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1974 INTERNATIONAL TRANS-AMA Motocross <..0 .... '" ~ ..0 E ~ :> o Z lenn (41 ) Billings (Yam 250) passes Brian Grasley (Yam 350 ) his way to seventh o verall in the attrit ion-thinned second heat . eg Pridmo re lap pe d eve ry o ne except cond-plac e Rossteusch er in the first 5 Mile Product io n heat, an d d idn't art the second heat due to lack f competit ion. John Weed (Laverda 750) is ahead of Bill Henry (Yamaha 35 0 ) after a lo ng battle in t he second heat. SUNDAY NOVEMBER 24 Livermore, California FE A TU RING!!! THE WORL D'S FINEST MOTO CROSS RIDERS BATT LI NG FOR TH E CHAMPIONSH IP ! this weekend ! ! ! TICKETS: 57.00 PER PERSON AVAILABLE AT THE GATE AT B AM C H ILDRE N 6 t hru 12 H a lf P r ie e DISCOUNT T ICKETS GOOD FOR $1.00 SA VIN GS AVAILA BLE AT A LL KA WASAKI DEA LERS O V E R N IG H T CA M PING - PL ENTY OF P A R K I N G A GR E A T S HO W R A I N OR S H I NE ! Du ckb o y " Stein (Ossa) earned the title f o verall Pit Sq uid Champ by winning oth the barrel roll and the pylon race. illie Hardi n dawdled his wa y to win e slow race aboard a Slowzuki 75 . ' Prior to the Pit Squid co n te sts, the eekend started off with 38-mile sprint" races . Th ese were "sprints" Iy com pared to th e races planned for nda y - 10 0 mi le GP and 150 m ile od uction races. Ed Uni ni (Hon) and Don Unge r (Bri) attled back an d forth for the 200 oductio n lead , swapp ing p laces several mes o n the last lap until Unini took a tter line (and the lead ) through turns 6-19. Unger made a desperate attempt I save the win en tering tum 19, which ded upside d o wn in the dirt 30 yard s o m the finish. Art Friedman was cond overall in the race (run mbined with 125 Production and 50 P), and fi rst 125 o n a Sa chs. Buddy Parriott (Kaw) be at h is son ik e (Kaw) in the Superstreet race aft er t Friedman's inc redible hole shot and f-lap lead vanished with part o f o ne f his H·2's pistons. Wally Karpynec (Yam) scored three rins during the long weekend, in cluding e 250 Pro d uctio n Sprint, th e 250 GP 00 Miler, and the 250 Production 150 Iiler, In the long Production race Reg ridmore (BMW 900 ) passed first Miles ossteuscher (BMW 900), who led for a w laps after Ed Unini 's Honda was rse powered back into fourth, then ike Parrio tt (Kaw 900), who had assed Rossteuscher , Pridmore ran away, h ile Wally Karp yn ec and his old uzu ki X-6 250 ba ttled for eighth with ennis R ogers (Ya m 35 0). Karpyn ec 's uzuki is fast , but Rogers' 350 was ster, so Wally d id his passing and olding off in th e tu rns, Watch ing him p ertly o u tb rake and cut insi de at t um x was a delight. lie finis hed fou rth in ie first 75-m ile h ea t. Before the end of the heat, Pridmore o uld lap everyone ex ce p t second place ossteuscher. Ed Unini's Honda broke, did Parrio tt's Kaw asa ki. Bill Hen ry had pro b lem s with a loose s line on the grid, and came around e first lap abou t a mi le behin d everyone else . Ridi ng his q uick Yamaha with great determ ina tio n , Hen ry sliced thro ugh the pac k like a killer whale thro ugh a herd of walrus, passing bikes both big and small without discrimination. The highest place Hen ry reached in this first heat was fourth , te m porarily ahead o f Karpynec and Rogers, behind only Pridmore , Rosst eusch er , James Beaco m (Kaw 900). and Tony Murphy (Laverda 750) . Th en more bike troubl es set in , an d Henry fin ished seve nth. Tony Murphy's mo unt was an interesti ng one. Th e Mot orcyclist editor was riding a Laverda SFC 750 , working through traffic and passing Beacom's 900 la te in the hea t to finish third o verall , and fir st 750 (wh ich didn't co un t for any th ing sin ce the 750s weren 't sco red separately) . After the first heat Bob Hansen, Laverda handler fo r' the West Coast, pro udly pointed out th at th e bike was comple t ely box stoc k, Brian Duran (Hon ) moved past both Shephard Reid (Suz ) and Mike Doyle (Ho n) to be th e first 5 0 0 to cross th e line in the first heat, looking pretty good for an A FM Regional Presiden t, When the second heat thundered o ff the line, Pridmore 's bike st ill sat in the pits ! Next to it , perched on the pit wall , was Pridmore, volun tarily st aying in because, in the words of a BMW mech anic, "There isn't any co mpeti tio n. Let Miles win it." Miles Rossteuscher did win it, this time with Beacom second and J ohn Weed, replacing Murph y on the Lave rda, third . Karp ynec and his little Suzuki we re four th, with Rogers aga in right behind. Bill Henry , having kept Weed at bay with his Yamaha 350 most of th e race , ret ired with a few la ps to go when an inc reasi ng ly poor ru nning engi ne forced him back in po sitio ns. So ended the firs t clear day at Ontario in recent m em o ry . AFM held a road race th at was fu n, and practically nobody ca me . That was due in part to A FM Nat io nal politics. Th ey d ecided this race, one of AFM's best, should no t pay po in ts . and the turnout went away with the points. What a shame. • Result s in Res ults Se ction. BE TH E R E! A machine for all reasons N im ble like a ca fe racer O nly weighs 400 Ibs. 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