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By Andy Hayt Luke Messer (Mai) led the first lap of the 500 Pro class with Rex Staten (Mai) and Doug Shennan (Mai) following close behind. On lap three Staten passed Messer, opened up a huge lead and led to th e finish witho ut any trouble. Doug Shennan slippe d past Messer fo r second place and Messer ca me in third. A t the start of t he sec o nd 500 mo to it was Messer agai n, foll owed by Bill Rub ly (Mai), She nnan, and St aten. Rub ly moved into first place and alm ost held o ff har d charging Do ug Shennan for the win . Billy Clemen t s (Hus) got third and Way ne Bo yer (CZ) took fo urt h. Ti m Lunde ( FM F) had a fantastic start in the first 125 Pro mo to , and led the pa ck for several laps before his bi ke stop ped running. Dave Williams (Hon ) took ove r from th ere an d rode o n to a very impressive win with Danny La Porte pulling down a close sec o nd. Marty Moates (Ho n) took th ird afte r ba tt ling h is way up th rough the pack from 13th place . Tony Wanket (Ho n) led Warren Ried (Ho n) , La Porte an d Williams in the second 12 5 Pro moto. Wan ket was t hen zappe d by La Porte and Williams. Williams tried to grab firs t pl ace fro m La Porte, but Danny did so me fine blocking and grabbed his first win of the ve ar, . The su rp rise o verall win ne r in the 250 Pro class was Robert Hannah (H us ). Hannah finished th ird in t he firs t moto an d sec ond in th e fin al m oto . Davey Carlson (Mai) le d bo th the 250 Pro motos. He wo n t he first moto and fini shed a fifth in the second with Rex Staten taking th e win . Result s in Results Sect ion . Coyote Derby: Tune.your bod with brandy By Ron Schneiders FOU R CORNERS, CAL , MA RCH 2 The Chap arrals M.C. is kn own fo r several things. For on e thi ng they are the clu b whose nam e is never spelled th e same way twi ce in a row. Those who follow District ac tivities know that a good many of the top end uro riders in th e District belong to th e Chaparrals, including such as J ay Tullis, earl Price, and Mike Adams. Riders who have been aro un d for a fe w years recall th at th e Chap arrals were th e first club to require silencers, an d to emp has ize the requirement , they called their end uro "The Quiet One." Two years later when all th e clu bs were requiring silencers, th e name was no lo nger appropriate, so it was changed to the " Coy o te Derby," which n o t o nly has a nice dese rty ring to it, but also calls up a few memories for so me o f the riders who have been around more than a few yea rs. Altho ugh a bit before m y time, I st ill hear tales o f ';he Cactus Derb y , a 12-hour enduro whi ch started at midnight! The Co yote Derby is probably n o t much easier th an th e Cactus Derby, b ut at leas t it 's run during dayli gh t ho urs. And since the Dist rict is trying to encourage new rid ers to ride their even ts, th e Chap arrals made special provisions fo r begi n ning riders. They starte d at eight, a half-h o ur before th e A and B riders, on a co urse which would become the second loop of the main co urse la ter in the day, with a few modifica tion s. They also ran slo wer avera ges, generally about six mph slower. Want to know h ow t o tell a C rid er ? They're the on es wh o don 't kn ow enough yet to put their names on their time cards. For real. The top four C ri de rs were 13 0 , 13 C, 3A, an d 3C, none o f whom put th eir names on their ti me cards. Congratulations , Number 130! In fifth place was 80, Fran k Pollard, who lost five poin ts, but since he knew enough t o sign his card, the club suspects he m ay be a B rider in disguise. The first loop of the m ain course ran in a elockwise direction, an d stayed primarily in a little co rri d o r bounded by Hoffman Ro ad on the south, the Cuddeback Gunnery range on the we st and the Naval Weapons Range on the east. Tough sp eed averages and difficult (b ut n ot impossible) terrain sorted out th e A an d B riders early in th e day. Near the en d of the loop was a m oderately steep, loose hill requiring so me off-camber work. Most of th e t op ri ders fle w up the hill , concentrating in tensely. Alm ost everyone was late, the o nly n otable exceptions being Punk Wilson who was on time and motocrosser Mike Hannon running an .incredi ble two minutes early. For many of the not-so-good riders, the h ill was the culmin atin g disaster. One fellow t h at I watch ed fell over five times while going a t o tal distance o f less than 20 fee t. Finally he went back down to the bottom and tried it again . And again. And again. On th e fourth try he made it. Another fellow fell a co uple ti mes and final ly wound up with th e bike on top o f him pinned like a bug. When he didn't move fo r a few seconds I asked if h e wanted some help. No , he jus t wanted to res t. Even tually he crawle d out from under , to o k an o th er sh ot and mad e it. Th e average o n th e first loo p followed th e eastern fash ion, a straigh t 24 miles per hour. Had loop two be en as quick and tough th ere would have be en a lot less fini sh ers , but loop two was set up with t he C riders in m ind. There were a few difficult spots (the C riders were ro uted aroun d th em) but in general it was a more moderate co urse that started in an easterly direction, worked its way around Fremont Peak, then he aded south to swi ng ar o und Harper Pea k. Even tually it sw ung north again up to Hoffman Ro ad , cr ossed the dry lake going we st, an d only ab ou t five miles from th e finish. detoured through a little canyon wher e th e last check was hidden . Lots o f rid ers burned this o ne. The total co urse length was 83 mil es. Altho ugh everyone agreed that the co urse was extrao rdi narily good, as might have been ex pected co nsi derin g the talent available for layout, th e were some pretty hard co mmen ts concerning the te chnical aspects of the run. It seemed to some ride rs that everything was fouled up. The C rid ers got an incorrect sch ed ule in the m ail and had to make up their scro lls at the run from a co rrec ted schedule which th ey received at sign-up. There were act ually p roblems with five chec ks. On one check the flip cards~ were st arted 10 m in u tes early, an d at two checks (I an d K) the cards wer~ ' started one minute early. All o f these mistakes were eas ily adju st ed , b ut , unders tan da bly , ca used some confu sion. The cumulative effect was wo rse than ' any o f the individ ual problems. Th e worst probl em was Chec k 'T' which' was offi cially pro te sted and found to be .2 mil es off. This chec k was thrown o ut. Check "A" was also p rotested, was fo und to be spot on, an d th e protest was disal lowed. Th e op in io ns o f the Expe rt rid ers seem ed pretty much in' Al th o ugh by normal agree ment : standards it was a good run, they. certainly expected closer atten tion to de tail and greater precision from their expert colleagues in the Chaparrals, The overall winner of the event was , John Townsend who discovered that the ,