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; == SlGI three for three motos Saturday a t De Anza . He mad e the lap timesseem short. The banked turn a fte r the second down hill was his CRe points winners trophied By G. J. ..,; favorite zapping ground. He made it a habit to come out ahead fo r a clear shot at the wh o o p-d ee 's. If he neve r looked hack. it was because there was no one within sight behind hi m. Because of mechanical pro blems , Randy Lutz (!\Ion) had t o sit o ut the first 250 Beginner mota, but in the next two he blasted his way to two firsts, laking the win away fro m jay Deever (CZ) and Charles Beam (Han) by virtue of his tie -breaking final mota score. Another three-way tie, in the 125 juniors, was broken by victor Kenny Trask (Yam) over Gary Cain (Hon) and Pau l Ivie (YZ) as Trask held on just a little bit longer against the fatigue Ca in and Ivie suffered after second mota get-off's. • Res ults in the Res ults Section. = g RIVERSIDE, CAL.,jUNE 17 The results of the Californ ia Racing Club 's 1974 spring points championship have been announced. The winners of the three divisions are: Andy Northrup, first Mini, Dave Turnquist, first Veteran, and Roger Plaskey, first regu lar rider. Each won four foot trophies along with the traditional n umbe r one plates. Andy - is a 13·year.old junior high school student from Chino, California. and rides a Honda 75 XR in the 80cc Advanced class. Dave Turnquist is 36-years-old and ma kes h is ho me in Pasadena. He rides a CZ in the 250 Veterans class and works for the L.A . Po lice Department in the ; d e te ct ive b ureau. Dave is married, with o ne daughter and ano ther on the way. Roger Plask ey won the regu la r division o n a 360 Ya maha in t he Open No vice class. Ro ger nar ro w ly escaped death ear lier in the year wh en he ran head-on in t o a d ump truck d u ring a Me xica n race. He suffered only minor injuries. Roger is single, 28, lives in Anaheim, and is very lucky. To qualify for the point series all that is needed is a membership form, available at all CRC/NRA events. • Pap, pap, Pappetting along at AMC's Rawhide race By Stewart B. Sapicof f ELSINORE, CAL.,jUNE 16 There was a dice-out going on in the AMC Rawhide Park race 250 . Intermediate class for the first place spot between Gary Pappett Only five finish blazing Sage MX By Carol Benton RIDGECREST, CAL.,jUNE 16 Father's Day at Sage Park saw another saga in the continuing battle of maintenance and performance between fathers Cliff • Urseth and Nick Hopper. Last race, Nick had Allan's little Honda 70 ru nn ing well enough to slay j ust ahead of Mark (lIon). Cliff got the word th is time. Afte r a lo t of wo rk an d co nsiderable investment. l\la rk took an d easily held lo n g leads in the firs t two mot os , Alla n came back fo r half a lap during the th ird mota ; bu twas obvious ly out-powered. If jeeter McA lpin (lIon) had not lo st his seat, he probab ly wo uld have passed Allan. As it was, he had to settle for third. Luck was with Boggie Robbs in the 125 jun io r class . Everyone else dropped out with mechanical difficulties so Bog rode his Suzuki to an undisputed first Overall. just because Robert Witwer (Ca ra) was the o n ly contender in the 100 junior class did not mean he had a boring morning. He thrilled , the spectators with two spectacular crashes and one terrific tank slapper. • Sage Park to be remodeled RIDGECREST, CAL. ,jUNE 16 Sage Park will close for Ju ly an d A ug us t, m a n a g em en t h as an no unced. T here will be no racing at all during thi s tim e. Re modeling will take pl ace dur ing th e sum me r a nd the park w ill o pen agai n in September . T he ne xt ra ce will be held on S unda y , September 15. • Sadler buttons up NRAMX By Dale Brown VALENCIA,CAL..jUNE 16 On 1y 120 riders showed to z ;: ....r ~ __ In UJ oJ ~ , This is what motocross is all about . . . t his NRA tootsie is good at sco ring. Indian Dunes. Those who d idn't show missed a beautiful day of racing. Only six Experts showed . In the 125 class. Rob Rollins (Bu l) and ;\like Brown (S uz ) duked it o u l. The first 20 ·minute moto belonged to Rollins. Brown had gotten the hole shot, but his Suzie went sideways in the rough and he slipped back to second. Rollins won going away. Rollins took th e lead in the second mota and it looked like it was going to be his day. But the bike's shift lever broke, be crashed and lost a lap. Brown rode with a cool head and collected the Overal l win. Fo ur Experts were contesting the Open Expe rt division . Actually co n testi ng isn 't t he right word, because nobody challenged Buttons Sad ler (YZ) for t he win. Tbis was Sadler's second race as an E xper t a nd h e made it loo k easy. Pull ing away from the rest of the p a c k, he l a p p ed m uch of th e co m petition . Ac t ually, the closest race of t he d ay was in th e 250 junior ra n ks. Three riders were tie d o n points at tb e end o f th e tw o m o ro s. Manny A ngu lo (CZ) fin ishe d third firs t tim e aroun d and wo n the second ti me . Fo ur poi n ts. Gerardo Hernandez (CZ) finis he d second twice. Four points. Don Dixon (Yam) won the initial go-ro und, h u t slipped to thi rd in the final contest, You know how manv poin ts he !!:ot. Close. . , Since it was Fathe r's day, the NRA had every thin!!: concluded by three. so everyone could go home. !:et washed up and go out for a nice dinner. That's What, Malocco already? By T i m Mickey S U;\,NY~IEAD, 0: o (Suz) and l\Iike Lasker (KTl\I) . but as everyone knows, there is only room for one winner. In the first moto it was Lasker all the way from start to finish while Pappert was hopelessly lost somewhere back in the middle of the pack, posing no threa t for most of the rnoto, BUl the race was not over yet. Papp ert , who managed to push h is way through the pack to take a second in the first rno to, got the ho le shot in t he second mota with Lasker rig ht on his back fender. Lasker was waiting , for Pappert to make t he mistake that wo uld put him up in fro nt and on the fi ft h lap it happened. But it was a sho rt lived victory fo r as they came aroun d t he next time Pappett was once again in first. lIe stayed there till the checkered nag dropped. Going into the th ird an d final moto of t his hot ly con tested race both were tied for first. The start was a replay of the second moro, bu t this time there was a determining facto r: Lasker's carb to p kept co m ing off, causing the bike to bog. On the fourth lap Lasker was passed by Kirk Willis (H us}, who passed Pappert as well for the checkered flag. Willis scored a third Overall, Lasker took secon d place spo t , and Pappert won first Overall. • Resul ts in the Results Section. CAL.,jUNE 15 Morg; n Malocco, riding one of the a new Huskies in the 250 Senior/Expert class, let the leaders set the pace before ,he rifled past them in Saga of the Sad 125 s By Tom Corley IRVINE, CAL.• jUNE 15 Buttons Sad le r IYl) competed as an Expert fo r t he se co nd t ime and won O verall. If you ever truck over to Sad so me Saturday, -o u w ill see th e mosl competitive racing in the 125 J un ior class. Burt Wald (Suz) is back on t he warpath no w that he j ust got his machine slapped together. However, he d idn' t roost o n all of th e pack ' cause he had so me hea vy d icing to do wi th j ohn G ree nw ay (lIon) a nd Kevin IIariow (Han). By bl asting up the star ting hi ll in firs t place, Burt had th e fir st m o t a halfway won 'cause he was clean ly in comm and. Then he was soon har rassed by Greenway and lI a rlow. Wald was so dose to being zapped by Greenway tha t he was turni ng his head aro u nd to see what he was u p agains t. Soon he fou nd ou t because the scream in/( Ho nd a streaked on by for the wi n. lIarlow was just a dash away wh ile the co m mon champ Ron Stroner had a bu m race. lIe 'vas way behind an d was wicking it to r "" 11 " •