Cycle News - Archive Issues - 1970's

• s ~~ 11II mnmJ).UBE ] Kels o wrapped up the 100 fir st wit h a victory in the 100 comb ined ra ce. Lat er Winton 's Rolf Gr eenhill won and lost the 125 top sp ot several times as he and Rand y Lo ew en swa p ped first s b ack and forth. Randy eve n tu ally fell allo win g Rolf to cart home the big brass. Dw ayne Ellis ran a way with the 250 brass and mi gh t hav e tak en overall hon ors as might hav e 250 Novice man Jack Gre ni g h ad they no t ad va nced to higher classes during the latter part of the series. Jeff Cah oon of Salinas took his Bul taco to a pressure Main win over Dave Harv ey to capture 360 honors. Scott Ro se. J im Womack, Scott Baker, Robert Whea t, Dean Coca in th e 70. 100, 125. and 200 Novice events settled high point positions before today. Pressure win s were turned in by T ari Tillery (Pioneer 's first lad y hi gh po int winner) in the 60 class and Kelly Dunnagan in the 35 0 ra nks to take top spots. . the newly Pio ne er fo llowed es ta b lished "King o f the . . . (in this case) Pond" money race for Experts o nly - literally a m at ch race where almost any th ing goes. T oday it was 20 laps in a, program which saw all rac ers receiving lo ts of ridin g. Sonoma's Jimmy Mertens wa lked o ff with th e lion's sh are of today's purse a s he ro oked every on e in th e 36 0 Main an d fo llo we d as today 's Kin g. Scram bl es ra cin g returns to Pion eer o n October 3 and will co ntinu e o n a bi-w eekly basis through December 5. Traction will co n tinue to be Class " C" until the weather breaks; th en knobbies will rule un til sp ring. • Results in Results Section . / Benck's tu rn all the way to the finish. Johnson blasted by Crane a t the last turn to win the rn oto , Mo to two was again a Crane and J ohnson affair ri gh t down to the finish . Jo hnson pulled one of his pa tented ho leshots and le ft the rest of the pa ck nappin g. Bu t Phil Crane go t right up on Johnson 's rear wheel. Down to the flag they went again. Cran e and Johnson swapping p laces. The cro wd was loving it. When it was ove r J oh ns o n h ad beaten Crane to the fin ish once more. Afte rwards J ohnso n reflected. " Well I finally d id to h im wha t h e' s been doing to m e for all these weeksand that's get him at t he finish lin e. " • r Pioneer short track f inal By Ann Carr " .OAK DA L E. CAL•• SEPT. 19 The Oakdal e l\lC closed ou tits 19 76 ' short track season with a day event which settled high point awards for the series. Overall winner was ten year old Doug Ch andler of Salinas. cu rren t Mini wh ite plate No. One and th e new District 36 black p late No . One for 1977 by a co m m and ing margin. Doug de sign ated th e 80 cl ass for honors this series and proceeded to rack up numerou s wins and places for top spot even agai ns t sportsman Experts who consistently have h igher point tota ls in their races. Expert high poin t honors also went to Stockton 's Tracy Hays in th e 100 ranks. Modesto's Mitch Dav idson in the 125, El Sobrante 's Dave Faria in the 250, and S to ckton's Car l Yerby in th e 360. Mit ch, aboard the Ray Hook Blendzall Spe cial and Faria in the 250 event we re the o nly honors men ab le to p lace in today 's event, oddly en ou gh as th e fa lldowns and q uestionable traction held up others. Ju n ior ra cers faced th e most pressure today as the 125 and 3 6 0 classes were still unse tt led. Scott Nugent celebrated his 80 runaway award with his first Exper t troph y while Turlock's Don By W. H. Spencer PRESENTED BY Weslake engin e to the win over Mike Faria, Rich MacM urray and Paul Orlandi. AI Lauer appears to be firm ly ensconsed he re at the Fo lso m Park gro unds and the faci lity is ju st abou t ideal for t his type of racing. It wo u ld make fo r a fine wee kly series and t he riders tu m ou t in droves. MacMurray proved hi s prowess as top sideways racer winning the first Handicap heat over Benck and Steve Moore from the 50 yard line whi ch is right arou nd the corner from chute number three a t this little track. Ch arli e Morse and Mike Faria hooked up for the second heat with Morse ge tt ing the be st driv e off th e last co rner. Sam Vanderhoff app lied his low yardage to go od use winning the third heat afte r Ric k Del acy cras hed the Sn ookey Owens motor leaving Mike Ro on ey and Cliff Ball the rest o f the transfer sp ots. Dennis Pyeatt m ade his first Division I shot a good one winning t he fourth heat and then cam p aign in g a Semi win and the big Main win for h is best effo r t o f th e yea r w hile MacMurray had to take one 70 y ard sh ot to get in to second o ver Benck, It W 'd S Dennis Robinson 's bad nigh t. Ben ck be a t out Choo-Choo in th e firs t Scrach heat with Orlandi winning the . second over MacMurray on the o u tside . Rooney downed Duane Yarrow a nd Fari a go t the better part of Cliff Ball. .In th e Semis it was ch ao s. T he first was a thrill er lined up with Robinson ve rsus Ma cMurray, versu s Roone y an d Faria, a National Main if ever there was one. Keit h McConne ll's ribbon ro se and as th e four went into th e first co rn er , MacMurray and Den ny tied togeth er with Rob inson getting spit off th e high sid e and suffering a very p ainful broken co llarb one. Se cond Scratch Sem i w ent to Orlandi with another great display of ou tside o n- the-gas racing with Ben ck in for sec o nd. t D ESERTRAC ASSOCIATIIN IG Il:~m 0- 200 Nov - ta t 0/11. S 2 ~ . 2 : ;)," " I I Sen ior " " 11 Powdpr Pu t t 12: p'" 250 '«:)v • Is1' n / A $25. 1st 5r h 55·'). Is f 5r A 125 . m Ooen Beg I : pm ()pe fl '*:w • 1st O/A 125. Is' Sr ~~ . . 125. l 'i t . F-.pu tt 525. "II "m 1. Ex - r s t O/ A Am 150 . - 1s t 0-200 , 250 ,Open An. 125 . ... 1st 0 / '" E. 11 50. 2nd a/ A b J rd 0/", Ex 125 . - Is f o-200 , 250 , ~n Ex 125. 0 / " ex~ t s c l ass ....cney 0-200 Beg t 'lIn l 250 &; T-Sh irts t o a ll en t r an t s ... 20% trODh les - duel poi nt s - SCA.T Corrrn ... 13 . 000 . '\e d . co r-, O) ..--< Ins. ~ . ' 1 I'" itCP. li mi t . on l y 100 r i de r-s - N S on ~'en . welcome howe ve r P.emtle rs e -eeess ee t lrst C'l ..--< :-. ('I c O"lPlng ,, 1' T " a V'~ 1 VIl l A98 I / ~ ' t r Ot'! 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