Cycle News - Archive Issues - 1970's

J R FI NAL : 1. Alex Jorgensen (Tr l ). 2 . Ski p Ak sla nd (Y a m) . 3. B ruce H an l o n (H ·D) . 4 . John Alli so n (Yam) . 5 . Tom Berry (Yemj , 6 . M ike Myers (Nor) . 7 . Denny Rob inson (Yam). 8 . Walt F o st e r (Tr i). N OV FINAL : 1. Dan M cWhorter (Yam) . 2. Doug Garrison (Yam) . 3. St eve Eklund (Yam). 4. Murray Hoffman (Yam) . 5 . Br ian Garcia ( Yam) . 6. Doug Hannon (Bul) . 7. Bren t Kna uer ( Y am) . 8. Er i c Gif f ord ( Y am ). 9. Sco tt Pear so n (Kaw ). 10 . Elb ert i urne r (Yam) . San Diego, Calif . May 11 The Sou th Bay Spe edway professional half-mile race w as a Rick Hocking show from start to finish, with one excep tion. For this first time th is season the ra ce was slated to pit the ' nation's top three Juni ors agains t . each o ther on the half-mile. Hank Scott came in un nounced from Hixon, Tennessee. John Gennai was there and Ric k Hocking was ready and waiting. Scott,. younger brother of Gary, cras hed on the second lap of practice and then came back in the hea t race but failed to gain a transfer to the Semi. Gennai, wh o has been unab le to put toge th er tw o strai gh t eve nts wi th out some kind of me chanical tro ub le th is seaso n, had it happen again in prac tice and w as out fo r the night before ti me trials cam e aro und. So the fan s and th e cycle press will ha ve to wait until a t leas t n ext Fr id ay at Asc ot, o r San J ose on Sunday for th e firs t match betw een the three tha t are bidding for " Rooki e o f th e .year" honors this season. Ho cking and Pat McCaul cam e up as th e two hea t race winners. Hocking's heat m ar ked the return ' to dirt track acti o n o f Eddie Mul de r, wh o has been mis sing du e to m ovie work and an injury. Ed di e gain ed a th ird behind Tom White an d ahead of Terry Do rsch . McCa ul got off to a good start in his heat an d left the racin g behind hi m . T om Rockwood, riding H·D fo r the second time, passed both Frank Gillespie and Eddie Wirth on the final tum to take a come-from-behind second at the finis h. Hocking wa s surp rised only once during the night. It came in the Dash when he looked like a sure winner. On the last lap, Gillespie, running last, passed Rick, Bob San de rs an d McCaul to take it all for one of the wildest wins of the nigh t. In t he final, Ho ck ing was out of the lead on ly on t he first lap when McCau l again go t an o th er perfect start. Hocking too k o ver o n th e second lap an d went on to win t he South Bay feature for the sec o nd tim e thi s season . Ron Moore and Gill esp ie ra n wh eel to wheel th e en tire 15 laps in th e d uel for secon d wi th Moor e wrapping it up o n th e final turn. Close behind was an o the r duel for fourth be tween Wirth and Roc kwo od . T he spot cha nge d four times w ith Wirt h winning out after so me wild slidi ng by both riders. The J unior m ain event was a 10 lap dash betw een Gary Tonda and Skip Aksland. Tonda rode a near-perfect race to lead all the wa y by in ches to win his first professional main event. Steve Eklund scored his third straight Novice main event win, ta king the lead away from Ari zo na's Butch Bear o n th e second lap . Elbert Turner moved up midway in th e race to take sec ond with Beard holding on for third and his best fin ish thi s year. The Novice final saw T ravis Petton Jr. crash on the n ext to last lap , knocking down and breaking up a record nu mber of hay bale s on the first turn. He was n o t injured . Novices and Juniors join the Ex perts this co ming Friday night at Ascot for th e "Regional" h alf m ile an d then will wa tch fro m th e sidelines the Na tional Mile at Sa n Jose on Sunday. T his was the last wee kly pro show at So uth Bay until sometime in late June or ea rly J uly. _ Results E X F I N AL : 1. R I,Ck H o c k i n g (Ya m). 2. Ron Moo re (T r l) . 3 . F r a n k GIllespie ( Y a m ). 4 . E d d ie Wi rt h (Tr l) . 5 . Tom Rockw o od ( H -D) . 6 . T om White ( H -D). 7 . Pa t McCaul (Yam ) . 8 . D ewey n e K eet er (H · D) . 9. R ob Morrison ( N or) . 10. Ed die M ul d er (Vam). JR F IN A C : 1. G ary Tonda (Yam) . 2. S ki p Ak sla nd (Yam) . 3 . Ear l Barker (Tr i) . 4 . Dennis Briggs (C;uz ) . 5. Bruce Hanl on ( HoO). 6. John All i son ( Y am ). 7. Randy Bra c ke tt ( B S A ). 8 . Mike D a nnell ( Y am) . N OV F I N A L : 1. Steve Ek l un d ( Y am ). 2 . E lb er t Turner (Ya m). 3 . B u tch Beard ( Y am ). 4 . Murra y Ho ff man (Y am ). 5 . Rex Ha il ey ( Y am). G. Bren t K nau e, (V am ) . 1 . Mar k Smit h ( H on ). 8 . Da ve Harr i s (Yam ) . 9. Dan M cWhor t er (Ya m ) . 10. Travis Petton J r . ( K a w ). We won again BLM saves Dove Springs B AKERSFIELD , CAL. , MA Y 8 Louis A. Boll, BLM Bak ersfield Dist rict Man ger , said tod ay tha t hi s of f ice h as den ied an appl icat ion by the Stal e of California fo r 6,229 ac res of nati onal resource land in easte rn Kern County. The appli cation would have added Dove Spring Canyon to the State Park system at Red Ro ck Canyon, and outlawed motorcycle riding in the canyon . Dove Spring Canyon is managed by BLM to provide for a full ran ge of mul tiple resou rce uses . In denying the Sta te 's application for the Dove Spring lands, Boll n o ted tha t thi s area is more valua b le fo r mul tip le use managem en t as p ar t o f BLM 's California Desert Pr ogram th an fo r single purpose recr eation use . In May of 1971, a six -mont h st udy by a ci tizen 's com mi ttee , co mposed of Kern Coun ty residents representing off-road veh icle users , co nservatio n gr o up s , minin g, grazing, and law e n fo rce me nt, r e c ommend ed management alt ernatives for 350 ,000 acre. in eas tern Kern County to th e BLM Bakersfield Office. The efforts o f thi s co m m ittee w er e d ire c t l y in c o rporated in to BLM's recently com pleted Interim Critical Management Program for Re creati on Vehicle Use o n 'th e California Dese rt. Public he arings, open houses, and a new ap proach to p ublic participation traveling mo b ile trailer units - were all used to provide a means fo r each interested individual to enter in to the decision ma kin g process. Managemen t considerations for Dove Spring Canyon and its proximity to Red Rock Canyon Re creation Area have been ca refully balanced to provide the best use for all of the public lan d in eas tern Kern Co u n ty . 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