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; III • ~ e 10 f' O'l ~ ~ f' M ~ ..0 0 ..... U 0 .. Ms. Dana Co vert put it to th e 100s at Ch ico sho rt t rack wh en the right hole opened up. hay-covered guard ra il. Af te r a lo ng de lay . all three riders made it back to th e restart an d " as the flag flew, th ose same three were out in front aga in . Thorpe h ad to pull off af ter two and was observed in th e infield, throwin g dirt on his engine. John Sch aubl e is used to wet trac ks - h e lives in South ern Ore gon ! He won it all in th e Novice class from a flying heat to top sp ot in the T ro phy Dash , turning 1.1 4 for three laps. J ohn ca me o ff the lin e midway in th e p ack, too k three riders o n th e o u tsi de o f tum one, fo un d an op ening goi ng in side and shot out of tum tw o in fir st place of t he Main. He th en just kep t on mavin ', leavin g Ken Anderson, Butch Cochran and Rick Waters to worry abo u t the next three slots. Anderson couldn 't be shaken out of number two but Waters slipped by Co chran on the gun .lap to finish third. Junior point leader Steve Eklund skimmed off the wins all day in t hat divis ion. It was some Main event; t he first lap was an almost even m atch between Eklund, Lowell Moural, Frank Word and Tom Copriva, Ek lund began to pull away leavin g Word t o pass Moural on the second lap . Expert Diane Cox showed her ponytail to Pete Marinacci in a most fashionable TO manner. While winner Jack Heeter was clocking three at 1. 13 , Diane was settling into the groove behind Marinac ci. She 'd close on the straigh ts, lose in the turns un til the final lap when sh e crowded into tum three, held it open and swung out/ide in tum four, then punched it and slipped into second by about three-quarters of a bike length. Th ereaft er , the crowd cheered at the mere men ti on of her name and egged her continually in the Main where she fmished sixth. No small matter when you eonsider the fron t five! There were 13 Experts in the Main and they were given two p rac tice laps. The roar of those 13 engines vibrated the whole stadium and the crowd surged to i t s feet . It was that snappy cr o wd-pleaser Ch arlie Bro wn out in fro nt, crossi n' up comers with feet o n th e pegs. Chuck J oyner was not far behind with Mar k Williams closing fast and that was so me go-ro und , Williams p ushed fo r five hard lap s then fo un d Randy Scott grinnin ' as he sailed in to th ird. Sco tt pushed Joyner fo r an other five, p assed him in tu m fo ur bu t afte r half a lap we nt back t o se t tl e in sec ond. Marinacci kep t his co mfor table fifth, being careful to keep a wary ey e on Dian e Cox who was closing fas t after spendin g 12 laps getting aro und the Rogue River kid Mike Branam. • Results in Resul ts Sec tion. Scott double winner at Cycleland By Donna Fowler CH ICO, CAL., SEP T . 13 Shane Scott (Yam ) co pped wins in bot h t he 3 6 0cc Scratch and Handicap Mains at Cydeland to . night. T he Handicap win ma kes Shan e the 14th rider to achieve th e .. Scr at ch rnan " ti tle in the 12 year histo ry o f Cycleland . Ms. Dan a Covert (Ya m) won th e 100cc Main by an im pressive ri de . J ody Patterson (Yam) go t a good h ol eshot and quickly moved out ah ea d o f the rest o f the p ack. Dave Evers (Yam) also broke loose and began closing the gap be t ween him and Patterson. As the Ever s/Pa tters on duel got tighter, Dan a moved into third p lace and waited for he r opening . In the four th lap Evers tried ' to sq ueeze under Pa tterson but ~en t in a little to o st rong causing both n ders to move off their line . Dana quickly. took advan tage of the situation, moved In to the groove an d came out of the turn ahead. In the 125cc hig h point race , the John Sudberry (Yam )/Dave Upton (Han) d uel is getting real tight. Now, with only two races left, t hey are within one point of a tie situation. It looks like this one will go right down to the wire. Results in Results Section. • Jodry-way out winner at Helvetia By Sallee Hilton HELVETIA PARK, CAL., SEPT. 7 Brian J od ry [Mon ] made a clean sweep of both 250 Expe rt m otos in his return to the local racing scene after a successful tour of the co u n try following the circuit. The first mota rubber b and starter sn ap ped and le t four or five riders out of the chute ah ead o f J odry , but WF O go t him aro un d th e first turn in th e lead, fo llo we d by Mike Hart (CZ) who was back t o racing aft er several months layoff. Next up were Greg Hebard (Hus) , Cory La Rue (Bul ) a brand new E x per t, a n d John Franklin (Hus ). Th r ou gh ou t t he rn a to every thi n g change.d b ut th e lead. 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