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MEET THE RACERS WEEKEND ON WHEELS FnIlll3 and will present no problems. Third and most important is highway handling. I could tell absolutely no difference in performance or handiing in general freeway driving. There is perhaps a slight increase in rqad pressure on the front wheel caused by the aerodynamic shape of the fairing. This eliminated that rather uncomfortable floating sensation which one occasionally experiences. After the fairing was installed, I visited some friends in seal Beach and left there at around 1:00 am on my fifty mile trip home. I do not know the temperature that morning. • • it was cold and damp and if you were in your car, ynur windows would be UP with the heater on. This first trip with my new fairing completely proved its value. I was comfortable during the entire trip. Not only was I soug from the cold, but that annoying freeway dust was no problem. On this and subsequent trips, I have noticed much less fatigue, probably thanks to the reduction of the air blast. I do not know whether I will keep the fairing on all year round (Dean advises that I will probably take it off in the Spring ••• untill I get behind my first gravel truck .•• then I should be a fairing convert forever). In any event it certainly makes motorcycling more of a year-round pastime. Coldwater and Mulholland are still invigorating but those late evening trips are no longer uncomfortable. ..... Have you noticed Suzuki's motorcycling lovelies? • • . they call them the "Heavenly Angels" • • . I'm not sure that I like the obvious parodying of our illegitimate outlaw brothers • . . after all, any publicity that the H A's get, even in the form of parody, helps to boost their "cause" ••• after seeing the picture of the girls in last week's Cycle News. perhaps we should call them the Heavenly Bodies instead! ~ come out of the turn to complete the laP. He walked away. Draayer now joins Romero as the only other first year expert to win the 15 lap final this season. Both are considered darkhorse favorites to win the state title race this Friday. Shorty mates it Ten C'r-J: ~ • • • • • You don·t have to be a racing fan to ellioy the greatest race of them all•• regardless whether they call it Corriganville, Hopetown, or the Simi Valley Grand Prix. • • the two days of racing next week-end are a must for all sports enthusiasts. I attended the races on Sunday last year ••• lut this year I I plan to be there for both days ••• I wouldn't miss it. ff you walk along the three mile course you will find that about every hundred yards you will be watching a completely different race. The terTain is a challenge to men, machines, and thennos and some food • • • most of those really great vantage potots are pretty far from the various concession slands. ASCOT l/Z MILE Cont. ___-::-:-~~:r:;";i:\: 1(1"" [HAF'=lL..€,V-OAV Novice Number 256r Marty MacDonald Marty is originally from Springfield, Vermont lut now makes his home in Granada Hills, California. He is next to the oldest in a family !If four brothers and three sisters who are aU back in Vermont. Marty was born October 22, 1944 and is still a bachelor. His older brother races and now holds nlDllber one in the liebtweight class of sporting events "back bome·. Marty rode scrambles too, before entering into professional racing this year. Friend Jim Nicholson talked bLm into joining the field and so far Marty has been a top notcb novice and a bard mao to beat on the track. He bas been riding a Sprint this year and will continue aboard Harley-Davidson next year as an Amateur. He says he likes half mUe racing the best and be It now stands ten-in-a-row for pint sized Shorty Seaborne as the yellow plate late season flash again added a heat race and main event win to his winning streak. For the fifth week in a row the Lawndale Lightweight took command both times out to remain undefeated. A suprise entry and showing in the amateur ctass was' So. Dakota's Norm Hamling. Norm moved here last year and rode the early season in '65 as a novice, wirming ooe main event berore moving back to the midwest and Rapid City. The So. Dakota sod buster came from a distant third in the heat race to upset John Carter and Randy Say for the win. In the final Hambling moved UP quickly to give Seaborne a go in the earlY laps but let Carter slip by for second the last half of the race. Point leader Ron Kruseman finished a distant seventh in his next-ta-last ride as an amateur. Mike Morton solo'ed his Suzuki in for another pair of wins in the novice class and turned the tables on Larry Pruett for the fifth time in seven weeks. Mike topped Pruett for fast heat race time honors and then came back to run in front from start tn finish while Pruett was slipping back and rourth from fifth to second all the way in the eight lap final. Northern novice Jim Odom was on hand for the second time and won his heat race before losing second in the final on the late laps to Pruett. (Results on page 16) plans to make all the Nationals next year. So far since he's been in the game he bas picked Tulare, California as his favorite track. He says it's 'because it was fun and because I won there this year.' Marty relates that his greatest feat so far was winning Ascot the seeond nigbt of the season. Ascot was also the scene of his worst crash, wbich occurred about the seventh or ei ghth week of the season. Marty hit a bole in twn three sending him and the bike Dying. 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