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Jody Nicholas leads the troops around Orange County International Speedway.
By Pb1lllp Rascoe
ORANGE COUNTY, CAUF .• August 9.
1970 - The AFM played host to a well
orgaJl1zed and very Pleasant day of road
racing at 0ra11ge Counl;y International
Raceway. today.
Aoyoae who was at Orange Counl;y.
whether rider or spectator. can only be
impressed with the way in wbich theAFM
, runs its montbly meetings. A good example was In the runn1Dg of the beavYwe1gbt production event in wbich a bike
blew a crankcase and covered the apex
of turn four with cU.
Cousequeotly. riders began fall1ng like
ten pins as they came teartng arOlllld the
tower and on to the cU. D1c11: KUJcrow
managed to remove a tree as he sl1d
. across the muck.
The tower ootlf1ed the start-f1n1sh
. : and the race was immediatelY blacII:flagged and .the cU removed from the
l1De
, .tract.
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Ready for the front straight.
OD the restart it was George Kerker
who toot the win on biB NortooCQmmaDtlo
attar a long. bard str1IRJe with Jobn
McGUvrey on a factory spoasored BSA.
Ron Pierce took the 350Cc class win on
the faDtastlcly fast Yamaha R5.
In tbe 25OCc. 350CC and 500cc grand
prix three-lap beat races. all record
times were broken.
Don Emde. s1xlh place f1n1sher at
-.J Daytona. completed the three laps in
4:38.5 in the 250Cc class. Art Baumann
on a factory Suzuki in the 500cc event
One of the tightest races of the day was between John McGilvrey and George Kerf
