Cycle News - Archive Issues - 1970's

I Local hotline, cont'd. ~ Hi Desert hotshoes capture Amateur/Expert MX at 395 t By Ph il Carpenter a: UJ o Z .J " UJ " ::;; Chuck Lunde (213) and Eddie Cla rk / 6931 battle it o ut in one 01 the comers on the tigh t Ascot track. Bob McClaughli n blasting by on his CZ in the combined Amateur/Expert race. David Williams sh o ws a little style off the ju mp. M.D.R.A. bikers with guts were there to end '74/'75 season CMC Ascot MX By Ruth Halbert PONDEROSA, CAL., JUNE 14-15 Saturday night p r o ve d to be a big success as e ve ry o n e celebrated the last race of t h e season. The bikers and their babes, with plenty of 20 By Mike Klinger G ARDE NA, CAL., J UNE 25 Because o f last Sunda y's USGP, CMC did not h old a rac e which gave all the racers a good c hance to rest. The rest paid off fo r Chuck Lunde, J eff Jennings and Bill Rubly. All three competitors fini sh ed on to p in all of their respective motos. For the second we ek in a ro w, an d six straight motos, Chuck Lunde (Pu c), finished no less than firs t in the 12 5 Pro clas s. Ed Clark (Ho n) led motos one and two but Lunde was overpowering and outrode eve ryone. Second overall wen t to the DG man , Dave Williams (Ya m), had the crowd gasping with h is ban zai beer flowing whooped it up through most of the night around a super bonfire in excited anticipation for the "most fun of them all," 80 mile team race on Sunday. Challenging the heat on a rough, fast course, teammates Tom Howell and cross-up s. Steve Hienzel barreled it for first overall The 25 0 Pro co n test was no. contest in the Open Experts on a 400 mono at all. Jeff Jennings (Bul) is bac k at Yamaha, with Walt Conners and Eric strength and hot to t ro t! J ennings wo n all motos goi ng aw ay wi th Bill Rubly Swan riding a 250 mono Yamaha on their tails for a second overall. (C-A) challenging in moto three. Just ba ck from Baja, L. Fabry and R. J ennings lit erally muscled his way aro und Rubly as th ey were whe el to Devonshire con tinued their winning wh eel go ing in to a "trash Can tum ." Va l ways in the 0-200 Expert class. Good luck and a speedy re covery to Ta mie tti (Mai) j ust co uld no t stay up Rob Adair who was ser iously inj ured in with Jennings and Rubly, so Ta rnie tti a crack up while leading the three and gladl y too k third overall . The bid fo r the number on e pl at e in fo ur wheelers race following the bikers. 1976 is st ill in the hands of Bill Rubly He will be hospitalized for several months. (Mai) . Rubly saw t hree firsts ta llied in The promoters of any race spend the 500 Pros. Again this wee k, big Luke valuable time and lots of h ard work to Messer (Mai) , led in th e opening put a race o n . Thanks to Lyn and Patti moments bu t co uld not han g on as Rubl y screwed-it-on righ t past Messer in Kelsey, Pa t Patton, and yo ur che ck ers for a great seas o n. every mo to . CZ mounted Dan Barn es sta ye d close to Rubl y an d Messer . but Plans are a lrea dy in the making fo r a b ig '75/,7 6 season, wat ch you r Cy cle close w:,s ?ot go od e~ough and Barn es to ok th ird m the sta nd ings. • News Calendar ! See you in September ! • • Results in Results Section• • • • • • • ! ..... , J.tc;s!' \t~ in, J.tc;s!'! t~ Sc;c.tio n , . •. • , ADELANT O, CA L.,J UN E 2 1 T he winne r 's circle a t 3 95 C ycle Park Morning M o t o c ross w as evenly divi d e d w i t h r acers fro m A n tel ope Valle y a nd Ridge c r e s t d om inating the Novice ran ks while Hi Deser t h o t s h o e s ran away w i t h t he Am at eur /Expert clas ses. Apple Va lley's two-wheel talent St eve Davis showed today why he is known as " Mr. M ot orcycle " of 395 Cycle Park . Scream ing Steve socked it to t he 125 Am ateur class today with the same ta lent and d et ermination th at m akes him a winn er o n t he fast T'I' an d half-m ile co urses o n al te rnate wee ks. Ade lan to Ace Gary Prast er an d Dave Williams of Ridgecre st were t ied wit h a first and a second wh en t he gree n flag fell on the 25 0 Amateur third moto . Williams hel d off nard-d riving Praster fo r t hree lap s until the B an d B spo ns ore d rider took him for th e win on lap f our. Maico mounted Chuck Pettigrew dre w th re e firsts for his Open A mate u r /Exper t ride leavin g Bo b McLaughlin and Morgan Malocco dicing it o u t for seco nd spot. Ho nda mounted Ridgecrest racers grabbed th e honors in th e 12 5 Expert with Duane Stevenson taking the bras s over Larry Kreie for now. Graduating to the Novice ranks with their Beginner win today wer e Sam Goldsmith, Mike Sudberry and TIm Ab ernathy. Barstow's Goldsmith couldn't do any better with three firsts in th e 100 Beginner class on a screaming Suzuki. Honda mounted Abernathy took the 250 Beginner trophy to Lancaster by edging out Steve Leonhard from Orange with two firsts and a seco nd. Mike Sudberry's Suzuki from Quartz Hill ate up h is competition leaving Norman Stephenso n and Ge orge LaCro ix with a tie fo r second. Migh ty Mike Auer of Victorville tied for second for the second time on his second ride as Novice with Eddie Salinas of Ridgecrest. Eddie 's best ride in the last moto bought h im the brass, while Kevin Garlick took first place trophy to Victorville. Ridgecrest racer Mark McAlpin 's YZ go t three firsts for the victory in the 250 Novice ranks while the real battle went on for second place between Monty Blurton and Wayne Gann. Gann's mech ani cal problem and " DN F" in the second moto gave Mon ty th e edge' he needed to win. The Mini size trophy girl gave maxi size kisses and t ro ph ies to the Mini winners Mark Urseth and Allen Hopper of the No vice ranks and to Homer Salinas and Adam Galantt in the Beginner classes. • Results in Results Sect ion. Perkins zips Conover at line By Elaine Jones CORONA, CAL., J UN E 20 Freddy C on over sh ould h ave se en th e handwriting o n the w all during th e l2 5 c c A mate u r short tra ck wh ere he barely edged o u t Danny Perkins. When th e main rolled aro un d Perkins played it coo l, laid o ff th e pace , . bu t, close eno ugh to be within striking Tim McWhorter blast ing alo ng on the Corona Half-Mi le, Scott Sm it h on h is way to victory in t he 750cc Expert Half-Mile. range and wh en the ch an ge ca me he was ready and zipped by on the last lap to take it all. The half-mile win went to Mike TIdwell with Perkins and Jenkins second and third. Mike picked up another win in the 250cc Expert short track where he found more than his fair share of competition from Ascot's number one Junior, Dan McWhorter. Fortunately , or unfortunately, Dan was having his own problems from Jim Redding who came from behind and got right into the thick of t hings . In the 250cc Expert Twin half-m ile Mike had to contend with the othe r h alf of the McWhorter team, little brother, TIm. Tim was in Mike's hip pocket, specifically the right one since Gordie Kidd was using the le ft. Around lap fo ur Mike started to pull away an d left the hassling to Gordie and Tim. Ti m got the nod but not before these three fine riders p roved why they are considered among the best in California. Gordie almost pulled it off on the 500cc Expert half-mile and held both Tim and Mike until that fatal lap where Tidwell found the hole and was home free. Gordie got th e second place slot, and Tim third. Dorothy Rowe came out and proved why she is one of the finest 250cc Experts around as she socked it to the fellas in the 250ce Expert Single half-mile. Dorothy firmly believes in ladies first and h ighly resents anyone trying to pass her. Just ask Bruce Reynolds and Brian Garcia who tried and found out the lady only knows one direction on the throttle and that's W.F .O . Scott Sm ith walked off with the Open Expert 75 0 half-mile. He was again mounted on Butch Silva's Yamaha and had such a lead he co uld have stopped and had co ffee. Gary Evan s and Doug Hannon rounded o ut th e field. Denny Aguirre got back to his win ning ways as he to o k his super tuned Kawasaki out front and held it there to win the Open Am ateur half-mile. Second pl ace Albert Ren z was not even close en o ugh to mak e a con te st o f it . Jeff Wright o f Corona came st raight fro m a Little Leagu e baseball game an d without p ra cti ce , becaus e he arrived late, just mad e it to th e start ing line. Missin g p ract ice was no deterent to su ~cess tonight, as J e ff skillfully

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