Cycle News - Archive Issues - 1970's

wi t h R. Austin grab bing it. Ro n Donoh ue wa s more t han hap py just t o (IJ iii re a ch A m ate ur st a tus, a nd w e w ond er 5Ii:I 2: 5Ii:I g / ;... g ~ r-O'l ,....., C(") C'l - .r- ~ 0. -< ood CBull Run Hare Sc By Jim Stewart Yamaha, took advantage of Balen t in e ' s misfortune to m o ve up fro m fo urth Ove rall in the pits, to third Overall, second 250 Expert by the checkered. A t the las t two District races, an A mateu r with the number 3 0lx h ung on th e front of his deser t sled has been run ning an d finis hi ng in the top four Over all , as he d id agai n this weeke nd . Dan Dawson was p iloting the first A mateur b ike to fin ish a great fourth Overall. David Cheney an d J eff Kirk w ere th e ne x t -ctwo deser t aces to com p le te th e 70- mile r ace a t fifth and sixt h Overall, thir d and fourth 25 0 E xp ert. Kirk had been run ning nin th through the p its. Fi nally, th e second Open Expert finis hed, Mike . Ca udillo , wh o has been ta ki ng seve ral seconds thi s year . Mike must have go tten the co u rse wired o n t he first lo op aft er running eigh tee nth th rou gh th e pits, and fini shed seventh Overall. / LUCERNE . CA L.. APR. 13 Since it was Easter Sunday this weekend, Maywood: M.C. thought it would be a good idea to hold a short Hare Scrambles on Saturday, glvmg the riders and pit crews plenty of time to get ho me and clean up before the Easter Hare arrived. This worked out great. It gave . you a day to reco ver before returning to th e grind o f work. In stead o f partying before the race , y o u could par ty afterwards. And Cordis Broo ks had a lo t t o ce lebrate, after winning the whole race wit h such a lead that the second pl ace rider co uldn ' t even see his du st . It was fitting th at a Bul shoul d win t he ver y fir st Bull Run and th at is wh at Co rd is was mo un ted on, a 25 0 Pursang. A .C. Bakken stretched his p oint lead ove r the o ther Open bike riders by taking another firs t 400 Ex pe rt. A. C. ran a stro ng seco nd for the whole race , wi th Bob Balentin e in ho t pursui t coming through t he p its . But Bo b reac hed the finis h in 43 rd Overall. Number 30 x, R on Wright on a 250 A d eser t race w ouldn' t be a deser t what he will d o as an Expert , now that he got th ird 25 0 Amateur this weekend. Fo llo w i ng R on was T a ka has hi sponsore d Tom Gru enber g for fo urth 250 Am ateur. / Wayne Lee said it was " ab out t irne " he go t firs t Division 11 Expe rt, an d I agree. Andy Kirke r, who was a lso off because of a b ro ken collar bone, returned to raci ng an d picked up sec ond in th is class. Jeff J effr ies an d Bruce Kude were the th ird and fo u rth 175 ' s. Bruce Ogilive got yet an other first T rai l. It looks like Bruc e is goi ng to be the one to catch th is year in th e Trail Bike poin t standings, as he is o ut for th e lowest nu mber yo u can ge t in .this clas s• n umber one . R on Cobb and Four-Ace Terry Raye were second an d th ird. Ru sty Sanderson wo n the yellow 10 0 class, keepi ng the throttle o n longer t ha n Marc Car twr igh t and David Se mp le. Taki ng these riders' p laces when they beco me Ex pe rts will be Dean Hart. J erom e Patridge. and Ge rald Kr oeker , J r . T hey were first, second . and th ird Trail No vices. Meanwhile back amo ng th e No vices it w as agai n Dan ny Phillip s leading o n the first lo o p . Da n doesn' t even have a bike at the mo me nt, riding a d ifferen t borrowed bi ke eac h week end. This weekend he borrowe d a worn o ut ' 72 Yam ah a and migh t have won , but t he pipe b roke in hal f. He st ill got third Overall Novice an d first 250. The course was short b ut rou gh and d ust added to the exci te me nt by ma kin g the h undred s of rocks invisible. And if the rocks and the small, b ut off-camber ro ck hills d idn't get you, then th e mo un tain size whoop-de-does toward the en d of the co urse d id. T he whoops wouldn ' t have been so bad except' y o u kn ew you had to go over the m again o n the second loop. Sigh. That's De sert Racing. • Results O ve rall : 1. Co rdis Br OOkS; 2. A .C. Ba k ken ; . 3 . Ro n W r ign t ; 4. Dan D aw so n : 5. Dav id Ch en ey ; 6. Jef f K i r k ; 7. Mike CaUdi ll o ; 8. Smok eb omb Gae tz. 9. K . M cKean . 1 0. J im E ve land ; 11. B il l Be ck er; 12. T . R ider; 13. S teve K i r k ; 14. Cha rles Ga tes; 1 5 . Dave Laprlk. A m a t eu r s: 1. D a n D awso n: 2. D w ay n e Carter; 3. C li ff Ca rr : 4. A . HU l l ; 5. J.B. W ise: 6. R . A ust in ; 7. G . Va n B USk ir k : 9 . A . May ; 10 . Tom Gru en b e rg; 11. M ark Storme s. 1 25 : 1. Way ne Lee ; 2. An dy K i r k e r ; 3 . Je ff Jeff r ies : 4. B ruce Ku d e ; 5 . Doug Pr i ce : 6 . C ha rles Ba rn ey ; 7 . Ge ne R ic h i 8 . Tracy Hu yck : 9. 768 c : 10 . Ge r a ld Cunn in gham. 10 0 : 1. B ruce O gilive; 2. R o n C obb; 3 . , T err y Raye ; 4 . Rust y San der son : 5. Robb ie Zam ora ; 6. Mar c Car t w r igh t ; 7. D av id Se m p le . Nov ice : 1. R. Hurtig: 2. D ann y Willia m s; 3. D anny e n uu e s. 4 . 59 3 c; S. 7 64 x : 6 . F red Swe ps tow ; 7. 802 : 8 . B . Ka spe r; 9 . 8 2 9x i 10 . Keith H ar t. 1 00 No v ic e : 1 . D ean Ha rt ; 2 . J erome Patr idg e : 3. Gerald K r oe ker , J r . Ron Wright, second 250 Expert, third Overall. r a c e w i th o u t Smokebomb Geat z finis hing in the to p ten Overall as he d id again this weekend. Eighth Overall , third Op en Expe r t. K. McKe an wo uld have gotten the t hird place finis h instead of Smoke bom b, b ut experie nce was his downfall, which no o ne has more of t han Smo kebomb, so he had to settle fo r ninth Ove ral l, fo urt h O pen Expert. R ounding o ut th e to p ten w as J im Eveland, wh o at the Sandblaster s race a whil e bac k broke his c ollar bone and was going to ta ke it easy today, j ust to ge t the exe rcise. If getti ng fifth 250 Expert and tenth Overall is ta ki ng it easy, then J im did. Behind him was another Ro ver and newly-made Ex pert Bill Becker, who seems to n ever with a p ipe. T his ti me he left fi nish his skid plat e out on the co urse too, which he thougbt, af ter m oun tin g it, wo uld allevia te h is pipe prob lem . This gets expe nsive. T. R ide r , Steve Kirk, Char les Gates, an d Da ve Lap ri k fille d in th e twelfth through fifteen th Overall positions, all ride rs mo ving up a lot on the sec o nd loop. .-Dwayn e Carte r , who was jus t give n his yellow s trip e, d idn ' t waste an y ti me on getting so me transfers t oward a re d Cord is Brooks (Bul) didn't have to worry about du st . o n e. as he w as se cond O veral l Amate ur, et w J: a: w 12 1':::::::::::::::::::::::::::~ii:iii i i i i i i i i i.iiiiiii:i~I~ first Open. Cliff Carr , A . Hull, and J.B. Wise were the secon d t hrough fo urth Open A mateurs to reach t he fin ish . T hey will n ot b e Amateurs lon g. After Dan Daw son p ull ed in a t fo urth Overall , th e o nly real ba ttle in the 250 Amateur class was for second , f- a: .._-----_.. et ~ f- III ~

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