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I Local hotline cont'd. ~ E 1M ~ be some sort of salute. Maybe it's thi s flag they mean. It's mel that lIIIhen the flag drops the B.S. stops. Not true, as there's one now - B.S. Stankey on an old Kawa A1 R. Good racing, as Jeff Steele lead the Super Cafe mob into Tum One. But when is a Cafe a Super Cafe? Does it wear tights and a cape? .. ~ ~_ ; >a: a: :3 c z c( , C UJ UJ Z III .J .J UJ ;: X c( ::E >- III III o o r Q. I- 18 but Cnding up second overall An dy Kir ker (Mono) and with only da ylight between them Larry Ros eler (H-D) for third oYa3ll first 250 Expert. Wen, the nervous Novices was a different story. Their race start ed 15 minu tes lata , and what a bash ! Some guy hit a pucke r bush WFO right before the saddle and n ew about 100 feet. He and his bi ke blocking one of the trails off made a mess out of t he b omb ru n, but eventually they all got through ! FIISt Open Novice was 72 overall Gary Stammen, second No vice first Division I and 82 overall Gary Hall. I would like to say a little something more abou t the race. It was a benefit and onl y two t rophies were given ! One to Ro n Wrigh t first Expert, and one to Gary Stammen first Novice . But there were a lot of contingencies, and they wen: all d onated as trophies. So , many thanks to Malcolm Smith , NGK , Norm Reeves Ho nda, Ashlin Che mical, Tar get Industries, and Yamaha of Montclair. _ CMC RR: Klinzmann is hot! Tag and taillight in Open GP ? By Alexander B. A1lenn IRVINE , CAL. , MAY 11 Harry Klinzmann turned the Mother's Day CMC road race in to a Harry Klinz mann be nefit affair , winning three highly-competitive GP clas ses with ease. He starte d off by running away wit h 250 GP, while ' George Roche, build er of the highl y-effective G. R.I.P. internal-stinger chambers, and Mike Clark we nt back-and-forth for second. Harry kept gain in g ground. whil e Clark and Roche swap ped p laces. At th e b eginning of the last lap , Roche led with Clark charging. Roche dialed it on an d p ulled away fo r second. Switching to his Yamaha TZ 3 50, Harry me t Bob Endicott 's Ac ti o n Fours production -b ike-turned-GP Kawasaki Z-l. KIinzmann 's bike made up for re lative lack of p owe r with better handling, less weight and n o wiggles. Endicott's motorcycle wobbled so badly when he shut off for Tum On e t ha t spectators backed away from the pit wall, an ticipating a crash that never came. What did come to pass was Harry taking the lead and losing the lead several times on the first few laps . Finally, with Endic ott a bit hung up on his collector in th e chicane, and a bit sideways as a result, Harry picked up ti me for good. "You can't h old that kin d o f a pace after five or six laps on t hat big a bike. " explained Endicott. "That thing was a ro cket ," Harry said later. "He had the horsepower, but I had the better handling bike." To wind up his GP field day, KIinzmann destroyed t he 350 GP clas s. In c ontras t to his 25 0 race, of whi ch he said. "I thought I was a squid out there,