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iTALLADEGA NATIONAL CONTINUED (Cont'd. from page 19) rf. among the leaders. It's almost a sacrilege ~ having something besides a Yamaha up with the leaders. Might be a good race ~. after all. ~ Ginger is staying right up with Kd and looks like he may catch him. Yes, eI) there he goes right around him. Now things are getting interesting, maybe w well have a duel. Oh-oh, there goes Kel Z and he's opening a good 15-bike lead ~ over Malloy and on the oval too.. There's ~ no wa1 that Ginger will be able to make () up cnougO time on Carruthers in the infield to offset that much speed. But, Ginger is not a beginner either and in two laps is right back up there and retakes the lead. Now Carruthers decides to really get serious about this whole thing. He's up beside Ginger in that comer, but can't get past. Wait, there he goes, hell get him now. Wow! he couldn't do it; Malloy's still in front. What a race I Half the race and they're side by side t The last lap. Carruthers' will let out all the stops now. He's going to blast righ t by him. He's tucking in going out onto the oval and now he's going to pull the old slingshot trick. Wait. Malloy's still in front, Carrothers can't get around. Wow! Malloy wins it by half a bike length! It's such a close race that hardly i re Ken Roberts. Ginger Molloy pulled the upset of the year in the lightweight Junior/Expert match Saturday. He beat Kel Carruthers. anybody noticed the rest of the field. Cal Rayborn, who rides_ the other 250 Yamaha on the Vesco team, is third. Art Baumann rides still another Yamaha into· fourth. The feat of the day is DuHamel's fifth on the Kawasaki single. In sixth, Floridian Ray Hempstead has spent the entire race chasing DuHamel but did not quite catch him. In the victory circle, Carruthers is excited as he E:ongratulates Malloy. It was a thrilling race and Kel seems to be more thrilled than anyone. Their average speed for the race is 104.548, about the same as Dave Aldana's winning speed in the 750 race last year. Kel and Ginger talk over the race and as Kel comments about trying to get around Ginger on the last lap and fmding that Ginger has more horses than he has, Ginger's expression is about like the mousc's that just ate the cat. him. Roberts kept the two leaders in sigh t the whole distance, but just dido't have the speed to c10sc the gap. Wakefield was so in tense on catching the flying Californian that at one point he overshot the fll"st tum and went off the course, losing several positions. He put forth a tremendous effort and repassed Roberts before the finish to regain sccond. Lane averaged 105.426 mph, a new record for the event. Lane Rolls to Junior Win Hot Junior Mike Lane (center) takes a breather after winning Saturday's 76-milar. R.G. Wakefield from Indianapolis, Ind., picked up a second for Kawasaki while Ken Roberts took third. first Yamaha. By Don Woods Dixie Cycle News ESTABOGA, ALA., Sept. 4, 1971 Mike Lane and Ron Wakefield topped off the s,weet Kawasaki championship victory the day before it took place by taking a one-two sweep in the 76-mile event for Junior riders. Ken Roberts rode his 350 Yamaha to third. The two Kawasaki riders were hardly teammates and had a tremendous duel during the race. Wakefield led the first three laps when rain started to fall and the race was stopped. The rain didn't last and, as the race was restarted, Lane snatched the lead away and kept it until the checkered flag flashed in front of Art Baumann got a fourth in the Combined and an 18th in the feature. 200-MILE FEATURE Vvon DuHamel Dick Mann Don Emde Ralph White David Aldana Ron Grant Duane McDaniels David smith Tom Rockwood Ken Molyneux cal Rayborn KeI Carruthers Don Castro Dusty Coppage Gene Romero Jonn Skinner Kaw BSA B5A Kaw BSA Suz Yam Yam Trl Yam H·D 'Vam Trl Vam Trl Yam Trl Jess Thomas Suz H·D Art Baumann Dave 5ehl Gary Fisher Time: 1.49:53 Hon 108.460 MPH 76-MILE 250 COMBINED Ginger Malloy Kel carruthers Cal Rayborn Art Baumann Yvon DuHamet Ray Hempstead Jeffery March Kenny Roberts Chuck Palmgren Duane McDaniels Time 42:50 104.548 MPH A gaggle of Juniors picked their way through Talladega's tight infield. 76-MILE JUNIOR Mike Lane R.G. Wakefield Ken Roberts Jerry Green Mike Kldd Tim Buckles Mororu Murosakl Thomas Schroeder MlkeOdem Bart Myers ••• Vam Vam Vam Vam Kaw Vam Vam Vam Vam Vam Kaw Kaw Vam Vam Vam Kaw Hon Vam Nor Vam &:&,........' _..... ,~._. . .,o(.