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R'oad Racing by the
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Bob Endicott leads e...ntual 250 win';"r Wes Cooley ..Bob did what he always does with Yarnah~s: broke.
by Art Friedman
Photos by Shawn Culp, Lany Lim
& Friedman
RIVERSIDE, CAL., July 7 - Lots of
riders and lots of dirt greeted the ACA
today at Riverside. In addition to plenty
of dirt on the track there was some
other slippery stuff, mostly sports car
droppings from the previous week.
Things went pretty safely, however,
with only Buzz Buzzelli coming to any
serious grief in the form of a broken
collarbone and ankle.
Don Emde seemed to be the fast guy
today. He made off with an easy
350·0pen Senior GP win on his Yamaha
350. He was given a little bit of pursuit
from siniilarily mounted Mike Devlin,
but it wasn't significant. IT ace John·
Hateley missed the start of the event
but worked his way through the pack
on his factory Triumph 750 to beat all
the slower Open and 500 class bikes.
John Gallagher was 500 class
trophy-taker on his California Kawasaki.
Earller on, Wes Cooley was 250
Senior GP winner on his U.S. Racers
Yamaha. Bob Endicott held second for
a bit, but since he was riding a Yamaha,
it broke. Bob always breaks Yamahas.
He's finished a race on one once, but
eve.n then it broke. Tom Carroll picked
up the second spot.
Other Senior winners included Terry
Stanart (of course) on his DeAnza
Cycles lOOcc Kawasaki, John Weed on
his Weakly Yamaha 125, and John Serra
on a 200 Bul. Ralph LeCercq provided a
mild surprise by holding off the
two-strokes to win the 175 class on his
Ducati.
The 125 Junjor GP class was
composed entirely ofYamahas and won
by Mike Baeder on one. A Yamaha in
the hands of Bob Crossman, wh,)
demoted himself to J unjor sratl.s
especially for the event, won the 350
Junior event. Bob sa;d it was his fir,t
ride on a new bike and he wan ted to get
the hang of it. Apparently he was
successful. The first real Junior on a 350
was Richard Williamson. The 250's ran
with them and Bruce Longson won that
class aftN leading the whole ball of tar
for several laps.
After some initial mixjng-up Chris
Lopatosky (Hon) won the Open class
from the other Juniors. Second was Lee
Open and 350 senior winner. Don Ernde IMds Mike Devlin.
Allen Kiehl gets und... the paint on his way to second in the 125 production event.
Joh'} Hateley ,came o~
tor a li.t~e ~ice and dK::l some winning in the process.
