Cycle News - Archive Issues - 1970's

August 28, 1973 Page 10 Belgian MX GP th. Iftd.,tructebl. Ple,tic Teftk Bauer on the ",ove that has everything! A molded cap/ttlr••d .t-up thet Is indescribably f.ntutic. for Qverllow A mounting bracket that Duat "max-How" outleu. ALSO INCLUDED' fits any cycle Instantly. Hidden under the tank where it should be. FUEL LINE, 'ElCOCK· TEE UNIVERSAL'.•• RUGGED ••. ATTRACTIVE ONE YEAR GUARANTEE Bauer just leads Van Velthoven as they come of the woods on the last lap.. TOU DONT IUT A MOTOICYCLE lIT IT liT. ACCISSOIIES THAT WAT? DONT SAVE WHT IUT FIVE DOllAIS ON ANOTHU TANK AND S'END TEN MOUNTING IT. WITH By Tomie_G. Lafon NAMUR, BELGIUM, AUG. 5 SU'USTAI TOU CAN IIDE IN 30 MINUTES. ~Superstar 217 CommerciI! Str..t W Products Glrllnd. T.... 75040 ATTN: MR. YAMAHA DEALER•• 371 .Choice" Noguchi Dealership Areas Now AYaila~le in the Westl "FACTORY WORKS" engine kits in stock for: Yamaha GT80, AT 125, CT 175. Contact our NEW Western Office - NOW! "Competitive Power t'or the Privateer" Dirty Distributing Co.,_ 142 Main Street. Oakley, Calif. 94561. (415) 625-3886. And on the seventh day God created ... MOTORCYCLES DKW THE LITTLE BIKE THAT WINS THE BIG RACES SAVE SAVE SAVE at CYCLE PARTS F", ~~~ Phone: (213) 334-5195 High on a hill overlooking the city of Namur stands the Citadel. Cable cars travel up to a big cafe from the city below. Surrounding the hilltop is a buutiful park with grassy slopes and a thickly wooded area, and through all this runs a two-mile motocross course. On the start the riders enter a sweeping tum on to a straigh taway, with a 90 degree tum a t the end, then past the grandstands to a dropoff and down the hillside in to the wooded section. Like all Belgian courses the tree lined sections are wide, as much as six feet in places, with lots of padding. The padding is called bark. The best time listed was of course Roger DeCoster on both days. One second faster than Willi Bauer on Saturday and fIVe seconds faster C!n Sunday. But this is always the c~ In Belgium, giving the home boy fast time. The fact is that according to many timekeepers in the' pi~, ~auer was having no problem turning fIVe second faster times than DeCoster, and Roger knew it. His morale was low, because he knew the German boy was going to mess in his saddlebags. Old Rag had won the Belgium round four years ~ a row bu t his chances for five were slim. J:mn Banks (Cheney/BSA) had a bad morale bender when the handlebars came off in his hands in the wooclo section causing him to crash. Bill Crist and myseII grabbed a new triple clamp and some tools to repair the damage. With the support race just getting underway, we found time to get it ready for the first mota, including a new set of fork tubes. Moto 1 Rager DeCoster took the lead, followed by Bauer, Wolsink, Van Ve1thoven, Rabier, Jonsson and Banh. Van Veith oven's Yamaha stalled on the second lap, and just as he got. it started Banks came around and clIpped the handlebar, putting Van Veithoven on his head and se'tting him back to tenth. DeCoster Bauer and WoIsink were pulling a~ay from Ake JonSlOn, who is now riding another modified 'bike. The swing ann bolt broke on the 13.th lap putting him out. . Bauer was now pressing DeCoster to make a mistake. DeCoster had his swing ann set up like a Maico, with the BieIstein gas shoch. Thil is DeCoo!er's private bike and he was riding it like a wild man. Wolsink was falling back as Banks and Rahier (Suz) jumped out of the w~into the f1J'St tum side by side, then in(O the sweeper in full lock s1ideJ. The BSA outpowered the worh Suzuki down the Itraight and Banks pulled ahead into fourth place. Bnd Lackey was way back in 16th place on his two-year-oId Kawasaki. Van Velthoven bad moved into lath after Jonaon retired. Then DeCooter made a sligh t error and Bauer moved to the front and never looked back. DeCoster was riding on the ragged edge to make up lost ground, bu t to no avail. Werner Schutz (Mai) was moving through traffic and passed Rah~er in pursuit of Van Ve1thoven. Bad In the pack, Botchkov (CZ), the rapid Russian, got by Lackey. Vic Eastwood (Mai) was up to eigh th, a lap adrift. . Willi Bauer had done the Job on DeCoster; WoIsink (Mai) was third, Banks fourth and Van Velthoven fifth on the first Yamaha to finish. Schu tz was next followed by Ramer, Eastwood, Boven (Mon) and Toman (CZ). Mota 2 Bauer took the point at the start this time and DeCoster was nearly last ou t of the big sweeper at the start. Rabier had his Suzuki in a solid second and Boven stuffed his Montesa into third. Banks had moved up from the tail end to 15th but he was in for more trouble. His ~Iu tch had started slipping near the end of the fIrSt mota, and had been replaced wi th the help of ~is American pit crew. Then, on the thad lap of tile final moto,John pullep up at the fmish line with a flat rear tire. Banks reported that Aberg had flown by him on the same lap, getting into a wild tank sIapper and bailing off as the bike hit a tree. DeCooter had moved up to eighth, as Van Velthoven and WoIsink moved Rahier back to futh and Schutz got by Boven in to fourth. On the nex t lap DeCoster had taken over fourth and was pressing Wolsink, who fln~Y bra~ed and let him by rather than nsk crashmg in the tum. Van Velthoven was moving up on Bauer as DeCoster gave chase. Jonsson closed on Wolsink. and got by into fourth in the closing laps. Back in the pack, Lackey sheared the bolts off the Kawasaki's rear sprocket. It seeml Brad is going it alone now, without any help from the factory. He's footing all the bills and riding a worn out bike. Back in front, Bauer was only 20 feet ahead of Van Velthoven as they came out of the woods into the sweeper leading to the finish line, with DeCoster right behind. Bauer won it by less than a second over Van Velthoven and DeCoster was only a half second farther back. Ake Jonsson was over a full minute back in fourth, foDowed by Wolsink, Schutz and Rabier. Bauer now has 137 GP points to DeCoster's 145. Luxembourg is the next event and. it's a Willi Bauer kind of course. Willi 'I morale is high and Roger's is low. My bet is on Bauer. After the race, Brad Lackey was seen talking with the Maico bOIl in the pits. Vic Eastwood was seen doing the lame thing at an earlier race, and for the next event Eastwood was aboard a Maico. • RESULTS 1. Ba_ (Mal), 2. oec_ (Suz). 3. Vln VOIt_ (Vam). 4. Wotslnk (Mal). 5. Sdlutz (Mall. 6. 7. Hlm......... 1cl I. E.'twood M. I. 9. Boven (Man. 10. Botc:hkov (C I. Rab-jSUZ1' ICZI'

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