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Cycle News 1976 03 23

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UNIT SEARCHLIG'IT ,. Kan ay a and Roberts were using a different-cornpound Goodyear than the rest ; also that Steve Baker had been offered the same tires;md declined. Ano ther (fro m a different rag) said " Bull- - - --! Th ey were using the same tires as everybody else; they wore 'em out because th ey were going faste r!" Goodyear 's Bob Schaeffer agreed with th e lat ter (though no t in the same words), say ing "We had some experimental tires left over from earlier test sessions, wher e we tried out about three different types. Frankly, nothing we tried wen t as qui ck or wore as long as the A I." The Butler 8r Smith BMWs ridden I:iY Pridmore and McLaughlin were turning . col)sistant 2: 17s during their Superbike Production race, good enough to have qualified well up for the 200. Instead of open resentment at the tricl( "production bikes", we overheard one;f joyful pitster say, "This Superbike Production thing is turning into a regular four stroke GP class. Outasight!" • Th ere 's one more speedway school coming at . Ken Mad y's ranch March 20-2 1 with Mike Bast as instructor.' Limit 10 riders this time , to work up th at final edge. Irwindale Raceway's go • an open speedway practice set for Friday night, March 19, $6 per rider, six , to ten p.m . II: . .. 0: BLM has scheduled aseries of Citizen Workshops on th e East Mojave Planning unit (see map). On e alread y has been held in Riverside, 'March 17. Th e others are set March 22 at Needl es Elk s Lodge, 1000 Lily Hilly Dr. , . Needl es; March 23 at rH Y ELATESTi , p BY PAPA WEALEY _ .J Malcolm Rathmell , (Monl won the English trials round over, Bultaco brothen Arthur and Martin Lampkin to further pad his lead in the F.LM. world championship . Mick Andrews (Yam) , was fourth, Dave Thorpe (Bull fifth . Looking at the top ten results, home island riden apparently dominated the tr ial, shutting out the Scandinavian/Finnish th're at , Frenchman Charles Coutard (Bull came in eighth, slipping to third in the world standings behind Martin Lampkin. Oops - Maywood MC got on our case about showing the Duster 's Red Mtn . hare scrambles the same weekend . (March 21) as Maywood's Cal City ru n. The Dusters run isn't until the following weekend, March 28. Maywood's race features paved road ' to the pits, all private lan d (no BLM), virgin course and only the Trai l Novices go one lo op. Did we get that all right? 2 FLASH! D-37's Jim Wells called to report that the legal defense- task force jumped in on the side of BORRA to get a Sierra Club-requested injunction against their race thrown out of federal court. The decision came down in L.A. March 15. Team T.Z. , Whippy has ente red aging NorCaI ace Ron Tucker in the Second Ann ual Wi'llet Wheelie Pre-Memorial In do o r Moto c ross Invit ational Championship. Ron hopes that a win in this prestigious, big bucks event will get him on the cover of the National Singles Register. Lo.tsa luck. Telephon e Complex Recreation hall north of the post office, Baker; and March 25 at th e LA. Water & Power Bldg., Main Cafeteria, III N. Hope St. in Smogvill e. Meeting time is 7:30 p.m. in all cases. As they say at drawings, you must be there t o win ! Cecotto did not tweak the same ankle he broke in Europe last year (so now he's got two problems); but the earlier injury is still hurting him now and then. Italian surgeon Dr. Claudio Costa was at Daytc;ma to tend to it during race week. As of March 4, the Riverside Cou nty District Attorney approved the ru nning of 750cc bikes, at Corona Race way. (Apparently, AMA noise regulation may payoff, afte r all). First big bike event was held Wednesd ay, March 10. Who knows? The way may be open for more AMA Class C racing in the area . You know, with 'Coro na beginning to get a handle on its legal hassles and Aggie taking' a firm hand at Ascot, you can't say AMA pro dirt track is dying for lack of trying on the part of the tracks. Whatcha say, riders? People? 'Ind ust ry ? Too mu ch of a good thing may have' caused tlie can cellation of the Aspenc ade rally in Ruidoso, N.M. AMA' s Ed Youngbloo d explained that .;"the appro priate support is simply no t being offered by the po lice . .. " to co pe with the ho rdes th at ann ually descend on the small co mmunity. Orga nizer Til Th ompson decided to close the books on th e Aspe ncade befo re som ething happed to spoil th e event 's rep utatio n. Another qualifier, this time for AMA's Amateur Road Race Championship, is the first of a ser ies to be held at Oak Hill Raceway, Henderson, TX. April 11 , under CRRC sanction. AMA also reports that both chapters of AFM have AMA club charters and expressed intent to run a qualifier or two in California. Old-timers who mourned th e passing of the Tra ilblaz ers Banq uet , circle April 24 on your calendars, as the venerable event is to be revived at the Rodger Young Auditorium, Washington Blvd, in downtown Los Angles. Con tact coordinating chairman Max Bubeck at Tiger Distributing (213) 246-7 132 for details. Pat Hennen's Daytona third place Suzuki is an old campaigner; he rode it brilliantly at Ontario, then it carried him to the Marlboro Series championship in New Zealand. Now it ' will be joined by a new RG500 four (courtesy of down-under sponsor Ron Coleman) and he's set to travel with the Suzuki GB team to European Formula 750 and 500 ,GP rounds. The Daytona Sup ercross paid lap money to the leaders on laps three, six, nine, ' et c. To big winner Tony D. this came as a shock. "Nobody told me anything abou t it." Asked if he would have led more laps had he known he said, "I led all the laps I could." The third annual Cal Rayborn Memorial Half Mile date has been changed to • March 28. Can Rick Hocking do j t one more time? Bit of unsolve d con tradiction: One slick-mag reporter told 01' Pop t ha t The Dirt Diggen had their Red Garter drawing the evening of March 10 at the Venice Athletit Club with a sprinkling of riders and 0-37's enduro steward for~ ·o bserven . They didn't say who drew ones; all starting times will be mailed out to entrants. Speaking th ro ugh an interpreter, J ohnn y Ceco tto told reporters " Ro bert s is ' the strongest rider I have ever faced .. . " and wished aloud that Kenny would race a season in Europe,e, May be next year ... The coming Oly Superbowl of Motocross is to have a 250 feature class as before, plus a 500 Pro support class . and a 250 Novice support class. It's the 250 Novices who must qualify in the coming Superbowl qualifier series. Honda motocro ss team manager Dennis Blanton will be leaving Team Honda on ' March 19th to open up a mo torcycle" . shop in Idaho . While Dennis is in Idaho selling Hondas the team will be-managed. by Terry Mulligan. Dennis did an , exceptional job of feeding and caring for . the megabu cks Honda racing effort. We just heard that transplanted ex-Husky motocrouer Gunnar Lindstrom is the new editor of Dirt Bike magazine. Right on! oj The Mint 400 drawing has been '" rescheduled from March 7 to March 26 at ,the Mint Hotel in Vegas, 2 p.m, Hidden under there is' the slickest play on production rules yet _ the Koni -t monoshock fitted to Butler & Smith's Superbikes. And the show rolls on ..

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