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Willow Springs Raceway bosted dirt riders ....d road racers tolast Sunday for the third auaal ACA Spirit '16 races Dear RosaIIODeI, California. Temperatnres in the loo's ~reeted the riders wbo were weariBg protective, but bot leathers. ~ether 5/)cc road racers were shown the way by Bud Giles, mounted on a Mondial. Sid Chambers, also Mondial mounted, snatched second place from the younger generation. (Sid's 62.) Dick Pearce copped third and made it a total sweep for the Mondials. Kawasaki and Roger Baeder joined forces to snatch first place honors in the 100cc class. Challenging Roger was Jeff Johnsoryon his super fast- Yamaha, who took second. The 125ec event went to Myron Tracy, on a Honda. Keith Hamrr.er and Harley copped second place honors. The, 250 production class had Suzuki men David Damron and Pat Hyman battling it out. David caught the edge and managed first, while Pat settled for second place pewter. Sunki 3S0? Honda-mounted Al Hendricksen grabbed lust place in the 350cc class. Tony Nicosia and his immaculately prepared Suzuki took a well-earned second. His cylinders are bored to 56mm each, thus putting him out of the :l5UCc class. Buddy Parriott duplicated his win in the 250Cc class by winning the 500cc GP class with a Norton Manx. Jerry Winters did similarly by winning the Open Production class and taking Open G.P. too. Peter Gray was second, and Micheal Mc Neel third. Val Howard, on a 100« modified TWIn-Jet Yamaha, serums around comer on the limit. He won hIs class. Tbird Time Out Open class action found Jerry Winter and Harley Davidson in the winners circle. Jerry's first time out we found him way back ill the pack, the second time a little bette r, and the third was last Sunday's win. The secret? A change from stock tires to road race rubber and determined riding. Grand Prix ' Suzuki and Roger Baeder copped first place honors in the 50cc GP class while Tony Nicosia got second place brass on a Hondll:. Well, Sid Chambers did it again in the Grand Prix class, he and his little Mondial coming in thitd. Super-Fast UScc's Larry Pruett and his new fiveport Yamaha ISO factorY rig just barely snatched first place honors from Montesa man Dick Brown. Dick won the heat race by a large mar gin only to be defeated by Larry's smooth running Yamaha in the Main. Dick was in the back stretch/fooling with a fouled plug, when Larry unexpectedly showed up for the battle to the finish line. Buddy Parriott,showing his usual smooth winning style) stole first place brass in the 250cc class. Yamaha and Ken Gardner snatched second while Marv Fleming and Yamaha got third. ART BAUMAN By Dick Kilgroe There are three prevailing impressions of "Awful Fast Arthur" that spectators at road races featuring Art seem to go away with. The first and most obvious is that he is awfully fast and awfully smooth. The second, is that he is actually the "All American Boy Athlete" turned racer. The third, since his trip to Daytona this spring, is that of an -Born A.M.A. Gentleman Racer Type". If those Qualifications don't mean success as the best road racer this country can produce, we won't bother to add any to the list. Art was an outstanding athlete in high school and would probably be a majo r leaguer today, if he had happened to possess a king-sized build as well as a giant-sized desire to. win. Turning to AFM road racing, he was an immediate and always spectacular success. Initially, he began racing his own home-brewed Honda 350 with which he managed to place second in the ,AFM 350 Points Championsh ip in 1965 and 1966. ,After winning the U .S.G.P. at Willow Springs in 1965 on his marvel mac hine, he so impressed the sponsors, that he never had to worry about tuning his own bike from that point on. The races he didn't win on Precision Machining's classy 350 Honda, he easily won on the Team Cutlass P.M. replica 350. In 1966 Art and Dick Kilgroe won the Annual AFM cotati 25U Mile Production Race, on a 450 Honda supplied by San Francisco Honda. The competition finally realized what an asset Art could be, and began sponsoring him on a TDI-B Yamaha. This really shrewd move by San Francisco's racing oriented Larry Pruett has out bump-started others In the 175cc G.P. class and heads for the first tum. Dirt Riders Dirt riding action got off with Steve McMahan and Yamaha taking first in the 100cc class. Gary Bailey snatched second ahead of third place man Frank Wheeler. Both riders were Hodaka-mounted. Steve had dealer, Al Fergoda, has resulted in a ·Win Twin" team of Art and Ron Grant, which has resul ted in laprecord shattering performances the likes of which are usually only seen at Daytona. Speaking of Daytona, Art came about as close as you can to winning the Amateur race on a BSA which unfortunately blew in the closing stages. His performance on Bob Vineyard's Kawasaki had everyone agog. Art was running fourth when the crank broke-in-half with only three laps to go. When asked to sum up the more important factors in his success, Art modestly stresses the importance of having a winning combination of a good tuner and machine. If more people were interested in helping deserving'new riders like Art, even the smallest type of races will show immediate spectator interest. As Art proved true in the past, once a rider has confidence in his abilities and his machine and is freed from the big hassle of tuning his equipment, he rider can set his mind to thinking thoughts most apt to produce victory. some real competition from Steve Scott,on a Bultacojbut still managed the win. Greeves-mounted Gary Conrad, of desert fame, came through with a very impressive win in the 250cc class. Gary almost took the whole shindig because the 250's and larger bikes were run together. But Jack Ross managed to edge him out, winning the 500cc class with his new Triumph, while lonely John Harney copped first Open/also on a (Results on pace 16) Triumph. D.O.H.C. H-D DRAGSTER Soon to be campaigned at Lodi, Fremont and Vacaville drag strips is this new weapon built by Stan Dishong of Stan's Cycle Shop in Vallejo. The en'gine came into this world as a Harley 74 but Stan has increased its potential with the addition of a quarter-speed cam above each cylinder, ground by Schaller. The cams drive dual ignition points as well as operating the special overhead valves. Fuel is supplied by a converted Ranger airplane injector supplemented by Algon parts. The cylinders are unique in that they are steel with bolt-on alloy fins, which Stan says run cooler than stock. Stan Bernard will be the rider of the 96 cubic inch, 2-speed eliminator, which Dishong affectionately has named -The Hog.· \