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(Above) Fredd ie Spe~cer (17) in a fam iliar stan ce. (Above right) James Laughlin (62) with his Low Bucks Racing Team leathers. (Below) Jimmy Holloway pursues Kirk Spencer
Randy Marshall (Suz, 2-2). Marvin
Saunders won the final round, bu t 17
and 1 wouldn't mix for a trophy.
Nationally ranked 11 year old Darin
Eames (Yam) of Mesquite, Texas again
proved un touchable in th e Junior
Minibike over Longview 's Darren Burns,
while th e Senior Min i went to Clint
McCann (Yam) afte r Craig Riddle
dropped his Honda in the second m o to.
The Over 30 ra ce was somewhat of an
upset, as Ronnie Mullen and his 125
Honda nipped bi g-bore Yamaha rider
Tom Hollist er at th e finish line.
New comer to t he scene Llo yd Groves
(Ya m) put it to a hot 250 Novice class,
upending qu ick Keith Jernigan (Su z) in
th e process.
A day-long b attle in 250 In termed iate
was se ttled by Br ian Wilson an d his
Pen ton , firs t a t 2·1 ov er Glen Co rdova'
(Pen, 1·3) and Jimmy Ho llow ay (Suz,
3· 2), whil e John Robertson push ed his
Maico to 4-6 finishes and fou rth overall.
Results in Re sults Section.
Ross "
Downs Short Track-Freddie
again'and again
By Dave Nielsen
CO LLEYVILLE, TEX.• SEPT. 24
Fourteen and fast - that's just
about the sum o f what we can say
Shrevepor t 's
amazing
ab out
• Freddie Spencer. Tonight at the
46
Ross Downs banked oval short tra ck. he
aga in pu t it to three rows of m ostly
Class C types in the 360cc Main , aboard
a very sweet running Ban ke-e quipped
Bultaco. Trailin g Spencer at the flag
were Okie Bret Braddy ( Yam ) and hot ,
Novi ce Pro s Mike Green (Bu l) and Billy
Orr (H on). Freddie also kept the soot
blown out of th e Stubblefield GS
Racing TI'500 Yamah a by do minating
th e slim - Open class. We've seen the
you ng Cajun fin ish secon d on ly three
tim es a t the Do wn th is year.
Bill Whit e (Yam) kept h is string of
stro ng fin ish es going in the 250 Mon ey
Main eve nt, pu llin g j ac k Moun ts, Denn is
~lcClen don, and J ohn Tuc ker all the
way. Little Bubba Bentle y rep eated last
week's 125cc vict ory , as did David
Lan gley in th e 100 cla..s. !\Iini ace Ross
Duncan is back from a layoff, and
tonight sped to th e 65cc win, fo llowed
by an upset of "Bee" Pa tt on in the 85 cc
