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Lost Angels Find Way Around Tijuana Photo and story by B1ll Harmer TIJUANA B.C., MEXICO, Aug. 24, 1969Led by the sparkling performance 01 TrIumph mounted Frank Close who won the Open Class, the Lost Angels Motorcycle Club of Los Angeles uterally took over the Tijuana TT Racing Program at the Auto-Drama Tijuana here today. Because the Lost Angels Club came en masse and speclallzed In Open Class machines, that was by far the largest class and had to run In heats wblch Included the two 250Cc entries. Arough playtng grouP, the Angels really m1xed It uP lor the sparse crowd. 10 the closing laps of the Main Event, Larry Blum on a Triumph threatened his lellow club member, Triumph mounted Frank Close but was unable to get around him. Trljockey Pat Murphy of Carson, caw. made his presence felt by capturing thlrd. RI. ding a 250Cc Bultaco, Norman Walke of the Viewflnders M.C. tried va1nly to catch the bigger bikes, but had to settle for 4th. Hodaka mounted Del Ocheltree of Chula Vista won all three of the lOOcc Motos to take flrst. Kawasaki pllot, J1m Holt, took second In all three motos. John Montez of Imperlal Beach took two places] thlrd and a fourth to f1n1sb thlrd on his Kawasaki. Kawasaki pllot J1m Casey of 1mperlal Beach captured top honors In the 200cc Class with John Montez and Jim Holt giving hlm a good blttle t1nlsb1ng second and third. 10 the Bandlcap Sweepstakes Event, '!.'rlumph pUot Larry Blum of Sylmar, passed all the UCht lraftlc and t1n1shed flrst. Del Ocheltree, riding Pete Barnett's Clmattl kept the lOOcc mach1ne out In front to win second. Andrew Hernandez on a Norton was thlrd and Pat Murphy was closing fast at the t1n1.sh to take fourtho Andy Hernandez of the Lost Angels Club took a sp1llln front of the Grand- The open elua blkea tanl a alml-«:Irell In the a_per. Runnlnc un..... "alean rulla, Jim (261) CallY Intlrld bla 125ee Kawa. .IIIIIt ........ ", outofWlnlnc the blC barl boya .aa too much tar till 1I1111 aerl. .r and It blew up Just betara the flnlah. . stand dur1ng a * t race and the ambulance crew hurried over with a stretcher. Andy had the wt.od knocked outofhlmand didn't want to go on the Utter, but they laid hlm on It and started blck to the ambulance at a dead Sure enoUlb, the lead man trlJlped and fell/throwing Andy harder than he had been off the bike. He got to his feet and got blck on his mount for the restart. run. Two of the Lost Angels' ladles, SUZie Hytten and Marla "T-Blrd" D1aZ did a good job of lap scoring and the members of the Lost Angels Club policed the groundS after the procram to be sure none of their Utter was lett 011 the grounds. Marla D1aZ had on a BlIdn1 beneath her clothes and was prevaJled uPOn to be the TroPhY Queen. Carlos Ir1be and the Tijuana Motor- cycle Associatton baYll r........s open.110n of theAutociromodel1,,"'1qIe many of his old frtends wbo""'~ the Tijuana Track 10 the put wJD_ again real soon. If the entries ~ . he w1ll again haYll the pcpuIar "WocIlB Kegs" ofbeerforallb&ndsattllrtlle.,.. program. Watch the CYCLE l'lEWS Calendar for the nll.lt Tijuana TT. (Results on PBee 27) lnvaders EurOilean Scr. - 8/17 250cc AmlEx. lst Tom Poteet - PurSang 2nd Gary Gri ffi n - PurSang 3rd 1st Am. Bi II Turner - PurSalg Jackrabbits European Scr. - 8110 250cc AmlEx. 1st Tom Poteet - PurSang 500cc Am/Ex. 1st Larry BerglJlist - EI Baldido 2nd Rich Tbornwatson - EI BMido ...Has The Most Co.fortable Seat In The World ACA Motocross - 8/17 l2Scc Senior Class 1st Tom R~ - g,etpa S 3rd Bob Vacca - Sherpa S 125cc Junior Class lst Ben Harwell - g,etpa S 3rd Rod Morri son - Sherpa S IfeA.Sf .Olf W'llfISOS'OH If THAI Al'WHflf ELSf' I ......... Gripsters TT - 8t9Ai9 250cc Expert Class 1st Larry Taylor - PurSang Melced g,ort Track - 8m 1st Terry Sage - PurSang 2nd Tod Sloan - PurSang Trophy Dash 1st Tod Slolil - PurSang Gram Speedway - 8/1S 250 ~x. 1st Greg Johnston - PurSang 2nd Pat Morll1otey - PurSang 3rd Dlil Brecht - PurSang AlJIa Barn - 8/13 250 AMain 1st Dlil Brecht - PurSang 2nd K. Nishimura - PurSlI1g Hayward - 8/16 250 Ex. 1st Jim Foley - PurSang 2nd Allen Kenyon - PurSang Arailable At ALL fine 8ultaco Dealers 8ultaco Services Inc. P.O. Box 101 Santa Clara California 95053 Fremont - 8/17 250 Ex. 1st Bruce Texeira - PurSang 2nd Allen Kenyon - PurSang