VOLUME VIII
NUMBER 10
PRICE THIRTY CENTS
INSIDE ACTION
DAYTONA!
By Chuck Clayton
DA YTONA, FLA., MARCH 14,
1971 - Watchword of the
long-awaited 200 mile National
Championship was "Get Smart."
England's great short-course road
racer Paul Smart had announced
his intention of grabbing off the
money, silverware and national
points by qualifying his big, blue
factory Triumph fastest at 105.8
mph. And it wasn't just
horsepower that put hilT! on the.
pole-the qualifying was done for
the first time this year on the
whole course, including the left
and right turns, the horseshoe and
the sweeper of the infield, not
merely the flat-out wall of the
giant oval as in the past.
. But five other entries had
qualified at over 105 along with
Smart. They were Cal Rayborn,
the Harley-Davidson hope, Mark
Brelsford, also on H-D, Don Emde
of San Diego and England's Mike
Hailwood on the factory BSA's
and (surprise?) Gary Fisher, braild
new Expert from Pennsylvania
who had spent 1970 following
Rusty Bradley across the finish
(Please turn to pg. 18)
Unheard 'Duro
By Ron Schneiders
Photos by Bob; Culp & John Bethea
SOGGY DRY LAKE, CAL., Mar.
14, 1971 - In Southern California
the word was: "You can't require
silencers on desert bikes because
noboby would ride the event."
Well, that's been blown into the
weeds now because a brand new
club, The Chapparel, hosted an
enduro where silencers were
required and in spite of very little
advertisement and a very short
entry p~riod and no post entries
they managed to draw a very
respectable entry of about 280
riders. Many of the best were
there too, including' Dave Evans,
Dave Ekins, Bob Steffan, Ed
Wight and Ozzy Oswalt.
With somewhat fewer than the
now-normal 500 riders and thanks
to the required silencers, the
starting area was much more
pleasant than usual. (Next step
would
be to ban all
(Please turn to pg. 14)
No, these are not pictures of last year's Daytona National,
but they might seem so as Dick Mann (Top) took the
checkered flag for the second consecutive year to become
only the fourth man in history to win the classic in
back-to-back seasons. Below, he shows his silverware in
victory lane at the famed Floridian speedway. Photos by Don
Woods.