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; h wit h Denny providin g the 'back stop.' All riders walked aw ay fro m this one, but the Cunningham machine will undergo its third frame change of the season next week. The Division Two Main provided the fans with an asso rt ment of sp ills before Gary Miller took the w in for the second straight week. It was Brian Thompson again taking top honors in the Junio r Main. TI,e win tonight gives him two in a row here and as progress in Speedway often ends in regress, th ere's still the 50 yard line. U.S. J u n ior title holder Lance King, back after a short retire m e nt (at age II ?) finished second and Ron Kirby third. to ok it easy in the heat. The Main was tu rned a round as Rick charged hard in to the tree turn fo r the win. • Results in Resul ts Section . Medford short track By Larry Blunt ME DFORD, ORE., J UNE 29 Over 80 riders took part in 29 racing events. Several riders winning in the lower mains chose to move up an event and there was a lot of clo se co mpetition. J oe Diltz wo n the kids' C Main and moved up giving the win to Randy Lin ker. Then starting from the back line. Dilt z p ut on a charge to take the B Main as well with Suzie Word fin ishing second. Ro bbie Izatt went all the way to wi n the A Main with Vic Lilya second and Robert Speck third. One sad note of the evening came during the practice sessi ons. Dennis Poole, a top rider in the kids ' d ivisio n crashed, su staining a bro ken wrist and b ruised ribs. Kirk Howard moved up after winning the 125 C Main in a close finish with Darryl Ray. Another close battle inthe B Main saw Carl Hibbard come out on top with Kenny Himmelwright second. The A Main produced o ne of the ho ttest battles of the nigh t as Rich Word and Brian Peterson dueled for several lap s with Word making it to th e lin e first. " Over the Hill Gang': at wo rk , Alan Christ ian (Ieadingl, John Cunningham, and Rich MacMurray (half-h iddenl. These Reno, Nevada ride rs have bagged the bulk of the main event w in s so far. - Juniors line up in the push-off area. Big k id second from righ t (we t hink] is Br ian Thompson, current Junior points leader. Rich MacMurray leads the SRA (North I points tally. Getting up-to-date: Two weeks of SRA North action SACRAMENTO, CAL.,JUNE 20 In th e first seven weeks of racin g here. only once has the Scratch Main winner been a NorCal rider. To night it was Norman Denny winning his second Scratch feature ahead of Alan Christian. Barclay T rehal and Rich MacMurray. MacMurray had taken an early Showing no ill effects fro m the broken fo ot t hat sidelined him earlier this year, Cliff Ball followed J im Crenshaw for the greater part of five la ps. With less than a half straightaway to the checkered. Ball got under t he "ex-Class C'e r " ex iting tum four and went on to win his first Handicap Main of the season. From back on the 50, Alan Ch rist ian also got b y Crenshaw to take the second finishing position by a wheel's le ngth. Six Da ys jackets are not what co uld be co nsidered p roper Speed wa y a p parel. This do esn 't see m t o bother Dave Cooper as he, with all th ose poc ke t s and o n the same ni ght, th e a tten d ance was far greater than expected wh en you co nside r th e p re-race pub licity those 'o th er gu ys' go t. Only one other type of w e e kl y m o t or r a ci n g outdraw s Speedway her e a nd they've b ee n at it for 2 0 years., Napa, Californ ia June 21, 1975 By Sneaky Pete lead and appeared well on h is way to his third win of the season. only to lose it in t urn three less than a half lap from the white flag . 511I .... t ~ r-... O"l ...... ~ ...... >- :l 'J Sacramento, Californ ia June 27, 1975 Mark Ditwiler moved up after winning the 25 0 B Main so Tony Speck got the win with Randy Jordon second. Todd Puett. Brian Peterson and Dan Ginther ' exploded into a three way battle for the lead in t he A Mai n. On the last lap , with Puett leadi ng, Gin ther made a charge but had to settle for second. • Nor Cal Speedway -= 511I adhesive tape n umbers , won his first D·2 Main in fo ur starts. T rying very hard to ma ke it three straight, J ere Wolfe had t o settle fo r second with third going to J eff Coll ar d. The latter is a r apid 30 yarder and the First Division can't be too far away for hint. Witll Junior p oints n ot available at this writing, Brian Thompson has to be at the top in standings. Tonight was win n u mber fo ur in Junio r Mai ns an d he has never finished worse than third in seven starts. The two/thre e sp ots we nt to J imm y Sizemore and J on Haan, Smallest in the J unio r ranks, Jimmy Sizemore is a real crowd p leaser with his perfo rman ce on t he little b ike. For the eighth week in a ro w . tonigh t's spectator turnout exceeded that of a year ago. Even with the straigh t liners having a big bucks m eet Week number two o f the 197 5 season go t underway a fte r a sh ort delay as th e same very tr ick y surface th at plagued many o f the riders o n ope n in g n igh t needed so m e drying out via the tr actor and drag. Highl ighting tonight's program was the U . S. , N ational Indoor, a nd California S tat e Champion. Steve Bast. Along with th e U.S. Champ, it was Alan Christian, Paul Orlandi and Da le Stetler coming out to do battle in the Scratch Main. Off th e line it was Christian winning the dash to the first co rne r and while Bast, Or landi and Stetler were getting sorted out in the 'marbles, ' Christian opened up a quick half turn lead that was to be his m argin of victory at the checkered . With h is b rand new ESO sitting in the pits. Paul Orlandi climbed aboard what was su pposed to be hi s back-up bike and from the 30, worked his way into the lead at the end of three la ps to win the Handicap Main ahead o f fast closing Norman Denny and early leader Cliff Ball. This eve n t took m ore than it s share of me n and m achinery . Alan Christian had go ne d o wn early and was up against the wall chec king out his bike when Ken ny Eggers came from out of no wher e to co llid e with hi m. Eggers endin g up with a badly sprained ankle. Cliff Ball and Norman Denny ca m e off right after the checkered and with no place to go. J o h n Cunningham laid his bike down and came to a quick h al t With Re n o 's Rich MacMurray being se nt to the pits afte r an o the r of his battles with th e tapes. (what happened to the 20 yard pen al ty ?) John Cun n in gha m led wire to wire to lead Barclay Trehal and Paul Orlandi across the line in tonight 's S cratch Main . The win w a s Cunningham 's second in nine weeks here and moves him into a tie for second in Scra tc h Main wins with MacMurra y a nd Norman Denny at two wins each. Missing a transfer spot to eit her Main this eve n ing was three-time winner Alan Christian. Avenging his narrow d efeat last we ek, Jim Crenshaw led fr om start to finish to win the Handicap Main ahead of Marty Ben ck and John Cunningham. Crenshaw has been improving every we ek sin ce givin g up the Class 'C' ranks in fa vor o f Speedway. Yardage should find h im starting next week from somewher e other than the zero . Bob Bellino fin ally put a stop to the third pl ace finishe s he had acco un ted for in his fo ur previous D-2 Main event st ar t s here b y winning the second g r 0 up's ' bigee • fo llowed by Dan McConnell an d Kirt Ta rd iff. Nat ional Junior Champion Lan ce Kin g was sent back 10 yards to the 50 afte r a ' ro ller' in the in it ial st ar t of the Junior Main. From the long m arker he worked his way through traffic to win th e little gu y featu re with the two /three sp ots go ing to Steve Lucero and four time winner Brian Thompson. Napa, California June 28, 1975 Trac k con ditio ns wer e much improved for wee k number th re e of th e seaso n he re. Afte r his problems at Cal Expo on frida y night co n tin ued into th e Handicap part o f the progr am, Alan Christi an got bac k o n the right track b y working h is wa y into th e Scr at ch Main and ended th e eveni ng b y winning his sec o nd Scrat ch fe ature in three starts her e ahead o f J ohn Cun n ing ha m, Gr eg Re w and Paul Orla ndi . While Dale Stetle r was winning the Handicap Main ahead of the top two ride rs in S.R.A. (no rt h) point standings (Rich MacMurra y and Norman Denny), a very .pl eased Chuck l\lille r watched from the p its . When a new piston didn 't arrive in time t o replace th e one that was ho led a t San Jose on Thursday , Miller went to work on an o ld piston with a file . The impromptu machine (? ) work more th an paid off. Whe n someone ap p roached the announcer's stand and put up some ex tra b ucks for Division Two, it set off a chain reaction such that oy the time they brought out th e D-2 Main, the wi n money amoun ted to as m uc h as a First Division Main. Dave Cooper p ut in five smooth laps to take home the largest kitty ever paid a Second Divison rider in Northern California. Promoter Ed Green is alternating Junior Speedway and Match racing at Napa and tonight it was Greg Re w taking the nod over George Carter in a two out of three Mat ch Race. Napa has a IO o'clock curfew and prior to this eve ning's racing referee Fred Spencer said, "if all goes well. we can be done in an hour and 45 minut es. " Includ ing t rophy presentations and a Handicap heat that '. 31