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.i NORTHERN DA1'EI.rt: ~ t •• -. Daytime at Sears: Would you believe Randy Davis saved it? Speedway North: Faria the up' and comer By W.H. Spencer SAN JOSE, CAL., JUNE 13 Saturday night at San Jose Rich MacMurray buried the _ hatchet, returned to his "home" track to defend his 1975 title and was rewarded -with a 50 yard start. No matter, he still won the heat. Dennis "Choo-ehoo" Robinson and Looney Mike Rooney staged together to get by Rick _ Delacy for the third handicap heat with the crowd really rocking. The track was just right enough so that anyone could ride it anywhere. Despite john Gennai getting moved back to the 20 yard line, he won his heat over Marty Benck and john McDonnell. The Semi's weren't too good for the Class "C" ace as once again, Robinson and Rooney put on another great sideways show while the first Semi went to Randy Davis over MacMurray by inches. The Main was a classic, one on the 50, four guys on the 40 and Davis on the 20. MacMurray and Orlandi moved through the first turn traffic with relative ease but still a ways behind Davis. Orlandi had been riding the outside the last week or so and was still there, in the loose stuff, hooking it right along side of MacMurray. . On the fourth lap MacMurray caught Randy -but had to dog him for the right pass. Orlandi made one mistake as Rooney and Robinson gobbled him up, both still hooking it together. Off turn one. ' , . . and here comes Rooney right up to Davis on the white flag. Randy gets a good drive 0 ff turn two while Rooney grabs the biggest handful of the night and gets it all kinds of sideways. Through the last corner, Rooney berserks it to the outside and again, sideways pulls up alongside of Davis and loses it by a width of a spoke. The stands were nearly exhausted. In the Scratch Main it was all MacMurray. Orlandi tried the outside once again and was alongside for one lap, Mike Faria got under and then around in some fancy passing, but Orlandi wasn't having any of that and got back for second. Sunday The pan cushion and part hard Sears Point track made for inconsistent racing and some injury. The track is a great circle with wide corners and lots of the right dirt with some of the wrong. The inconsistent pan of the track was a dry straight, a wet cushiony first pan of the turn and then another dry part. Davis went to put it under McCarthy in a neat looking slid" but got it too far and was skidding on the ground as Orlandi came up behind him . Orlandi, being one of the best, threw it away knowing full well that he would run smack into him if he didn't. Ironically Davis saved it just about the time Orlandi dropped it . It was a day of wonderment for Randy who nearly threw it away later in the day bu t came back to win the Handicap Consolation. In the Semis Faria thrilled the small picnicking crowd to an inch win over and Mc Canhy while LupoId MacMurray won the red flagged second over Yarrow again. Dennis Robinson was in a position to pass Yarrow but in a close spot, he bumped and then backed off. Backing off the throttle is wrestling ring with Tiny TIDl, you're gonna go on the ground. Butch Corder was right behind and hit him amidships. Butch's bike crashed Denny's knee. while Butch's arm got caught in the log sawing sprocket. MacMurray still showing why he carries No. 1 won the first scratch heat with Faria taking the second and "Rollin" Rich winning the Semi by at least 2/10ths of an inch while Paul Orlandi and Ron Long came off second place finishes in their heats to take first. In the Scratch Main Long led it down the back straight but that was it. Orlandi still playing the outside went up in two tons of dust while Mike Faria continued to dog it in the middle and chasing .the checkered, got a drive on the outside and nipped NorCal champ MacMurray by less than a foot. For Faria it was an all smiles day as he came off the 40 to win the Handicap from Mike "Low Yard" LupoId. MacMurray took third with Yarrow and the rest of the crew crashing for the back spots. Faria had won nearly a grand in the last two weeks and is really loving this AMA Speedway stuff. • Greenhorn Trial: A dab 'II do ya . in! By John Talltrees KERN COUNTY, CAL., JUNE 19-20 A Ii 'I. dab'lJ do ya. Sometimes right out of the perpetual trophy for the First Annual Greenhorn Two Day Trial. One dab in the final section of the day, his only fo?ting, thwarted Bernie Schreiber's Expert win. The national champ short-stroked to his sixth ATA win, tying the So Cal champ in the victory column as a seven week summer recess commences. It was the kind of trial where one bad ride could finish the front runners. Whaley won with a 13 for his two day, 48 section efforts, The one bad ride was a splashing five by Bernie inside the "Water Pipe," the most talked about section of the weekend in the pines, 40 miles east of Bakersfield. Some riders attempted the drop between two case crunching rocks into a foot deep pool to get a head-on angle for the hop into the water pipe. Others preferred the dry, narrow, angled entrance into the extremely slippery put -y 0 u -0 n-y o ur-e ar-b ef ore-y ouknew- what-was-happening conduit. This line also re quired a precise ride to avoid clipping the handlebars on the edge of the pipe. Saturday's score was: Whaley 8, Mark Eggar 12 and Schreiber 13. On Sunday Bernie put together his 23 straight cleans, one too few to tie. And since he had more cleans that sole Sunday prod cost the win . Mark Eggar, who won the Missouri National a few weeks back, tabbed a 19 for third. The Father's Day results saw Sherry Gregoire, who had topped the Novice class at the previous KCOTA (Kern County) trial, take a third and transfer to the Amateur class to give Debbie Evans some . company. Another gal, spunky little Tori Norton, on the short side of ten, looks like she just may get there too, someday. Since it was Course . Marshall Harold Sprayberry's birthday he shared his cake with the riders at the awards presentation. That perpetual trophy that went to Marland was a metal assembl scul

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