Cycle News - Archive Issues - 1970's

-t! C~ NBW8 NOBTII Oh say,did you see .. . Medford short track By Lynne Diltz ~ ..0 8 a; 0. a; sr: -e; - -. MEFORD, O RE. , AU G . 8 Some of th e speediest riders in Southern Oregon happened to all be on hand for the Open Class. Jeff Campbell and Frank Word, two super-good kids from Grants Pass were pitted toge ther in one heat. Word took the lead, Campbell chased and got under Word on a tum. As these same two came off the line for the A Main, it was crowded with seven other riders and Brett Howard took a quick lead, with Louie Booth right on his tail. Word and Campbell worked their way out of the pack to take over third and fourth and the race was on. The four bikes swooped out of turn four and cam e down the straigh taway wide open and side by each. There was some slipping and sIidin' in the tum and Word was swept off the track. Campbell dropped under and shot by both Howard and Booth as they were still side by side for the groove. Try as they would, they couldn't catch the speeding Campbell. As the announcer said, the track had its slick spots and quite a few riders found every darned one. Starter Ray Copeland was dead-centered by a wild rider as a heat of 125s left the line but it takes more than that to hurt a starter. There were a slew of Kids and the action was high. Craig Hill , Vic Lilya and Bruce Smylie were teamed in one heat. Hill had the lead until coming out of tum two Lilya came up from under and Hill left the track. Smylie gave chase but missed first by half a bi ke length. All three Miller boys were in one main, John and Jeff on Minis and Jim ona hundred. We think it prudent not to list their order of finish. • Results in Results Section. Brett Ho ward (abov e) grabbed th e holesh ot in Medford's Ope n Main, . but Jeff Campbell (bel ow) sw oope d him to complete a grand slam of the class. Dunlap ~x stars new season September 14, 1975, will begin a new season for Dunlap Cycle Park, with 14 CMC sanctioned dates running to May 31, 1976. The Dunlap track features free overnight camping, lots of riding area for riders' family and spectators, clean restrooms, track completely sprinkled, and their famous mack bar. The big feature to Dunlap this season will be a Motocross School every Saturday before a race event. Fresno 's Pro rider Milan Garrett will hold a school from 9:00 a.m, to 3:00 p.m. for $5. For more info on Dunlap MX or their riding school, phone (209) 233-1834. • Holland, Richter & Vail tops again By Sallee Hilton HE LVETIA PARK, CAL., AUG. 3 Their faces are getting to be regulars at the payoff window. Their rear fenders are targets for many up and co m ing Experts, and their 30 • J names are beco ming legen d ! That pretty well su ms up the growing fame and fortune of Cloyse Holland, Jr., Pat Richter an d Casey Vail. Vail, on his ),taico , had no trouble taking th e Op en Expert clas s for two firsts and the , top money without ____ • • • _ _ • • .1 Rich ter in the race as he usually is. (Richter had left his 250 and Open CZS being tuned for bigger things to corne.] Lowell Spiva (Hus) picked up second m oney after fmi shing second to Vail in both motos, Rich ter, riding Eddie Brown's Honda didn 't lo o k as good as usual in h is first 25 0 moto, fmi shing th ird behind Dave Longcor (Hus) and Joh n Franklin (Hus) wh o just plain ran away from him. Vail on his 250 Maico was next up, and then Scott Henry (Bul). These five riders covered about half a mile of the course. The second m oto , there were some changes made in the finishing order. This I . ; .• . . . .... . . . .. . . . . . . . . . . ~ time Longcor missed the holeshot . and was running dead last in the first lap . Richter had the Honda figured out and looked more natural. He led the wh ole race with Fran klin an d Don Sandretto (Bul) m ain taining second and third re spectively. San dretto ha d been in th ird in the first moto and crashed a couple of t im es fmishing 12th. Longcor wo rked h is way back to the front runners, but the race didn't last long enough for him to get further than fourth, taking it away from Ron Junkert (Mon) in the white flag lap. The moto scoring led to Rich ter taking the top money, Franklin second, Longcor J I ~ t J J J ) 1 J J j J _ J • 1 third, and Ted Rogers (Hus) cashing in for fourth after a pair of sixth place finishes. The first few laps of the first 125 Expert moto had Holland in th e lead when all of a sudden Robe rt Frie dland (Yam) went by hi m as eas ily as he had j ust gone by Michael Preston (Yam). They must n ot h ave seen him co ming, and they never caugh t up with h im afterwards. The race wen t on fo r second between Holland, Preston and Arnold Plant (Yam) who looked like they were all tied together on a 20 fo ot length of rope. Holland held out and took it by a nose . , I } «. 1 J le l l ~ 1 ) 1 :] L C \( . , ; 1 1

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