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Roar and thund er 01 the mighty mll ers as Santa Rosa National gets unoerway. Here are #18 Mert
Lawwl ll, #1 Gary Nixon and winner #95 Fred Nix head ing lor the firs t turn.
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Already In a feet·up s lide, Nix (95) le ads '#12x Ron Kruseman, #47 P at Gos ch and #44 x DeWayne
Kee ter. Nix's dec isi ve victory wa s his IIlth In Natio na l Champions hip competi tion. He' s won
three mil e s, two hall-m ll es.
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Suspense Is In the air as ri ders and machin es awa it the go-ahead nag lor start 01 lO-M ll e Santa Ros a Nati ona l. In the Iront row are (Irom lelt) #18 Mert Lawwl ll (H- D), #1 Gary Nixon (Tri umph) #38
Chuck Pa lmgren (T riumph), #95 Fred Nix (H- D) and la st qua lifier #4 Bart M
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Back and lorth action between #47y Mark Bre ls lord (H· D) and #20x Tom Rockwood (Trium ph) was
hllh llght 01 the Amateu r IIna l. Brelsford, riding Mert La wwlll' s spare mach ine, ace d out Rockwood, a board Joe Dudek's. bike, lor yellow-p late honor s.
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Jamison tore out a large section otfence
In his heat r ace and was also In j ured.
Defending National champ, Gary Nixon, did not fall off but took hi s lumps In
the National final. Gary was never closer
to the lead than si xth place the first six
laps. The last f our laps found Gary dropping all the way to ninth .
P al mgren Impressi ve
Dete rmi ned #4 Bart Markel (H-D) lea ds Tr lumph'mounted #38 Chuck Pa lmgren at th is polnL Bar.
rellln' Bart cranked It en t"overtake Mert Lawwlll lor second place, P almgren rode a smooth,
consistent race and fin ished 4th.
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One of the best rides of the day was
turned In by "rookie" Chuck Palmgr en.
He held fou rth all the way to again finish
ahead of hi s teacher, Gary Nixon.
Two more mile track events remain
on the ' 68 schedule. In Aug ust at Sedalia,
Missouri and then back to Sacramento
in mid-September f or the final race on
the Califor ni a State Fairgr ounds track
before It Is torn down.
In the meantime , the National cir cuit
now swings to the Midwest wi th a r oad
race at Indianapolis this weekend and a
new national TT at Lincoln, Nebraska
next week.
(Results pri page 16)
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Ni x show s style and form that brought him the
Santa Rosa cash and points. Lawwlll (18) was
overtaken by M kel (4) In IInal rundown.
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