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VISTA
Vi sta Way
lACOS TA
COUNTRY CLUB
To $;.111 Diego
There are two routes to and fro m the Carlsbad si te. One is
lik ely to be a lo t m o re crowded than the other. Be clever, be
di fferent, be unhas sle d.
This is Carlsbad. Who sh ould you watch for? T he start list is
impressive. Roger DeC ost er, o f co u rse. He need s the wi n to re main
500 MX World Champio n. Mikkol a, if his back inju ry permi ts hi m
to race, will b e trying to wrap us his first Wo rld Ch ampio nshi p..
But, Adol f Weil, Willi Bau er, o r Gerrit Wolsink co u ld win th e
wh ole thing. Bauer w on t his U.S . rou nd of th e Wo rld
Ch ampionship last year. J aroslav Fal ta will be o n a 400 CZ but not
racing for GP points. Never discount t he Swed es: Ake Jonsson,
Arne Kring, or Ben gt Ab erg. T he spectat ing problem is that there
Note five foo tbridges around th e co urse that will allo w you
to change vantage points between mot os . Ho t set-up is
pr obab ly the infield o f th e big uphill-downhilL At a GP , the
"mudh?le" is usual ly not hin g to wat ch. T op riders just see it
as a nu isance,
arc too m an y really good riders in any GP . " F irst American"
should be eit he r Karsm akers or Lackey, as last year, but there will
undo ub tedly be somebody you 'd seldom guess who'll be charging
aro und in the top 10. Tim Hart or Mike Hartwig, maybe. Or Tony
DiStefano. Or ano ther American w ho ca n hack th e pace.
This is the real th ing, with 132 Wo rld Ch am p io nship
points to be divvied up among t he top 10 riders in
ea ch moto. T here IS no thing m ore serious in 500cc
mo to cr oss.
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