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Internutional dateli e advantage. of a good start to stick his CZ in third. His pass of Bauer was as radidil om as 1917 Soviet politics. Then, out of the dust, came bouncm the distinctive Bell Moto Star painted ina Belgium national colors. DeCoster Was~ moving up. His ride in this second motl! was totally dominant; just pI masterful. Komeev, Bauer, and Van ) VeIthoven were dealt with. Noyce still five seconds ahead; Angiolini ?'('l seconds ahead of young GrahlUl1 ! DeCoster did it again. He went bers and probably scared Noyce into a pass. Willi · Bauer had come to Aus ' ready to show the KTM folks som action. He passed Noyce to take thiiU' i Noyce knew that Otte Maisch Maico commercial director Hans KrE were: watching. He repassed Bali " . Roger cut a few seconds off Angiolliii q massive lead. . ~ AnglOlini came hurtling up the fiJ;St uphill, over the top with his feet off the pegs, over the haybale, and through the tapes. He got going again in first bu .allowed DeCoster to get within "n~i . turn" sight of him. The Italian couldii'\ keep both the lead and ' his curren!" riding style. He wen t down again all DeCoster went into the lead, l 't The lead change still left Graham.£ Noyce ~ who could be the biggest·'\" British hit with American teeners sifiee the Beatles - in second. Willi Bauer wi$B in third and Pierre Karsmakers,n in fourth. Angiolini remounted in fifth. You might have missed it if you we>' looking for spectacular riding, but Jonsson had moved his silver-and-bla Maico from the depths of the pack to seventh. With only three laps left in the second moto , Pierre powered his tti "Type 2" past Bauer and went after Noyce. Ake somehow got around Ad at the top of die gnarliest uphill:r Karmakers kept up his determined charge but it had started too late. ·A very happy DeCoster won it ; second 0 l~.oyce ; third, Karsmakers. . was anil .Results MOTO 1: 1. Adolf Woll (Mal) Gor. 2. RO~ DeCostor (Suz) Bolg . 3. VIc Allan (CC SCot. 4. cnrlster Hammargren (Kaw) Swed.:5. Frans S i~mans (Ma l) Neth. 6. A lberto Anglolln l Ma ll Ital. 7. Herbert SChmitz PuCII Ger. 8. Vadlm lr Khudlakov (CZI USS~. g'1 Anato~ Bochkov (CZ) USSR . 10. Bori9t ' Aber Sui Swede . MZ O~: 1. Roger DeCostor (Suz) Bol~. Graham Noyce (Mal) UK. 3. Pier re Karsmakers (Hon) USA. 4. WlIIl Bauer (KTM) Gor. S. Alberto Anglolln l (Mal) Ita r. 6. Ake Jonsson (Ma l) Swod. 7. Adolf Woll (Mal) Ger, 8. Gerrit Wolsin k (Suz) Neth. 9. Vlad imir Khudlakov (CZI USSR. 10. Herbert Schm Itz Tealeaf wins Czecho 250 By Danielle Flores 37 year old Adolf Weil doesn't wear a face guard like tJ:1e youngsters. but if you're out front ... 16 Bauer had ridden his heart out to work his KTM into fourth. When he went to use the clutch lever on the hairpin uphill one timevit wasn't there. Ad olf and Gerrit continued trying to out-think each other and, with 20 minutes gone, Gerrit got back into the lead. He only circulated one lap in that con di tio n , for in the effort to st ay ahead of Adolf, wh o was redoubling th e pressure , he crashed on .th e bumpiest uphill in motocr oss, snapping off a brake lever and losing some forearm skin. Adolf inherited the lead, and Graham Noyce, riding with considerab le cool, was then second. They circulated that way on the Maicos for a few laps with DeCoster closing the gap by abou t two seconds a tour. Vic Allan had pushed his CCM up to fourth - some distance behind Roger. It was a brilliant ride fo r Scotland and four-strokes, With only a few minutes of bouncing through the blinding dust left in the first moto, DeCoster pulled th e crow d-rouser of the day . On the second downhill , co nsisting of four roller-coaster bumps, Roger gassed it, landed on the fro n t wheel from th e sec o nd jump, split th e gap between Graham No yc e and a lapped rider (the Hungari an, I think) slammed into the rocky berm at the bottom of the hill , was obviously going to high-side - but somehow didn 't; got both feet back on the pegs and .was in second place. Everybody turned to each other in wonder as Roger downshift ed and went bac k up the hill. So t hat 's how you get to be World Champion . . The next lap, Vic A llan made a move for Scots nationalism in executing a bump pass that put Graham Noyce into th e ropes and out of the firs t moto . It put Vic in to third an d Christer Hammargren (o n a new 401cc wor ks Kawasaki) was too far back in fo urth to ge t hit by the stone-throwing CCM. Herbert Schmitz (Puch), Alberto Angiolini (Mai) , and Frans Sigmans (Mai) wer e having a hell of a figh t over fifth place. While not household personalities in the U.S. (like Jerry Ford, Cher, or Rhoda), they are all very fast, experienced Grand Prix riders : German, Italian, and Dutch, in that order. On the last lap, Ro ger closed right up on Adolf - knowing better than to uo> second mota Thorlief Hansen took the on ' sponsored Kawasaki on the cori' A tinent to the fastest qualifyin&-.G time by a full second over" Czechoslovakian hometown heroes Antonion Baborovsky and Jaroslav Falta, A highly partisaii~ crowd of 80,000 stood on die ) It was hard to say who actually got into the tum first . Gerrit Wolsink and Herbert Schmitz seemed side by side. A secon d later, it didn 't matter. They tangled and both dropped to the rocks. Vic Allan also wasted a good start as he went Douncing off trying, unsuccessfully, to avo id the crash. The bump-started CCM wouldn't re-fire, The results of these, and related, events was that Adolf Weil had the lead and Alberto Angiolini was in second. Graham Noyce appeared in third after one lap making it Maico I -2-3. Willi Bauer had lost momentum dodging the first tum crash but was up to fourth on th e KTM one lap later. Then Adolf blew it . You know the co urse was nasty when the Old Master crashes. Suddenly, - the Italian Alberto Angiolini was leading a GP moto, Graham Noyce was again in second but Russian Valeri Korneev had taken hillsides to cheer on the expected Czech victory on the home track. It was not to . , :>£fq be on this day. -At the start of the first moto • Baborovsky grabbed a quick lead with the new super fast Russian Kavinov ,on .. his tail. Behind the two front runners were Falta, Hansen , Gennady, Moisee~ and Jim Pomeroy was back in fifteenth .q By the fourth lap the front packll remained the same with Pomeroy up to eleventh. Former 500 World Champion Heikki Mikkola had gotten off of th!:u line poorly and pulled into the p \ts :> because the dust made it impossible for him to work up to the top ten. Mikkola decided to sit back and rest for the second moto, Kavinov . took the lead from the young Czech, while Hansen moved up to third place behind Baborovsky.~ Pomeroy engaged Raymond Boven (Mo n ) . Ovchinnikov (KTM), and Hakan hope for a mistake by the Maicomeister but ready , nonetheless. Adolf was serious, though. He powered the 386 Maico to the checkered and into the lead of th e World Championship. Roger was only a few seconds back.