(Above I The Man still lays it over farther than anyone else, but it wasn't his day. (Belowl Tommy Croft leads Adolf Weil (2) during Tomahawk's fantastic: second moto.
The only thing that could stop him from winning was if
the swooping camera copter fell on him. It didn 't.
Back in the pack Steve Stackable quickly moved by
Herbert Schmitz, the German champion on a Puch , for
fourth and the German-born American and German-born
German cat-and-moused for the next 45 minutes .wit h
"Short Stack" shaking free at the end,
Gary. Sernics, Brad Lackey and Tony DiStefano ail
went down on the first lap. They spent the remainder of
the moto playing catch up with Lackey eventually
engaging in a furious last lap duel with Jaak Van
Velthoven for sixth. Van Velthoven, perhaps the tallest
motocrosser since Bill Russell, held the position at the
flag. Tony D. . seized twice, but motored ' aro u nd to
finish.
Intermission
Aerobatics, sky divers, dollar hamburgers and fifty
cent cokes for the spe ctators, Top end rebuilding, tire
changing, welding, replacing and worrying for the
mechanics, Exhaustion, autograph signing, complaining
and crowds for the riders,
Croft crops up
Mosier and Stackable with their third and fourth place
finishes in the first moto were -Ameri ca 's- best bets to
stop the European onslaught. Everyone was going to try
and redeem themselves. As the ABC crew went up and
down the line each rider in turn said, "I'm gonna go for
it! "
Karsmakers went for it first , the Dutch version of go
for it was definitely better and Wolsink caught him at
the top of. the lorig uphill, ducked under and pulled
aw ay. Wh~~ were Mosier and Stackable? St ackable .
hignsided in the first turn knocking down Tony
DiSt~fano and Willi Bauer (KTM). Bauer had been
unhappy with the track, the heat and his machine, Carl
Cranke had flown down to do the wrenching for Willi.
Mysteriously a Penton decal appeared on the KTM tank.
Everything was not well in the KTM pits. Bauer injured
his back in the collision and withdr~w. Stack and Tony
D. got up in last p lace and ·start~ d to give chase, Mosier
was up front right on Roger D~Cost~r's rear fender, So
close on Roger's fender that coming out of the last turn
on the first lap he gav~ Roger a ·big goos~ with the
Maico's front wheel, De'Coster - was not amused and
glared over his shoulder while roosting aw ay . Ga ylon
didn 't co m e around the next lap and fmaIly appeared in
last place with his hopes of victory smashed,
A long way away . from Mosier, DiSt~fano and
Stackable was Gerrit Wolsink. Wolsink steadily pulled
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