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Afler Sears
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aU any two-stroke
cando is
Suzuki's lead.
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Art Baumann on a SOOcc Suzuki streaking to the first two-stroke victory ever in an open class AMA road race.
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Expert race. And won it going
away: Taking the lead on lap 4,
Baumann's Suzuki finished 48
seconds in front of second place,
a full lap ahead of fifth.
And another Suzuki T-500
ridden by Ron Grant was in
second place for over half the
race. The same machine and rider
that only a couple of weeks earlier
set three new National Land
All motorcycle manufacturers
claim a lot for their bikes.
'But in the 37 years of AMA
road racing, no two-stroke bike
ever won the open class in a
national race.
Until Suzuki did it at the
Sears Point Nationals on
September 7,1969.
Art Baumann riding a Suzuki
T-500 won the 125 mile National
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