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., " E II looking more an d more like th e Inter-Am track it used to be. Today it was the only area MX co urse beside the Astrodome to m iss he avy weekend downpours, although intermitten t drizzle made go ggles usless, and kept so me sections greasy slick. Despite a light turnout, trophies to eighth place and $750 purse were shelled out as increasing rains made for tricky trucking out of the pits . . The minis were out in force , however, with Jr. Minibike winner David Douglass (Yam) going on to . take the first mo ta of Senior Mini, with Tony Nielsen (Han) and John Bersch, Junior (Han) biting his knobby. Time bomb Y Z80C Yamah as had led briefly, wi th Derek Wedding and a young rocke t ' man named J o nes aboard, but they also heade d t he DNF. ' Iist, In round two', Jones had his shifts back together and b lew co mpletely away fro m th e race for first ove ral l, that saw Bers ch reverse positions with Nielsen for class h onors, while Douglass took th ird ove rall. The sk y turned red Wit h the "76 Elsinores of Shaun Kelley an d " Te x " J ohnson in 125 Expert, b u t Johnson dropped his screamer and h is ru nner up slot to Dean Henrickson (Yam) as the going got slippery . Eddie (Yam) Roberts led a battle for second in the fi al to n end up fo urth overall over Can A m's Roger Brown. . It was do wn to t he wire , gas it and hope in Open Intermediate, with Andy Howard (Bul) sliding under Bill Davis (Yam) by a wheel at the white with black squares. Or is it b lack with white SQuares? (Answer on page 85) • ~ f.O r-O"l ~ ~ .- - f.O s-. 0. <:: • Roger Brown duct taped his broken foot at Austin and went riding. Among the class winners were Keith Davis, Yamaha, Mini Junior; Frank Tello, Ya maha, Mini Senior; Troy Patterson, Suzuki, 100 Novice; Frank Patterson, Suzuki, 125 Novice; Kirk Hanna, Yamaha 125 Intermediate; James Coppeage, Yamaha, 250 Novice; Scott Zettner, C-A, 250 Intermediate; Lee Biggart, Yamaha, Open Junior. As one might expect, consistency was the key to success. Overall winners were more often than not those who stayed . within the top four or five in each of the six motos. The closest race by far was the Open class where the top three riders finished within a single point of each other. • Resu lts in ResultsSection. Austin February Amateur series By Greg Labbe AUSTIN, TEX., FEB . 29 In order to get riders to take their scooters out of mothballs and prepare for the onslaught of Spring racing, Austin Motocross Par k instituted a February series for Amateur racers. In terest r an h igh as turn outs for each of the three Sundays in February r an in excess of 250 r ider s. In addition to regular "first , third, and fift h Sunday ra ce trop hies, ove rall series t ro phies were given out at the February 29th race as soon as scoring co uld be ' co mple ted. Scoring was based on the bes t five o ut of six m otos run during the month of February. 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