Luck's With
Thorwaldson
In Desert Go
By Dick Wr1pt
RED MOUNTAIN, CALIF. June 28, 197GHope, and then disappointment were In
store for Tom Poteet as he had the lead
but bad to relent to Rick Thorwaldson
because of a flat tire. Thorwaldson
charged all the way and took over the
first position after the tlve mlle rock
pUe at the Desert Knight's Hare Scrambles.
Alter the start Poteet had the lead at
the smoke bomb followed by Thorwaldson. They wOuld go forty mlles, encountering fUth gear trans, rocks the
size of basketbel1s, hll1s and then more
fast trans. ThorwaJdson had a big lead
coming Into the pits for his gas check
with Mlke Patrick on a ยท360 Yamaha
second.
Rich Thorwaldson tends a blistered hand and talks over his victory with luckless Tom Poteet.
Gregg Hawks took 2nd 100 Amateur.
Everyone was at the finish line waiting
for the leaders to come into slgbt,
because in the desert anythlng can happen with all the rocks, and bushes to
contend with. But, it was Rick's day and
as he pulled in for the win he exclalmed
that the course was "beautiful". Patrick
held on for second and Kirk followed
him In for third.
The leader in the 1OOcc class at the
smoke bomb was Jeff Wright on a Rickman followed by Gregg Hawks. Ken
Buckspan then took over the lead as Jeff
fouled a plug at the first check. Mitch
Mayes took over the lead later when
Buckspan got into trouble too. Terry
Clark was the next leader nnW he got
knocked off his blke by a blke bike. At
this point the hard charging Mr. Morgan,
who had got a bad start, moved Into first
after all the young tigers had a got at it.
Morgan pulled into the fIntsh line for
the win, running twenty-first overall.
Clark came in second and Buckspan was
able to take third.
(Results on page 22)
Pearblossom, Calif. May 30-31
1st - Class A 100cc-Walt Baehr-SACHS
1st - Class B lllOcc-Dave Semple-SACHS
2nd - Class B 100cc-Don Kemp-SACHS
7th - Class A 100cc-lynn Wilson-SACHS
First girl to fini sh in 1910.
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Thorwaldson through the pits.
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