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October 2, 1973 Page 9 the gloomiest. The unique reality of a 6-Days was sinking in. This event goes on and on and on, beating one's spirit down, disheartening. You're knocked down, but you get up painfully and resume slugging. Six-Days weeds out the weak early. It destroys the flash performers. It distills the perservers, the strong of spirit and those who hang in there for aJ] they are worth, no matter what. The Six-Days is a trial for everybody, and an ordeal for some. The support crews are tired, the press is frustrated, the AMA is frazzled. "It's like six Daytonas in a row," quips course clerk Dave Welch. Even the spectators are bedraggled. Six-Days is like nothing else in the world. But the results at the halfway point are worth it. American teams are leading the Vase chase and the Golden Gators are second place club. The Pen ton "rrophy Teams hangs in there sixth_ SID AnnUAL ClIAIIIPIOfI lPARK PlUG rtCII OUUSIOS ONTARIO mOTOR ~PEEDWAY The Fourth Day , Up and aware at 6 A.M. eggs and coffee and enter the closed control at seven. A cold, clear morning - (fA" schedule weather. Change a tire, switch a sprocket, push to the starting line with the axle nuts in your pocket, start in your minute, ride across the penalty of hell to the first check and change your cMin. Today you ride up that horrible, slippery downhill where you lost it on Tueday. Nurse that noisy piston one more mile, one more check, one more day. Hand hurts, small finger useless from smacking that tree yesterday. Pain in the hip has gone away, to return in the night, where you bounced -off the rock. No American crew at the second gas check. Get gas from the Swedes. Hope it works. Acceleration test: Banzai through the quarter-mile trap with arm wrapped around the cylinder to muffle the knocking piston from the sound metJer. Motocross test: berm off the rocks that German ahead of you uses. Closed control, next stop. One more mile... one more kilometer. Results are available by midnight. The AMA is getting its act together. U-? Trophy Team dropped two points, yet rose to fifth behind Czechoslovakia, Great Britain, Austria and West Germany. U.S. Vase team is still first. Our Golden Gators are first club team. There is time for a tired hurrah as we faJ] into bed. Eighty-six failed to .start the fourth day. ~ The $25.5-million Ontario Motor Speedway is the newest, most comfortable racing plont in the world. Just 45 minutes from downtown los Angeles. locoted on the Son Bernardino Freewoy. Five minutes from the Ontario International Airport. Free parking. Easy, no-problem traffic now. O'lNOy See the world's most exciting motorcycle races, 12 professional' events at Ontario Motor Speedway, september 28-3Oth. Top road racing riders from all over the world will be competing. ClimaXing in the·250 mile 3rd Annual Champion Spark Plug Motorcycle Classic for one of the largest pu rses in motorcycle history. •Juniors 12 and under half price OAY TIME ACTIVITY TICKETS Fflday. SeIJI. Z8 8AM Practice lor .. II events $2 General Admiuion' Salunlay. Sepl. 29 8AM 76 mile race for,Novices: 120 mile race 101' Expert Juniors $4 General Admiuion' SumJ..y, Sept. 30 8AM 80 mile event for Junior riders: 250 mile Champion Classic S10 Victory Cirett'; 56 Generat A"misskJn ............................................... HOW TO ORDER YOUR TICKETS: Filby, Sept. 2. General Admission $2.00'-Junlor (12 and under) $1.00 _ Sltlnley, se,t. 2IlII General Admission $4.00 Junior (12 and under) $2.00 _ SlI"'Y, se,t. 30lIl Victory Circle Reserved Seating (no junior discount in VIctory Circle seating) $10.00. General Admission $6.00 .Junior (12 and under) $3.00 Garage pass $5.00 plus dally admission. Infield camper parking $5.00 plus daily admission. Children 8 and under are admitted free in the general admission seating areas, all days. TIcket Application Form TICkets Still Available Seating Diagram . NAME ADDRE=SS-=-:--_-_-~-~-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_--:-~C:-:ITY~/Z--IP-_-_-=--_-_- _-_-_-_-_-_-_ Total Remittance $ _ Cheek Enelosed::---:-:-_:-:--=-_ _ __BankAmericard Ace. No. _ __Master ChargeAcc. No _ Signature: _ TIckets available at the Speedway Box Office and all TIcketron Outlets.a1I5ears, Mail to : Ontario Motor Speedway Box Office MOlilgoinel V v.tJrd, 3901 East GStreet, Ontario, california 91764 May Co, 8r00dw0vs1aes The Fifth Day Chains are stretched like bungee cords. Sprockets are ~mooth as saucers. The carborundum mud grinds metal like valve compound. Wheel bearings are loose from the continual pounding. What you wouldn't give for an hour in the shop with a shelf full of new parts. That is why the Six-Days was inven ted. If you were going to design a con test that would decide the manufacturer of the best motorcycles in the world, you would come up with something very much like Six-Days. If you wanted to determine the strongest, fastest, mott skiJled and persistent/consistent riders in the world, you would have to end up with a contest like the Six·Days. If you would test the strategy and organization toward a competitive goal of the individual nations and teams, you would have to involve them in a free for all war, or something like the Six-Days. Results after the fifth day: Trophy Teams unchanged. American Vase A team still solid in frrst place. But Barry Higghins' Kawasaki seized solid at full speed on the pavement, spitting him off and dropping the team to the basemen t. Tom Clark is out, the Puch took on water. Ken Maabs is out, the Husky lost it sparks. Lars Larsson parked his gearless Kaw, as did Mike Patrick and Eric Jensen and Ron Bishop. Don Stover retired the Husky. Two of the German Crucifix BMW crowd pleasers ran out of time, and Ken Harvey retired the big Triumph Trophy Trail. Missouri's Dave Mungenast has somehow nursed his Triumph through. the fifth day only seven points down. Seven Triumphs are among the twelve Open class bikes still living. Bill Ubi is seventh 100cc rider for the fifth straight day. Dave Leimbach is lOth. Joe Barker (Pen) is 17th 125. Stellan Tingstrom (USA) is 20th on his Monark. Doug Wilfoyd (Pen) is 23rd, Paul Danik (Pen) 25th, Tom Penton ~DealerNOW ~§A H0DAKA MOTORC"ICL.• • ~jlISI".rt~ ·~~V~~~ 233 7th Ave.• City of Industry. Calif. 91746 On your way to Sadd leback FOR RACERS ONLVI Do It in the dirt with the Dirty Cam Company's dirt-traok cycle cams, Hard face ovarlays, faster Ilft rates. Over 20 , years cam grinding experience strictly for racing. Call or write for full datails. The Bike ShOp cz·- MONARK -liODAKA Custom Pipes & Accessories 4418 East Chapman A.e. 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