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This is turn 8, the scene of the second heat's seven rider pile-up. There was no trouble in the first heat, however, as Dick Mann (4). Kel Carruthers
(731. George Kerker (811. Art Baumann (241 and Ron Grant show.
Yvon DuHamet's pit stop was so fast that it is taking you longer just'to read this sentence.
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Gary Nixon was very quiet about his first heat
strategy. It turned out to be he wasn't going
to pit for gas; he didn't. When it was over and
he was queried about how much fuel was left.
he commented, .. About a teaspoon."
John Cooper became only the second foreigner to win an AMA National; the other finished second.
Don Castro spun out during Sunday
morning's practice. While he sat patiently in .
the other side of the shed, his pit crew went
through contortions while getting five pounds
of dirt from the innards of the Triumph"s
exhaust system.
Cal Rayborn (It.) and Kenny Roberts survey the damage after their spill Saturday.
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