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Dave Aldana and his 250cc B5A tu ned by Ken
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Dusty Coppa ge Is leadi ng 5klp Van Leeuwen
In Ihe Expert Main here but los l II latsr,
By Maureen Lee
GARDENA, Call!., Nov . 2 - The Callforni a State Championship climaxed TT
races at As cot this season. Skip Van
Leeuwen, plagued two months in a row
by mecha.nicai woes, got back into the
winner's circle and David Aldana on a
rapid BSA ended hi s Novice year with
three track records, Records aiso fell
in other classes.
Action started early in the program
with high-point Novice Keith Mashburn
(Yamaha) taking the first heat. In the
second heat Dave Hansen broke Mashburn' s recor d of 2:27.01 by turning
2: 26.25 on his Kawasaki. Th e thir d heat
saw Hansen abruptly lose his record
when Aldana turned 2:25 flat, setting the
tone f or the evening.
First Amateur heat and anoth er record
went to Ron Pier ce ( Tri umph) wi th Jim
Rice ( BSA) taking second. But i n the
second heat Mark Brelsford (T riumph)
knocked five seco nds of! pierce' s new
r ecor d wi th a 3: 06.50.
Skip' Skips
I n the Expert class Skip Van Leeuwen
.usty Copwas just one point ahead of D
Al this polnllli ooks like 92R, Reg Chosney Is running away with It. Bul Alex Chlnowskl, 35X,
wa s the only ri der of this group 10 fina lly p lac e In the Amateur class. He was third. Other riders
here are 50R, George 5Urber; 97X, Ron Pierce, who crashed In the fi nal and 80 , J 1 Rice, who
m
.took second In his heat.
page bef ore the r ace. Earl y in it, Skip
f ound hi m self in third but soon got the
l ead. Th en i t was "Adios " for the rest
of the gang.
Coppage won the second of the two
heats in a r ace that saw Dan Haaby
( H- D)i try to pass Larry Wilburn ( Triumph}, on the outs i de com ing onto the
fr ont straight . What looked like a front
-r- wheel wobble put Haaby onto the ground
in a spectacular crash. It looked so bad,
ther e was a deathly hustin stands and the
pi ts . But after lying in the ambulance for
a whil e, Dan was up and moving around
again I n shor t or der .
With only three transf er places, the
Novice semi went to Tom Clark on a
200cc Sherpa with Don Dudek (Triumph)
trying hard but unable to pass him with
Larry l.Uller ( Bultaco) getting the third
and final transf er ·posl tion to the main .
Mike Posey (BSA) put on the sam e
kind of fight fo r his transfer to the Amateur main by coming up through the pack
f r om the back r ow for the win . Ji m Rice
( BSA) was pulling out aiJ stops behind
him.
Bob Bailey took the E.>
