Cycle News - Archive Issues - 1970's

C a lifor n i a'. A ll N e_ Dirt Free_ay. Va sa V your teacher M a p. Miss Pendergast , keeps on yo ur back about writing a boo k repo rt? Va haven't found a boo k worth reading except for Cycle News, and she say s it isn't a book ? Have we got th e a nswe r (nat ch) t o you r prob lem. Try t he California Trailbike Guide by Joe Driscoll. It 'll tell all about where to legally ri d e y o ur mot o rcyc le in Ca l if o r n ia , and it's plen ty accurate . It's worth a fortune , but only costs $5.95 plus So t tax and handling. A mere $6.45 tota lI 169 Ride rs cha rge off in a clo ud of dust beg in nin g t he 250·0pen Begin ne r race . 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T he secon d im pressive figu re was th e fact th a t in six races ra n gin g in size from 3 1 to 16 9 co m pe ti t ors o n the fo ur-mi le co urse at the sa me time , th ere was no t a single inju ry . T ha t has to be a record in itself, an d N RA Presid ent Jerry McNeal will have to go a lo ng way to imp ro ve o n to day's event. The park opened an ho ur early. so the first ra ce hit t he trac k right on schedule, There were prac tice sessions at 8 a.m, and noon, with three races prior to noon and three even ts after the n o on b reak. As of this writing, the only o ffi cial results availab le are in the Expert and Intermediate classes. Number one Open Expert was Rick Shir ey , mounted o n a Yamaha, FolIowing Sh ire y in the Open Expert class we re T er ry Bilton (Mai) , se cond: a nd Jerry Van Blari com (Mail, third. Mark Hateley, riding a Kawasaki (le t ting th e goo d times roll!), romped to victory in 250 Expert, wh ich pr esented the biggest pa yback o f th e d ay . Fi ni shing in second pl ace be hind Hateley was Chris Bartlett (H us ). with th ird place going to J on Miller (S uz) and fourth to Randy S tubbs, mou nted o n a Bultaco . Rounding o u t t he Expert program for t he day, Fred Joehnck (Bul), romped to 1 25 E xpe rt victory . Finish in g in second pla ce was Vincen t Clark lS uz ), with a third go in g to Tom Grant Pen) . Nex t cam e t he Intermediate re su lts, with Tracey Bra y (CZ), ca p tur ing the Open Intermediate event. As for the 250 Intermediate con tes t , a tie for first pla ce was d ecla red be tween Russ Hoffman (Ha n ). a nd Dave Krikac (Bul). This was due to a sligh t p roblem in th e sc oring departmen t. Krikac, however . is o ne o f th e real up -and-coming young rid ers , sponsored by Bay Area Bultaco, Se cond place in the class went to Martin Taj ara (Yam ), with third pla ce at 250 Intermediate ca p tured by Uni Kana Rick S h irey (Yam ) was t op O pen Ex pert of the NR A·Dunes bash. (CZ) . Clo sin g o ut the Interm ediate car d , Cr ai g Penrod ( Pen) , was th e ch amp in 125 In termediate, with sec ond go ing to Stev e Maxwell ( Ric) . Fro m here on o ut, things get j ust a bit stic ky, and resu lt s mus t be cla ssed com p letely u nofficial and ma y re mai ns so for a t least two wee ks. First of ·all, J uana Madrid , ridi ng a 125 S u zu ki, led all Po wd er Puffs, with the Min ibike wi n goi ng t o T ommy Ho p k in s, w ho somehow faile d t o m en tio n the size o r type of his m achine. NRA Prexy McNeal solved th e prob le m by scoring the 100 Minibikers, wh o slip ped in with the regular Min i classes, separately . Consequently, Hopkins wi ll win his division. but th ere could we ll be other winners before the Minibike race is co m ple tel y scored. Continuing with the unofficials show. Chris Fortier, riding a 125 Hon da , swep t to 125 Beginner vic tory with a win at 100 Beginner going to Jeff Anderson, m ounted on a Yamaha. Chet Hoover, riding a Honda, was the o verall winner in the 250·0pen Beginner race, b ut, a s y et, we are n ot sure who captured the Open Beginner en counter. Again, in th e 100·125 Novice class, Mark Lange, riding a 125 Ho nda, captured th e overall victory, b ut we are not sure of th e I OOcc victory, Finally, Dave Arnold , riding a 250 Honda, finished first ov erall in the 250·0pen Novice ra ce, wit h the vic tory at Open Novi ce going to Gary Davies , riding a 360 Yamaha. Don't h ave a co m p le te fi t if so m e th in g mentioned above doesn 't fit perfectly in to your way of thinking . AlI of this is u no fficia l, with comp le te results to become availa ble just as soon as the NRA co m p le tes its scoring job. • Orange Bowl MX By T om Cor ley IRVINE, CAL., DEC. 14 Bein g kno cked out of the 125 Ex pert gro up from last week's crash when he locked handlebars with Tim Lunde, Dave Carlson was out of the money Fr iday night for the Orange Bowl of Mo tocross. He let Ho nda fac tory racer Dave Pessy slide in for no t only the 125 win but also the second fastest man of the 250 Experts! Rick Bea n is a ra cer who usu all y wh ip s into first place position when Carlso n d o esn ' t. " Tonigh t he took his Ho nda Elsinore to an u ndisp u te d first ' m ota win of th e 125 Expert class wi th Pessy second. Bruce McD ougal t o ok third. Bea n d idn't c u t it in t he second m o t a with a sluggish start. The two other Honda shoes Dave Pessy a nd Bruce McDo ugal were hangin' it o ut and co o kin ' in firs t and second as Bean sq ui rre led a round . Pessy co lo rfully paraded around th e track a nd by the grandstands way o u t in fro nt o f Bean and :\l cD ougal. in th e fin al m o ta of 125 Exp ert co mb. t. The overall wi n a nd m o n ey was sig-n ed off to Dav e Pessy , • Bruce Me Do uga l and R ick Bea n.

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