Cycle News - Archive Issues - 1970's

·. ; II ~ _ _ _ .......•...•...__._._._._._._._._._._.- Western hotline - E 395 Cyde Park is back . Running full throttle on the TT and Half Mile desert track , Greg Johnson (S7T) and Jeff Moon (10) kick up a little sand . New Guinean Kevin McDonald shines on Sou th Bay Speedway oval. AFM racer Rudy Reynosa) to present his dad with the perfect Father's Day gift (S50 first place prize money). Jeff Parriott (son of veteran AMA racer Buddy Parriott) was SI5 richer in third place. Just out of the prize money was Paul Manning, son of CMC road race promoter Pat Manning. Over in the 125cc Production class Kim Clark (I 25 Can-Am] ran off and hid from the other one-two-fives, leaving Jim Lester, Bill Silver, Bill Mullins, Tim Steinberger, and Greg Beck to battle back and forth for the remaining $50. Clark managed to beat all the 200s excep t fro speedy Steve Epstein. Bo b Brooks, Don MacMullen, and Mike McAvoy comp leted a Kawasaki 1·2-3 sweep in the 100cc GP. • New Guinean McDonald tops at South Bay Hl-yard handicap for the win. Bry an Bu ffi gt on came from the 40 n to win the handicap consolation event despite equipment trouble to that p oint. He said he finally had his gearing right for the 1/10 mile oval. He had lost a chain on a hard charge from the 40 in the previous race. Vic Robledo won the J un io r Main with Lo uis Kossuth taking a hard spill in his charge fr om the 50 yard handicap. Mile Miller was the winner of a ru nn er up even t. Beginning J uly 3, the p ro gram will run every Saturday night at 8 p.m. • Resu lts in Results Section . TT & Half-Mile under the stars at 395 C.P. By Phil Carpenter SAN DIEGO, CAL.,JUNE 19 AFM pavement scratchers at Ontario By Jim Lester ONTARIO, CAL., JUNE 20 AMA Expert Mike Baeder was among the 200-plus racers who came out to Ontario Sunday for AFM's road race, rather than trek 16 across coun try for the Louden National. He was also among a half-dozen 250 GP ra cers wh o challenged the 750s in the lead-off race, 350-0pen GP. While Richard Williamson and Richard Seifried ch ased the rapidly disappearing 750 Kawasaki o f Whitney Blakeslee, Baeder moved from the back of the pack to fourth by the end of the first :ap . By the fourth lap Baeder had passed the TZ-750s of Seifried and Williamson after some daring infield scratching. Two laps later he had cut Blakeslee's lead in half, but high track temperatures had caused Mike's tires to overheat and the bike began to get in to some vicious slides. Mike decided to pull out and save himself and his bike for the upcoming 250 GP. Current AFM Points leader Dan Spisak was determined to compliment his 500 GP win (on an overbored Yamaha 350) with a double in the 125 GP. Philippe de Lespinary had other ideas, though, and the two battled for the lead the entire race, with Philippe passing Dan for good two laps from the finish. AFM No. One. Rudy Ga lindo's TA·125 went from a five-speed to a fo ur-speed (no fourth gear) in practice, to a no-speed in the race when his gear-shift linkage jammed on the fourth lae, forcinghim o u t of the race. _ The luck of the draw saw the Ligh tweigh t ra ce hosting both of the S I 00 money ra ces. Bob Nolan (Villa) grabbed the early lead in t he 50cc GP, but ha d 10 make a "fifteen dollar " pit sto p when he ran ou t of gas. T his allowed Ste ve Reynosa (son of veteran ADELANTO, CAL., JUNE 19 Kevin McDonald, a New Guinean who is in SoCal to race Speedway, won both the Handicap and Scratch Mains at South Bay You could tell it was opening night when the guys with the steel shoes and iron nerve arrived before the sun set in the desert, Speedway. Coming from a 20 yard handicap, he held off Larry Kosta who had started from the 30. Rocketing from the 30 in a hard charge, Steve Schlanser did and end-over-end tumble while exiting a turn early in the main, In the Scratch Main a contact between McDonald and Dan Huckans for the lead dumped Huckans, greatly confusing the . race. Only McDonald survived the entire race without a spill. Runnerup Shawn McConnell went down once but recovered to become the only other finisher. A gru dge race between McDo nald and fellow countryman Garnet ThistIewait en ded in a declared tie by the referee. Challenger Steve Schlanser won a match race with King of the Hill Denny Scopletti. San Diego riders were second and third in the Third Division Final won by Gregg Wilhite . It was the first time out for flat tracker Pat Guthrie, He won his heat and then a second in the main with Frank Bollinger finishing third. Bobby Morse held off the third division consolation right up to the last com er where he crashed with a clear lead. William Slin b came from a sent the starter running for his life at practice. and rode full throttle till midnite at 395 Cycle Park! _ Randy Bird and his flying machine led Dylan Neihart's Yamaha for four laps in the 250 Expert Half-Mile Main ahead of the Bakersfield Bomb, Lee Hales. Bird flew to victory in TT action with Neihart and Bill Cain in his shadow. In separate 250 · Amateur action, it was David DeTemple grabbing the lead from Ms. Bobbi Hunter on the half-mile and Scott Thurlow stealing her TT trophy, with hard-driving Greg J oh ns on . taking two thirds, Steve Mott an d Mike DeBruyn made Rick Blankenship earn his 250 Novice brass with J im Bland waiting fo r a mistake on the half-mile. Lou Gimenez got a first place trophy for Father's Day. even if he did finish third behind those faithful fighters Bob Bell and David Peters in both Open Novi ce classes. Son John gave him his win in separate 500 competition. Open Amateur Wayne Taylor was really "rnovin on" with Gary Pettis right on his heels in the half-mile and a second place to his cre dit on the TT. David T I

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