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9 .. Buckner pos itions on lIJe grid for anollJer superb win In Sunday's SO mller . . • .. MEET DAN GURNEY CYCLE NEWSMAKERS THE FINISH LINE TELL THEM YOU SAW IT IN CYCLE NEWS By ROXY ROCKWOOD Last Sunday , Dick Hammer, Skip Van Le euwen and Eddi e Muld er mad e the As cot 100 far more interesting than most 15-lap TT Steep lechase s . . Luck was with Mulder . Eddie was ready to settle for second late in t he race when Skip again had that old bugabo o, as ofte n has plagued him in the pa s t. Refusing to slow down or back off , Hammer was runnin g j ust as s t rong on lap 70, when hi s chal n bro ke as he was on lap number on e when he took th e le ad. J a ck Simmons , Harlan Bast an d Sid P ayn e all turned in excepti onal j obs of riding. It was good to see J ack final ly get a mot orcycle tha t could hold up under him. Slee per Harlan Ba st came thro ugh again an d was high in the pay lin e . He has a habit of giving his bes t in the once a year long one . That ne w number plate ha s speede d him up conside ra bly . Old smoothie Di ck Dorr esteyn was again right the re and once a galn gave an excellent interview over the mike after the craces. Former Cal if orni an Arvi n Cox came all the way from Bend , Ore gon an d made the final but was the . first rider out of the ra ce . Ba ck for the first time in many a moon was C.H . Wheat . "Buck" rode a steady race to pick up quite a bit of the al l time record non-nati onal purs e of $5450. 00 an d that ain't hay in anybody's raci ng book. Th e next time around will be after dark and und er t he li ght s for the first week en d in April for both the half miles and the TT rider s . It appears certaln that novice lightwei ght rid ers will be runnin g the Ascot oval every W edne s day ni ght thi s season. The fas tes t would the n t ransfer ove r to the re gular Friday ni ght program. But don't belleve any gun-jumpin g rumor s until yo u get th e official word. Th ey mi ght even run on the quar ter mile W e sday night then sw itch to edn th e ha lf mile on Friday . This would develop better and fas ter all around riders. Now it's on to Dayton a and the s peed week from March 14th through the 20th . Cakifornia sends its be st in rid ers and e quipment and don "t be surpris ed If they tak e it all. HILLTOPPERS NATIONAL CHAMP H&H Checkers Offer Help by !Iaureen Lee Th e Dis tri ct 37 Spo rtsmen Competition Commit tee announced at thei r monthly meeting in Burbank las t T hursd ay th at they had grants d a second cha nce to the Hilltopper s letting them re-run their Natio nal Championship Ha re and Hound s . This immediately brou ght up a dis cu s s i on by th e club repres entati ve s that lasted ove r an hour and at times grew heated . 1 offer from the Checkers to help th e \0 IIillto ppers re-run the e vent was con s ide red, and the question was ra is ed at j us t what p o i n t in the run it wa s decl ared a no-c ontes t ? P resident J e a n Carter asked Earl F lande rs for his opinion. Earl is one of only two repres ent at ive s of the motorcycle business who regularly attend. The other dealer-entnustast is Bill Martin . Flanders replied that the Hilltoppe rs were not the first club to make a mistake in running an event, and if their chance at re- running was voted down it could possi bly res ult in " the loss of A.M.A. sanctions for Nationals in Southern Calif." . A roll call vote was taken and it was voted 30 - 19 that the Hilltoppers be allowed to re- run the event April 3rd. Pr eviou s ent rie s who paid for th e Feb ruary 13t h non-contes t will rece ive postcards befo re the run on which the y will hal e th e c hance to s how if they wish to hav e their money ' re funde d an d not ride , or choose to rid e a gain. Th e meeting had ope ned wit h roll call inc luding t wo new clubs, Th e Viewfinders and Th e Li ghtwei ghts. A letter was read , signed by representa tives of 10 des ert clubs , li sting things they wished changed. Before the mee ti ng c losed , Cali forn ia Gopher s representative Dar win Bal la rd as ked the cl ubs to co nside r the idea of breaking up li ghtweight practice sessions into two parts in the inte rest of safety. D-125cc machines would pra cti ce seperate ly from the 126cc on up. Nex t meeting , April 6, and futur e meetings will begin at 8 p.m., instead of 8;30. / Whe n he 's not flying around th e world , drivin g the world champions hi p aut omobile Gran d P rix clrcult, Dan Gurney spends much of his time man agi ng All-Ameri can Racers Inc., a San t a Ana racing labo ratory s ple ndi d as an al rcraft factory , in partners hi p with ,Carr ol Shel by of Cobra c ar fame. One can' t help get ting rusty , pilotin g a desk between car c hampionshi p rac es . But Dan finds he c an ke ep his wits and hi s famou s ly fast re ac ti on time tuned up by attacking the tul es wit h hi s motorcycle . Bein g a s to c khol der in th e co mpany tha t distri bute s Montesa nationally , Dan natur ally prefers the Viv a brand an d cavorts on either hi s 250cc Diablo or 175cc Enduro job. Gurney, Amer ica' s leadi ng co ntender for the inte rna tional auto racing champio nship often goes " fast tralling" i n co mpany with s uch f r i en d s as Montesa distributor Kim Kimball , fellow ra ce driver J err y Gran t and engi ne wizard John Miller . If they sign up to ride a har e ' n hound or enduro occasionally , it it because , as Dan says, " Th e dange rous places are marked for you , and you can forget abo ut everything excep t having fun. " . " . just lov e it:' S3Jo'S Dan s incere ly of his reasons for pr eferring cycle ridin g to some of th e othe r hobbi es a man in hi s income brac ke t c an arrord. We asked how TRAIL CLASS, many races he had entered l ast year to lower his desert number from 984 to 257. COACHELLA VA LLEYM,C, "Only' two or three: ' Dan repli ed, " But I HARE SCRAMBLES Feb, 21, 1966 want it cl ear I wasn't racing. I j ust like to ge t on a good . re spon s i ve ma chine an d go as fast as I pl eas e to work tile poison out of my system." ult ' s like t he ra py. " Dan insists . Neve rtheless , the Ford racing Ace accumulated 19 poin ts rid ing the desert last year , and rec ently placed 4th in a P err is sc rambles . Not bad for a " non-compet itor: ' an d typical of a man like Gurney who , even when he 's just fun nin ' aro und , goes faster than most of us whe n we're trying. HODAKABILITY IS THE WAY TO WIN FRANK MORGAN HODAD 90 FIRST PLACE Dan Gurney . leading Inte rnati on a l automob ile racer , has his first laa ~ at the Ca llfa rn la· lzed Montes a LaC ro sse. 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