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SAN ANTONIO, TEX., AUG. 24
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out the red carpet and presented
Marty Smith with the keys to the
city, but that wasn't enough. He
took wh at he really wanted on
Sunday with a smooth, graceful,
thrashing of the 125 Nati onal
class.
Before the race began, Marty said
that since he had already wrapped up
the National Championship , he was just
going to take it easy and have fun. As it
turned out, he did so at the expense of a
talented field of National calib er riders,
and made it loo k pretty easy.
In anticipation of the start of the
first National moto, spectators crowded
the first turn, avidly awaiting the almost
certain arrival of the brigh t red Honda
with the magic number pne and its
magician aboard. T hey weren't
disappointed. The big number 1 burst
from the starting gate and ca me through
the first turn crossed-up, sid eways , with
the wick lit and in the lead.
Stevie Wise and Smith battled as
Stevie took over the lead , but with
fifteen minutes gone in moto one Smith
was starting to pull away. But just past
the halfway point Marty slipped down
in a comer, allowing Wise to once again
take over the lead. Smith was up
immediately and giving ch ase in second
place.
With less than ten minutes to go,
Smith again p assed Wise for a lead
which he would not relinquish. At the
flag it was Smith in the lea d, Wise abo ut
Wise (81) leads in fi rst mota, Smith appears momentarily distracted by trackside scenery.
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Marty doing his thing - throwing dirt on peop le out of the first tum .
six seconds behind, then Tommy Croft
and Mickey Boo ne close together, Tim
Hart in fifth, Danny Turner, who had
made a remarkable run up to sixth,
young DG teammates Davy Williams
and Bob Hannah in seven th an d eighth,
Glendon Johnson in nin th and Mark
Harri ngton, wh o before the race claimed
his bike would n't handle, in tenth .
The sec ond fo rty minute mota
