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Ken Roberts season 1/2 mile debut / Oval ~/i/..i ' -... Racing Fri, May 2, 8 PM , /~'~' Expert National Numb~s / ) AMAPros · ~· Also Jrs & Novs Ie III ;: t Pit Gate 5 :30 PM, Pract ice 6 P Qua lify in g 7 PM, First Race 8 P added attraction Ken Mackow of Round Lake, Illinois in big motorcycle jump tries to break Evel Knievel's Ascot record 18300 Vermont, Gardena, California day: 2.3-32.-.6.0,2.3-323-97.0 night: 2.3-532-6363, 2.3-676-8.24 100 No vice Rich ie Sweaney o ut in f ro nt fo llowed by Cliff Whetstone. The Sweaneys sweep 395 Freeway By Ph il Carpenter A DE LANT O , CA L. , AP R. 20 Little Rich ie Sweaney uphel d th e fam ily tradi tion and toted home two troph ies fo r his 100 Novice wins o n the sa me screaming Kawasaki t hat too k his dad to Nu mber One AMA Ultra Ligh tweigh t in ' 71 and kep t him in the t op lO af liRA for five years. When daughter Toby took ove r the Greens trea k fo r the Amateur/Expert lin eu p, Rip figu red it was be tte r to swi tc h t han fight and b ou gh t a 350 Kaw an d t oday broke it in right by win n in g ' first in 500 Expert half-mile ac t io n ahead o f th e milkman, J im Nosek. In h alf-mile Open Amateur action it was T riu mph m ounted Mark Fitzgerald an d Bakers field 's Lee Hales dri vin g hard in t o th e turns o n each lap, b ut th e Triumph's few extra h o rses on th e 1000 foo t straight won the first pl ace trop hy for Mark. Open Amateur 1'1' win ner, Albert Renz, ro de a flawless race huggin g the insi de groove on a singing Yamaha to pull away fro m Fitzgerald 's T riu mph . Firs t time out on the seve n-eighth mile 'TT course a t 3 9 5, Baker sfiel d 's Do n Warre n showed the regul ars th at prac tice doesn't always make perfect , as he copped t he Open Expert b rass . Th e mil kman, J im Nosek , on his twin kept waiting fo r San Diego 's s tar Bill Cain t o ma ke a mistake in the 2 50 Expert half-mile but he never did. TIle Bultaco fight in the 25 0 hal f-m ile Am ateu r was a close one with Donnie Cu rd edging out Bakers fiel d 's h ar d-driving Lee Hales. Roundin g up a fun day of racin g was the trad itional sweepstakes, run backwards on the TT course for 10 laps. won by o ur favo rite water tru ck d river Mark Englan d aboard a 12 5 Yam ah a. _ Results in Results Section . Minning-Tidwell t angle By Elaine Jones CO RO NA, CA L., APR . 16 The rain gods th at have been dampening so m uch o f th e. Southem Cali fornia racing sce ne latel y have co n t inue d to smi le o n Co rona Ra ceway and it was b usiness as usu al. Mike Min n in g cam e o u t, after a lon g leave of ab sence, and did his th in g in the 125cc Expert goes. Well, almost did his thing. On the TT Mike led up un ti l the last lap before Tidwell found an openin g ( .. " . an d go t by t o snatc h th e go ld away. On th e hal f-mile it was a differen t story wi th Mr. Min ni n g getting o ut on to p and pulling ou t all the stops . Wayne Rainey ano ther h ot sh oe go t bet wee n the Mikes an d al though he p robably fel t li ke he was be tween a ro c k and a har d spot main tai ne d his p ositi on and held on to second. Amateur rider Danny Perkins deserves a well done for the fine pe rform ance he turned in riding against th ese yo ung stars . Mike Tidwell had no problems winning th e 250cc Expert Twin half-mil e stretchin g out enough of a lead to stop and have co ffe e. Coron a ac e J im Wright proved it 's still his backyard as he ran awa y with the 750cc half-mile. Jim was clocked at 22 seconds whi ch puts him in th e elite club with last wee k's win ner J ohn Allison . Dennis. Briggs and Bria n Garcia played change p ar tn ers , with Dennis ch an ging at the right time for the second. . Eddie Drake had an extremely pro fitable eve ni ng win nin g th ree o ut of fo ur and ge tting third in the fou rth . The 10 0 cc Novice and half-miles were the easy wins and the 125cc Novice goes looked li ke they would be an in stan t rep lay until Fre d Co nove r and J eff Wrigh t bu tted in and re arr an ged the finish . J e ff, wh o . already had a second from a close race with Fred on th e TT, fo und himself in the same com pany again on the h alf-m ile only rearranged. To the fr on t of him was Freddie and to the rear he had Eddie. Jeff didn 't los e his c o ol an d hel d on to pick up his second with Freddie first. Jim Roach also went hom e with t wo of those little go ld sta tues as he won th e 25 0cc Novi ce T'I' and finished second on . th e hal f-mile. Bobbie Hu nter o ur res ident y o ung lad y c ollected second on the TT and the way her Dad helped on the side lines, he had to be m o re worn o ut when it was over than Bob bie . Mike Stewart with his funn y lookin g No . 69 n umber plate wo n th e first o n th e half-m ile. Eddie La wso n was reall y cooking wit h his Cooper in the 250cc Single Expert half-m ile and they had trouble keeping him in sigh t. Gre g Zehner who keeps ge tting better every week ran second but it was not too h ar d to ta ke when he parlayed t hat in to a win on the balf-mile Expert Single. Dennis Agu irre cap tured the Open Novice T'I' and was lead in g th e half-mile sem i when he wen t in to turn one to o ho t an d los t it . As Denny p ut it , he neve r did thi n k he was going to q u it slidin g an d al though he didn't lo o k an y th e worse fo r the wear, his bike di d n 't fare as well an d had to be re ti red . Racin g rival Rick Bird to o k- ove r the hon o rs for the hal f-m ile. Chuc k Bittle had n o problem win n ing th e Mini T' I' an d loo ke d like he would p ull o ff a double except newcomer Todd Brown tbought t hat m igh t be a bit much and won the half-mile . _ Results in Results Section. , " J I I - ... qrrz I I on Adult tick et for any Friday AMA event. You may bring a friend & save _ _ ~ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _$2 .00. _ ;;..1 Brad Lackey Brad's current record March March March March 9 16 23 30 & 31 Hechtel, Belgiu m St. Anthonis, Holl and Port-S ur-Soane, France March & Genk, Belgium . 2nd Overall 2nd Overall 1st Overall 2nd Overall Brad's got it all together for 1975 and so do . Knapp Pomeroy Adent Bakken Hasten Fishback T . Broo ks C. Brooks Roeseler Kirk er Brow n They all wear the Royal/Grant helmet . To fi nd out why call Jess, Jay or Ron. Dealer inquiries invited . & ~, RCVAL I ND U S T R I E S .,. ® GRANT DIVISION 16960 E. Gale Ave., Cit y of Industry , CA91 749. 213-965-5981 Bell Buckles Highest quality . 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