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Malocco took th e lead th e second m oto, b ut lost it to Baird wh o too k it to th e fin ish . Butch Baker (YZ) was third again . The thi rd moto Mal oc co too k it fro m start to finish des pite Baird bei ng o n his tail the whol e way. Tom Burt won the first two motos of the 125 Junior/Intermediate class . Burt was started backwards in the thi rd, and still managed to take first in his class • (an d the Overall ). Tucson Spring Championship By Kent Nicholls T UCSO N, A RIZ ., MA Y 5 Las t yea r Sou th ern Arizona ride rs co uld ride all su mme r if they were willing to drive over one hundred miles to Arizo na Cycle Park's nigh t track in Phoenix. The lan d on wh ich ACP stood belo nged to the . City o f Pho eni x, and it is now a city du mp. DeAnza MX By Diaz and Gus SUNNY~1EAD , CAL ., MA Y 4 When the first race started the track was in perfect condition and stayed th at way all day. New Kawasak i 250s grab bed first in two of th ree 250 classes. Fred Knapp (Kaw) wo n the 250 Junior race , Dan Roach wo n the Intermediate easily wh en ' Dwayne Vanderby (Kaw) had bike tro ub les and Kim Walker (H on ) took t he 250 Beginner class ah ead of Mik e Roa ch (Ka w) . J eff Velker (Ho n) won th e 125 Beginner race with Ron Cain (Suz) sec o nd . Gary Cain (Hon) wo n the 125 J ~ M cl ~ . • Maly smokes AMCMX By Ste wart B. Sapi coff ORANGE,CAL .,MAY 12 T he 250 Experts highli ghted the day of muscle straining motocross wit h a constant neck and neck war raging between Pete l\1aly (CZ) and Val Tamietti (Hon ). In mot o one it was Tamietti who blasted away from the rest of the pack with J erry Trojnar (CZ) in close Pete Mary put it to the other 250 Expe rts at AMC Saddleback . pur suit an d Maly charging after . Tamietti held th e lead fo r th e fir st two laps . On the third Trojnar forced his way into first. It looked as if it w ould be clean saili ng fo r T rojnar but he never cam e aro und agai n af ter that lap . On ce again Tamietti took t he lead with Maly closi ng up th e gap, bu t with t ime runn ing o u t h e had t o se t tle for a second in tha t m oto , T he sec o nd m ot o replay started looking as if Mal y m igh t j us t have to settle for a second Overall for the day . T he th ird and fin al m oto Was th e turning po int fo r Maly as -w ell as th e downfall for T amietti. Maly charged his trusty old CZ into the front and kept length eni ng hi s lead. On the seventh lap Ken Ehlers (KT M) stole second aw ay fro m Tarnie t ti an d that's just how th ey finished up . The final points standing showed Maly and Ta mictti tied in points, but because of Maly 's first in the last moto he got th e first pla ce p urse with Tarniet ti taking second and Eh lers third. T hat was a close call Pete ! • Thi ngs lo o ked bad for area rid er s, with hot weathe r approaching and n o nigh t racing any' where. T he n so me folks from Mot o cr oss Interna tional , a Ph o eni x -based promotional outfit, quietly cam e to Tucson an d set up a sho rt MX track sp ecificall y designed to be lit. Th ey ran two daytime races on thei r new crea tio n, Tucson Motocros s Park, to wo rk out a ll the bu gs before the ligh ts were ins talled . Flvers sen t o ut fo r this race proclaimed a seven hundred dollar purse and free entry to anyone co rning ove r o ne hundred m iles to race. This drew ove r two hundred riders incl ud ing hot Phoeni x Ex pe r ts. • Th e 125 Ex pe rt class had tod ay's fin es t racing with a duel sha pi ng up between Tucson's Brad Mue ller on a Yamah a he borrowed from Eastside Cycle and Gary Hickerson (H us) o f Phoenix. Mueller is dynamite off the starting line and the first race was no e xcep tion. Feature th e en tire 125 Expert pa ck pounding out o f th e ch u te led by a yellow Yamaha MX bearing down on the first jump. The Yamaha leaves th e ground, goes into a perfect copy of a stunt mad e famo us by a legen d ary European racer, straightens out, lands, and charges into the next co rn er. This is flashy Brad Mueller. Five places back is Gary Hickerson, a fluidly smooth rider who make s go ing fast look easy. For the first three lap s Mueller was b ein g pushed by Husky rider Tim Gamble. Then a bobble allowe d Gamble to get by. One half lap lat er Mueller re-pas sed . All the while H i ck er son is b ack in th e p ack met hodicaly pi cking off riders and now has his sights set o n Gamble. In lap six of the te n lap race Hicke rso n zapped Gam ble. Then fo r t he next three lap s Mueller and Hic ker son engaged in elbows and arm pits action. All the whil e Muelle r could n't see m to res ist .th e temp tati on of putting the Yamaha sideways in the air ove r every jump. On the las t lap Hic kerson sneaked by Mueller for th e mo to win . The start of th e second moto of th e 125 , Exp ert class again saw sideways Brad Mueller in the lead and Gary Hick erson again fifth . Inside tw o laps, Hickerson was just a Pres ton Pe tt y ' Unb rea ka ble th ickness behind Mueller. Then the two motorcycles went into a o ne line corner side by side. Hickerson cam e out - Mueller didn 't . Hicker son th en pulled awa y from Steve Derric k (Yam ) who finished second in th e m o to and thi rd Overall. Mue ller worked his way back up to third. The end of an o th er day of be aut iful Arizona raci ng saw Mue ller second and Hickerson first Overall in their class. .. - T he 25 0 an a 5 00 Exp ert classes were com bi ned with th e first race seeing an entire moto duel betw een 500 class winner Bill Duffner (Mai) and 250 vict or Rob Knoettgen, another fine Phoenix ride r piloting a Kawasaki. For nine laps Duffner was able to hold off a hard charging Knoettgen o n a track th at favo red the lighter m achine. In th e last lap Duffner began having sticky throttle problems allowing Knoettgen to blast by. Sam Redman on a new Oss a Pha ntom garnered second for the day in th e 250 class while David An deregg • (Mai ) duced the big bores. Results in the Results Section . • Expe rt smokers agree, Skyway is best for your pipe. Malcolm Smith is sold on perform ance of Skyway Silenc ers. RolfTi blin and Preston Petty, on the other hand, say not .only is there no loss of power but Skyway will outlast any ot her silencers on the mark et. Becau se of SkywaY's superior engi neerin g and Quality, leading motorcycle manufacturers like Husqvarna and Bultaco _ S upe r S ilencers Silen ce rs /S ilence rs -sp a rk a rresto rs make Skyway Sile ncers standard equi pment on all th eir production models and Yamaha makes them standard on thei r MX machines. Skyway Silencers are built to last and are backed up with a one-year wr itt en guarantee against def ects in parts or wo rkmanship. Shop around, who else can do that. Skyway Silencers will fit all makes of motorcyc les and are available at leading motorcycle dealers everywhere. BZ Z Z SKYWAY RECREAT ION PROD UCTS . DIV ISION OF Sl( 12300 GLADSTONE. SAN FERN AN DO. CALIF. E.INC.. 45