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• • SPROCKETS M.C. MTE TT SCRAMBLES SProdIets PadI, Bakersfield, July 30, 1966 50cc NOVICE Jeff Jobnson Dave sprayberry Yamag Yam 90ec NOVICE Albert MystIOll stan Coffee Dan Cle1leland RaDllY Co...tr:vman Bob Elisanias JlIII Owen AntbOllY Azeveda Hod Bri Bri Hod Snz Hod Snz gecc AMATEUR/EXPERT • Mille Lue Richard Newby Rick Blake BoclI Dorion (Results W. Hod Hod Kaw Yam 011 page 16) 175cc NOVICE Bill FulloD Cbock Parll.ison Alan Gibbs Bin Noble Randy Martin :t5Oec NOVICE Jim Campbell LaITy Weisenberger Jeny Fogle Buddy Murren KetlDy Elleot Hon Bul Hon Hon Due 175cc AMATEUR/EXPERT ? Mon Wade ZillllllelDlan Bul Jim PecariUa Raody SmIth Hon 250cc AMATEUR Joe Raseberry Midge Griffith Boa Harms. Jeny Grleble Ben Due H-D Bul 200cc NOVICE! AMATEUR Bob Zitar Bul Robert Timberlake Bul Paul Studle Bul Mike Brown Bul JobD stockton Bul 250cc EXPERT ? Rick Jones Jim Comelly Roger AlDlstrong Lyle Larson Hon Mon Bul Bul Mon " tgh l n f ~ CoJ Mon Moo C: The wisdom of holding races at night during summer was again proved by the Sprockets M.C. of Bakersfield at their popular Sprockets Park last Saturday night. The first such event was on June 18 and there will be another one on August 20 and again on Sept. 19. For both riding and watching they are first class. This time around, over twelve hundred fans watched 134 racers do battle in eighty degree. shirt-sleeve weather. These events have to draw against the sprint car races in Bakersfield and more than holding their own against the four wheeled competition. They really put on a good show. Action on the eight turn, banked track was fast and furious from 7:30 until midnight. The banking on the turns is piled between the track and the wooden crash wall and many of the hot-shoes plant their wheels in that soft earth and dial it on in a spectacular thrillshow style. Two men deserve special mention as the standouts of the night. Local hero Mike Lane stormed his Hodaka to a popular win in the 90cc Amateur/Expert go. This Expert class rider is nine years old! Tre other real goer was the Open Amateur winner Ron (King of Whiteman) Pierce. Ron's special feat was not just winning his event here, but trare ling a hundred miles to take two seconds and a first in road racing the [allOWing day. The track lighting was much better than last month and the club is putting up more lights every race. A new track always has a few problems and the only time to really complain is when nothing is done about them. The Bakersfield Sprockets M.C. has the track and the riders to put on a real good show. Zl.......n points to 2nd plac. In 175cc A....t......Elport baltl.. Bob Zltar, Ilrst 200 Novlc.. Local h.ro Alvin Griffith stormed to Ilrst 500 Eapert on an elderlY BSA. ,.. c 0_".: "Il '" ~ c '" = a '" " ~ = '" V....guchl-mo...t.d J.ff Johnson, learning youne, won SOcc Novlc. clus. Below: .uy spills tbrlll.d the jampack.d Sprockets Park. CoJ ...:l ~ G