Cycle News - Archive Issues - 1970's

; 1:1 ~ _ .~._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._.- Western hotline even with Emde on the short transition between the turns, and slammed it over Dill at the entrance to the right hander ~ spectators could see Emde sit up and \.0 grab for the brakes as McLaughlin cut r- actoss his front wheel. On the gas too soon out of the right hander, Ernde ~ skittered sideways while McLaughlin got ~ a good drive, won the race, and earned O'l $175. Emde won $125, with third-place l-< Cooley getting $100. The class paid to Q) sixth plac~. ..0 Three new Suzuki GS750s failed to make any waves in the Production Q) classes, except for the 'one ridden by :> Terry Waugh, who crashed on the Open Production starting grid. That was ' bizarre scene. David Breetwor stalled on the front row and raised his hand. Other racers saw Breetwor and figured there would be a delay. But according to starter Harry Bresach, the IO-second sign was already out, which - by AFM rules - means no turning back. The flag waved, the race started, and several back-row starters rammed Breetwor and Waugh, who hit still another rider, Both Dan Spisak and John Chermak wound up this last {\FM points race as AFM Champions - Spisak ' in GP, Charmak in Production. Both ride only Yamahas, both .are sponsored by Berkely Yamaha, and both won by giant points margins by virtue of consistent riding at all the points races, not by winning everything in sight. " Results in Results Section. S o Z • Steue Dale w,-ns ... ' AME N-ght MX , . hard to hold it. Stuart Douglas and Tom Klinkhammer were in hot pursuit and Mark knew it. Stuart was holding Tom off in third and pulling out all the stops to try and hold on to second. Tom set out to spook Stuart and he did throughout the race. They both carne around for the checkered practically on top of each other. The final checkered flag found Mark Cole taking horne the gold, with a well-fought for second and third to Tom and Stuart respectively. The 250 Beginners rode like the Headless Horseman was after them, The race was unbelievable tight between the first three riders. They would go into the tum at the bottom of the drop-off three abreast, Steve Dale managed to pull away and set up a nice lead for himself and a race developed between Steve and D. Lagala in second. Lagala . was narrowing Steve 's lead somewhat but couldn 't quite take over. • Results in Results Section. CORONA, CAL.,OCT.22 thr~~ motos Gary and Eddi~ were at ~ach otha, nudging ~ach oth~r every chanc~ th~y had to tak~ ov~r th~ l~ad. Eddi~ must of felt th~ sooner h~ ~nd~d th~ r3.c~, the soon~r h~ could hunt for ' th~ Gr~at Pumpkin . Nicks r~ally got on th~ gas and took hom~ a first ov~r-all with s~cond going to Gary ' for a b~autiful rid~. In th~ 83cc B~g. 12 and ov~r class, Mark Pow~ll show~d ~v~ryon~ wh~r~ it was at. H~ outrode, outmanuev~redand • Saturday MX struggles By Danny Raymond ORANGE, CAL, OCT. 31 16 f"mish lin~ f"rrst in moto two follow~d by . Taylor and T~ssitor~. Alan Smith (Hon) was fourth. Th~ 250 Pro class had Bruce McDougal (Franks) get going first only to hav~ J~ff Vidic (Mai) ~xplod~ by him to tak~ th~ I~ad. J ~ff was follow~d by J~ff J~nnings (Suz) 9regg Rob~rtson _ (Mid-Vall~y Cycl~) and Bob Elliott (Suzuki). Aft~r sev~ral pc;>sition chang~ s th~ moto ~nd~d with J~nnings and Elliott I~ading Vidic and Rob=on. For th~ ~cond moto_ Ron Turn~r (FMF) had comman~ of th~ lead and manag~d to hold onto it until Suzuki Rock~tman Bob Elliott took ov~r.and b~gan p utting ~pac~ betw~~n himself and th~ oth~r rid~rs. Top rmish~rs in th~ moto w~re Elliott, Vidic, ' Rob~rtson, Turn~r and McDougal. Mon~y w~nt to Elliott, Vidic and Rob~rtson. In th~ Open pros it was Elliott all th~ way with Turn~r in ~cond and Dave Haugh (Mai) g~tting th~ third plac~ points. .• R~sults in R~sults Section. ORANGE; CAL., OCT.30 Bob Elliott warmed up his Suzuki next weeks Trans-MiA for support class ride at Saddleback by smoking a very large and pow~r-pack~d 250 Taylor hol~shot both . _ . _ . _ . _ . _ . _ . _ . _ . _ . the day. Hal Grady left his Maico at horne and brought his Husky to berm-shoot around the course for third, followed closely by George Meyer, looking good for fourth. The Amateur class was wide open today with Doyle Brown and Gerry Steiner trading moto wins. but it was big J~rry Scott who: showed the way home to everybody w ith a consistant 2-3 and No.1 this day, with Gerry Steiner one point away for second, • Results in Results Section. ·High School MX at Corona By Elaine'Jonees CORONA. QALooOcr.22 The . clean Sweep became contagious with the Norco High School team and Jim Ball was not • one to let his teammates down as he took the I OOcc SeniorClass. Upland rider Roger Farr started out with a fourth but strung together two seconds to beat out Norco rider W~s Hinmon -for second, Larry Arnold kept the outstanding Norco performances going as he took -the I75cc Class with three straight. Bob ' Morrison, Rubidoux and 'Steven Simon: Norco could do nothing more than follow him horne two, three every time. ' Th~ Norco rid~rs claimed two mor~ ;. victories for th~ evening but th~ grand slams w~re ov~r. Steve Whit~hall of r Norco had two firsts going for him th~ 250cc Intermediate Class but" th~y were hard fought with t~ammat~ Steve Bechel chall~nging him ~v~ry step of th~ ''''"3.y. Steve uB.s chance came in the final moto wh~n he got the jump off th~ lin~ and held off Steve "w" for the ,Yin. Jo~ C~nt~no also of Norco rounded out the field with third. David Kent took . cr~dit for the final Norco win of th~ night as h~ captur~d th~ 500cc Senior Class. • 90 In the Junior Cycle class Friday night, Eddie . Hic~s had one eye out for the Great Pumpkin and the other on Gary Szilagyi. In all David Taylor (DG) Jeff Jennings (Suz) and John Tessitore (DG) ' were the top scorers in the first 125 Pro moto. Jeff crossed the finish. The second and third spots were a little more of a toss up with Monte Miller and Keith Williamson tied for third going into three, Terry McCr~~ry threw a wrench into the works when he carne alive to come up with a second, This dropped Monte to third and Keith to fourth but it broke the tie and it was Monte who got the place spot and Keith the show. It was a night of clean sweeps as J oe Price totally dominated the 250cc Beginner Class letting no one get by him in any of the three motos, Bob Bartol started out slow with a fo urth in the first moto but came back with two seconds and the second overall, J oseph Betey was tied for the second spot but · his third against Bob's second wasn't enough and he had to settle for third. Mark Tedder and his KTM had a repeat from last week as he won the 250cc Novice Class. Steve Herzig kept Mark from taking all three as he carne up with th e final moto win and second, Blake Bunnell was third. • By Elaine Jones .VALENCIA, CAL., OCT.29 By Patti T rotter CORONA, CAL.,OCT. 21 Steve Castle not only won the 125cc Novice Class he rubbed it in by winning all three motos and leading all three from start to Tired CZ tops Corona By Lee Tayl or Suzuki Duo · dominates CMC _ By Elaine Jones The 500 Juniors ·sho t down the back straightaway like screaming banshees. In both motos Mark Cole took the lead and fought just plain took ova th~ ra~. Results in R~sults S~ction. . Castle cleans CRC 'AM E Night Mi,.i~ to Fast Eddie Hicks Suzuki's Norwalk flash , Jeff Jennings. _ ~ Steve By Lee T aylor VALENCIA, CAL, OCT. 29 . Pro class. Dav~ motos on a trick (D&:G) Yamaha, but a first moto pile-up and a DNF in th~ s~cond moto was wh~re his driv~ ~nd~d. KTM mount~d John Hatel~y took s~cond ov~rall afta Bill Rubl~y (FM F) at~ a v~ry hard crash and was forc~d out with a d~nt~d-up Maico. St~v~ Rhyan aboard a roosting Can-Am third~d with a consistant 4-4 score. Bryar Holcomb r~turn~d to smoke ov~r th~ Op~n Pro aft~r his strong~st for Ron Turn~r, f~ll off th~ pac~ with a Suzuki running sour. On~ of South~rn California's hott~st Pros from awhil~ ago, Mlk~ "Litt1~.. Trip~s follow~d in third on what app~ar~d to b~ a n~ar ston~ stock .CZ. Whil~ broth~r P~t~r sits out an injur~d arm, Tony Wank~t has b~en dominating th~ 125 Pro class, swe~ping today with a I-I scor~. • Results in R~sults S~ction. Fifteen 125cc Beginners made rush hour in Japan look like a picnic as they mixed it up . The only one who managed to stay out of th~ confusion was first place Doug who I~d th~ calvary charg~ ~v~ry moto. Mark Wagnon stayed ahead of the troops to pick up s~cond but third plac~ Ron Rich had to mingl~ b~for~ h~ pull~d out ~nough for third. Bart Onasch start~d the ev~ning in finc styl~ with a win in .t h e , I25cc Novic~ Class but from there it was downhill as attrition probl~ms struck hard arid h~ could do no b~tt~r than last th~ n~xt two motos. Mark Branch on th~ otha hand had noplac~ to go but up and h~ took his Itrst moto second and add~d two firsts which adds up to winner. Scott Wilkinson and Gary , Lambat follow~d Mark's lead to wind up s~cond and third. Op~n Int~rm~diat~ Mark Rawl~y k~~ps t~lling ~v~rybody how tir~d his CZ is and what an in~pt rid~r h~ is but I don't think second and third plac~ Brian Tolson and Dan Smith ar~ buying. At I~ast not wh~n h~ g~s out and wins all thre~ motos on his tir~d CZ • B~an Old .Timers shootout at Shadow By O.T. Dal VALENCIA, CAL.,OCT. 24 Lots of wild action today in all clasSes starting with the Masters when John Rice, Blackie Lewis, Norb Brown, Jim Warden ,and AI Dennler mix~d it up. John took th~ nod in th~ Itrst moto with B lacki~' right b~hind, but DNFd in the second moto, which B lacki~ won, giving hini top honors for th~ day, with Norb banging on Blacki~ 's bump~r in th~ s~cond moto for second ov~rall. In th~ Exp~rt class, Hutch Hutchinson and Doug Archibald trad~d wins in each moto, putting on a terrific battle, with Hutch pulling off th~ s~cond moto win, g~tting top banana, with Doug taking s~cond position for . ~. I ECRA $1-,000 to Radical Ron By Rex Reese TRABUCO CANYON, CAL.,OCT. 24 Ron Turner (Suz) took home most of the cash in both the 250 and Open Experts. His biggest threat came from Suzuki sponsoredJ~ffJennings in th~ 250's. Turn~r l~d the Op~ns ~asily, closing th~ door on anybody ~ls~ who tried to move in on him in the rll'st two motos. But in th~ last moto, a coupl~ of errors on the . appar~ntly ov~r conltd~nt FMF rider cost him the I~ad (but not th~ overall win). Th~ surprise cal1l~ wh~ Bryar Holcomb (KTM) won th~ closing round to la tch on to third overall, while st~ady riding Steve Russ~ll (Mai) placed s~cond. ' Rlm continu~d his charg~ by doing in th~ 250's, which' had some tight riding . by Jennings and Jeff Vidic (Suz). With Turn~r winning th~ first round ov~r Jennings, Jeff rebounded in. moto two to do Iikewis~ to Ron. Th~ showdown came in the third moto, bi.ttJ~ff r~lir~d from action. This left the door o~n for Turner who dusted Vidic on his way to th~win . • R~sults in Results Section. Griffith grabs win By Andi Gangewer ELSINORE, CAL., OCT. 16 The Amateurs and Experts in the 125 ·class rode together with one trophy awarded to the overall winner. The Experts were stuck •

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