Cycle News - Archive Issues - 1970's

went to Bakersfie ld for th e NorthSouth meet. Fo ur qu ick laps and District short track point leader Greg Ferguson led out the 250 Expert Main with Randy Gibbs, Rick Delacy and Danny Hogue hot on the trail and wound up second to Hogue at the checkered. The 18 year-old track star from Gilroy came 'fro m fourth on the second lap to first by passing one guy on each comer. The battle for No. One white plate is now between Delacy, Ferguson and Mike Faria. Paul Austin came to the 250 Novice class only four weeks ago . After winning the last two in a row, is now the point leader in this class two points ahead of seemingly retired Jim Mahoney. • Results in the Results Section. at th e fin ish it was A lan Chr istian win ning his fo urth Scratch Main at Cal Expo. Sam Vanderhoff was the first of a quartet of ten ya rders to Turn One and held off a last lap charge by Mark Eckles to win his second Handicap Main of the season. Fast improving Mike Ellis won his first Division Two Main ahead of Marty Benck and Steve Bauer. Norman Denny earned a return ride in the 'Dash for Dollars' match race by defeating Butch Corder in this two lap event. NAPA, CAL., AUG. 17 Jorgy tops marathon Norm an Denny won his seco nd st raight Scratch Main here ahead o f Dale St etl er, Rich MacMurray and Mike Rooney. Den ny and By W.H. Spencer FREMONT, CAL. , AUG. II Alex J o rgensen stopped off for some fun and development of the ne w 250cc Moto-Villa, and in the process of running the two hour marathon, lapped the field of over 30 teams, fou r ti mes. Onl y one tea m co uld keep up with t he fast flying pro rider, and th at was Scott Aus ti n/Jo hn Frey riding methodically, finishing on ly a hal f lap back at the end. Austin took the first lap but found the fast Moto- Villa and Jorgensen just a bit too fast . Alex stopped only twice for the distance, once in a crash that gradually lost him most of his exhaust system and once whe n he ran out of gas. Neither one lost hi m t he lead. The next four positions were all quite close with the Bob Sievwright/ Lloyd Percaval Honda holding o nto third for mos t of the way. Steve Keneday teamed with Dale Etichison fo r the fourth 250 spot, and also took a ruth in the Open run. John Hall and Dave Rosenquist teamed on each other's motors to win the 125 class and take a third in the Open only to be disqualified for run ning three riders. In th e lightweight bash , the race was all nip and tuck un til th e end when early race leader J eff Cole dropped off the pace. T eamma te T erry Fish managed to finish t he event but they faded to six t h p lace jus t in front of Billy Risne r's Husky . Matt Caro thers and Billy Semim had a tremend ous dice with Hall/Rosen quis t thro ug hout. J ust about the t ime th at Co le de parte d, Hall cras hed and Matt hit him in t ry ing to get by . T he differen ce came o ut at t he checker ed with Hall scant inches in fr ont of Semirn , both finish ing a lap up o n Ti m Oliver /Greg Muscatel on an Elsinore. I n t he O pen portio n it was Rosenquist (Mai) t he early leader with ' Fra nk Risner riding by himsel f on his 350 Honda. They held off three teams for near ly ha lf the race : Al Wood/Rod S pe ncer on a Hodaka, John Silva/Charlie Bullwinkle on a 325 Bultaco, and Gary Vanderpool/Jeff Cole having their tro ubles with crashes. On the 10th lap Risner got by Rosenquist on a gas stop. Risne r looked like a shoo-in from that point, r i d i n g co nsistently. Vanderpool and Cole picked up the pace and just past the half way point they got by Rosenquist/Hall with King moving into fourth and Silva giving up the cause. Six laps from the end Risner made a gas stop and gave up the lead to Vanderpool. It was a h ard stop to have to make, but he was run ning on reserve for to o long and just had to pit. • Results in the Resul ts Section. Quincy short track By Mike Conway QUINCY, CAL., AUG. II 22 From the first heat it was evident that everyone wanted a shot at the brass. The track was in the best shape that it ever has been here and added greatly to the show. Ed • AI Jorgensen did a little durability testing on the 25 0 Villa (trick Italian MX~r imported by Bo b Swa nso n), rode solo to runaway class win. Hampton jumpe d to the lead and put all the experience he has gained riding other tracks to good use .to zap Dick Crosby in 100 Novice. Not to be deterred Crosby ca me back strong in the 125 Novice race to hold on to the win followed by Scott Richardson and J erry Griswold. In the 250 Novice bash Les Ca lver t got a good start and opened up a lead over Jeff Smith an d an on fire Ben Whitaker. With two laps to go that duel carried Smith into the· lead and Whitaker had to settle for a third behind a determined Calvert. Lee Roberts took the lead at the drop of the flag in the 200 Junior/Expert final and doggedly held on for four laps . He was constantly pressured by John Alves who slid by on the fifth lap to cap the win . The 250 J uniors banzaied a trac k that' can be really scary when you p u t seve n or eigh t riders on each othe r's elbo ws. To see th is man y riders in a group p itc h ' their machin es almos t together into the turn is a sig ht. Doug Swope, Bob G rant, an d Rober t Miller battl ed ea ch ot her fo r the wh ole race and even th ough they ended in th at or der it was anyo ne's race un til th e flag fell . If anyo ne has Q uincy wire d it has to be Steve Pest o ni. T here doesn 'tseern to be a spot o n t he t rac k whe re h e can't pass if h e makes u p his m ind to. In th e Heat. h e p ut an outside pass on at least six riders in th e firs t co mer to se t up for t he lead that he never rel inquished, after co ming fro m the bac k ro w. In the Main he again nailed a bunch of riders on the firs t tur n' and o ut po wered th em out of turn tw o to the chec ker , Manuel Crumm e tt was determine d to repeat his win of the last meeti ng bu t Lowell Mo ural had ot he r ideas. Crummett was pu t back to t he penalty line an d it too k h im a lap to work up to second behind Mou ra!'s Yamaha. He was pu shing so hard that he go t a little high and wobbly at times. Steve Dietz took the op portunity to get in front of him for second place. • Results in Results Section. NorCal Speedway By Sneaky Pete Christian and Denny top scratchmen SACRAMENTO , CAL., AUG. 16 , Ton igh t's Scrat ch Main had fo ur of the riders in the lineup tha t Tr ick suspension. Deschutes was a little rough, in spots. (Now every 250 Expert racer will want V-shaped shocks.! St etler were aboard Ch uck Miller turned machi nes and their on e-t wo fini sh is a go od exa mple o f Mr. Miller 's ability with the wren ch es. St arting o n t he zero, But ch Rovelli was the cro wd favori te to win the Division Two Main . But ch 'par ked ' it at the T u m Fo ur crashwa ll so Rick Lewis, Bo b Bellino a nd St eve Moore finished o ne-t wo- t hree a t th e chec kere d. Les ter Chanky and Alan Christian put on a rea l crowd pleaser in the match race with th e win going to Leste r . Mar k Ec kles fo llo wed up his secon d place finis h at Sacrame n to with a win in the Handicap Main . T he second and t hird spots wen t to Butch Corder and Ken Eggers. • Resul ts in Results Sec tion. Hootin' around in the desert darkness By Larry Langley LUCER N E VA LLE Y, CAL. , AU G . 24 Aft er an absence of two years of night enduros, CRC decided to pro mo te thei r Ow l Hoo t. It's a shame m ore riders didn 't show up to ride it, since it was a whole lot of fun . , T he riders who did show tip participated in a nice pressureless ride . which during the summer is the .only way to go . Riding a nig ht enduro is quite different than riding a normal day enduro. For the serio us time kee pers , it was a lot of wo rk to rig up exotic lighting sys te ms to illuminate all t hei r dials, computers, roll charts, e tc. One d ude on a 250 Pen ton ha d what appeared to be a fluorescent lamp lighting his equipment. Checki ng it closer it t urned out to be a che m ical eme rgency ligh t which is activa te d by breaking a cap su le to produce ligh t fo r fo ur or five ho urs to light up his ti mekeeping goodies. Ingenious. The mo st commo n method of lighting was a lit tle ligh t bulb rigged up over th e instrumen ts to ligh t them up. A lso, ma ny rider s had min er 's li g ht s r igg e d to their helm e ts or flas hlights taped to their visors to aid in instrument lighting and seeing the trail. The first rider left at 10:0 I for 62 miles of dark riding. At the th ree mile check it was really something to loo k back and see all those headlights coming at you. The night was just right for 'riding temperature-wise with just a

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