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By Ann Carr
LQDl; CAL., July 14, 1972 - Nine
hundred spectators and 173 rider'
suffered through a delayed 39 events in
'114 degree temperatures which never
seemed to drop here tonigh t. Hot
weather brought no less spirited racing,
however.
Local
hotsboe
Alex Jorgensen
continued his dominance here as 'he
took his fourth of five races in both the
250 and Open Expert classes.
Jorgy took the lead in the 250 Main
and was never really pressured.
The "old fast kid", Ray Huff, jumped
into a commanding lead on lap one oj
the Open event with Jorgy in fourth.
Young Number 17 picked off three
riders in six laps on a narrowly grooved
track for the win. His last pass on Mr.
Huff, a clean but close zip on the
right-hander, came on t~e white nag lap.
Junior races tonigh t featured an
excellent win by Mitch Davidson,
younger brother of Jeff and Ted, in his
first race in the 100 class.
A revitalized 350 Junior class,-once
Honda dominated, sa,w Steve Sanders
and Rod. Murphy, on Suzuki and
Kawasaki, take First and second.
The last of the ten nigh t races at Lodi
comes August 19 with high point
awards in each class scheduled for that
evening.
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A thriller of a start. It's hardly LeMans but Wayne Morrell (32501 emer~ed from the two hours as winner.
By Bill Spencer
FREMONT,CAL.,July 16,1972 -Just
like the summer reruns on TV, the
Marathon madness came back for a
summer show and a record crowd
showed up to w'!-tch the an tics. of the
almost Baja racers.
Regular trophy winners were running
but some new faces joined the oldsters
to make things interesting. Wayne and
Wes Morrell teamed with Rod Dimas to
devastate the 125 class with a 1-2 over
Experts Dave Harris and Dan DaCosta
on a 125 Honda.
With the addition of an Expert
division the Novices can now run for
their own trophies while the Experts do
the same. Just for the record, since the
Morrell boys and Simas are so consistent
at
this
stuff,
they
are
now
Expert-ranked, official by "Billboard".
As usual, the 125 had the largest
entry with 60 starters, but "nly some 21
were around at the finish while the
trophy coun t was 12. The name of the
game is to finish and Danny Jensen and
his little Souzamate know that to be a
fact.
Danny was running second, five laps'
from the end when he ran ou t of gas
and by the time he got back on the
track he had dropped to fifth. Still a
trophy but not nearly second.
The 250 was a hot one at the start
Chico Short Track
with Ed Rosman leading on a Jack
Lancaster Bultaco but the Bul stopped
too much during the course of 'two
hours and so the team of Pastor and Bill
Graham won it on one of those new 250
Hondas_ My 360 Montadero is still in
one piece so that little thing will have to
wait.
Wayne Morrell and Rod Simas came
back to haunt the Open class on a 125
Penton and won it easily over Red
Tremain and friend. No more little bikes
with the big boys~ handle too much
better.
Back in the pack the Selby boys are
still arguing about who did what to who
and, just for the record, the team once
again won the team trophy. Roger Selby
and
Brian
O'Hagan
beat
the
Silva/Dickson team in one and got beat
in the other. Trophies for all.
The next 2 tnan 2 hour marathon has
been scheduled to run at Champion
Speedway, acros.s from Candlestick Park
in Daly City, just a few miles from San
Francisco and a much longer course will
be used. Most likely 2 miles with the
terrain just about the same.
If this trial works, more will be
scheduled as the' area is just righ t for
long summer days of motorcycle racing.
The date is August 6 and the times will
remain the ~ame as the last outing.
USE OF U.S. FORESTS FOR
TRAIL RIDINGSAN FRANCISCO, CAL. - More than
4,000 oral and written statements were
received from the public on' the review
of all undeveloped roadless areas 5,000
acres or more in size in California's
National Forest.
Sixty-nine percent of the public
comments on the future use of these
areas favored various forms of resource
use and development, while 23 percent
wanted the areas to be studied for
fu.rther consideration as potential
wilderness
areas.
Eigh t
percent
mentioned that they wanted more time
to study the areas. U.S. Regional
Forester Doug R. Leisz said, "We gained
much information from the public in
May from the series of public meetings
held in Pasadena, Fresno OaI