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Cycle News 1974 10 22

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Increase sales this week! Let Cycle News West help move your produ cts and get you r .rnessaqe to over 50,0 00 pot ent ial customers each week. nny Nutter tops ualifiers Call or wr ite today for i nformation o n ..Adver ti sing That Works ." y Dennis Greene Cycle News osta Mesa, California riday, October 11, 1974 P.O. Box 498 Long Beach, CA 908 0 1 'he fo urth and fina l ·ro und of [uali fy ing was run at Costa Mesa or the upcoming National Speed ay title event to be h eld on Nov. . For many of the top ranking idcrs it was a d isappointi ng night. 'his was the last ch anc e to earn oints an d a spot in the finals, and tl ..0 c -o u 213-636-8844 213-427-7433 Two top qualifiers for the November 1 U.S. Speedway Championships: Rick Woods, fourth qualifier and Sonny Nutter. who bagged a reco rd 30 points in the qualifying rounds to go in as the statistical favorite. 5 of th e t op riders missed the 17 poin t ut off. There were four: q ualifying rounds; wo with a possibl e nine po ints in whic h J 3 2 top riders co m p ete d, and two ven ts wi th a possible 15 point sc ore i th o nly 16 rid ers goi ng. A perfect Bruce Penhall gets stuffed between larry Moon and Big Mike Konle as h e was pushing Konle at Irw indale. alph Castor sticks it under to spoil entura Division Two Champ Wayne ewis' bid to take the Costa Mesa tie as well. w Z w w c: 250~400 o til Z Z w a >- MOTO-X MACHINES III til =__= core in th ree events would have b ee n 33 oints but n o one d id that well. Sonny utter , however, took th e top spo t wi th re cord score of 30 points in h is t hree ace m eets. Dan Bec ker and Steve Bast ied for seco nd with 27 p oin ts each ree- ti me Cham p Rick Woods was ourth at 26 po ints, Scott Sivadge was ifth a t 25 and Jeff Sexton tied wi th ike Bast fo r sixth at 24 poi nts. The est of the cham pio nsh ip field rounded iut as - a a SALES·SERVICE-PARTS I- 0. I Horizons Unlimited 22726 Vent ur a Blvd . Woodland Hills, CA 9 1364 2 13 -340-21 9 1 Four horsemen. Bill Cody . Bruce Penhall, T roy McKee. and y o u'll have to guess who's h iding behind Cody . ' follows: 8th - Larr y Shaw, 23 points 9th - Dubb Ferrell , 22 10 t h - Bill Gray , 22 I I th - Lar ry Moon , 2 I 12th - Mike Curoso, 20 13 th - Bill Cody, 19 14th - Steve Nutter , 19 15th - Mike Konle, 18 16 t h - Ed Williams & Alan Ch ris tian, 17 Nor th ern Califo rnia rider Alan h risti an tied at 17 pain ts with Ed illiams crea t ing a total of 17 rid ers fo r 16 ma n field . A ru n-off w ill be he ld etween Williams an d Christian to eterrnine who runs and who is the rser vc. Along with the 20 scr atc h ra ci ng vents this past Friday , Ra lph Castor o k the Division T wo tr ack Ch ampion l ip a t Costa Mesa. T he second d ivisio n iders rode four eve nts wit h the win ne rs nly go ing into th e main . Some fine rid ers fell short o f the ut o ff point for t he U.S. Sp eedway 'hampio ns hip and will be spe ctating in te gra ndstan d on Novem ber I . Top ider s suc h as Mark Ch erf, Dave Galvi n, es Chanky, Bill Meister. Troy McKee , rian Short, Dave Sim s and Ph il Moon ill just h ave to wa it until ne x t y e ar fo r ieir sp o t. rwindale, California hursday, October 10, 1974 T he ca paci ty cro wd got a look a t hat is buil d ing u p to be t he most xciting U.S . Speedway ch am p io nshi p ~ Anaheim ~~~~r~~ ~~rks Let's do itt 714 -772-3 0 8 0 740 N _A naheim Anaheim , CA SAMMY TANNER DIS TRIBUTING in recent hist ory. Two of the top seed ed riders , Sonny Nutter and Rick Woods, d n head-to-head fo r four lap s in the Scratch Main even t wi th th e win go in g to Wo ods. Top mone y in the Ha nd icap Main went t o Randy Mars h aft er a battle with Bob Schwar t z in th e five -lap , staggered nigh t racin g left at Irw indale , th e tra ck wiII play ho st to a speci al nigh t fo r Divisi on Two an d T hre e riders in additi on to th e regular Division One show . Th e policy at Irwindale th is y ea r sta r t ev en t. cro wds . Resul ts in th e Results Se ction . With o nly two nigh ts o f 111ursday has b e en to give t he fan a little m ore for his a d miss ion a nd i t has paid o ff with some o u ts ta n d ing r ac ing a nd lar ge • lUBRI-TECH 213-924·2111 . The B ike Shop 4418 E _Chapma n A ve" Orange, CA 92669 714 -532 -3634 27 .

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