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'a , - ' of a nea-cDPadIJ crowd lIIe 'Ia. CO.I down on tile Itlrt of III. Nu••1II Mil. Mila. National Number OlIO Gary Nllon lion til. . . talde pol•• Wlaner Fred (3) Nix II Jult allud of Nixon pullin. of' III. line. This Is tII.fom tIIlt mlde Gary Nixon number OlIO lut y•• but hi hasn't bHn a serious tllreat to til. point I.aders yet this y_. IIltk (a7) Brelsford retired with llDebanlcal problell. and Cal (25) Raybom hua, on lor a sixth-place 'Inlsll. By Ed Youngblood c "I ride Illtln, down but for thll, a man should stand up and do It rl,ht,' Sly s Fred In tho win. ner's circle. • 'Alla_UTO Penton - Hodaka Yamaha - BSA I:lusqvarna Norton 1223 I Laneuter (a051 942-9624 36153 N. SI.ra Hwy. Palmdale - (105) 947·7365 Ave~ IHARLEY-DAVID80N I Rapido ImmUIIlR Delivery Splrtster Harley-Davidson o( Oceanside 216 Via Del Monte Oceanside, California (714) 757·7510 NAZARETH, PENNA., May 17 - The first mile event of the .1969 season came d! as a novel and successful meet, and Fred Nix continued his mile track domination of last year • TIle Nazareth "mile" is ac tually a mile and one-eighth in length, and shaped like no other dirt track on the National Circult. The first turn is a gradual sweeper that banks downward onto a short stright, then into a tighter bank that leads to the uphill, long curve which replaces the back straight of the normal track. From there the riders again make a slight downhill drive into the huge, uniform of the last turn, leading outonto the long stretch in front of the grandstand. 11 is a .. D" shape, rather than oval• TIle surface is of the Eastern clay common to car tracks, and it packs down to a hard, tacky surface. 10 the time trials twenty-four Amateurs and thirty-four Experts assaulted the new and unusual circle, and Fred Nix set the pace of the evening by turning the mile plus in 42.06 seconds to better the 42 .60 record set last September by Bob Sholly • 10 speed, that comes to an average of over 96 miles per hour. Back straight speeds must haye been approaching 120. Gary Nixon, riding a Triumph Trident, ~ECTATOR LIABILITY AND PARTI· l:IPANT INSURANCE FOR TRACK OWNERS, PROMOTERS AND CLUBS ~ BUSINESS PACKAGES- MOTORCYCLE & AUTOMOBILE -lIFE-& ACCIDENT. s. turned second fastest at 42 .08, and Bart Markel and Dick Mann tied for tb1rd at 42.11. Fast Amateur, as you might expect, was {)lve Aldana, who turned 42.26 on a Rocket 3. Dooald Castro, with 42.94, and Royal Sherbert, with 43.96, were the only other Amateurs to cut below 44 seconds. So that the t1nal Expert heat and the Expert consolation would not be run back to back, the organizers staged the preliminaries in the order of two Amateur heats, four Expert heats, the t1nal Amateur heat, and the Expert consolation. Hot Eastern Amateur Robin Martin (63£) won the first seven laP heat in 5:09.11, Don Castro (lly) took the second heat in 5: 08.07, and Aldana (38x) won the tb1rd at 5:05.75, to round things offnicelywith the three best in the nation setting times that accurately reflect their relative abllities. ExPert heats were eight laPs each, and were won by Markel (5:41.56), Ed Varnes (5:40.54), Nixon (5:44.15), and Nix (5:41.77), with Fred Varnes tak1ng the four laP consolation at 2: 59.52. TIle Varnes brothers were the surprisers of the night, with Ed turning over a full second taster than Nix, and with Fred roya1lY trouncing the likes of Duhamel, Sholly, Darr, and Cunha. 10 the Amateur t1nal Dave Aldana achieved his fourth victory in five National tries, running off from the field on a howling BSA three. TIle vicious vibra- Specialized Triumph - Honeu Repairs· Custom Racln,· En,ines Machine Work· Moll sse Kits Cyl. Boring· Head Po,tin, MIKE BURKE HARRIS· PINSKY OF IIICHAEL BENDER" ASSOCIATES, INC. 5225 WILSHIRE BOULEVARD, Suite 717 L.A., Calif. 90035 (213l 937.2011 15178 Rayme, 51. Van Nuys, Cal. 91406 Telephone (213) 780.0779 BROKER INQUIRIES INVITED. DESERT SET UP SCRAMBLES Motorcycl e Specia lties