Cycle News - Archive Issues - 1970's

,.. ~ i l1. N .... '" ~ ,; 0 Z en ;;: w Z W ..J I) > l) CMC Ascot Discretion is sometimes the bener part of valor. Jeff Witherell (644) demonstrates, nice and easy. CMC Carlsbad _ by Buzz Baty/Creative Images CARLSBAD, CAL., Oct. 29, 1972 - It turned out to be a comedy of errors and a lot of HCan you top this?" in teday's CMC motocross at Carlsbad Raceway. Riders, some good and some not so, made those kinds of mistakes you seldom see, and they did it more than once. One individual in the 500 Intermediates goofed ·and flipped the bike onto the fence and it took spectators a good five minutes to get it off and untangled. A t this same location earlier, one Expert missed the berm entirely, rode over it and into the fence ...he just forgot to tum. Again the same spot, a rider went down, got it fired again and was pushing onto the track again just as another rider came whizzing by. Right! They collided and both wen t down. In other spots, few words afoul were muttered wben riders banged into each other, spilling both or all three or four in SP0rlS like the giant uphill and downhill and sweepers ...get the point. Oh, yeh, they had their regular first turn biggies too. And would you believe it, the ambulance got "unparked" only once (once is all we saw)? . Chuck Bower won the first 125 Expert but had to sit the next round out when he discovered his fork crown had cracked. It put the overall up for a grabs and Marty Smith (Mon). third in the first, came off the winner aceing out Tim Lunde (B ul) who ran second each time. Bower picked up third with Matthew Roth (Pen) in fourth. The 250 Expert was a highly can tested affair. .. from second on back. Rich Eierstedt (Mai) rolled to both mow wins and the overall but he had to hassle Gay Ion Mosier (Mai) in the second to do it. Gaylon, who looks strong for next year's number one CMC plate, spilled in the first round when he and John Derhammer bumped together. He got back going and rallied to finish a creditable sixth. That gave Ken Zahrt (Bul). who had a second, the point gap he needed as he took fourth in the finale. Gaylon, with his second, took third. Tommy Croft had troubles in the first moto taking 16th but fought back to take third in the final to settle for fifth. Ron Roberts (CZ) looked migh ty strong with a fourth in round one and led round two before his rear wheel locked up. Quick repairs got him going but the problem never was fully corrected. It was Rex Staten again in the 500 running away 'with both motos. The . hassle for second was just th at, and wasn't decided until after the class was completed. . It seems Wayne Boyer couldn't Ret by Buzz Baty/Creative Images GARDENA, CAL., Oct. 25, 1972 "The last time anyone won all three Expert classes. day or night, was when Jim Wilson did it back in 1970." Stu Peters had to think awhile before he said it. "He won all nine as I remember, the 125 on a Puch and the other two on Greeves." Jim Wilson on a Greeves. Yup, that was some time back. Tonight, here at Ascot Park, Tim Hart nearly equalled Wilson's perfect night of two years ago. Tonigh t, Tim won eigh t of nine motos to win all three CMC Expert classes. They weren't runaways, though. Mark Tyer (Pen) has been improving drastically in the last few months and tonigh t he gave Tim (Pen) a real figh t all the way, only to finish second in eacb mota. The fmal two motos were really the finest of the night. At one point in mota two, Mark slipped by Hart to gain the point only to lose it just before the checkered. Tim Lunde (Bul) settled for a distant third each time. The 250 was also hotly contested for the first few laps of each mota, but once Tim got his Maico unwound, he'd begin to slip away. Dave Pessy, who also _ tried riding all three classes, picked up two thirds and a second to beat out Bob Messer (BuI) at the pay window. The 500 looked to be another Tim Hart/Bill Payne affair as Bill dealt Tim his only loss of the night in the first moto. The pair ran away from everyone in this one. . The second race, however, changed the whole aspect of the evening. A horrendous crash at the start sent everyone to the ground excep t Hart and Ken Zahrt. Payne was the worst hurt as he went head-first over the bars and then got rammed by both Pessy and Messer: He was visibly shaken but refused to go to the hospital. He didn't race the rest of the nigh t. On the restart, Hart broke to the lead but on his tail was Ray Lopez on a week-old Maico. A 12th in moto one technically had him out of the running, but Lopez clung to Hart's pipe and pushed him all the way. The same thing happened in the third moto but it was again the dominating Hart on top. Lopez sneaked in for second overall with Alvin Blain (Kaw) , third. That 125 Intermediate class continues to be the most hotly et>n tested of all classes every week. This time Ron Hamada (Hon) pulled off the overall win. H~ won the first mota, took second to Pete McCormick (CZ) in the next and third behind Angel Posca (Zun) and Kirk Bennett (Suz) in the fmal. Posca could have had a shot at the overall win had he not finished eighth in moto two. He was second in moto one. He did wind up second overall, though, with Bennett third. Derek McLeish, last week's winner in the 500 Jr. class, came out on top again to nigh t by a large mar:gin, which brought out a few complaints. A check of the records from last year supported the protests and McLeish, an Intermediate, was disqualified. Next time he rides In termediate. his own machine running properly before the first mota so he borrowed a friends' and pulled off a fourth. But, when he was seen riding his own bike in the next moto, his first motas was disqualified. Mike Krebs, the hotshoe CZ rider from Kansas, got burned and Jim Wilson (CZ) must have said a nice '"thank you". Wilson, fifth in the first race, ,(ot moved up t'? fourth and with the added po~nts, also moved past Krebs into second. It was still tight, 469 to 450, bu t still decisive. Krebs had taken two thirds. John Fackler, second in moto one on his CZ, failed to start the second and finished fourth in pain ts. We noted that Dave Chambers, who did very well in the recent Hi PerfG<-mance Series, took a third today in his first ride as an Intermediate. Congrats.... CMC LIONS Jeff Bruns (586) was overall winner in· the second division of 250 JuniOrs. _ by Buzz Baty/Creative Images WILMINGTON, CAL.,.Oct. 27,1972When was the last time you can remember Tim Hart winning all three classes (125, 250 and 500) at a CMC Motocross? If you said "Two days ago" you'd be right and just venture a guess as to what Tim did tonight here at Lio')s? Yup, all three again. But, this time he got beat twice, both coming in the 125 program against Charlie Bower (first rna to) and Tim Lunde (third moto). In the other two c1asses... zip... three straight. In two evenings of racing, Tim collected $ 360 for 15 firsts and three seconds adding up to six of six overall wins. Not bad when you figure he was on the track probably a total of less than a hour. It didn't look like he'd do it LOnight when Bower (Pen) got the lead right off in Tim's first race: the 125. For all five laps Charlie held him off. In the second .. _ encounter; though, Tim got the drive off the line and had the point over the jUJ11p. From then on, noboby could catch him. Bower slid out in his pursuit and dropped way back to finish fifth. This gave Lunde his chance in mota three to take the win and move into second overall. Bob Hershey reappeared here at Lions for the first time in a long, long time, and came out a distant second to Hart in each of the 250 and 500 classes. The "Candy Man" bopped Bill RLlbly and Roland Rodriquez (CZ) in the 250 and 500 respectively. With only four races left for the expiring Lions Strip, CMC officials have laid ou t plans for a series for the remaining programs. CalJed ...what else? .. "The Final Four Series". Included with the regular trophies and cash at each, overall series point leaders will be vying for bunches of prizes and contingency. -

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