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N N 1 ... COl u o ~ w Z W ...J tJ > tJ ON THE FAMOUS ASCOT 1/2 MILE OVAL SRA vs AMA CHAMPIONSHIP STARS Jack Hicks (6) found he wasn't having too much luck in losing John Kasson and Jack O'Leary, who got by both eventually and won the 250 Expert class. SAT. :::. OCT. 9,1971 CHILDREN FREE • JUNIORS 12-16 52.00 • ADULTS 53.50 _ _ _ _ _1.- 183 RD & (AT THE SAN DIEGO & HARBOR FREEWAYS) VERMONT SANCTIONED BY S.R.A. • _ GARDENA, CAL. INFORMATION (213) 321-1610 or 830-4041 *•••******•• * Evel Knievel **********~ . : presents * ~NDOOR SHORT TRA(K~ ~ motorcycle races : * Oc'ober 21 nurs. niglt' * ~ Por"a.", Oregon (o'iseu. ~ guaran'ee" $5,000 purse a ~~~S....... ~ E.',y fee $5 ~ : * * ~ ~ * a i ~ ~ :......................... : * $5 Ge"eral Admission * *' ~ ~ : EVEL KNIEVEL WILL SET A NEW INDOOR It MOTORCYCLE JUMP RECORD OF 14 CARS! : Tickets available from Ticketron, c/o Coliseum, Portland, Ore. ~******************* ~ ~ Hicks, O'Leary in Hot One By Richard Dunn Photos by Richard Creed The inertia of many summer Sunday in San Antonio's sweltering heat lured many an unwary motocross fan out in the standard race garb of shorts and sandals, but only the riders were warm as more civilized temperatures descended upon Central Texas. Spectators flapped their limbs about and huffed a lot, while the riders reacted with greater endurance and more amiable dispositions. In the 125 Expert event, Steve Stackable, besides the usual strong opposition of Gary Bigley, received unexpected flak from Ken Howerton. Steve stayed atop both his Yamaha and the situation to win all three motos. The three heat duel between Jack O'Leary (prototYpe Yamaha) and Jack Hicks (CZ) in the 250 Expert class, was spectacular, since Hicks had psyched himself up all week to fmaUy remind O'Leary that there is indeed a second place. Hicks repeatedly missed a 2-3 eMA TRIES TT By Shirley Knop SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH, Sept. 11, 1971 - The Con tinen tal Motocross Association held its first ever TT Scrambles Saturday_ The entire racing program, Novices and Experts, with two Sweepstakes for each, was run in four hours - a welcome change from the aII-day mo tocrosses. Another remarkable change was that for once all the Novice winners. were consistent. Michael Kerner, Steven Snow, Rob Reese, and Bruce Marble aU took three first places in their heats in the 100, 125, 200, and 250 classes respectively. Charles Reid continued the pattern in the Open class, with three seconds which still added up to fIrst The Small-Bore Novice overall. Sweepstakes w'!S a reversion to type, however, as Craig Snow, a 100 alternate, trounced the field, Arizonian Bruce Marble stomped the Bjg-Bore Novice Sweepstakes not unexpectedly. The Experts were less consistent except for Peter CrandaU and Kevin Croft in the 125 and 200 classes. There was no catching either one in those classes. Ted Cooley managed to take the 100's despite breaking a shock in the last heat. Kerry Fowler fough t Steve Burgess and Phil McDonald in the 250 class in the best racing of the day. Tom Dickerson came back strong in the last Open class heats to take that class. In the Sweepstakes, Peter CrandaU wiped out the SmaU Bore Experts, as expected, and Kerry Fowler took the q>easure of the other riders in the Big Bore class. shift on a critical part of the course in the first heat, and the cagey O'Leary zapped him there on the third lap. Hicks nabbed first off again in the second moto, corrected his shifting technique, and remained in first until lap four when he lost a footpeg. It was stiU a very hard pressed O'Leary who first saw the checkered. Again first off in the third heat, Hicks evidently began to feel that dark forces were against him, for O'Leary passed him after a few laps and puUed a very commanding lead to his third win. It is interesting to compare the riding styles of these two top riders. While Hicks is very smooth and consistent, O'Leary bounds off berms, trees, and boulders like a crazed jackrabbit, and almost invariably wins. Are the feet of the European stylists really clay? The Open Senior heats provided 380 CZ mounted Richard Bigley (painting contractor) with an opportunity to stay tantalizingly out of the reach of Bill Kasson (seUer of CZ's and so mounted on a silenced 380) for the first two heats. In the third heat Bill, fortified by a piece of chicken and two cans of Schlitz, demonstrated his latent expertise to the painter and thrashed him soundly for a first. OveraU, it was Bigley first, Kasson second, and the weU-ridden Husky of Larry Woods third.