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Bones rings Bell Curnutt By John Bethea IRWINDALE, CAL., NOV. 15 Shocks In the next-to-last meeting of the year at Irwindale Raceway, 203 riders pr oduced ano ther exciting program whi ch saw regulars again coming o ut on top o f th e pro card. David "B on es" Tayl or o f nearby El Monte, apparen tly the track favorite to judge by the cheers from the stands, pounded out a clean-sweep victory in his 12 5 pro motos, using outstanding star ts as his prime battle plan. There were 14 others in the race, most of whom had won at least once in the past, so h is sweep was we ll earned. Second went to Mark Ty er (FMF) with a co nsisten t sh o wing of 3·3 -2 while two seconds were Mike Bell's ne utralized by a th ird mo to sixth , dropping h im to third overall. For t he sixth time in th e p ast eight weeks, J eff Vidic (Mai) scrambled to the 250cc Pro victory circle, b ut thi s time he was o ne position short of a sweep . In the middle moto, Will Harp er (CZ) got the be tter dr ive an d held it for the win , but it o nly brought him up as far as th ird ove rall with Bob Messer (Mai) taking second in his first ride here sin ce returning from Florida. Where Bob failed , brother Luke Messer (Mai) suc ceeded, which is no surprise. What did asto un d some of the fans was that Luke won only one race all night and that when it counted the most - the final. Two seco nds had Luke tied going in with Gene Martin (Mai ), but his fifth dropped him to third overall when Bill Rubly (CZ ) came on stro ng with a second for the runnerup spot. To correct an y mis information, there will be Pro classes th is Friday night in the season finale at Irwindale in addition to the J unior a nd Intermediate headlin e billing. T he regular 200% payback will be in effect. • Results M IN I EX: 1. La nce Moo re w o o d (Yam) 2. Doug N i col (Hon) 3. B i ll Fancher ( MSC) MI N I JR D I V I : 1. Larry DeSo t o (Ho n) 2 . And y Gu th (Hon ) 3. Kent A p la n alp (Ho n) MINI J R D I V II: 1. Sc o tt Phillips (H on) 2 . De an H aag (Hon ) 3. Bob Ott (Yam) 1 0 0 J R : 1. Scott Stringer (Su z) 2. B r ia n Si mmon s (H od ) 3 . Steve H enso n (H od ) 12 5 J R D IV I : 1. M o rris M en a (H o n ) 2. Joh n F err is ( Y am) 3. R ic k Flore {H Onj 125 JR D I V I I : 1. Tom Or ti z ( Kaw 2 . B ob Toli ve r (H o n ) 3 . F rank Pil at o (Hon) 2 5 0 JR D I V I: 1. Mar k Jac o bse n ( Ya m ) 2. Rich ar d M ort en se n (Kaw) 3 . D e n n is B r own (Va m) 25 0 J R DIV II : 1. Mike Sepu l veda (H o n ) 2. Jac k Robi nson ( H a n) 3 . F rank Leal (Han ) 5 0 0 JR : L Frank Serjeant (Han) 2 . E d Miller (H US) 125 INT D I V I : 1. Steve Cross (H on ) 2 . E u gen e Ga y o (Hon) 3. Ed die Clark (H a n) 125 INT DI V I I : Mark Lawrence ( Y am) 2. T om D e V o r e (Puc ) 3 . Jeff Sanchez (Ho n ) 250 INT : L Larry Lutz (Han) 2. Don W o o d (Hon) 3 . Joe Franco (Hon) 500 INT : L J ohn Pfeiffer (CZ) 2 . Trent McGee CCZ ) 3 . Cart er R ead ( Ma i) 125 PROS: L David T ay l or (Han) 2. Mark Tyer (FM F) 3. M ike Bell (Hon) 25 0 P R O S : 1. J eff vtctc (Ma l 2 . Bob Messer (Ma i) 3 . W ill Harper (CZ) 500 PROS : L Luke M esser (Ma i) 2 . Bill RUbly (C Z) 3 . G ene M art in (Mai ) Vidic victorious, Bell tolls on Sheren By John Bethea O RANGE, CAL., NOV. 17 Mike Bell, now [hat he has won the Number One plate for CMC next year, docs not seem to be lett ing up one bit. In fact he is probably even mo re determined th an ever 10 win in th e rough and tumbl e l 25cc Pro class. Today a t Saddleback Park he had two ou tsta nd ing sh owdowns a nd em erged th e vict or over Rick Sh eren and Bob Marino, all o n lI on das. And in th e first rnoto, Ron Turn er (Ho n) held th e spotlight. Turner made his first CMC appearance of the year a cro wd -p leas er in that initial ra ce. Coming from about eighth, he evcntuall y worked his way to second , had pro blem s which dropped 75992 Baseline Twentynine Palms C alifornia 92277 714-367-9179 Shocks for all applications including forward mount Standard Travel $49.50 Long Travel $54.50 Forward Mo unt add"$ l 0.00 Order Direct California residents add 6"10 6 month guarantee against seal leakage BeedVa)V8 com~1l NIeaM Pat . appl d . for. Fits all 14 mm. J\d justab le fo r pe rfo rma nce Completely d in free - easy to adjust reed valves SO y ou can tai lor the st opping power t o your mo to rcy cle . "" Be ll (2a) in a tight race at Saddleback . him back to fo urth, then came again to swap the lead twice with Finally, on the last lap, he underneath and scampered into lead. ba ck Bell. cut the Back came Bell to mo un t one final challe nge and in th e last t um , Turn er went wide as Bell squared o ff and the two sped past the line side-b y-side. Turner, ho wever, had a wheel ahead for th e victory. Sheren, who had led for the first seven or so laps , took th ird . Turner, h owever, had p roble ms at th e start of the final and had worked to tenth place on lap three when his bike finall y gave out and he watched the res t of th e event from trackside. And wh at a rac e . . . It loo ked dull a t first with Bell in the lead and Sheren slowly slipping back in second. Four seco nd s separated the duo with fou r lap s to go wh en Bell 's rear shoc k beg an to sour. Suddenly Jeff Vid ic wo n ye t an other 250 Pro go . $ 19.95 ' . co mplete G.E. Supply Co. Box 104, Borillg. OregOIl 97009 Sheren was closing and when the last lap flag came out, there was no more than 15 feet of ground between them. Bell normally picks and h olds delicate lin es , even in so me rough stuff, b ut the shock was bouncing the bike all about the tr ack. This in tu m made it slightly mo re difficult for Sheren to fin d a place to pass . So whcn they rounded the final co rn er, Bell re mained a bike1ength ahead for the narrow overall victory . Ray Topham and Jeff Vidic traded 250cc Pro moto wins, but it was Topham's poor start in the sec o nd which cost him the overall. He was forc ed to spend more time th an he wanted to gett ing by several riders and o nce h e did get into a co n tend ing third place , closing in on both Vidic and Messer , tim e had run out. Of th e trio on Maicos, Messer was th e o n ly one out of co n te n tion as he endoed in the first round and eventually fini shed 18th. Bo b 's bro th er , Luke (Mai) , dominated the 500cc Pros, winning both and in the process scored an impressive showing against Billy Clements (Hu s), whose two seconds best ed Gene Martin 's two thirds on his Maico, This is the final CMC ap pearance at • SaddJeback until Dec. IS . Results MINIS : 1 . Too Pe terson (Hon) 2. Mike Muss on (Hon) 3 . Gary Tomlin (H an) 100 JR : L Kent B e rn st e i n (Suz) 2. B ob Win ters (Yam ) 3 . Gene H owa rd (Yam) 125 JR D IV I : L Je f frey V o ss (Han) 2 . Neal Potter (Hon) 3 . Barry Dee I Hon) 125 J R Di V II : 1. Jeff WI so n (Hon) 2. Ronn ie R lnde n (Hon) 3 . Per r y Ba c ino (Ho n) 25 0 JR D IV I: 1. Stev e R h ya n ( M a l ) 2. Bob W i nters (Yam) 3. Greg B eb ec k (Ya m) 2 5 0 JR D IV II : L Mark Ja co b sen (Yam) 2 . Den ni s Brown (Yam ) 3 . Greg T inc he r (Ma i ) 500 J R : 1. George V a rn er (CZ ) 2. Mark Ki efer (Mai) 3 . Ken Fuelner ( M a i ) 1 2 5 I N T DIV I: L Tony wanee r (Hon) 2. Rob Z amo ra (Hon) 3 . B ob Seki (Hon ) 125 INT DIV II : L Arden Hadley (Hon) 2. Je ff T omlin (Hon) 3 . Kevin Craw ford (Hon) 250 INT : L M ike McC l ung (Yam) 2. Paul V og el sa ng (CZ) 3. Tom Burgess (Yam) 5 0 0 INT : L D ave Doss (H us) 2 . Mark Popel (HuS) 3 . Dave Nuding (Yam) 1 25 PROS : 1. M ike B ell (H On) 2 . Rick Sh eren (Hon) 3 . Bob Marino (Hon) 2 5 0 PROS : 1. Jeff V id i c (Ma i) 2. Ray Topham (Mai) 3. 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