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the pressure was really on North to ca tc h Rubi do ux fo r th e sc hool Win. It was Cal law ay w ho d id the de ed on the res t o f t he field and got the win fo r North w ith Corona's Hu ffman fin ish ing second. The Overall went to Callaw ay aboard h is Yamaha followed by Miller an d Huffman, both from Corona. Going into the Open d ivision, North had taken over the lead from Rubido ux by a score of 36 to 34. T he final ra ce saw Williams give the Rubidoux fans a thrill, as he grabbed the lead and ran aw ay fro m the North boys. But North knew what they had .to do, and they came t hrough With C allaway taking second and Paul Willi ams th ird . Rubidoux ' Alan Thompson took fifO:, to .c~ llec t, one po int when along with Wilhams. fi~e points gave Rubidoux a total o f SIX 10 the final ra ce. But North also sco red seven points with Call away and P. and North High Sch ool Williams captured their second . co~secu tive Overall . victory at Coron a Raceway. • Results in the Results Section . 00 Da vid Urb ina (212) leads Mark Miller (17 ) and Mark Page (5) in the 125 race before a schoolyard full of h igh school spectators. Overall Mille r won , w ith Page and Urbina followin g. First Annual Grubstake Days High School MX By Rex Reese Y UCC A VALLEY, CAL., MAY 25 The high school MX part o f Grubsta ke Days at Yu cca Valley High Sch ool became officially initiated earl ier in th e d ay during the ir annual parade down the town's main street. In the regular annual parad e the re was a high sch ool MX "float" to advertise the even t. 42 Local MX ace, Mark Miller on a Honda TL 125 p ulle d super long wheelies d own the street . (T hat was it.) The MX was held at Yu cca Vall ey High School where an other event was held about three months ago . Th is time aro un d , the track was great. Besides the "wall of death" uphill-downhill jumps, and the basketball court water hole jump, the track included more tight turns to make up for its general flatness, a small hurdle- ty pe jump, but most of al l, a giant jum p that se nt m an y riders really fly in 1'(. The 125 class got o ff to a fast start as Da vid Urbina (Puc) led t he pack with Mark Miller (Ho n) b reathing down h is neck. Dave's small lead d idn' t last lo ng as Mark was constantly p ush in g h im. Finally, Mark made his move on ~ave, passin g him on a jump. When he h it the j ump, it was incredibl~! As Mark left the j ump, he was flat out 10 four th gear,.and had the bike pitched up almost 10 a right angle to the gro.und. ~verybody who saw it sucked 10 thei r breath, knowing that if Mark ate this one, it would have ki lled him three times o ver. But he survived, everybody resu m ed breathing, and he went o n to win with his wild WFO style. The 250s were even wilder, as abou t • ten guys b las t ed in to the first turn in a real wil d m an 's race. Bob Bolt (Hus) had j us t worked himself in t o the lead wh e n he unlo ad ed af te r th e uphill jum p, (getting run ov er in th e proce ss), putting h im o ut for th e d ay . T he lead w ent to David Urbina (Hon ) who went on t o win the O ver all w ith a 1-2-1 for th e d ay . At th e end o f the day, both the Open and 250 cla sses w er e com bi ned due to the high at t rition rate from the 100 degree he at and many crashes. Up fro n t , it w as war between Urbina (Ha n) and Mike Black (Puc ). In this last moto , Mark Per arovich (Mai ) had his fron t wheel OD on him (he lost half his spokes) as he ca me off a ju mp, putting h im out fo r the day, bu t still main raining third Overall. The High Desert Endos of Yuc<;a Valley, alo ng with the Mothers Athletic Auxiliary, sponsored the event. The Yu cc a Valley Sheriff's Rangers d id a good job of preventing rider-spectator in cidents. Pennzoil donated some a ppreciated oil. M&S Cycles of 29 Palms donated c o n ting ency prizes. Yucca Valley Sporting Goods do nated banners to Sonora wins H.S. MX mark the track , and Joshua Tree Ambulance d on ated t hei r services. 1 can see it so me ti me in the future as an old t imer parks h is bi ke after the G rubstake Days Parade of 2010 AD, an d says, "Racing ! Kids , I'll tell yo u about some rootin ' tootin' racing back in the . .. lessee n ow ... Spring o f '74 ... those were the days . . :' • Results in the Resu lts Section. By Gertrude Thomas IRVINE , CAL ., MA Y 23 Tonight it was Lowell, Bell, El Modena, Dan a Hills, Sonora and Villa Park High Schools who me t with their best for the Yam aha Interschool series at OCIR. Lowell High had the most entries (32) ~ut it was hard riding Sono ra High th at took the Overall win, with North wins H.S. MX battle eigh t tr ophy winners. El Modena was cl o se behind wi th seven. When the st ar t ing gate dropped for th e 125 Junior Division it was Ch ris Fortier (Ha n ) for Sonora who took the lead and the win . He had some c om pe ti t ion in the second moto in th e fo rm of teammat e Marston Sollender (Ya m ) diving off th e line and lea~ng Fortier to do battle fo r second with Lowell 's Mark Truman . Mark saw an open in g the second la p in the b ack cork-scre w-tur n and dove in only to have Sollender return the favor the next lap in th e sa me corner and grab th e flag for second. In the third mota Fo rtier again took the lead wi th Sollender in hot pursuit, but when the flag came d own it was Fo rt ier o u t fro nt. T he 25 0 and Ope n J uniors we re ru n togeth er . Mark Stanich (Ya m ). fr ?m Lowell battled h is way to fi rs t , Iigh un g off Sonora's hi gh fly in g Ed Peters (Mai ) who cha rge d an d rech ar ged him like an angry rhin o , b ut had to se t t le for secon d Overall. In the Ex pert Divis ion the 1255, 250s and Open bi kes were co m bined. Ea ch h ig h sc hoo l excep t Sonora was represented by an Expert rider: w ith El Modena havin g fo ur. The favo rite of th e evening (judgi ng from t he cheers fro m the grandstands) was Drew J;ielso". (YZ ), who did so me gran ds tand mg h im sel f', The first m o t o Drew took a far reaching first so far in fact th at he felt he had ti m e' each lap to wave to his fans in the sweeper before the final j um p. The second moto was an o the r story; Drew got lo st some w he re in six th pl ace and never .d id find hi s way o u t. It was Paul Bean (CZ) for Bell High who held f~rst all th e way with tea m ma t e Patrick Hub bs (S uz) 125 rid er b oun,:ing and go ugi ng h is way for second . Third mot a i t was 1 rei son again far out fro n t , agam w aving and giving the peace sign to his pa ls lining th e fe nce, w ith Bean in a Sunday ride fo r second. • By To m Blattler CORONA, CAL ., :\IA Y 24 High schoo l mot ocross returned ~o Coron a Raceway for round two m a May-] une serie s. . Along with defendmg champ North High other sc hoo ls competing were Corona, Norco, Rubidoux, and Notre Dame : 100 riders repr!=sen ted the scho ols.. In the opening motos ; Rub idoux too k a surprising lead over ~or.th and Corona with Tom Baltazar winning the first 100 Beginner moto . Rubidoux rider Lar ry Soria too k sec o nd: Jim Cupp t o ok t he lead 10 th e first 125 m oto over Boyd and William s. Williams began to cha rge un til he st alled h is Penton in t he n orth turn. From th at point, Williams p ut on one of the fines t ri di ng exhib itions seen at Corona Racew ay this season, as he passed six b ikes o n o ne lap to finis" third behind Cupp an d Boyd. In the final two m o to s, it was no co n t est with Williams just blow ing off the rest of the field . Taking second Overall was Cupp wi th a first, th ird, an d fo ur t h place finishes, and Rubidoux' Ruben D urazo was third. In the 25 0cc Supers, Cupp rode h is Ho nd a to the win in th e opening race o ver Kelly Cal law ay (No rth ) and Mai co -mounted Di ck Miller (Co ro na ). Miller the n came back in the second moto to ta ke the victory over Corona 's Shawn H uffman (CZ) an d No r th 's Ed di e Boyd (Hon). In th e fin al m ota in th e 250 Sup ers, North High won their sec ond straight high sch o ol race at Co ro na Raceway May 24. T his ti m e they beat Rubido ux by t h ree points. BSA wins "quiet" Corona By Tom Blattler CORONA, CAL., MA Y 29 o z _~IJIllIl... lg CIl CIl o CIl The R.A.C.E. Fla t Track and '1'1' program is now being run by Chu ck Murray, who also p uts together the Cl\IC show at Ascot Park . Ch uck is making many Drew Ne lson didn't have t ime to wave going over t hi s ju m p at OCI R May 23. cha nges to make the sho w mor e professional. T he new surface o n the track was re ally beautiful, as guys wer e putting on t he big slides in th e tu rn s and passing was much eas ier. Man y riders got the ir m oney bac k because of the new noise law at Co ro na Raceway . T he new agreemen t o n n o ise reads that the bi kes must be under a cert ai n noise meter reading . So me 15 ride rs d id not ma ke it und er t he d ecib le lim it: t heir m on ey was refund ed . Hollywood stunt rider Gary Davis made an appearance on his 500 BSA. Being on one of the few big bikes no t over the noise level , Davis p ulle d off a double w in in the Open class, as he cap t ured th e TT and Short Track featu res. In th e TT. Davis cap tu red the opening he at race over J ohn Cali cc.hio and Ch ris Smith. With half of the field o u t because of noise restrictions . Gary won th e Main eas ily over Don Miener. In th e Short Track, it was Davis ca p t uring th e He at ra ce and the Mai n ove r Doug G rantz and l\li ener. • Hemet High . consistency pays off By Tim Mickey SUN NY M EA D, CAL. ,JU NE I De Anza Cycle Park was the scene of th e first of a seri es o f MX sho wdo wn s betwee n Hemet, Elsinore Moren o Valley, San J acinto, and ' Palm Springs High Schools this Satur day. T he increasingly challenging track too k its toll o.n rid ers and machin ery, b ut when It was all over. the consistency of th e Hemet team paid off. 250 Senior Darrell Brown (Man) was unstoppable as he grabbed the early le.ad for Palm Springs, e ve n a fter a slow th ir d mota start, and held on to it all mo rn ing with nary a flin ch o r a bobble, usu ally better than ten seconds ahead of h is nearest co m pe ti t or. Hem et's Smiley Cai n aboard his G.P. loo kin g Maico, Keith Patten (Ka w) , 250 Junior, was in close pursu it. often ta kin g a quick glance way bac k a t t he pack he had to b ea t. He never slackened pace and b ro ugh t Moreno Vall ey a goodly n umber o f poin ts wi th his win .. The h ighe st number o f pomts to be taken were: in the crow d ed 125 Beginner class and Kenny Trask (Y Z) got them all as he grabbed the lead in every mo ta and stretched it out fo r some breath ing room . James Scranton (Han). was n ever really a serious threat. being several seconds be hind, b ut he di d snatch up th e second and a large pi ece of Elsino re ' 5 score. . He met 's hard-charge r, J ay Stran ger (Han) got in front of the 125 Juni or s and im me d iately p ut the pressure o n tea m mate Tom Burt (Han), 125 Interm ediate in all three m otos. T he two were di cin g for the lead , swapping places, and running away fr om th e ~ack. Burt a nd Stranger collected q uue a few points together an d cinc he d He met's w in. • Results in the Resu lt s Section.