Cycle News - Archive Issues - 1970's

,.. N ",' g' "- ,.. N en ~ w Z W ..J U > U ::.;....,oi. ...IoJIIIlIIl~!"'~· \ A bunched tioht 250 Junior class crowd throuah the turn at Hanford Scrambles. Don Warren (4701 broke out for a third. HanforaScrambles-------------------By John Crawford HANFORD, CAL., July 28, 1972 Once again the Kings County M.C., with the willing assistance of the Hanford M.C., produced another well prepared and organized scrambles. When you have the track that most riders refer to as the best in the district, the problem is not too few riders, but too many! Bill Harlman too k the lead of the 50 Novice Main right off and never looked back as he sailed unhindered to the checkered flag. Pat Davis had second off the line, h'u t dropped back to third on the last lap when Scot Lange moved around. Gar Salmon took immediate charge of the 50 Junior and looked to have things all sewed up until the last turn of lap three when he made a close inspection of the track surface, allowing q,oth Ricky Pearce and 'J im Mclntyre through. Gar was able to pick up and get going quick enough to hang on to third, but wasn't too happy. The 100cc Novice saw Joey ViJlanueva bring home a wire to wire win ahead of Gino Galli who did a great job to make up for a very poor start.' Rick Meumann lOok full advan tage of a last lap pileup to take third place. Goug Garrison charged right into the lead of the 100 Junior and looked to have things going pretty much his way until the first tum of the last lap when he had a chain go astray, dropp'ing him out of the hunt. This altered the standings a bit and put Alex Lett into the lead, chased by Randy Talley and Bill Kenner, an order they held to the checker. Jack J ones did his usual thing in the 100 Expert by winning wire to wire despite efforts by Kim Shropshire and Rod Slamon. Mike Allen, Darren Schmidlkofer and George Thornburg turned the 125 Novice into a parade, as the order off the line was the finishing order. Doyle Cook moved off the line of the 125 Junior with the lead, followed by Richard Fritz and Larry Melton. Exiting the last tum of lap one, Melton got the drive on Fritz to grab second, then coming out of the first tum of lap two, nailed down the lead by passing Cook. On the last lap, Fritz got under Cook in the right-hander to move into second. Bobby Albrigh t and Curt Lange charged into the first turn side by side in the 125 Expert, with Eric Gifford hanging in there for third. En tering turn one of lap two, Gifford kept on the gas to dive in around Lange for second, then made a sligh t error in the righ t-hander to allow Lange back around. In the last tum Mike Keith made contact with Gifford while passing and Eric pulled off the track. Lange out-haired Albright entering the first turn of lap three to take the lead. At the checkered, Lange had the win chased by Keith and Darrell Smith. Brian Smart moved right into the lead of the 200 Novice, closely followed by Don Cox and Mark Davis. Moving through the first turn, Davis went to the outside to move around Cox and take over second spot. Once that pass was made, it seemed the race was over as the order stayed the same to the chuker. The 200 Junior was a ho-bum, follow the leader affair from start to finish. The leader of the parade was David Pitlman, chased by John Victorino and Tim Phillips. Harry Champlin read starter Carl Nelson to perfection to grab the lead immediately in the 250 Novice-Division No. I, chased by Jerry Johnson and Jeff Dotzler. Jeff got a mite au t of shape coming out of th.e right-hander and allowed Berwyn Qualls and Mark Tracy through. Tracy took over third en tering the first tum of lap two by staying on the gas longer than Qualls and the order at the flag was Johnson, Champlin and Tracy. The Second Division 250 lovice saw James Brase charge right into the lead, with Jerry Winn and Jay Work hot on his heels. Steve Correia caugh t fire in the last tum of lap one to drive under Work and into second, then in the first tum of lap two got under Winn to nail down second. At the 'finish Brase got the win ahead of Correia and Work. ThHiS BUfl pilot looked good in this corner but couldn't work his way into the top final positions at an ord. Some call Hanford the bes1-prepared track In the district. You can get traction. I 4- I I Monark Motorcycles American Riders Supply _ OPENING SALE THE NATIVES ARE RESnESS By Bruce C. Young SACRAMENTO, CAL., Aug. 4, 1972 is back strong as ever ana WIll give every Problems arose tonigh t that will take comer a run for h is money. Joe some hard planning to correct. Several collected third in the Scratch Main times, things seemed to be down righ t event and won several of his other races. childish on the part of both the riders The Rooney brothers, of Rink Racintz and the officials. Team, have begun their comeback. Several bad calls were made by the Tonight, it was Mike Rooney who officials that brough t boos from the dazzled everyone with his riding ability crowd. There were riders who showed, winning the Scratch Consolation. that they are very poor sportsman when Something new was tried at Cal Expo it comes to dealing with problems. I to replace the Match Races. It was a hope that the future will see a working four man even t with each rider running relationship between the riders and for the lap record. Each rider got a officials that will take northern chance on the track and it was Jim Speedway to the top on the West Coast. Doran who set the lap record. Jim We have the potential, if we get it toured the track in 12.50. Ron Smally together. was next with a 12.85 lap. Then came Mike Corcoran and Rich Hardmeyer. The big winners were the Reno riders, This innovation will be continued in the John Cunningham, unbeatable this future. season. I would say he should go south A couple of other riders need to be and give the boys down there a lesson in mentioned for their performance. One speed. Another rider for Check Point was Larry Mulock. Larry won his heat Cycles was Larry Lee, who put and Semi races and got third in the everything into his racing and did a fine '-' job!; ~ninlgl all loinds.Qf'm~n"Y' and the ~c;a~d't

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