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, Hugh Humble leads Bubba Byars (63) and David Langly (295) during the throttle to the stops 200 GP wars at Oak Hill. , ' raul 'Hagman' Stephenson (73) takes his u~ual Open Cafe win ahead of Greg Bauer Kalmus predicts rain, Levit finishes seventh I By Tulia Vulgaris HENDERSO N, TEX. , MAY 9 'A th ou sand dollars in merchandise land an other cha nc e to test th em selves against th e tight, twist y su r face o f Oak Hill Racew ay brough t ou t 9 0 e nt hus iastic Cen tr al Ro ad Race rs for th e first an n ual runn in g o f the Oak Hill Gr and Prix . Altho ugh the bright , su n ny weather dre w a lar ge r rider tum o u t th e re were only a bo u t 500 spect at ors in atte nd a nce . Said Cen tral Ro ad Racing Club Presid ent Lou Linde n , " T his is th e last time we put a race on Mother 's Day. I t hat so me o ne d oe sn 't ju st hope pro claim o u r next race da te (june 20 t h ) n at ional app le p ie day. We all kn ow what hap pen s to people wh o get d own on Mo th er and ap p le p ie!" The spectators who did tum ou t, ho wever , saw so me great co m p e ti t io n rid ing especially in the 20 0 G.P, class. T exas has al ways been a ho t bed of ho me co nst ruc ted 2 00c c road racing m achinery and the sm all G.P . class co ntin ues to flo urish th er e . Fro m the very beginning Gordon Seim on an ex trao rdi n arily ' fast Can-Am took a never t o be chal lenge d lead leaving Dun can Paul ( 125 Yam ), Hugh Humble (I75 Bri) and Bubba Byars (200 Suz ) t o figh t it o ut fo r th e remaining positions In other ac ti on Ch arles Brothers forced h is way to sec o n d place on an RD -3 50 behin d 750 Bonneville moun ted Jon Min on n o in , the , 7 5 0 Produce go round followed by a pa ck o f ang ry 750 Hondas. Open Ca fe was the sight o f a brilliant m at ch ra ce be tween veteran Minonno and newcomer Gr eg Bauer on a n A.J. Foyt spo nso red Z- L The two of t hem swap p ed th e right to second place behind Paul "Hogm an " Stephenson four times in as many laps wit h th e larger Kawasaki finally h aving th e power to get b y Minonno 's Triumph and force the Dall as rider t o settle for third p lace on th e last lap . Alth ough the re were no injuries serio us e noug h to make an ambulance run to th e Rus k Co unt y Hospital th ere were two very spectacular c rashes ending in even more spec t ac ular waterlandings in the creek that flows ne ar the track. In a sign of gre a t benevolence, ra in that had, accordi n g t o Dennis Kalmus , the C.R.R.C.'s re siden t b ee n impendin g m eteor olo g ist throughout the en tire da y did not ap pear un til five minutes a fter the fin ish o f the Open G .P. race. 111is allo wed th e sky wat ch er to bring home a t hi rd place behind Minormo an d Day t on a wi n ne r Dave Ro binson in th e 75 0 Cafe bash . Ka lm us wa s forced to rid e like a m ad m an a fter going o ff th e co urse in tum t wo while pressu rin g Minnon o. -Rick Levit ro d e lik e a con serva t ive m an to fini sh se ve n th . • Duffy reaps Rio rewards HO USTON, TEX., MAY 2 A sun splashed crowd of several th ousands watched almost 400 Experts and Amateurs do their thing at the Rio Bravo Motocross Park. K~ith Duffy who came within one lap of upsetting Wyman Priddy the previous wee k in the Support class of the Nationals got it all together this Sunday and pushed his big Addick's Cycle CZ around for first in each moto in the Open Expert class. Up and coming Bart Batson ran second behind Duffy . In the 250 Expert class, it was all Greg Howard winning the moto money as well as first overall and in the 125 Professional class, Shawn Ke lly and Bo Ko ch diced it out with Kelly winning th e de cision after Koch had taken the first moto. When the dust cleared, however, it was Bob Koch and his George Banke Special who had most of the money in his pocket by virtue of his second place finish in the 125 Expert class and a second place finish in the 250 class earning Bo the recognition as Iron Man Koch. Don Guillory played the part o f the Ra gin Cajun as he edged Mike Bodenherner in the 125 Intermediate class. The we ather was warm and the tr ack was rough, but Guillory never let off as he worked his way up to the ch ec kered flag. T he BIa c k an d Blue' Division featuring the 25 0 m achines thrilled the cr o wd s and kept the amb ulan ce drivers busy. Steve Ra spberry dominated the 25 0 A Divisi on with Mickey J am es and , 37 .