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The McNeil/Keiley Honda took the sidecar race. Somebody else back there ended up pushing.
in th e 100 No vice cla.ss, while 125
Novice fi rsts wen t t o Ro bert Norton
and Mik e Hersh an . Sco tt Rodgers to ok
the brass in 125 Amateur, and 125
Expert laurels went to Cr aig Schul z.
Mike Montgom ery, came up from
M od est o a n d sc o red a pair o f
back-to-buck wins in Division I o f 25 0
Novice. as did Tim Welch in Division II.
Gary Murph y and Euge n e Price w ere th e
big winn ers in 250 Am ateur and 250
Expert, respect ively.
In th e Open Bike catego ry, Ronald
Bu zdas w on the No vice honor s, while
Logan Brookins an d J ohn T hompson
copped th e fir st p lace trophies for thei r
win s in A mate ur a nd E xp e rt. J o hn
T hom p so n, wh o sho ws a great d eal of
prom i s e in No rt he r n California
motocross , d id h is be st to stay with
Dick Mann but fe ll o ff th e pace in the
wanin g laps of t he second 2 0·min ute
m o to.
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Pioneer scrambles
O AKD A L E, CA L.• A PR. 21
Robbie: Ha ines rod e: h is last Novice:
scra mb les, to day winning the 25 0
B division and making the Jun io r
ranks. Dave Bird too k second over
Matt Blake. wh ile Fran k Lo pes rode h is
Elsinore to the A divisio n win ove r Rivo
Turbok a nd George Vierra.
S kip Hathaway too k home two win s
with d eci ded vict o ries in b o th t he 100
J unior an d th e 250 Juniors. His new
do wn pi pe, co u rte sy of SayHe y Allen
McG eh ee. has m ad e a consid erable
ho rse power differe nce.
Mik e Bowli ng (Noguc hi Yam )
can tin ues to - dazzle the troo ps in 125
Jun io r . This yo ung speeds te r is
asto un di ng to wa tch. He fli es. bo unces,
cra shes. berm shots an d a variety of
other un ment io nables to spec ta cular
wins.
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CMC Washougal MX
By Jan Newman
WASHOUGA L. WASH ., APRIL 28
Th e: promi sed s unsh ine never ar rived. In st ead, a m isty m orning
gave w ay to an o verca st day. The
tra ck was slippe ry everywhere:
with some d eep mud for co n t rast ,
A list o f an y of th e 4 00-plus rid ers
who didn't spend some tim e sp in.
ning out or la ying in the mud
would be pretty short .
T he uph ill sec tion was es peci ally had;
only th e Pros rod e it in th c fir st mota.
I\s tra ction improv ed. al l classes use d
th e whol e c o urse in th e seco nd m OI O.
The 100 Juniors were the firs t t o m ak e
th e attem p t and a t times there were
morc o f th em co m ing d own th e wrong
way than go in g up . T he heat was re -run
and J ohn Wilson (Yam) ca me up
winner.
Another ch ange of m ind had all but
Junior riders go up t he hill . This didn 't
elim ina te all th e problems but thinned
them out.
Butch Waymire (S uz) won the 125
Pro m on ey with a bi g lead in the firs t
m ota and a real b attle in the second.
Mark Beaudry (Hon) led all but the last
lap of th e se co nd m oto while Waymire.
Mik e Kinnear (H us ), and Mark Gregson
(Ho n ) ra n a th ree w ay toss up beh ind
him . Waymire too k th e lead o n th e final
lap .
Restarts were the order of the da y as
mud inter fered wi th th e gate operation.
First comer p iles were com mo n. to o,
an d th e res tart of th e first 25 0 Pros lef t
the bigges t - n in e bikes. R ick Burgett
(Bul) ran away fro m every one in b oth
m o tos. He was th e heavy in th e Open
Pro , too.
Bill Cook (Mai) swapped the lead
wit h him a co up le of times in th e fir st
race be fore se ttli ng fo r a second. Even
Rick had a b rief mud problem whe n he
slid o u t on t op of a ju mp, b ut he had
suc h an en o rmous lead it d idn't cos t
hi m .
Bob Ro hr ic k was d ubious abo ut
movin g up fr om
Open.J unior to
Intermediat e wh en he signe d up. He still
rode out in fro nt of everyone on his
tric k S uz uki. T his lef t room fo r Larry
Kaser (Ya m) to take to p Junior hon ors.
It lo oked lik e all the 125 Juniors in
tw o states showed up . The re we re th ree
divisions won by Rick Holli st er (Han ).
Mike Wal ker (S uz) an d Tony McClosk e y
(lion). Co mplete results on Results
pages.
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Road racing
at Sears Point
By Patrick Neil
, SEA RS PO INT, CA L, AP RI L 28
T he: sun sho wn hot on the 2.5 mile asphalt co urs e as sidecars, GP
a nd ca fe racers all go t a cha nce to
dem onstrat e their sp eed , along
with o ne Honda Elsinore.
The day st ar ted with practi ce
ea ting up a sizable portion o f the
program. The o nly inj ury o f th e
day occu rre d during th ese h ours and
the rider needed so me repair . At rid er's
meeting, Bill Ralston, A FM Racing
Dir ector. sta ted rules for riders to
observ e. basin g m ost of'