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Lapping Labor Day
at DeAnza
By T im Mickey
SUNNY~IE.\D,
CAL., SEIT. 2
De /vnza !\IX 250 Expert , Mark
Sullivan (Bul) rapidly opened up a
lead over the pa ck and had only
Open Expert Dennis Hazlett
(Ya m) to con tend with for pole
position. Not far behind Sullivan wa s
Rick Lee (Ya m ) waiting for a ch ance to
take over. For two motes, they finished
in that order - Sullivan out in front and
Lee in pursuit. But late in the last rnoto,
Sullivan broke his Bultacos frame an d
faced the poss ibility of losing everything
in the final t wo laps of the day . He held
hi s breath, still kept up a remarkable
fast pace, and let only one rider past,
keeping t he first Overall. The rider he
let by, t houg h, wasn't Lee, but th ird
place J im LaTendresse (Hon) who was
running barely ahead of Lee at t he t ime.
By doing so, La'I'endresse's points
enabled him to snatc h away t he second
Overall.
T he 125 Experts lo o ked even faster,
what with the likes of David Williams
(Hon) a nd Steve Bauer (Hon) . Williams
got o ut in f ro nt, and Bauer stayed on
his tail all morning long, never quite
catching up, but never los ing any
gr ound either. Together they left the
pack behind. Williams putting together a
clean sweep , and Bauer a set of
co nsec utive seconds.
Rounding out the ranks of th e
Experts were the Yamaha mini's of
Brian Myerscough and Jeff Ward.
Myerscough jumped into the early lead.
but was suffering plug problems every
moto. In the first, he held on to h is
tenuous lead long enough to take the
chec kered, but in th e second, even
though Mark had been stuck back in the
pack, Myerscough's plug fouled and cost
hi m the win, Ward's flying pursuit
earned him that much anyway, since all
eyes were on his inspired cat ch -u p ride .
The final moto saw Myerscough get it
together, th o ugh , picking up the win
he'd fought for, with Ward na turally
right beh ind for t he second.
•
Results in the Results Section .
Two top Division II rid ers, Don
Stub bs a nd Dave Van 110 m . both of
whom have been out a good portion of
the season with mechanical problems,
returned this week. Consdiering how
long they have been wi thout a ride they
did quite well, with St u b bs making it to
the Handicap Main on a bike th at had
never been ridden.
The wh ol e night seemed to be a
con tinual battle between Bria n Short
and Bob Schwart z. ap pea ring in four
races together. In the Handicap l\lain
Short had a ten yard advantage over
Schwartz, but was not able to keep the
door shut quite tight enough. Bob came
back in the Scratch Main once again to
face Brian on a trac k that had be come
very ha rd and slick. Bob got the hole
shot and led the race for th ree and a
ha lf laps when his motor gave way.
Brian had gotten wide on one turn and
lost traction long enough to let Bobby
lI ill squee k by to take the w in giving
Brian another second.
•
AMC night MX at
Saddleback
By Stewart B. Sapicoff
IRVINE, CAL., AUG. 3 0
125 Pro Bru ce McDougal (Hon)
proved tonight that you don't get
a fact ory Honda sponsorship un less you're one fast dude. He is. As
the first moto starting gate dropped Mark Brooks (Ho n ) managed to
clinch the hole-shot with McDougalriding right up his knobbies. Bruce
didn't waste any ti me about getting
down to the business at hand,
( w i n n i n g ) , quickly zooming past
Brooks. Meanwhile, second Overall
winner for the evening Steve Bauer
(Hon) made a rap id advance through the
pa ck from fourth place up to second.
VALENCIA, CAL. , AUG. 3 1
If it 's any indicat ion as to "the
quality of t he races by who
attends them, Indi an Dunes has
top named D ivision I ride rs such as
Sonny Nutter, Steve and Mike
Bast, Jim and Steve Gresham, and
Scott S ivadgc, kicking back and
taking it easy watching Division II
a n d 111 riders doing what they
themselves do all week long.
The riders have asked for an energy
abso rbin g crash wall. after Chris Haines
rece ived a seriou s concussion hitting the
wall last week in turn four. Management
has announced t hat it will be placing old
tires with plywood in front of them
along the now immobile steel and
co nc re te c ras h wall. (Maybe petitions do
wo rk!)
T his week 's raci ng was hig h ligh ted by
Mike Bast establish ing a one lap track
record of 12 seconds. This is to give the
Divisio n II an d III riders somethi ng to
wo rk towards. To th e first person wh o
can b reak that tim e will go S IOO, if
do ne this com ing week. If it 's no t
b roken t his wee k, 525 will be added
each week un til the record is broken.
Also setting a track tim e to he hroken
was little Lance King, o n a Mini
speedway hikc. lIis t ime was about a
sccond aod a half off of Mike Bast 's . lie
has offered 2.'; for a n yo ne who can
break his reco rd.
DeAnza MX: Only
a handful of winners
By T im Mi ckey
SUNNYl\IEAD. CAL.. AUG. 3 1
De.Anza 's Labor Day MX kept
awa y quite a few people from the
regular Saturday MX, making for
some rather small classes, but somehow that made t he co m pe tit io n that
much keener.
The 125 J un io rs felt the pressure
especially, wit h only the first p lace
winner promised any gold, so they
dusted off a goodly number of 250s in
their three -mao ra ce. Peter Schaffhauser
(Ho n}, co nc ed ed by the others as the
one to beat, just could not get th ings in
gear that day. He was knocked down
early in the first mota while in the lead,
and had thrott le problems on and off
(but mostly on ) all day . Ron Cain (Suz)
. got aro un d him a nd ca p tur ed the first
mota . but brother Gary (Ho n) turned
the t ables a nd grabbed the second. With
Schaffhauser essentially out of the way.
and a final moto tie, i t rapidl y became a
one-on-one fight for the tr ophy. Gary
go t past Ron at the end o f the straight
and began to stre tc h o u t a lead, but
when his front wheel began to wash out
on the uphill sweeper, Ron ca me to
within a knobby 's breadth of passing
him. Gary held him off, though, and
managed to take the Overall by fifty
fe et at the end.
Native American
Speedway
By Steve Richards
250 Jr: 1. Mark Musgra ve (CZ): 2 . Marvin
Masuda (H a n); 3. Je ff Clark (CZ).
25 0 Int : 1. Gl en n T a naka (Ya m ): 2 . Tom
Mayfield (eZ) : 3. Kirk Matkin (Bul ) .
O pen Beg : 1. Dan Hess (Yam); 2. B uster
Kaatz (Yam); 3 . Michael Tackett (Yam) .
Open Nov: 1. Bob Brag9 (Hus).
Open Jr: 1. Mark Bannister (SUi) ; 2. David
Packard (CZ); 3. D an Kosinski (Mail.
O pen Int : 1. Toby Kovaleff (ct ); 2. Mark
Lisenby (Mai); 3. Lynn Vick (CZ) .
125 Pro : 1. Bruce McDougal (Hon); 2 .
Steve Bauer (Hon); 3 . Mark Harrln9ton (Han) .
250 Pro : 1. Dave Carlson (Mal ); 2. S cott
Miller (Yam); 3. Bill RUbly (Man) .
Open Pro : 1. Mark ROdman (Yam); 2. Jeff
Borden (Mal); 3 . Steve Sullivan (Ma l) .
The two heavies of CMC 125 Pro racing th is season, Mike Bell (2A)
and Marty Smith (16), di ce it out at a recent CMC 125 Pro race, _
St. Bernards and
Bultacos win with
CRC
By Greg Barbacovi
E LSINORE. CAL" SEPT. 1
In the CRC Rawh ide Park 250
Novi ce race, Lyle Wade had the
third mota win in his pocket when
he endocd on the ridge. J cf f
McKeiroy took up the sla ck and
marched his Bultaco on to victory . Dave
Rob inson 's new Husky looked slick aod
so did he. Dave placed second overall
wh ile Greg Stone bro ught his Yamaha in
third. Greg migh t have do ne better h ut
his mother co uld n't find a