Cycle News - Archive Issues - 1970's

Local hotline (Continued from page 2 7) After that there was no touching these yellow little rockets. It looked like Williams had the speed to get by, but Stem just had all the good line. Harry's Cycl e's 100 Expert ride r , Pete Hillebrecht ca me bac k in the seco n d mote and won th e overall after losing to Mark Brooks (Hon ) in th e first round. John Gless (Hon) an d Jamie Oliver, on a sleeved down 125 Monoshockers held off Randy Skinner (Hon) for th ird and fourth place honors. Results in Results Section . • R.A.C.E. MX By Terri Buchanan CORONA, CA L., AUG. 7 Jim Lawson (Yam) finished with a goo d lead at the end o f the first 125 Intermediate race, but his rear end got smashed up, putting him out for the res t of the night. Mark Lester (Hon) an d Steve Harper (Hon ) took over with Lester claiming first in moto two and Harper took it in the final moto, There was quite a bit of action in the 125 Senior class, David Williams (Yam) in first all the way. Steve Bauer (Hon) was second, an d running third un til he fell was Robin Richey (Hon). Bauer fell on the checkered flag lap to give his secon d place spot to Rick Stout (Yam). The second moto ended the same, Williams, Stout , th en Bauer. In the final moto, Williams was ah ead, Floyd Burk (Yam) was number two, Stout was third, and Bauer had fourth . Bauer passed Stout, then fell, Stout shot ahead and got by Burk to finish second and claim th e second overall money. In the 250 Junior class, J erry Seel ey (Hus) took first in moto o ne , followed by Rick Shuttleworth (Mai) and George Crezee (Yam ). In the seco n d moto Dave Crowfoot (Yam) led the ' way, Doug Kramer (Mon ) was in seco nd , and th ird went to Shuttleworth. Shuttleworth took the win in th e final race, and overall first. Crowfoot got second and third was taken b)' Kramer. Paul Ingles (Ya m ) pulled straight firsts in the 50 0 Junior class, for an impressive first overall. Kevin Roche (Mai) took seconds in motos one and two, but only go t fifth in the final race, putting him third overall and giving the second place to David Beaumont (Suz). • Results in Results Section. Lynwood 's Morgan Molecco, Wayne Garrett from Mojave and Sunland's Lon Peterson, all first-timers at 395. Op en N o vice co mpetitio n was another one-two-three with Fat AI from Ridgecrest taking second pl ace trophy whil e Little Ro ck 's la d Phili p Sh irle y took three firs ts on th e seven-eighth mile course. Ridge crest r a cer Jerry Irelan managed to squeeze in a second in 25 0 Be g inner co m pe t i t i on b e t we en Barstow's Jim Wilson an d Mark Hood. Moj ave's Dan Garre tt zoomed to victo ry in 250 Novice competition while th e real b attle went on between Glendale's Brad Martin and Lan caster's Tim Abernathy as they successfully struggled to keep Barstow out of th e winner's circle. Palmdale 's Jeff Hares took the 125 Beginners with two firsts and a second leaving Bernard Unhassibissi second pl ace brass for California City, in a tightly fought race . Driving hard for second in 100 Novice competition was " Sp eedy Steven " as Barstow neighbor Sam Goldsmith took th e win with two firsts and a second aboard his Suzuki. Hi desert hotshoes wrapped up 100 Beg i nner competition with Apple Valley's Ted Thompson grabbing th e lead from Victorville's David Adams aboard a Honda. Mechanical problems ' plagu ed several good racers including Robert Land who too k the first moto before his scooter scattered. Moving to Novice ranks didn't seem to bo ther Ken Reeve's winning streak in mini competition. Out of ei ght trophies to Ridgecrest, two were won by mini Beginners including J eff Blac k in 11-14 competition ages and the mini-est Pat : Galan in 0-10 year olds. • Resul ts in Resul ts Section. Eddie ' Gonzales, riding for Desert Suzuki, out rode the competition for Second place in the 250 Expert class, CIl Barstow Bunch bust 395 MX

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