Cycle News - Archive Issues - 1970's

Roberts leads Yanks (Continued from page 11 ) very last p eriod of p ractice in th e mo rn in g saw Jo h n Xew b o ld . new comer t o the Suz uki Wo rks line-up and the Brit ish tea m , c rash h is 750 and writ e it off. lie was unh urt . b ut it was t o o lat e t o r e p a i r the da mage and Charlie William s rep laced hi m , Aga in , th e racing was all America . at least as far as the first leg we nt. Dave Ald an a a nd his Suzu ki fou nd th e ne w short en ed t rack. reduced fro m 2.i m iles t o 1.6 m ile s, ver y m uch to hi s liking, and he led the field th ro ugh o n t he firs t lap , past Kni ck erbro o k , with Roberts , P a t Hen nen a nd Romero in dose co m pa ny . Aldana stayed o ut fro n t fo r a couple m o r e l ap s, with Roberts. Romero second and thi rd , a nd Stan Woo ds squee zing past Henn en to t ake fo urth pl ace. Roberts t ook over fro m A ldana o n the fourth lap and Ro m ero m o ved in to second p lace o n the same lap, And t hat's how t hey finis hed, th ough Ald an a did c a u s e so me ex cite me n t at Knick erb ro o k by o u tbrea k ing Romero o n one lap to move briefly in to second pl a c e , before o ve r d o i n g t hi ng s co mpletely on t he fo llowing lap , taking , to the gr ass and d ropp in g b ack to third place. Romer o too , had hi s m oments in this race. He slid off a t Lodge ea rlier in th e r a c e a n d re mo unted before losing seco nd pl ace . so great was t he lea d he and Robe rt s had opened on the res t. N ot so fort unate was ~ l ick G ran t. li e fe ll 0 ff on the petrol sp ilt when America n reserve Ra ndv Clee k took a tumble, and dropped 'fro m a crucial fo urth to a 100,,'l v th irteenth . Beh ind Roberts, Romero and Ald a na ca m e Stan Woods . Dave Potter and Ba r ry Ditchburn from Britain , all co mpleting the full race dista nce. Steve B a k e r . Don ' C a s t r o and S t ev e ~ lcLaughlin grabbed seventh, eig hth and ninth places t o give America a i 5 . 58 points scoreline in this race, a nd -Iift th eir lead t o 4 1 poin ts . ) T he second race w as cut t o 15 lap s th ough few peop le incl uding th e on co urse commentator and B.B.C. Radio reporters kn ew it! I t w as still ra in ing a nd st ill ver y, very un pleasa n t . b u t the co nd it io ns held 110 ter rors fo r Aldana and Rob erts who led P e r cy Tai t, Pa l Maho ney, Ro me ro, Henne n and Wo o d s o n t he first lap . Aldana slid o ff b efor e t he end of th e lap a nd slu mped t o th e tail en d o f the fiel d where Da ve Cr oxford o n the Nurton was once again limpin g ro u nd. It w as Ro b erts in co m ma nd fro m the n o n, until d rama t ica lly, on t he start of the eighth lap, he applied too much front b rak e go ing' in to Old Hall Comer a nd slid o ff. T he cheers from th e Grandstand were not so m uc h direct ed a t th e un luck" American but m ore a n exp ression of ~elic:f t hat he was afte r all, subject to error. Romero was then t he pacema ker but he ob liged b y performing a similar t rick, this time on the exi t from Old lI all C orn er , bu t unlike his first race gy mnastics, he wa s unable to co n t in ue. The fans co uld n ' t b el ieve it. Out in fro nt was Stan Woods and Pat ~Iah o ney. T he}' had almos t forgotte n that the re wer e Bri t ish riders in th e race !! and th ere: wer e so me deserved cheers fo r th e plucky wuods , rid ing w ith considerable pain . an d the co nsistent Mahoney . wh o em e rge d as Bri la in ' s lop scorer. Pat Henn en was thi rd ho me, Do n Castro fourth and Steve Ba ker fif t h , just to show th e Americans wer e still in the co n tes t. But Mick Gr an t , Dave Potter a nd Perc y T a it filled th e nex t th re e positio ns t o give Brit ain th eir on ly suc cess o f th e series . w in ning that race 66 p o in t s to 60 and turning w h at lo oked a t one stage as if it wo uld b e t otal annhiliation b v the Am erica ns, in t o so m eth ing m ore iike a th ra sh in g. For Am erca it is a good th in g. The lat e Cal Ra yb o rn a nd Kenny Roberts had proved in th e past th at wo rld class ride rs could be fo und in th e St at es. This John Pla yer Transatlantic Troph y Series wi n merely co nfirms it. . • Don Kudalskl swee~s rlando open class-.Wins on total Red ... . suspension. 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