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AFM North gets it together at Sears Point By Mush Emmons SONOMA, CAL., NOV. 17 Threatened with no race th e previous Wednesday at the San Francisco chapter AFM meeting, the members got their act together to find more than 75 hay-bales to situate around the track and secure enough turn marshalls to get the best coverage of the track all year. 350 Production was first off with a leader other than Bob Tigert in the firs t lap. He lasted through tum 10, got into the dirt, back onto the track and into a tank slapper, laid the bike down on the back straight, and slid a hundred yards lying on the top-side until it stopped. Bob, of course, took off like a jet with Jed Hargett not too far back and Randy Evans and Dennis Rogers closing ground. By the fifth lap Tigert was too far ahead to worry about, but .H arget t was having a furious dice with Rogers and Evans. The last lap saw Hargett pass Evans coming into the hairpin, try to out-brake him with near disastrous results and make up for it with his power to the finish. Well, it almost worked. Hargett fell ' shon less than a wheel 's length of second place at the flag. Half a lap th rough the heavyweigh t G.P. outing it was Mike Wenzel all the way on his 350cc water pumper with AMA Expert George Miller on his sourly handling TZ 700 b attling to stay ahead of Rudy Galindo on his 350. Dave Page and Guy Racuya had a ra ce-long figh t going on their Yamahas with Page getting the better. With Ed Unini 's Honda blown from the 150-miler at Ontario last weekend, the Open Production race here could easily have gone to Jim Lipanovich on his 500 Suzuki had it not been for his left muffler bidding adieu on the third lap and David Garoutte, 250cc Production class points leader, pressing hard on his heels. This was Dave's first ride on a very quick Honda 500. Marty Siegal was the first 750 on a Kawasaki up there with Lipanovich and Garoutte. Then Paul Vogel on Mike Simning's 75 0 Kawasaki, Greg Goodman on his 500 Kawasaki and Robert Buck on a 650 Yamaha followed. Lip anovich and Garoutte ex ch an ged th e lead seve ral times until Jim d ecided to quit saving his engine and gra b be d th e lead for th e ch eckered . The 250 GP race open ed with Sunday morning rid e veteran J ack Bak er nabbing first position in tum three fr om Frank Kukula an d fight ing to keep it from Bruce Taylor who got by Bak er on th e upgrade straightaway. Two laps later, Jack out-braked Taylor into tum seven and tried to pass on the outside , but Bruce got on the gas harder and fishtailed aw ay . Th e last lap saw Baker get by on the outside of turn eight, Taylor pass him back in the faster nine fiying down the b ack straight to the hairpin, Baker in ch pas t Taylor coming into the braking markers deeper and deeper. Well, Taylor didn't want to be out-braked into the last comer, so Jack and he kept going. Into the comer, 10 and behold , Bruce applied too much front brake and the front end washed out, sliding him past Baker, enabling Jack (who was a little deeper than he wanted) to give up his line and slow safely, cop a u-ey and hightail it to the finish . Frank Kukula finished just seconds down. Guy Racuya secured third from Erick Hasselfeldt and Mike Ross with a bad left hand injury placed fifth. Meanwhile, Taylor took off his helmet then decided he migh t as well finish, so started his bike and motored across the line for sixth . Phil Rocke got the jump at the gun in D-250cc Production, but it took just one lap for David Garoutte on his Ossa to dive under him in tum one to take the lead and stay there. Eric Ginn was third. _ on an im ma culate 250 Bu ltaco Metralla. Bob Tigert took 200 Production with his first ride on Don Unger's 200 Bridgestone and finished fourth overall. Kim Clark walked away with the 125cc Production race for his second win in as many attempts on his new Honda CB 125. Rhett and Doak Cotter were in full tucks with the throttles WFO on their Suzuki 125 Stingers, but Oark had those precious horses in there to increase his lead to 10 seconds by the third lap and stretching it. With Kim Oark and the Cotter twins in first, second and third it made a clean sweep for the Prodigy-prepared bikes. Virginia Aldrich came up to race for her second time astride her RD 125 Yamaha. She figured she would have a better time racing it than trying to throw her Bl\IW R-60-5 tourer through the corners here. She got fourth place and will definitely be a force to reckon with as she gets more lap time on her new bike. _ Results in Results Section. Crummett gets beaten (but not on the track.~ By H . R. Campbell ORLAND, CAL., NOV. 16 Manuel Crummett proved he wasn't as good a wrestler as he is a cycle jockey. The highlight o f the evening was when Crummett and Roy Dayton had a friendly freefor -all in the pit area to work off the pre race tensions. Dayton was in complete control as he pinned the current number four white plater with ease , which goes to prove th at the promoter is still king at any race event. Once the "Carson City Comet" was bac k on the small paved oval, though , it was a different story. Crummett was off to an early lead in the 360 Expert ranks and continued to pull his lead every lap. About halfway through the race, Steve Deitz (Bul) started to move on the Crummett/Bultaco combo and as th e checkers appeared, Deitz wa s less than a wheel from victory. Deitz, in an effort to stay on the '75 white plate list, has been campaign ing in the 250 Expert class on a borrowed 200 Bultaco, He promptly blew the co mpet itio n into the woodwork. Shane Scott (Yam) seemed as though he migh t get aro und Deitz a few times, but Deit z be gan to p ull fro m the pa ck and storm ed off to an easy win. Th ere has b een so m e d ispute as to wh eth er Ch ris Sau er is a No vice or not. Well , keep o n worrying, he is a N o vice! But there are a fe w Experts wh o wish th ey co uld skate aro und the ind oor surface as fast as he does. Sauer just seems to pla y gam es th e entire tim e he 's ou t there. lie won th e 125 Novi ce class with ease and a three-quarter lap lead on Jim Seigle , also on a Yamaha. Dave Koistencn (Yam ) jumped to th e lead in the 100 Novi ce class with Rick y Mc.\lorrow (Bul ) right o n his ta il. A rider that they wer e lapping fell in fro n t of Koistenen an d ca used him to go to th e outside just enough to let McMorrow by. Koisrenen pressured but never found the opening that he needed . Results in Results Section. . Allenlion Dealel'Sl If you'..e nol selling Cycle News, he..e's you.. chance 10 gel wilh il. 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