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Irwindale, Oct. 25
"I'm kinda glad I was sick th is
week instead o f in two weeks,"
was the way Jeff Vid ic summed
up his loss tonight in the 25 0cc
Pro Class at Irwindale Racewa y
before a bundled up crowd of
more than 2,000 fans . Vidi c, wh o
ha d won the past four outings
he re, came up second to Henry
Sau nders (Mai) in the next to last
t une-up nigh t before the big November
8 Championship.
It was a to ugh match in which San
Diego 's top District 38 rider Mike
Stearns (CZ) also showed in preparation
for the Cham pionship and grabbe d a
desperat ely fo ught third. Three riders
won a mo to each which gives you an
idea of how tigh t th e ac tio n was. To
mak e it even m ore interesting, Chuc k
Lu nde (Mon) to ok fourth o vera ll with
two seconds an d a sixth ! It was tight.
Even closer was the 125cc round in
which Dave Ero pkin (Hon) charged
home th e victor by o ne po in t o ver
Chu ck Bower (Ho n) . By racing tonight,
Mike Bell (Ho n) earned enough po in ts
to become th e 197 4 CMC Seas on Poin ts
Champion and with it will p ick up a
brand new van for nex t sea son along
with the No. 1 pla te.
Joe Johnston (Mai) agai n had t hose
breakdown woes in the 50 0cc Pros an d
despite winning th e final two races ,
ended up third overall o n points behind
Cur tis Lessel (Mai) and Dan Barnes
(CZ). Lessel's co nsis tency paid o ff for
the second week in a row as he failed to
take a single moro win .
Pre entries closed tonigh t for the
November 8 Championships, but entries
are still ava ilable at do uble en t ry price.
That m eans post entering Pros will h ave
to fo rk up $30 per class.
Results
M in i Ex : 1. D oug Nicol (H o n) ; 2 . M ike
J o h n s ( Yam ) : 3. Ke n M o rg an (Hon ) .
M in) Jr D lv I: 1. M i k e D ePh ill ips (H on) ; 2 .
Er ik C o rson li nd): 3. J ohn K oa gle (Ho n).
M in i J r D iy II : 1. Andy Guth (Hon ) ; 2 .
G eo ff B roo ks (Hon ) : 3. D ave M el OY (Bar).
100 Jr : 1. K e lly Ba r tlett (Hon) ; 2. K ev i n
Coy le (Yam ): 3. Br ian Si mm o n s ( HO d) .
125 Jr Div I : 1. Glen H amm ond (H o n ): 2 .
Greg Scroggins (Hon) ; 3 . Dan At en cio (Hon) .
125 J r D iy III : 1. M ike Sepulveda (H on) ; 2 .
Curt Jensen (DKW) ; 3 . Mike Haas (Va m ).
250 Jr Dlv I : 1. F lo y d Hass (Ma l) ; 2 . G ary
Bartlett (Han) ; 3. R iChard Morten sen (Kaw) .
250 J r Dlv II : 1. M arc Car twr igh t (Yam) ;
2. Dea n Jocic fCZ) ; 3 . Re x Roberts (Han ) .
500 Jr : 1. Ed M iller (Hus) ; 2. Ra nd y
Wilson (CZ) ; 3. F r a n k Russe (Yam) .
125 I n t : 1. Steve Cross (Han) ; 2 . Ernest
Gonzal ez (Han) ; 3 . Mark Lawrence ( V am).
250 ln t : 1. Calvi n Uyeda ( Han) : 2 . St ev e
Potts (Yam ): 3 . Ric k Trammell (Ma i) .
500 I nt: 1. John Pfe iffer (e Z ) ; 2 . Duane
D ier (Ma l); 3 . Randy Kellogg (Vam ) .
125 Pro : 1. Dave E rop k ln (Han ) : 2 . Chuc k
Bower (Hon ) ; 3 . M ar k T yer (F MF).
250 Pro : 1. H e nry Saunders (Ma l ) ; 2. J ef f
V Idie (Ma l ); 3. M ike Stearns (CZ ). ,
500 Pro : 1. Cu r tis Lesser (Ma l ) ; 2 . D an
Barnes (CZ ) : 3 . J oe J ohnston (Mat).
Carlsbad, Oct. 27
It was break-down day for many of
the top CMC pro m otocrossers at
Carlsbad Raceway . In fac t, in th e first
ro und of races, the top two ca me up
wit h some sort of reason to drop out in
the 125,250 an d 500 classes!
Cap ital izing the b est was Gaylo n
Mosier , wh o is now riding o ut of
Wheelsm ith Engineering o n a Maico in
the 25 0cc Pro clas s. Two weeks ago
here , ' Billy Payne and Rich Gra fto n put
on a show to end all shows in th is clas s
and in the first race the Maico and
Yamaha speedsters were a t it aga in ,
swapping th e lea d bac k an d fo rt h .
Suddenl y , on a switch-bac k dri ve ,
Grafton cu t things a b it to o th in as he
smashed into Payn e's rear tire an d wen t
sprawl ing. Altho ugh he retired fro m th e
race on th e sp ot and stu ck arou nd to
w atch th e second 250 , he st ill
aggravated an old shoulde r injury. He
planned to head to th e hosp it al to get it
x-rayed ,
In th e mean tim e, Payne ma naged to
keep uprigh t , b ut the collision had
ta ken its toll in the form o f a flat rear.
With in a minute he too was pullin g out
of th e even l.
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The wi nningest. Mike Bell is CMC' s new Nu mero Un o on seas on points .
and went o n to swe ep both m o tos.J e ff
Vidic [Ma i}, wh o spe n t much of last
wee k ill with the flu, managed to end up
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Jim Wilson (CZ) an d Ron Blanton
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Wilson th e secon d in tigh t fash ion ,
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Since he won the final, Wil~on, desp it e
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Newly cro wn ed CMC Cha m pi o n
Mike Bell (Hon) , ro de to vic tory in t he
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dr opp ed o ut. Urban , in seco nd, was the
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bro ke o ff, a nd a lap later Cro ft reti red
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