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Perha ps the most im pressive non-Expert ride of th e day , in a th ree m o t o s w e e p , ca me f ro m 1 2 5 In termediate Bill Ou ellette, riding a TMI25 for Suzuki of Van Nuys. He 's • good enough t o go fo r cash. Payne 's overall win was n 't jeopardized by ei the r rider, ho wever, as b o th had D N F' d in th e fi rs t m o t o after enco un te ring mechanical pro b lems. Afte r Tim L unde's FMF Penda ex pire d in the fir st moto , Ray Lopez loped aw ay o n a CH In d . prepared Ho nda to a n easy win of both 125 Expert motos . Unofficially , Lopez also se t fast time of th e day as he buil t up leads o f a lap o r better. The Over th e Hill Ga ng, a loo sely associated group of about 3 0 over-SO mot ocr o ssers, ch o se to te rrorize Civil War on wheels at 395 the I n d i a n Dune s t rack t od ay. The wa rmshoes, who signed up as "Drip py Duane " (Yam ) and "Rotten Rick " (S uz ), m a n a ge d t o ov e rco me all oppo siti on in the Amate ur -Expert and Be ginner-Novice clas ses, res pec tively. The m on osh ock ed "Drip" had to come f r o m behind in the seco nd m ote , co un tering so me ins pired riding by earl y leader " Absu rd AI" Ol son , wh o st ill managed to finish first OTHG 500 Ex pert. 0.. The Salinas Wreck ing crew socke d it t o the locals again by w inning t he Sh op Part icipation Award fo r Matts Mufflers and domin ating t he 125 Novice class. Unholy matrimony. Mini bike weds Go-Kart with -uh-dastardly resulu. riding, Eagle DIS n is. he only t way to go:' R If libblin has been there. Rolf Tibblin, three-time World Champion and an old hand at Baja-type racing, knows the desert is no place to guess about your tires. That's why he was part of a Husqvarna team that worked closely in the field with Goodyear engineers to develop the Eagle DiS II - a desert tire built just for the kind of punishment this terrain can dish out. The DiS II has a special computerized tread pattern and tough buttressed lugs for positive traction. And rugged 6-ply construction to soak up the jars and slams of flat-out running. The Goodyear Eagle DiS II is the tire that took the Baja 1000 first time out. Rolf calls it- "The only tire I'd use or ' recommend for high-speed, off-road riding." Don't you settle for anything less. Eagle AfT for street. Eagle OfT for dirt track. Eagle MX for motocross. Eagle DiS for desert. Eagle R/T for on-/off-road. GOO /yEAR Eagle orr. Eagle «n. Eagle MX. Eagle DIS II. Eagle DIS . Eagle RIT - TM ', The GoodycarTirc & RUbber ComP: ny, Akron. Omo. I ;... ADELANTO, CAL., MA R. 16 ~'For high-speed,Baja-type ' .- By Phil Carpe nter ..! . . . l < It lo ok ed like a co nven ti o n o f IT and half- mi le ra cers by lo oking a t the adve rt ising o n the le at he rs and j ackets R en o. Tul are , Bakersfield, Merced. Ch ula Vista, Salinas, and other far away places wi th stran ge sounding nam es. The ac t io n pac ked 125 Amateur-Expert class wa s a two-man Yamaha duel between No rthe rn Cali fornia riders Rick Delgado an d Merced's man Duane Sn ell. In IT ac tion . De lgado grabbed the brass wi th hard-driving Snell second. The hal f-mile com pe t it io n was a battle with Snell ta king th e chec ke re d first . In Big Bo re action, San Die go's Earl Ro loff took the checke re d in both 5 0 0 Ex pert mains for Southern California wh ile Bakersfield 's Fra nk Adamo had tw o firs t place tro phies fo r Northe rn California in the Op en Expert class. The Op en Am ate urs we re dominated by S outhe rn Californ i a riders Mark Fitzgerald on the seven-eighth mi le IT and J im Ru ssell on the half-mile oval. It was a Civil War on wheels in the 25 0 Expert class as the North look the win on the half. mile with Me rced's man Bill Formby in co mmand and the IT falling to th e So u th with AI Glo ver m o un ted astride a Yamaha. The Open No vice classes were all southerners led by T riu m p h mo un ted Ted Sh are and the Mandella bro thers pushing fo r seco nd • an d thirds. Resul Is in Result Section. CRCMX By Rex William Reese SUNNYMEAD, CAL. , MAR. 9 When it rains, it pours. And when yo u mi x it all up with a lotta dirt, a snotty t rac k, and a few determined ra cers, you have a classi c mudocross. Su ch as it was the CRC played hos t to a group of dedicated, de te r m in ed , but insane riders who wanted to go on with the show despite all good co mmon se nse . Du ring practice, the word treacherous took o n a whole new meaning. Riders n o t on ly had to de al with traction the consist ency of whale snot, b ut also a q uic ksand hole th at should have been put on the Universal Mo viel and tour. Th e head boss m an took a lo o k at the picture before him, and instead of dis appointing riders and sadists alike, a vo te was take n on wheth er o r not everybody wanted to go on . T hey did, so every body an d every thi ng were put in to o ne 4 5 m inute rnoto . At the flag, eve rybo dy to ok off to an unce rt ain fat e that in time res ulted in riders slipping and flo p ping in the m ud, with so me giving up in total disgust. T he even t ual winner was Op en Novi c e Da v i d S t ep he ns (Bul) . He managed t o go fast, st ay cool and u p right a hea d of eve ry body else . Unbel ievab ly enough, 125 Novice Stan Wain (Ho n ) tagged right beh in d Dave fo r secon d OA. Th e res t o f th e pack slid in, t ired, hot and m uddy, no t so much win ner s but survivors of th e carnage they ha d b ee n th rough. The survival ra te was so th at everybody th at fin ished go t themselves a trop hy. An d they certainly deserved h. , Results .in Results Section. , • 31