Cycle News - Archive Issues - 1970's

(; • • ~ l1li fair co nd itio n allowing mo re speed and most riders took advantage of it . Kerry Himme1wright from down Klamath Falls way came to race, and race he did. Look at his name in the result section! It was Himmelwright, Brian Peterson and Rich Word in the TD, and the crowd couldn't have taken more than three laps of that kind of actio n in the 1 25 class. Same thing happened when Himmelwright did a quick-change to a 200 and rode a TD with Williamson and Todd Puett. 1be Kids TD had Bruce Smylie, Vic Lilya, Bill Davis and Crai g Hill. Smylie took the lead and Lily a went up , down and all around trying to ge t past. Randy Haberman did some hard. hard riding but it was all for zilch, except to know that he gave it all he had. He had a lo usy heat, was placed in the 125 C, won that easily, went from a second row start in the B to second place in one lap and had a side by each go-ro und with Kir k Ho ward. Kirk slippe d a little and Randy took ove r a ' fi r m l e a d , to another win. lie transferred to the A Main and shot from another second row start to about fif th . He was really hauling leather hip pockets when he wa shed ou t in three-four, getting a b it too high and into some soft stuff. He and th e bike plowed up 70 feet or so of track and hit the wall. The race was stopped, Randy was OK b ut his bike wasn't. Robbie Izatt 's evening was almost a repeat of Haberman 's without the wipe-out. Izatt won the C, transferred, went from a second row start to first place in the first lap of the B despite all-o ut efforts by Susan Word to stop him. He second-rowed the A Main but couldn't get past a fo urth spot. Although that's understandable - the front three were Vic Lilya, Bill Davis and Bruce Smylie! The 250 A was another screamin ' affair. Word, Peterson and Puett were the front three with Mark Detwiler a flyi ng fourth until he was forced off three-four by a wobbly rider. Those front three went the whole way like one. On the gun lap , Peterson put th e screws to Word and Puett, making a run to go under both. Puett left the track in a bla ze of dust and dirt, the other two shot over the line with Word in front. The Open A Main was sitting on the line un der a two-minute warning when onto the track shot . ... "The Great Pumpkin." At leas t that's what the announcer called jim Booth, who had a great, huge, orange balloon taped to the top of his helmet. • E Duke City scrambles Cl'l By Cosmic Cat Cl'l PORTERVILI.E, CAL., AUG. I '"..... """ 10 r- '"""" "-l Combine a hot summ er night, thirsty spe ctat ors and parents downing a few cool ones in the breeze, and a questionable start in ;:l 00 ;:l

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