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Final Dirt Track Races of 1975 at Ascot 1/2 mile Oval Racing Fri, Oct.•0 .7 Spm (4 AMAPros . Exs, Jrs, & Novs Pit Gate 5 :30 PM, Practice 6 P Qualifying 7 PM, First Race 8 P 18300 Vermont, Gardena, California day: 213-321-1610, 213-323-9710 night: 213-S32-6363, 213-676-8124 z o t- o: :> III .J 1IJ :> Z c( ~ Bob Graves (88) an up and coming Open Amateu r takes it to the inside in a typical scrambles left-hander. Clifford Mathews (Kaw) wound up the first mota of 125 Am ateurs with a clean sweep and left Brad Wootten,Jim Strain, an d Gary Kaitukoff trying to squ e e ze in to second with Wooten win ning o u t. Jim Speigle sped off on his YZ in mota two an d did a job on the rest of th e p ack. Mathews finished wi th a second. Th e last moto brought o n a another new leader as Woote n battled with Sp eigle on every lap holding off th e cha llenge to st ay in front . Woo ten to ok the tr ophy . Eddie Beeson was the number one man in th e c o m b i n e d 250 Amateur / Expert g o with Wayn e sandwich ed in be tween the Experts taking Am ateur honors. • Res ults in Results Section . Novices get'it on at Corona By Elaine Jones Cliff Whetstone has just about reached graduation by putting together tw o victories in the 2 50 Novice short track an d half mile. Another double winner was Rick Blankenship. In the 125 half mile , Rick snatched it all awa y at the las t possible second leaving Marty Woodbury second and Tom Gates third. On the short track Rick and h is 100cc Kawasaki topped Bill Viust and Cliff Whetstone. Marty Woodbury garnered 12 5 Novice honors ove r Robert Pfetzing - and J DC Breedlove. Mi k e Tidwell tu rned in another o u tstan di ng performance, riding five and winning five. Bot h the 125 Expert short track and half m ile fe ll to Mike . Danny Per kins and Freddy Conover were second and th ird in the short trac k and Troy Fishe r and Fred Conovej secon d an d th ird on the half mile. On to the 250 Expert short track and ha lf mile with Greg Zehner an d Terry Statum foll owing Mik e home on both. The final win for Ti dw ell cam e in the 250 Expert Twi n but second place Bill Cain stole the sho w com ing from last place to finish seco nd . Ruben Mala guam ero a new face was third. • I~ I~ ~ ~I on Adult ticket for any Friday AMA event. I SaveS•. OO -- - - - - - --- - -~- 213-860-4040 have Robert Chapek po wer by him coming out of tum four. Dobbins would gas it , pass in g him in the turns and Chapek would co me right back to h ave the lead co m ing down the straigh taway. Robert finally made a mistake and allowed Pat to ge t by wi th enough of an edge on th e straight to check Chapek's stormin' Harley and pick up the gold. Ch ap ek go t rev enge on the half mile wh en Dobbins' bike we nt sour, an d t hat was the end of the gam e. Richard Sweaney, making a rare appearance on the Corona ovals, h ad a real good round with Rick Bird an d J o hn Ca licchio. They were so close a blanket could ea sily have been thrown over all three of t he m, b ut Sweaney finally grabbed th e edge and the win with Bird taking sec o nd and Calicchio third. . Don Frauenberger was o n hand for the Open Exp ert hal f mi le an d everyone in his class w as well aw ar e of this fact. Dave Lujan wired himself into an early se c ond p osition while Gordie Kidd worked up fro m way b ack in th e pa ck to take third. - 213-924-2111 Distributed by Sammy Tanner Distributing II · 8 TRAVEL FORKS THESE FEATURES MAKE BETOR MOTO-X FORKS THE FINEST AVAILABLE by • T RU E 8" T RAVEL + REBOUND .21 .5 L BS. 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But it was Mike Pillar (Han) who wo n overall with a third and a second. Gary Huber was seco nd ove rall and J ones thi rd . Lane Crandell bulldozed h is Beezer to an impressive th ird in h is first 500 Class mota. He bu ilt the unusual co n tra p tion himself, and impro vised when necessary , like strapping on an • ar my can te en fo r a gas tank ! (Con tinued on page 40) • VENT ED TU BE CA PS WITH FIL T ER BETOR AMERICA CORP. P.O. BOX 328 LEWISTOWN, PA, 17044 YNOMASCfSR He Diagnostic Service Center Electronic Engine Analysis • Dyno Testing Tune-ups Dynomaster 15 19 W. 134th, Gardena , CA 90 249 2 13-532-6 518 . 27