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Von Peterson (CZ) was second
Overall, first Amateur.
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Mike Johnston (Pen) came through the pack to finish f irst 250.
Gordon Schmid comp resses the front end on his way to the overall win.
Schmid
wins DRA
Greasewood
Derby
By Dale Brown
CA LIFORN IA CITY. CA L.• MA R. 29
Go rd on Sc hmid , th e only gra nd .
fath er o n t he Cro w n Cv cle team ,
sco red his first DRA o"verall win
by taking the 100-mile Greasewood Derby t ripl e hare scramb les.
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Schmi d's teammate , Dale Owens, also
o n a 4 00 mo nosh ock er . to ok an early
lead at th e smo ke bomb , wit h Bill
Conroy (4 00 Yam ) right beh in d.
A lo t of t he to p talent didn 't eve n
make it to the bom b . Ben nv Pad illa was
roaring along in grea t shape un til he
he ar d a scattering of metal un dern eath
his gas tank. Tim Bowman (4 00 Yam ),
the: winne r tw o we eks ago . moved off
the trail to pa ss ano ther ride r in th e d ust
a nd centerpu nched a roc k, doing
handstands fo r 30 yards bef ore b ailing
o ff . Bry an Breker (250 Kaw ) also
cras hed, within sight of Bowman .
Conroy moved p ast Ow ens abou t two
m iles past th e b omb an d reall y moved
o ut fo r th e rest o f the 33-mile loop ,
co ming in to th e pi ts wit h a four-minute
lead ov er Schmid. Owens held th ird,
having been pass ed by Schmid when he
o versho t a turn. lI e was still first
Novice. An other Novice, Jim Art z (4 00
Yam ) was running fo urth, fo llo we d by
Kim McK ean (4 00 Hu s). Vo n Pet erson
(4 0 0 C Z) , w as next, ru n nin g first
Am ateur .
About hal fway ar o un d th e second
l o o p , Conroy dropped o ut with a
bro ken tr ansmission. Schmid took th e
lead a t th at point. Pet er son worked his
way up to second with McKean running
third. Owens was now in fou rth . T he
In va ders ' Tom Kelly (175 Yam) worked
his way up from 12th on th e first loop
to fifth on the second, running firs t
small-bore, second Amateur.
Schmid's lead was secure as he
finished th e third loop well ah ead of
Peterso n. It was o nly his second ride o n
the 400, so Schmid, 43 , lo o ks to have
quite a future on the thing. Peterson
nabbed first Am ateur for th e second
ra ce in a ro w, this tim e o n the
three-year-old b ig-bore. McKean , riding
his first ORA race, fin ished third,
second Open Expert.
Owens pitted on both loops but still
saw his fo urth OA an d first No vice
sta n di ng go down th e drain wh en he ran
out of gas onl y th ree miles from th e
finish . No nethele ss, he bu mme d som e
gas fr om a p assin g spe ctator and
fin ished third Open Novi ce . Kelly took
over fo urth and fini shed first small-bore.
Mik e J oh nsto n (Pen ) go t o ff to a bad
st ar t , estimat ing th at he was " about
150th to the bomb. " He the n worked
his way in to th e top 30 at th e end o f
th e first loop , eigh th o n th e second lo op
and fif th at th e finish. His lo ng chase
got h im first 250 Expert money o ut o f
the $5 00 purs e.
Dennis TIpton (Bul) was sixth , first
250 Amateu r. In seve n th was Don
Rotundo (Hus], in fo r second Open
Amate ur. Rotundo is also leading th e
Open class points chase and th is race
paid maximum poin ts.
Two weeks ago, we ski pped over Lee
Wilso n whe n he finish ed seco nd in the
0-2 00 Nov ice event. We apologize . This
tim e he did eve n better, finishing at
II t h o vera ll an d first No vice on his 175
lI usk y. Ro ger J ensen o f th e lI alf Fast
M.e. was secon d Novice, winning his
class o n a 250 Ho nda.
Paul Harris (25 0 Han ) was th e ove rall
Beginner winner, finishi ng ahead o f
Mike Dixon (25 0 Yam ) and Clyde
1I 0 st erm an ( 4 0 0 Y am) .
Bulta co- mo un ted Chris Felts was the
firs t sma ll-bo re Beginner across the line.
The 33· mile co ur se was pretty tigh t,
with a lot of uphiIJ-downhill sections.
Most of th e riders I talked to said th ey
rea lly lik ed it .
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Rem em ber, th e ORA's class for rid ers
o ver 40 will start a t the next ra ce , April
1 3 a t A d el ant o , an d t h e y 'll be
. accumulati ng po ints fo r a Num b er One
p late ne xt ye ar .
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Results in Results Sect ion.
Maywood
hare
scrambles
By Jim Stewart
L UCERNE, CAL..
~IAR.
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On a day when most people were
home co lo ring Easter eggs, some
350 plus riders sh owed up . As the
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