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Cycle News 1976 08 03

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D ist r iet 36 & AMA sanetio ned r o oJ oJ I- his second team ride held third by inches lap after lap. However, on the last lap he wobbled and Morley sh ot by thus creating a ti e of 3-3. , The second round put Fresno's Mark T ra cy an d substitu te Brian Buffington for Hanford agai nst So Cal's Tom Ferris and T im Bradley. A fi st lap crash co st r Bradley a re ar ch ain and a last place. Ferris won it fo r So Cal with Hanford taking t he 2-3 spots and another tie score 6 to 6. With the team score tied, Hanford put Martin and Buffington against So Cal's Lindwall and ' Ferris. Would y ou believe another tie ? Martin won it, but Buffington couldn 't hold up his end so - So Cal go t second and third. This cal led for a final runoff of the high point man ' from each te am for the tie breaker. It was Martin vs Lindwall for a two lapper, Martin dominated an obviously tired Lindwall an d Hanford go t its first win of the season. Brian Buffington go t a te n yard line , start in the Handicap Mai n and it was too goo d for th e rest of the pa ck. Jack Martin did a , phenomenal job from his new 60 yar d mark and got a third, not quite ca tc hing second place Faulkner. Buffington also made th e Scratch Main to face Han fo rd's triple threat , Tom Ferris, Grant Salyers and J ack Mar tin, With Martin o n equal footing he painted a di fferent p icture and t he night's Hot Do gs, fo llowed him ho me under heavy pressure. • Senii-Pro & Sportsman Half-Mile . Sunday, August B San Jose Fairgrounds Double Black Plate Points * Pre entry $5 * * Post entry $7,50 * General Admission $3.50 * NAME _ ADDRESS----- - - -_ _.,....- _ CITY- STATE ZIP _ inc lude .1f·1Idd..-d - na",ped e nvelope with entry & mail to: Speedway Enterprises e 14 Camp Evers Lane e information: 4 15-327-4461 Bailey/Delacy split MX Ch • ' PIT airs By W, 'H . Spencer , 1II I"' Rick Delacy a nd Don Bailey spli t a pair o f Expert Main wins for ro und 12 of Wednesd ay night short track at Fremont Raceway. 1II Ron Hardin, back a ft er an ei ght week bout with collar-bone-ir is, had traffic problems in e arl y heat racing but had it together for both th e Scratch and Handicap Consis. He won the pair with two nice rides. At main even t time all the regulars had battled through an d the tension was high as the fans waited to see if Jack Martin could pull o ff his much so ught-after clean sweep. In the Handicap Main J ack fa ced all his regular rivals with A tc h ison added for go o d measure , and Mark Tracy of Fre sno in his first main even t on the zer o yard line. Traffic was fierce in the rear ec hel on and while th e hi gh yardage men battled, T ra cy stretche d out a co m fo rta ble lead. Comfortable he thought, for on lap th ree T o m Mo rle y and Martin b ro ke loose an d moved in for th e kill. Tra cy wasn't intimidated however, and he stuck li ke glu e to th e line that was working for h im and t he o~ly one to ge t b y was Martin ' for the WID. Martin now had th e Scra tc h Main to win for his swee p . He faced Tom Ferris who spoiled it fo r him, last week, along with Morley and Grant Sal yers. J ack was re all y hyped for th is o ne - h e got th e holeshot a nd nobody saw anything but his dust for four laps. J ack to ok the first sweep of the ' 76 llan ford season and some ni ce bucks for his performance. • Team races at Speedway Central HANFORD,CAL.,JULY 16 The Hanford Hornets took on the So-Cal Sm okers tonight in a team series that defies description. The first go saw So Cal's cap ta in Louis LindwalJ teamed up with red h o t Tom Morl ey. Hanford fiel d ed team capt ain Jack Martin supported by Danny Fletcher, When the ga te went up Hanford had first and th ir d with So Cal sitting second and fo ur t h. Fle tc he r . in, -- The win for Bailey, 11 of 14 starts, puts h im j ust o ne p oint behind Del acy in th e ov erall point s tand ings. Doug Chandler took a pair o f Mains home to the trophy box with 80cc and IOOcc mini Expert wins. He really had , to wor k around big boy Dave Ro sa in th e IOOcc Main. In the Sonny Kenyon Cycles match ra ce quarter finals, Rocky Malynn (Bul) proved a bit t oo much for Steve Mertens even with Steve on his brother's super trick 360 Yammer. One more quarter fin al will lead to two semi-finals and th e bi g race for th e $5 0 0 o n July 28 . Just to sp ice up the dollr bracket, Bill Ke y s of Gr and Prix Cycles in Fremont will give th e seco nd pl ace fin ali st S 100 for his effo rts. A go od d ogfight wen t on in th e 12 5 Junior Main with Keith Day getting the better of Mik e Fruzen. Day got a good start wi th Fruzen and t he two put on a goo d show sliding through the comers wh eel to wheel. • Results in Results Se ction. 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