From a press release:

WCBR WINS AT PORTLAND INTERNATIONAL RACEWAY

Portland, OR; This past weekends Portland Historic (auto) Races at Portland International Raceway, included for the first time, historic motorcycles. VMOTO www.vintagemoto.com joined forces with the HMSA (Historic Motor Sports Assoc.) to showcase vintage motorcycle racing to the North-West residents. With a variety of machines ranging from 160cc to 750cc, VMOTO participants practiced Friday, and then qualified for grid positions Saturday morning. Saturday’s 8-lap feature was the first race after lunch. WCBR’s Mike Green, mounted on his 1973 Triumph 750 Twin, the same machine he began racing in the late 1970’s, grabbed the lead from the start and never looked back to take the overall win over Richard Haas’ Rob North Triple.

Sunday morning would see Green at the top of the charts for practice times, and again he’d have the pole for Sunday’s race. Richard Haas was first away, with Green second by turn-1. At the entry to turn-3 Green would out brake Haas for the lead. Green won with 27-seconds in the bank.

Of note; Mike Green began racing this Triumph in AFM production and endurance racing in the late 1970’s, later it would race and win in AFM & AMA Battle of The Twins, and in 1987 go vintage racing with AHRMA, winning at Daytona and Steamboat Springs in 1988. The machine would make an appearance at the Donner Hill Climb in 1997 (setting the fastest 750cc practice time) , then again at Laguna Seca in 2003 with VMOTO.

“It was great fun to ride the Triumph in anger once again after all these years! Just the noise out of those TT-pipes in full flight is something I’d long forgotten. Everything worked, for once, and I really enjoyed myself here in Portland this weekend. I’d like to thank the HMSA and the VMOTO crew”, said Green in a post race interview. You can read more about WCBR and the Triumph at www.westcoastbritishracing.com

FYI: It was 20 years ago this month that Chris Quinn and Mike Green founded the California Vintage Racing Group (CVRG) . The CVRG, along with “old AHRMA” were merged in 1989 to create the AHRMA we know today.