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and If we have any " pull" he Will!
Note s on riders for the day; the speed
of tII1! tw o Milfi>.. 6is that' won the 100
Novice Maln ridden by Bob Saunders
who did in the super-fast Kawasaki of
Ri cbard Sweeney and Fred EdwardS who
took the E x per t class over Hondamounted Ken Lee and ravld Aldana
(Suzuki). Then how well Aldana did by
winning the 250 Expert class on a BSA ,
so non-two-stroke lovers stand up and
cheer and unfte! The 250 class can be
won by a four-stroke!
tit\!! Wbole deal.
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J im Goldsnth (614) was In tDp 250cc Elpert cl ass content ion aboard the Hockl . Ossa until hi s IIlro tt le stuck wide open and down h went.
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Wot a day! Out to the Perris, Calif.
track with the lightweights for practice
and th en staying there for such a l ong
time we actually loaded up by the light
cI. flashlights! The big boys didn't get a
dJance until way Into the afternoon, then
ran out of light so had to switch on the
lights and use the short course for the
remai nder of the program . The 500
E>lperts had to contend with lights on
the front half of the circuit and then
almost complete darkness for the rest
of the way In their last moto, plus a
start lett Chuck Minert dangling because he thought the starter was going
to back up his threat to put anyone back
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ho jumped. This time he didn't and let
them go with at least two riders two
bike lengths ahead of the line !
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until It showed up again . Then a guy fell
ot! playing in the gravel pit tlJJd had to
be trucked out by ambulance with another wait until the IJack- up ambulance
replaced him . In this case that man Is
going fo have to pay his own freight to
the hospital as Sun City has always
taken racing r iders free of charge from
Perris when they require full attention,
the only ambulance service we've ever
heard of that does this! Track owner
Gerry Bur ton was plagued all day by
phone calls from l ocal property owners
(and the l ocal police) who were !lndlng
riders riding where they shouldn't; on
surrounding dirt roads and out in to the
boondocks behind the track In spite of
sig ns saying NO MOTORCYCLES BE YOND HERE . So, you super squir r els,
som e of you had your numbers noted
and turned in . Rather than jeopardize
the continuance of the Perris track
we'd rath er have these turned Into the
Competition Committee for appr opr iate
action (lik e no card for six months and
In the 100cc Expert di visi on, Fred Edwards
(131) tool.d his Moto- Beta to IIrst plac.
ahead 01 K.. Lee (51) on a Honda.
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Par t of the day was spent adm i r i ng
each other' s number plate s wi th the
usual good natured ribbing that goes on
each year when you fi nd out what your
enem ies in your particular class have
ended up with. Fltty-four 100 Novices
showed up ( like wow, we're being Inva ded) , there was a total of some 290
rider s and 100 people through the gatel
In all good faith the Jack Rabbits hosting the event thought th ey ' d be good
guys and run everyone on the l ong cour se
but that takes time and when things get
to happening (and they did) you jus t can' t
run a full day of racing at this time of
the year wi thout runni ng Into probl em s,
wi th everyone on the long cou rse .
Cr ashes were rrequen tand we' re sad
to report a couple were r eal bad ones.
One tim e the ambulance was gone an
hour and ' fifteen minutes while r iders
sat and gossi ped, unable to continue
Torsten Hallman remarked lIlal J immy Stein
(80) has real tal .. t, and here the 250cc Amateur winner burs out the European motocross champion's statement.
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Moto-Beta mounted Bob Saunders piloted his
mount to 100cc Elpert cl ass win , swooplne
the speedy Kawasaki otrl val Richard Sweeney.
Here fendlne off his Ioes, Terry Dorsch ( 7)
took the measure 01 the harll-presslng Open
Elperts.
Jim my Stein (Husky) di d 'em In the
250 Amateur class too, and once again
ev en to the poi nt of repeating ourselves,
we say watch thi s young man! Terry
Dor sch out with hi s l ow number seven
Expert plate did I n the Open class,
beating Ben Fakk eldy and Dewayne Jones.
Young Jones was going like Jack:theBear on his A m e r I c a n Competition
Frame special. By the low number plates
carried by half the Open Amateur class
we suspe ct that the Open Exper t class
Is going to grow considerably larger
very quickly as mos t of the Amateurs
must be within ju st a few points of
transferring.
Our " favorite" eftort of the day has
to go to the win ning hack of Bingham and
Wade. The hacks were out In force. One
went ot! the cliff at th e end of the
straIght but In true hack fashion, dusted
oU, shook I ts elf, sai d "ouch" a couple
of times and got back Into action; and
two teams had " kneel er s" out, which
are a little hairy In the rough. Ed Wade
was passenger on one and was 11terally
dragging his posterior on the track around the rock turn! Keep that up Ed,
and we have a feellng that Ken Maely
Is going to get a request to r a " shoe"
i n a shape he' S never made befor e!
