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••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• Western hotline A.M.E. 2nd Annual Two Man Team Grand Prix Bicentennial Easter MX By Joe l Jamieson ORANGE, CAL., APRIL 18 Ron Turner, Jeff Jennings, and J on Derhammer all kicked off th e Bicentennial Easter Sunday in fine styl e, hooking 125, 250, and 500 Pro wins respectively. APRIL 25th ,.- 0.. -e $3,000 Ron Turner, a former Su zuki R&D rider, now mounted on o ne mi ghty quick T & M Honda, grabbed the S I 15 o ne -t wa-five victory with su pe rb I-I rid es . Dave T aylor shoved his Pasadena Honda into the lead th e first mota and was opening u p some d ay-light o n the field ti ll a chain th at re fused to behave pu t the Irwindale King o u t o f th e running. Turner took over from there with Mark Tyer, Marty Moates , Gary Denton, an d Dave Williams all wishing . t hey were u p front. Ron reall y deserved his second mo ta win. The lively ra cer had so m e very hot duels with Davy Car lson and his Franks for second spot, and a fte r he zap ped Davy he ai me d h is Honda to ward the lead er. Mar k Tyer was p us h in ' his DG m ount h ard. riding th e track for all it was worth . in an e ffo rt to escap e T u rner's sights. Turner p ress ured Mark hard fo r t hree lap s and th en pu t the mo ve on him. Suzuki's n ew fo u nd hot tal ent , Je ff J ennin g, p ut sm iles on the faces o f al l th e J apanese m ota fo lks by roos t ing o n the 250 Pro s. Jeff co llec ted on m ota o ne after the lead wa s shuffled be t wee n Derh ammer, Gary Jones . and h imsel f. J eff m o re or less had th e second race to himsel f, with Morris Malone and Wa rren Reid go ing a t it fo r second. Reid was ridin g a 125 FM F Honda , wh ich so me thought to be a 18 5, b u t so me in side so u rces re vea led it was a 125 in de ed . ported to t he max by - Ernler a nd his sq ua d ro n of p or t ers. • Results in Result s Se ct io n . 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Second he at was slowes t by five se conds as so me of th e riders go t into a bumping sess io n right o ff th e lin". Elbows wer e flying, but Tim Melancon (Ka w ) and Geoff Lowe (Yam) m ade it through. Heat three, Mik e Devlin (Yam) was leading b u t right behind were Dale Reed and Eric Enge n. En gen tr ied Reed on th e outsid e o f t urn four a nd found it wouldn 't work , go ing d own in th e p ro cess, while Reed went o n fo r hi s direct transfer. I1eat fo u r I.'air ed hotshoes Tim McWh ort er (Ya m ) and Don "T-Bone" Gri gsb y (Ya m ) but it was Te rry Statum who to o k th e lead . McWhorter foll owed with Gri gsb y in th ird . Statum slid o u t all by himse lf and Grigsby leaving McWhorter o ne -two , Junior a nd Expe rt s were co mb in ed in five heats. one direct transfer o n ly . Heat one , Steve Eklund (Yam) led o ff, but z o VI III i C( .., .J III o .., Pat Guthrie (T ri) went low and in to t h e lead with T ed Davidson (Yam) co ming very hard and e nd in g third. Heat two Alex J o rgen se n got t hem all by go ing around th e o u tside of tu m o ne . Gifford ca me up to challe nge and both o f them o vers lid with Terry Do rsch (H-D ) right behind to pi ck them off for the win . T e rry Griner was leading heat th ree when he lo st power co m ing out of t urn four a nd e nded up aga ins t th e wall, leaving Scott Pearson (II-D) to run away with it. The J un io r / Ex pe rt Trophy nash was eaneelled and the das h was given to th e Novice heat winners, They didn't