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b ui lding up his lead to take firs t. With a seco n d mo to th ird he nabbed Overall. 250 Expert Da ve Hopkin s (Pen) got a three and a fo ur for seco nd. an d Ken Ehlers (Pen) did a con sistent j ob of thi ngs to take third. A s tu d y in bru te d e te rmi n atio n \ V'J S fourth place fin ish er Cha rles Beem (lIon) in th e 250 Beginne rs. On the last lap. he busted his fram e in two . and was slo wly se ll lin g into the sunse t. He fini sh ed . lly th e end o f the day there were twi st ed swi ngar rns , sac ked o ut suspens io ns and a ching o r s em i br o ken w Vl W w a: X '- ~ Bruce J o n es (H on) beat all the 250 Expert s at DeAnza. Mata got up to finish seventh at the en d of the moto, then hu ng it up fo r the d a y. May fin ished elevent h, and manage d to get first in th e second moto to finis h fourth Overall (high but unfortu nately o ut of the cash). He wasn 't finished yet! Michael Jackson (Hus) inh eri t ed th e first moto lead and ran like a thief a: UJ bodie s. DeAn za is no orr trac k like the typical SoCal ~IX t racks. In the 125 Experts Tom Burt (lIon) go t a 1-2 t o take h is share o f th e mon ey. He was threaten ed by Mar k Miller (Hon ), o n his t ail most o f the way, but Miller wen t o ut of th e running due t o injurie s. To m Kar as (Ho n) exo rcized h is way in for seco nd and Jim Cupp (Ho n) d ropped in for thi rd. Tom Rapp won. In fact in both rn o t os, he had a lead of up to 15 seco nds over the seco n d place man. Kno w who was second? Al May on another Cooper! The crash. in the 2 50 class didn't seem to bother him a t all as he ga thered up a 3-2 combin ation to put it all togethe r fo r sec ond pl ace , wh ich is a fine co nso lat ion for his fourth in t he 250. lie wasn 't without his problem s as Pat Richter (CZ) was right in there behind him, and they did some swapping before the c hec kered came out. Pat was close to Al with a 2·3 sco re for t hird p lace. money . The turnout the DeAnza folks h oped fo r th eir first Pro l\IX t urned o ut much better th an they expecte d - to t he point o f be ing d isas trous. They survived it all. They .h o pe to h ave t h e probl ems ironed out be fo re t hei r nex t o ne . • Results in th e Re sults Sec ti o n. Pr od uct eva lua tio n c<"l ..... Billy Payne w on aga in at A MC. Payne keeps on winning with AMC By Ste wart B. Sapico ff ELSINO RE , CA L.,JUL Y 21 This Sunday at Rawhi de Park Billy Payne (Bul) proved to th e rest o f the Open Expert s that it doesn' t matt er wh at he happen s to be riding ' cau se h e still win s. In mota one Payne too k the lead righ t fro m the beginni ng and loo ked like he h ad the race all sewn up until the fifteent h lap wh en he ran into a c o u ple o f downed and lapped riders. Billy s talled h is bike whi ch gave second pl ac e l\lark Rod man (Yam) just enough tim e t o get by to ta ke fi rst with Payn e seco nd . Off th e line in the sec o nd mot o was J o n Miller (:\Iai) ta king a bri ef o ne lap lead wh ich was taken away by Ro d man for another lap til h is bi ke th rew a chain. From th at p oint on it was Payne all the way co pp ing th e firs t for that mo t o as well as t he Overa ll fo r the day. Quali ty produc ts for the rider wh o kn ows the diffe rence COrona short track & IT By To m Blatt ler CORON A. CAL.. JULY 24 Little Mike Tidwe ll was try i ng to . go fo ur -for- fo ur o nce ag-dtn at Co ro na Racew ay d uring t he flat trac k and IT st eeplech ase, as the Breezer - an almost idiot-p roof t ire tool By Lane Campb ell The ad say s it 's so easy to use, you migh t go o u t of the way to p ick up a nail just for t he fun of changin g a tire with it. We'll let that o ne go by, while admitti ng th at t he "Breeze r" tire too l, in its idiot simplic ity, is a very handy little gadget, even if it is over pri ced. How ha ndy depend s on how often yo u change tires . The patent ed tool wo rks o n th e sa me principl e as a powere d tir e-ch an ger , on ly you provide the grun t with a hammer . Preferab ly a big hammer . To get a tire off, you just get the bead up with o ne regular tire lever. then insert the Bree zer and knock it around t he rim with a hammer . It cam s the be ad right up just like Up to Getting t he tire back o n , we j ust stu ffed th e tube back in , p oked wn . th e valve stem thro ugh its ho le . and without ta kin g an y precaut ions to keep folds of the tube o ut o f the way, knocke d t he tool aro und the rim again to ca m t he bead back down . Nary a pin ch . If y o u (say) tried to stuff a stre tched 4 .00 tube int o a 3. 50 tire , yo u migh t pi nc h it. Maybe . Yo u'll h ave t o shell out $ 7.9 5 plus tax for the gadget , whi ch is a bit st eep for someth ing any compet ent m achinist co uld whack o ut in 15 minutes , but if you're all thumbs and pinch t wo tubes a week, it would still pay for it self before some sti cky-fing ers rips it off. 13-y ear -old from Up lan d had domin ated the Expert ac tion in bot h th e 125cc an d 250cc classes for th e past fe w weeks. This week. Mike fo und th e co m pe titi on a bit more st iff, and had to se ttle for only two first pl ace troph ies for the even ing . Tidwell cap tur ed Main even t vict ories in th e 12 5 Expert TT and the 250 Expe rt Sho rt Trac k, as he defeate d hi s teamma te Eddie Law son o n th e TT and Rick Marquis o n the Sh ort T rac k. In th e 250 TT feature, Bru ce Reyn olds (Bul) , m a kin g his first appeara nce in som e time, got an ex cellent st ar t and was able to hold Tidwell and Marquis to take the victory . T id well's o n ly o th er defeat of the eveni ng c ame at the hands of his Y am ah a . o f Montcl air teamma te, 16 -year-o ld Eddi e Law son. Law son had a supe r battle with Tidwell during th e six-lap sho rt track I 25cc Expert fe ature, a s bo th rid er s ex changed leads through out the race with Law son fin ally holding off Mike. Anoth er B u lt aco rider, Vern Maxwel l, had a fine evening a t Corona , as he ca p tured bo th the Op en Expert sho rt track a nd T' I' on his 35 0. Don Grigsby (Ho n ) had to set tl e for seco n d in each o f the features . Su z u k i -mo un ted Clyd e De nn en cap t ured t he Open No vice TT five-la p fe ature , as Denne n def e ated Triump h-moun ted T om Da vis an d Mike Ste wart aboard a Kawasa ki. Dennen has also be en giving ca r racing a bit of a try, dring three-qu arter midgets in the Nati on al Midge t Racin g Asso ciat ion. • Resul ts in the Resul IS Se ct ion. 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