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AL BAKER A I and co-rider Steve Ho lladay out-ran the field f or the 250cc Class win in SCORE's Baja Interna cional. The pair 's fa c t o r y prepared Honda Elsinore covered the gruelling cou rse in 8 hrs., 32.87 mins. Pennzoi l 2-Stroke Motorcycle Oil (mixed 32 to 1 ) gave them l ast i n g engine prot ect ion , the kind of protection it takes to finis h in the money . Take a tip from these winners, ask your motorcycle dealer for t he oi l th at 's to ug her t h an Baj a .. . ask f or Pennzoil . C'J C'J ... :oJ ..0 o o u Between th e bottlenecks there was good d irt riding . the edge bu t he co uldn 't quite ge t it to the othe r side, a nd the re he was stuck, If he moved any th ing , the b ike an d probably Dave with it , woul d fal loff o n the bo ulder, I had been running trying to ge t in f ro nt of him to get a pi cture , so whe n he got stuck, 1 mad e a deal wi t h him . I' d lift his front wheel if he'd wait lo ng enough fo r me to ge t my picture. Now there's what you call being in a real bargai ni ng po si tio n ! Some ride rs with less t han Da ve Evans ' skill, b UI a greater than average desire to win , attem pted to bull t h eir way th rough the bott lene cks . This res ulted in several fi gh ts, Immedi atel y af te r Little lIubie t he re was a check at whic h everyone, except po ssi bly a few o f t he very early nu mbers. was lat e. Protests we re a certain ty before the even t was eve n finish ed . J ust why suc h an obvious bo tt lenec k was pu t in the course rem ai ns a mys tery. Af ter the run, in the • Do u b le Cro ss er 's p its. there \ V'd S n o o ne who cared to take respons ib lity fo r any of the crit ica l decisions, T he cl ub ho nc hos were "ou t on th e cou rse ch ecking t he mi leages," 1 d on 't blame th em . There: wer e so me rat he r angry gu ys ru n ning aro und , But there were also qu it e a few who ac tu ally enj oyed Little Il u b «: o r at leas t d idn 't find it objectionab le . Wit h th e protests, the winners won't be a n nou nced for a wh ile . T he re were seve ra l qui te lo w scores, Je rry Hoffe r, Mike Hannon, Mi ke S t erli n g , and Dave Evans all have less t ha n seven po in ts. J us t h ow man y poi nts each has will de pend on how m an y checks a re disallo wed. When I got to the check at the bottom of Little Il ubi e the checker asked for my card . 1 told h im that I wasn 't co m p e t in g. just c hec kin g out the course for Cycle N ews. "W ell, be su re yo u do n ' t wri te an yth ing good a bo u t us," he said bitterly, "Nobody else has h ad any t hing good to say abou t us." It 's not quite t rue , but t he n he said it, not m e . Me, I'd par aph rase t he T V co m m ercial . 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