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WEEP '" '" '" e, .... C> o M ~ Z ~ w z Z W W ...J U > >U Sonny OeFeo. DeFeo. with a pair of fourths, b ut troub les in fo urths, but troubles the final left him in 11 th place, still h im 1 1th good enough to take fourth overall as tak.e Roberton's third place in that one pl ace R ob erton 's wasn't strong enough coupled with a'' a sixth and a 19th. Willi Bauer took sixth overall. . Gary Chaplin, all pumped up after his Ch aplin, a fter overall win last week at Tulsa's Support The moment it came down to:: Jim Wicks (9) dives past Gary Chaplin on a jump to take over second spot in the fi nal moto. good enough to win Th e mo ment dcZvn to Chapl in final rnot o, w in overall. Roger DeCoster shows the S uzuki's power . Roger OeCoster Suzuki's power. class, seemed to be on the throttle again see m ed be on agai n today as he grabbed th e point at the he the p oint a t th e start of th e first m ota and never lost it o f the moto n ever while Lars Larsson (H us) held off Jim (Hus) o ff J im Wicks [Mai) and DeWayne Jones (Ya m ) (Mai) (Yam) Joel Robert holds off the charge of Sylvain GOOoe rs. etiarge Geboers. for second. sec ond. The n ex t battle was a nother story, next was another however, as Wicks led all the way while h owever, Wick s wa y Chaplin and Tim Hart (Mai) rallie d from an d rallied fro m p oor starts to fin ally finish fifth and poor finally respectively. J on es third respectivel y. Jones pulled out a out second and seemed in great shap e fo r grea t shape for sec ond th e overa ll win . overall win. The fin al moto was the decider. Four final mota de cider. laps had laps h ad four differen t leaders. First, J on es Jones pegged the p oint but had to drop point h ad out of the race with problems, allowing th e r ace all owing Gordon Ochs (Bul) to ta ke over the take ov er th e lead. The next tour found Chaplin at fo und Ch aplin the poin t with Ocbs fal ling back to fifth th e point Ochs falling an d and Hart up second, b u t Hart got by on sec o nd, but Hart go t on the next th e 13-jump th e n ex t charge about the IS-jump course and secured the lead unt il the co u rse an d th e until end. en d. Meanwhile, Wic ks was rolling along ro lling alo ng Meanwhil e, Wicks fro m co nsiste n tly an d consistently and steadily from a fair start and began to hound Chaplin, now an d b egan h ound Ch aplin , in second, Chaplin 's transmission went sec ond. Chaplin's aut ru nnin g seco nd an d out while running in second gear and scooted Wicks sc ooted by for an eventual second pl ace finish and first overall. Chaplin place a nd fir st nursed (?) his Maico around the final Maic o ar o und running at "abou t 10 ,000 few laps run nin g at "about 10,000 r's" and held third to ace out Hart for out second overall.. sec o nd overall Gra n t b orrowed Doug Grant (AJS) riding a borrowed machine (Vic Eastwood's frame and mac hi ne (Vic Eastwood 's fra me an d accessories and a spare engine from an frOID AJS shop in Portland) smacked his toes AJ S sh op smacke d into a rock while near the lead in first whil e near th e lea d firs t to e m o ta b ash ing th e moto,, bashing in the steel toe of his b o o t and cri nging his toes. He gave it boot an d cringing another go in the next moto and was ano ther mota a nd again near the leaders when mo re more troubles forced him ou t. He didn't ride ou the final mota. moto. The reason for his borrowing a T he reaso n machine was that two nights earlier, his nigh IS ma ch in e tha t bikes " highjacked " van and both b ikes were "high;acked" from his h ot el p ar kin g lot. No traces hotel parking No tra ces fro m on were found and Grant lost on all counts. fo und