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; • IlillI '$1195* r- 21 .... IlillI 250 (7 1) t· c..o t- O) ~ 0 . ex') ...c u ~ ~- 250 (7 1) OirtSQUlrt(92C) DirtSQuirt (01) RoadToad (99) Super Rat (98) Combat (95) Supe rCombat (97) I~L_"':"' _....,... ...:... ...:... : HODAKA 250 ... It's here . .. It's wha t you 've been waiting for .. . 246cc loop-scavenged two stroke engine .. . Primary kick star ter .. . CO l. . .36mm ·Mikuni racing carb Alumiferric cylinder . .. 5 speed transmission . . .There 's a lot more to see .. .Come on in and take a look at the NEW . .. HODAKA 250. $1195.00 $ 399 .00 $ 499 .00 $ 529 .00 $ 695 .00 $ 549 .00 $ 745.00 ::E -,- --.J -' ... and you've got it all. rr with J o h n Silv a either winning or finishing second d epending on who y ou believe for the number of laps completed. The rain was so bad an d th e conditions so sloppy that Hal Ken y o n was asked to st o p t he rac e and did so to everyone's satisfa ct ion except the Silva /Salas team which kept on running thinking the race was still going. No intent to do bad things to anyone but it was hard to see what was going o n . On the one lap signal Silva got his Maico around the Honda b u t the scorers had that as just unlapping himself from . earlie r p ro blems when there we re two n u rnbers that were similar and the m ud m ade it n o eas ier to sco re or even see. e Scott Pearson 'digs AFM asphalt By Denys Arcuri SEAR S POINT, CA L. , MA R. 14 Scott Pearson , dirt rider turned pavement-ace, muscled his Sam Arena-sp onsored Kawasaki S3 to a victory in the popular 410 (formerl y 3 50 ) Production clas s event at S e ars Point 's '76 opener. Pearson had ea rned th e p o le positio n in th e 43-bi ke final b y win ning the fir st th re e-lap he at race . In the seco n d heat, Bo b Crossman (Yam) edg ed Ge nnad y Liubimsky (Hon twin) andJac k Baker (Ya m) at the wire. Liubim sky 's charge fr o m the fifth ro w t o a close second pl ace on the " un de rpowered " Ho n da twin al most ca used announcer Cu rt Relick 's vocal cords to sei ze. ~ Pe ar so n , w ho led the final fro m wi re to w ire, p u shed his Kaw so hard do wn the fron t st rai ght i t wiggled like a berserk shopping cart wheel, . Marty Seig el won the co m bin ed Heavy wei gh t Production ra ce on a brand ne w Kaw 75 0 that he had borrowed fro m Tommy Brown. Following Sei gel ho me were Pearson (Z: I) fo r t he Open win an d second ov eral l, a n d Gerry Elkins o n a Honda 500-4 for th e 5 00 class wi n and third ov erall. . ' ~, In t he Superstreet rac e, m an y of the co 'm b atants fro m Heavy weight Production re turned fo r one last b rawl. Mike Simning, who had finished fourth overall in t he Pr oduction race , wheelied h is Mach IV into a short-lived lead o ut o f the hole. On .t he first lap Simning overcooked turn four an d go t off, without signaling, right in t he path o f Paul Ritter (Due 750) w ho had finished 15th overall in the Production eve n t. Si m n ing su ffere d a b roken le g, Ri tter suffered a DNF, and the rest of the field suffered some harro win g m omen ts dodging the two ambu lan ces on the track. Paul Unmacht, who had finished six th overa ll in Pro d uction , mo to red his 1000 Lave rda across the fin ish line a fu ll m icro second ah ead o f Van ce Briese's hy brid BSA- ESO 498 an d Fred Ko ren's 550 Ho n da , w hich had finished seve n th overa ll in p roduction. Sid e hackers Larry' Col eman /Wendell (750 Su z ) and Wayne Andrews Lougee /Gary Gipe (83 6 Han ) waged a race- lo ng battle tha t was a m o n u m en t of sk ills a nd th rill s: The Suz u ki rig prevailed - barely - o n it s slightly superior acc eleratio n , but t he cl os e action on hairpin turn I I was th e high po in t o f the race . Rudy Galindo opened up an insurmountable lea d in th e 250 GP, b u t re tired h is broken Ya maha on the last lap , giving t he win to A lan Barbie (Yam ). ' G ord o n Seim ran away with the Lightweigh t race o n hi s Can-Am m o to crosser (sans knobbies), Tim Ro berts w on th e Fe atherweight r ace on a seve n-year-o ld Su zuki, a nd Bar bie wo n e in Open GP o n a Yamaha. ' Neil & Neil win at Sand Hill SN.PER.RADAR-~) :::.~:,-:~n Dealers Save $10.00 o n th is ad . NOW!! CALL NOW- 1. N ervous about looking fo r t hose bears? Fo rget it - Snooper w ill pick up t ho se p ict ur e-tak ers long before you have t o smi le ! 2. 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Riding a Mot a-F ast Yamaha 4 0 0 , he sim ply d id not have the ho ped fo r co m pe t it io n, as both Ric k Wilson (H us) an d Bob Sullivan ( RM) co uldn't ke ep up th e p ace se t by Neil in both mote s. With a r elatively small turnout due to Nor Cai s' Carnegie race j ust few mil es down the road , the 250 a nd Open Exp ~r-ts were c o m b i n e d . Su zu ki mo unted Neil Davis continued his string o f 250 class victories' by no tchin g a no t her w in, but not without a fight . Neil bat tl ed it o ut wi th Mark War d ell (Yam) fo r much o f th e second m oto , but Mark just couldn't fin d his way past the " o ther Neil ". The youn g lions o f. the 250 In terrnediate proved to be a cliff-hanger with change s just abo ut eve ry lap . Steve Ed dy co pp ed the ove ra ll win with a second mo to victory. Jo hn Sullivan, who looked like he had th e win, was forced t o back off with a fIat tire,. ., a & pound ou t. W ill out pe rf o r m any bronze bushing. A flaw less f it , no hassles. 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