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Nicholas Tops Ascot Experts; Scott Runs Up Junior Streak Photos by Dan Mahony GARDENA, CAL., Aug. 27, 1971 Jody Nicholas and his Allison-Norton returned to half mile action tonight after missin/( one week to compete in the National Road Races at Pocono. Ascot is the only track J ody has been able to find ,a win on this year and he found his ninth main event score in " close one over H-D mounted DeWayn.: Keeter. Nicholas squeeked into the fast time slot in time trials with Uoyd Houchins, Sammy Tanner and Mel Lacher right behind. Houchins was back on the track for the flfSt time since breaking his wrist in the National TT at Ascot and was looking as fast as ever on his BSA. H~ was fast enough in the heat race to top b oth Lacher an d K eeter f or his fint wins since last July. Nicholas kept Tanner from scoring his 400th win by winning the heat race over the ·'Flea" who' was an early leader before taking second. Lacher upset Nicholas in the dash, winning the event for the third time in. the last four weeks. Tanner again was turned back, finishing in third behind Houchins. Nicholas tried too hard for the win and crashed but was not injured. Tanner was off and looking for that magic win in the fmal and led the first lap before Ticholas took over. Then Keeter, riding the low groove for the first time in over a month, started moving from fifth place on the opening lap. Houch ins was a close second until he fell off on lap seven, leaving Keeter the runner-up, but well off the pace. Then DeWayne put together lap after lap, the way he does from time to time and at least twice each year. By the 12th lap he was right on Nicholas bu t for some reason seemed to quit charging and followed J ody the last two and one half laps to take second place. Tanner dropped all the way to fifth with Lacher, the main event winner the previous week, moving up for third. The race marked the return of Jim Nicholson to half mile action for the first time in about three years. A stint in the service. plus a serious car accident has kept him off the track for many season. Jim grabbed a fourth in the heat and a second in the semi before ending up seven th in the final, his first time back. Gary Scott (Tri) and Scott Brelsford (Yam) again whizzed through the Junior and Novice events. Each rider chalked up two more victories. Brelsford now has an overall lightweight win streak at Ascot of 12 in a row. Scott's two wins in the yellow place class now has his latest win streak at seven strigh t. -----,-----------Radio station KBIG will be one of the network of stations broadcasting the Talladega National on Sunday morning live: the Los Angeles based station Is 740 on the AM dial. 104.3 FM. ----------------Early season TT events did not include Novice riders but they will now be back this Friday. This will give the TT rider two straight nights of steeplechase racing as Corona also slates a TT for this comin/( Saturday night. prelleRU at ct 7oeo SpeedwtlfI Startln. Sept. 3 um,*mmm~ Cash for Seniors OVAL TRACK- - - M-X TRACK- $mmmUmm ,, ,, FOR JUN,ORS GATES OPEN 6:00 P.M. FIRST RACE. 7:30 " ~---~ ~:30 P.~. PRACTiCE USRC ~EI4BERSH POST ENTRy $2.00 $5.00 HOW TO GET TO £L TORO SPEfDWA Y. .. c..> > c..> Jody Nicholas returned to the winner's circle with h Main Event win. Here he holds off the charge of Lloyd Houchins. back from his injury sustained at the TT National in July. The Ascot TT will be for this Friday only, returning to half mile action the following week. Corona will continue to run TT events every Saturday night until)ater in the month. (Results on page 24) Course has uph ill s. downh ill., water. sand and natural terrain. A1DITIEmL LEW STOLTZ BOB ~AYNARD • .aJa Wins again! Trail Am. Class 1st - Bryan Bennett - BAJA 100 Jrd - Jack Habecker - BAJA 100 P.~. I P REQU I REO W ...J Trail Class 1st - Terry Clark - BAJA 100 2nd - Mitch Mayes - BAJA 100 4th - Larry Roeseler - BAJA 100 5th - Jim Sumners - BAJA 100 ,'------~~ TROPHIES ~ w Z Hare Scrambles . . .-- Huntington Beach M.C. Four Corners, Calif. Aug. 22,1971 INSIOE , OUTSIDE TRACKS $ $ $ $ r0- O> scot Half-Mile. first turn: Scon. Brelsford (84Y) leads the Novice charge ahead of Fred Timberlake (68RI. John Sperry (28Rl. Tom Horton (75RI. Gary Caldwell (1 ORI and Steve Nichols (70RI. lItuittll &tatt.!i i{ariftg ClUuh. lUt. $ $ $ $ . 8a. Trail Nov. Class 2nd - Rudy Abele - BAJA 100 Irf'lJlMATI~ (71~) 985-3"9 (71~) 531-998~ 23001 Valencia EI Toro. Calif, 92630 the llarleyDavidson outptuformsrs. ,