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C Lu ~he was re covering nicely , had so me big h ospit al bills to pay. The Sled Riders de cided to help o u t an d th e day was "' acked wi th vir tu all y n Oil-Stop racing. " ~".L • 1~1 The fir st group o f riders t o tackle the ~co urse were the Beginners, with Kevin - mall (Y-Z) takin g the overall win 0110wed by Ted 1I0it (Yam) . An hour te r, the Women 's Division left the line, ~Wl th Dawn Grant (lI us) t aking an , im m edi ate le ad . Four laps later. Dawn . fl ew into the fmish with the . co mp e titio n nowhere in sight. Trudy I Beck finished second. after riding the ..en ti re co urse with a broken shock. dl At high noon. in the searing heat. the Division I Amateur/Expert banner I:drop ped . As the riders battled for cp osit ion , Larry Roese ler (Hus) pulled mead of the pack and stretched o ut his . le ad with a ride that was beautiful to watch . Brent Wallingsford (Ya m) maintained a co nsis te n t secon d , while Goa t Breker (Bul) moved up to take third. Bob Rutten (lIod) ra n away wit h the lead in the Division II Amate'l r/Expert race, be hi n d him , Jeff Kapl an (Hus) new in,o the fini sh to take seco nd Division II Expert. "John Boy" Lawson (M. V) nabbed th e first Division II Amateur place, while Ge n e Rock (Yam) took second. Chuck ( Car tl edge (LTV) was le adi ng the T railbike Experts but a crash left [ Charlie Ha mill Jr. (Yam ) with t he lead to fi nish first. Cartledge regained several ['p laces to take third. David Jones (Hod) and Steve Webb (Suz) were fITSt and l.secon d Amateur Trail. \v :<.·J effery Tait (Yam) surged mead of s the o th er Heavyweight Novices, and s m anaged t o hold off John Wilson (Yam) Jilo t ake the checkered nag. Before the >l d ust had cleared, the Heavyweight I :Amateur/ Expert s were off for the last b ra ce o f the day. Going into the first 1 tum, riders struggled for position with . ~ im Sumners (Ya m) desperately trying ~ ti:> hold o ff the pack. By the end of the s first lap, Larry Roeseler, who was riding iust for fun, had an incredible lead and was puttin g on quite a show. A.C. Bakke n (Hus ) followed, as the official leader, with J im Sumners ~mly hanging on to seco nd. Ed Zarp (Yam) got by fo r sec ond when Su mners overshot a tum and we nt over a cliff. He was ab le t o p ull it back together t o salvage th ird in spite o f t he difficulty. :Jerry Sill (Ya m) blasted past th e Op en ("Am ateurs to take the hon ors fo r th at Lclass , with ' second going to J. L. b~~ui c kie " McG raw (Yam). • ~~ ~ :JA,j.. 1> ,A LENCIA, CAL., MAY 16 .;f his warm hum id day found 49 of the Crimson and Gold troops out to romp on the In tern ation al l Course, and it was a good one. n; Consistent Randy Lyall sho wed the oY'~y for .t he overall win in the Novice J bunch with three deuces, followed hy nlr.!n Harris with a win and a co up le of •.fpurths. T hird overall was nabbed by {liowar d Zim merman on his red. white nd blue Montesa, The Amateur win went to Warren Fonteneau with a 2- )- 3 and the he a t must have agreed with Big Jerry Scott who won th e las t m o t o to b ring in second fo r the day. The Experts reall y sh uffled it u p as consistent Sam Jones went 1· ) -2 fo r th e big b acon . Al Dennler garnere d sec o nd overall with Dic k Do y le han gin g in there for t hird. Eight Masters made up a good gro u p E today but no one co uld ca tch u p wi th , J o h n Maroney. Marvin Olson m ad e th e v eco n d sp ot wit h No rb Brown, on his spiffy Bicentennial 370 Suzuki. getting di aled in quicker every moto fo r thi rd. Andy Anderso n bump started his Suzu ki all day to a co nsis tent fo urth. • Results in Resu lts Section. The original foaming chain lube. Th is synthetic lubricant silences, clings, . prolongs life, repe ls normal accumulation of dirt, mud and sand. Penetrates pins and ro llers. 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