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McLaughlin, Action Fours, Triples ,
by Dave Schoonmaker
EL TaRO, CAL., Oct. 8,1972 -Steve
McLaughlin and Re'g Pridmore
continued their summer.long duel into
the fall months today at Orange County
International Raceway. In the end all
the spoils belonged to McLaughlin (all
$10 or $15), but only in the end .
McLaughlin edged Pridmore (BMW)
in the heat to put his Action Fours 750
Honda on the pole position for Ilhe
Open GP event with Pridmore just next
spot over. Reg gets phenom'enal starts
on his BMW and rocketed into the lead,
with Art Friedman, on the Action Fours
Hond,a 500 righ t on his tail. They were
cl 0 se Iy
followed by George Miller
(Yam 350) and McLaughlin. Steve
moved quickly past Miller and Friedman
and then past Pridmore. Even after 250
miles at Ontario the Action 750 still
goes like a rocket. Meanwhile Miller
moved by Friedman and stretched ou t a
comfortable distance, ~and soon after
that Dave Burchards on another Honda
750 moved by'into fourth. Pridmore
pursued McLaughlin, pushing very hard,
but eventually braked a little too late
and had to make use of an additional
section of drag strip.
In the Super·Street and Thumper
class Reg and Steve lined up again, this
time with Pridmore on the Butler and
Smith production BMW and McLaughlin
on the Action Fours 500. When the flag
fell the duo leaped away from the rest
of the pack and fought wheel to wheel
all the way to the chec,kers. At the
finish it was McLaughlin by a wheel.
Tbird man over the line was Kevin
Burke on Ilis Kawasaki 500 stocker.
The 350·500 Open Production race
saw things go a little more Pridmore's
way as Reg walked away with the
. production class. A fair distance back
was a pack full of 350s, 500s and 750s
e x changing posi tions in a fran tic
manner. Kevin Burke (Kaw) was the
Steve McLaughlin on his Action Fours Hondas won everything he touched .
Bob Cro~sman won both the 250 and 350 production classes.
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Kevin Burke was 500 production winner.
