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Mashburn Tops Short Track Two Nights In ARow DAYTONA BEACH, FLA. Mar. 13 and 14, 1970 - Annually tile Short Track action at Daytona Mem or ial Stadium is some of tile most outstanding racing of speedweek and this year was no exception. Keitll Mashburn won tile feature event on botll Friday and Saturday nights. His Yamaha twin sounded llke a fire engine and tile extra power down tile straights helped stop some of tile hardest charg- ing short trackers 10 tile nation. International riders were on hand also, two witll Speedway style mach1nes and anotller witll a more conventional rig. Past Wor ld Champ Barry Briggs was on hand witll his speedway framed Yamaha whUe current Champ Ivan Mauger tried his luck witll his Kawasa1d. Briggs and Mauger chose off tile two fastest Americans on Saturday night and racing fam e put his sUding abWty .to good use and f1n1shed just behind Mashburn 10 Saturday's ftnal. Dick Mann was seen sUd1ng his Ossa 10 tile high wide groove and won his heat. However 10 tile Semi he seemed to get lnto tile marbles once too often and f1n1shed fourtll. Maybe he was too preoccupied witll how he was going to do it to tIlem tile next morning. formed a Challenge race. Keitll and ~ Larry Palmgren proved to be good oppo- ~ sition but Barry out sUd Keitll and nipped 10 for tile win coming from be- ~ hind. Larry was tbird and I van fourtll. U ~ Mauger won his heat earUer 10 tile U evening but seemed off form 10 tile match race. Candlan Dave Seh1 of nortllern i ce -. Ke ith Mashburn put It to all the fss t lads two nights running. That 's the t"re. . Pal m~en brothers back • Dave (21T) Sehl came from the Icy lakes 01 Canada to "at up t .. Daytona Short Track action . STEVE HURD WINS ELSINORE GRAND PRIX AICO MEN" "7 FOR 10 • WERE Ml1eO IN THE 500 EXPERT CLASS WINNER STEVE HURD ~OHN RICE Malco riders " rode" their own kind of poetry i n t he E ls inore Grand Pr i x (500 Expe rt) March B, 1970 - t he Biggest Race in t he W ld, wi th more than 5()()"starters (U.S.A.' s greates t ride rs comor pet ing) on the 10 mi Ie course . Steve Hurd was "the man" , rid ing a Malco 400cc •••wl th John Rice second and a total of 7 Maico r iders i n the first 10! Maicos were up front all the .way , Lars Larson leading the pack in the last lap unti I he ran out of gas. Maico i s proud of all these men! _ WESTERN - FIFTH SECOND COOPER MOTORS Burbank, Ca. 91502 SIXTH MIKE BAST ORDER OF FINISH 1. STEVE HURD 2. JOHN RICE 3. JIM CONNOLLY MAICO MAICO Greeves CZ . MAICO 4. VIC HANNON 5. MIKE BAST DlSTRIBUTORSEAST EASTERN MAICO • SOUTHEAST Reedsville. Pa. 17084 ~IM STEIN 6. JIM STEIN 1. WAYNE KERNER 8. BRUCE LEWELLYN 9. C. H. WHEAT 10. CHUCK WHEAT MAICO SOUTHEAST Sarasota, Fla; 33518 MAICO MAICO Husky MAICO MAICO