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o N C "> '" :i' '" Q. C>. .... Cll '" g' ~ Z ~ w W Z W ..J ...J U >> U INDIAN DUNES Near Sweeps End with Seconds By J ohn Grout John Gr out Ph otos by Racin g Ph o t os Photos b y Racing Photos VALENCIA, Nov 20, 19 7 1 VA LE NCIA, CAL., Nov.. 20 , 1971 10 0 cc Both Ray Soffa (Bul) in the 100cc class and Mik e Quisen berry (CZ) came within Mike Quisenberry with in collec ting three-for-three a heartbeat of collecting three-for-th ree h eartb eat victories in th eir respecti ve d ivision s vic to ries their respective divisions during today's all-Junior m otocro ss all-J u nio r motocross p ro gram a t Indian program at Indian Dunes Park. yet, _both were to And ye t, .b oth young riders wer e to learn that the new, European-style th e new , Euro pean-sty le lea rn Shadow a t the Du nes Sh adow Glen course at th e Dunes is a difficult taskmaster on b oth racer and o n both di ffi cult mach inery . machinery. Quisenberry, a p articipant in th e participant the mota events {or the more adva nced mo to eve nts fo r the advanced 250cc Junio r roacers, and who had Junior mo t os fo r already won the first two motos {or the 1500 RIDE SMUGGLER HENDURO" UENDURO" By Charles Clayton Ch arl es Cla y t on RED ROCK, CAL., Nov. 14, 1971 R ED CA L., 14 , 19 71 This year has been a disaster fo r every h as b een for com pany th e h ome busin ess company in the mobile home business exc ep t one. Journeyman T rai lers o f except o ne. Jou rn ey man Trailers of of Downey, Calif., p osted record sales of posted their "Smuggler" "Smuggler" number, numb er, a self-contained tra iler with double d oors self-con tai n ed trailer wi th d ouble doors at th e rear, design ed for easy carrying of the rear, designed ea sy carrying motorcycles inside. motor cy cles in sid e. ex pression As an expression of their gratitude to gratitu de t o the motorcycle en thusias ts wh o ke ep th e motorcy cle enthusiasts who keep them off the welfare rolls, the ro lls, th em o ff Journ eyman people pu t on an eas y , Journeyman peop le put o n easy, b eginn er 's "end uro" (actually a trail beginner's "enduro" (ac tually rall y o f th ro ugh pleasant rally of 24 miles) through the pleasan t desert foothills north of Red Rock Parle Park. des ert fo oth ills First p rize was a brand new Smuggler muggier Fir st prize trailer, worth every p en ny of S1,600. wo rth penny o f $1,600. To make sure that the ace enduro th at th e To shoes like Ron Schneiders didn't cop Hke co p the prizes from the fun' riders , th e riders, the object was to ma tch the time of the match ll-year-old wh o la id out the co urse on I I -y ea r-o ld who laid th e course o n . his Min i-end u ro , Mini-enduro. Fifteen hundred entered, creating a crea ting viJIage of campers, sp rawling sprawHng temporary village o f ca mpers, vans trail er s vans and trailers in the desert. Easy as it was, th e cou rse claimed a the course large share of non-finishers. The only no n-fi nish ers. Th e injuries hap pe ned t o play-racers wh 0 inj uries happened to were guilty of gassing it too much in the of m uch t he unfamiliar terrain. The penalties of u n fami liar T he ex cess excess in the desert are painful. Small whoop-de-des connected by Sm all whoop-de-dos con nected gra ded r o ads, san d an d sloping graded roads, sand washes and slo ping hills made the course.. I had to rid e it hiJIs co urse to ride twice to ge t tw ice to get any exercise. All would have been perfect were it not for a new b reed of Desert Klutz who showed up in sh owed breed small numbers , riding Huskies and CZ's, numbers, a nd to race past the kids riding on daddy's on tank and spray them in the face with a spray wi th nasty blas t san d . . nas ty blast of sand. After the prizes and exp enses were the expenses were pai d for, the Smuggler p eople found paid people the mselves themselves with w it h an an embarrassing em barrassing amount of entry money left over. It is amou nt o f mo ney part of the paradox of our favorite p as ttim e that runs put on for fun make ru ns o n fo r pasttime money, while those pu t on for profit mo ney, put on fo r seldom do. To divest themselves of the unwanted d ives t th e Smugglers plan throwing gelt, the Sm ugglers p lan on th ro wing another such run and charging less or ru n ch argi ng else spending. mo re, they 're not sure else spe nding . more, they're not which.. And you think you've got which th in k go t problems? problems ? (Results on page 32) (R esu lts o n p age 3 2) clan,, found h ims el f over-cooking a tight clan fo und himself tu rn on th e last lap of the final mota turn o n the th e final moto fro m th e and, after pic kin g himself up from the picking h imself dirt, was to learn that one of t h e rider s d irt, w as t o leam th at o ne o f the riders wh ich zip ped wh en which had zipped past him when he was d isabl ed, d eclar ed th e day 's disabled, was declared the day's overall winniner for th e class : J.- E. Coburn on a the class: J Cobu rn o n Husky. Husky. Roughly the same situation was to R o ughl y si tu ati o n h ad develop in Soffa's case. Ray had also So ffa's develop a nd he th e wo n h is firs t won his first heats, and,, as he was the only rider to collec t a perfect score to collect p er fect sc ore during the races of the previous Sun day, th e p revi o us Sunday, d uri ng th e he was bidding for six stra igh t wins at straigh at he the Dunes - wh en everything went sour when so ur for the Bultaco rider.. fo r Bult aco rid er While enjoying a sensational lead on Wh ile enj oying !;he last lap of the final mota for the th e las t m o to 100cc machinery,, Soffa's bike came to a ma chinery carne sudden dead-engin e halt on the very last dead-engine on bowl turn before the official finjsh line. befo re o ffic ia l finish lin e. At leas t ten cy cl es w ere abl e to sweep cycles were able A t least right on b y Soffa, before he was able to by Soffa. he ab le push his machi n e up th e hill and get the machine the ge t f.rush flag. So , Ron Fosmo (Yam) finish fla g. So, Fos mo (Yam ) picked up the win. In the 125cc, plus-four division, Ron 12 5 cc, divi sion, R on J on Ros e Rose (Suz), Jon Miller (Yam) and Barry (Yam) an d Nackos (DKW) woun d themselves Nack os (DKW) had wound th emselves into su ch a tangle of finish positions, fin ish in to such ta ngle that a winning selection at the time of th at sele ction th e tim e o f this writin g was im possib le . writing impossjble. Ted Tennighkeit (C Z) , (CZ), Rand y Randy T ed T enni\lhk eit Whitaker (Yam) and Dean Justin (CZ) (Yam ) an d (CZ) went in wheel-to-wheel battles during all wh eel-t o-wh eel duri ng three motos fo r th e 2 50 cc Beginners, for the 250cc th ree before Tcnnigkcit was finally declared Tennigkeit d eclar ed the winn er over Justin. winner The Open divisions saw John Van T he O pen divis ions J oh n Dellen (1I1ai) roll to a hard-fought h ard-fough t Dellen (Mai) victory over Art Whiting (Hus) and vic tory o ver Ar t Whitin g (lI us) another Maico pil o t. Rob ert A d m ir e. ano tb er pilot, Robert Admire. 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