Cycle News - Archive Issues - 1970's

M N MOVING? i M .... Well, HOT DOG! That means you've got another coupon to fill out. After all. we have to send your Cycle News somewhere and what better place than your new address? So don't delay, do it today:By the way, it won't cost you a cent (except for the stamp but that's between you -and the Post Office.) ~;-z-;-~-;-o--;.-;~"=1 Oat at ".., . ,iii. . , . ~ .., > CL 3 n c;; =-'< ~ co <: .. 5 10 2 CD 3 CI 0'- " a: a: a: oS.0 'n ;;"1 ..... n > 2 tlltllr " ;; 0. C» atO'" ... 1 '< ~ .. nCDX2 1»1 3 CI i!1 ~ ~.~- - "':=!: 31 ~CDV1 ~I .. .. =- I» SI '" Q ~ '" Q ;. ... 0 ~ 3 • ~ '< 0 DeWayneJones said someone hit him from behind as he led the second moto charge through the first tum after the drop of the gate. The bikes were topped out in fourth and fifth gear and heeled over for the lefthander when DeWayne was clobbered from behind and knocked to the ground. The next thing he saw was Pierre flipping through the air like a Raggedy Ann doll. At least a dozen bikes went down in the melee, including Baborovsky. U] know that Pierre was one of the riders who ran over me because I remember looking up and seeing somedting yeDow £lying by overhead, and the tank on my Honda has yellow pain t all over it," said DeWayne. Jones was able to pick himself up and get going, bu t his Honda was stuck in fourth gear and couldn't be convinced to shift. Baborovsky also got underway again but was .,. half a lap behind. Karsmakers was out of it for the day with a mild concussion and bruises. Pierre stated that Baborovsky, while trying to force him (Pierre) off his own a: 1Il " ! 250 Intemational MotoTwo .. ... . .. ... .. 1Il 0 The estimated twenty thousand spectators on hand let out a wild cheer as Marty Tripes throttled his factory Honda to the lead of the first moto with Gary Chaplin (Mai) right behind. Then came DeWayne Jones, ahead of Baborovsky and Falta. For the tU"st few laps Marty appeared to have a little in reserve as he kept looking back over his shoulder at Chaplin like they were just playing a game of tag. Meanwhile, Baborovsky was charging hard, and on the fourth lap was able to zap both of them to take the lead. Then Falta also moved by on the following lap to instigate a Communist takeover of the tU"St two places that would last throughout the remainder of the moto. With Marty now back in third place and steadily losing sigh t of the speeding CZ riders, the crowd was able to center their attention on the battle that was going on back in the pack. Gary Chaplin was still holding onto fourth ahead of K a rs ma~ers, Mikkola, DeSoto, Pomeroy, and Lackey. They were circulating around the trac k in a tigh t pack, but positions remained fairly consistent until the thirty minute mark in the forty minute moto. Then Mikkola g~sed h.is Grand Prix Husky on past a tmng Pierre. Pomeroy also found his second wind about this time and moved by the fly in , Hawaiian, DeSoto, and then Pierre as weD to take up fifth position behind Heikki. All during the moto, Jaroslav Falta had been content to run second behind Baborovsky, but as soon as he saw the white £lag unfurled he wicked up and worked his way past Antonin on the tmal lap to take the win. Following them across the line were Tripes, who was still safely in third ahead of ,Mikkola, Pomeroy, Chaplin, and Karsmakerss. 0 ~~ g~ The massive first corner, second mota pileup. Pierre is alreadY'pown and rolling. ... iO '2 0 i ii ... N N ... 1 LJ MOTO"CYCL• • "We have the parts" THIS WEEKS SPECIAL Heikki Mikkola on his feet in the series, winning the second mota and taking second OA. 125 MX $695 250 MX $950 line through the tum, had run into him. Pierre walked back to the pits to wait for next week at Unadilla. Heikki emerged from the tU"st comer pileup in the lead followed by Falta, Gary Jones, Bryar Hokomb, John DeSoto and the two Kawasaki riders, Brad Lackey and Jimmy Weinert. Brad had it in his mind to do well this moto after placing twelfth in the first one. He steadily began working his way up through the field, picking off the remaining Americans un til he was in third behind F aI tao As surely as the Czechs had dominated the fIrst moto though, the second moto was Heikki's as he continued to stretch out his lead throughout the race to take the final moto win. It was a happy Heikki Mikkola who waved to the cheering crowd in fron t of the main wanGstand and downed a bottle of champagne. Heikki had to be content with second overall, though, because Jaroslav Falta from Prague, Czechoslovakia, by way of his first and second place finishes had the overall win. Baborovsky had worked his way back up through the field after the first turn free·for·all to get a ninth which gave him third overall. Finishing out the fInal moto in fourth position behind Lackey was DeSoto, then Gary Jones, Gary Semics andJirnmy Weinert. 500 Support _ The Support class consisted mostly of local area riders out for the glory of being able to race on the same program with the factory boys. A few notable exceptions included factory Husky.rider Mike Hartwig. Mike comRletely dominated all three of the twenty minute motos, winning each of them by wide margins. Eastern Maico rider Bob Harris finished second behind Hartwig in the first two motos, but in the tmal race it was Kawasaki's newest rider, Bill Grossi and brother to Bob on the Husky team, who got to eat a little of Hartwig's dust in second. Also notable in the brother act was Ron Pomeroy, who did as well as a fourth place in the second moto and fmished out the day with an eighth overall. Doug Grant is one rider who Easterners don't get to see very often but would like to. Doug put together a 3·10-3 finishing act to net Bultaco a third overall behind Hartwig an ()

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