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ZELTWEG, AUSTR IA, SEPT. 20-25
The United States lnternation
Six Days Trial team, 37 , strong,
accumulated a highl y creditable
29 Gold l\ledal total at the 51 st
ISDT centered around Styria,
Austria's Osterreichring road racing Iacilityv The rem aining eight
individuals registered two Silver
Medal performance, two Bronze Medal
rides and four DNFs in the week-long
event
The six-man "mixed" U.S, World
Trophy team au tdid themselves in the
opening days, takin g sixth at the end of
day one and moving into fifth by the
completion of t hesecond day. The third
day, however, marked the downfall of
the U.S. team when Penton rider Kevin
LaVoie dropped out ' du e to main
bearing failure, an unforseeable a nd
therefore unpreven table occurrence.
' T h e other five members, Lars Larsson
(KTM), Billy UbI (Her), Mike Warm on
(Bul), Jim Hollander (Rok) and Gary
Younkins (Pen) continued to finish on
Gold aQd pu r'the team in tenth place in
spite of the los-f a man.
rlllllJlJij~e Penton mounted . Silve r Vase
Dane Leimbach" Tom; Penton,
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Plck"l'enton and Carl Cranke, restarted
tfie week in fourth place and' ended
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disappointed dl'at lIbe wev. u!!"ble to
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courses
ced the em phasis a
motocross-style spec ial tests, an area
where the Czechs. Germ ans and Italians'"
o bv io us ly ex cell. It was the formidable
West German" and Czechoslovaki a
teams th at scored fi'rst and second
pla cings in both te am cate gories: ·t hj:
Germans taking110me the World Trophy •
an d the Czechs th e Silver Vas. •
Tragedym arred the U.S . can tin gen t's
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week in Austria on d ay five when ssa ..
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rider David jIulse struck a 72 year old
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Austrian woman, iatall'l':""injuring·hC1';·..........•
Charges ' oj Hulse leavinz th e sce ne
cau sed an in tern atio na l # tu m1o il but
were cleared and he returned home wfth ..
the team on MllIlday.
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.. Husqvarna's DiCK• "King' Richard fBurleson pu (in th " 'bes'i American Ride
of the event with Vase teams ers Jack
Penton, Tom Penton and Carl Cranke
foI~owing. rr:m!c"Callo~ding;nhis first
(Sp°l'! 'took , fiflh .•in the American
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