Cycle News - Archive Issues - 1960's

BUlg~~CO e WOULD YOU BELIEVE 5 Straight " ins This Year W AND • 5 Out of the rnt 6 At ASCOT "-STEEPLECHASE 6-4-66 Gene Canady IILTACO ~nd John'Sprague BlITACO 3 rei Roy Spier R.E. ' Ih Plil BlOwn I~BtI~:r~AC""""'O 1~th len SparlOn. IIJLTACO I Sth Hoppy Hopkins IBllTACO\ • m51 • You can't keep the champ out forever, as the troops found out l ast week in Ascot's weekly Expert half-mile Main Event. Sammy Tanner, fresh from his 5-Mile National win over Bart Markel, came roaring back from a trophy dash defeat to lead wire to wire in the feature and win his 6th main of the season. as a n E xper t. L a s t Friday it was • •9 It wa s T anner all the way duri ng a ni ght hi ghli ghted by c lose rac ing and s pectacula r s pills . The s urprisi ng Ge ne Romero put th e job on T anner in t he Trophy ' Da s h for the s e co nd s t ra ig ht week to win by inch es, wit h Ralph White pus hing hi s rear wheel betwe en t he t wo front runn e rs to mak e it a bl anke t fi nish . T wo we eks a go Rom ero ups e t Guy Louis fo r hi s fi rst hea t race win . . . . .;'>S,II!!. - . . . Tanner ' s turn as t he two squa red off in t he ope ne r. T anne r was ready for the bid and won a close one as Romer o tried for t he win ri ght at the finish line . Sixth Amateur Winner The amateurs kee p rolling alon g a nd fo r t he sixt h strai ght week a ne w fa c e won th e amateur fi nal. Thi s (Continue d on page 4) FREMONT from page 1 that would only grow until the climax of the 650cc Expert class . Th e little bikes were virtua lly "dia lled to the stop" throughout their main eve nts. " Ber ry Brown won his last ra ce as a Novice, District Commissi oner Len Allen vowed , aft er he ran away with the 200 class . Next time he'll have to take on Bill J amis on, Bob Goodman and Paul Sales, t hree very fas t Amateur winners . And the outcome is anybody's race. Mike Pi erce, Mike Akatiff a nd Jim Odom are three men to fear in the Novic e , Amateur and Expert 250 ALSO GREENHORN ENDIIlO 5-21,22-66 MEDIUM ~ 51 Richard Hale BULTACOI B QASS ~ nd 1-' Terry BULTACO ~ rd McniI B..t BULTACO PO 9-0441 For those who like turning right as well as lett , Call Bultaco-Western for the name of your nearest Bullt·to-Go dealer• classes . All ride Bulta cos and all beat th eir respecti ve cla sse s . alt hough not until after they had thrashed it out wit h J im Sche her, Bob Souza and Roger Goldthwaite, who ea ch picked up second place trophies . Ken Dalla had the fas test of a very fast bu n c h of 350 Hondas ,and Tony and J oe Cas tro made it a brother a ct , winning t he Novice 500 and 650 Expert class es res pecti vely, going away. W ayne Head was not to be headed in t he thundering Novice 650 class. He fought close ly with Dennis Brennan before cinching the win. And J imRic e put his BSA hors epower to good us e, ta king the Amateur 650 class from a snarli ng pack of Triumphs . Foll owing J im was J erry Pa rs ons an d TR 7-2400 one of the brothers. Lamanto, Charles this time, in third . Fitting capper to the day's deli ght s was the Open Expert class which fea tured the aforementioned Jo e Castro taking over early in the main and clinging s moothly to the lea d while behind him, les s fortunate racers battled handl eba r to elbow for second and thi rd. John Lamant o moved aggress ivel y thr ough the pack after gettin g a slow start. only to unload coming coming into the main s traight ' while duel ing Bruce Anders on for second. When the fina l fla g fell, all we could say was " Whew! We'll be back next week for more of the s port you neve r get tir ed of, when an other club hosts the s cramble rs at Fremont Raceways. (Results on page 12) Chuck Self was his usua l slldy se lf. ORANGE COUNTY SPEEDWAY • • J ohnny Balaa m, las t year's number two high point man , returned to the winning ci rcle in the 250cc mai n on his Har ley Sprint. In hot conte ntion was Ric k W oods , last yea r's ACA rookie of the year, on his Ducati. J ohnny has been riding since the beginning of th e season but just has n't been able to get t he Harl ey to perform properly , but Wed nes day night put toget her the ri ght combination in the Main Event . Rick Woods was unable to win the 250 main but did capture t he 250 Trop hy Dash . The 100cc M ain Eve nt and Tr ophy Da s h went to #98, Rus s Robins on of TT fa me . Rus s has rea lly gotte n the hang of short track racin g and has been consiste ntly pus hing the leaders in the last couple of weeks. Seco nd pla ce went to Rick W oods, pushed by Gary Cal kins on a new 100cc Yamaha. The 50cc main was won by Dave Smith on a T ohatsu . Second place went to Bill O' Neil l. So, far Dave has jus t been unbeatable t his year in the 50cc class. SOUTH GATE RACE WAY Dave Smith and his brother M ike still continue to dominate the 50cc class on their T ohats us, Dave winning the T rophy Dash and the 50cc main and his brother finishi ng second , with Keith Mashburn taking third. T he 100cc mai n went to Gary Calkins on his Yamaha, followed by Rick W oods . Ric k was not quite able to get by Gary in the Main Event , even though he was succes sfu l in winning the 100cc Tr ophy Dash. Th e 250cc M ain Eve nt was won by Rick Woods , after P res ton Pet ty fell on the second to las t lap. Pr eston, after being absent from short trac king for the first part of the season, ca me back and easily won the 250cc Tr ophy Dash on his Greeves, but just going too quick in the 250cc main, drifted too wide and fell , letting Rick W oods move from second into first spot and Lee Stumpenha us moved up into second. (Results on page 12)

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