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AAA CYClE CEnIEI' 'Tak ing orders for GP Chrome-moly K T M. frame. Magnes ium fo rks. 9" of t ravel-front. 10"-back. Sun rims + more horsepower. delivery in June Taking orders n ow! 1300 E. Edinger Ave. Santa Ana. CA 92705 71""-835-7821 Morrison and Scally hit the deck as Scott and Hansen do their best to avoid human contact. chance at the "after you Alphonse" first tum. Gennai gunned his Bultaco into the lead and Morrison slipped into se cond, leaning so far left only his elbows held him up. Sca lly and Hansen picked their lines t hrough the maze and moved up • into the few open spaces. As the pack circled the arena, merry-go-round fashion , Hansen again asserted his rol ler-ball style and moved in to third leaving Scally behind with Hank Scott pushing for every inch. In two min utes and 16 seconds the 15 lap main came to an abrupt halt. Gennai hadn 't missed a beat. Morrison fo llowed suit as Dave Hansen hauled in for third and Al Kenyon held on to fourth. Bob Scall y, Hank Scali, Gene Romero . Steve Eklund, J o hn Gleason an d Gary Scali rounded out the concrete action. State Championship Aldana and Ho cking ro cketed off the line and into th e lead of the Championship as Ek lund, Hansen, Kenyon, Morrison, Miller and Scally sorted things out. Eklund slid out and Hocking dropped out with a painful knee injury. Aldana took command as the freight train strung out, pressured by Kenyon and Morrison . Hansen held true to .his previous spectacular showings and bombed his way thro ugh the pack to se cond on the last lap. Aldana had pushed his lead beyond doubt by the last lap and ended the race with an eight bike len gth lead ove r Hansen. Give n a few mo re laps the o utcome may have been the other way around. Morrison, Kenyon, Scally and Charlie Mille r rounded out the up righ t finishers after a quick 10 lap s of don't blink you'll miss it ac tion. • Results STATE CHAMPIONSHP, 1. Dave Aldana (Y am ). 2. D ave Hansen ( H u s). 3 . R ob Morrslon (Hon ). 4. A I Ken y on (Bul) . 5 . B ob Scall y .( B ul ). 6. Charles Mil ler (O S5) . 7. Rick H oc k in g ( Y am ) . 8 . St e ve Eklu nd ( Y a m) . NOVICE MAIN, 1. Rick DelacY (Yaml' 2. T ony Alves (Yam). 3. Frank B o rb a (Bul • 4. Doug D av en p o r t ( Y am ) . S. Rod Spencer ( Yam ). 6. Russ Da v i s ( Vam) . 7 . Don Grigsby Jr. (Yam). 8. Bob B o y ar (Bul). 9 . T im M cWhorter (SUi) . 10. RandY Marncta ( Y am). J R/ E X . M AIN : 1. Joh n Gennal (S u i) . 2. R ob MOrrison (H on ). 3. D ave Hansen (H u s). 4. 'AI Kenyon (Bul). 5. Bob SCally (Bul). 6. H an k Scott ( Y am). 7. Gene R o mero. 8 . St eve Eklund ( Y am ). 9 . Jo hn G l easo n (Bul). 10. G~ry Sc o tt ( yam ). Ascot weekly hajf-miles . to go CMC for the win followed by Hansen who had started out, as usu al, on the third row. Gary Scott, Gleason and Romero rounded out the first five finishers, Gen n ai led off in the next semi and Aldana .closed in on Hateley .sendi ng him skittering off the pace. Hateley regrouped . immediately an d aimed directly for Aldana in retaliation, · sending him sprawling across the arena. Gennai carried on unobtrousively for the win, followed by Hank Scott, Bob Scally, Al Kenyon and Steve Eklund. L Mains r Rick Delacy ' immediate ly took co n t ro l of t he action in the Novice main. Charging into the lead from t he. seco n d row, he set the pace and didn't relent in a quick follow the leader parade of lef t handers. Tony Alves picked off Doug Davenport fo r second an d Mamola slid out on the las t lap. Mamola walked out of the arena seri o usly unhappy due to his dead last finish. . Morrison , Gennai, Hansen, Scally ;'nd Gary Scali scrunched together on the front row while Kenyon, Gleason, Hank Scali, Romero and Ek lund eagled-eyed the starter fro m the second row of the Junior/Expert combined. All t en riders hit the first turn at once an d Gle ason st ar t ed a chain reaction fender bender that sent half th e infamous field of national riders gropping for stopping power that didn't exist on the slippery surface. Everyone picked up the pieces and returned to the star t for a second GARDENA, CAL., MAY 10 . After negotiating uns uccessfu lly with AMA over a pilot program to revitalize weekly AMA pro racing at the venerable oval, Ascot promoter J .C. Agajanian an nounced that beginning Friday, May 2 I, the weekly pro series will be run under Continental Motosports Club (CMC) sanction. At :this writing, th e change is not expected to affect the scheduled runni ng of Ascot 's two Cam el Pro Series AMA Nationals - the August 7 TT and the October 9 half m ile under the AMA tent. Aggie, on Ap ril 30, had written District Referee Chu b b Kellam a 10-p o int pi lot program proposal to pass on to AMA in Westerville. ' The impasse developed over the promoter's request to use a portion of the back-gate money (rider and m echanic's entry fees) to purchase. his own insu ran ce package, rather than the AMA 's contractually-req uired "standard" pro insurance. . . Other key points in the proposal, which apparently wo uld have been acceptable : I) There would be three mains and a trophy dash' regardless of entry. A short Expert entry would be fiIled by seeding the fastest-qualifying JW1iors, in w hatever n umber necessary to guarantee a fuIl 15-man feature Main, into the Expert p rogram. The remaining Juniors would run their own class pr0l!'"am. • 2) The main event purse would be distributed as an Expert purse in a "standard" program. JW1ior and Novice purses would m ain tain at current percentage levels. Juniors would earn advan ce ment points regardless of which pro~ram they ran in . . . 3) Th e promoter would have been allowed to determine jointly with the referee the number, duties , and compensation of race officials. . Now, with no agreement between promoter and AMA o n the full pro p osal , a CMC program will be run instead, with two divisions - ·an Expert Divisio n for current AMA JW1iors and Experts on 750s, and a Novice Division co m pa t ible with current AMA Nov ices. Skip Van Leeuwen and Sammy Tanner will aid in planning the details of the weekly Cl\IC shows . The Cl\IC insuran ce program benefits au t o m at ically accrue to any CMC·licensed rider. 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