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The story of Mike Bast's night.
The King and his court. Ste ve Bast gets the wreath. Larry Shaw seems lots happier with his second th an Dubb Ferrell
with his third. and the littlest champ. Louis Kossuth. even brought his own trophy tootsie.
By Dennis Greene
BAKERSFIELD, CAL., OCT. I
In 1968 Sonny Nutter became the
first California State Champion in
an event run indoors at the L.A.
Sports Arena.
The following year this event
was moved to Bakersfield where
Steve Bast had won the tide five
times. The eighth running of the
10
California State Championship was
again held at Bakersfield, where a
capacity crowd saw the top sixteen
riders in qualifying points based on the
first two rounds meet head on in twenty
even ts of Scratch racing. The program is
designed so that every rider will ride at
least once against every other rider.
Top-seated rider Scott Sivadge was
beaten by Steve Bast in the first ride,
setting a pattern for Steve that would go
unchallenged all night.
In event number four, Mike Bast
came up against Dubb Ferrell, the
hottest rider around for the past seven
wee ks, Mike blew his re ar tire
completely off the rim in tum one of
the first lap and got no points for his
rust ride. Ferrell won, getting three
points. Again in event five Ferrell carne
out on top over Mike Curoso, Bill Cody
and Scott Sivadge,
Event seven was Steve Bast over
Bruce Penhall, Mike Konle and Rich
MacMurray , putting him in a tie with
