Cycle News - Archive Issues - 1960's

srlP DOWNS ASCOT 11 fIELD 00 ... >, ~ ~ _ :0= r.::r ...::I tJ >.. tJ It took seven years but it looks like dle .i'Iyin~ DlItc:.....• as 6u1ly arrived. Skip Van Leeuwen won die 8&tlIrday nigbt Main EveDt iD dle ODce a _Dth n's at Ascot aDd also took over tile poiBt lead. ftis pves tbe Hollywood stu two lUi. event wins iD three tries. Tbe action was bot and beavy in all classes with Van Leeuwen, Dan Haaby, Dick Hammer and Bob Bailey coming up as the four Expert hest race winners. Van Leeuwen lost the Trophy Dasb wben Raaby and Hammer ran one-two with Sklp third and Dave Palmer in fourth. Huby won three straight races tbe nipt before 011 the balMnile and th en added tbe beat aDd 'dasb in tbe TT's and was looking to become the first rid er to ever score a clean sweep both nights. Skip-Fro. Start to FiBisla It was not to be, bowever, as in the ftnal it was VaD Leeuwen frOm stsrt to ftnlsb wi th eady laP cballen ges from Palmer and Haaby. Dan went to the pits midwl,1 in the ftnal wi th shifting problem and Palmer dropped back late in the race to settle for second. Ascot cIIamP Eddie Mulder bad the bard way to co this time. He finisbed fourth in his beat race behind Hammer, Baker and Wirth. Eddie tben won the 8em1-Main before coming from tbe back of the pack in the final to run a close third bebiDd Palmer. Gene Romero knocked himself out of the action in the beat race. Caught jumpinC the starter, Gene started from tbe penalty line and tried too bard too soon. At tile end of tile front cbute Gene did three endos but later walked off tbe l: CI II i!. • l:l .'i" track. AMtear l\.ctioB Jim Odom breezed throup the Amateur class w1na1nc both tbe heat and the Main Event. Point leader Larry Wilburn cbased Odom all the way in tbe final but it was a lost cause. Jan Crawford, for the second nigbt. cave tile fans something to talk about. He acain and acaln came from last to first in the beat race and Semi-Main. lliased tums and overslides kept eyes clued to Crawford before he finally settled down to ftnlsh ninth in the Main Event. The Novice riders had their usual share of spills and crashes before Bill Cody came UP as the winner. Don Hughes and POint leader Danny Carlton dueled all the WIJ' for second with Hughes takinC the spot. The next Ascot TT runs th e first saturday ni ght in June. (a_Ita 00 pace 16) It tb... Is a better TT rider a. . .dlll.. Skip v. BUDDY PARRIOTT BY Dick Kilgroe Ask any road racer on the West Coast wbom he considers tbe man to beat on any given track, and he will invariably reply, -Why Buddy Parriott, of course.· 10 this day of super-racers, we are lenerally inclined to conjure UP images ofyoung and sincle devil-may-care types sucb as Mike Bailwood, Gene Romero, Eric Dahlstrom and Art Baumann when we think of the -typical- motorcycle racer. But rarely would we consider a 39yeer old diabetic, or a fatber of nine children, or a civic leader for tbat category. Yet Buddr Parriott is all three of tIIese plus beine just about the winnin~ eat road racer these shores have ever seen. 1Ia_ Parriott, Gnnt lISA), wi. . . of tH 500cc .al. • Old eDCMllb to be a metDber of !be veeerable Trailblazers, yet ellPerieDCed and ClDUac _ I b to bold off !be co..... petition lIIlYUme be cloDS belmet and leathers, Baddy las been raclag for 22 years 110'11' and bas lost Ie tbaD five races. Duriac that time Buddy bas lalll!ll 0IIIy two spills. Starting at age five, Buddy's lirst -ride- was a mini-bike made from an Indian four frame and powered by a Cleveland two-stroke engine, driving airplane tires. He later progressed to an Ariel single to learn the rudiments of dirt tracking. Buddy won his first race at Chattanooga in 1946 while in the Army. At his next TT race in Georgia, he suffered the first of his two spills. He fell off wbile leading and bad to be carried borne in a jeep. a Norto... followed bJ seeo.d plac. lIan R. L..uw.. b. IIl11t be blll.g'. II.....cIlIcIl.. From 1945 to 1955 be rode Triumphs tuned by A.J. Lewis and later switched to Hazen Bail-tuned Triumphs from 1955 to 1960. Like most otber riders today, Buddy owes a great deal of his .success to his tuners. Buddy's bave been the very best available, especially his present mechanical wizard Clarence Czysz. Riding a Czysz machine, Buddy placed secOlld at the Daytona USMC in 1961, won the 1964 Sebring FIM race and was the outstanding u.s. rider at the FlM Daytooa race that year. He was second in the 500cc class &pin in 1965 acatnst the world's best road racers at the FIM world championship DaytolB races and bas been the number One AFM 500cc class champion as long as we can remember. Buddy is one of the few racers we know wbo can manage to go racine in a manner enjoyed by his family of ten enthusiastic boosters. Buddy, wbo has served as councilman and vice-mayor of the City of lodus try, provides the best all-around lmage of a gentleman-racer we know of. When we asked him how mucb longer he intended to keep racing, he replied -indefinitely.- IIadcly Parriott willi bts ftrst IIIOIDrc,cl.. Pictured at left Is Budcl(l ..s an outstaDdlog speedw., rllIer c1urlol lb. p.....r , ..... ra..... Sa. Paorlott, wIlD

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