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Your dassic coming and going shot - Jerry Symak in Open Expert and Rob Morrison in Open Inter. Now ask how we did it. Inchiki! West Texas trials By Travis Hunter BIG SPRING , T EX ., AU G . 29 Ron Field s of Dallas, riding a Yamaha, took th e top hon ors at. the WRRA Trials this Sunday. Ron was performing at top level 38 until he broke his handlebars into two p ieces. From then on it wa s very tough riding. But, he showed all the boys out here in West Texas a thing or two ab out trials rid ing . Second an d third place was tied between Randy Clause and Craig Kitterman. They each had the same number of cleans, and ones. T he second position was decided by th e mo st number o f tw os taken. Clause won out with six twos to four for Kitterm an . The Broken Sp oke awa rd - for last place fin isher in Am at eu r class, went t o La Marr J am es o f Od essa - for a superb performance. • Results in Results Section. Grand National Championship qualifier By Greg Labbe A UST L , T EX ., SEPT. 5 'I " I am absolutely going to win , no matter what !" Th at's what Mark Wheeless said tw o days before the race as he men tally pre pared himself to go for it. And that 's precisely what he did this past Sunday at Austin Motocross Park's second Grand National Championship qualifier. No one co uld even come close to matching th e blazing, ber ser ka pace of Wheeless in th e 250 Expert class, d espite a lineup of heavy talent. Roger Brown fini shed about 20 seconds do wn fro m l\lar k in the first mota, and David Daniels was abou t t h e same distance back in second at the e nd o f mota tw o . It wasn ' t from lack o f trying that gift e d rid ers co uld not hold Wheeless' p ace. They tried hard, but Mark attacked each tum and straight with vengeance, hurtling h is 250 Penton through turns, over hills and ricocheting off berms, looking very much like a crash looking for a pl ace to happen. David Daniels, fro m New Braunfels, was out on- something other than a 12 5cc mach ine for tlie first time, a new 250 Can-Am whi ch he took to secon d overall. The 125 Experts kept everyone o n their feet with the closest combat of the da y. Danny Weir, fro m Big Spring, triumphed on a Honda in both motos, but had to come from fourth at the start each time to scratch and claw his the fro n t. His closest wa y to competition to the finish of each mota was rapidl y improving Buddy Kutz er. Bill Howle, in an impressive display of speed and consistency for a rookie Exp ert , finished third in each mota for th ird ov erall. Roger Bro wn won bo t h mo tos of t he Open Expert divis io n on a 400 Pento n with J erry Sy mank a d istant secon d over all on a Suz u ki and Gary Beam t h ird aboard a Maico. Greg Sietsma embarrassed a pretty fair field of Open Intermediates by winning both motos with 20 second marp:ins. .- A smooth and consistent James Coppeage, from Corpus Christi, flew to the second mota victory and took overall honors in the highly competitive 250 Intermediate class . He was followed home b y Cliff Simpson , who re fu sed to fold up in the second. The 250 No vices were absolute models of inconsist ency. All, that is, except for Husky mounted Mark Nar din who won the war without winning o ne battle. Scott Bloedorn won mota o ne but ended up fourth overall and Mark Chlapek won the second mota, but had already blown it in the fir st go aro u nd, so he received secon d o ver all. Russ ell Pow ers, after app lyi ng pressure all mota long, sn uc k his Honda under Butch Maiden in the last tum to ca p ture the firs t mota a nd we nt on to take ov er all honors fo llo wed close ly by l\la rk Elliott an d Butch Maide n, Some aggressive riding o n th e part a f D arren Jeff co at won him the 12 5 No vice