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la,lIor Wils lid, While Lawwill Takes Telth To Hold Poilt Lead
By Dewitt Thuett
lNDIANAPOLlS, IND., Aug. 3, 1969-
Harley-Davidson and tIleir team riders
recovered from ~elr mlle track shutout
at Santa Rom to return to the AMA nattonai wars In sl;yle that reminded the old
UDlers of former days.
Six team riders were on band for
Floyd Clymer's annual road race cbarnptoashlp at Indianapolis Raceway Park
and tIlose same s1J: an were runn1ng at
the f1D1sh and all were Ins1de tile first
len places.
Mike Dull. Yvon Duhamel and Ralph White
Cal Rayborn chalked uP his tb1rd major road racing victory of tile year witll
a run. that also gave him a new track
record, breaking tile mark be set In • 68.
Cal bas now won three of the four major
events on pavement this year witll only
the new San Francisco Sears Point left
to run on Sept. 6 & 7.
Rayborn'S factory riding teammates
all added valuable national polnts witll
Roger Reiman out of partial retirement to
fln1sb fourth, Walt Fulton took fiftll,
~eel
Rookie Mark Brelsford, elghtll and national point leader Mert Lawwtll running
tentll behind Bart Markel who flnisbed
nlntll.
Once again tile flying Yamaha 350' s
won tile battle and lost tile war. Yamaha
team riders and privateers teamed uPto
win botll of tile warm-uP beat races in
record times. YVOll Duhamel and Jody
Nicholas took tile bonors witll first one
and tIlen tile otller breaking the old track
records.
oyer and Illd the
~ack
throuch the sweeper.
The 110 rn11e final was one of tile best
road racing duels in tile histoI"Y ot
pavement racing. The first nineteen laps
saw Rayborn and Duhamel swap tile lead
no less than twenl;y times before tile
Canadian and his two stroke twin expired to tile pits witll a broken piston.
Each and every lap was a new track
record along tile way.
For tile second straight year it appeared that Duhamel was OIl his way to
victory. A year ago, witll a big lead, tile
Dick Is as cood a Mann as anyone to sll p stream down the stralcht.
Duhamel and rookie Ron Pierce ran away with the combined 250 nent.
Mark Brelsford eyes the nut turn as Bart Markel looks at the croon under Marks H-D.
