Cycle News - Archive Issues - 1970's

tr affic to ca tch St eele. A few more laps would have seen Coole y in first, up fro m near-last. Kevin St affo rd cashed in on th e 3 50 GP m oney ( $ 1 7 5) a fter Harry Klinzmann loaded up and killed h is Yamaha on the line . Pushed away from th e grid by spe ctators, Klinzman n went fro m last to th ird 350 before retiring. "The bike fell n at o n its face ," he said la te r. Rudy Galindo wobbled h is way to sec o nd ($ 105) on his homebuilt -framed " TZ " 350. 19 73 Cy cle Ne ws Political Enduro c ha m p io n S t e ve Holl en ( H a n) cele bra ted his return to racing with second in' Superstreet, behind Greg Thompson (Ka w ). • Resul ts in Res ults Section Frank's Can-Am & Maico win By Mike Klinger , O RANGE, CAL., j ULY 20 Mike Baede r (Yam 27) neverlet the 250 GP lead go, once he had it . down Pat Evan s right in his p ath . Slicing through traffic and moving up two an d three pl aces at a ti me o n a motorcycle that ac tu ally ran well and stayed .toge ther fo r a ch ange , Galindo fo ugh t his way into fifth by th e. third lap . Wes Cooley jr. had co llided with Peter Tsumura and crashed while leading th e 350 Production race run just before the 250 GP. As a resu lt, he was late to the 25 0 GP grid, an d started in the second wave. Yet Coole y was in sixth place by the seventh lap , right beh ind Galin do, who was dicing with Dic k Fuller. The Yam ah a o f Full er had little steam o n Galindo's bike , whi ch had gone from a stone to a se mi-rocket with the first stages o f he lp from Mac k Kambayash i. But Coo ley's bike , with the wh ole Mack trea tme nt, was fas ter t h an both Fuller's an d Galin do's mounts. lIe swep t by on the eighth lap and took off in search o f th en - th ird place Blakesle e and th e o the r far-aw ay leaders. By thi s tim e Baeder had go ne from third to second to first in a series of sta bs , alt erna tely stretching it out a little and th en bein g almost caugb t by Klin zm an n . Blakesl ee 's bike slowed do wn , an d he fell ba ck to a safe th ird ($90 ). Klin zmann m ade his rush to regain th e le ad, an d around the pair wen tt a few feet, then a few inches apart, then side-by-side . About even on horsepower, the two battled on skill and luck alo ne . Fin ally, on the last lap , th e leaders came into Tum Six , a slippery I SO-degre e right h an der with a rise a t the entrance, as a group of five bikes th ey we re lap ping fough t for mid-pack posi tions, Baeder glan ced nerv ously be h in d an d wen t outsid e, almost in the dirt. Klin zmann tr ie d to fit throu gb the middle, an d en de d up san dw ich ed betwe en tw o ride rs, his righ t knee bending the fai ring of one b ike , h is le ft kn ee crac king the fibe rglass shroud of th e o ther m otorcycle. Baeder drove ha rd a s th e t w o c o m p e t i t o r s su rro un di ng Harry bobbled, slo wing th eir cap tive. At th e n ag, Baede r was in fro nt , an d the pa r ty starte d. Earli er, Co oley wo n Op en GP easily ($ 1 75) . lIe h ad m or e difficulty in th e 500-7!", O-Op en Pro du ct ion ra ce. Coo k Neilson (750 Due ) led fo r abou t five laps, wi th Pat Beacom (900 Kaw ) and j e ff St eel e (75 0 Han ) trailin g. Co oley 's Pops Yosh imura Z· l fouled a p lug on the sta rt , and it was another task of ca tc h -u p for Wes. Neilson 's Duck su ffe re d a nat tire, Beac om assumed the lead , an d Cooley cam e sliding through CMC ran the new GP cour se back war ds. Th e t rac k seem ed faste r, the riders flew higher an d' far t her and co ndit ions were excellent all day lon g. Th e first class on the circui t , the 125 Pros, h ad th e cro wd in awe ! The bikes, co m ing off the ne w double jumps o n the back straight, literally shook the Mota o ne saw Marty Moates (Han) as the leader of the pack with Dan LaPorte (FRA), riding for Fran ks Racing Prod ucts, holding a solid second on Moates. In the p its, LaPorte com men te d that he needed only one more lap to take Moates. Te am Yamah a rid er, Bruce McDougal (Yam) placed thi rd and the Lun de brothers, TIm and Chu ck, pl a ced fourth an d fifth respectively . An identical battle in mota two sh ap ed up qu ickly with LaPone as the King of the Hill . Moates was running seco n d but pulled off with p ipe problems. Bob Stem (Yam ) was third and m o ved into second when Moates DNFed. La Porte pulled away fro m the field and took the overall victory. After finis hing third in m o ta o ne, McDougal collected another third in mota t wo which gave h im the seco nd spot at the end of the day . A very sty lish rid er, Bob Ste m , finishe d third o n the day wit h a six-two combinat io n . 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