riders came flying into turn one, th,ey
found the infield man under the bike he
had worked so hard to remove. A t the
last minute he tripped, just a foot from
safety. Scott Sivage was in the lead and
was the fJrst to run into the bike. Then
came Mark Cherry with no place to go
but ovef the top. Next it was Mike
KonJe, but he got past the mess, only to
have a flag man step in front of him.
Mike turned to avoid him, but there was
no time and the flag man took off
running.. .in the wrong direction! He ran
right into the path of KonJe, and they
both went end over end as Mike's bike
destroyed itself against the crashwall.
The fans wer~ horrified and the
infield people were stunned at all that
had happened in the last two or three
seconds. When the mess was cleaned up,
there was little or no physical damage
done to anyone. Just a few minor cuts
and a lot of hurt pride. The big loss was
of the monetary type...bent frames,
wheels, ripped leathers and broken
bikes, but everyone walked away ready
to ride the next race.
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Irwindale
Thursday nigh t at the biggest of the
speedway tracks, Irwindale, we found
Mike Bast doing it to current national
champ Rick Woods in the Scratch Main
event. The four lap race was the best
run between Rick and Mike So far this
season. A t no time did the champs get
more than three feet apart. Mike stayed
on the pole as Woods worked to the
outside, trying to get that little bit of
traction that would carry him to the
lead. It was not to be found, though,
and as Larry Shaw held off Danny
Becker, Mike came around for the last
lap and the checkered flag with Rick
right on his tail.
Ken Cartee got his second Handicap,
Main event win this week. If he can
keep on winning and lose his habit of
stalling in front of the rest of the pack, I
will have to think of a new nickname
for him instead of Super ·Stop. Ken is
starting on the ten yard line after
winning three Handicaps, and it's time
to add some yardage to his starting
position.
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COsta Mesa
The unbeatable Mike Bast set one
more record this past week by winning
every Scratch Main even t for the four
nights of Speedway racing in the
southland.
Mike was last year's U.S. champ, and
every time he rides against the current
title holder, Rick Woods, you know that
it will be the best race of the night. This
Friday in the Scratch was no exception,
as Mike and Rick changed lines going in'
and out of the turns, but it was Mike
coming out of every turn rJrst, and
beating the U.S. champ to the finish
line.
I had been giving some though t to
changing Ken Cartee's nickname of
"Super Stop" to something else,
because he has been winning Handicap
Mains with some regularity. However,
Super Stop did his thing at Ventura,
getting Dan Becker off, and then again
Friday while he had the lead. He pulled
up short in the turn again, causing
Sonny Nutter to eat the crashwalJ.
Sonny must be getting used to it by
now, though. Last week it was Woods
who put him out of the first even t.
Jim Gresham, older brother of Steve,
has made a rme comeback after his
crash at the Pacific Coast
Championships last December at
Ventura. Jim was laid up most of the
winter and got a late start this season,
but he seems rme and we should see
more of him in the winners circle. Jim
won the Handicap Main event for his
rJrst big win of the year.
Troy McKee came from the back of
the pack to pull off the win in the
Second Division Main for the second
straight Friday night in a row.
The Bast Boys are on the road again,
heading up north not to race, but to
watch. On their recent trip to the
northern tracks they won every event
they were entered in, with the
exception of two. All the tracks they
appeared at asked the Brothers to return
and pu t on a school.
Both boys are interested in seeing the
sport grow, and they feel that if it will
make the racing safer and faster, they'd
like the chance to pass on some- of the
schooling they received here in the
U.S.A. while world champ Ivan Mauger
was here.
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