Cycle News - Archive Issues - 1970's

• * .,e'> '" .,e'>· ~ee' ee' .6< ...G IRRC Schut-z· Schulz Stars In Dunes tRRC Benefit Carabela Steen St een en * N If- I-t I-t Q> '" °cta/r. 0<1i1 Q> Ira. i1lf-' _ Nick Nicholson Motors 0.. * "573 Vanowen,, No.. Hollywood,, Ca. 11 573 Van owe n No Hollywo od (2 13 ) 764 -8674 (213) 764-8674 26 year s experience years By Pete Szilagy i Pet e Szilagyi VALENCIA, VA LENC IA, CAL., Nov. 21, 1971 The International Radio Racing Crew Int ernational Racin g has logged a lot of time and free labor at lo t at motorcycle Today m o torcy cle races. Today they sponsored their own benefit race at Indian Dunes ow n at and finally got a pice of the action. go t German Maico-man Werner Schutz Ge rman wasted no time familiarizing Illmself tim e himself the- ..."w_.Shado with the- ... ew._.Shadow _.Cllen course . il~n course. Pursued by a gaggle of SoCal 's finest , he gaggle SoCal's finest, scored top Open and 250 m oney and money was the American Motocross team '5 t eam ' 5 stalwart in its competition with Mhco st alwart wi th Mitco Bultaco. Bultaco, In the first Open moto,, Schutz m o t a Sc hutz th e cruised to an easy win,, but there was win th ere pLenty of action in the p ac k behind him. plenty o f pack h im. Tore Jonnson,, Ake's brother and an A-I J on nso n 'crosser in his own right,, got a poor rig ht go t start. Jo nsso n picked h is way up to fifth to Jonsson pi cked his and th en passed Bob Fisk and Bob then Bo b Hersh ey with th at Hershey wit h a deft move that caught both me n off guard. Jo nsson set hi s b oth men gu ard. Jonsson set his sights a nd sigh ts on Billy Payne's Maico and Pay ne 's Hershey set h is sights on Jonsson. Bob's Her sh ey se t his on Bob 's ex pans io n cham be r eje cted expansion chamber ejected in th e hea t of the heat th e bat tle h im c o nsid era b ly . the battle and slowed him considerably. He figu red the only thing left to do was figured th e o n ly thi ng left w as did. Time crash, so he di d . T im e ran out before Tore was able to p ass Payne for second. to pass fo r second . Jonsso n got a good start in the Jonsson go t second moto (they on ly ran two heats rna to (th ey only r.an in the Expert classes) and was pushing Ex pert push in g ~ WantedlJ\/' WantedlJ\J\ w uJ Z W uJ '~('!!>. ~Membersl U~Membersl . ..J U >- U To represent in gov ernme nt T o rep resen t government Motorcycle Owners, Riders, Ow ners. and Enthusiasts PO Box 26062 , Sacramento 95826 Bo x 26062, Sacrame nt o DISPLAY ADVERTISING DEADLINE WEDNESDAY , WEDNESDAY, Dec. 8, Spm Dec. H olid a ys a'comin'' Holidays a 'co m in Issue No. 49 Issue No . On Sale: Dec. 15 -K ·& G-K·& __engi.eering __engineering _liliiii _I11III electrocardiagram. Col e happened t o be elec troca rd iagra m. Cole to leading when the checkers fell. Emler, a ch ec kers Eml er, recent graduate from the Junior class, led most of the first heat and was was leading th e second before it was the sec ond black-flagged. false st arts, bl ack-flagged. After two fals e starts, Dean Dean York passed Emler early and kept the lead from a pressing Larry Watkins. th e American Moto cross won th e te am A merican Motocross w on the tearn championship, a seven-foot troph y, and cham p io nsh ip , trophy, a nd seve ral bottles several b ottles of champagne. They rode cham pagne . Th ey against Mltco Bultaco in some of the aga inst Mitco Bultac o o f th e day 's wildest racing. Wit h the b est riders hico t ryin g full his Maico restarted. Payne, restart ed . Pay ne, Larry Watkins (CZ), and Jim Wilson (CZ) fought for second an d throughout the whole moto. Payne th e m o to . Pay ne managed to hold th em off and almost to h o ld them got the lead when Schutz' superlight han dlebars b ro ke in half. Werner was handlebars broke h alf. able to hold on to the stub and gingerly ab le to steer his bike around the track for the b ike t he fo r final lap. Watkins finished third overall . Wat kins th ird overall. Tom Rapp, back in town after a good go od showing on t he Al\lA tour , passed on the AMA tour, p assed Schutz in the first 250 moto. The p air th e m oto. pair left Ron DeSoto (C Z) , Bruce Baron Left R o n (CZ), Bru ce (R ic) and t he rest of the pack about 40 (Ric) the res t ab out seconds behind. The field had been b eh in d . the broken by a seven bike pile-up in th e m u dh o le. Ric h mudhole. Rich Eirstadt (Bul) and several other riders were never able to o ther rid ers get going again after th e muddy mel ee . get goi ng mud d y melee. Rapp widened h is lead each lap until th e his the Rap p duo caught up with some slower riders. wi th d uo Rapp had to poor Ra p p h ad t o take a p oor line to get aro und a lap -ee and Sch utz used th e around lap-ee Schutz the siutatio n to his advantage. He passed the siutation to Bultaco rider and went on for the win. Bu lt ac o wen t o n fo r t he wi n. Schutz als o won the second moto,, th e moto Sc hu tz also though h e sho rtcut even tho ugh he ignored a shortcut around the mudhole that the rest of the t he mudh ole tha t o f t he riders used. On each lap Werner would On lap woul d take th e presc rib ed route through the th rou gh ta ke the prescribed water while th e remainder of the p ack the pack was crashing th rough deep sandy crash ing through d eep whoopdies trying to gain a second or wh oop d ies sec o nd or two on him. Rapp, Eirstadt, and DeSoto on a nd DeS oto were the most su ccessful sandthrashers., successful sa nd thra shcrs w ere th ough though neither could ga in on Werner's gain on half-lap lead. The 125 Experts rode two wild races Exp erts ra ces with Eddie Cole finally grabbing Col e finall y gra bb ing p remier premier money spot. In the first moto sp ot. II) alone, lea d several alo ne , the lead changed hands sev er al times. Don I::mler (Bon), Tim Lunde Eml er (Bo n), T im (Yam) , and Cole all held it for at least (Yam), one full tour each.. 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