Cycle News - Archive Issues - 1970's

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Larry Orr agai n had the bridesmaid role with third. • ~ VA LEN CIA, CAL. , OCT. 17 There was something in the air Wednesday night th at did in a lot of riders, but the biggest toll came in the 125 Amateur/Expert half Deadline for advertis!ng ~ (Continued from page 20) By Elaine Jones Get them what they want this year Sale on all Yamaha motorcy cles & accessories Small down payment will hold any • Dan (16x) Tortorelli and Fred Conover diced before seizing and fa lling . Al\IE cracked down on gate jumping at the Dunes. Both Will Harper and Don Hansen were penalized one lap in the 250 mil e semi. Don Tortorelli was t he first one out, on lap two. Before he had a chance to get o n his feet Freddy Conover seized and down he went in turn three. Number three was Mike Tidwell who stuck his m ighty Yamaha going into lap three. Of the three, only Tortorelli was able to make it back to the mains. Wayne Rai ney kept his pis to n m oving in the 12 5 Amateur/Expert classes, taking both the IT and half mile races by a large m argin. Tidwell's 125 o ut of With co mmissio n, he was only able to chalk u p three wins instead of the usual five he has been collecting these past weeks. Mike Minnig was giving him a race for his m on ey on the IT but unfortunately h e joined the spectators when his piston refused to keep going. J eff Springman was more t han happy to take over second. When the half mile rolled around Minnig had performed the proper fir st aid and was back on the line ready to go. He led the first lap but ended up watching Tidwell sail away. John Calicchio wrapped up the Open Expert IT clas s right off the line but the effort either did in him or his machine and he wasn't able to make the half mile . Steve Miller, an Amateur, won the Open Expert half mile and when you beat the Experts you earn th e ri ght to join the ranks. Don Waffle got righ t ba ck on th e line for the 750 Expert half mile and held the first for seven laps when fatigu e set in and Tom Worfolk took over for the remaining three. Jim Schne ll was in for third. Scott Thur lo w won both the IT and the half mile 250 Division II classes and it was perky Bobbi Hunter that was almost riding double with him but couldn't get by and settled for second in both . Robert Pfetzing outran Cliff Mathews to win the 125 Novice IT but Cliff came back to take the half mil e and pick up his transfer to Am ateur. Patrick Dobbins ha s just about m ad e the cut, coming one step closer by winning the Open No vice IT with John Carroll and Larry Orr second and third . On the half m ile he ran behind Lou Gimenez who kept him from co llecting Expert race aft er havin g finished one- two re spectively in the first moto. This put Kevin Tucker (Bul) officially in first. and his third -pl a ce fini sh later earned him the overall. Despite the penalty , Harper (Mai) ended up second, with Eric Chimp (C Z) in th ird. Ran dy Stubb s appeared to be back in form after a rec en t inj ury and walked awa y with th e 500 Pr o win . Bobby J o nes go t caught in traffic in the first 125 Expert m ot a , while Jim Hale (Han) opened up a big lead. J ones worked his way up to fourth but just couldn 't get by Andy J annings (Ha n ). At th e fini sh , he cut way inside to fin ish less than one-half a wheel-length behind. Mike Todd (Suz) held a secure second. Jones wasn't about to make the same mistake twice, and shot into the second mota lead. This time it was Hale who couldn't catch the leader. But J im still held first overall, followed by J ones and Todd. . The 250 Beginners were a sight to behold . . . from start to finish ! When the second mota gate dropped, two guys locked handlebars, but only one went down. The one who managed to keep upright lasted only another six feet, then looped it ! And at the fin ish of the first mota, third-pla ce rid er Grant Moore (Hu sl fell in the last turn. Ric Housel (Suz swerved to avo id him and cut off Paul Re asoner (Hus) who killed his bike as a result. Kawakami (Ha n) was the o nly one who really kept it all to gether to take the win, and Richard Whittington (Bul) took second. Paul Ikeda (Han) put in a good ride to win second moto, but a first moto sixth put him b ack to third overall. • Results in Results Section. Terror Tyrone takes 395 MX By Phil Carpenter ADELANTO, CAL., OCT. 12 Good old Charlie Mazzei is jus t that - good! The oldest of the Mazzei Racing Team picked up his Motocross and tr ansferred to the Amateur ranks. But Alan Hoover and Gar y J ackson m ad e Ch arlie work for his win. Go in g in to the th ird mo ta , Hoover was one p oint ahead of Maz zei but Charli e 's third over Hoover's fourth place in the last critical mota di d the trick. Filling Ch arlie 's vacan cy in th e 12 5 No vice clas s will be Billy Bro wn, wh o w on his firs t Beginner trophy over the hard-dri ving Henry So rce lli. This race sh owed good, close co mpetiti o n and was go o d to the last lap esp ecially between Steve Close's Suzuki and Bob Shelter's Honda for th ird an d fourth. In th e hu ge 250 Beginner class , Ron Clawson h ad first in his pocket till the third mota when Steve Scalzo led to the fini sh to tie th e points and won by having th e be st rid e in the third mota . "Terror" Tyrone Brown too k h is competitor's cash with three firsts on a screaming Suzuki sponsored by Desert Suzuki, with Harold Coffield and Steve Davis splitting the spoils. Most of - th e 250 cash went to Barstow's Eddie Gonzales, another Desert Suzuki-sponsored rider with three firsts. (The one with the fas t hand and the w ide grin and t he Suzuki hat on backwards was the sponsor.] • Results in Results Section. Hannah's $600 double at AMC Saddleback By Ernest Coleman IRVINE, CAL., OCT. 12 When you 're hot, you're hot, and a young man by the name of Robert Hannah was very hot as he walked away with $600 for winning the 250 and Op en Pro classes. Hannah (Suz) jumped into the lead o f the "fi st 250 mota, One rider came af ter r him first and that was David Williams (Yam) . Going in to the third lap Han nah had to really get on the gas because Williams was coming up fast but Dave co uld n o t ge t by, settling fo r seco nd with Morris Malone (Mai) in third. The secon d race saw Williams take the lead out of the gate with Malone an d Ha nnah no t far behind. On the Warren Reid took the overall w in in AMC's 125 Pro clas$ at Saddleback.

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