Cycle News - Archive Issues - 1970's

i ~:nPELDfJB ~ Kidd takes frost-cross t By Dave Nielsen A R LINGTO N, T EX .,J A N. 4 How cold was it ? Well, I wanna tell ya, it was so cold that noses and fingertips were found on the track after practice ..Pens wouldn't z UJ III .J UJ Z UJ >. ~ o > III III o ~ o :r Q. Mike Athens gets to add another notch to his number plate after winning Lake Wh itney. tangle with Ricky Ki dd (Hus) for first with less than tw o laps left . Kidd DNFed as Mark Ple dger (Hus) took sec o nd ahead of Douz Co ok (Ya m ) an d Edd ie Roberts (Ya m ). Pledger led t he final moto briefly, but Wyman co uld n 't be denied and again led the fiel d of 22 to fin ish 101 , with Pledger seco nd at 2-4. Dick y T urnbo (Ya m ) ele vate d h imsel f to th ird b y im p ro ving his first-mote ninth t o se cond in the final, moving Coo k (3- 8) to fourth. T oday's eve n t was t he third of a three-race ser ies with th e Cameron a nd Waco tracks, cl im axing with a d ra wing fo r a new KX250 Ka wasaki, won by Keith Green of Wac o , w ho n eeded it badly. He had ridden today 's 2 50 Novi ce class on a 185 Su zuki. Also held wa s a "Best Van " con test , wi th the $2 5 prize go ing to Dallasite J immy Martin of th e Debonair Danceland Team , acc o rdi ng to the judge "Honest" J ohn Woolley, world's runner-up corn cob st uffer. • Results in Results Se ction . Pickard,Priddy invade Whitney By Dave Nielsen WHITNEY, TEX., DEC. 28 The monthly mo tocross and pit race r field da y rolled on to day at Lake Whitney Cycle Ran ch, and th e odors of new, Christrnastime 20 leather an d m achinery wafted in th e unseasonabl y warm air. Throw in good tr ack conditions and 285 entries b o ogi ed to the rh ythm of shoc k-pou nd ing wh oops and banging shi f t levers . Despite challengers fro m several flanks, m o st of th e $1 ,00 8 allo ca te d to the Expert ranks was picked up b y Fo rt Wo rth area rid ers Bob b y Pickard, Wyman Priddy , and Rick y Kidd. O klahoma MX ch amp Tre y J orski was unable to bette r hi s t hird pl ace in the Open class, as Pickard (Pen) and Kidd (Hus ) ran 1-2 bo th motos.Jorski (Kaw) also m anaged to drop out of the 2 50 fir st moto w hile runnin g second. De finitely not one of Trey's custo mary performan ces , but , hey , these gu ys are - nobody's slo uc hes , a nd the Whitney co u rse can be a k iller, for su re. Pickard's normall y faultless 25 0 Penton ate a plug just as the firs t-moto gate fell , and th en, afte r leading the wh ole _race, hi s Husky o f Dall as teammate Rick y Ki dd n onch alantly stee red in to the pits after looking a t a very white flag. No t to o sharp, that boy . Any way , frantic pointing and waving got Kidd back o n th e trac k, but beh ind new lea der Mitch Milson (Bul) to fini sh seco nd at t he one with bl ack sq uares on it. Pickard returned to blow away in th e fin al, but in th e r ace for overall first , Kid d redeemed hi m self by p assed Milson on t he last lap fo r second and th e cla ss wi n , wh ile J eff Kring's 5-4 . fin ish es ea rn ed t h ird pl ace fo r 01' Man Carte r's Yamah a . _ Another wi ld , crash an d DNF-pl agu ed 125 Expert clas s was won by Wyman Pridd y (Ya m) , wh o used h is ye ars of p ro experie n ce to m ethodically pick a wa y th e seven in fron t o f , him in the first mo to, - EiJlal c.. mi 0\1 t on- & of - Russell racks up Sprockets By Georgia Kirshbaum WICHITA, K AN .,J AN . 11 Wichita Sprockets held a m otocross with 72 riders signing in. With th e temperature climbing to 50 it was a perfec t day for racin g. o In t he 125 Junior class Jeff Russell wa s first all t he way . Philip Newman go t a bad st ar t, b u t worked his way u p to seco nd at the fin ish. Ne w man was leading the second moto with J im Montgomery close behind. Ro bert Brown; Craig Co slett an d J eff Ru ssell wer e havinJ( their o wn race to see who wou ld be third. Russell w as ab le to pass on th e seven th lap for third. Montgomery p assed Newm an on the last lap to t ake fi rst , b u t Newman was first ov eral l wi th a 2-2. Gary Witt was out wi th th e flu and was a spectator today . Ro be rt La mbe rt played like he was Gary by runn in g awa y and h iding fr om the o t her riders for a I -I finish in th e 125 Sen ior clas s. b. the fir I mot illl Beebe.he In t he second m oto Beebe go t the lead fo r o ne lap when Lam bert p assed and too k o ff again. Beebe a nd Kirshbau m were cl o se for seven laps wh en . Kirs ch baum passed a nd hel d second , Beebe third. • write. ' Bikes wouldn't st ar t . Still, 253 idio ts drove out to Mos ier Valle y MX Park on an 18-de gre e morning to go for t he go ld and $663 purse. Thankfully, 01' man Winter kept it clear an d calm, while raisin g t he th ermostat to around 40 degrees lat er in t he day . . Unfor tu nately, an . unusu all y h igh acciden t ra te e ns ued, ap par e n tl y du e to th e inability o f bundled-up riders to get "loo se " d urin g m oto s, always a hazardo us co nd it io n during an at hletic even t. Over 3 0 class re gul ar G u s Reyn old s was t he worst off af te r sai ling into a tree and su ffering a m ajor co ncu ssio n . . . ' T a king advan t age of te am ma te Bobby Pic ka rd 's abse nce, Husqv ama o f Dal las rider Rick y Ki dd swept all fou r m oto s in 250 and Open Expert , despite p ressure .fro m Fort Worther J o d y Foust, who this wee k returned aboard his Bult acos, fo rsaking his recent Maico rid e. Mo sie r Va lley pro moter DeV aughn Mit chell an no u nc ed that to d ay's race would be the fi rst of a six-e ven t series in co njunctio n wi t h Lake Whitney Cycle Ran ch , with a 100 Yamaha d o nated by Cleburne Yam ah a go ing to a luc ky particip ant at the last race. Also sc hedu led are awards fo r leadin g p oints rid er s in eac h cl as s , a spur-of-the-m oment idea by the promoters to say "Thanks" to regular atten di ng an d w in n ing rider. Results in Results Section . •

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