Cycle News - Archive Issues - 1960's

USGP and the ove r-al l winner of this event , over-all winne r event, riding a 200cc Bultaco, was Alan Spears Bultaco , was from San Bernardino, and in second Bernardi no, in place, bur first in class, was Ned pla c e, in was Marandino from San Jose on a 175cc from Ossa. First in the 50cc cl ass was Ste ve in 50cc class Steve Knight from Kni ght from Los Angeles on an SIS. First F irs t in the lOOcc class was Harold Spivak was Ha rold IO Occ from F i rs t th e from Gardena on an Omega. First in the 125cc class was Myron T racy from l25cc was Tracy Bell flower on a Bellflower On a Honda. Then Th en the 250cc Grand Prix machines 250c c Grand lined UIl on the grid. From bump start UP grid . through the remaining 15 laps, Deehan through laps . led the 250cc e vent on his Yamaha . For event Yamaha. led the fi rst four laps in hot pursuit was first in Art Baumann, and it looked as if Art Baumann , it looked if was going to have a repeat performance repea t performanc e of the previous 350 cc event . Art wa s 350cc event. was running in second position and continued runnin g to press Deehan, but on the fourth lap, Deehan, the. fourth lap , trying to pass on the outs ide in Turn 4, outside Turn Art left the course and fell, retiring him cours e re ti ring him from th e from the event. Moving UP into second Movi ng was spot was last year's champion, TOIW ye ar' s champi on , TOnY Murphy, also on a Yamaha and in third a nd i n plac.e was Walt Fulton III on a Harleyplace Walt F ulton Harl eyth e Davidson Sprint. In the 7th lap, Fulton passed Murphy and pulled into se c ond pass ed second position , position, putting Murphy in third and. at and, that time,, Billy Boyd in fourth . In the time fourth. eig hth lap, Boyd got by Murphy a nd was eighth lap , and running in third place behind Fulton. In behi nd F ult on. thi rd th e tenth lap, Fulton had mechanical mecha nical probl ems pul led problems and pulled to the side of the course, moving Boyd into s ec ond position second cou rs e. movin g and Murphy into third. From then on, it third . was pretty much Deehan first,, Boyd prett y first second, was s econd , but there was a real battle going battI e going on in 3rd, 4th, 5th , 6th and 7th places. plac es . 5th, Th ese five riders were running together, ri ders runnin g togeth er, These fighting fi ghtin g for the third place position. At t he thi rd plac e position . Le the checkered fla g, it was Ralph Le flag, Cl ercq Clercq third, T ony Murphy fourth, Ray Tony McCarty, fift h, Bill Silverthorn s i xth , McCarty . fifth, sixth, and Gerald Howerton in seventh. Then came the sidecars . Most of the t he sidecars. machines running in this event wer e were machines runnin g desert hack s over des ert hacks converted ove r for road racing. The winners wer e Larry and racin g. winner s were Grace Burley on a Triumph. Second Grac e Burl ey place went to Bob Grauer a nd Bob All en , plac e Grau er and Allen, passenger, on a Vel oc ette. In t hird Velocette. third pass enger . place wcre Joseph Heithe a nd Don Milplac e were J os eph Heith e and ler on a BSA. Fourth went to Mike and F ourth John Burnt on their Norton. It was Quite J ohn was Q uite spectacular to see Larry an d Grace (man and Gra ce and wife team) s liding around the 2'h sliding 2% mile , mile, nine-turn road race COurse On their on th eir des ert hack but they did a beautiful job. beau tiful job . desert hac k Th e ACA is trying to stimula te this type tryi ng The stimulate thi s of Grand Prix event a nd they hope that and t hey oth er sidehac k riders will get interested inte rested other sidehack in the asphalt racing. a sphalt raci ng. ·Barry Hermann op,ns lb, eatlS. 'Barry opens the gates. P.J. Bosarge, Honda. AlIov, left, #64 Pete DeRosa leans on' way willi, Chie f Galbraith throws II over In th, Esses. Above I'ft, Pit, O,Rola luns one while Chl,f Galbraith it OVIr the EulS. Bo~ Gra..r Bob Allen gets down to ~uslnlSs on their Velocette sidecar, conYlrt,d Below, Bob Grauer and Bob All'" ells down 10 business on Ihllr V,loult, sld,car, converted from dlslrt trim lor lun on Ih, pavement. from desert for fun the paYlmenl. Sensem.n And here, looking lGOd, Is Jerry SInSiman her" looklne good, on on a Tohatsu. Something For the Street Guys Following the si decar e vent wa s a Fo llowing th e sidecar event was jud gin g judging contest for the street riders. th e rider s. Trop hie s were gi ven for the best looking the Trophies given custo m, custom, best looking s tock and the club stock the with the most entries in the e vent. T he th e event. The clu b troph y club trophy went to the Valleymen for the most entries in the judging e vent . mos t In j udgin g event. lookin g custom award The best looking custom a ward went to Tony th eir Harl eyMr. & Mrs. To ny soto on their HarleyDavid so n, th e bes t Davidson, and the best looking s tock stock OIlchine wen t to Don Godder on a machin e went Godde r Matchless, Matchless . The event Th e seventh e vent of the day was open to 250cc-Open Production machines. chin es. The over-a ll winner was of over-all was co urse James Deehan on a 250cc Kawacourse De eha n 250c c Kawa saki . Second place went to Art Baumann saki. plac e from Suzuki. thi rd from San Francisco on a Suz uki. In third sPOt first clas s P ete DeR osa s pot and fir st in class was Pete DeRosa from Upland on a Trium ph. First place from Triumph. F irst plac e in the 500cc class went to Vic Manuelli Vie clas s from from Alhambra on a Honda and first in Honda the 350cc c lass went to Francis Ming class went F rancis from Lanc a ster from Lancaster on a Honda. Honda . One, Two, Eleven One , Th e final event of the day was open The th e to the 500cc and Open Grand Prix maPri x rna- chi nes. chines. Off the line and leader in the first lap was # I T ony Murphy on his #1 Tony Norton Manx . In hot pursuit was #2 Manx. In P a rriot t, mount ed . Buddy Parriott, also Norton mounted. Buddy moved into the lead on the s econd second in to lead lap and held the front position throughfront out the remainder of the 15 lap main lap event. pla c e was Tony e vent. In second place was T ony Murphy and in third place was #11 Ron Grant plac e #11 from from San Mateo On a BSA. First in the On bpen eve nt went to Dick Hayes from from Open event Westminster on a Harley-Davidson and W estminster Harley-Da vidson second to Francis Wurz from Whitt i er wurz from Whittier on a Norton. Nor ton. • There were Th er e wer e several fall-downs throughou t throughout the windy day , but happily no day, one was Anthony One was very badly hurt. Anth ony Gomez's fa ns wiII be happy to know that fans will haPPY when he left the cou rse On T urn 2 in the left course on Turn pra ctic e session, practice s e ssion , he merely sustain ed a merely sustained broken bone in his left hand and he will in l eft will ri ght. ba ck ra cbe all right. Hope to see him back racing ing at the next e vent a t Riverside on event at Ri versid e December II. Th e USGP concluded the The conc luded ACA championship road race points champi ons hi p road rac e events season, e vents for the 1966 season , and the final point .s tan dings will be published poin t standings next week for this seaso n. thi s season. ( Resu lts (Results on page 16)

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