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• • -= IIIlI IIIlI ~ t ~ r--- / O'l ~ C'J s- c, < > z o 1: <[ ::; z <[ o Sonny Burres of Castle Rock TT fame, had the ace bike pusher but couldn't get it on in the Main. Harley team rider Gary Scott won the Ascot 100lap TT for the second straight year. prog ressed, were as regular as clockwork. We clocked them thirty laps apart, running like a freight train at 48 :80 and looking as if the pr ospec t of another 99 laps on top of the first wouldn 't faz e him one bit. Behind them, riders were now strung out all along the track starting to make it difficult to tell who was where and making it busy for the faster boy s as they started lapping the field. To specta tors unfamiliar wi th the effort in riding a 100 lap IT, things could seem boring fro m this point on. It's true that there wasn't much cheering from the stands. Still, Ha teley was going with all stops o ut trying to better his position. Ch uck J oyner (T ri) who passed Od om on lap nine to h old d ow n third took a ba d fall in T urn On e an d the bike refuse d to re-start, leaving J oyner to finally hang it up and wa tc h from the fen ce . Od om also took a tumble but was quickly up and running agai n. J oyn er 's fal l had p ut Mar k William s, on a Trium p h but wearing Harley-Davi dson colo rs into third making it look like Harley was leading th e field . Ha teley was still b usy b et t ering his position and around lap 43 did a fron t wheel landing over the j ump that re sulted in a real tank-slapper and no doubt caused enlarge eyeballs for a few moments. Come lap 60, it was still Scott. Lawwill, Williams, Odom and Renslow. Hateley, at times crossing up like . a motocrosser over the j ump was a lap down in between Odom and Renslow and trying to unl ap himself. Although leading nicely, Scott wasn't loafing. On lap 65 he was 30 seconds ahead of Lawwill and, fifteen laps later, had added another four. Passing was difficult, keeping starter Chuck Murray busy using the m ove ove r flag on slower riders as t he faster shoes appeared behind them. for m an y a lap, William s ha d been run ning one lap dow n b etwe en Sc ott and Lawwill but on the 92 nd, Mert passed hi m to be th e only other rider besides Gary Scott to co mplete t he 100 laps as the long drag ende d . The fron t th ree lined up for intervie ws with Ro xy Rockwood as the yearly event became an o ther page in th e record b ook. Whe n asked about his Harley leathers , Williams answered that HEAVY DUTY IJTIR:YCLE alAI l.UBRICANT he'd asked Bates to make him a new set and when he got t hem they were in Harley colors. We be t that'll get changed! Scott was quiet as always, saying that he had paced himself and just did the best he could, not m en tion ing the little dice he 'd had to make things interesting when he lap ped Ron Powell. Of the 31 starters. 20 fin ished. Not too bad for a rac e of that length. Regular Half-mile racing for the season co mm en ces at Ascot on friday , April 5 with the Silver Medal Series. • "WITH: MOLYBOENUM-D1SUl· ROE & SYNTHETIC SPERM OIL Results 100 LAP REG IO NA L TT , 1 . Ga ry Scott ( H ·D) . 2. Mert Law wlll ( H·D). Willia m s (T rll. 4. Jim Odam 3. lvam). 5. M ar k Mike R en slow (Tri) . 6 . Ron Powel (Trl ) . 7. Pau l Bost rom ( H · D ). 8 . So n ny Bu r re s ( Ya m) . 9. J Oh n Spe rry (Trl ). 10. Rex Barrat (Trl ). 11. B r uc e Tow nsend (Yam ) . 12. Don Dudek (Tr l ). 13 . Dust y Co p p age (Tr l ) . 14. John Ha t eley . (Vam ). 15 . M i ke Ko nl e (T ri ). 16. Terry M oralrity (V am). 17 . Tom Rockw ood rrrn. 18 . G en e H ar tline (Tr l ) . 19. Ed Herrman n (Tr l) . 2 0 . R ic k H oc k ing (Tr i) . 2l. Randv Scott (Y am ). 22. Bob C o nw a y (vam) . 23. Terry Do r sch (va rni. 2 4. Devon Sowell SUZ). 25. Ch uck Joy n er T r l) . 26. Pat M cca u l \ Y am) . 27. T o m C la r k (i r l) . 28. Danny H oc k l e (Tr l) . 29. T o m Whlte (Trl ). 3 0 . Reg Cho sney (Trl). 30. Bob San ders (V am ) . : T he only prod uct of AM EA .CA.. Mert lawwill IH-D1, Gary Scott IH-D1, and John Hateley (Yaml were the th ree that could have won. John bumped Gary and crashed trying to pass him off the groove. P" C O M P A .. Y 8909 W. Olymp ic Blvd. Suite 118 Beverly Hill s, CA 90211 (213) 360-4883 , ~~t.~t,t.~~~ ",,\~fO s Learn how to '\\\'" tune bikes from the BURAK TUNING SCHOO L fo r a profitable career or hobby. Mike Konle laid down his Triumph and got everybody confused. What's worse, he did it on the first lap. • BURAK BYE-PRODUCTS 15170 Rayme r 51. • Van Nuys . CA (213) 780· 1768 "little" John motocrosses the jump ahead of Terry Dorsch (Tril. Cyc le News is your ve tce - use i t (714) 894 -2623 a: <[ 0 > z 0 :r <[ ::; z <[ 0 z OJ oJ oJ <[ 0 > OJ III <[ 0 Penton, Monark &Tyran Sa les Service Part s Accessories D& R Cycles 7181 Westminster Ave. West mi nster, CA 92683 J 15