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i8AYMAR£: : A CHANCE i TO 8E HEROES '" > :; z w ...J (.) > (.) By John Huetter SOMIS, CAL. July 16, 1972 - Hordes of breathless Novices, would-be hotshoes, and cherrypickers descended on a reworked Baymare race course for the first all-J unior bash in much too long. They encoun tered a new , sand-based track that slowed down the. smaller displacement machines - but eliminated some of the dust and hard. packed adobe surface. The sandy track made for whoop-de-doos as the day wore on bu t the berms held up better than the usual dust piles. The organizers have got to be complimen ted on a water truck that worked all day in a valiant .effort to maintain visibility and traction, plus a group of young but conscientious flagmen who seemed to remember what they were there for. The result was a safe racing si tuation for a bunch of riders whose desire sometimes exceeded their skill. The five or more races breakdown of riders produces fierce, if not necessarily polished, competition in each division. Baymare officials wisely split divisions with about 20 riders per moto and six classes each for Beginner and Novice. The result was a long day and motos that got incre~singly shorter as the day got longer. The original 15-minute jXlotos were reduced to about half that by the time everybody had their final go. This mean't the start was about half the race. If you could get over the start hill in good position, you could hold on. There really wasn't time to work through the pack or weolr down anybody in 8-10 minutes. Nobody seemed to mind too much, though, particularly the top five from each class who carried home the brass. There was actually J;lot too much domination of the scene by anyone rider; even those .who managed 1-1-1 sweeps were seriously challenged and sometimes headed. Among the super-shoes who outlasted and went faster, Mike Puckless (CZ) in the Beginner 250 A and Steve Shehem (Hus) in the 500 Novice seemed to have the best command of their classes. Steve Rosen (Suz) also managed to swe:ep the 100 Novice, receiving some spirited challenge from Randy Porter (Hod), who led at times and managed a second overall. Doug Dryer did not look like a Beginner in sweeping the Beginner 125 A. He piloted a very rapidBultaco like he knew the course blindfolded. He was chased in by Bruce English in all three motos, to provide the scorers with one of the less complex jobs of the day. The four-strokes had their day in the 100 Beginner class where young Mike Hogan (Hon) picked up two wins to take first overall ahead of Rick Reihms on another Honda. First ring-ding rider was Jeff Sherwood on a springer DKW. The 500 Beginners were run with the Novices, since there were only eigh t en tries, and Robert Crundew (Suz) managed to stay ahead of a lot of riders with more racing experience to take the overall. A t times, he was up to third or fourth in the sand- spraying pack of Open class machines and riders. A number of riders put on good shows in one or two motos but couldn't manage to make good finishes in all three rounds. Larry Burgess (DKW) comes to mind, though there were others who, say, took a first and a fourteenth in the rough and tumble Junior action. One young rider got into the lead in his first moto ever, didn't realize it, and started pushing so hard to catch the riders he was lapping that he threw it away. Sometimes you have to race with your head as well as your throttle hand. There's a whole different (eel to an ~ (Please turn to pg. 18) .' . '- .-. ~ The end of a long, hot day. A checkered flag neverl~~ked so go~d. CLOSE OUT SALE 30% OFF on just about everything. 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