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MX Vinyl Tank Cover Little Russel Luhdorf is having fun while his brother Scott works on Wednesday night and won the 360 Novice for his first big win over Jimmie Whitton and Rick Alves. Todd Skov closed in on Camm Johnson's 250 Novice high point lead with a six point win over Matt Crowley while Johnson picked up points in the Junior portion to widen his lead in that class. , Lightning Larry Krusemann won his third 125 Novice main event and is looking t oward picking off Mike Frozen's seemingly insurmountable lead while Mike stayed away from the Junior run allowing Craig Weatberton and Bob Cunnington the trophies with Louie Maz ur taking the Semi-Pro portion. • Results in Results Section; Mertens hits again By W. H. Spencer ou t first started to run away with the main until, Mark Rooks coming up from the penalty line and seventh place scratch broke aw ay from the pack and gained on Thompson but his efforts were too late the checkered flag came and Thompson was in for first and Rooks for a close second, Tim Mahlen in for third. The 100cc main was a win fo r Ross Learn and a disappointment for Tom Decoy who fell in second place going to the checkered flag, giving second to Mitch Seitzinger, third Ted Johnson, fourth Ryan Fisher, with Dindy Johnson placing six th and the only girl qualifying for the National from the Northwest. . • Results in Results Section. 6 Colors Ii III Block Blue Used by Pros. Better gr ip for leathers. Green Easy to installS remove. Resists gas 8 Red detergents. Stop duct tape or painting. Yell ow (Without leiter J '76 Els i nore- Red MX ' $ 11 5 .9 • ~ t 2 Styles TMX $ 12.95 (.0 t- MX= I solid color TMX=2 colors Calif. residents add 6 % tax. SPECIFY- (Top ~ ...-l a side panels) ~ 00 l Color(s) C\J 2 .S t yle 3. Mfr,mode l,yr. 4.Centerlb ffset filler on RM's. '"' Q) ..0 S Send f or Fr ee 1976 1/2 MX Cata log . s 0.. T F Racing Enterpr ises PO Box 215 Avery, Co. 95224 Phone (20 9) 795-298 1 Q) rrJ Annual ,E & R benefit By w. H. Spencer SAN JOSE, CAL., AUG . 23 SALINAS, CAL., AUG. 22 Jim Mertens hit the professional racing world square in the nose for a second straight time winning the Monday night special at the Santa The annual Benefit scrambles at the Salinas Rodeo grounds turned out to be the biggest and best scrambles event of the season with Clara County Fair. It was the second part of a three day motorcycle special during the annual fair. The short track seemed well suited to the y ou ng pro who took the lead on lap 12 from AI Kenyon's failin g motor and won his second main in just two times au t as a pro. Despite the Monday night date, the fair goers were plentiful and were treated to a great sh ow on the little "'o ne-seven th mile track used mostly for the Speedway racers; but the riders were all enthusiastic about wanting to race on it more often. <, In the 20 lap Main Al Kenyon and 'J im Mertens led out with Kenyon taking the lead going into the first corner of the second lap and controlling the race with ease over Mertens, Lawson, Pervier and Gennai until the fateful 11 th lap when the rod cage gave up the cause. Mertens and Lawson fell into the lead over the crew and lapping. Passing was at a minimum with the only sign ificant racing going on at the fr ont in the first lap. The last ten go-r ounds were all the sam e numb ers wi th only Kenyon missing an d no one el se getting around anyo ne else . Gennai tried early in the race with some different tactics but to n o avail and it appeared that the swiftness of the event kept enough riders tired enough to just set tl e for what they had. • the usual all ni ght festivities, long unending line to ge t in, a quick sign .up, lengthy practice only broken up by a long shower and a rather quick eight-hour race d ay. Th at isn't being facetious either; Nearly 400 of West Co ast's finest scramblers were on hand to co n tribu te to the Salin as Elk's c h a ri tie s, to taling over $200,000 over the years. Ricky Graham, th e fast-budding Pro Junior took top honors in the 650 Expert Main while Eddie Lawson spent the weekend around the Santa Clara County Fair. Pete Pestoni just managed to get an extra brake on for this show which he won after Dave Nazzisi let him by, and former D-36 No. One AI Yarrow came back a year late to win the 250 Expert. This year's No . One John Hlebo raced his first event of the 1976 season and still has problems. A shoulder operation has kept the popular rider benched. Once again all eyes Were on the 650 Expert class with Seven trophies up for grabs and lots of black p late poin ts. Missin g w ere some former win ners wit! Rick Otto the most outstanding. Action was ap lenty though, with crashing and bashing a must. Grah am had it pretty much his own way bu t lo ts of pressure came from Eric Weisler while Duane Spence, early leader Phil Vitale and John Tavis all fell off the pace. Little Tony Alves took home a group of trophies as the m igh ty youngster not o nly won the 650 Junior Main Over a hard charging Frank Borba but also won, for the third time, the best bike and rider appearance award. TV contracts should be forthcoming. Ralph Lee won his most important even t in seven years with a wire to wire 650 Novice win. Beating au t Selby Motors' ace Gary Rucker was tough but the win was tremendous elation and a Junior card is on the way. While John Tavis couldn't get his "40" to work in the big bike main, his 400 mon oshocker was the best in the 500 Expert after Matt Carothers blew it all early on. Denny Spence took third on his Dad's bike after he blew his own up in practice. Buddy Robinson rode a 500 thumper in for third. The 360 Expert Main was a giveaway for a few riders. Dan Castlehano couldn 't get his gearbox to work righ t and gave away the lead. Dave Nazzisi couldn't hold the front wheel in place and at the end it ·w as the Pe te Pestoni Bu ltaco, so famous at the Ascot h alf-m ile, winning a big time TT. Short track specialist Brian Thompson and Randy Bereman, reverting to the J un ior ranks for Scrambles, dueled it out for the 250 Junior Main with Thompson ridin g the Orlando Porting special to the win OVer the KS Cycles Bul, Old man Sherman .Wong hung in for third over young John Land, the former minibiker. • Brown qualifies two to National By Liz Swanson CASTLE ROCK, WA., SEJ!I'. 4 The AMA Western Regional Qualifier for the National Amateur race in Toledo, Ohio proved to be one of thrills and spills on the super smo o th dust free Castle Rock TT track. Butch Brown ran awa y with the 250cc class . Brown piloted his Can-Am to a start to finish win displaying the most spectacular riding form of the night. Brown with a runaway lead had no worry, the race was between Jon Gladman and Eric Swanson for third p lace. For eight laps Gladman and Swanson battled back and forth to the finish line finding Gladman in third and Swanson in fou rth, w ith Jeff McDaniel in for a comfortable second. 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