Cycle News - Archive Issues - 1970's

Local hotline, cont'd. • Super quality 50% Cotton , 30% Polyester ! • Kn itted neck & arm trim • Dark cartoon with red letterin g -Appro ved by Papa Wealey .Ord er yours today for im med iat e delivery - no waiting Supply limited-Order fast! Just fill out, rip off, & mail to: Cycle News Products PO Box 498, Long Beach , CA 90801 I • ------------------------- Mike Bell (1) had t o battle Jeff Bun n (35) in the last moto for the win. My name is I I St ree t Ad dress I I State I. 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Edinger ' Santa Ana, CA 92705 714-835-7821 Base Prices Subject to stock o n hand In previous ,ds HusQvolrn, pr ices oIP~.red t o be Ou t t he do or du e to II m ispr int. ... 22 ~ 213-587-7244 . 5938 Pac ific, Huntington Park , CA 90255 •• • •••••• Joh n Trani's Competition C ycle P roducts spece hn nq in desert & motoc ross 16612 Beach Blvd .. Huntington Beach, CA 714-847-2202 Matos two and three were ail Mike Bell's. The Long Beach Honda rider got the holeshot both times and was chased by Taylor. Mark Lawrence (Yam) got by Taylor through the lakes to take second place at the fini sh, Mota two results : Bell, Lawrence, and Taylor. Jeff Bunn (Hon) really gave Bell some problems in mota three acti on . The p air were wheel-to-wheel for most of the race, but Bell held on to win and capture the overall for the nigh t. David Taylor, with a two-three-four, took se co nd and Irwindale night racer, Mark Lawrence took third. Herb Sh elton (Mai), in his ftrst 250 Expert race held off Bill Rubly (CA), Joe Johnston (Oss) and Jeff Jennings (Bul) fo r the opening laps in motos one and two. Rubly and Johnston snuck by the Maico rider on a little inside-out tum to take over the top positions. Rubly won the first race with Johnston second. Jennings go t his act together in round two and three and blew off the other riders to take the top sp ort. This was n ot good en ough as Rubly tallied a one-two-two for the nigh t to be the big overall winner. "Jumpin' Joe" collected second overall with J ennin gs settling for third. J eff Browning (CZ) was the 500 Pro winner after outlasting Jeff Jackson (Mai). Browning won all three motos with Jackson pulling in close in motos two and three. Browning won overall, Jack.on was second and Dick Smallwood (Han) was third. • Results in Results Section. Riverside D.A. Torpedoes Juvenile Hall Benefit By Elaine Jones CORO NA , CAL., AUG. 6 All the ingredients were present for one of the best races of the year, two hundred plus riders, prizes, beautiful trophies, and plenty of spectators. What went wrong? Very simple. The race was shot down by the curfew imposed by the Riverside District At tomey. Most of you kno w the problems Corona Raceway has been plagued with the past few years. Many of you racers came face to face with just how those restrictions, which are rigorously enforced, affe ct y ou as a rider. The real rub comes when you find o ut that the judge at the time the settlement was made, wanted to allow an emergency clause which would have let the program finish , The D.A.'s office refused to accept it saying the track would misuse the emergency clause. This particular misuse was a be nefit for the Riverside County J uvenile Hal l Auxiliary. This group of dedicated men and wo m en vo lunteer their time to work with the kids and the $1,200 profit made from the generosity . of rid ers, parents, friends and the spe ctators will be used to fund the many programs they sponsor. The D.A. sits in his office with a min d open only to a few people who make acc usations which are rather exaggerated. Meanwhile , he hands down edicts su ch as mu ffler type on all en try blanks, d.b. readings every week, te sting on all new mufflers on the market with a me mber o f the D.A.'s office present as an observ er. By the .way, for that testing, the track had to get special permission to conduct them o n a night there was n o racing. The results fr om all this testing has to be submitted to the D.A. 's office every wee k and the penalties are stiff if they are n o t co mp lied with. . Sin ce the race was not co mpleted it is very difficult to try and report it, but I can report on the generosity and understanding attitude of the ri ders. What could have been turned into a very ugly scene was settled by the riders with less than one tenth of them wanting their m oney back. The majority of the riders came from out o f the county and drove many miles on a week night. The Sidehacks, who have made the Benefit race sin ce its inception four years ago, Pro riders who didn't even get much of a semi and no m ain , Sp o rtsm en who got short races, (Continued on page 35)

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