Cycle News - Archive Issues - 1970's

$55,000 Summer Championship ~ Mile Big Bike every Friday night 125 World Champ Kent Andersson (56 ) won t he 250 race for Yamah a. Following under a wash rag of .07 second at th e finish were J ohn Dodds. Diet er Braun and Japanese newcomer Katayama - all on Yamahas. Now Read leads the Ch ampionship rac e with 5 0 poin ts to Bonera's 4 6, Agostini 's 42, Lansivour i's 32. and Jack Find lay . who finished fifth, 24. On ly th e six best scores o u t o f th e ye ar's ten ra ces will c o u n t in the-\\'orld Ch ampionship battle, but with the fa ctory tea ms boyc ot ling b oth th e West German and the Isle of Man IT rounds, it left o n ly eight o p po rt u n it ies to score points. Agostin i, of co urse . failed to sco re at the French and the Italian . lIis wins in the Austrian and th e Dutch, co up le d wit h his se cond p la ce a t Spa. give h im the chance to score in every found he now rides in. Bonera and Read , on the other hand, have sco red points on five occasions ! The crow d a t Spa normall y around 120,000 strong, was less this year because of the clash w ith the World Cup football Final in Germany. in VOlving Holland and West Germany. But th e 80,000 who did turn up h ad th eir money's worth and more, That was just a n appetize r. The eight lap 125 race th at fo llowed was even better. Spaniard Angel N ieto on th e De r bi , battled agai nst Swedish reigning World Cha mpion Ken t An dersson and his Yama ha tea mma te B runo Kneubuh ler. All three, at so me stage in the race, were ahead, bu t at th e finis h, Nieto snatched victory by .6 of a second from Ande rsson. w ho was on ly .2 of a se cond clear of Br uno , Nie to set a rec o rd lap and re cord ra ce ave rage too, in th is thrilling e nco un ter and he w on by th e sim p le device of frig htening the o t h er tw o riders o n th e last lap. Out a l th e ba ck o f the circ u it , An gel left hi s braking so late, th at as he sailed p ast hi s tw o riva ls w ith b oth w heels locked he began to fall o ff hi s ma chine. A s N ie to's knee touch ed th e trac k, Ken I a nd Bru no began to ta ke serious avoiding action . b ut ins tead of fa lling off, th e luc ky Spani ard was bo unce d h a c k u p righ t . le aving th e ai r filled with a mix ture o f Sw edish an d Swiss ell rses, If you th ink that was close . lo o k a t the times at the finis h of the 250 ra ce. Just .07 of a se cond separa ted t he winn er, Kent Andersson , fr om fourth place m an .J ohn Dodds. All were on Yamahas . Ch ampionsh ip leader Waller Villa, made up for a terrible start by pulling th rough the field to sixth place , and h e was only a fifth of a sec o n d short of ca tc h ing fifth sp ot m an Michel Rougerie who rode th e other fa ctor y Harl e y -Da v d son . i For some unac countable reason, the Belgian organ izers d o not run a 3 5 0 class in the rn ee ting, pr obably because it is c he a pe r to find s ta r t money for 50 competitors than regular 3 50 riders like A gostini, Lansivouri and so forth . So a ft er the m agnificent 500 affai r, the crow ds drifted home while the Side cars did their th ing. . The three -wheeler clas s is anybody 's still, an d Klaus Enders, the West German reigning Champion may re gre t bitterly that he wasn 't able to find th ose ex tra few hundred revs to beat the K o n i g of fe llow-countryman Rolf Steinhausen. • Results 50 : 1. G . T hu ro w (Krll . 2 . H . Van Kessel (K r l ) . 3. R . Kunz (Krll. 4 . J . V . Z eeb roeck (Kr ll . 5 . J. H uber t s (Krl). 6 . C. V a n Dongs" (Krl) . 7. J . B r ui n s (Ja m). 8. H. Rittberger / Nov-Jr -Ex Separa te Summer point fund for June, July, August .. 18 3 00 S . Vermont . Garden a . Californ ia 1--------------------------, I : I I Save $1.00 I I~ : I on Adult ticket [or an y Friday / 1:\111 eve n t Yo u may bring II [ricn d & I IIZ'C 52 .00 I I ._-------------------------TED (K n ) . 9 . S. Dorflinger ( K r ll . 10. U . Graf ( Krl) . 1 25 : 1. A. N ie t o ( Der) . 2 . K. A n d ersson (Yam) . 3 . B . K n eu b u h ler (Yam) . 4. H. Bartol (5uz) . 5 . O. Bu scttertnt (Ma l) . 6 . E . Lazzari ni (Pi a ) 7 . J. Be nde r ( Be n) . 8 . H . See l ( M a l) . s . ~ . Weiss (Mai). 10. J. Lazo (MZ) . EVA • 2 5 0 : 1. K . Ander sson (Yam) . 2 . D. Braun (Yam) . 3 . Ka tavama (Yam) . 4 . J . DOdds (Yam) . 5 . M. R ougerie (H-D) . 6 . W . Villa (H-D) . 7 . P. Pons (Yam) . 8 . T . Herro n (Yam ) . 9. J . Wi ll iams ( Y a m ) . 1 0. P. Kockonen (Yam) . 500: 1. P. Read (MV) . 2 . G. Agostini (Yam) . 3 . D . Braun (Yam) . 4. P. Pons (Y am) . S . J . Fi n d la y (SU Z) . 6 . M. Rougerie (H-O) . 7 . J. Wi llia ms (Yam). 8. C. Leon (Kaw) . 9. P. Eickelberg (KOn) . 10. G. Bonete (MV). SIDECARS : 1. St ei n ha use n/Hub ert (K on) . 2 . Ender s /Engelh ard t ( BM W ). 3. Sch warze l/Klei s ( K On) 4 . eoac tce/t.oacn ( Kon) . 5 . Lut h r ing h auser/Hahn ( B M W) . 6. Ha l le r /H a s e lbe c k ( B MW ) . 7. Pour cel e t /L e c o r r e (B M W) . 8 . (B M ). 9. Rozer /Van S ch ons/Lau terbach Hu mb ee k (B MW ) . 10 . H an z i/ Schmit z (BMW). M AR IN A DEl R E.Y Send $3 .00 lor 25 6 colo rfu l p age ca talog . w ith more than 5500 i t em s. t~" In the fim lap of the 500 race, World class Champ Phil Read has estab lished th e lead that he will hold to t he fin ish on the fam ed (not oriou s?) Spa Franco rchamps circu it laid ou t partially on th e road from Brussels to Luxembourg. .. , W TI<" T"c O'f'H >n"T"cO 'f" " ' le: ' J "r'tO T".;C' r r. 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