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territory only to run behind Dave Kolbe and WiD Harber - aD I 25 Experts. Buddy Romano skinned his throttle thumb in Moto One but held off Manuel Dauber's Honda in Moto Two for the overall win. The 250 riders got a perfectly prepared track, the usual good organization, even personally engraved trophy plates - none of the things you'd expect on the closing day at a motocross track. It made the death of the Baymare facility that much sadder. Compete details, pictures and full results next week. CMCatAscot By John Bethea You otter subscn1Je now! G ps: When you trophy, you get to kiss me. ~ o .., t 1 • (" GARDENA, CAL., OCT. 17 Dale Tittlemeier jumps on his shadow at Baymare. The Queen Is Dead By Scotty Schafer MOORPARK, CAL., OCT. 21 Baymare - the best motocross track in Southern California - is now just an exercise in earth moving and carpentry. There will be no more motocross races. Promoter Art Cox and his organization went out in style, however. The track was prepared to Grand Prix caliber, with an early morning mist blending into the churned dirt to give a monorail effect to the speeding MX machines up on the berms. Everybody's motocross bike actually worked! From the pretty computer and committee·designed offerings of Japan to the starker machines that bear the stamp of Vekohnen, Valek, and Mikkola, riders were storming around the course searching for fifth, sixth, or seventh gear to take the corners! The track only stayed "perfect" for one series of motos, but that was enough to stoke the weekly motocrossers who wait months and even years for that kind of racing surface. The pits were chockfull of SoCaI Experts, European machines, Hondas, and teenage tootsies, as were the trophy lists. Juana Madrid powdered her way to a win over her competition, blitzing the whole 100 Novice class at the sarne time. Earl Essen had some trouble on his factory sponsored Carabela, running second in the first 125 Novice moto and then getting bumped to third as Jeff Black wheelied by in a photo finish to Moto Two. (Ed. note: A factory rider in the Novice class?) The Old-Timers red shirted their way through six motos. Some were fast; some were just old. Art Meyer spit dirt clods to ace the Veteran's Class (being too young for the Old Timers), sharing lines with Gregg Purry in the combined Open Beginner/Vets motor outing. After Russ Darnell taught MX school at Indian Dunes Saturday, he was methodically attacking the Baymare course and the competition in tl!e first moto until Sherman Andrews center-punched Darnell's Husky, ending his race effort. Jim 0 'Neal and Don Hicks grabbed the gold in the first moto, then Darnell chased O'Neal in the second but lost enough time on each tour down Banzai Hill's backside to remain in second place. The combined 125/200 Intermediate/Expert class was the highlight of a good day for spectator satisfaction, as Honda pro Dave Pessy locked his broken finger around the CR's bar and fought off Jim O'Neal for forty minutes. Pessy got the Honda vertical at the start of the second moto, but a lucky restart put him back in position for the overall win. Mike Garrett took his Mettco Penton north out of McDougal and Bower Unruly gate-crashers had Ascot Park almost closed down tonigh t due to ,repeated fist-fights with infield spectators. County Sheriffs were dispatched and when they arrived and made several arrests, ti re-iron swinging accomplices darted out of the shadows and attacked the police escorting a handcuffed individual to a car. Two officers were injured and required medical attention. The gate-crashing troubles had begun earlier in the week and police wished to shut the entire track down to avoid further problems. However, Jay Agajanian helped pursuade officials to allow the evening's "entertainment" to continue. What should have been the spotlight performance turned out to be only a close runner-up to the troubles. Factory Honda racer Dave Pessy equaled his own record of 20 victories during 250cc night CMC racing in one year. Not dominating, he gained the overall win at the misfortune of four-stroke Honda riding Bob Hosford, who started off poorly and could only manage an eigh th in theAinal moto which Pessy won. When Hosford clicked off the wins in the fmal pair, h just wasn't enough as Pessy chugged home second in each. Third wen t to the ever-consisten t Randy Myers (BuI) who peeled off a second and two thirds in his moto competitions. Pessy was also in contention for the 125cc Experts, but in wild-scramble fashion, he could only secure second behind two-moto winner Chuck Bower, his 24th of the year. He ran runnerup to Bower in both the first and third motos, but lost his chances overall with a fifth ·in the second, won by Bruce Baron (Yam). The unruly crowd cost Bill Rubly the overall win in the 500 Experts. After running third behind Bob Messer (Mai) and Tim Lunde (Mai) in the intial round, Rubly drove to the immediate lead in the second and looked to be well on his way to the win. Suddenly, one of the incidents broke out in the infield and one spectator shot across the track to see the action, not looking behind him. There was Rubly, grabbing a handful of brakes, sliding in to him. Messer went on to win the moto with Lunde second and Rubly finishing in third. BiJI then got his Boyd &: Stellings out in front again and won the tmal, but the bid had ended and Messer got the overall nod with Lunde third on points. Jeff Witherell (CZ) won the 500 Intermediates run simultaneously. Th e second round of 250 Intermediates was scrubbed from the overall tally due to the infield infractions so only two motos went into the scoring and Dan Davis emerged with the win on his Honda wi th both race wins. Dave Foltz (CZ) had a third and second for second. David Bush (Hon) ran off with two 125 Intermediate wins on his way to the overall while the other moto winner, Warren Reid (Mon) fared poorly in the third moto and wound up third behind Robert Aslund (Suz). The two tightest Junior classes were the srna:ll bores. Doug Nicol (Hon) and Tim Ochoa (Hon) put on yet another toughie in the Mini-Cycles and Doug won two of the three to take it. In the 100's, Bill Boyer (Ste) won the final two but wasn't scored in the first and that gave non-moto-winner Richard Pedroza (Yam) the overall. - 19