Cycle News - Archive Issues - 1970's

... O'l g ~ z ~ w Z W w ...J oJ o tJ >o tJ Competition Congress... CLASSIFICATION: RIDER Professional licenses will carry four c arr y categories - road racing, dirt (short track, half mile, mile & TT), motocross &: and speedway. This means that a dirt speedway . track, Expert may be a roading Junior, or a speedway Novice.. There are, Novice however, only on ly two motocross classifications; Expert and Novice. CLAIMING RULE:: - 250cc (any RULE racing machine) $2,000; 251 - Open (dirt and motocross) $2,500; 251 Open (road racers) $3,500. $3 ,500. SANCTION FEES, LICENSE FEE &: & PURSES: Most of these hav e naturally have increased, however, the new figures are however', th e subject to approval by the Internal Revenue Service, which must determine if the increases conform to the new in cr eases to Wage and Price Guidelines. AMA AMA lawyers law yers are now working on this and all the 1972 fina l figures should be final available within a few weeks. PROFESSIONAL MOTOCROSS: Riders will be classified as Novices or Experts. Experts and Juniors in dirt track are Experts 'in motocross if th eir in their classification was earned pri or to 1972 . prior to 1972. Novices in other professional competition are N ovices in motocross.. Novices motocross Requirements for the Novice Motocross License are the same as for any other Novice Professional License. A mechanical starting gate will be used at all National and Inter-national Motocross events. Motocross will be scored on the Olympic System - 1 I point for first place, 2 for second, etc. Rider with lowest combined point total low est is overall winner. All motocross riders, both Novices and Experts , must have their names in Experts, block on b lock lettering on their jersey or leather shirt at the shoulder line. th e Rubberband starts will incorporate a will ditch three feet behind the magic ditc h twanger and a limed penalty line. two feet behind it. Any rider crossing the pe nalty line before the twang will be penalty penalized one finish position. Two minute and one minute signals will will be given. At 50 seconds the one minute signal will be turned horizontal minu t e and the race may be started at any time. By Tod Rafferty Cycle News East COLUMBUS, 0., Nov. 16-18, 1971 COLUMBUS , 0 ., The annual AMA Competition Congress met for three days, and there was definitely more competition than Congress. The most succinct analysis may have come from Neil Keen when he Neil complained that the new ruling on falsified medical forms (one year suspension) was "Cruel and unusual punishmen t ." punishment. " This is not to imply that Congress n ot to didn't accomplish very much, b ecause because several important revisions were made. And the structure seems p ractical practical enough; each committee reviewing all proposals,. then presenting the SUrviving proposals, surviving recommendations to the entire Congress recom mendations for consideration and voting. In fact, this is one governing body where the go verning spirit of English Law has survived. Like the House of Commons, the representatives can (within limits) can harrangue and browbeat one another in the British tradition of vigotous vigorous confrontation. This is fine, because it allows room for a few chuckles within an otherwide tedious procedure. However, three days simply isn't enough time to thoroughly consider all the business at hand. At this point probably nobody, t his including the congreessmen, fully knows fu lly just what legislation was enacted. Many items (mostly on professional purse p urse breakdowns) were referred to the AMA to staff for consideration, and many were extensively amended. When the complete minutes are available in a few days, we'll h ave the whole story in black have and white. In the meantime, here are me antime, some of the important highlights:: highlights NOISE: All machines in AMA All AMA sanctioned Amateur events, including motocross, will be equipped with mu fI1ers or silencers and will not mufflers produce sound in excess of 92 db(a) measured at 50 feet. This ruling does not affect Bonneville machines, professional motocross or professional N a ti 0 n a I National Championship even ts. events. Hopefully, exact standards for noise standards measurement are forthcoming. fort hcoming. changes just a whole lot of ellanges in ;usf four days, bUf ,a bunch more are sfill on the way• but a still fhe way. PROFESSIONAL PROFESS IONAL EVENTS: Any rider may request and shall be granted a minimum 15-minute break between the 15 -minute start of an Expert Main Event and the fin&h finish of the previous Expert event. At any event where a flag start is At even t employed, the starter must be on a platform and be visible to all the riders. The starter must have both feet on the on platform before starting an event. an In dirt, speedway, TT and short track TT an alternate may be used to replace a repl ace rider in a paying position, and the alternate will be paid for his finishing position minus an amount equal to last place money, which will be paid to the original rider. An alternate may choose An alt ern ate not to ride the event for which he's an no t to alternate. In a National Championship race the alternate will receive any points he may earn pri or to th e main event, he prior to even t, and the original rider will receive points due to the last p lace finisher in the place event in question only. T here ENGINE DISPLACEMENT: There W.as an important change here. The old was T he rule on 250cc two-stroke and 350cc ru le on four-stroke singles has been revised to allow Novice riders a maximum disp lacement of 250cc for displacement multi-cylinder two-stroke engines and m ul ti -cylinder 360cc for two-stroke singles and four-stroke four -stroke engines o( of any configuration. Some manufacturers will be elated, some won't. A proposal to wo n't. limit TT machines to 750cc died in m achin es committee. Details on the new National numbering system will be outlined when find we fmd someone who understands it. Other items of interest : titanium (rames interest: frames are out; water cooling is in (on approved ou t; machines); gearboxes with more than machines) ; five speeds are in, but possibly not for in , another year; prize monies must .be an o th er .b e dollars expressed in dollars,, not in stars. Formula 750 came perilously close to to an early abortion, but it now appears abdrtion, that International Road Racing events will soon be a reality; stay tuned. Only one machine was disapproved by the th e Safety & Engineering Committee, the &: Rokon RT 340. It was voted approval in the open session. You'll soon I:te hearing be more on that one; possibly a genuine on Godsend to those less than proficient at to clutch/gearbox synchronization. 1972 AMA NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP SCHEDULE 1/28 1/29 3/12 4/16 4 /16 4/29 4 /29 5/6 5/21 5/27 5 /27 6/4 6/10 6/1 0 6/18 6/25 7/2 7(9 7 /9 7/15 7/1 5 7/23 7 /23 .7/ 2 9 .7/29 8/5 8/10 8/13 8 /13 8/26 9/3 9(9 9/17 9/23 9 /23 10/1 1 0 /1 Houston 25 lap TT (Night) Houston Short Track (Night) S hort Dayto na, Fla. aoc-mue Road Race Daytona. Fla . 200--mlle Roa d Atlanta 125·mile Road R ac e Road 12 5·m ile Race Phoenl x, Ariz. Mile 25 laps l ap s Phoeni Ascot 25 lap TT lap San Jose Mile 25 laps san la ps L os Los Alamitos 20 lap Half Mile L oude n , N ,H ., IOO -mi le Road R ace LOUden, N,H., lOQ-mlle Race Louisville. Ky. 20 lap Half Mile la p H al f L OUisvi ll e, In dia na polis, Ind. 125-rnile Road Race Indianapolis. In d . 1 2 5-m il e Roa d Colum bUS, O. 20 lap Half Mile ColumbUS. O~ la p H a l f Sa n Jose 20 lap Half Mile san la p H al f M ile Salem, Ore. 20 lap Half Mile Salem , are. la p Castle Rock, Wash. 25 lap TT Cast le Lagona Seca 125·mile Road Race L agu n a 125-mlle Roosevelt Rcwy . (Woodbury. LI) 20 lap Half Mile Rooseve lt Rcwy. (Woodb ury, LI ) la p H al f Homewood , 111.25 lap Mile Homewood, 111 .25 Hin sd a l e, III. (Santa Fe) 2S lap Short 'Track Hinsdale, I II . F e) 2S l ap S hort Track Peoria, Ill. Half MilefTT I II. Hal f M i1efTT Indianapolis. Ind. 25 lap Mile I n d ia n a p o li s, I nd. 2S Talledega, A la. 200-mile Road Race T a lledega, Ala. 200-mlle Arlington A rli n gt o n Heights, Ill. Mile III . Nazareth, Pa. 2~ lap Mile Nazareth , Pa . . Ascot Half Mile Ha lf Ontario 250-mile Road Race 2S0·mile Roa d '<> 14 2 0A SHOWROOM: 1420A SA N T A ANA. C A . SANTA ANA, CA. S. WA Y S. VILLAGE WAY (714) 836·1454 836· 14 54 "WHERE THE SANTA ANA AND " WH ERE T HE MEET" NEWPORT FREEWAYS MEET" 1 t N .---. I I COMPLETE LINE OF ACCESSORIES, . . WHERE IT'S AT HOLIDAY SPECIAL PRICES HOLI DA Y SPECIAL LIST LI ST MAVR ICK SHOCK ABSORBERS MAVRICK SHOCK Honda H onda CHAMPION CHAMP ION SPARK PLUGS H.vq 2U~ $1.59 Reg.2.05 51.59 C.OLD ~AL LA[~~Ui,,' ;.~,.,=,. ='_~o $1.99 GDLD PALLADIUM Reg .2.50 51.99 SU;:~rACf:' ,-;{~P R'_'c; itl'.) 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