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Local hotline cont'd. Gaylord Mills and Carl Kriesant home to ge t a 250 top end, and the bike was assembled m o m en ts before the st art of the race he won. So excited was he by winning so narrowly thai he missed th e start of the next race h e was pl anning to ride , Open GP . Camber Comp an y, mak ers o f fiberglass , p ut up $20 for th e winner of the Cafe cl ass, which was blown off by very experienced Lance Weil on a Laverda, Because of his road racing b ackg round on more t h an one conti nent, Wei l m a d e special arrangements to not be scored in the rac e. He was just out testing prior to the AFM six h ou r race nex t weekend. J o h n Small (Han) got the mo ney, a nd for mer Cycle News Central Associate Edi tor Bob Dickey b rought a stock-engined, Camber fa ired RD350 across the line 11 th of 29 finishers. Killer DKW wo n it s 14th straight 125 Product ion race. Chuck Price rode his Kawasaki 400 triple to th e track, raced Cafe class, removed the fairing, and took third in 500 Pro d uct io n . Then he put the fairin g back on his bike , and was last seen pulling o u t of a gas station onto t he Santa Ana Freeway . • Results in Results Sect ion. CRC Gringo Enduro By Larry Langley CALIFORNIA CITY, CAL., APR. 13 CRC 's Grin go Enduro started o ff pleasan tl y enough . The tame first loop wound through the rolling hills and finished in the flat terrain just East of the pit area at Park C. There wasn't much to write home about on the first loop (which is the way it's supposed to be at a family type enduro) but rea ms of paper could be consumed about t he second. Interesting? You bet? Challenging? And then so me . Difficult ? Unfortunately yes. Sigh . . . The res u lts speak for themselves. The top five were all Open A class riders. It was th at type of course. The A riders really d ug it. The B riders th ough t it was very challe n gin g. The others, well I can't print wh at they were saying. There is a fin e line in m aking a family endur o inter esting and ch allen gin g without being too hard. Jerry McNeal laid out wh at I thought was an outstanding District 37 enduro loop but frankly it was too tough for a lot of th e riders. Some uphill ridges developed in t o some bad bottlenecks on the lat er nu mbers. To cap thing s off was a downhill of genuine abso lu t e pucker power. Mo re t han one rider looked ove r the edge an d muttered " 1 ain't riding down THAT!" and rode off looking fo r ca mp. The brave took some deep breaths, closed their eyes, p lunged over the ed ge and tr ied to -inch th eir way d ow n . Ther e were some rather spectacular crashes, but mo st were just dump-it-over and slide-down type. One poor soul t ho ught he'd just rid e it down and ru n it out when he fo u nd himself heading for some rocks. He hit the fro nt brake a nd promptly did o ne o f the most ferocious looking cras hes I h ave ever wi tnessed. CRC should have put in a hard way /easy way there. Many riders who just ride fa m ily enduros have never experienced that severe of a downhill. It doesn't help to have friends tell them th at it 's a ty p ical District 3 7 type h ill. It was hairy in any type of enduro . The loop was super fas t - 2 1 and 24 MPH all the way . It was hump time with very litt l e timek eeping . One rid er c o m m en te d &I] sure wasted m y time making up a ro ute chart for t he second loop " , _ A lack of che c ks d idn 't help m atters any. CRC, being a promo ter, has a problem in th at they have to hire all their help. It's a problem getting these pe; haven't seen before. Three chec k cre ws didn't m ake it to their checks. CRC had some real n ice finisher pins to try and placate t he finishers. There were a n aw ful lot of riders c om ing in way late. They wer e just happy to ~ fin ish. Larry Twait of th e Bar Benders M/C won first overall unofficially , riding his new Bulta co Frontera. He seems to lik e it. Larry lost just six seconds at the tiebreaker. Not too sh abby. If you were unhappy with the to ugh ness of the course don 't despair. CRC will tame it down fo r th e next one. They went a little overboard but a trophy in th is o ne wil l m ean so mething. Yo u very definitely earned it. • Unofficial Results 1. Larry T wa lt :0 6 (O pen A ) 2 . Tom Gutzfird : 10 (O pen A over 35) 3. Walt Ta bor :2 2 (O pen A) 4. R.H . Stenburg 1 :1 1 (Open A ) S. Tony Martin 1 :15 ( Op e n A ) 6. Jay Dom browsky 1 :19 (O pe n C ) 7 . Jay R ob e rts 1 :22 (25 0 B l 8 . Bill P h illi p s 2: 0 0 (Open ~) 9. Larry Langley 2 :01 (o pen AI 10. Sam Lyman 2:10 (250 AI . ONE LOOPERS: 1. Brian Foss. 2. Karen Snyder. Riders welcome rainless weather By Andy Gangewar ELS INORE, CALIF., MARCH 29 In the Mini Beginner class, Jeff Pru ett , 14 from Buena Park won all three motos giving him the first place trophy and the new ranking o f Novice . John Carter cam e up with the second pl ace leavin g th e number three spot to Brian Miller. Our not-t oo-frequent 175 · 200 class proved to be easy pi ckings for Richie Volk up from San Diego. Richie, th e only Ex pert o f the class was positioned on the jump behind the Beginners, zip pe d by t he others taking three win! a n d t h e first pl ace trophy. Jason Herrold took the second place honor! on his Kawasaki with Chris Comb, bringing in the third. The 500 Open Am ateur /Expert class was a super rough one. The Am at eur, st arted out in fr on t of the Experts with a first pl ac e trophy being given in ea ch class. In the second m oto , Rod Sexton an Expert, and Gery Pietrusy kiewiez an Amateur, had a co ming together right off the line. Gary 's bike was bent up but he cam e out in go od shape, which is more than I ca n say fo r Rod. He fractured his thu mb and pulled so me ligaments in his arm. Keith Moss, an Expert from Oceanside, took the overall win with two firsts and a second and AI Glover on a Yamaha took sec o nd. The first place Amateur -tro p h y went to Floyd Petton from Poway by taking two sec,:>nds and a first. Kerry Standifer,