Cycle News - Archive Issues - 1970's

! e~ HBW8 NOBTII t lost the lap lead. putting four guys on the same lap. Then on lap 42 Vanderpoo l took the lead with Scu ffoni /Pat McCaul in third over Haynes/Gough. Th en Gary had a problem .wit h the throttle assembly whi ch fell off the bars in t he pit side. As the throttle stuck WFa. he popped a wheelie, ran into the sid e of th e co ncessio n st and and squashed a rather large garbage bin. The resulting turmoil allowed the Hayes/Gough team to sneak by and take the win as Morrell snuck by a sti ll picking up Vanderpool just 10 feet from the finish . Another very interesting Marathon Madness, • Results in Resu lts Section. Honda Team school and trials By Joyce Sprayberry LAKE ISABELLA, CAL., JUNE 22 The Honda Team school was held in a small valley between hills with a now-dry creek bed down the middle an d at one end the Kern Morris Renaud (11) leads Happy Jack (For Sale) Jones through the Visal ia right-hander. Why call hi m Happy Jack? Check the grin , if you can see it through h is face shield. ... 0-35 TT Scrambles By Cosmic Cat VISALIA, CAL., J ULY 5 As over 200 riders converged at the Visalia rodeo grounds, Rod Roth (Kaw) took the 100cc J unior lead with Kevin Gosen -. (Suz) a n d Kent Bowser (Kaw) following. On lap two both Gosen and Bowser went by Roth in the first tum. Then Bowser, not 'h appy fo llow ing Gosen, went by him in the sweeper for the lead . In the 125cc Expert Main Tim Clark (Suz) and J im Mcintyre (Suz) led t he pack on the first lap . Back in the pack, Clark's twin brother, Gary (Suz) was fighting his way thro ugh the crowd. By t he th ird lap , he had taken the lead from brother Tim and went on for th e victory. Tim Clark and McIntyre came out of the sweeper together but Mcintyre found enough bite in the tr ack to outrun Clark to the finish for second. Mo rr is Renaud (Suz) led the 350-500cc Expert Main flag to flag, but it was no easy task. Bultaco-mounted J ack J o nes was no further th an two bike lengths away the whole race. J ones made most of his tries for t he lead in the turns, particularly the tu m going into the sweeper. Renaud man aged to stay in the groove for the well earned victory and J ones, after riding a fine • race, finished second. Resu lts in Results Section. Silva cops the Marathon biggee By W. H. Spencer FREMONT, CAL., JUNE 29 J oh n Silva and his Bike World Can-Am won th e b ig class of the day that saw 10 tro phies awarded. Silva teamed with brother-in-law 28 Tim Navarro an d despite th e los s of a lap when Navarro ran ou t of gas and cut across the o ne and one-half m ile track, they beat out Trails End owner AI Banta (KT M) by nearl y h alf a lap. The 30-plus man field was led off early by Bob Vickery, b ut Jim ado rn rode right around h im on a 250 Mota-Villa and led the first four laps. His mo un t was to succumb to a broken co untershaft sprocket. Vickery took the lead on the fifth lap. A series of things caused their demise just past the halfway mark which was a little lo nger lasting than sec on d p lace runner Mike Phillips who was rearranging the track on every other lap. Silva moved up to seco nd o n lap 15 and took the lead with J ack Simmons close behind on lap 28. Dan Castclhan o took that second spot just two laps later and held it fo r 10 more until a lo ng pit stop cost him too many pla ces. Th at left Banta in good shape for the pass on Simmons who h ad to stop, fill it up and continue to ride all by h imsel f. Don Castelhano ha d a good morning going fo r him as h e teamed with Greg Bourne on a new YZ to w in' the 125 class by a fu ll lap over Andy Russ ell . Russell had a three-way battle fo r second with Jim Rossi/Bill Hanam and Jim Sisco/Bill Risner. All three were on Elsinores and very close together. Rossi/Hanam came from fifth to take third while early leader Scott Webster teamed wi th Terry Rudy finished fifth with chain prob lems. Sisco /Risner held seco nd for awhile but slipped to fourth two laps up on racer Rick , Rat hburn teamed with Steve Moul ton. Th e hardluck award go es to Mike Webb and Donny Anderson who led the first two laps and were in the hunt until th e last 10. The motor would load up every on ce in a while and pitch a chain but the bad part was missi ng a trophy by one spot. Leading out the 25-m an Open race was lo ng, lanky Wayne Morrell (Pen) . If . he was to be caught to day , it would be a great race, and it was. Haywire Haynes and his big-tank Yamaha teamed wi th Te rry Gough were in second with Mitch Wissner riding an other o ne by h imself over Roge r Selby/Dennis Silva on the famo us Selby Maico . . Taking second on the second lap was Steve Scuffoni on a 250 co nverted to 360 Mota-Villa. (Importer Bob Swanson had brough t out two machines to ride in tw o differe nt races an d wanted to try a switch in between even ts. So, afte r 1 adorn dropped out of the 250, he go t out his tools and in abo ut 20 minutes; changed the to p end. Not a bad operation. adorn got into the ac t taking second from Scuffoni on lap nine , but dropped o ut by lap 14 with other ills. Scuffoni to ok ba ck the second while Morrell kept o n trucking in first. Moving up from 11th to fif th was Chris Carter who teamed with fellow ISDT rider Gar y Vanderpool on Carter's Yamaha. Sandwiched in between were John T avi s /Ru ss Pope on a monoshocker and Dave Frazier o n his o ld reliable. By lap 27, Morrell h ad lapped th e entire field . As Morrell kept on stre tching, Carter and Vanderpool we re moving into seco nd with gas stops going on. On the 41 st lap Morrell crashed and River. The Experts, Amate urs and the better No vices went south to a steep hill to learn down hill ho rsesh oe turns, downhill wi th a sharp left or righ t and of cou rse work the creek bed, ro cks and logs. One fellow later said at t he trials, "I'm glad t hey taught me to go through a Vvtrec , but the one in the section I couldn 't do because my skid plate is too wide." The Beginner Novice, kids and gals went to the north, started at the bottom and wo rked till time ran out. But we know one kid that learned so me th ing. At the trials, because we on ly had three kids riding t hey were to ld to ride Non-trials Bike sections or Novi ce C. When Derreck Bernard (age II) arrived at this first section the checker misunderstood and told h im to ride Novic e B (Beginn ers) . so he did. In turning in his loop ca rd he asked so me qu estions. Rather than make a big me ss of things his Dad , Boyd Bern ard , advised him to co n tin ue riding the Novice B sections. Believe it or not he cam e in first p lace . Another student of the school, Fred Wing, is a new ' member of the Ho nda Team. He is th eir new mechan ic (three da ys) who, havi ng never ridden t ria ls before, took the school to see what it was all abo ut, came in fi fth out of 12 Nothing is more t imeless than a fast man on a Triumph Open Expert winner Carroll Jackson,

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