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Winchell wins Rimrunner Hare Scrams; half the field gets lost BIKONI ANNOUNCES THE BEGINNING OF SPRING TIME AT YOUR LOCAL KO SHOCK DEALER By J im Ste wart CALIFORNiA CITY, CAL. ,JUNE 16 T he Rim runners ' trouble started at 9 a.m. when the start was delayed over an hour after a rider practicing the bani b run collided head-on with another co ming back. When the banner finally dropped, hundreds of racers streaked across the desert (with their clothes on" yet . . • Ed .) only to meet disaster when more than 50% of them got lost. Back through the pits, A.C. Bakken had a huge lead . over Bob Balentine. In hot pursuit were J im Fishback, Cordis Brooks, Doug Winc hell, AI Baker, Art Knapp, motocrosser Pete Maley and Amateur Mike Powers. The order could have been confused, as several Trail A mateurs and small bore riders, along w it h whoever else missed the th ird check or made their own course back, were in t erm ingled with the top ru n ners. Fishback ended his ride in the pits, and Winc hell decided that since he did in "The Animal," he'd go after the leaders.' Bakken was rumored to have had b ike troubles and direction troubles, while Balentine crashed trying to stay ahead of Invader Winchell. Meanwhile Bill Sa ltzman, who was also way up there Overall, took advantage o f others' misfortunes to get the 400 class . win behind a now-healed Cordis Brooks (2nd Overall, 2nd 250). B al en tine remounted and took second 400. Former AME Number One Pete Maley ied the Amateurs through the pits, but soon found out desert is not l ik e motocross . Several-time Amateur w inner Mike Powers got by . him within sight of the finish . I f the Experts were confused, consider what was go ing through the Novices' minds. Spokebender Bob Wad low and Rover Danny Phillips had their usual Novice battle, switching the lead back and forth. Wad low finally took about a fo u r mi nute lead after Phillips crashed, looseni ng his handlebars . Louis Darling on his baby Elsinore may have been t hird Novice and first 175 . Until the lap sheets are sorted out, man y f inishing positions will be impossible to figure . Watch next week for full results and feel sorry for the Rirnrunners• referee. • CMCWeek DeSoto and Clements win. Staten actually loses for a change in CMC's week By Alan Shepherd JUNE 12 -16, 1974 This week John DeSoto and Billy Clements broke their CMC long, dry spells and padded their wallets with first -place checks. . Wednesday night at Ascot, in his second attempt (after popping off his expansion chamber the week before to get bumped down to second), DeSoto came through with the v ictory. Lik e old times, it was via a sweep. Bry an Breker (Pen), riding his first CMC Pro class ever, took a tough second over last week's winner, Jeff Jennings (Hon) ." And Billy . . . A couple of weeks ago he had nothing but twos swirling around in his head. Try as he might in recent Sunday meetings, just about everything he did turned into a second. This week at Billy Cleme nts bro ke h is st ring of CMC seconds by winning at Saddleback. SaddIeback Park he turned that around and came up 't he 500 Pro victor over old foe, Jim West, his Husky teammate with another sweep. Ascot Mike Bell (Hon) added 20 more points t o his bulging gap in the CMC Points race with a triumph at Ascot in the 125 Pros for the second week in a ro w. Rick Bean (Hon) came up with the runnerup spot be hind Bell's sweep with Breker , th is time on a Honda as opposed to a Penton in the 250s, cashing in on third. Ti ny Luke Messer b ludgeoned his Maico about and collected the 500 Pro win from Bob Hosford (Hon) and Dan Barnes (CZ) . · Keep your eye on Warren Reid (Hon) in the ]25 Intermediates cuz he ain't' gonna be there fo r lo ng. 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Saddleback Eropkin grabbed the lead in the 125 Pro first moto and held it all the way. . Second time out, a bad start loc ked Dave behind Don Bongiorno (Hon) and he remained clogged there for much of the race in seventh. Meanwhile, Lunde found the groove, took the lead followed very quickly by McDougal, Mark Tyer (Hon), Chuck Bower (Hon) and J ones . Lap after lap they stayed in a group, but Lunde started to fade, Tyer slipped back, too, and the dicing continued with a gap of 50 yards separating first from fifth at the halfway point. . McDougal, riding tenaciously, picked off the win and he ld Bower in check for second. Tyer worked back up into third, passing Jones, and Lunde ended up fifth. Overall, tha t gave McDo ugal the victory , (surprisingly only his second of the year after winn ing 38 in 1973). Rich Eierstedt and Rex Staten teamed up for the factory Honda sweep in the 250s, each winni ng a motu but Rich's seco nd to Rex's th ird in the other making the difference. Jeff Vidic (Mai) took third. After an outstanding Saturday ride, Tommy Croft (Fra) took a tired fourth. Then, of course, Clements swept the 500s ove r West and Mark Rodman (Yam). • Res ults in the Results Section. Bikoni Ltd., 150 Green St.,Hackensack.N.J. 07601 Available from motorcycle dealers from coast to coast. Write for detailedapplication chartandFREE MONI eecar Send .$ 3 .00 for 256 colorful p age cata log w ith mo re than 5500 ite ms. 11