Cycle News - Archive Issues - 1970's

West was back in m o to t wo an d he again pulled away at the start with She rman and J eff Foland (Pen) runnin g two and thr ee. Karsm a kers was up to fo u rth and closing in o n She rman. Pierr e never got his ch an ce as he agai n pulled off with a sick mo tor. West also dropped out with bike problems. She rman was now runnin g first with Terry Dark in second and Dave Longcor (Hus) in third . Dark applied the pressure to Sherman an d was by in abo u t a lap. J im Turner, m o vin g up hard, soon cam e upon Longcor and She rman. For several laps these th ree ride rs were really close. Turner never could get by Lon gcor and foll o wed him right up to th e finish. Dark p icked up th e b ucks wi th h is t wo m o to win s. Do ug She rman had another fin e wee kend this tim e p ic kin g up a secon d pl ace fin ish with J im Turne r ta king th ird o n his • evil-so unding Bultac o. Results 2 5 0 : 1. R ic k Burget t (Yam). 2 . T im Hart ( Yam) . 3. J im We in ert ( Y am) . 4. Gary Ogden (Yam). 5 . K en Zahrt (Mon). • 500: 1. Terry Clark ' ( H u s ). 2 . Doug Sherman (Mal) . 3. Jim Turner ( Sui ). 4. Jeff Folan d (Pen). S. G u n n ar Li n d st r o m (Hus) . Washington high school MX By Sue Sykes PUYALLUP, WASH ., APR. 20 Last year's winners, Lindberg High Sch ool , ac te d as school spo nso rs o f the George Babcock Mem orial High School Mo tocross Chall en ge and provided th e fantastic trophies. What a great bunch of people - they all had red Lindberg MX jerseys and like th e other 300 rid ers , a giant amount o f school spirit. Rogers High School of Puyal lup placed first o verall with 23 0 0 points. Bethel High School, Spanaway , scored second and Curtis High School, Tacoma, earned third place. Both motos 0 f th e 100 A - B classes were fast running contests. Mark Luchini, Pat J acobson (Yam), and Bre t Rochester rode super fast an d extra hard in their battle for first troph y. No on e else ever got near as they took every jump of the co urse with spectacular ease . Luchini (Suz) took seco nd in the first moto but after a second moto battle with Ro chester (Hon) too k th e lead to ge t the flag and a win . The 125 B had three hot ones in . today and wh en th e scoring finished th e riders tied fo r first p oints. In th e first moto Terry Haakenson (Ho n ) took adv an tage of a super start - Marvin Sykes (Hon) and Todd Stewart (Ho n) followed. On m oto two Sykes led from th e first S tum but wen t wid e on the h airpin abo ut hal way and Stewart go t under him. Haakenson score d th ird. Th e fin ish determined th e trophy delivery and Stewar t too k home a firs t . In the 250 Pro clas s the finish of mota two was a d o uble Carlsbad Wolsink. Rick Weidman (Ho n) an d Bob Boo ck (Yam) p ut on a thrilling battle in both motos - riding so h ard and so fast it mad e you wonder wh at would b reak first - bikes or men . Weidman came o ut on top in th e first moto b ut b oth guys kn ew th e winner of th e last mota would claim th e bi ggest trophy , more muney , and th e win . The last leg of th e race is a big Sturn and a climb to Rain ier Jump. What a finish - both riders and mach ines collided in mid air. They both wal ked away - just a few bruises. Th e scoring went to Weidman but th e guys both coll e cted the sam e amount of first money fo r the great ride. At the end of the day chee rs were heard as t he winning high school was announced. They have on e ye ar to get a team together for th e next rac e - and a fte r possession or th e giant Winners ' Trophy for a year - th ey1 1 want it ba ck again - bu t so will every other high sch ool. • Resul ts in Results Sec tion. Butch sweeps fifth at Pioneer By Ann <;arr OA KDALE, CAL ., APR. 20 J eff " Butch" Davidson, Number One black-plater in Distric t 36 in 197 3, illustrated that his form is indeed back as he swept his fifth co nsec u tive Open Exp ert Main at Pioneer Are na. Recognized as on e or th e to p ro ugh scram blers in the north, Butch flew away fro m the other eigh t riders in the event. Ste ve Parker and Steve Wallace aboard Maicos were also m on ey win ners. J o hn Pit tman, hesitant to be a Junior two su mmers ago, is fast becoming one o r the be tter 250 Expe rts in the area. J ohnny and Alan McGeh ee staged a close battle in th e m ain today wi t h Pit tman eme rging victorio us. Not to be outdone by th e sp ortsm an boys, Mini Exp ert John Land o r Watsonville wo n the combin ed 100 Junior· Expert clas s and th en fol lowed with an 80 Expert firs t abo ard Fred Merkel 's Honda ( Fred die ba iled hard in p ract ice ). Escalon 's Randy Rose was secon d in th e co m bine d whil e Mod est o's T ony Holdsclaw follo we d Lan d in th e 80. Novices atten ded in force thi s balm y Sunda y . Ben Zakarian foll owed a IT win Saturda y n ight at Lodi with a first in the 125 B Main on the rough co urse today. The 125 A Main wen t to Laird Byrhni abo ar d a Ho nda (Hon da took four or six top hies in the event). Junior ac ti on today featured th e Frances Lopes-Raivo Trubok renewal in th e Open Junior ra ce. Lopes again was th e winner but Raivo followed his sec o n d in the Op en with another second behind Billy Rose's Penton in the 250 Junior Main. With 90 points required in sh ort track and scrambles separately to m ak e Exp ert status, look for some wild battles this sum m er when th e sh o rt tr ack season op ens at Pioneer June 7. • Results in Results Section. - Down o n the tank . everybody - Rog e r (62) Slac k leads a group of 250 Expe rts up the straight. Brad Sand ers. of Chi co. second 200 No vice at Orland dayt ime half-mile. Riding the half-mile groove at Orland By Rex Backman ORLAND, CAL. , APR. 27 Jim Crenshaw , Steve Diet z, Sh ane Scott and you thful Yamaha rider Randy Mam ola took home the first place cash with their win s in tod ay's Exp ert classes. Crenshaw (No r) led over a d ozen 750 cc Expert /Junior riders into t he firs t tum o r their m ain even t. Traili ng Crensh aw at the tim e were Mike O'Brien (Yam) with Den nis Ro binso n and Larry Legarra figh ting fo r th ird . Com in g out of t um fo ur, O'B rien swep t by Crenshaw as th ey rode down th e fr ont straigh t. With th e race hai r com plete , Cren shaw tried to regain th e lead as he wen t inside o f O'Bri en in tum n um ber three. They rode down th e front straight side by side. O'Brien had th e advantage entering th e first co m er an d se t up ju st inches ahead of Crenshaw. Crenshaw was not ab o u t to quit. Huggin g th e rail he dove under Mike wide en tering tum two. This was all Jim needed as he went on fo r the win. Mike O 'Bri en also led the firs t part o r th e 360 Expe r t Main with Lowell Moural (Bul), Steve Diet z (Bu l) and Larry Silva in two. Moural pulled off with bike problems allowing Die tz and Silva to move up in to second an d third. Dietz slo wly was cu t tin g down O'Brien's le ad as Kirk Tardi ff and Dave Fari a had moved past Silva to fight over third. With a burst or new-round speed , Dietz cho ppe d down Mike's lead to alm ost nothing o n th e white flag lap . Going into tum t wo on th e last lap , Dietz Z III "' c .... o ~ l.-_ _ 29

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