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Wha t t he people here didn't know was that Dick, fro m Carson City, Nevada does t his every time he races in Nevada. There wa s only one serious cha llenge to hi s lead in the 250 class, and that was Dave Carlsen (Hus) who was moving up towards the end of t he race . Dick saw hi m and just turned it on . The Old T imers an d Powder Pu ffs had a class of their own an d r aced for one hour. An other surprise from Nevada came in the fo rm of a Powder Puff. Herm alene Wick (Su z). The Powder Puffs started o ne min u te behind the Old Ti m ers and Her malen e started about a minute after the Powder Puffs, due to a .loa ded up carb u retor, but she succeeded in pas sin g all t he Powder Puffs and a number of the Old Timers. As one Old Time r said. " That ch ick is fast." As the Young Timers keep moving in to the Old Ti mers class it be comes more and m o re competitive. Clo yse Ho lland, Sr . (Hus) turned in a ride that co uld have been in the top three of the Open Expe rt class. Hawley Slayton (Pen) taking a break fro m trials and enduro riding hung right in t here for a very credi bl e second. The 125 class did not have any Expe rts show up , so the sh ow was in the hands o f the Amate urs as D. Hart (Yam) and Phil Smith (Hus) offered some of th e bes t racin g of t he day . Hart led the ra ce m os t of the tim e, bu t Phil was right behind him waiting for t he mistak e • wh ich never ca me . KTMs invade Sprocket MX By Cosmic Cat & Co. three m oto s of the Open Experts. Tim Baugh man (Ho n) us ed two firsts an d a th ird to win 125cc J unior Division One to day wh ile Jeff Stubblefield (Hon) took Divisio n Tw o wit h three firsts. Top fin ish ers in the Old Tim ers were , Way ne Kin g (KTM) first , Terry William s (Pen ) se co nd, and Carl Casanova (Yam) th ird . BAK ERSFIELD , CA., FEB. 15 We ha d an e xtra tre at here as three visit ors fro m th e sou thland ca me up north to battle th e No. One and Two riders in D-35 , 250cc Expe rts Randy Lewis an d Phil T ay lo r . J eff Wright and Tro y St all ings, bo th riding light nin g fast KT Ms, were the two visit ors. Wright quickly sh owed th e locals he me ant busin ess as he grabbed th e first o f the t hree m otos. Taylo r and Lewis fo llo we d . Ta y lo r took the holeshot in mo to tw o with Lew is an d Wright right behind dicing fo r second. Wrig ht zapped Lewis fo r se cond at the en d of lap one and the n st arted chasing Taylor, who had sin ce bu ilt up an eight bike length lead . Wright m ade up th e dis tance o n lap t hree . Tay lor thwar ted off attacks by Wright o n laps four and five, t he n com ing out o f the lower sec t io n of th e tr ac k, Tay lor was all by h imself. Wrigh t had crashed and ' lo st two positions to Randy Lewis and teammate Troy Stalling s. Wrigh t ca me ba ck sw in ging in the third moto takin g the chec ker s an d simp ly d usting everyone in t he process . Tay lor finished sec ond while Stallings got by Lewis on lap three for th ird. J eff Foland of San Diego , t he third KT M rider , had no problem ta kin g all Richter tops Sears twice N , ~1S N N "1 . '0",,,10/ '/,,,", ",, .s.(' U, m V... CIN" '"" . YOU' . ."," .mll m• t"d r.l moltl')' .morh fOr\ Ir (', \u rr ' l 2 f , (IN C4 L L 21FaO) Ah 588 7310 • ,..1: l.W ~aaaaaaaaaaaam M....K E CH ECK P A YA BL AN MAll TO ~ Post DU BDl a lce ~ lIIrwood. Col. £10 R G CANN'...... _ -.ow ... ...c.uNt,-- ~ - . l N "1 J,.W By W. H. Spencer SEARS POINT , CAL. , FEB . 14 & 15 Pat Richter tuned up a p air of KTMs for th e upcoming SuperCro ss riding ou t of Paci fic Per formance and outpointed both 250 and Open classed Exp erts for mo st of the money payoff at round four of Sears Poin t's Winter Series on a sligh tly muddy but n eato grass track. In t h e 25 0 Expert ru ns Richter ro de co mp letely awa y wi th a hands down, wire to wire win o n atrack that was j ust starting to dry up a fter three days of off and on ligh t ra in . Bill Johns on too k second ju st over Phil Crane and Duffy Collin on a newly pu t up Hus ky fro m Fremont Yamaha. Bruce Han lon gave it a good shot, fm ishing seve n th, but crashed abou t seven ti m es an d was quite disgus ted wi th his performan ce at t he en d. In t he second mo to it w as ' quit e di fferen t fo r th e n umber four Grand Goodyear is Carroll Shelby 213-538 -2914 29