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0-35 Scrambles------ ~ w Z W ..J U > U By AccuReport TULARE, CAL., July 1, 1972 Another large crowd was on hand at the Tulare Fairgrounds to watch 228 riders vie for trophies and District 35 points. The riders are starting to prepare for the Chowchilla Championship in August. Last year's Chowchilla winner Eric Gifford (Yam) has been vi'rtually unbeatable lately as. the 125 Experts learned in their Main. Curt Lange and Tim McCool made a good try at catching him but had to settle for second and third. Mark Staab jumped into the lead of the 250 Junior event and got to see the red flag for a restart first. Not to be outdone, he took the lead in the restart and sewed it up. A recent graduate of the 250 Junior class. Steve Reynolds, put his Yamaba into second place in the Expert race and left it there to the finish. Not bad at all considering the fact that the only one who bested him was Jack Jones. That's some pretty fast company. Rick Elisarraras made one of his rare appearances and took the win aboard his BSA in a two-stroke dominated class, the 360 Expert. Paul Anderson was out with injuries so Curt Lange rode his Yamaha to second place, with Lyle Moore (Mai) trailing him. Restarts seemed to be the fad for the evening and the Open Expert class was no exception to the rule. When things finally got down to business, it was Hank Conklin (BSA) leading the pack all the way. Earl Bachant and Jim McCracken diced around the full fou~ laps but it was McCracken getting the advantage over Bachant out of tum two. Lucky Spokes Scrambles--By N. A. Williams BRUSH PRARJE, WASH., June 18, 1972 - To try to encourage. more Open riders the Lucky Spokes have been having a trophy dash in this class even though there have only been six or so riders. Rupert Dykstra (Yam) only rode one class, the 250, but collected the win in both the TD and A Main. Nick Rhine (Yam) followed suit in the 100 Beginners class and then Kevin Holland (Kaw) did it again in the 100 class. Rex Rigby made a clean sweep in the 200cc class, but the 500 honors were shared. Doc Harmon (Kaw) took the dash and second in the A Main bu t switched positions with Mike Nosen (Yam) in the A Main. Willo"" Creek Ho." Bay Black Platers Lawrence Sorenson (7:l1 got run over repeatedly. This made him so mad he got back up and w,on the Main at Redwood Acres. Eureka Scrambles- _ By Sue Bailey WILLOW CREEK, CAL., July I, 1972 tangling together. Bower was the only - Willow Creek Speedway and the one out of it at the restart, and first Trinity Trailsters felt honored to have place went to Bresee, second to Meyers, third to Abbott. with them tonigh t Mike Van Lienden Steve Edgar won both the heat and and Bill Landsborough, black platers from the Bay Area. Although Pat the Main in the 200 Novice events on Ray Crivello's Bultaco. . Richter, racing his first" time as an The first division of the 250 Amateur Expert, managed to beat them in the found David Ford lcading going in the Open Expert Main, they all put on quite second lap. Lawrence Sorenson was a show. second until the white flag when he Landsborough led for three laps flopped, slammed into the fence, and before Richter took over and held him the race was called: He still took home back to the finish. Van Lienden was the second place trophy. number three across the line. Steve Powell took over the lead in the Wayne Adams started and finished the 250 Novice Division 2 in kad 250 Expert Main and kept it for four position. Joe Meyers finished second laps hefore Gary Thompson took over. after he took the number two slot from They and Alan Thompson were all close Paul Hammer in the last lap. throughout the five-lap Main. Alan lost The first division of 250 Novice third position to Pat Rich ter in the last found Earl Cochran going around the lap. Rich ter had worked his way up first turn int third position. l:Ie took from a bad start in sixth position. The rider to watch is second on the inside tum, was first by fourteen-year-old David Swigert. He lap three, and pushed way ahead at the checkered. Second place trophy went to won both the heats and the Mains in the Joe Frazier. ~ 125 Novice, Div. I and the 251-350cc race. The Fortuna Rodeo Grounds will be the spot for a brand new short track Michael Bresee, Guy Abbott, Wayne. Bower, and Joe Me~rs crashed into the race to be held on: Sunday, July 23. All wall going around the first sweeper in classes up to and including 250cc bikes the first division of the 250 Novice, all are invited to enter. By Sue Bailey EUREKA, CAL., July 4, 1972 - The Bergquist brothers, Rick and Gerald, both atop 650 Triumphs, beat Ray Beck in the 350-Open Amateur/Expert Main, but he won every other race entered. He was aboard his 750 orton, which he's converting back to a Class C bike. The Open Expert trophy dash was a no-sweat victory. Steve Powell (Bul) led for the first three go-arounds in the 250 Expert Flat Track race, then Beck took over to the checkered. Rick Bergquist (Bul) picked up second in the nex t go-around, putting Powell across the line in third position. This was Powell's second race with the Experts. Powell was again hot off the line in the 250 Expert Main, but lost it to Gerald Bergquist (Bul) and Ray Beck (Kaw). Just about then', Bergquist and Powell tangled. Pat Richter (Suz) was right there for the number two slot. When Alan Thompson spun out a few yards later, the race was stopped and he was taken to the hospital with an arm injury. After the restart, Beck, Richter, and Powell came in first, second, and third, respectively. Beck won the trophy dash, unchallenged. One of the Most Fantastic District Scrambles Ever By Sportphoto HANFORD, CAL., June 30, 1972 Fifteen laps! Yeah, more laps at one go than many riders get in a whole night of racing, on the most consistent1y well-prepared track in the district. The Kings County M.C. with the able assistance of the Hanford M.C. put together one of the most fantastic programs ever seen in Sportsman competition in District 35. The evening started with six-lap heat races. If you wanted to transfer directly to the Main, it meant a first place or you went to the Semi. After about twenty heat races, the Semis started; the best shot of the nigh t as there were two Semis for each class. in some cases a fourth could get you to the Main. A ride in the Semi to make the Main yielded twenty-seven laps of racing. Only three Mains were run this evening and it must have scared off riders, as the turnout was just over two hundred. In the 125 clliSS, four Novices Happy trophy holders, Jack Jones (First and four Juniors got through, twa Novices and four Juniors made the Main in the 250 class and four Juniors got into the Open Main. It would be somewhat farfetched for a Novice to hope for a win, but Bob Miller rode to a well earned seventh in the 250 Main. It took Jack J ones un til the second tum of the flTst lap to take con trol of the 125 Main. Jack was pursued initially by Bill Johnson, Jim McAleer and Kim Shropshire. After much position shifting, the tenth lap was quite eventful, as McAleer went to earth and Curt Lange had his engine quit, dropping them back to last and next to last. Lap eleven put an end to Eddie Mascorro's hopes as his engine gave up the ghost with a clatter that could be heard allover the track. The order remaired static for the last four laps and the top five were Jones, Eric Gifford, Jeff Lessley, Ron Lessley and Jim McCracken. l'4ike Keener took command of the Bantamwei!lh.tI~ Mike. \<~n,r, \Fi~t Lyle Moore (First Heavyweightl, from the'Tri-Class H..n~~~~·ts' l, .• ~ ..... ... . . . . . . . . . . . . . £,. \.iQllI"""jght). and, _ ",' ':. ':0;\' 4 250 Main right off the line and never looked back in a great wire-to-wire effort. Mike was followed by Curtis Lee, Tommy' Francisco, Rich Pereira, Bob Miller, Richard Hill, Kirby Shropshire, Bill Kenner, Ryan Gifford, Randy Griffith, Bob McClure, Ric Armitage, Doug S to !bey, Tim Pbillips and Allen Shirley. The first tum of lap eleven saw Pereira finally ge t by Lee after having dogged him for four laps hun ting for an opening. Exiting the righ t-hander on the last lap, Francisco picked up a drive on Lee to take over third at the checkered, followed by Hill and Shropshire. Once again, in the Open Main, the first man off the line was the first to the fmish, in this case it was Jim McCracken "'- • .... II.~ ..... • 4..... , ',,-, " .. a. who jumped right into a lead he was to hold to the checker_ Jim was chased off the start by Carl Nelson, Earl Bachant, Bob Rogers, Sparkie Edmonston, Lyle Moore, Darrell McCaulley, Dave Rogers, Harvey Bakker, Ray .Comer, Hank Conklin, Stan Fisher, Ron Mathews, Robert Garcia and Rick Zimmerman. The order at the checkered was an extremely tired Jim McCracken, Carl Nelson, Bob Rogers, Lyle Moore and Sparkie Edmonston. Jim first appeared to start tiring about lap nine and Carl pulled up Close to Jim and seemed to be about to' attempt a pass. Then, about lap twelve, Carl also looked to be fatiguing and dropped back. McCracken had plenty of reason to be tired, riding both the 125 and Open classes.