Cycle News - Archive Issues - 1970's

! Local hotline -= . aCMC Carlsbad: t A Suzuki & Bultaco clean-up By Mike Vada ~ C'I 1-0 Q) ..0 o +-' u o CARLSBAD, CAL., OCT . 12 Bultaco jet Jeff Jennings and Suzuki's Gary Ogden and Marty Moates scored big in Sunday's CMC Pro racing. Huge white clouds marched across the sky and big Luke Messer (Mai) led the parade in th e opening laps of the first 50 0 Pro moto. Bob Max well (Bul) swooped d own on Messer and too k th e lead in three lap s. Gary Ogden and his RMj370 st arted in dead last, but getting by Messer in the hairpin, h e aim ed for Maxwell, catching him very rapidl y. Ogden to ok over the lead wh en Maxwell seized his big bore Bul and Messer re-inheritcd second spot. Messer got the knobbies rollin' in the seco nd mota , this time with Jeff Fo lan d (Pen) righ t behind. Ogden gassed his way past Foland wit h in the first lap , and zappe d Messer on th e nex t lar> for t he lead. Dale Ander so n (Hus) ch allenged Ogden for th e lea d . Gary held on an d too k th e overall, followe d by Messer with a two-four sco re. Dale Anderson tallied up third, despite a wobbly fr o n t wh eel. Maxwell gave Ogd en a run in the secon d rnoto , but a flat front tire slowed him "fro m con tinuing t he dice. Terry "Tuna" T urner of CRT grabbed th e holesh ot in the firs t 250 Pro go, but a wobbly rear whe el t hrew him o ff th e p ace . Robert Elliot (Hus) took over th e lead , b ut J eff J ennings shot past just before th e dropo ff. Bill Rubly (C-A) and Scott Montgomery had a battle go ing for third. Scott nabbed Rubly wh en he slid out in the same spot Elliot had mad e his mistake. Rubly was off to a fast start in mota two with Mar t y Moat es (Suz ) and Turner right o n his fender. Mo at es soon be gan to fade due to an ailing rear shock. Ellio t and Jennings too k up wh ere they left off in t he first moto aft er get ti ng by both Rubly and T urner. J ennin gs held it on all the wa y to the flag, taking the overall. Cr-IC night racing st ar, Dave T aylor (Ho n) quickened the p ace by hol eshotting both 125 Pro moto s. Mike Ben soon broke his rod on his Elsie, dropping him from the money an d gave rapidl y approachin g Marty Moates (Suz) a sh ot at th e lead. John Sm ith (Suz) worked up to fourth, but a tossed chain gave him a DNF. -. Moates had the gas hooked up, but had to make u p a lot of room to ca tch up to Taylor. Moates moved up on T aylor, setting up for a pass j o b over the famed Carlsbad dropoff. Marty took the o utside on the jump, shu tting the door o n T ay lo r in th e finish co m er. Taylor pulled o ff his stunt again in the second, but his lead didn't last long as a face full of fork o il from a leaking fork cap left him finishing fourth for the mota. Moates won the overall an d • Glover snat ched second place cash. Results in Re su lt s Section. ATA Trial: Schreiber retains No.1 ATA plate By Dick Vasquez N 'cr " :J MOORPARK, CAL., OCT. 5 " Marlan d Whaley may be the U.S. Trials Champion but in Sou th ern California, Bernie Sch reib er (Bul) will again be th e AT A Trials Champ ion of 19i 5. Bernie cinched the 19i5 championship by squeezing out a six point vict ory over Marland (Hon). George Smith 11I (Ho n) h ad o ne o f his best local rides in a long time to take '" " c o Kids had their day at th e Plonkers' Trial - even laid ou t their own loop. Derreck Bernard zeroes in on one of the Kid's sections. third followed by Martin Belair (Ma n ) and Ron Doster (Mo n ). There was a protest filed against Dave (51) Taylor flings it sideways and leads the 125 Pros out of the first tu m at CMC Carlsbad. 18 Bern ie for supposedly recervmg a favorabl e judgem en t in secti on II but it was disallowed. Sin ce Bernie won by six

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