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'" '" .. 1 M .... '" .... ~ :> .., en ~ Z W ..J U > U • Briar Holcomb demonstrates one of the water holes. ES 'SUPERBOWL Wind came, and in a little over a lap he was past both Czechs and leading the whole gang for the second time in the evening. Pomeroy capi talized on the 'confusion to get by Baborovsky and set out after Falta himself. It was heading towards an American one-two. The back-pack Americans weren't sloucbing either. Tim Hart was turning in a fan tastic ride, well in fron t of befallen teammate Karsmakers, until he and Mike Runyard became tangled in the last turn. Tim was so excited that he nearly threw Runyard's bike off the track trying to get going again. Bob Grossi rode smoothly in flfth place ahead of Brad Lackey who was still recovering from another first tum number. Rich Tborwaldson (Suz) held up seven th behind Lackey, and Mikkola followed. Ln front, Marty kept moving faster and faster as Falta trailed by a little more each lap. Tben, on the last lap, be pusbed it too bard. He fell in the bum pies only a half lap from his second first. He was up quickly, but not quic k1y enough to keep the tirs t. F aI ta waited, and the second moto was his. Pomeroy got another third and Baborovsky followed. At the end of two motos Marty had three points, a two point advantage over Falta. AU Marty would need would be a sec..ond to cap it up. The E u rop e an-American Cl1allenge now read: Europe: 137, America: 98. MOTO THREE . , thing as you can get in a football stadium. It was Falta again to the first comer, and Marty followed after another near thing with the hay bales. Tim Hart charged even harder than the previous moto, jumping in to third place. Gary J ones finally seemed to get up some steam, running fourth. , This time it took only one lap for Tripes to get by. Falta and Marty came off the huge back jump side by side, and Falta closed the door into the first tight comer. In the second Marty did what he shouldn't have been able to do. He passed on the outside - outside of any groove - on the very bare, ragged edges. It looked like Falla couldn't believe it, as Marty motored away leaving the stunned Falta behind. Tripes .moved quickly to a seven second lead. His lap times dropped two to three seconds below anyone's. Then the Y akima fl~sh began to appear from the pack. Pomeroy moved past Gary Chaplin, then Gary Jones, resigned the charging Tim 'Hart to fourth and got F alta the next lap. He ran second abou t six seconds behind Tripes. Then with five minutes to go Marty heard a crack as he came down from the back straigh t jump. He judged it to be either frame or swingarm and slowed .down to get to the end. He ended up "babying" the bike around in second, ahead of Tim Hart, but behind Pomeroy. Hart's teammate, Karsmakers, fmally got things to work and moved up to fourth at the fmish. It wasn't a good night for Pierre. Bob Grossi continued finishing consiste~t1y with another fifth. Jim West was in there again with a sixth. Then came the three Europeans: Baborovsky, Falta and Mikkola. Though they didn't exactly shine in the fmal moto, the Europeans still ended up with the total points advantage. Tripes, of course, got the overall and Pomeroy got second. The CZ riders, Antonin Baborovsky and Jaroslav Falta, got third and fourth. Husky riders Grossi, Mikkola, and West took the next three places. But for his first moto start crash, we would have seen even more of eighth place Tim Hart, who was followed overall by Rich Thorwaldson and Pierre Karsmakers, 500 SUPPORT Bob Plump, who looked good at the first Inter-AMA in Salt Lake, got his act together for the Coliseum with an evening ful] of high fmishes. Ln the first moto, Plumb took his Maico around in front of everyone, after taking the lead from Gordon Ochs of Renton, Washington on a Bultaco. Plumb led fourteen and three quarters of the fifteen minutes, until Billy Payne (Mai) slipped by just before the flag. In the second moto, Bob moved from a mediocre start through the pack to a third place fmish, behind Dave , Messer (Mai) and Bob Harris (Mai). The first moto winner, Billy Payne, led over (Con.tinued on page 32)