Cycle News - Archive Issues - 1970's

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Los ADgetes. alifornia n19 Westminster Ave., Westminster, Ca. Dt!'aJer Inquirit!'s Invited ·••••••••••••••••••••. ' : PENNZOIL WON : • • : THE BIG ONE : • • : • • • • • • • • • • • • • • AT INDY Bans Murray won the NHRA Nationals at Indianapolis, setting Low E. •• • • • • • • • • • • • T. & Top Time at 9.02 - 172.08 MPH. Boris uses Pennzoil exclusively . Askabout Pennzoil's complete line of motorcycle oils. PennzQiI 2·Stroke and 4-SlToke Motorcycle Oils for cycles uSing gas on track, trail or street. Pennzoll RaCing Oil for 4·stroke cycles uSing gas or exotic fuels. PENNZOIL COMPANY Oil City, Pennsylvania Western Headquarters: Los Angeles, Calif. : • • • • • • • • • •• • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • •••••••••••••••••••• NRA Deadman's Point .. ....;, by The Shadow VICTORVILLE, CAL., Oct. 8, 1972 Wanning up a week in advance of the big "Suzuki Series" which gets underway Sunday, Oct. 15, the NRA played host to a motocross card at Deadman's Point, near Victorville, Sunday. With all eyes trained towards the big 'series, the turnout Sunday was nothing to write home to mother about. Still the moderate turnout of riders experienced a lot of riding, as Jack Barbacovi; who ran the show feels everybody who shows up should be tired when they go _ home. Today's winners were Bobbie Gonzales (Han), Minibikes, 10 and over; Kevin Woody (Han), Minibikes, under 10;Jack Boone (H-D), 100Juniors; Bill Tarling (Sac), 125 Juniors; Glen Brittner (Oss), 250 Juniors; Jim Rich (Suz), Open Juniors; Morgan Molocco (Yam), 250 Intermediates; and Ron Burns (Oss), 250 Seniors. As is always the case with the NRA, 25 percent trophies are awarded to classed under Expert, with a 100 percen t payback going to the Expert. AMC Saddleback _ by Kent Nicholls lRV1NE, CAL., Sept. 30, 1972 - A few weeks back when AMC was having their Awards Presentation, the M.C. was Jeff J ames, the P.R. man for Saddleback Park and he told the people that Saddleback really cares about the racers. A display of propaganda being born righ t? Wrong. Today was the third of twelve races in the Smuggler Series and it was also 125 Novice Fredo Radel's day as he finally convinced his Puch to stay together and he handily won all three motos. In the hotly contested 125 Jr. class, Robert Williams (Suz) and John Dickenson (Pen) (who, by the way, won AMC's last series.) did battle for three motos. But each time the flag fell, it was Williams just in fron t, giving him a win for the day and Dickenson second. 1n the same class, Pen ton pilot Chris Yoder and Don Wickenham (Yam) also did battle for third spot, but after three motos, each had' the same number of points and had to settle for a tied third place. The 250 Jr/lnt Combined class was full-sized today with a fantastic five-way duel between (in the order they fwished). Int's Richard Keftner (Bul), Ron Bandy (CZ), Dennis Miles (Bul) ,Jr. Ed Gember (Mai) and Bill Conroy (Mai). Each led at one time or another during the day and they were always close together. Today marked the fourth race of the Yamaha Mini-Cycles Series, being held in conjunction with the Smuggler Trailer Series. Today also marked over·.,(even class Brad Dutoit's (Hon) fourth straight win. Again today, though, he was pushed hard by under-eleveners Brad Roberts and Jeff Ward (Hondas both), and was in fact beat by Ward in the first mota. But Dutoit came back to win the last two motos and Ward had to settle for a second behind Roberts in their class. Escape Country MX . . . . : . . - - - - - - - - - - by Mike Capalite ESCAPE COUNTRY, Sept. 17,1972After viewing the Escape Country motocross track for the first time at the invitational last week, it seems that many riders have decided that this is the place to race. With the entries in all the classes more than doubling what they have been in previous races, there was action and racing aplen ty. In keeping with their policy of starting the large bore machines first one week and the little ones first the next, it was the mini-enduros that led off the action. It was Robert Mosser on a Yamaha taking a win in the first day class while Geoff Singer topped the beginner class with his Honda. The 100 class was represented by four divisions. first day, Beginner, Novice and Expert with the wins going to Robert Knowles (Hod), Cliff Russell (Kaw) , Lane Steeber (Yam), and Kevin Crawford (Ric) respectively. By virtue of being the class with the largest number of entries, the 125cc riders were broken in LO five divisions as Tim Gavin on his Yamaha won the first Day class while-Eddie Coult~r took home tlle gold in the Beginners. Ron Kramer inYA held up for the Yamaha marquee in the Novice djvision while Brad McKee came through for Bultaco in the Amateur class. Bringing home the top money in the 125 Expert class was Mike Paulsell on a I'enton with Jeff Blix and his Monarch in second place just one point ahead of third spot man. Trophies in -the 185 classes went to Mark Hemsworth for his efforts on his Suzuki in the First Day division and Nick Simmons (Yam) against the Novices. As usual the 250 class was swamped with entries with one of the largest turnou ts in the First Day class ever which made it a hard win for Greg Berg on his Su

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