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HUNGRY HOLLOW ROARS AGAIN Story .. Photos by Dale MclUnno. The Sierra Club of Auburn won the flIst round of their battle to hold races at the Lincoln Track. It seems that everytime a Club gets a good place to have races, someone always wants them to rove. The female opened the festivities as usual wi th a three-w,ay go for first. Alice Grant usually gets off the line first, but this time it was Susan Clark. They stayed fairly close together. then Debbie Jackline took the lead and finished that way in the heat, with Susan second. In the tolain .Alice led. thf;!n Debbie came from behind to relieve her of it. Susan seemed to be having trouble so Alice got second. The 100 Amateur race started off with Kenny Roberts and Eric Jorgensen seeing. who was going to lead. Eric won the decision while Childress and Lee Barnes were moving up and battling between themselves. As it turned out, Kenny, Childress and Eric all went down and Lee took the win. What a way to lose. The 200 Novice saw Joseph Boll take over as Henry Robinson and John Pitcock went down trying for The 650 Novice saw a pile-up at the line between James Skelton and Tom Hanuner. Ben Alley copped the lead with Ashley Geffrey discussing it with him. Ashley won out, then Charles Strom came up to present his arguments. Ray Wilson also moved into the free-for all. Ray and Charles tangled with Charles going down. Tom Hammer, after his fall, came up to take second. It was short lived as Ben decided he wanted it back. Ray moved into third when Tom went out with me chanica! trouble. Steady, Boys The 650 Amateurs were a little anxious as they had three or four false starts. When they finally got it started Jim Foster took a narrow lead. Don Branbelow almost had him out of the dip, but had to wai t until the straight to nab him. Out of the dip again Paul Knudsen and Jim got tang] ed up with Paul going down. Art Rinetti was in there until he missed the turn and went out. It ended up with Don copping the win and Dickerson second. He played it cool and stayed close waiting for mistakes, which paid off. Bob Hoffman (148) find. III. Hun." Hollow Iraek to ~I. Itklne. A.F.M. . Race Scene Y m inlay Photo by P. McDonald This coming Labor Day weekend will lind California pavement riders with a new track to test their skills on. The new Antelope Valley Raceway will swing open its gates on Sept. 3rd for the 14th round of the AFM-Western U.S. Road Racing Championships. Ron Pierce's bid for the title of A.ll classes, both. G.P. and productlOn, as well as sldecars '11'111 be run.A speclalfeat~e race lS planned for solo mac h 1 n e s from 176 to 1oo0cc'S, and track manager Val Valdez has put up $250 as a purse for this event. Th~ track is on the PearblossomHwY.Just nc;>rth of Hwy. 138. Manager Valdez will have. the gates open on Saturday for practlce, so plan on a weeken~1. Deeban Retains Crown This past July 23rd saw a real cliff-hanger at Whiteman Raceway. Jim Deehan successfully held off "King of Whiteman.· Ron was the defending" King," so the 30-lap duel was doubly interesting. Though off to a comparatively slow start, Pierce had closed the gap by midway but didn't quite have the steam to 'get past, so Deehan. took home $100, a J. Edwards helmet and a magnum of champagne. Ken Clark had the beautiful TriumphMelisse out for this event and seemed to suffer from an excess of horsepower. Look for this "rocket ship· to appear at Antelope Valley. N ewest-rider-to-watch-dept. finds . K.n Clark 011 till • •tIlul RleluUa TrlUIIlpllllltl.H. . Smalt bikes are mu~ Ih .vl dlne.·hlr. Frank Fu.an I.ad. the paek throuch a sharp r1chtohandlr. the lead. Floyd Emerson came up to replace Joseph for the lead only to mess up around the next corner and give it back to Joseph who hung on to it this time. D.G. McNabb stole the 250 Novice lead. He went on to win after fighting off Elmer Kraus and Jim Newberry. Elmer pushed him real hard but didn't quite have it, and lost bya wheel. Haustein off the line first in the 250 Am.-Ex. Main only to lose it to Carl Leihr. He fell and Haustein had it back again. Jim Flagg and Harley Eads relie ved him of it this time. Haustein got back into second by giving his CZ the juice and passing Harley down the straight. Jim went out with trouble and Haustein breezed over for the win. two in the spotlight this time. Byron Black, Cycle News correspondent, has shot to the forefront as a contender with his Kawasaki 350. He even won the 350 GP class at sacramento, despite full street trim. He needs a little more smoothness, then watch out. Also one to keep an eye on is San Francisco's Bill Judkins. "Bill J," as his helmet monogram says. proved himself by taking a close fourth at Sacramento July 2nd. He was sandwiched between Jim Deehan and Steve McLaughlin at the finish and these three put up a nearly race-long duel, with Judkins being on the short side for experience compared to the two veterans. Great finish for Bill out of a field of ,over 25 250s, especially since he rides a self-tuned Yamaha. Two AFM regulars, Ron Grant and Art Baumann, did quite we II for California at the Indy road race National August 6th. Grant won his heat in the Amateur-Expert 250cc race, then proceeded to take second to Ga/y Nixon in the final after loading Ull on the start line. Ron has been plagued with bad luck at Nationals the past two seasons, but The 650 Expert Main was the corker of the day, a hard one to believe as Lady Luck had her hand in this one. Bill Kreeger led off the line with Carl Cranke on his tail. Next time around Cranke was in the lead and Kreeger nowhere in sight. Gene Conant moved into second and Skip Hurtiman up to third. Carl really stretched it out then went down and Gene bree zed over for the win. Now. here's where Lady Luck took over. Coming out of the last turn Skip'S rear axle loosened on the left side, in turn pulling the spokes out of the right side of the wheel. As if that wasn't enough the chain came off. but despite it all he managed to coast over for a well deserved second. Crazy, huh? (Results on pace 16) we'll be pulling for him at Carlsbad in september. He finished third in the 250 last year after knocking the rear brake level and footpeg off on a hay,bale. Baumann Did It Big The .Amateur big-bike race at Indy must have looked like a HarleyDavidson benefit before the heats but eyes and earS(l2,OOO rpm) turned when Art Baumann won his heat on a Honda 450 with Jim Deehan third on another ·Black Bomber." Art went on to lead all but one lap of the 50-mile Main and cruised home with at least a twenty-second lead. Jim Deehan was in fourth whEtn he slid off. which put him back to finish in eleventh. Credit for the tuning of Arts' new mount goes to the Precision Machining Team from the san Francisco area. Both Baumann's and Deehan·s mounts at Indy are raced at AFM events, and really caused some second glances and even a double check from the camps of the other brands that are raced regularly at AMA Nationals. Round thirteen of the AFM championships go this Sunday. Aug. 20th at Cotati, with all classe s being run. see you there.