Cycle News - Archive Issues - 1970's

to p results column, took first place on his Indian. Giving Tom a good run for his money was Andy Davis riding his Honda to second place. Shawn McConnell, also a regular in th e results, took first in th e Mini Amateur class . In the 100 No vice cla ss it w as Sha w n McConnell co lle c ting the firs t place tr ophy agai n. Da ve Hale a nd Bob Hall battled it out for second and th ird, w ith Dave co m ing up on top. T he 125 Novice class lo o ked like a team eff o rt fo r Honda. T he final hea t had all Elsino res in it. Taking the checkered flag w as Tony Wanket of En cinitas. Quit e a battle wen t on for second place between Dan Schramo r an d Tobin Whitt, both fro m El Cajon, with Dan getting to the finish line first. T he 250 Novi ce crowd was o ut in for ce tonight, and some pretty hairy ra cing resulted. A t the end of th e heat s it was Dan Davis of Torrance in first place . Gary Smith came in from Orange and finished second on his Yamaha. Byron Krener, who's only been out here ra cing a couple of weeks, rode a consistent race tonight on his CZ to take th ird . Clint Palmer, who I haven't seen for a co uple of weeks, was out tonight and scored a fo urth p lace finish for his efforts. See Clin t , wha t h ap p en s wh en you take a couple of weeks off? Jim "Crash and Bum" Ingersoll got fired up tonight (as usual) and stayed up (not so usual) to take first place in Special Novice's. James Marvin borrowed a friend's bike and proce ed ed to charge to second place. • Results M INI NOV : 1. Tommy Norris Clnd ) . 2 . Andy Dav is (HOn) . MINI AM : 1. Shawn McConnell (Hon j , 100 NOV : 1. Shawn McConnell (Y am) . 2 . Dave Ha le ( Y am ). 3 . Bob Hall ( Y am ) . 125 NOV : 1. Tony Wan ket (Hon) . 2 . D an Sch ramor ( H o n) . 3 . Tob i n Wh i tt ( H o n) . 2 5 0 NOV : 1. Dan Dav i s ( H o n ). 2. Gar y Sm ith ( Y am ). 3. By r o n K rener rc z). 500 OPEN NOV: 1. Arth u r Junker (Mal ) . 2. D av id B roo kba n k ( Y am ). 5 0 0 OPEN A M : 1. Steve Mill er ( Y am) . S P EC NO V : 1. J im Inge rs o ll (Yam) . 2. Ja m es M ar vin . 125 AM /E X : 1. R ic k y N av mota ( Y am ). 2 . Mar k Pr escott (YZ ) . . 25 0 A M /EX : 1. La r ry B ird (M o n) . 2 . J i m W r ight (Hon ) . 100 AM / E X : 1. T r oy Ingo ll a (Yam) . 2 . Pau l McPhe rso n (Yam ) . Steve Miller lifts himself t o 500 Open Am . f irst. 500 O PEN AM /EX : 1. R od Se xton (Yam) . 2 . J im Wr ight (B u l ) . 3. Mark Retcner t (vam) . S PEC EX : 1. Mark Reichert (Yam ). 2. Ro d Sexton (Yam). SW EEPST A KES , I. Oon Gr igsb y (Mal) . CMC scrambles By Rex Backman CHICO, CAL., MAR . 10 In th e 75c c Mini class Dou g Geist (Hon ) took the win. Geist led from sta rt to fini sh with his only c h allenge being Wade Wilson (Ind ). Ge ist was ab le to hold on for the win as Wad e fell tr yin g to pass. Th e 1DDcc Min i class belonged to J ohn Sudburry (Yam) . He won wi th ra ce th e entire fifth straigh t tak ing seco nd (Ya m ). a hu ge lead. lead ing the length. It was S ud b urry's win at the scrambles . pla ce was Tom O de ki rk Brad Sanders (Hod) took the 100 Novice wi n. Sanders took the lead on t he first tum and never looked back. In second p lace was Lance Lo llar (Ya m ), th ird was Bob Cervantes also o n a Yamaha. Honda rider Larry Newman took the overall win in th e 125 Novi ce clas s. Newman had to hold off a determ ined J on Zim merman o n a n Elsinore. Third pl ace bel onged to Mike Gra nge r o n a Suzuki. T he 250 Novice cla ss was won by Mau rice Merrill (Ho n) . Merrill lead the e ntire race never really challenged b y a nyone, second pl ace was Ga ry Elliot (Ho n ) and slip ping in for third was Gary ,Ca st illo (Ho n) . T he Op en No vice class be lo nge d to Mai co rider Les Lollar wh o rode a great race . Les m o unted o n hi s speedy Mai co to ok th e win w ith . a com ma nd ing lead o ve r second pl ace rider Don Fisch er als o o n a Mai co, The 250 Junior class was w on by Del Becker riding a borrow ed 25 0 Penton . On th e unfamil iar b ike Beck er lead fr om st art to finish but he had to hold off Bultaco rider Jon Woo and Hond a rider Craig Cain. At the fin ish line Becker was followed by Woo and then Cain. The 125 Expert/Junio r class was won by Jeff Ge ist (Ho n). Af ter a slow start , wh ic h saw Geist go into the first t urn in back of the pa ck, he de cided that the only pla ce to be was ou t fro n t. Jeff gassed it to th e fr on t and b y the sec ond turn he was in th e lead, that's where he stayed for the remainder of th e race. In a close second pl ace was J im Hubbard o n h is YZ . In third place and fir st Junior was Del Becker (Ho n) . T he 250 Ex pe rt class wa s mo re o f a e nd u ra nc e race than anything el se. When the whit e flag d ropped th ere we re ten bikes runnin g. With the dr op of th e checker ed flag th ere were only tw o. Greg Fe rguso n (Bu l) took the lead o n th e first lap and held o n un til th e second lap when Penton rider Gr eg McKinney go t b y wi th Ferguson c hasi ng him an d Dan Peter son chasing Ferguson . T he three riders pulled away fro m th e rest of th e pa ck (or wh at w as left of it) the n Fe rguson dropped out wh en his Bul beg an to give h im trouble. McKinney went on fo r the win fo llo we d b y Dan Peterso n. Gr eg Fergu so n fared a little Z

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