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Talk abo ut being in t he wrong place at th e wro ng t ime. The Hilltoppe rs GP - two days of fast and f urious fu n at Escape Coun t ry.
Larry Roeseler might have won. but then maybe not - is ridi ng a 25 0cc mach ine in the Open class I
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ga mbled o n m a k in g the e ntire race with
h is three gallon Hu sky tan k. He wo n the
ga m ble bUL may h ave lo st th e race on a
protest that he rode the Open class on
his 25 0 clas s b ike . It .h ad 250 decals on
it,
but ' Bakken
was
somewhat
in credu lous abou t the power t he Hus ky
was pu ttin g out (" I loo ked back o n the
long u phill and t he re he was, pullin g
me !") The duel for fir st left Max Eddy
(KT M) at a distant th ird an d Mitch
Mayes (H us) fou rth . after m issin g a tu m
an d th ro wing the b ike away o ff of a
h ills id e . The b ik e wa sn't d amaged a nd
Mitch wasn't hurt, b ut he was a lit tle
shaken and too far back to ch a llen ge the
top spots.
The H illtop p ers laid out a t ru e Grand
pri x course (the on ly thing mi ssin g w as
as phalt] o f approximate ly 6 .6 m iles. I
The races started with a t ru e LeMan s
start as riders lined u p parallel with the
co u rse ra th er than p erpendicu lar as at
m o st. dese r t
ra ces.
Riders
were
unde rstandab ly n erv ous abo ut
th e
arr ange m en t bu t t hings wen t well. A
downhill ri ght o ff the sta rt led .iru o a
left ha nd swee p er leading on to a
fire road, which narrowed considerably
afte r
a
few
hundred
ya rd s.
Un fo r t u nate ly, - if yo u go t hung up in a
bo tt lenec k th e leaders wer e long go ne .
TIle rest o f t he course co n sisted uf sume
of th e most varied terra in imaginab le.
The o nly th ing lac king wa s w at e r bUL
