Cycle News - Archive Issues - 1960's

------------ • - - - - -- - - .... .... ~ 0... It was a dDl1 dark day at the dnll end of the Dan Gabriel Valley Raceway season. Bnt that was But only the weather. From beginning fast furi· to end the racing was fast fnrious full ons and fnll of spills. There were few few spectators, and not a whole lot of racers. Qnly 19 experts. Only After an unusual three Novice heat races, which were quickly which run 0((, run off, the only two Amateur TT riders Jim Berry taking the win win in the first heat and Rich Thorwaldson beating the other half in the second heat. heat. Preliminaries: Heats . ".: .... ... QJ ..Q S QJ :o :c: The fi rst expert' T he first expert heat had a little trouble getting start ed. When th e fla g tro uble started. the flag was t osse d fo r th e first expert heat, tossed for the fi rst Mulder shuffled out of the pack to a th e qui ck ead. in quick llead. Somewhere in the 3rd Or 4th or SEASON'S FINAL Above Simmons Leads Palmer In the wild duell for the Expert main, wblle below, V.. L..u_n shows the way to the rest 0_ tile twin Sao G. Above Loads the due tho while Van Leeuwen sbows the the over the San Galap clean shaven Red McKeen (" I was cle an shave n McK een ("I mistook for one of the 'boys'·) delighted ' boys' ·) delight ed the fans by missing turn t wo, coming two, back onto the track fr om 8th spot into from i nt o 4th. Mulder (of course) took the win (of course ) the with Ski p Van Leeuwen in second and Skip Chri s Draay er Chris Draayer in third. T wo Triu mphs Two Triumphs and a Harley. Harl ey. In th e second expert heat Dusty the sec ond exper t Coppage grabbed the lead. In t he third I n the lap Coppage and Gene Romero were side by side airborne coming over the sid e t he fi rst R omero c ame first jump. Romero came out in the lead. l ead. SOmehw ere SOmehwere in the back of t he pac k back the pack Elliot Schultz ran up and over turn four, E l l i ot getting a piece of the pavement and the pie ce th e pav ement crash waiL But like t he song say s , he the says, crashwal l. · pi ck ri ght back i n ·pick myself up and get right back in uP the race.· He was up, ok, and ready t o race." ok. to rid e again. ride briel jumps. brlel Valley Jumps. Semi Mains In the Novice semi Bo sco Burns N ovi c e Bosco Bur ns 191r, ran away with it. In the Amat eur In Amateur semi John Isaacs rode a beautiful race Joh n I saac s beautiful to tak e t be win. And the expert semi take the expert was a grand dazzler. A t t he start Ed At the sta rt came Wirth came out of th e masses in t urn the maSlles i n turn one in the lead, wit h Bob Bailey close in le ad, with B ob behind . behind. Then again Schultz lost his Schu l t z l ost hi s bike, this time in the first corner. Up, bike. di dn't over the enbankment and he didn't come un, When he came int o view he was on uP. into his feet and ready to ride agai n, but the f eet rid e again, t he bla ck black flag was out and it was back to the starting line. This tim e Wirth was time again on top, taking it all the way . t op, way. The show has j ust begun. In the just dash Mulder, Romero, Van Leeuwen and L eeuwen ready , Coppage were ready, but not for this: On the start Romero burned a trail off t rail the pa vement for th e inside of turn one, pavement for the turn cutting Mulder off and leaving him to be Muld er l eaving him sand wi ch ed by Coppag e and Van L eeusandwiched Coppage Leeuwen. Down went Muld er in a rush of Mulder i n dust. Up and over went Coppage and dust . Coppa ge Van Le euwen, barel y staying upright on Leeuwen, barely upri ght the pavement. Out came the bl ack fla g, pavement . black flag. back to the starting line again. This time Coppage seized the lead only to Coppag e l ead onl y be caught and beaten by winner Romero. Mulder was last, as his hike didn't last , bike seem to perform as well as it did beperfo rm fore the mishap . mishaP. ... And finally, The Main Events •••And In the Novice main Joe Roseberry In Joe I06 r, took a quick lead closely followed l06r, took l ead Mi ke by Mike Linthicum 49y . In the second 49y. I n to the last lap Roseberry cras hed comcrashed ing up to the fi rst jjump. Linthicum went first ump. L i nthi cum on to take the win and half-mile artist take Marty MacDonal d, who held on to third held MacDonald, place fo r pl ace for six laps, was second. laps , In the Amate ur main it was an edgeIn Amateur of-yo ur-seat rac e all the way from start of-your-seat race to finish between heat winners Berry betwe en heat wi nners Th orwald son. Ove r and ThorwaIdson. Over the jumps toI!:ether I':ether never making a mistake on the Linth icum tho Below, Roseberry leads Linthicum In tbe Novlco before his NoYlce main before bls spill. 4..w.. Mulder hangs It Below #12 Mulder banls It out for the lead In the first comer at the start of tbe Expert main. lea d firs t the Export damp and rath er rough track, Thorwaldtra ck, Th orwaldrather son stayed out fr ont just long enough front l ong to take the win , wi th Berry getting a win, with close sec ond. second. The expert fi nal l ooked like a Trifinal looked umph show lined UP for a parade. A up parade. couple of BSA's, a Norton and a Harley BSA's , were barel y vi sible among the Bonnebarely visible vi lles. villes. Mulder took the lead and all l ead ail carefully made it th rough the first turn s through turns behind him . During th e early sta ges of him. the stages rac e Draa yer the race Draayer and Coppage got entangled comin g onto the back straight coming and didn't unlock until they were on their way into the pits (and not by thei r into choice). By now Van Leeuwen was in: choice) . B y L eeuwen in: second, seco nd, but the real battle was for third, with Simmons , Draayer, Palmer Simmons, Draay er, Pal mer and Romero running thr ough the turns through almost four abreast. Somewhere in the Somewher e i n t he almost four last f ew laps of the race Draayer ran few of off the end of turn one onto the pavement, put the bike sideways and came ment, th e bik e si deway s came over the top back onto the track and trac k never lost his fourth position. In the nev er l ost In 13th lap Romero finally got Muld er. Mulder. who bad been passe d by Van Leeuwen had passed L eeuwen i n se.cond. for fi rs t spot, putting him in seco nd. At first spot , put ting the ch eck ered flag Van Leeuwen was checkered still in there first with Romero not really too far behind. Mul der ended up Mulder in a not-to-oft en th1rd. Draa yer wa s still not-to-often t h1rd. Draayer was in fourth and Simmons barel y beat Bob barely B ai l ey fift h. Bailey for fifth. The new announcer, although I don't don' t announcer. is , know who he is, did a fine job for his first with motorcycling. He made a few fi rst motorcy cling. mistakes , but kept things colo rful and mistakes. colorful moving for the last TT of the year at moving for San G\\bri el Raceway. Track owner Will Glj,briel Tice ..~ pres ented some great races T i ce kas presented some great and we will all be back in 1967. ( Resul ts on pag e 16) (Results page We GoRltM.... Specially prepa:re-a., EBERT READY ODJUUJ and many other wild CYCLE SUPERGOODIE *.@~OOO&\~O [?(IDOO[\~ .' AND REAR SPRING/SHOCK UNITS J SOlI: ~ ~lManufa

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