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; IIlI the winter indoor season. Signing up for un and a ch ance to try out a new motorcycle was Houston's hero Daryll Hurst. Riding a Doug Schwerma creation , the likeable pro did a good jo b despite th e fac t that he hadn't ever ridden such a small track, wasn ' t prepared with tires and, the real biggee , he was riding a pseudo - "foe-bar", parallelogram suspended Yamaha. Hurst man aged a heat race second behind Gennai and a pole in the back row fo r the Main but co uld n 't get together with t he starter and wound up 10th. For Gennai, it wasn't much to worry abo ut taking the lead fro m the git -go and lead in g AI Ludwigsen and Rusty Davis to the checkered, a ctually lapping Hurst . The win was wo rth enough points to give him a co m fo rtab le lead in the class and a slight edge in th e o ver all ti tle , with but one race to go . • 0-35 TT scrambles By Cosm ic Cat & CO. • ~ won . Returning to a regular Friday night, on ce a week program, the o utdated fairgrounds building was its usual cold dank se lf wi th a very enthusiastic audience and a full complement of Experts. With much crashing and bashing, a full program was run smoothly en o ugh by the Sonoma Cou ntry Sports Cycle Association. . Big winner of the night wa s Jim Mertens in 360 Expert. Mertens got the early jump and led Manuel Crummett from Reno and Geoff Lowe from Sali nas to the big poin ts and money board. It was 10 big points for the win and a good lead on the new White Plate list. Faria's win in the 250 class over Howard Mo ore and Bria n Pecore was just two pain ts ba ck . Delcay fell in the heat after ta ngling with J ack Peder sen . San Jose starter Jerry Kenne d y to'ok a nigh t off to show t he starters ho w to start fro m t he line and aced the ho le shot fo r an easy win in th e 360 J unior class o ver Honda fo ur stroker Dennis Kritzer and lo cal kid Gary Cox. • Results in Resu lts Section. t t..O ['- O'l ....-I er') >~ C'::l ::l ..0 ~ II) ~ - ", PORTERVILLE, CAL.,JAN. II ' Craig Baird (Su z) set th e early pace for th e l\lini Juniors today at Porterville but was relieved of duty on lap tw o by hard -charging Robert Francesco (Yam)" 'ho had ju st match ed ' sec ond over Rob ert Land (Yam ) in the first tum. A miss ed gear co st Baird th e lead plus it co st him second as Land m an aged to slip by also. The rest o f lap tw o and lap th ree it was Francesco stretching h is lead whil e Baird made un successfu l attemp ts to take secon d away fr om Lan d. On lap four, Land mis sed a gea r co ming out o f tum three, whi ch co st h im two positi on s as b oth Baird an d Kurtis Wilder (Suz ) to ok adva n tage. On the , final lap, Frances co had a huge lead , and Wilder got Baird for second. In the 100 Expert Main, Bo b Merriot " (Sue) rode a co nvin cin g race to take top hon ors over Ri chard -Sing (Kaw). • Mertens, Faria lead off "By W. H. Spencer SANT A ROSA, CAL., JAN . 2 It was much the same opening lead J or D-36 short track White Plate points as in 1975 as the eigh t-race San ta Rosa indoor series started. Rick Delacy fell and Mike Faria Sand Hill MX By Marvin Patton BRENTWOOD, CAL.,J At'. II The day start ed with St eve Grew er (Suz) , Dick Mann (BSA) , 'Bob Myers (Su z) and other top Open Experts o f Northern Cali fornia on the line . Bo b Myers (Suz) an d Neil MacD annald (N a g) were the first to head for the first bi g uphill. Bob was fir st to appear aro und th e sh arp " S" tum on top an d he ad d own th e mole hill. Neil tr ied , but Bob was jus t too much. Dick Mann w as hav ing hi s o wn problems ba ck in the p ack. Steve Grewer (Suz), getting a bad start, worked up and th en go t by Mann. The second moto Myers got a go od holeshot with Neil right behind. On the second lap , Neil had passed Bob. Neil did his best to shake Bob, bu t he cou ld n o t. On every comer Bob was ri ght there. Dick Man n had m oved into th ird and was holding. Neil and Bob ha d too m u ch dista nc e for Dick to catc h , and h e h ad to settle for third. Chris Grewer, o n his 250 Husky, had two easy wins in the 250 Expert division. The first m o to he wo rked up from third, passing Neil MacDannald (Nog ) and Neil Davis (Suz ), The second round, Chris had a go od start and led the e n tire moto. Nrilil(rrn (,.~MPIO... RACING U Husqvarna ~ \!jJ Headquarters of " " ? " California Large Parts St ock One Day Mail Orde r Service Hi-Poin t Boot s $65.00 FR AMES ..§. ••••" "'<, t Se".,.... ,,, Spec ify size a nd sol e t y pe Qtra rkmast er nelson Brothers motors Inc. 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