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• fIJ IIiIII II: s t l!') '" r--.. O"l #'" .--I r-, ~ c-, ro :E IS WORTH A 100 0 WORDS • • • • • ••••• KONIGP ~ AlUMINUM ~F ND IN E ' SHC S OK o ,;The 250 GP was a battle roya!. Here privateer Wes Cooley (25) chases works rider Evans (27) and La Posada's favorite tostada, Harry Klinzman . Ron Pierce (Kaw) out in the far-focus fuzzies, leads briefly . I had to back o ff wa s th at on e downed ride r's helmet ro lled ac ross his path! " We 've c om e a lo ng way with th e 250," Evans said afte rw ards. " We're a little way s aw ay still , b ut devel op ment's co mi ng along well. Th e reaso n Co o ley be a t m e was tha t he rode really hard . 1 tried as best I co ud , bu t I mi sjud ged the last co m er j ust a lit tl e bit an d d id n' t have the right drive th at I should of. He beat me by abo ut a bike len gt h . " clustering beh ind him . Hurley Wilvert (Yam) , o u t for so me h andl ing testing, h ad alrea dy re ti red w ith a fried cl utch at th e sta rt . Cooley sti ll had to cant end wit h . J im Evans and h is fact o ry Kawasaki, Marty Lunde on hi s Wil Har ding Yamaha , Pat Hen nen on a U.S. Su zu ki 750, George Roch e 's Actio n Fo ur Z-2, and even Harry Klin zm ann on a TY 3 50 . "Everything was w orkin g gre at. 'Out's wh at I ca n say," decl ared Coo ley afte r win ni ng . Lun de , who cracked a p ipe o n the sec o n d lap, yet still m oved up fr om abou t fo ur t h t o secon d , sai d, ·' 1 )w as a b it detuned in practi ce be cause the Kaw asaki team has been here a who le day (last week ), and our times we re pret ty bad co m pared to the irs, but 'in the race we actua lly bettered t he m" Evans seized his Kawasaki, brough t o ut 'fo r sorting o u t, ea rly in th e race. Hennen was third, Klin zmann fourth, and Ro che qui t because he was t ired. But 25 0 GP was th e re al sh ow. Kawasaki, determined t o have their water-cooled 25 0s win-re ady by Laguna Seca, embarked upon a refinement program that included renting Riverside Raceway three days be fo re this race , racing here, an d planning t o ra ce at Sears Point June 15. Ray Oil /Fairway . Co oley, (Bel 'Yam aha ) aga in led the first lap of the record field. The racing was incre d ib ly close, wi th Ro n Pierce (fact ory Kaw ) sec o nd. K1inzman n (Ya m) t hi rd, an d Jim Evans (fac tory Kaw ) fourth, all nose to tail and leaving th e gigan t ic pack behind. Pierce go t by on th e next lap , and o ne circ uit lat er Cool ey was behind in fourth , Pie rce th ird , Klin zm ann sec o nd, Evans lea ding. Pierce 's b ike sta rte d t o overh ea t, and put him bac k into a fad in g fou rth o n th at lap. On e m ore and Co o ley dr ove fro m t hird to firs t ; t hen Evans led aga in. Back an d forth it we nt , lap a fte r lap. " I was go ing aft er J im Evans," Klin zmann t old a grou p back in t he pits, "an d so o n as I passed him . Wes Cool ey came by . Fro m t h e o n it was m e a nd Evan s (d ici ng) an d t hen finall y I j ust co u ld n't g-ai n an y marc un til this accid ent happened . T he n I had t o let o ff. .. TIl e accid en t was t he c ras h in T u m Nine of t wo racers in th e tra ffic an d fra n t-ru nners wer e ba ttling thro ugh on the last few laps, and th e reaso n Harry In the Ka wasaki pi ts, talk be twe en racers and t une rs seeme d fo cus ed on the need t o wid en th e powerban d, or , as Evans put it , "j us t try ing to ma ke the bike m ore ri d eab le a s fa r a s engine power." • Resul ts in Result s Secti on. j Smiths win CMC Saddleback (that's Marty and Tamali) By Andy Hayt the industry-stan O RAN GE . CAL., :>1AY 18 Lafrl diameter alum- Bruce McDo ugal m issed taking the overall w in in th e 125 Pro class tw o wee ks ago fro m Dave William s. However, it w as McDougal's tu m this week end. inum barrel for licht weicht. HlcHosted finned desiz:n for muimum cooling. TI, e firs t m o t a fo un d Williams (Yam ) in th e lead at the st art and in t he num ber H draulica", adjust· , able inferna", to six positions. Accepts std. sprincs Now, wi th speed brakes at f ull exten sion, it's J im Eva ns ' t urn t o lead Klinzman , Pierce. T and bottom op mountinc e,es h..e push-ou t bushincs. Space aC' materiats encineered to aircu ft tolerances. Write for fR literature anddecal EE B IKONl llMITED 150 ereen St , Hackensack, NJ . 0760 1 17Deadline fOI'~ advert~s.ing space IS Wednesday. 213-427-7433 I o a: ~ .J ::J Z I o , :> CIl o '" I- o I a. v ~l iSOGE$ ~ GiRUNG!ASf6r; 46 I BILSTEINsp$86 $10.00 an d$53 I • KONI up + tax rin gs I I 20316Write or call Pans Unl im ited. I CanogaCohasset No . 12 213-887 -1619 I 17 Park. CA 91306 .. _---------- ..