my mechanic Shank Williams Jr. for all their help this race, they worked so hard to keep me in the points chase for the Championship, now it’s down to myself, Sorensen, Disalvo, and Sorbo.”

Points after Road Atlanta:

Sorensen, 137
Melneciuc, 106
Disalvo, 92
Sorbo, 91

Oliver found in Santa Rosa, hiding out and enjoying the fringe benefits of being in intensive care!

Rich Oliver spent a week in the hospital being pampered by the nursing staff and avoiding once again a long drive to Atlanta. After breaking his pelvis and losing a finger at Daytona, Rich had used that excuse to avoid driving the rig home from the Florida, and now has avoided another long drive by conveniently breaking his arm, fracturing his shoulder, grinding off a couple of toes, and concussing himself. “Well what can I say”, said Rich, “I think it’s a small price to pay, just think, when I was laying there in the hospital, high on morphine, catheter installed you know where and the nurse just about to give me a suppository so I could finally use the bathroom, I laughed, Ha Ha, no truck stop food for me!”

Rich plans to be back at Pikes Peak in Colorado, and to take over the driving duties from there on out. “I’m running out of digits to grind off, so I guess I better just bite the bullet and drive” whined the former Champ, “I’ll buy some new CD’s or something”


Team Oliver Yamaha is sponsored by:

Yamaha Motor Corp. USA
Dunlop Tires
Advanced Motion Controls
SHOEI Helmets
Silkolene Lubricants
Wilson’s Motorcycles
Sunsports Motorcycles
Auto Werks Paint
Rick Shell Crankshafts
Lindemann Engineering
Supertech
Sharkskinz
VP Racing Fuels
NGK Spark Plugs
EK Chain
AFAM
Chicken Hawk Tire Warmers
Kushitani Leathers
Helimot Leathers
Marietta Motorsports
Ferodo and Braketech
Frenotec
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Doc’s Custom and Collision
South Coast Inc.
AST Research
Cytomax, Cyto Sport

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