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J eff Hurd by. Randy J ohnson ca me o ff t he th ird heat set to put th e stops on J eff Campb ell a nd he di d . As th e Op en 'A' left th e lin e, J ohnson was left sitting an d his 'not-ready' prote st s fell o n th e sta rter's d eaf ' ea rs. Meanwh ile o n down th e trac k, J e ff Camp bell just kep t o n truc ki n ' , There was a sp ecial tro p hy awarde d, a Sp ortsman sh ip trophy to a gen tle m an who has helped with all th e rac es, been gat e rna n , trackman , fl agm an , me ch an ic , e tc., and d one it all with a cherry wo rd and friendlysmile - Darrel Sm yli e. We all thank him. Would also lik e t o than k Dennis Hu ghes for hi s co u rtesy and a special thank yo u to t he ver y nice lady who provided clear ; accu rate co pie s o f the results each Friday . • Results in Results Section. OMRRA road race PORTLAND, ORE. , AUG. 31 I n th e final race of the day Frankie Juhan from Vancouver, B.C. and Gary Bade from Olympia battled it out at speeds in excess of 175 mph . Juhan set the fastest lap time of the day with one minute 23.9 seconds o n the way to winning the Open GP race with , his new 75 0cc Yamaha. Gar y Bade to ok sec o nd o n his TZ 700. In supporting races Bill White from Seattle won both the Open Cafe class a nd the Open Pr oduction class o n his 9 0 0 K aw a s ak i. Ge ne Brown from Portland won th e 500 Production class and the 5 00 Cafe class, then placed secon d in Op en Pr oduction with his co mp le tely stock RD 3 50 Yamaha. Steve Sch eafer from Seattle won the 12 5c c GP Single class on his super fast Kawasaki. 'Mister Smooth' Ron Fuge re won the 125cc GP Multi class. Diane Cox enter ed her 125 Suzuki b u t broke down after the first he at , while in second place. Mike Budshat won th e 250cc GP Single class on his Du cati. Gary Bade an d Bru ce Lind won the 250cc Multi GP and 251 ,500cc GP respectively . • Results in Results Section. Arch-rivals for the Medford short track were Brian (6) Peterson and Rich (68) Word, with Todd (44) Puett on the nears ide, ready to play the spoiler role. Vic Lilya shows off tool box he won as Kids Cass high-pointer at Medford. Trophy girl says the kid's pretty fast (you mean you didn't see his hand move?) He's pretty good on a motorcycle, too. p oint trop h ies a nd semi-pro mo ney . Overall h on or s for th e week end we n t to Sports man Juni o r c harger fro m Modesto Mike Int erbitze n and Expert smoothie Do ug Chand ler in th e mini co m pe t i tio n. "Indy" ac tually t ied po ints-wise with Nov ice race r E ric Wat t s b u t t o o k to p hon or s based on h is three win s agains t two fo r Watts. Super smoo th Do ug Ch andler fro m Salinas - he ca n 't weigh m or e than 6 0 po u nds so ak in g wet - t ook top min i ho nors p rim aril y fro m co nsis t ency. Doug trophied th re e ou t o f four races in an extremel y co mpe titive 80 class wh e re pay off sp o ts are usu ally d iv ided give n nights by an y o f 13 ra cers. His two seconds an d a first were good for high point honors. on Delacys take two , By W. H. Spencer Turlock, Stanislaus Co. Fairgrounds, Aug. 29, 1975 FREMONT, CAL., A UG . 27 A pair o f Delacy brothers copped both feature events in tonight's Semi-pro Pilot Program short track. Rick Delacy led wire to 28 wire from the re st art afte r Rodger Slack got off . down the b ack st raigh t, eliminating Brian Brown with a broken hand, Rod Spencer with the willies and Slack with a bent Boss racer. Rocky Malynn tried to keep within distance of Delacy 's YZ 360 but had h is hands full of little Tony Alves an d Don Bailey. Scott Pearson kept his overall chances alive wi t h a fifth while Mike Faria took sixth. Faria still leads in the ove rall points both here and in the District but with a season that goes from January to November, an ything can happen. Randy Mamola sa w six points go down the drain in the ?50 Expert Main when he lost his s ti n ge r /m uffl e r assembly. Despite the fact that he wasn 't black flagged, he was disqualified fo r not finishing the race with all the equipment he started with. This gave the win to Mike Delacy with a fine finish for second by luckless Dave Nazzisi. On ce again , Fari a kept things alive with a third over Jim Mertens who still is a little groggy from a horrendous highside here three weeks ago . Ron Sh afer broke from t he pack early in the 3 6 0 Junior and slid his Astro to an easy win ove r Hank Rivera who is finall y ge t ting used to the Erv Kanemoto Ka wasaki while Bill He rman t proved th at hi s lu ck isn't always bad b y Th e West side Eagles MC o pe ne d the weekend's ac tio n with a smoo th ly -ru n event under so me what ad verse track co n di tio ns, as fai r officials would n ot a llow t he co u rse to be co m p le tely taking third, h is second troph y o f the y ea r at Fremont. Tony Gould m ade the bi g switch t o the 250 Junior class and nipped o u t a hard charging Kevin French and J erry Cerro. Mike Harrington zipped b y Brian Thompson and Louie Mazur for the 12 5 Junior win and Thompson 's first loss. In the mini battles Tony Deatherage co n tinu es to bac k his 100 Yamaha into the comers better than the competition while Larry Kruseman edged in t o the last troph y position in both 80 and 100 Experts . Larry be at out Dan Kir keby by less than a foot in the 100 and by ab o u t a foot over Blair Newell in th e 80 . Giveaway goodies are being collected fo r the last n ight of short track in October and already Hap Jones has put" • up lots of cantingencies . Results in Results Section. . .Oakdale, Calif., Aug. 30, 1975 T h re e Scott Pearson elbows past Jeff Sierck at the Oakdale round of the Valley Short Track Series. Interbitzen, Chandler romp at Valley short track series By Ann Carr Over eleven hundred and fift y riders made the fou rth ann ual short t r a ck ja u n t th rough th e San J oaquin Valley during Lab or Day wee kend to co mpe te for high prep are d. Race rs donn ed their kno b bies for th is o ne , however, an d 23 4 rid ers b u mped a nd h o ok e d aro u nd the o ne-eigh th mil e arena. Expe rt ac t ion feat u red th e re tu rn of f lat-track i ng m ot o cr o sser N eil MacDannald wh o co m e s o u t once in awh ile fo r t he ro ug h ones. Neil sho we d he had no t lo st his T url o ck t o u ch as he coppe d both hea t a nd Main. Second was ano ther good rough tr ack race r Alan Mc Gehee . Alan stayed within st rik ing ra nge o f MacD annal d , b u t Neil neve r m ad e th at looked- for mi st ake. Eve n tual high po in t racers did well on this d ifficu lt cou rse as Eric Watts, Mike Interbitzen , Rafe Heath , and Billy Marshall all ca p tu red their Main s. Watts, newl y turned sportsm a n from th e mini Ex pe rt ranks literally fl ew aw ay from hi s co m pe titi o n. Billy Marsh all from Sac ramento , the eventual 200 class winner, began astring o f three at Turlock but co uld not get it t ogether at Lodi t he last day to ta ke to p honor s. It It

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