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Perris TT Scrambles ----,.;;...;;... ~ CL $ N ..... '" ..: BUYS YOU ~ W Z W ..J U > U SWERS 1972 Motorcycle Competition Guidebook for California By James Brammer VALLEJO, CAL., July 14, 1972 - The lightweights are top excitement in North Bay scrambles around San Francisco. In the 100 Novice class, there is a continual dice for the lead between Mike Riddell and Brian Manley. At Vallejo, Manley led the early laps while pressured by Riddell before they started exchanging positions with Riddell in front at the finish. The flawless riding of the Faira brothers from San Pablo con tinues. This tiroe, they were in the 100 Junior class where they finished second and third to Kevin Sinclair. The brothers are loyal to Yamaha while Sinclair is on his "For Sale" Hodaka. Mike was second while Dave had third. Phil Carando won the 125 Junior final with Pat Dolcini passing Kelly This handy pocket size book lists the names and numbers of over 10,000 competition riders in California, covering AMA, CMC, ACA, AFM, CERA, HRA, USMRC, Trials, Speedway & Sidehacks competition organiza9ons. Plus Complete California Club Guide Plus Corona Scrambles- H,istories of Listed Organizations 148.PAGES CYCLE NEWS PRODUCTS P.O. Box 498 Long Beach. Calif. 90801 . Please rush my copy(s) of the 1972 Motorcycle Competition Guidebook for California. I enclose $1 for Nell copy. NAME. DDRESS I STATE ZIP AS WITH ALL CYCLE NEWS PRODUCTS, SATISFACTION GUARANTEED OR YOUR MONEY BACK Send for your copy NOW Or see your nearest Cycle News Dealer- Your c'omplete program for all 19'12 California Sportsman and Professional competition! DEALER INQUIRIES INVITED Steve Robb took the Novice Mota I over Dennis Thomas and Jim Groover. Eddie Shipley, after being au t1awed in the mini-cycle events, has taken his hot McCullough to the 100cc Novice classes and found he can run with them very easily as he won Division II over Dean Buswell and Ronald Woodward. Jim Wood is looking better all the time. His first season as an Amateur is a very winning one. Derek Katanic, another hard charger, was defeated by mechanical problems and fmished the evening by blowing his engine. He stiJJ fmished third overall with Jack Cover second. Ne.w faces were allover the results this week with Jack Langstrom and Vince Byrnes each winning their 125cc Novice goes. Willie Hardin-had pressure put on by Steve Bales in the 175/200 class:Steve has just moved up to the bigger bike and if he keeps up he will be giving Willie a neck and neck run for the money. Bob Lynch was third in this one. Vallejo Scrambles----- (first edition published by CYCLE NEWS, Inc.) CITY By Elaine Jones PERRIS, CAL., July 15, 1972 - Riders that turned out for Perris's first night of racing since the fire found a track that was in beautiful shape and a nippy evening just made for racing. Tom Heard, smarting from a fall at Ascot which christened his new leathers, let it all hang out in the Open class and whipped the hays had. Tom didn't have a good start all evening but banzaied through the sweeper and ended up first every time. Tom had one of those nights where he could make no mistakes, at least no apparent ones, and won easily in very close to- record time. Neil Winston was second and Tom Jones was third. . John Calicchio, trying out his new Triumph in the Novice Mota 11, foundout that to trophy you had better have a silencer. He won the battle but lost the war and went home knowing his Triumph was the fastest and that's all. Ralph Hendricks collected the win with Bill Traver taking second. _ I By Elaine Jones CORONA, CAL., July 12,1972 -John and Jim Allison are a double threat and no one at Corona will dispute this. John picked off two first places Wednesday, defeating Wayne Whisenant and Terry Stanart in the 100-125 Am/Ex. go and Tim Holm and Jim Wright in the 250 Am/Ex. class. Meanwhile, brother Jim did his thing in the 125 Novice II picking off Steve Fortune and Larry Leuof£. The Side-Hacks gave the Corona TT course a try and the crowd loved them. All three heats saw them bunched closely together and trying to get through those two tigh t turns was something else. The first heat saw the team of Harry Fisher and Ron Smith· home first with Don Davis and Fred Acevedo second. Steve Fisher and Pete the Greek were third. Second mota saw Steve and Pete out on top with Don and Fred second; Harry and Ron third. In the third mota Don and Fred put it all together and that was the ball game. Steve and Pe te the Greek got up for second and Harry and Ron collected third. The next appearance of the Side.Hacks will be August 9th at the TT Benefit with proceeds going to the Riverside County Juvenile Hall Auxiliary. Scott Smith walked away from the field in the Expert Big Bike mota and posted the fastest lap time of the _ Mcisaac at the finish line for second. Ed Souza, in second.. pressured winner Dan Shirts all the way in the six-lap final of the 200 Junior class. Larry Drew was in front from the beginning and the contest was over for the 250 Expert final with Kent Johnson More North on P. 34. and Dave Dotson dueling for second. George Kalamaras on a 650 Triumph held off repeated charges by Larry Drew and Allen Yarrow in winning the 500-650 Expert final. Clyde Bailey on a new Yamaha special from Karl's Motors sacked the 250 Novice class. _ evening. A closer battle was waged for second between Mike Carver and Mike DuBont. Mike DuBont was ahead on points going into the final mota but dido't have the power to get around Mike Carver's BSA and dropped to third. Even though Jim Wright had his win streak broken in the 250 Am/Ex. class he held on to his throne in the 175-200 Am/Ex. class. Philip Corona was second and Terry S tanart third. Gary White finally had some good luck. Plagued by b,reakdowrls the past few weeks, Gary kept everything running and came up with the win. Steve Bales was second and Steve Van Wormer third. Robert Murray and Steve Fortune are getting closer to a Corona Amateur rating as they can tinue to pick up wins in the two divisions of 100 Novices. You can add Richard Kyzer to that list. as he h.as really come alive in the 125cc Novice I class. Jerry Greer, Rod Sexton and Dan McWhorter were the big winners of the three divisions of 250 Novices. Thomas L. Howe and Fred Meissner, both new faces, took the wins in the two Novice motos. John Sandona showed the boys the way home in the Amateur mota with no one ever close enough to challenge him. Robert Fairesburg and Pat Lynch had a closer duel with Robert coming out on top in that one. TT Scrambles at Indian Dunes - - - - - - - - - - - - - - By John Grout VALENCIA, CAL., July 4, 1972 Racing for the TT machinery returned to Indian Dunes today, and in the midst of 161 competitors who had gathered for the early afternoon warfare, Gene Cannady was more conspicuous than an elephan t performing in a flea circus. With fourteen differen t divisional wins up for grabs, Cannady , taking his first ride on the new high-speed Dunes track, garnered a pair of Overalls defeating both the 125 and Open Experts during six mota-type heat races. In annexing the one-two-five score, Cannady waged a hard-fough t battle on his DKW with John ''The Ironman" Rice, Bob Vacca, and Joe GranateUi, among others. His 500cc win came at the expense of riders such as Bill Payne, Dan Hudson, Jim Harnisch and Carl Nelson. Payne had to be the hard luck rider of the day. After winning the first two races for the big-bores, his Maico blew during die final moto, thus leaving the victory to Cannady (Yam). Action among a swift field of 250 Experts was a real cliff-hanger among Mark Cook (Bul), Rick Salmon (CZ), Randall Lewis (Man), Allen Cooke (CZ) and Steve Kohler (Ric), before they finished in that order. Powered by a Triumph-engined rig, Bob Hudspith and Jerome Wahl zipped to a close overall among a large group of sliding sidehacks. Runners.up included: Tomlinson-Palfreyman (Wasp), Dudley-Reed (Yam) and Ramsdon-Monohan (Yam). Both Mike Brown, astride one of the new Monarks, and BuJtaco-mounted Jimmy Gappa were able to score perfect, three-far-three wins, to come out on top of their particular Junior-classed events. Other Junior victors were Mark Raiche, Bob Clark, Jerry Neukam and Scott Pelkey. Amateur winners were: Kevin Dwyer, Joe Erwin and Larry Blum.