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ill pers ~o I SUZ U ,t Walt Axthe1m by Maureen Lee I I PERRIS, Cal., Oct. 13 - Continuing the '''''If'run,,,,t to up g r a d e District 37 Wlltoppers tried the mass start again GROOVY! = Sunday and it ' 1IlLS ·ut only tllat, they Triumph-Suzuki Motors 1049 WeSl 5th Street Pomona, Calif. ( 714) 629-8642 -******************' : track backwards and tllat was SUPERGROOVY! Actually, Perris 15 maybe better ridden backwards than t 15 forwards and we're all for the every th one club hosting a rim there does tb1s. But back to the Iillltoppers" , Ea.dl class ran a full the 10 course. There were no t1ee sessions wh1ch el1m1na.ted bassles of latecomers getting none or Sneaky-Petes' ending UP with four p ces others only one. Instead c1nb :ve several laps of pract1ee at start of t. You rode out to the e checkers made sure you pected and belonged in tllat race, practiced, returning stra1gbt to the ready line and then off yoC went f : THE TWO-WHEELEI : suz * R dJ for I * * G;-'Pka;Yh-;sifl, ~ 1Area's lea t I ea er a . C ~I • Parts & Accessorlu 5663 .. Rou ad Blvd., T. I. City t (213) 236-7504 , -I ~~~~ ~ ~ ~~ ~ Hodaka \ !o( orey cl cs Greeves Montesa Kawasaki es inister S ort Cycle Guy R. Louis (714) 893-7057 7574 Westmi ni ster Ave. Westminster, Cal. US~D e : SAVE ; IHO DA Discount Cycle Center 1 PARTSTE H5511 Wilmin gton 1 1505 Avalon, II 'nglen. Calif . _ ...................•••.... SIIell n et II (h) was on. af 1II. a,' s .... l. stri ders, CllDlP IIIlnlll.... sapara.. e ssas. Aker made two tours into the pits, with a heRder that came unglued a loose wire, but he still had a line through the r ock turn that others in his class should study, full throttle all the way with no loss of time and tracti on be1ng spent slIdes•..and he f1n1shed the race...our " hero" for the daY?-.has to be Char s Summers in the 50 Novice class-!l1s grandfather, CalIfornl.a Gopher Alvin Slim mers brings him out to the races p weekly trips to Ascot and 8year-old Charles goes ve ry well eed .-from such stuff are future Natiala1 KlrlI s ri r Dan carl.. ( Expert Main _ t \II ~ Vlnc.t Grawn (Y ). in and fr1eDd Triumph ba1lt he'n be welcome add1t1011 to Open Amatenr class-he goesl _wonder how many of the OPen Novices know that 1#74 John Kavanaugh 15 also one great trails rider besides being a good scrambler ...despite a triP to the pi ts Stml1ay he worked back up into the pack before the flag fell. TIle OPen Amateur-Expert class was a good1-QU1te a few people thought it Ben Fatkeldy in the lead btIt it WllSIl't.Terry Dorsch really got cot in front but Ben hung on to second in sp1 te of going flopsvl1le in the teacup turn~ Van Champions . The HilltoPpers presented a :very well run scrambl (more on the subject in Scramb11n ' Aramd) and everyone enjoyed It, especla1ly leaving for home about 4 0' clock. And no one could say they didn't get enough rld1ng! Next W eek) (R Speed ay King was Bast and Larry Hefnselma n , a really good sboY. TbeT were less than two feet apart for the entire trip and, in the drag right down to the wire , Bast won by about three and a By J A . Grant Photo. by Dennis Greene 5 pntt1ng let Woods, by vlrllla of wlnnlne Class A SpHdwa, Clwnp l nshlp, IYW. willi arid CIIa lllP Ivan lila ... events on Saturday nI.ght, october 26 at Whiteman Stadium. Sound exciting? It should, be cause s ome of the European riders, including World Champ Mauger, have a nerve-des troy1ng method of sliding through the corners with both fe et 00 their r 1d1ng pegs! in the team racing events, the Valley Red DevIls, led by the three s t:ra1ght ........ IAWASAI' -a-. Headquarters lEACH a nES CYCLES 525 II . ! I Ca lno a l s. ca_lll.. Callf. .la mel 4!2-&lU 011 ~ Guy L is SHELL HO cOo , wo yanked the carpet from under the Pasadena Pounders in an !pt-event card. 'Ille flnal score: Valley, 35, P oanders, 15. The nonts sa... uttertearing apart the t1rst Semi field of Jim Doran, O'Brien, Schultz and Jolmny .. , carter. in the secOlld Semi, it U.S. Woods Versus Mauger *" * '~ ~ ! t.:l ..J oods- After r e eel v I n g the Unl.ted State s ChampionshIP Trophy from lovely Gall Ellwood, Woods was Inf ormed he would hav e to face the Current World SPeed'N3Y King, Ivan Mauger, in some spec1al -ate Dell (114) &85 -344S a_,. PACOIMA, Cal., Oct. 11 - in a spirit.. st1rr1ng night of thirty-foot rooster taUs saillng into the n1drt air, the cr of American speedway racers met at Whiteman Stadium , resul ting In the 1968 Sovereign, the new Champion of the Unl.ted States - a young sensatioo named . Rick Woods. Rick Woods, the man wbo found himself locked in a tie tile week before f or the Po1nt ChampionshIP at Trojan Speedway in South Gate, ool7 to be deprived (1 t Crown in the last race on the last 1, got retr1bDtlo n just one week later. Woods z1Wed into an early lead, then turned back the repeated bi ds of Sonn;r Nutter, Jack O'Brien (the point leader), EWolt Schul tz, Larry Heinselman, and another young sensatioo, Steve Bast. in some of the best action ever seen at Whiteman, Rick, with his lock to lock, full-wick po wer slides, was a nervy, deserving winner . ~:~ 167 W. Coltan An. $all Bamardlno, Call Haci g Action quite a field of Powder riders 50'5_.20 of ' em and they all bad a tall with Steve Nlcho1s (Yamaha) overall•••the 50' s don ' t mind mImI.r'" with the 1ad1es but qui te a fe w of and the gals agreed tllat the gals ha:ve been better on the back row 1nstead of the front at the start••.K1rk Mc Dowell riding three classes with a broken sw1JlC1ng arm in the firs t and be aLnost left beh1nd in the 250._ some of the gays were arguing that the E%perts should start in r ow three and KIrk had it in aeutral while th1s was go1ng 011 and the starter dropped the flagl A!ly0l1e else not1ce the speetaealar up 011 the h1llin the 100 Novice? -me yoaog No'I'tce OYer-cooked it and cou1dn'tmake the next right-bander, go1nlt off the course, over the boulders where he and bike parted company each part1ally orbitt1ng and l!len com1nlt ~ to earth together.-rider walked btIt was :very wobbly••.yoUDg Loyal Walker 011 a Yamaha wearing tflose sbarp Team K & N leathers lead1ng the 250 Novices all the way l!len dropp1ng it 011 the last turn before he got the checter but he stillmanage