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The tiiff~:,!:~ce s are subtle. People cheer like mad when someiJ;;:!~ from their school gets the lead, even if th ey 've never met th e gu y before. It serves to introduce newcomer s to the spor t, > w oJ a: o u ~ o I- Most of the first time spectators at high school motocross agree that it 's better watching than high school football. Expecially if you dig bikes. was the mai n je t of the day. Quick Quintin stoked the race people and aro und a thousand n ew MX spectators from the student body as he smoked two classes fo r a super trophy. Bei ng suppo rted by Kinn ey 's M uffler, Quintin gassed his rapid megapho ned Honda XR-75 in the second class of th e day wh ich was the 100 clas s. His engine's t humping so un d was heard in fr ont of a h erd of Yamahas for th e win over Tom Lu stbaum an d Bru ce McCalL Quin t in als o pl ay ed the hero's rol e w he n he rambled in t he 125s - all he had to d o was wic k his Honda Elsinore. He streake d ah ead of the more sluggish co mp et it ion for th e win over T om Lustbaum agai n and Bill Clem son. Quintin w asn't th e on ly superst ar I witne ssed winning tw o classes because thumbs up race r T om adem o n a Bultaco from HO n the Line " Racing Sp ecialties did the same. The 250 clas s was easy prey for h im as he whipped Chuck Dupont an d Crai g Starr and also swep t the Open class over Kirk Margh eim and Mike Ford. T hursday at lun ch time th ey slapped the trophies and other prizes in to the hands of the w inn ers. T hose who w on we re: T om Savas (Minis), Bo b Quintin ( 10 0· 125), Chuck Dup ont ( 175) , Tom adem (2 50.5 00) and Darl a Miller o f the Powder Pu ffers . Special thanks to the foll owi ng shops who donated pri zes : A me r ican M oto cr os s, B &M Ho nda-Yamaha Parts and Cycl e S top. One m ajor gripe I had w as th at it w as hard to get o ut on th e trac k to take some blow-mind photos. Even though I had a press p ass it was almost necessary to punch it out with so m e dudes with walkie talkies. Anyway the flagmen were co o l. The show was brought to you by th e Cypress Cit y p eople Ted T aylor, Chuck Bryant and Chuck Moran with the track being whipped up by Tom adem and Chuck Dupont. The Principal Robert D. Mohr felt th at the day's MX show as an excellent success because the student body mass w as out to spectate it . • Kennedy vs. Granada High School MX By Chris Hatounian VAL E NCIA , CA L. , A PR . 24 Seem s lik e eve ryb od y is getting in to High Sch ool motocro ss th ese days. T his ti m e it wa s Gr an ad a Hills and Ken n ed y High Sch ool s in an after schoo l race at Indian Dunes. Threatening rains ea rlie r in the day made things look gri m, but the sky cleared up b y m i d va f ter n a a n y i e I din g Indian Dunes a n ice tr ack co ndition . T he race s were sche d u led to start at 3 :00 an d d id . 85 rid ers show ed up to race th eir hearts o ut with two 2 0 m inute m otos. Th e race was planned ab o ut a m on th in advance and seve ral meetings were he l d t o give out numbers and info rmation . The main organize r from Gr an ad a Hills High was Bill Boyce, who reall y worked to get things in order. T he Kenned y High or ganizer s were Rick and J oe Kehoe an d their whole family . T he wh ol e even t went very smooth ly , with n o delays or mix ups except for one th ing . A lo t of rid er s co mp laine d about be ing sco red wrong, but nobody did an ything abou t it. On e rider _ was o ut o f his mota wi th m ech anical prob lems an d got hi s bike fix ed and j o ined in abou t second pl ace 'til th e fini sh and was scored as seco nd for the moto . It seems th e w ay they scored was by copying d own th e numbers of riders by th eir last lap fin ish. The overal l res ul ts are very unofficial ! T he 125 Novice race was very exciting with lo ts of battles goi ng on. To m Bice (Suz) from Kennedy t ook an ear ly lea d with Bo b Drake (Han) a close second and th ird pla ce held by Po wder Puffer J an Klin e (Han) . Th en Drake made his move on Bice and t oo k the lead for th e remainder of th e m o ta. Bice too k sec ond with Kline th ird. In the second mota , Dave Wheeler (H a n) from Granada t oo k the lead with Drake in second and Kline again in third. Bice was ca ugh t in traffic, but was m o ving fast . Meanwhile in the fran t of the p ack , Drake and Kline za pp ed Wheeler , putting Wheeler in third until Bamey Drake (Han ) also pas sed him . Bice made his move on Drake and Wheeler himself in third. T h en Drake crashed and Bice took th e lead, passing both Drake and Kline. Drake got up and regained his lead to the finish, with Bice second and th e Powder Puffer (who zapped all the rest of the boys), Jan Kline , in third. T h e 250 Expert winner was Tom Bat es (CZ) and sec ond went to Mike Morrison (Han ) who usually races Juni or s. Both rid ers are from Granada . T he Keh oe brothers, Rick and Joe, bo th on Mon ark s, sho we d th e crowd a real race in b oth motas of th e 125 Ex per ts, wit h J oe first and Rick second . They are both from Kenned y . The first 25 0 No vice moving ver y q uickl y to his wi ns w as Mike Lacey (Kaw) from Granada. T he seco nd Overall went t o Steve Dal ey (Mai) who ha d the disadvant age o f his bike n ot starting in the second m o ta . He d id get it goi ng and p assed everybody except first pl ace. He is from Gran ad a. The Ope n class wa s rul ed by a bi g th um p er, with Mike Sullivan (Tri) runni ng away from everyone. He ' s from Granada. Second pl ace w ent t o Scott Zi m merman (CZ) also ridin g fo r • Gr an ada. Results in th e Result s Se ction. Corona High School MX By Dale Brown CORONA;-CAL. , APR. 26 What is th e difference between a High Sch o ol motocross and o ne o f t he regul arly schedul ed events? Not much. The racers go just as fast, mostl y becau se th ey are th e mainstays o f the sport in So uthern California. Not th e track s, a t least n o t any more . H igh - Sch ool motocross started in co nverte d fo o tb all fie lds , b ut n ow they are run a t profession al facilities. su ch as school adminis trators, fell ow st uden ts , cheerl eaders, et c. And it's nice to see people o ut t here riding in th eir fir st m otocross, p ossibl y o n a b ike tha t they rod e to sch o ol th at morning. T his particular rac e, inv olving six Riverside sch ools, was t he brainc hil d of Dale Teubner, R.A.C .E . h ead honcho . Afte r readi ng abou t similar eve n ts in the Los A ngeles area, he con tacted several racer/s tuden ts an d asked th em if th ey wo uld be in terested . They said yes, so he ask ed th em to get in to uc h with the a d m in istrations o f their respective schools. When Teubn er d idn't he ar from them, he contacted th e principals h ims elf. With th eir support, he org an ized a series of races to be held on Friday ni ghts at Corona Ra cew ay. The winners of each race w ould compete against other schools in following events. So, F riday night's race wa s the firs t in th is series. North High emerged - tri umphant, beating runner up Ramona by four paints . Possibly th e only mis take Teubner m ad e was to sch ed ule Steve Bauer of Ramona and Rick Stout o f Arlington in different di visions of th e 12 5 Super race . Both were moun ted on Hondas, both won th eir races by larg e margins. What a r ace it wo uld have been if they had com pe ted t ogether! In cid entally, Bau er came back on th e same b ike to race in the 250 Exp ert even t. He led for aw h ile, but ge t-offs fo rced him back to third Overall. A t th e en d of eight eve nt s, Ramona _ was leading 39- 3 2. On e race left, the Op en bikes. Kevin and Kell y Call aw ay , both o n YZ Yam ahas, b oth from North, took up th e firs t two positions and held the m . T hat gave Nor t h nine points. Nobody from Ramon a entered , so North was in t he wi nner's circl e. The team was clad in matching jerseys, p rovide d by Yamaha In ternational, a nice to uch . R. A.C. E. r e c e iv ed contingency awards fr om local cycle shop s and gave th em to th e class winner s. They also gave a huge troph y t o No rth High, and indivi d ua l trophies to th e individual team members. The races were well run, in fac t the wh ole series looks promising . Next one is May 24, with North me eting Corona and o thers. Reporter's Notebook : Here's an idea for y o u high school 'c rossers . Put o n your nicest mann er and mo sey on down t o the gym and h it th e football coac h up for the loan of some of yo u r sch ool's football jerseys. They 're st ro ng and tear -re siste n t. You put a m atch ing number on y o ur bike and go racing. Lo ok like a team and m ak e yourselves easier t o sp ot from th e stands...Na matt er how exciting the racing is, th ere is o ne thing I'll always remember about high sch o ol motocross : d ynamit e pit t ootsies. Sigh. . . • Results in the Re sults Section. - Motocross ste ps up th e pace of Women's Lib as some of t he first high school varsity sports t o have t he ladies co mpe te - and win. as Jan Kline IHonl did. 11