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By Elaine J on.es PERRIS, CAL., June 26, 1971 - The Novices kept getting better and faster and thus find themselves transferred to the Expert class. Saturday night was no exception. Walt Foster, after winning the Novice Moto, asked if he could ride the Open class. Under a warning that he would be transferred if he won, he went out and blew them in the weeds posting the second fastest lap time of the evening. _ Sandy Armstrong who was the point' leader for the evening, disqualified himself for riding a 250cc Bultaco in the final moto. The rider who finally came up with the win was last week's Novice transfer, Jack McCafferty, with another transfer Ken Miller in second place. Noticeably absent was Andy Skeel who was bunking in Gardena Memorial Hospital with a broken collarbone, broken shoulder blade, and two broken vertebrae, suffered in a crash at Ascot the nigh t before. He is now mending at home -with his Ueater of the week" trophy passed on by Skip Gallagher who also got his at Ascot. Sandy fared much better in the 250cc Amateur-Expert class and it was his first time out on the smaller bike. Dennis Creason and J amey Blunt applied a lot of pressure but Sandy held in there for the win. Dennis was second and Jamey , third. Bill Lail made the transfer scene as he came through with his third win in the 250cc Novice 1. Norm Blake topped Tom Avion and Jerry Renner to take the second Division. Blunt just keeps ro11jng along in the 175-200cc class. Gerry Burton has tried everything short of starting him in the pits with a dead engine and he still manages to get through for the win. Neil Winston and Jim 'Southern duked it pretty good with Neil coming across for the second spot leaving Jim with ~hird. Rex Hailey moved to a bigger class but it didn't stop his winning ways as he showed the boys the way in the 125cc Novice class. Randy Monroe looked like he migh t argue the point but didn't have enough. Tim Holm was third. Steve Bales: a regular took the second Division of 100cc Novices while a newcomer to the winner's circle, John Cockburn grabbed th e first Division. Hard luck rider for the evening was Bob Greenstreet who posted the fastest time for the evening but just couldn't get it together in the motos. Robert Friese and Mark Applequist won the mini-bike classes and Edward Shipley and Jerry Meiner took themini-cycle goes. . Manuel Burton *as honored at the Pizza Palace after the races for just being a heck of a nice guy and a fine photographer. (Results on page 28) scene ..J ~ U ""'............. ...." SEXTON DOWNSSM ITH- AT TROY By Art Loya SOUTH GATE, CAL., June 24, 1971 Sex ton of Upland, Cal., aboard his Jeff Sexton and Chris Smith combined Maico, defeated top favorite Smith in their exciting talents Thursday night at the 250 TT Main Event, but only after Trojan Speedway to share the winner's meeting the best challenges Smith could circle in the combined TT and flat track muster out of his Montesa. Beating one motorcycle racing speedfest. of the winningest riders at the fifth-mile oval, Sexton, made it known The South Gate oval is stepping up the action as two of the most vital that he will be a solid contender for top elements for an exciting and enjoyable honors this season. Following Smith rac'e, close-quarter racing and red-hot across the finish line was B'ob Byars racing duels, were prominent in the (ass), Rick Isbell (ass), and Danny 25-event card. Jones (Bul). . To the surprise of only an PI KES PEAK HILLCL/MB unsuspecting few, Smith was victorious in the 250 F.T. Main over Nick Voge SANCTION WITHDRAWN (Bul) and Isbell (ass). Sexton and The Pikes Peak Hillclimbers Jamey Blunt (ass), brushing wheels Association of Colorado Springs, Colo., while dueling for second and third were informed that the AMA was having positions, spilled on the second lap as to withdraw its sanction to their event the field of ten narrowly missed both scheduled for July II. riders. The original sanction application Bob Sanders, (Kaw) currently one of submitted on May 18 did not indicate the hottest items at the Trojan that the promotion was to be a exchange, and Mark Revels (Kaw), along professional (purse-paying) event, and with Tom Doty (Hon), were the big was applied for on an amateur sanction guns in the 100 F .T. Main. Sanders, who form, and was granted sanction on that also scored big in winning the 125 F.T. basis. The promoters, new to Main, this time on a Yamaha, rode hard, mo torcycle promotion,. were totally fast, and furious, making it clear to his unaware of the error which led to this fans that he was making it up for an sanction withdrawal. earlier loss. In all, Sanders accounted for The circumstances have not affected wins in the 100 TT and 125 TT Mains, the relationship between the Pikes Peak 100 r.T. and 125 F.T. Mains ind the Hillclimbers and the AMA. The event in 125 F.T. Trophy Dash. 1972 will most likely be AMA (Results on page 28) sanctioned. .' - .' '----s~way~ By Peter White Reserve is Geoff Curtis (Australia) who also scored 6 points but did not have sufficien t heat wins to pip the others. Unlucky riders who missed out were current Austalian Champion John BO'ulger and English internationals Howard Cole and Arnold Haley. Mauger's win gave him his second British Championship in succession and underlined once again the fact that he's certainly number one in world pseedway today. The above-mentioned riders will meet the top four from the Nordic Final in the British/Nordic meeting at Glasgow. Then the top eight will go to Wembley for the European Final against the top eight from the Socialist countries such as Russia and Poland. From there the top ten will go to the World Final in Sweden. The four qualifiers from the Nordic Final are Ole Olsen, the sizzling Dane who is freely tipped to give Mauger his hardest battle in the quest to retain his World Crown; Reidar Eide (Norway) and Bent N orregaard and Kurt Bogh (Denmark). SWEDISH QUALIFIERS The six Swedes to contest the WorId Final itself in their homeland on September 10 have now been sorted out. They are Anders Michanek, Bengt Jansson, Soren Sjosten, Bernt Persson, Leif Enecrona and Tommy Janssen, a second division rider. Reserve is Gote Nordin, who struck engine troubles in one of the three qualifying finals. 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He also asked the Board to support legislation to authorize itself to take action in such matters. District Attorney Byron Morton told the Board that he would check to see if a civil injunction would be possible to abate a nuisance immediately. The Board turned the entire matter over to Morton. Decible readings were taken at Lorna Linda's La Sierra Campus and they did "not register. The man returned to the track and asked when they were going to start racing and was told they had been for 45 minutes. world Speedway king, Ivan Mauger, continued his phenomenal winning run with a slashing 14-point victory in the British Final of the. World Championship series at Coventry, England onJune 16. Mauger again dominated the proceedings and was beaten only once during the prestige title tilt. Th'e man to better him was, of course, his fierce 'Kiwi rival and romer World Champion, Barry Briggs who also in determined mood finished runner·up in the overall points tally with 13. Whock third placegetter was a young Englishman who was virtually unknown last year, Tony Lomas, a second division rider. He was having his first crack at the international bi'g time and came through with flying colours. He is now being hailed as the 'frnd of the season' in Britain and should be earmarked for overseas tours in the near future. Although he was riding at his home track, Lomas looked sharp, especially from the tap-es, and notched 12 points which was su1ficient to beat all but the New Zealand Big Two. A dozen riders out of 16 qualified from the British Final and no go forward to the British/Nordic Final which is scheduled. for Glasgow, Scotland on Friday, July 30. '-" The other qualifiers are: Bert Harkins (California's favourite bespectacled Scotsman) who scored 9 points, Ray Wilson (England) 8, Martin Ashby (England) 8, Bob Kilby (England) 7, Ronnie Moore (New Zealand) 7, Dave Younghusband (England) 7, Nigel Boocock (England) 6, Eric Boocock (England) 6 and Jim Airey (Australia) 6. ~ w Z CORONA SAGA CONTINUES AS CITATIONS SOUGHT . . > :; .., YAMAHA It's a better machine 7872 Orangethorpe Ave., Buena Park Open Monday thru Sat., 8·7 - (714) 522-6680 II ....