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Cycle News North fI.I II IlQ -= IlQ ..,; g ;... g ~ r0'1 ...... ~ >n Editor Lane Campbell ...... .... Winning on a rider's course: S.I.R. Road Race ~ ..c 0 ...., u ... 0 By Mike Slaughter Coronado Motor Sports 127 Shadow Mountain EI Paso , TX 79912 915-584-4497 Spee dway Enterprises present s Sportsman TT Scrambles San Jose Fairgrounds Sunday, October Zl 0 -36 & AMA Ru les Open to all Scra mb les classes Sem i-Pro, Exp erts $ Pit Ga te open 6 a .m . Pre-ent ry : $6 .00. Post $ 10.00 Pit Pass $5. No Minis. Ent ries fro m: Sp eed way Ent., 14 Camp Evers Lane Scotts Valley , CA 95060 Info : 41 5-327-4461 SEATTLE, WAS H., SEPT . 22 T he O lympi a road rac ing se nes e n ded wi th m an y of t he d a y's victo ries giving t he win n e r a season c hampions h ip. The 100 GP winner and champ w as h ard r idi n g fe male Jam ie Lcversaler, passing many 125s on her way to victory. Bruce Lind, 125 season champ, won after doing battle with Ron Fugere. The single cylinder 125 winner and champion was Paul Peiroli. The biggest field of the day was the 500 to Open production and cafe class. Taking an easy victory was Bill White (Kaw), while second was a race-long dispute going to George Roubliceik, who had to wo rk hard to overcome a bad start Several 350 riders entered the 500 class and took the first three spots: John Dixon on his Yamaha first , Rick Curiston second on a Kawasaki, and winning the 500 championship by taking third with his R-5 was Fred Schuenemann. While battling each other these three passed all manner of bigger bikes including Ducati Sports and most of the rest of the 750 class. C a I i fo r n i a's A F :'1 had a representat ive in the form of vacatio ning John Chermack, who took his unde rsize 200 to victory in th e 250 class . The second spot was settled w he n Bruce Bille's Bultaco edged out Mike Casling's un usual Honda single after a spi rited passing duel. In th e Open GP Frankie Juhan (Yam) con tin ued his w inning ways with a n easy ' victo ry and the 500 champio nship. Ken Botham (Ya m) did the same in the 250 GP . The sidecar team of Rod Hudson and Bob Thomson, Suzuki powered, finished their perfect season with yet another victory. Resu lts in Results Section. a: OJ IJ: e ::J « .J oJ> OJ ~ :E Ridgerunner's semi-pro MX Bultaco Owners-Improve Handling Increase fro nt fork travel by one inch. Kit for all mod e l Bult acos . Easy instal lat io n . Instructions inclu ded . Se nd 55.95 to : P.P.I., Box 871 , Arleta , CA 91331 . 213-896-6209. Send 30 cents Postage for free Bu ltaco catalog . Doug Dou glas Moto rcy cle s 24 769 E, 5th St., Sa n Bern ar d ino, CA 924 10 7 14-8844962 . ,.~. ._ ~. . . . Cent ral Ca lifo rn ia 's D U l l ' D I l l. largest dealer Servicing : Fresno, Merced, ' & Modesto Yosemite Sport Cycles 28 2 11 W. 17 th St ., Merced, CA 95340 2o~n3~802 By Devore Fortney WATSONVILLE, CAL., SEPT. 22 The Santa Cruz motocross track was visited by New Zealand star Ivan Miller today . Ivan has just come over from England to campaign his Penton (KTM?) in t he Trans-Alvl A series . After relocating in the Sacramento area Ivan d e ci ded to get h is fi rs t taste of Am erican mo tocross. He mi gh t as we ll have been practici ng tho ugh fo r all t he co mpeti tio n he got. In both m otos he just jetted into the lead and never even saw the res t of the Open class field . In the othe r Expert classes it was Jim Turner '(Bul) back from his well-done efforts o n the National Championship scene p ulling the same stunts as Ivan to swee p both the 250cc and 125cc races. All the real dici ng wen t o n in the many Novice classes as nearly 400 of Bill Wh it e (Kaw) does so me creative hanging off and traffic-checking with a backd ro p of pines at Seattle's prim o ro ad circuit, them made it out to do battle against this rough track. The word must be getting around about this track because every race brings a bigger crowd. If it gets any bigger they're gonna have to install lights or something. In the 500s the hot race was between Bob Salvatore and Jon Nelson. Both of these guys have been racing this track for a while an d getting better at it all the time, but it was Bob's Husky that got there first whe n it counted. Jon's second was well received, tho ugh . as Jon rides fo r the Ridgerun ncrs. That he fou nd time to ride a t all is quite a feat consideri ng the am ount o f time he pu ts into preparing th e trac k. Pushing h is bike ac ross the finis h line for thi rd (literally!) was Tony Littman (Pe n) . The h o t ride r in the 250 No vices has to be Den nis Stapleton. Dennis has be en smoothing out lately an d is spe ndi ng his time winning instead o f crashi ng. Dennis rode to a fine win to day followed by Colin Robson o n h is Penton. Within the huge 125 Novice class is a young man who week after week leads this pack around ' without too much flash . HIs name is Mike Marquez (Han) and he did it again this week, although being pressured in the first mot o by Wesley Morrel (Pen). _ Re sults in Res ults Section. 'Scally scores By W. H. Spence r FRE MON T , CA L., SEPT . 20 Bo b S c all y ret u rn e d fro m t wo ni ghts of Ascot raci n g and while hi s d own so uth effort s weren ' t ve ry produc tive, it gave h im just eno u g h edge to s wee p the 360 Expert cl ass fo r tonigh t. S t eve C arri ll o clinched t he titl e of Ki n g of Frem~nt las t week and while th ings we ren' t goi ng quite right to nigh t he did m an age a fou rth pl ace