00
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Auteur BSA ri der (68) urry Keup of Oberlin, Pa. sneaks up on Harl ey-mounted oppone.1,
but Triumphs took a 1-2-3 In yello ...plate feature,
CON TINUE D FRO M PA GE 1
Rayborn Favored
T rackside han dicappers heavily favored road race ace Cal Ray born and his
Harley- Sgper- Davidson In the Expert
ti lt, after watc hing all the leader s pr actice . But Triumph'S cur r ent nati onal
champion Gary Nixon too k Ray born' s
measure In thei r pr ellm and s howed pe rfe ct command of the cou rse. It was clear
that passing would be a pr oblem on the
narrow-line circuit,
,
During the next exper t prellm, fan s
were shocked to see young Walt Fulton
the Third on a factory Harley, get by
Rayborn and try to take Nixon on the out s ide coming out of one buttonhook. He
didn't make it, that time, but did a nlce
TT number through the wee ds ,
Come the final for the Championship,
it was a r epea t of the preliminaries except F r ed Nix on his H- D was holding off
Nixon, Rayborn and Bar t Markelfor tlrst
And here's how youn, H-D ace Wall Fulton ( 99) did the deed to (1) Gary Nixon (T rl umph) on the outside yet! And he swooped Cal Rayborn to boot, In wlnnlnl his flrst-e. er NaUonal
Championship as an Expert.
place. Markel had gotten otf twice in
weeds In the preliminary... only this
pr actice that morning and his wounded
clutch hand wore a bandage . No one
would have faulted Bart It he'd cooled it,
but he was right there In the thick of
contention for those precious points.
Then Nix was out ot the battle and
Rayborn was In tront with Nixon fa irly
running up his tai lpipes, Cal turned the
tables on Gary for about halt the race,
fllling the track with motor cycl e , knees ,
elbows and anything else he could use to
keep the Triumph behind him.
Here Comes Fulton!
,- Off 10 the Au teurs and wiM er Gordon Razee (96 ) Is already movlnll nto chall enl lnl posit ion,
,
...
Second place Mik e Sponselle r (99) takes the outside I roo. ..
....
"
"
-
••, When out of the pack flashed that
crazy kid Fulton again, trying the same
dumb stunt that had put him Into the
,
ti me it wor ked! The #99 Harley- Davidson
squirted past Nixon and Raybo rn both,
tak1ng the lead while the grands tands
drowned out the roar ot motors with their
collective aston is hed gasp.
" I didn't think he'd try it again, " said
Nixon after the race, " when it didn't
work the tlrst time. He nat caught me
napping,"
Fulton stretched his advantage, laying
his machine on its cases In absolute detlance of all physical laws, Rayborn held
Nixon out ot second spot unl1l the tlnal
turn around the buttonhook leading to the
checkered flag, when Gary threw a sortot
body block that nerfed Calvin Into a hay 'bale long enough for #1 to sllp pastfor a
few more poi nts toward the Grand National Championship TiUe,
It was a happy Walt Fulton who whe eled
his oil - dripping motorcycle into victory
lan e, winne r ot the tlrst-ever Miniature
Road Rac e National Championship . F ulton credits his tune r Jer ry Fo shey of
Milwaukee for his horsepower, which
malched the young champion' s daring for
full 30 laps ,
(Results on page 16)
A cornerlu l of Nallonal Cham
pions, (18)
Mert u wwll l (HoD), (79) Buddy Elmore
(Tri umph) , (95) Fred Ni x (HoD) and (22)
Dan Haaby (HoD), Follow lnl cloHly are
(44) Bil l Sholly (Tri umph), (53) Terrene.
Knoll (Tr iumph) , (10) Ron Grant (Suzuki),
(5) Yvon DuHamel (Yama
ha) and (32) Dusly
Coppap (Tr iumph),
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