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either, but his Yamaha required only one pit stop as compared to Kawasaki's two. J im Evans (Kawl took a bad spill in Saturday's practice. but was released from the hospital and should be at home recuperating by the time you read this. Steve Baker (Yam I, tied for the point lead with Johnny Cecotto going into this round, crashed wh ile ru nning third. The Yamaha Motor Canada rider escaped unhurt. Texan Steve Stackable, winner of the 1975 Yamaha Super Series Open class and third ranked in last year's 500cc National MX standings, will be Maico's factory entry in both the U.S. and Canadian 500cc World Otarnpionship MX rounds. Stackable will compete in the June 29 Carlsbad, California round and then fly to Copetown, Canada where a spare b ike an d crew will be waiting. Pro m ising sh owings in these importan t races cou ld lead to Stackab le's entry b y Maico in selec ted remaining 500cc GPs in Europe . Teamsters Adolf Weil and Hans Maisch are co mpeting on the 250cc GP circuit and therefore uneligible for 500cc championship points. An African safari by motorcycle ? It's true. Afrotrek Ltd. is offering the adventurous biker three weeks of supervised roaming and rid ing in the wind s o f Kenya. East Africa. If that sounds interesting to you. drop a line to Cycle Trek EA. Af rotrek. Ltd., 42 East Avenue. Rochester. New York 14604. Mike "The Bike " Hailwood, winner of nine world titles in mo to rcy cling before turning his talents to Formula One GP auto racing, has decided to retire from competition. His decision was based on the slow recovery of leg and ankle injuries he received last year in a crash at Germany's Nurburgring. Mike's last appearance was at Daytona in 1971 on a factory BSA, where mechanical problems stopped his charge while running near the front. Expert Jimmy Zeigler (H-DI. Junior Ted Boody. (H·D) and Nov ice Jackie Mitchell (Bull won their respective classes at the June 14 Dayton. Ohio. AMA Regional Championship h alf mile. Dick Burleson (Hus) continued his domi natio n of the AMA National Championsh ip En d uro scene as he took the June 15 Harrison, Michigan Enduro's Grand Champion trophy. Only 48 out o f 440 start ers fin ished the run. and no one carn e close to Burleson 's winning score - 19. Len ny Kee n (Pen) took the A. High Poin t with a total of 32 mar ks; Ric ky Sharphorn 's 78 (Hus) earned h im the B·High Poin t : J ac k Penton (Pen) took A. Lightweight with a tally of 49 ; Joh n Penton (Pen) top pe d the Senior class de spite dr o pping ou t after the nin th check. Comp lete coverage next week. Charlie Chapple (Yam l won the June 14 Imlay . Michigan half mile, but sti rring up the fans the most was the second place perfonnlm:8 of "retired" Bart Markel (H·DI. It marked Markel 's first half mile race in over a year and a hal f. and now the question is whether or not Bart will compete at Columbus. Unofficial AMA Grand National Cham p ionsh ip /Cam el Pro Series po in t . stan dings incl uding Harrington: 1. Gary Scott 482 2. Kenny Ro berts 477 3. J ay Sp rin gsteen 332 4. Greg Sassaman 262 5. Rex Beauchamp 252 6. Mark Williams 252 7. Randy Clee k 247 8. Gene Romer o 240 9 . Hank Sco tt 19 9 10. Dave Han sen 182 173 11. Corky Keen er 12. Darryl Hu rst 165 156 13. Steve Ba ker 14. Mert Lawwill 137 15. Dave Sehl 108 16. Rick Hoc king 97 94 17. Dave Aldana 90 18. J ohn Hate ley 19. Dennis Briggs 88 20. Gu y McClure 88 Bultaco's Martin Lampkin won the June 15 Italian round of the World Championship Trials series . Yamaha's Mick Andrews took second with Montesa's Malcolm Rathmell finish ing th ird . Any club or p romo ter interested in running an AMA National En duro in 1976 must submit a sanction application no later than July 31. For further info contact the AlIIA Amateur department. Speaking of sanction application deadlines - July 20 is the deadl ine date for applications for 1976 Grand National Championship/Camel Pro Series events : August 1 is the deadline date for National and International motocross events. Further info may be obtained from the AMA. Dirt track and road race questions to Mike DiPrete. The new 125cc Kawasaki motocross factory racers have reed valves instead o f ro ta ry valves. They will first be seen outside of Kawasaki's California R&D facility at the opening ro und of the 125cc National MX series in Michigan on J une 29 . r Monroe has developed 17" overall length shocks for the factory Kawasaki MXers . with six and three-quarter inch travel. They use 36 pound sp ring s and reportedly " ride like a Cadillac." Kawasaki is continuing development on parallelogram suspension. Originally developed to solve ch ain problems associated with long travel rear suspension on motocrosscrs, the dual-swingarm system was found to other properties shock have compression under acceleration and extreme form compression under braking are both eliminated. Kawasaki experimented with an HI R so equipped at Daytona, and liked it enough to put the set up on a watercooled 750. Work is also being done on two motocrossers, Can·Am factory ride r Buck Murphy will contest the Capetown 500cc GP on what is basically last year's Trans·AMA bike. The big Can·Am has a chassis that is "virtual ly the same" as the 250cc production b ike . The shocks have been relocated to give eight inch rear wheel travel and a set of eight inch travel Betor forks have been ' mounted up front. A high pipe replaces the old low job. Jimmy Ellis will ride in the opening rou nd of the 125cc National in Midland, Mich igan on the same date (June 291. Gary Jones is still mending and will not return to action in time to be competitive in the 1975 points race . HARRI NGTON BITS AND PIECES: John Hateley picked up a bruised hand that "sort of took the lire out of me" when he ticked the railing in tum three during the National . . . David Aldana thought he had so mething going when he qualified 10th fastest. A four rider crash eliminated David from his heat, but he says "Watch out at Columbus" . . . National Number 50, Randy Scott, th ought he'd ride a little mo tocross for relaxation. The doc says that he'll have about eight weeks to ankle relax while his br oken heals • . . Rookie Skip Aksland looked like he was going 10 d o so me b usiness until a p lug wire came off ... Quo te o f the day fro m Cor ky Keener as he, Springsteen and Beau champ joined arms, "We may no t always win, b ut we of fun have a helluva lot trying" . . . 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