Cycle News - Archive Issues - 1970's

I Local hotline, cont'd. ~ 1+1=1 for Hannah and Jennings E By Mike Klinger IRVINE, CAL., AUG . 3 When a rider finishes 12 seconds ahead of second place in both motos, this is quite a racing accomplishment. Bob Hannah (DG), Jeff Jennings and Bill Rubly are in the process of making a sandwich out of Williams. 500 Pro winner Doug Sherman doing nasty things to the track with his big bore Maico. riding out of Palmdale, California, did this Sunday in the 12 5 Pro class at Saddleback. Jeff Jennings (Bul) also scored a perfect day to outlast over r twenty 250 Pro riders. As the 125 Pros came around th e first real deciding tum, it was Bob Hannah in the lead and he was never challenged. With Hannah scooting off to a huge lead, Tim Lunde (Yam) , Dan LaPorte ( F RA ), David Taylor (Han) an d Dave Williams (Yam) were the other fac to rs for the top two spots. Bob Stem (Yam) came from a seventh place start to pass six leading riders and fmish second in mota one. Hannah won, St em second, and LaPorte third. Mota t wo looked as if LaPo rte was goin g to run aw ay w ith the show. But after three laps, LaPorte pulled off with a seized motor. Th en wh o was in th e lead? Bob Hannah , and no one co u ld begin to catch him. Second place was the real battle with Taylor and Stem side-by -side, They staye d so close the entire mota that it looked like only one rider. The overall went to Hannah with Stem second and Taylor third. T w e n ty 25 0 Professional riders converged on th e firs t tum and "Mr. Holeshot, " Bill Rubly (C-A ), was first to the Webco Hill. J eff Jennings (Bu l) came off of a fourth place start, began to pick off riders one-by-one. Jennings took the lead and was pushed very hard by Bruce Baron (Yam). , At the checkered, Jennings won by a hair, Baron second, and David Williams (Yam) third. The ga te dropped and number 19 was in the lead and nev er fal teredo Husky-mounted Bob Elliott pushed Jennings for five laps but tired and fell ,bac k to a solid seco n d. Jeff Vidic (Mai) . and Dan LaPorte (FRA) were the candidates for third. Vidic grabbed it and third overall with a seven-three tall y. Doug Sherman (Mai) , riding for Rams Express, was the 500 Pro overal l winner with a three-one score. Th ree riders fin ish ed the day with four points an d it was th e second mo ta actio n th at decide d th e to p three po siti on s. J on Derhamm er (Mai) was the runner -up and Bill Rubly (Mai ), riding his second class for t he day, pi aced th ird over all. • Results in Results Section. Taylor tops 125 Pro 20 remember that it was Ed Ste ffan (Yam) out in the lead first m ota with Don Grigsby (Yam) on his tail and finally passing, with Marquis moving on up and challenging Steffan. Secon d round it was T-Bone Grigsby in front and Clyde Dennan (Suz) flying to catch up . He over-cooked it in tum one and th en go t in to more · trouble as his rear wheel suddenly stopped sliding and grabbed lots of traction. Clyde didn 't go down but he had an interesting tim e of it, and Marquis won that round. It was Marquis versus T-Bone again. Rick coul dn 't quite make the pass, but their efforts put quite a gap between themselves and Steffan. Steve Fortune and his " Lonely Bul " was up against all those Yamahas in the 250 Expert and did 'em in but it wasn 't easy. Second mota it was Gary Staddan leading with Randy Bird going for the outside of tum one. He made it, 'and then next time around it was Fo rt une doing just th e same thing to take over from h is third spo t. Pass and repass, it was wil d ! Last round, Eddie Beeson got th em all off th e lin e. In that race Randy Bird got in to some real trouble in tum one , but like a true race r left th at throttle on an d he and th e bike stayed toge ther as a team. When in doubt, full o u t! Arthur Junker had th e tr ack wired for his 250 Novice win although Greg Zehner on another Yammie and Steve Loomis tried to catch him but it was three straight for Junker. And the littlest ones of all, the minis, had their night. Todd Brown's Yamaha sure has lots of suds,' but Tommy Walton and Pete Hames never give in and neither did Gene Jenkins on a Honda. In the last mota it was Brown leading, but Hames had gotten right up to his rear wheel when they came into tum one and caugh t up to Rich Mcintosh, who had been having a good' time on an absolute stocker all night and there was some tricky maneuvering to ge t everyone around with Ham es just gelling past as they came ar oun d to th e finish. Ultra and ligh tweigh t point standings are re ally shaking into p lace and Mike Tidwell has num ber on e in both divisions. In the ultra-ligh twe igh t, St eve • Woskoski isn't that far behind. By Jerry Cortright IRWI NDALE, CAL., A UG . 3 You can tell stories abou t all of th e great motos you've seen or how this guy did this or that, if you weren 't at Irwindale Friday night you missed one of the best 125 Pro ra ces of the year. Thirteen of C.M.C.'s best turned out to do battle and when it was allover, 2,103 spectators couldn 't believe the resul ts. Tim Lunde shot out to lead the first mota and went wire to wire, Jim Domann, who had a 13th place in the first round, came back to win the next two . Meanwhile, David Taylor had settled for a fourth , a sixth and a third with Don Bongiorno and Rob Zamora also finishing in the top five in all three motos. When the dust finally settled it w a s T aylor, Mark Lawrence and Bongiorno all en ding up with 13 points. Taylor go t th e nod for his th ird place finish in the fin al mota. St eve Schill in g came from th e bac k of th e pack to get win s in th e first an d th ird motos an d tak e th e over all in th e 125 Intermediate class. Mark Montoya swept the field in the Junior Two Division going wire to wire in all three motos. Frank Leal did the same thing in the 250 Junior One class. Jon Miller piled up a bunch of points in his bid to become a Pro and left the rest of the riders sitting at the line as he went home with three victories. Jeff Vidic did his act and never saw the back of a rider as he collected another win in the 250 Pro class . Bill Rubly spent most of the night going against his good buddy Luke Messer, with Rubly coming out on top of the 500 Pro class. • Resul ts in Results Section. Turner takes second with broken leg By John Bethea EAST IRVINE, CAL., AUG. 1 It was not a very pleasant night for Ron Turner. He did win the 125cc Pro class and finished second overall in the 250cc Pros, but he 'left the track on a stretcher with a possible broken left leg. It happened on the last lap in a terrific battle he was having with Jeff Jennings. Turner was trying to find a line in an attempt to pass when he apparen tly clipped Jeff's rear tire. The next thing was the hi ghside spill. The ironic thing about the whole affair was that Ron still got credit for a fifth in the race since he had co mpleted more than half the laps required for a finish and was awa rded second overall. He had won the 125 Pros without winning a single race. His solid consistency with seconds gave him that win. That 125 race was tight. Scot Clifton (Han) won round one, but then had troubles with the traffic and finished fourth overall. Davey Carlson, a late entry on a Honda, took fifth in round one, then pushed back his opponents in the nex t two races, only to wind up second overall to Turner. Robert Hannah (Yam) was also consistent for third overall. Jennings won the 250 Pro class on the strength of two mota victories and Dave Foltz (Mai) was third. Mike Yorba dominated all three 500c c Pro motos to gamer the win in th at class. This Friday nigh t, bo th here and at Irwindale Ra ceway, will be th e first qualifier s fo r th e CMC Night Motocross National at Irwindale on September 5. 515,000 in cash and prizes are up for th at one. • Resul ts in Resul ts Section. Whooping the doops at Ponderosa By Jim Bissner PONDEROSA, CAL., AUG. 2·3 Saturday evening's race began with the anticipation of a win by Wes Anderson Jr. However, that was not to be the case as Gary Stammen managed to hold it together and boogie to first on a 400 Mono. Monte had a flat rear and Jr. stuck his piston at home check. Wes did manage a first in class, though, on a 400 Yamaha finishing second overall ahead of first 125 Lee Fabry (Mono). Sunday presen ted an entirely diffferent story as Monte Lee ch an ged tires and split for a commanding lead over Rover Mike Aston (250 Hus). Wayne Garret led loop on e, but then seize d it wh ere Wes h ad. Larry Mason from Cam arillo rode his Mon o to second Open. Bucks Grimm (Bri ) and Tim Saunders won the 125 class astride a Yamaha. Ne xt event will be September 6 and • 7, hope to see ya there. '

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