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LARGE TURNOUT
AT AFM COTATI
SPORTSMAN
SCRAMBLES
An i nte resting afternoon of AFMs tyle road rac in g took place last Sunday
at Cotati Racewa y. T he shorte r 1. 2- mile
7- turn course was utiliz ed , giving
s pecta tors a bett er vie w of the action
than over the 9-turn 2. 5-mile track .
Rac es were run co unte r-cloc kwtse , with
Pr oducti on and Grand P rix c la sses
sta rli ng toge ther. Th e GP bike s too k
off firs t, t hen produc ti on machine riders
ran to t hei r bikes , L e Ma ns style , and
left about 10 seco nds in arrears .
ATASCADERO SPEEDWAY
North of San Luis Obispo
Sunday
JUNE
The P epsi Generation
Impres s ive performanc es were the
order of the day, and especially so was
the ride turned In by 16-year-o ld Dou g
Cherney . O'spi te his la te s ta rt , he then
push ed his produc tion Hon- a 90 to l 00CC
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class victory, and was in fact beaten
b)' onb two machines, both In the Grand
prix division.
Haru o Koshino a nd his Suzuki mopped
up l 25cc a nd 250cc honors, finishin g
half a s t raighta way ah ea d of J erry L ong
(Ya maha) in t he 250 go. Merv W
righ t
(Honda ) was thi rd, closely push ed by
F red Mulberg on a n inte res ti ng homebuilt Honda 160 , punched out t o 232cc
and us ing 305cc pistons .
Victorious in th e 350cc GP division
was Honda-mounted Art Bauman, and
Dick Kll groe (Honda ) won out ove r his
500cc GP competi tors , i ncl uding Nort on
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Manx rider Al Whitney a nd M tch le s smounte d T ony M tz: T om St eele took
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the Open GP c lass on his Tr iumph.
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