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E"'This makes.it two for America"-Jimmy Weinert • • • ~ Weine rt , Ken t Ho wer t on a nd J im West fell in behind. DeC o st er go t an eve n worse last pl ace start th is time, and Wo lsin k wasn 't much better o ff. T on y held off th e advances o f bo th Weinert and Howerton for ten laps , then Weinert slipped by Tony, a nd Ton y crashed trying to re gain the lead. With T ony De e out o f th e way , both Jimmy and Kent kept th e gas on as they battled for first and Jim Pomeroy m ov ed in fo r th ird. DeCoste r st aged o ne o f hi s fan tastic co m e-fro m -beh ind tricks an d sto p wat ch tim e showed Roger to be cl o sing on Pomeroy at th e rat e of two seconds per lap . J im wa s havin g trouble shi fting h is Bultaco and co u ld n't keep Rog er back. With j u st a lap to go , Ro ger fle w by Pomero y and began reeling in Wein ert and Ho werto!!:... Chargin g toward th e ch ec kere d flag and the las t few tu rns on t he track, DeC oster had m ad e up a distance of 100 y ards on both Weinert an d Ho wer to n to be banging of f their re ar fenders. Weinert m ad e a lun ge with his Yamaha, full th rottle into the last tum, an d almos t overshot it , braked h ard and almo st h igh sided , then id led the al most lo aded-up 400 Yamah a acr os s the lin e fo r th e wi n . Howerton had to panic stop to avoid cen te r-p u nch in g Jimmy in th e tum and lo st e nough momentum to let th e Jammer beat h im acro ss th e line . DeCoster opted to take th e outside line around Jimmy as he floundered in the t um. It co st Roger valua ble yards to the ch ec ke red, and J immy too k th e flag firs t by no mo re th an ten fee t over Kent and Ro ger, It was a fan tastic ending t o a su per day o f racing , with Pome roy fin ish ing th e mo to in fourth ah ea d o f Lackey , Ma rty Tripes, and Ge rri t Wo lsin k. J im m y Weinert was t he first American to eve r wi n a Trans-A.l\ A, l ra ce wh ic h was Houst on in 19 73. With J im Pome ro y having taken th e win last wee k in Geo rgia, The J am mer called Ohio, "two fo r America! " in what will hopefully be the ye a r whe n American domi nation of the Trans-AlvfA Se ries becomes a reality. • t Results : 500cc I N T E RN A T I O N AL : 1. Jimmy We inert 3,1 (Yam ) .2 . Jim Po m eroy 1,4 ( B uq. 3. Jim Pomeroy (24) won the first moto, but a bad shift linkage held him back in the second. THE MID-OHIO TRANS-AMA By Jim Gianatsis LEXI NG TON , OHIO, OC T O BE R 5 Jimmy Weinert continued America's domination of the 1975 Trans-AMA series by win• nmg the second round held at Mid-Oh io Motocross Park. Th e "Jammer" stoked his Bill Buch kap rep ared factory Yamah a to victory in the second 45-minu te m o to to take the overall win ahead o f last week's wi n ner, J im Pomeroy on a Bultaco , and Su zu ki ' s four-time World Champion, Ro ger DeC oster. In th e 250cc S up port class, J im my Ellis rode his Can-Am to a repeat win o f . his Ro ad Atlanta performance b y again wi nning both m oto s to take o ut a la rge lead in th e se ries, Honda 's Ric h Eierste dt was a roc ke tshi p durin g m o st of the race , but claimed n ot to be fully in tune fr o m h is long ra ce -inj ury lay off th is year, and h ad t o se t tle fo r seco nd at th e en d o f th e day ah ead- of T im Ha rt's Yam ah a. First 500cc Mota 16 Marty Smith blew everyone 's mind as he wh eelied his factory RG Ho nda t o th e lead of the firs t moto ah ead of J im Pomeroy, J im West an d Gary Chaplin. Pomeroy st ayed with Smith, and th e tw o proceeded to bl ast away from th e rest o f the field at a p ace th at gave th em a 5 0 0-yard lead b y the e nd of ten laps. Te am Suzuki's ch ances go t off to a very bad start as bo th Ro ger DeC o st er and Gerrit Wolsin k were left way in th e back o f the 3 5-bike fiel d. Both began to work th eir way, but DeC o st er was hampered b y slower riders and stal led o u t h is bik e twice . Wol sink said later, " I never fel t too go o d al l day . I just seem ed to ge t more and more tire d. H At th e halfway point, Pom eroy passed Smith fo r th e lead , b ut crashe d a lap later wh en th e fro n t of hi s Bultaco wash ed out in a tum. Jim quickly re m o un ted th e d o wn ed bi ke a nd go t go ing agai n, ca tc hin g back wi th Marty and passin g him three lap s later to ta ke the moto wi n . Followin g J im an d Mart y acros s th e line we re Ji mmy Wein ert (wh o had steadily been ga ining on th e tw os o me near the e n d of th e race), Wo lsink, DeCoster, Gary Se m ics and Pierre Karsrnakers, Riders wh o suffered problems d uring th e m oto in cluded T ony DeStefano , wh o snapped a c h ain o n the last lap , and Bra d Lackey . Bra d fe ll on the first lap and stalled his bike, th en later in the race so me prototype Eu rope an gas sh oc ks he h ad on his Hu sky went bad . He changed to Fox Shocks fo r the second rnoto , b ut didn't see m .ex cit ed enough to rid e harder than fifth . Marty Tri pes got a flat t ire on h is Bultaco . Second 500 Moto T o ny DiS tefano led the Am erican ch arg e for the seco n d m o to as J im Ro ge r De Co ster 5, 3 (Su z ), 4. Cern t Wolsln k 4 .7 (Suz) , 5 . K en t Howerton 10,2 (Hu s) , 6. Mar ty Smith 2. 1 3 (H o n ) , 7 . J im West 8.8 C al) , 8 . Pier re K arsmakers 7 .1 1 M (H on ), 9 . Gary Sem lc s 6 ,12 (Ka w) , 10 . B rad La c k ey 14,5 (Hus) , 11. Gayl on M osler 9 ,1 0 (M al) , 1 2 T o n y DeStefan o 1 5. 9 (S u z ), 1 3. Steve Stac kable 11 14 {M al }, 14 . G ilbert De Roover 12 .15 (c zi. 15 . Marty Tri pes 24,6 (Bul ) , 16. Ch arles Sun 16.16 (Hu s), 1 7. Ja n E r ic Sa ttq vtst 13 .26 ( K aw ) . 18. B ob H arr is 1 8 ,17 (C Zl. 19. Stewart A n de rson 2 0,1 8 (Bu l), Greg The iss 23. 21 (Su zl 250 S UPPO RT ' 1. J im my Ell is 1, 1 (C -Al , 2 . R ich E lersta d t 2 .2. (Hon)L 3. Tim Hart 5.3 (Y am ), 4 . John Sa vlt . k l 3,' ( Bull> 5 . Ga ry Wise 4 , 8 ( Bul), 6. Mike Runyard l u,4 (C-A), 7. M i ke Kessle r 9, 6 (Hus) , 8. Terry Cla r k 11 .7 (H u s) . 9 . R ic k Bu rge tt 6.12 (Yam ), 10 . Bob Plumb 13 ,9 (Ma l). 1 1. Wa yne Bo y er 7 .18 (CZl, 1 2, Chuck Lampe 12,16 (Ma ll , 13. J ohn A y er s 1 7 ,14 (Ma l ). 14. T om m y Croft 8 .2 4 (H an) . IS, John Deemer 2 0 .13 (H us). 16 . M ark Stapleton 26,15 (Bu l ) . 1 7. F re d Ve r tucci 22 .1 9 (Su z). 1 8 . D o n Kudalskl 14,27 (H a n ) , 19. J oh n Kelly 19 ,2 5 (Ya m) . 2 0. John Joyner 3 5 .10 (Ma n) The second moto finish , with Weinert holding off Kent Howerton and Roger DeCoste r.