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WILLOW IN A WINDSTORM Anual .8. Grauel motorcycles at Willow SpriDgS The 3rd A.-J. U.S. Grud Prix for IBOtorcycles &t Willow Springs Raceway 8&W intmduction road racing fans a new cb&ID· R&ce,,&y saw the i.*-dlleuca to the rod raciDg f&Ds of & De" champion, James Deellaa. Deehan captured favor pio., JIII68 Deehan. Deebu captlUed the fawr of the crowd in the the Prix until he second event the da.y by semad ewut of tile day by leading the 350cc Grand Pm race until be was passed by Art BuaUll. James r&eed & beutifDI r&ee to finish Baumann. raced a beautiful race fiDisia Honda a 8eC08d. He illeR cbaged flo. his 350cc HODd& mount to & 250cc second. then chauged from Yamaha, went out and easily won the G.P. finisbing a YUIah&, 1r8Ilt oat ..d euily lIOD lIle 250cc G.P. event, finishing & minute and seconds ahead the second place man mll&e ..d 15 SecoHs &IIe&d of tile secoDd pl&ce ..... Billy Boyd from Sau Francisco, also on YamahL Then James immediately SaD FlUCisco, 11&0 .. a YamaJla. 1'Iaeu Jaaes m.ediateJ.y went to the the 25000 Open Production event mounted on a new Kawagrid pid for tile 258ec - Op. PJDdllctioa eVeRt lBOuted OB & Dew K&w&250cc machine and many saki 250ee _cId.e aM was the over-all winner, be&ting ODt the m&By over-&II wiBer, beating ont all production machinmachines in larger II&CIIiDes entered ia this event, open to &II prodactiOD machiDfrom 25000 a Kawasaki maery fa. 250ee through 18OOcc. It was the first time & K&"asaki m&p 100000. chine had entered ia have an over-&I1 chiIle Iaad .und ia ..y collpeti.tio. eveat, ..d to bue .. over-all Y competition event, and quite a phenomenal feat! as though win tile first dae GIlt is qDite & plaeao.eB&I feat! It looks &S dao.gIl time out wi. the this win a uclliae to contend in the futare. IMs will be & machine tIo coot.d with ia the fubue. other's in the otber's slip stream. in th e lap, On the last laP. coming out of Turn 9 to the start finish line. Harry Webster line . was able to tuck in on the inside abreast tuck of Ralph LeClercQ. Harry had pulled L eClerCQ. bad ahead approximatel y &bead of Ralph approximately a bike blke l ength length and, being t he wise rider Ralph the is. he immediatel y tu cked in behind immediately tucked i n draft ) Harry and began to slip s tream (or draft) stream ya rds Harry. At about 50 yards before the finish , finish. Ralph pulled out around Harry ahead and began to move &bead and at 'the the checkered flag. chec kered Oag. Ralph IBd gained a half had bike l ength on Harry. In third place length over-all and second in class was Pete in P ete DeRosa from Upland on a Bultaco. and Bultaco, DeRoss fourth over-all and third in class was in Chi ef Gal brai th f rom Chief Gal braith from Goleta on a Bultaco from the Power Researcb Racing Research taco T eam. Second place in tbe 175cc class the I "I5cc claas Team. secood DlckTetz was Dick'Tetz from Pasadena on a HonHoO" da . t hird da. and third place went to Ned MarandIno dino from San Jose on an Ossa. san The fourth event of the day was open or the to the 50cc-200cc Production machines. 50cc-20Oce Despite the ove rcast and wind. there overcast were were over 160 ent ries for the Nov. 6 Nov . entries for Grand Prix event . First race was open event. First to 50cc-l00cc G.P. machines. The over50cc-100cc machines. all winner. riding a 100cc Yamaha. was winner . Yamaha, Larry Pruett. Finishing second was 14 Barry Herrmann from Santa SarlBra on a from santa Barbara last Yamaha. last year's 100cc champi on. 100cc champion. T hird over-all and fir st in the 50cc Grand Third f1rst i n Pr Pr ix class was Colin Jon es from PasaJones dena, ye ar' s champion. dena. last year's 50cc champion, on his Honda. First in th e Class II 50cc Grand F irst the Prix class was John Hatel y from Van Hately Nuys on a Yamaha. Nu,ys The 12Scc-17Scc event 11Ie 125ce-l"15cc class e_t was undoubtedly the most exc iting rac e o f UDdou~ Ibe ....at exciUDe race of the bet ween l ast yea r's 17Scc tbe day bet_en last year's 1"15Cc champi on Ralph LeClerCQ and Harry champion Ralpb L eClercq W ebster a 125ce Webster from Berkeley on a 12Scc Honda. Hany was alie to pass BaIpb Le Harry abl e PaM Ralph L e Clercq but held tbe rront ~Una ClerCQ but never beld th e front posi tion tor than or thr ee b..clred yar ds for more tbaD two or Ibree h...dred yU'ds at aoy time. Ftom Ibe tb1rd lap III tbi s any F rom the third l ap in this 25 mile eweat. Hany IUId Ralph became 2S de event. Harry and Ralpb one. eacb in tbe oCber's shadow or each one, each in the other 's sbadow eacb II Sprin gs. Calif. "Sam urai " Willow Springs, Cali!. - Nov. 6, 1966: A production model Kawasaki 250cc "Samurai" model overall i n tod~y today swept f.!Ie fi eld and placed first overall in the heavy production class. Competing the fi~ld up, ridden BgaulSt machines In the 250cc class and up. the stock Samurai, ridde n by Jim Deehan, against in made a smashing entry into the U.S. racing circuiL U.S. circuit: made NOW AVAILABLE: Kawasaki 250 1I....kl250 • The slash ing SAMURAI 250 is performance· periormenceslashing bred to give you the most power, and engineered acceleration and speed ever eng ineered 250, into a 2 50, Features include: t • • 250 cc DUAL RDTARY VALVE, 2·STROKE CC ROTARY VAL VE, 2·STRDKE DEVELOPS ENGINE DEVELDPS 31 HP /BOOO RPM. 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