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November 21, 1968
Amer ica That Gins a Damn About Motorc,cles
Dan Haaby (22) tries the Insid e tr ac k to fend off Kellh Mashburn (101). It didn 't work. Terry Don.
ahe r (201) foll ows Ha aby.
GARDENA, c at., Oct. 25 - For the thi rd
straight week Exper tandAmateur riders
played second fiddle to firs t year Novice
r iders In the 14- event program Fr iday
night at Asco t Par k. Gr een pla tes won
nine , Including the T rophy Dash and Main.
Keith Mashburn (Yamaha) again led the
upset-minded beginners as he rode home
first In thr ee or the four events. Keith
was upset In the Dash by fello w Novice,
Don Castro.
Mas hburn now has won 10 of 12 races
the past thr ee F r iday nights and was
again an easy winner In the 10- lap final .
Amateur riders , shut out two weeks ago,
ca me up wtth two wins. Experts managed
thr ee first during the foggy evenin g.
Friday Norv. 8 Finale
F riday night, Nov. 8th the half- mile
riders .r etur n for the final cycl e ra ce of
the year at Ascot. Experts. Amateur s and
Novices will ride In Individual clas s es
probably a r elief rot the Experts.
In the final, Cas tr o was too eager and
spilled onto the fr ont stralghlaway.Along
ca me Ellio tt Schultz. the las t rid er to
make the featu re. Elliott had no place to
go. Rath er than run over the fallen machine he head ed for the Infield and the
TT Jump.
Mark Brel sford lead s Donaher and
Baker (58).
Da llas
DeWayne Keeter (115) and Da.e Aldana II gilt
It out .
But that aimed him stratght at the
parked ambulance so Schultz la id the
mac hine down at speed , spll1tng over the
side In a cloud of dus t. Schultz and his
Bullaco were unscathed .
Checkered Flag For Steve
Local Short Track r acing suffered Its
first fatali ty Friday night. Amateur Steve
Pederson fell off on the backstretch in a
Semi-final and was hit by another r ide r .
Steve s uffered a br oken neck and died
later that night.
Peder son was a second yea r rider who
ca me fr om sportsman road racing. He
was one of the top five Novice finishers
at Daytona In ' 67 and among the top ten
Novice half - mllers last season at Ascot.
Thi s year he won one Matn event as
an Amateur and finis hed second in the
Amateur final at the Ascot national last
month. Steve was sin gle and employed by
Amer ican Kawasaki In Gar de na.
(Results on page 16)
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Inlernatlonl' Moto-CrolS IIcln, CI" to Americi lasl wllkend, be,lnnln, Ihl 1968 Inllmltlonll .. ssen, Rider
- Photo by Jlck Mercer.
In foro,round herl, al Mld-Ohlo Rlclway, II Czech. Vlasdmll VaIlk.
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