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half-mile feature. Rainey had to come from the penalty line to do it because of jumping the stan. But by the second lap Rain ey and powerful Honda were long gone. The 500cc class on th e half-mile also ha d the fans jumping. Pat Guthrie of San Diego was up to do bat tle with th e Corona regul ars. Guthrie th en cam e on strong the sec ond an d third laps and on the fourth round went to the front. Terry Griner tried hard to regain th e lead but it was too late, and Guthrie captured his only win of the nigh t, Grin er return ed in the Open short track fc;jlture, which is his specialty. It will be quite interesting how Terry does when he starts competing in the pro fessional ranks. The same holds true for Steve Fortune of Anaheim, who easily captured the 250 Expert half-mile feature over a fine field of riders. Fortune, who rides for the San da k Racing Te am , co mes on like gangbusters o f late an d h is Yamaha twin is one of the fast est at Corona th is season. In the feature, Fortune defeated little Mike TIdwell an d Gri ner in an e xcellent race • on th e half-mile. Results in Resul ts Secti on. Half-mile and TT Steeplechase By Tom Blattler CORONA, CAL ., OCT. 30 After running second and third most of the time in the pas t months at Corona Raceway, Ontario's Eddie Lawson carne back in fine form last nigh t to capture three main events in the half-mile and T.T. steeplechase. Eddie rode hi. Yamaha YZ to victory in the 125 Expert class , as h e defeated Monterey Park's Gorie Kidd in both the half-mile and the T.T. m ain events. Lawson also rode a 400 Maico for the first time at Corona, and looked rather impressive in the Open Novice class taking the easy win . In T.T. steeplechase, top AMA 'pro fessional Novice Dan McWhorter , of Riverside, returned to Corona Rac eway, and made his presence known as . h e captured the 250 an d Op en Exper t T.T. main events. • Results in Results Section. Christmas g if t ideas from Cycle News Products ORDER THESE BOOKS DeSoto makes $$ By Stewa rt B. Sapicoff SADDLEBACK PARK, CAL ., NOV. 10 Sunday's 350 -ride r turnout affected th e AMC pro races to a cert ain degr ee. Picture if you can thirty 250 pros lined up at the starting gate, all of them havin g only on e thought in their mind, money ! Money can do som e strange things to people, and if you co uld have seen the looks on some of their faces then you would know what I'm talking about. The onl y word I can think of to describe their expressions ju st before the gate dro pp ed is "kill. When the gate fell there was a three man drag-climb up the starting hill betwee n Morris Malone (Mai), J ohn DeSoto (Oss), and Dave Carlson (Mai), all o f wh om were attem p ti ng to b e in th a t first sp o t by the time they reached th e firs t turn. As it turned o ut, the lucky fellow who succ eeded in do ing th is was Malo ne wh ile DeSoto was climbing right up his back tire and Carlson doing the same to the Flyin' Hawaiian. On lap four DeSoto managed to push by Malone for first and looked likely to keep it until on lap eight, while lapping a slower rider, John got into a bit of a tangle and Malone once again took the lead and held off DeSoto to the checkered flag while De.Sot o, with a busted sh ift lever tha t he had t o wo r k with his he el, fin ish ed second. The second moto Malone was ab le to hold the lead for only two laps and then lost it to DeSoto again. onl y th is time Morris was not goin g to get it bac k. John too k the first overall money fo r the da y wh ile Malone settled for th e second and Bob Stem (CZ) won the third with a 4 -3 points score for th e two races. Carlson bummed out in the second moto , fin ishing up with a tenth place for this race and a sixth for the overall. . • Resul ts in Resul ts Section. 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