Cycle News - Archive Issues - 1970's

Nichols Stomps Experts > "3 ..., ~ w Z W Photos by Walt Mahony GARDENA, CAL., July 2, 1971 Experts are ~upposed to do the major winning at all Ascot events. Experts do win at Ascot - in all but the once a month short track races on the quarter mile. The third double-header of the season was presented last Friday night and for the third straight time the Experts were topped. This time it was Novice Steve Nichols (Yam) taking all the marbles and the win in front of a near full grandstand. ...J U > U Here is a rare shot of two of the finest up-.and coming shoes in the country. 4 (70r) leads Junior Gary Scott around Ascot's short track to win the Main. The Experts divided the regulation heat race wins with the Novices with Chuck Hart (H-D) and Frank Gillespie (Oss) sharing with Nicols and Scott Brelsford (Yam). Then the two Novices came back to score in both of the semi's which all front runners must go thro)lgh before going onto the final - according to short track rules. Nichols jumped to the front in the final with Brelsford off to a so-so start. Then Scott became anxious and fell on the far tum. Gary Scott (Bul), the Junior wh 0 had won th e opening short track of the season, was running side by side and right behind Nichols in the early laps. Brelsford got back up but was a lap behind. Both Brelsford and the officials forgot the one lap difference as the young man from the north tried to race Nichols and Scott. He charged in between the two front runners and broke the tigh t duel, actually giving Nichols the edge he needed. Scott was still iigh t there at the finish but the race was really decided by the rider that was a full lap back at the finish flag. Nichols, Scott and Brelsford have each won a short track final to date. Nichols and Brelsford each won a regulation heat race and a semi-final before moving onto the main event. Scott returned home from the East where he has been defeating aU Experts and Juniors weekly at the short track known as Santa Fe Park near Chicago, Ill. The monthly TT that shares the once a month twin bill found first year Expert Terry Dorsch (Tri) scoring his first main event win as a white plate rider at his home track. Junior Rick Newby (Tri) finally solved his "Expenitis" problems and settled down to take second ahead of late charging Ralph White (Tri) who over Terry Dorsch picked up his first TT at Ascot after winning his heat. Shoes in the News Reports from Cycle News East Ronnie Rail has been cutting up the Eastern half-miles between Nationals. Rail, Dave Sehl, and Jack Warren went ten laps welded togetner at Dayton, Ohio, June 19 before Rall pulled it out. A week later, at Troy, he aced Bart Markel and Jody Nicholas to win the Buckeye Classic.... Don Castro won the York, Pa., half-mile. Close second: Ronnie RalL ..Gary Scott won the Junior final at York, no sweat. June 16, Santa Fe Speedway fans in Chicago got to see Gary win a combined main, whupping Jim Rice, Dick Mann, Dave Sehl, and Gene Romero and so on.... Gary Bailey wowed a crowd of Tennessee motocross fans by winning three of the four classes. After the race a female admirer had tall Gary autograph her bellbottorns, promising never to wash them again .... Southem half-mile king Jim Maness broke a breast bone at Princeton, Ind. He'll be out for an indefinite period. OSTEEN'S PARK POMONA took third. Dorsch and Mike Haney (Tri) were the two heat race winners but Mik.e broke a main in the final. Skip Van Leeuwen (Tri) did a fast spin-out in the early laps and then found his old fast way around to come from next to last and finish a closing fifth behind Don Emde (BSA). This was the last Tf before the 10th annual National Tf championship race slated for Ascot on Saturday night, July 24. The event will revert back to the longer course that has been the scene of the tradtitional National for 50 laps the past decade. There is already a record entry for the event and the advance ticket sales insure the largest crowd ever to see the 24 fastest Experts compete for the S1 QOOO purse. In the mean time, Asco"t will host half mile racing on Friday night for the next three times around. The night of the 23rd fmds the second annual Yamaha Gold Cup half mile for a record $5000 non-national purse. (Results on page 28) Racing Bites Ilaffle Beginning this week, tickets will be sold for a raffle to be held at the 10-mile National at Ascot this year with the proceeds going to the widow and' children of AMA Expert No. 47j Pat Gosch who was killed earlier this year in practice at Ascot Park. Pat's widow, Gloria, and his two children,Terri,4,and Patrick Jr., 2, are now living in Omaha, Neb., Pat's home town. As the hospital and funeral expenses have amounted to over $10,000, this has imposed an impossible financial burden on his wife, and all monies collected will go directly to her to help defray these expenses. The tickets will sell for $2.50 each and the winning ticket will receive the most fantastic prize yet offered for a motorcycle benefit. The winning ticket will receive two 650cc Triumph motorcycles completely set up for racing. One will be a Flattracker with a (Please turn to pg. 17) ~ . Jimichrome :-L.. Shines Suddenly '\ jJ; ALL JUNIOR MOTOCROSS AND W BEELIE CONTEST JUL T ~8 ~s 1/ , Mail Entry $5.00 Post Entry $10.00 Mail entry to: 610 Cherry St., Brea, Ca. 92621 Check payable to Osteen's Park Park opens 7 am, Practice 8-9, 1st race 9:30 I acknowledge that there are risks and dangers involved in viewing, observing, riding, and participating in : contests and other activities at CLAUDE OSTEEN MOTOR BIKE PARK. I hereby release, acquit and forever: discharge CLAUDE OSTEEN MOTOR BIKE PARK, INC., the park owner, its employees, officers, directors, : agents and representatives, WESTMORE DEVELOPMENT COMPANY, it Partnership, its p~rtner5! ~fficers, : employees, agents and representatives, the City of Pomona, the County of Los Angeles, Its offICials and • employees, and all participants who might be using CLAUDE OSTEEN MOTOR BIKE PARK, from any liability, : claims, demands, action whatsoever kind or nature, in law or in equity, I may have, or which may accrue in favor: of me or my heirs, executors, administrators, representatives, and assigns, or any of them in any way growing out: of, resulting from or arising in connection with my presence on, in, or my use of CLAUDE OSTEEN MOTOR: BIKE PARK or its properties or facilities provided for, opera.ted or controlled by CLAUDE OSTEEN MOTOR. 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