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c s-tW. . . . . . . III first -=- I P........... tIIs TIlls Is enc,c'e wi • yur. Pamclc was able llD calx:b staats 011 IDe long tire ro8d, and with tiIat big twin be raHy put 1t to b1m audwas able to build q> a minulIe's lead llD come in fer tile win, maJdng it fear moerall wiDs tbis year. staats was second and tDoIt first 500 Expert for bis first ride as.an EJrpert, aud bad a big six-m1nulle lead over IDe "'S .... seery bJ Dicll ll'riCtaU 9dT bJ 'J eff .rii!h f ·...n mt rn After a long. bard grind. Mike Patrick. #7 Open Expert. palled into the finish line on his big Norton twin as the winner of the Cbampioosbip Hare Scrambles held in the dusty rock band forty miles norrJr of Adelanto. Calif. on April 21. The smoke bomb ft.5 placed about eleven miles out trom the start and ~ very bard to see. It -as to get worse n9 ' _"' ~ .T. ~ "1' Vall TeclHlodIU pilot CI_ TllDmas h_ filldllll his war 111 !hInt Expert tQIlbllle behind low K...... joclul)'s W ADdersan Jr. aDd J _ Jackletl. .. when the race started, espec.lally lor tile rIders In the middle of. the pack, beca_ of. ail the dust. . At the drop of the banner, IDe comb1ned Open and 250cc riders took ott, with Randy Burak, 1172, ~ at ~ smoke bomb and really maJdng it. Young Steve staats, #95 on a new Bultaco El Bandtdo was second. other rtders were comIng fr om all sides, as some bad drltted way 10 the lett and some 10 the r1ght. After the smoke bomb, Burak unloaded, wbicb slowed bini down coos1derablyand allowed Staats 10 take ORr the lead. staats then got lost, and dropped back to tb1rd. After the first loop of. t1ttY miles of. deep saod trails, sandwasbes, aDd rock;y bills, the leaders came 1Dto the ptts llD gas up, and then llDok of.I ap.1n tor tile second and last Jacp around the same course (except tIIIlt ttIis time it would rea1l7 be cIIewed QIl, espec;.JIy in tile rocky, sandy. biDs). SIaats Jed 1t out of. pits, .aDd WIlle Patrick was l"UIIIIbIg .ecoDd, got lost going to IDe smoke bomb. Be stopped U> ask dI.rect1oos of. some of IDe riders wen! broken down on tile many trans llIlad1Ilg llD tbe matn trail, but tbey dicSn't know eilber, so be lost.a little time getting str.alebtened out. AIIDve: ·FIJlnE ~ KlIf'IMII" Ed SclII.II. balhlqtlrulll andan lDfoartll£Jopert talIlIINIL. llitht: LupinE L""'d UIIplIobactl Iaaded • _II _ d fifth p lace .ide In SODa: £lqIert class. TORSIO FORK BRACE .• ....• That Works! Prime Steel with Alloy Clamps, no Holes to drill. Super Strong. 223 W. CAM INO REAL, MONROVIA . CALIF . 91016 WRITE - 213447-8342 tblrdman. Ken Knudsen. #24 Open ~rt, and 'lbomas, #18, w1Io Is still In bIgh sdIool, bad bot duel on their TrIumphs in the open desert. Thomas _ able to SDe&II:by Knudsen In the twisty tra1l, but IDe more experienced KDudsen _ able to repass 1bomas on the rockbed where IDe rocks were about bad size and solid as a blghway but not as smooth. Knudsen ended up In tb1rd and'Ibomas _ fourth, tak1ng first Open Amatsur. sam IJemp&ey, $#65, was fitl:II.and took tblrd Open Expert. .Allen Gibbs; #542, ~ rode ,a clean race and pulled of.I first 500 Novice .and sl.xlh averall on a Husky. Danny Kline, !l7x, was the tlrst lightweight in, and ninth overall, on b1s 250cc Gr eeves . Danny had lost a couple of places when he came over one oftbose sbort bills with a llttle too much pressure; the trail turned lett and he went stratgbt, 1and1ng In a bed of rocks. Be was okay, thougb., except tor a sore thumb. Scott Lllpraik, il571, grabbed twelfth overall .and was the first Open Norice In 011 a TrIumph. Scott just turned 18 two cIIIys before tile race. R. 14. Osborn, #45%, bad a good day, pulI1Dg in 18th aud first %SOcc Amateur 011 a Baliaco. 'Ibe winDers of this day of racing really earned Ibeir gold, as 1t -.sa rough course. In tact, ODe Hoodarlderhadsucb a bad day tilatbalt-_yBrOUlldthecourse b1s bike gaw out 011 b1m and be got so mad that be opened IDe cas tank IIDd threw a matcb in it; be just let it burn ~ aDd came bad< on a sIdeb8cltwttb tbe clean-q> crew.