Cycle News is a weekly magazine that covers all aspects of motorcycling including Supercross, Motocross and MotoGP as well as new motorcycles
Issue link: https://magazine.cyclenews.com/i/125847
Jr., and Clifford Ball doing their thing to cin ch O pen Amateur and Open Expert honors. T he Solano Eagles M.C. will return t o Argyll Park o n February 10th a nd 24th with 'rain or shine' motocross. See ya' th er e. Directo rs wrapped up hearin g the test imony on the insu ran ce / sanc tio n questi on and voted o u t a resolution fo r appro val by the full district the following Monday. The decision o f th e Bo ard is th at Resu lts the 0 -36 Sportsman 's Asso ciation wi ll remain an Al\t A district organiza tio n. Riders must ha ve c u rren t Al\tA and D-36 ca rd s to co mpete for points, pro mot ing clubs must be AMA charte red , and points eve n ts must be AMA sanctioned. NOV MINI B I KE : 1. Pat vcnc. AM MINIBIKE : 1. Jerry Brown . EX MINIBIKE : 1. Ma rk Vaughan. 1. Roger E lberger . 2 . K ev in lOa NOV: L odeman . 125 NOV : 1. Mark Hinton. 2 . J . V endetti. 3. Ri ck Collin. 125 A M : 1. Bob Chri st ma n . 2. D el m a Becker. 25 0 NOV : 1. Frank S m it h . 2 . Thoma s Sullivan . 2 5 0 AM: 1. Kev in S i n c lai r . 25 0 EX : 1. Kim Reeg. OPEN NOV : 1. BOOby May. 2 . R i chard Deveau. OPEN AM : 1. Paul Lin dllef. J r . 2 . Ken S isler. OPEN E X : 1. Cli fford Ball , CMC w inter scra m bles By Rex Backman CHICO, CAL., FEB . 3 One hundred and sixty-six rid ers came ou t to ride in th e first 0 f an eight race scrambles series to be held at Cycleland Speedway. The riders were treated to excellent tra ck 'and weather cond itio ns for their raci ng today. In the Expert classes t here was so me very tigb t rid in g go ing o n. T he Open Expert was won b y Bultaco mounted Greg Fer gu son who never lo o ked back during the en tire race . Fe rguson was followed by Steve Young (S uz ). A small gro up of 250 Experts were on hand today and that class was won by Steve You ng agai n m o u n ted on a Suzuki. The 12 5 Expert were domin ated b y Can -Am rider Jim Hubbard who led fro m sta rt to fin ish. Hubbard wa s fo llo wed across b y Renny Burns (S uz). D e l n o Beck er rid in g a Hond a Elsino re com p let ely tr oun ced th e 125 Junio rs. Dan Peterson o n a Bult aco won the very co m petitive 25 0 Juniors. Tom Do rsey sim p ly o ut classed th e 10 0 • Nov ice: riders o n a Hodaka. Results MIN I C L A SS 1 : 1. Tr oy ARno ld. 2 . M ark St urgeo n. MINI C LA S S 2 : 1. J im Ca rtwri ght. 2. Greg S n o d q reas. MINI C L A SS 3 : 1. Joh n Sudburry . )00 NOV : 1. Tom Dor sey . 2 . J o hn Case. 3 . T o m G ree n . 1 2 5 NOV : 1. Randy Pew . 2 . Evan H umphrey . 3. Gary E lliot. 2 0 0 NO V : 1. Tony K Ing, 2 . D ave Nakao. 25 0 NOV : 1. Vince aama. 2 . Ja ck Amo s. 3 . AI Jenk in s. OPEN NOV : 1. Jim S ouza . 2 . Paul Reekers. 3 . Cr a ig Marx . 1 25 JR ; 1. De tn o Be cke r . 2. L o y Gordo n . 250 JR: 1. D an Peters on . 2. R ich H amme rsm it h . OPEN JR : 1. J im A lve s. 125 EX : 1. J im HUbbard . 2 . Renn y Burn s. 25 0 EX : 1. Steve Young. OPEN EX : 1. G reg Ferguson . 2 . Steve Y oung . 0.36 to remain in AMA At its February 4 meeting in Fai rfiel d . t he Distric t 36 Board 0 f In surance coverage will be a t th e option o f th e individual club/pro moter. The Board re solution will go to the m e m b e r s h i p alon g with tw o independent in su rance packages offere d by K & K a nd In ternational Racing Insuran ce Asso cia tio n. T he board will report th at th ese pack ages, a long with the A M A-s ponsored coverage, are basicall y com peti t ive . For many small . cl ubs. this m ay me an a return to the un -in sured, ride a t you r own risk d ays. altho ug h a low-budge " mi ni " co verage will be avai la b le a t a co m peti tive rate. The entire p ackage will be aired wh en the full assoc ia tio n meets Feb ru ary II. The me mber ship will have an opportunity to o ve rt u rn th e Bo ard 's decision (in effect render in g a " no con fidence" judgment o n t he AMA) by musteri n g a tw o-thirds m ajo rity . If this do c. h appen, the Board d isc ussed th e option of running t he p resen t dis trict o rganizatio n as a totally in de pe nde n t sanctio ni ng body. A sec o nd h ighl ight o f th e Februar y I I meeting will be th e appear an ce o f Assem blyman Thu rman ; po tential sponsor of a mandatory helmet bill. For hi m, it wi ll be a t entative feel er for th e rea ction o f o rgan ized m o to rc ycl ists t o th e l egislation. Russ Sanford o f :'>1.0.R.E. will be an observer, and it is specul ated that M.O .R.E.'s future sta nce on helmet leg islation w ill depend very much on Thurman 's presen t ation o f him self a n d hi s ideas. • Guaranteed purse for the Hotel Lucerna 250 A guarante ed purse of $10.000 .00 will be paid a t the Hotel Lucema race in Mexi cali on May 1·9th. The Un ited Californ ia Bank in Calex ico will set up a custo d ial accoun t in th at am ount and d isbu rse it to the winners. The same bank has been asked to establish ano ther acc o u n t to rec eive and disburse th e Baja Championsh ip s Series po int fu nd . It will be paid to th e high poin t ra cers o n December 29th. If all goes according to plan this fund will amount to more than S 10 ,000.00. Fo r further information p h on e Baj a Raci n g Association at 903/7624341 or Lo retta Pipk in at 714/352-3767 . • The gree n flag goes up at Cyeleland and so do a few front en ds. MXONTV ( Karl M. Levin Video Productions r presents "California Motocross" is a new TV series making its debut throughout Santa Clara Valley and San Francisco. Video taped at local tracks around the Bay area, this exciting new half hour weekly show can be seen on Cable TV Thursday in the following cities. Cit y. San Francisco Sunnyvale Santa Clara Los Ga tos San J ose-Camp bell Newark Santa Cruz Cable Channel 6 6 6 6 12 12 i Tim e & Day" i PM Mon. & T h urs. 7 7 7 7 7 8 PM T h urs. PM T h urs. PM Thurs. PM Mon . & T hurs. PM T hurs . PM T hurs. Join the excitement with "California Motocross" on Cable T V.