Cycle News - Archive Issues - 1960's

Bast And Savage Dethrone Woods CalTA MESA, CALIF . .Im. 27-A~ c:apaclq crowd at tile Count,y FaircrOUDds Friday mpt was treated to some 01 tile wildest speedway racing yet seeD 011 tb1B small oval. After a terrUtc sbow1DC In tile baDdtc:ap II-.t and semi, a three-man pUe-up In bls scratch bat !brew Rick Woods against tile fence extremely bard aDd so bls match race witll Steve But was poslponed so !bat Rick could recuperate aDd hls pit crew could repair the mlc blne • Steve But won tile rigbt to c:baUenge Woods for wtlat tile IDDO\Dlcer called .. KIng 01 tile Rill" by virtue 01 hls match race win against JolIn Carter. 1bls wasn't tile eud of Carter's hard luck for tile evenInc. As he sat 011 tile llne for tile scratc:b semi-tlnal. he due a grOOft witll bls rear wbeel to get a good bite and a good start ott tile llne. But wben the flag was dropped, he had such a good bite tbat the mach1De stood stralgbtupandpltched Jobn of! tile back, ending bls chances of a matn ennt ride. orance KAWASAKI SPEED KITS 120cc .. 175cc ~6 wrlta or call $ ., III .. DRACO'S MOTORCYCLES 1&29 So. Standard Ave. 5ata Ana, Cal. 92707 (714) 543-961. As Rick aDd Steve pulled to the line for tile ChI Denge match, Woods was stlll In pain from hls ~ witIl the wall. You could see paI.ned expressiOll 00 biB face when be had to move biB left arm. After tile races Rick was taken to tile bospltal for x-rays. Steve was first Into tile comer, but then he dill just what Rick was boptne be would do, he druted wtde coming outaDd Rick had squared the corner and shot past blm on tile Inside and hit the next corner first. He gassed it a liWe too soon aDd tile front wbeel came up whUe he was sttll crossed up but he didn't shut ott, be just carrled it ttll tile machtne was beaded stralgbt and stayed side by side witll Steve. Not a person in tile stands was sitting down and tIlecheerlng drowned out tile soUDd of the engines. They were wide open side by side Into the last corner but Rick was on the outside and that made the dttference as Bast took tile win by Incbes. The fans cbeered botll of tIIem all tile way Into the pits. st111 came, Rlck came back out for tile Bandtc:ap MaIn. Botb But and Woods were stormtnc, but tIley cou1dn'tlaketlle lead away from SwedeSavagewboccpped hts first matn event win of the season. As the leaders crossed the llne for tile c:beckered t:Ia&, Jlm Gresbam and Lonnie Arnold botb made a cbarge fortllefourtll position out of tile last corner aDd got tangled up and both went down on tile stralgbtaway before tIley could cross tile llne. Lonnle recovered enough to pick bls macbine up and pllSb it across the llne for the fourtll spot. • The Scratch Main started out as a battle between Steve Bast aDd Bnlce Haserot with Sonny Nutter right behtnd tIlem. Bruce was staying rlgbt on Steve's rear wheel but be was trying just a little too bard aDd lost I t In tile corner. Nutter tried to move up on But but the dttference was I little too mucb and Steve took tile cbeckered t:Ia& a good b1J

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