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Castle I.ci Nat'l (Continued from page 3) plalned bow be InteDded to race tile Main. "There are a few bumps aDd s11des out there, but I'll race like I did In the heatall out aDd go where I can go."He WOUDd lIP, bowever, where be did not want to be._ last place. Brelsford also captured his beat, but unlike Aldana, he did 1t easily fron flag to flag. Mert LawwUl bad Uttle trouble In his beat as be just, as be said later, "followed Eddie (Mulder) W1W ItolDldhis weakness. Then I took advantage of it." Mert would not d1vulge what the weakness was, bowever. That's bls secret. Gene Romero had set fast quaUfy1ng time the nigbt before. In the lo-Iap Amateur Ma1n, it was all Cbuck Joyner and Darryl Cotton vying for flrst. Cotton maintained the top slot W1W the slart of the ninth and when Joyner grabbed the oPening aDd rode to vlctory. Ed Herman and Terry Dorscb beld the next two p~tions, respectively, from slart to fln1sb. The races were planned to slart at 8:30, but the fans, completely packing the stands by 5:30 pm, were forced to wait IDlW atter 9pm before they got W1derway. One reason for tile delaY wasaprotest ftled by tile AMA. The protest stemmed from an AMA action last week, In wblcb it approved the use of '!:'rtumpb 750Cc twtns. However, It did notapprovemodlflcatlOllS uPOD tIIem, one wblcb 1nc1ude non-production Internal equipment. Dave Welcb, AMA representative, apparently reversed tile decision later, statlng after the races, "There Is no protest." DeSPIte the delaY, the residents of tile clty fllled wlth motorcycle riders were given some excltlng racing OIl tile small, but fast TT track. (Results on page 22) District referee Dave Welsh announ~ ces to riders the do's and don'ts of the new 750cc Triumphs. By the end of the night's racing the don'ts changed to do·s. Who knows? Throwing dust and dirt Terry Dorsch gets high in first comer at Castle Rock. Terry looking super fast could do no better than fourth in the Amateur final. LAP BY LAP BREAKDOWN Lap 1: Mark Brelsford, whose time trlal score of 25.23 was tied for tbird best wlth Mart LawwUl, jumps to the early lead wltb LawwUl second. Don Castro bad flrst wlth tile flag but moved back to tbird. Lap 3: Castro rep.lns flrst as be sneaks past Brelsford (now second) and LawwUl (tbird). Dave Aldana Is fourth and Dick Mann fifth. Lap 4: Aldana beglns to make move as be aDd LawwUl exchange positions. Lap 5: Mann makes bls presence felt by pusb1ng LawwUl stl1l further into the pack. "Buggs" Is now fourth and Castro Is leading. Lap 6: Aldana gets bis oPenlng and jumps from tbird to flrst. Castro Is second, Brelsford third, Mann fourth, and LawwW flfth. Lap 7: Aldana begins to extend lead as tigbt battle for second place appears. Lap 8: Skill and a lot of luck presents Mann wlth the inside track on a turn and he responds by movlng from fourth to'second. Lap 12: Mann f1nal1y catches Aldana and sUps into lead only to lose it again before the lap Is completed. Laps 13-18: Race settles down into two major battles. Aldana vs. Mann for first; Castro vs. Brelsford for tbird. Lap 19: Into the flrst turn past the straightaway, Mann bits Aldana's rear wheel and Aldana loses control. In the spectacular spill wblch follows, Aldana's BSA loses its rigbt handle bar. The rookie Isn't 'hurt, but Mann now bas a commanding 100-yard lead. Lap 21: Jim Rice, who barely made the semi's but won that, droPs out wltb engine trouble. Gene Romero moves uP to sixth. Lap 23: Castro aDd Brelsford st1ll manage to elude a colllBtion wb1le attacking each other for second. Castro bas the uPper band but Mann bas moved Into a 10-second lead. Lap 25: Romero moves Mark WWiams out of f1ftb plaCe and into sixth. Lap 26: Mann laps bis flrst man, Dave Hansen. Lap 28: Mann laps Smith as tile positions have settled down wlth no change. Lap 30: DIck Mann picks uP the victory in easy fasb10n as tile corwd cbeers around the course. Castro Is second, Brelsford tbird, Romero pushes into fourth, LawwUl drops to flfth, W1Wams slldh. Tom Rockwood seventh, SIdp Van Leeuwen eighth, Glen 4dams ninth, aDd Bill Elder 10th.