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Editor Lane Campbell
Washougal wraps
it up for winter
By Jan Newman
WASHOUGAL, WASH., OCT. 13
This last race of the '74 season
was billed as a ud race . Normally
that's all you could expect in
these parts in the middle of
October, but Indian Summer is
still hanging in there strong. The
track seemed to be watered a little
heavier than usual but nobody can
outdo Mother Nature. Practice was
sloppy but the track soon came around
to being just plain neat.
In the first 125 Pro race, Randy
Limbec k was off the line first but
crashed in the first lap, winding up on
the other end of the pack. Ric
Bur kin shaw th en led the Honda parade
followed by Joh n Wilson, Kevin Jansen,
Chet Davis and Mitch Simmons. Davis
and Sim mons wo r ked up to battle it out
for second wit h t he po sit io ns exchanged
at least hal f a dozen times before
Simmons took command and advanced
on Burkinshaw. T hen Burkinshaw and
Simmons p layed a rerun of the
Davis-Simm ons battle. They came into
the final comer with Burkinshaw just a
hair ahead. Simmons made a last
despe rate lunge for the lead and slid out
just 20 feet short of the flag . Before he
could get across, Davis passed to nab the
second he'd fought so hard for.
Limb ec k came through the troops to
finis h fourth.
Davis' tranny went sour and he was
unable to come to the line fo r the
second moto. This time Wilson got the
hole shot and Simmons was second.
and
Limbeck
both
Burkinshaw
scra tc he d back in the pack b ut by the
ti me Simmons got settled in the lead
th ey were up to second and third.
Limbeck wen t ' by Burkinshaw and
began th e advance on Simmo ns, This
time it was Limbec k ta king the w in and
second overall. Burk ins haw go t th e big
mon ey wi th one-th ree finis hes.
Larry Nibler almost p ulled a real
up set in the Open Pro s. He d us ted off
his ol d CZ, pu t on some Montesa forks
and Bilstein shocks to wi nd up with a
bike that brought a gleam to h is eye and
a first mo to win. Casey Vail (Mai)
pushed him hard early in the race but
retired with a blown h ead gasket. Bob
Rush (Bul) gained the lead for a while
with Nibler and Butch Waymire (Yarn]
hounding him. At the one lap nag the
three were almost side by side. In the
last lap Rush let off a little and both
:'oIibler, and Waymire got by. Nibler again
led in the second moto but a nat tire
dropped him to a seventh finish. Rush
took over again and held on to win with
Waymire second.
There was also a winner-take-all
match race for $25." First moto win ne rs
of each Pro class were stagger-started to
run two laps backwards. Burkinshaw ,
Sun and Nibler par t icip ated . Sun got the
money but everyone got so me thrills especially o n the up hill-turned-downhill
jump.
A keg for the riders at the end of the
race dried up an d disappeared just as
fast as it could be poured as people
star te d looking forward to nex t sp ring 's
ope ning.
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Results in Results Section.
Marathon madness
By W. H. Spence r
FREMONT, CAL., OCT. 13
Gary Vanderpool made two long,
un ha ppy pit stops in the Open
part of Marathon Mad ness but still
managed an overall win rid ing all
by his lonesome. Van derpool
opened up a good lead on the first
lap , getting by Billy Risner on the
drop off for the MX section and
th e younger Risner brother dro pp ed
out. Jo hn Ogilvie then took the second .
spot with Wayne Mooneyha m and J oh n
Mason close in tow.
Vanderpool lapped th e field and it
looked like a coast h o m e job, b ut as
usual when you ge t co mplacen t , th e
bottom dr ops o ut an d it did o n lap 20 .
.Husky was all of a sudden havin g
igru non problems with a case of th e
blats, A new p lug cured the problem bu t
the o ne lap plus was go ne and Gary
Fedderson took the lead fo r one lap.
The stop made Vanderpool unhappy so
he went faster.
On lap 39 Gary once again stopped,
this time with a kink in the throttle
cable. It was only a few seconds for th is
stop as some bending and pushing got it
working nearly right. The time was
closing down and the futile exercises
left Vanderpool just enough to keep the
lead with no frivolities. Your teams
finished on the same lap.
Indoor pro champ Mike Yarn teamed
with cousin Dale LeMay for second over
Malley/Davis with Feddersen riding by
himself for fourth. Ogilvie rode with
Terry Gough, a Virginia City GP winner
and Wilseyville trophy winner last year,
but th ey also got some help fro m
hillcl im ber Bill Landsborough and were
disallowed from the fifth giving the last
spot to J im m ie Schmidt and hi s
Greeves.
J oh n Silva diced with Wayne Morrill
for the firs t half of th e 250 ' ru n but
broke ano ther front hub on th e Penton ,
leaving Mo rr ill on th e sidel ines wh ile the
Silva Bultaco p ulled away o ver Dave
Rose n q u ist. Ru nning fourth with
ano th er consiste nt effort was the
Vicker y team and they wound up with
the second Novice tro phy. with Bi ll
Keys and Dan Castelhano (Pen) fifth
overall after a second lap crash th at left
them over a lap down.
In the 125 class it was no contest for
the Rosenqu ist /Tuller Elsinore with Jim
Carlisle just taking second from Troy
Durham . Du rham rode by hi msel f. as
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