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HOOVER, PA fNE SHARE WINS AT INDIAN DUNES MOTO-I By John Grout VALENCIA, CAL., Sept. 12, 1971 Young Gary Jones, the Hacienda Heights whirlwind, riding with a smoothness which belied his actual race experience, looked to all assembled at today's Indian Dunes motocross as if he were about to devour any and every competitor that had the nerve to SIt beside him on the starting grid. Yet things were not going at all rignt for the Jones clan on an afternoon when the thermometer was about set to bubble off-scale. In the first moto for the Open Senior equipment, Jones, who was going wheel-to-wneel with Mark Blackwell and Bill Payne, got in a tangle with Mark "The Pnantom" and he went down hard in one of the tigh t dogleg turns just before the trio should have entered the main staight. The Jones Yamaha was dragged for a good 30 yards by Blackwell's machine. That, of course, left Bill Payne and Blackwell still .running at the front end - and what a battle for the lead those two racers were staging! The only problem that existed is that Payne was in front by better than a full Randy Rodriguez appear.; ready to pounce on Tilson Shumate at CMC's motocross at Carlsbad. CARLSIAD (Co III 'd. from /Jage 2/) Jim (:ooke. Cooke finished nith in the frrst moto while Smith was coming across eleven th and the last moto decided their overall position by a few points, Rapp, of course, was frrst. Although usually cooled somewhat by sea breezes.. Carlsbad was hot. Many riders gave up and went home early. By the third round of motos the parking lots and pit areas were only half full after a good turnout of riders for the day. , Urban was the only rider to win all three of his motos as the heat and dust caused problems for nearly everyone else. (Results on page 32) 'SDf fe•• loses ""0' COBOCONK, ONTARIO, CANADA, Sept. 11-12,1971 - Disaster may have struck America's ISDT team before they even reached England. At a difficult practice trials called the Corduroy Run in Canada, Jeff Penton, one of the members of the trophy team, was injured and will not be able to compete in next week's trials. He broke his foot on the first day of the Corduroy and, although he completed the day's run, he will be out so'me weeks to come. Penton's place on the trophy team will be taken by Dane Penton Leimbach, a 20-year-old from Ohio who was sheduled to ride ISDT on a manufacturerts team. IIIG respective divisions with ease. Hart and DeSoto had some early lap traffic to work through but Wright was never headed. Hart added a second behind DeSoto in the 500 class to head the list of money winners.. Bruce Baron played the bridesmaid's role again, taking second in the 125 and 250 classes. Baron showed signs of lrol~Cls's Los Angeles radio station KBIG (740 AM) will broadcast a series of updates during the International Grand Prix from Carlsbad this Sunday. Roxy Rockwood, the most familiar voice in all of motorcycle-dom, will provide the commentary. KBIG has latched on to the motorcycle boom and has plans of becoming "the motorcycle station." Two weeks ago they carried the Talladega 200 live and in the following months they will broadcast from the' Baja 1000 and the Trans-Am motocross iJli DecemPer from"Saddlebaclt"P.k;" Bill Smalley (399) finds the challenger.; hard to hold off as Steve Urge (79A) anempu to pass on I ,the' outside. 1 I t. \ :t~ .. 1 I j fl ,. "'11 ,:~) I ~. Ii ~'I • • 1; I ~ ''''IIi? \ j .. 8. 11. ,... en N a . ttl ~ w Z W ..J U >- U Mark Blackwell. front-chute. While employing tremendous bursts of speed around the tigh t turns and short straigh ts, . the Husky rider, Blackwell, was snatching back lost ground on Maico-mounted Payne at a voracious clip. With the bikes running two 20-minute motos, the timing clock had to be on the side of Blackwell as time and again he would slip a wheel beneath the leader - and yet, each lime, Payne would slam the door. Then, while involved with another dice at the en trance to the final tum, Blackwell's front forks went sour, and that was the end of the day's challenge for the young..racer from Mission Viejo. Bill Payne grabbed an overall win for the Opens. Mike Todd (Yam) and Wayne Sullivan (CZ) were second and third. In the motos for the 250cc Seniors, Jim Hoover - mounted on a monster of a CZ - split wins and seconds with another CZ rider, Jim Wilson from Torrance. So, the decider for the class, overall win had to go on a time factor. Hoover was the overall victor. Wilson and Rick Eierstedt were second and third. Bill Postfl (Yam) swept to two straigh t wins over the 125 Juniors in division "A". While Tom "The Mudcat" Grant buried the 125's in division "B" . for the second week in a row. Indian Dunes Park has scheduled an AU-Junior program for September 19, with divisions for beginners, powder-puffs and Oldtimers. First race will get the green flag ar9:30 a.m. (Results on page 32) ASCOT MOTOCROSS TO REGULAR WINNERS By Eric Raits GARDENA, CAL., Sept. 9, 1971 - A trio of Experts who could probably place well at Ascot with blindfolds on won their classes Thursday night at the weekly CMC motocross. Jeff Wright, Tim Hart and John DeSoto picked up wins in their classes by sweeping three fitst in their M N settling down a bit after some early season hectics and is looking quite polished on occasions, Rick Baxter trailed DeSoto and Hart in the 500 class getting in the results column after threatening the last few weeks. The Intermediate winners dominated their races also. Bob Brown won aU three in the 125 class as did Mike Todd in the 500's. Peter Penland topped the 250 class with a pair of wins. A slick track kept the ambulances busy and racing was held up at one point as both emergency vehicles were gone at ",nee. Three riders were taken to the hospital. Tbe 100 and 500 Junior class winners ran completely away from tbe pack; Dave Miller did it on a Bonanza and Steve Urgo rode a CZ in the big bike class. Behind Urgo was a member of the DeSoto racing family. Bruce DeSoto is vacationing here from Honolulu, Hawaii, and picking up some machines to take home when his 11. oliday is over. DeSoto, a bus driver by trade, rode well for his second place. Rickman-Melisses were in the forefront in the 125 Junior class. Larry Mayer and David Turk were one-two and only the frenzied charge of Jeff Tadla on a Bultaco kept more of the red motorcycles out of the results column_ At one point the Melisses were in the frrst four positions. Joe Johnston led the 250 Juniors in three parade laps. (Resulb on1>. S2·) ,