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Scottish Six Days Trial fI1 51 " IIiIlI Ii!: { EDINBURGH , SCOTLAND , MAY 6-11 Mick Andrews, aboard a recently in trod uced Yamaha monoshock trials bike, emerged victorio us in the to rturo us Scottish Six Days IIiIlI • .""iI g ;... g T rial. Andrews , w ho took com man d o f the lead at th e end of th e th ird da y o f com pe ti ti o n, finish ed 10 marks ahead o f Bultaco wo rks ride r Malcolm Ra th m ell, Sweden's T h ore Evertsson (Ossa ) placed third for the best finish ever by a foreign rider. In fourth and fifth positions were the Bultaco riding Lampkin Brothers, Martin and Alan. American entries were led by Joe Gugliemelli (Yam) in 4 5th position, Bob Hopkins (Yam) in 47th and Curt Mayfield, also aboard a Yamaha, in 52nd place. The SSDT, conducted m ain ly in wet weather, played host to an entry of 228 starters with 170 riders completing the fu ll six days of riding. • ~ r-, O'l ...... 00 C'J • ;>. C':l ~ AMA Pro race rules change The first semi-annual meeting of the AMA Professional Rules Committee was held in Westerville, Ohio on May 7 and 8, with 14 voting delegates present. Rul es and rule changes passed by this first meeting of the co mmittee are subject to review when Havins the co m rni t t ee re-convenes in Octo ber w i t h the rule s t o act ually be im p lemen ted January I, 19 75 . Majo r rul e chan ges passed by the c om mit te e include the following : - Machine count requirement fo r all ty p es o f approved eq uip ment was set at 25. - All professional co mpe t iti o n is to be muffled to 9 2 de cib els measured on the A scale at fifty feet as of January I , 19 76. - Rule stating that Novices were to receive 10% of the purse and Juniors 20% of the purse up to $1200 was Changed to raise th e limit to $2000. - Rule requiring th at a rider complete the meet with the machine he qualified was changed to require that the rider co mplete the event (i.e. heat, Semi, final, etc.] on the machine on which he started that event. T hus the rider may use more than on e machine during the course of the meet. - A t any National Championship or international motocross meet, starting positions of the top 20 riders will be determined by current National point standings. 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