Cycle News - Archive Issues - 1960's

' S OF OMISSION INS Bori s Murray and his Ed Kretz -spon sored · Fl uslrillo...• Two promoters are actively engaged In Increasing the activiti es of motorcycle drag racing. After a la ps e of som e ten years, motorcycles will once again compet e a t Bakersfield , Calif., In the big annual NHRA thr ee-day drag meet on Ma rch 8-9 - 10, thanks to the efforts of Mr. Jerry Johnson . For thts first time In a decad e, there wlll be no classes . Only the one big headsup elimination for top bike . At present ther e is a one hundred dollar purse, but Johnson Is working hard at obtaining conti ngencies that will swell the purs e to more pleasing figure s . The entry fee for Bakersfield, Mar ch, mee t Is twenty- five dollars, if preentered. A post entry would cost you for ty- five . Deadline for the pre-entry ts February 29th l If you plan to enter thts pr es tige event, send the entry plus Infor ma tion on machine and r ider to: Ker n County Racing Assoc., 701 Baker St., Bakersfield, Calif. 93305. Sign In on F r iday, run for tuning on saturd ay and Eliminations Sunday . Texas Deep In the heart of, and at the r aceway known as Austin Raceway Park, Austin, Texas: Mr. Tom my Connor s has put his headers to the wall and pr oduced a schedule of Big Buck for Bikes drag r ac ing. Seven da te have been scheduled to flll out a s ummer racing card. The first event will be held in conJunction with the A.M.A. and Southwest Motorcycle Racing Association on Sunday, March 3rd. The drags will be held as a part of the Champions hips Road Races and it 's race for the quarter-mil e come rain or shine I Other dates Tommy has scheduled are Ma rch 17, April 21, May 18, June 22, July 20 and a big three-day weekend on August 30, 31 and wrapped up on sept.l. I! you feel a strange tingll ng des ir e to travel for Texas and r equire more information , call Tommy Connor at hls office, GR. 2-82 46 or dis turb hls night 's sleep at GL. 4- 2993. Lions March 23, a saturday afternoon and evening In sp rints for a $900.00 (nine hundr ed) dollar purse. The eliminations will be class ed by E.T. brackets, not displacementorslage of modification. The bre akdown of elapsed times has already been prepared but is being hel d in a sealed envelope untll r ac e time on March 23r d. There are ten br ackets in all, with a crash payo ut as follo ws: Top E.T . $50.00. Top mph $50.00. Bracket number 1 $200.00 for top and $50.00 to the r unnerup; #2 - $125.00 & $50.00, #3 - $75.00 & $25.00, #4 - $75.00 & $25.00, #5 $50.00 & $15.00, #6 - $50.00 & $15.00, #7 - $25.00 & Tr ophy for run ner -up, #8 - $10.00 plus a Tr ophy for the winner and a TrophY for the run ner -up. #9 $10.00 plus Tr ophY & TrophY, 1110 Trophy & Trophy. No matter what type machlne you r ide, side-hack, moto -cross or d ra g s t e r , there is a place for you in thts Motorcycle Drag Fes tival . Drag Racing Lions can never be equal led in the variety of machines that appear. Last week they had the Desmodromic Triumph of BI1l sauer and this week a gentleman by the name of Parslos brought out a C uer Injected BSA I Beautiful if not effective. The Injector s gave Parsios a class win with the E.T. of 12.88 seconds tha t had the clocks s topped at 99.11 miles pe r hours. The BSA was great on the lower end but fell flat on top, as you can tell by the mph. And then there's l:ave Aller . What's he do ? Just what no one else has ever accomplts hed, Take a stroke bore 305 Honda and stop the el ectronic clocks at a remarkable 13.02 seconds , with a speed of 101.46. The Honda 350 and 450 race r s are pushed hard to equal those marks. In e hurly- burly of the recent Ascot TT season opener, a couple of omissi occ urred in our coverage tha t 'd like to put to rights. Ftr st off, in the Novice Main Event. It was stated on our results page that Bultaeo-m nted S t e v e Bast finished third. 'ot SO . Bast. wllOs number is 116R, was lnadvertantly confused with Gary Landry, an 0 -of-stater "..ho traled th sands of miles fr om the Deep South just to compete at Aseot and whose number is U 6L• . t Y d Landry grab a thtrd in the MaIn, he also took lhl rd in his heat race and 'WOn the . ' vice semi-main, riding a Bultaco. Our lIOlOlog1es for missing this flne effort by an Ascot beginner, and we'll be wa teh1ng for hlm next ti me . Also , whlle we're on the subject of flne effor ts, a word aboui Blll Manley. He dn't receive deserved recogni tion either. Aboard a Triumph, Bm took the fastest Exper t heat race, sat on the pole C the Expert Trophy Dash , and wound or uP fourth in the Main Event, hls very best effor t to date, There, now we feel better - and we hope Landry and Manley do, too. TELL THEM YOU SAWIT IN CYCLE NEWS Irwindal e Six In for top bike eleim inations, Murray, Gordon, Disharoon, Ebeling, Mc Evoy- Martinez and Joe Smith. Three Triumphs and four Harleys . Early tn the day Bob Braverman' s Yamaha was In there, but a transmission was s pitting out teeth and Braverman was forced to load UP. Bor is Mur ray had the blist In mUes per hour but was put away when beta.eed Joe Smi th In the first round of eliminations . Murray's big twin- engine Triumph did a first time b g wheelie and so did Smith, but Joe's wasn' t as hlgh, got down on the ground quicke r and took the win. Murrays best for the day was 9.84 seconds . Ebellngs Sta-Lube letters were tarnished when he snu ck ofC the Une ahead of Rick "Flash" Gordon and was given the big red eye for an illegal start. Gordon' s Harley gasser won the round with an E.T. oC10.84 while Ebeling tried to hlde in the bushes at the quarte rmlle' s end in 10.75 seconds, Disharoon's 55- inch SPortster was up against the for midable McEvoy- lartinez twin-engine Triumph. Buddy lartinez r ode the big double to a good lead and victory In 10.17 seconds whlle Disharoon .was sucking the draft at 10.64 seconds. Three wer e left. McEvoy and !artinez drew the lucky odd man pos ition and sat It out while Joe Smith and Gordon went to battle. Har ley vs . Harley but Laidlaw Harley l:avldson brought Joe the fuel that P t the " Flash" of Gordon out in 10.14 seconds. Ah, Triumph vs , Harley and both with low ten E.T . Cigures. Up on the s tarting Une each rider burned in the rear tire and pushed up to the stagtng llghtS.R.P.M.' swerebrougbt to s hattering numbers as the countdown came. At the il"een light cl utches were dropped and Martinez was of!' in a cloud of s moke but Smith was just s iWng there. Not bur ning rubber, the enginewas O.K., racer was in that expectant crouch, waiting for the surge of power tha t lifts Ceet from the ground and makes dimples in the r ear cheeks fr om the pressures of "6" forces, but none of It happened, for Smith was out of gear. Martinez won the top bike race In 10. 51 seconds. e astic , • s • Smalle r Ones I'll bet you didn't know that Ron Kn2pp is now the first s ingle engine Yamaha to run In the eleven-second bracket. He has, and at an 11.96 elapsed tim e. This week he only tickled the elevens with r epeated low 12 second runs , Uke hls bes t of 12.08 at 107 miles pe r hour. several ·650' s were out In the gas burning classes and J erry Nance put them all do....n one by one . J erry's Triumph won B gas with an E.T . of 12.03 seconds a t 108.00 mlles per hour. '(Res ults on page 16) re ones, a-Speed Gearbox, ger Wltee se, Wi er Wlteel Ibns, ger, S dUer Sb e s . .. Let f u r F· f er write: II I I the est. PABA-Teo •.o. toll w ... ~ ~ 97Il1 ..

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