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westem.hotline started sticking. slowing Turner badly and finally forcing him to pull off. This left Jennings to rid e away with th e moto win . Just as Mid -Vall ey's Greg Robertson worked his way up to John Smith, his Ossa shed its rear brake rod. Greg tried desperately to catch Smith still . but just couldn't do it and finall y dropped back to fifth , behind Jennings, John Smith, Bill Rubley and Cole Brothers' Tim Lunder. • Results in Results Secti on . Gripsters at Ascot By Maureen lee GARDENA. CAL.. DEC . 5 The Gripsters hired Ascot Park Sunday for it sportsman scram bles and suddenly we had an abundance ofTT riders. Would < m ::::s CD (g] pt"ofessional engineering know ledge and road rac ing ex pe rience comb ine to mak e us on e of the nat ion's ~ading manufactur ers of suspensIon improvement equ ipment. 69 . VanB~r is the highest qua lity you 'll find anywheTl!. 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The Sidehacks Association was there with 14 rigs .. . they're the Group the District 37 Sports Committee tried to 86 for " no n -su p po r t" recently .. . and as alwa ys provided the best show for the ' spectators . . . still sa y th e winning Honda of Jimmy Stevens /Bob Sanner o z sounds exactly like an Offie . . . Mike o ::l: Pa rri ben t" a valve. Last moto ~ Stevens/Sanner were leading when > behind them , Bart Crandell/jerry z z Dennehly (T ri) really shut the door on ~ Loren Immken /Mike Nelson (Yam ) . _ . causing quite a - bit of David Williams. 125 Pro aviator at SaddlebBck Park Dec. 12. excitement with Immken running over rear wheels and bouncing around in general trying to open up the door competition came from second overall again . . . whee! Clark Jones (Suz), and third overall Jeff Buckner (Yam) from Salinas Val Tamietti (Mai). • was having a real ball winning the 250 Results in Results Section. Novice Main although one slide through the esses no doubt gave him a thrill . . . and fe llow Salinia n (?) Keith Day took care of the loca l 250 By Danny Raymond Amateurs. By Danny Raymond ORANGE, CAL. , DEC. 11, 1976 T he re were several new 500 TT O RANG E, CA. , DEC. 12,'1976 Yama has and they lo ok much Sweet Duck Suzuki's Jeff Vidic improved over the !jrst year's issue. AMC's .m onthl y $1000 purse hopped aboard an Open Suzuki They're fast . .. 500 Novice Pete motocross was highlighted by and went on to take first overall Krznarich won his heat on many of southern California's during Saddleback Park's Saturone . : . and there in the same heat hottest Pro racers. Among these day Open Pro MX action . First moto, was . . . 1 couldn't believe it . . _ a Maico mounted John Ayers jumped Greeves Griffon ridden by motocrosser was 125 Pro overall winner Warren out in th e early lead with Mark Van Mark Overt . . . extr'odinryl And in Reid , who flew his FMF'prepared Camp (Mai) , Richee Collins, and Jeff Honda to a clean sweep throughout the 500 Expert go Jim Redding had Vidic nipping at John's rear. John both motos . Warren's toughest tum one wired better than the others showed what he had learned during although it was top Pro Novice Eddie competition came from teammate this year's Trans·AMA series and put Radical Ron Turner and Yamaha's Lawson who. won it. Other pros smoke on the first moto, Van Camp Broc Glover. brought in the first and second in the fell victim to a hard charging Mike Open Expert. Bob Sanders took it with During the first 250 Pro moto Gary Yorba as the pack thinned out. Then Danny Hockie second. Third was Ogden pulled off the holeshot aboard Collins' KTM flew south, sidel ining his AI Baker Suzuki while Ron Turner sportsman Steve Miller , then John Richee for the rest of the day . Yorba Sprague. Two 500 Experts dressed in (FMF Suz), Suzuki's Jeff Jennings, and went into second place, only to drop Hateley Enterprises colors were having Bill Rubley (Mai) raged in the hottest his Suzuki and get up in fifth . Then a real ball , Justin Rible and Pat pursuit. Ogden's lead was quickly Mark Van Camp held second for a Coghlan. One rider who shall remain eaten up by Turner and slow starter while until he met the rooster tail of unidentified forgot the cardinal rule of Greg Robertson (Ossa). Robertson was Jeff Vidic as Vidic flew past Mark and Ascot "thou shalt not shut off in tum trying every move on Turner, but into second position. At the flag Ayers one" and caused a bit of a pile u p Turner's riding style was enough to took first, Vidic second, and Ken behind him when he did. And we can hold off Robertso n to the checkered Morgan third after Van Camp's Maico imagine how Dylan Neihart .felt when flag. ijennings made his way into a very spit out its spare spark plug. he dropped it right in front of the comfortable third, ahead of Ogden Mark Van Camp took an early lead whole pack entering the esses and they and John Smith (Suz) . of moto two until the second lap when all missed himl D&G's Dave Taylor (Yam) opened Jeff Vidic came rocketing by. Vidic And the "fu n" guy for the day? It up the second rnoto until, through the ran away with the second moto , was Lost Angel " Rocket Man" Fra nk second tum, he hit the din and let his leaving John Ayers following in a very Heming riding around in the. O pen lead go to T&M 's Danny Turner Novice class , whiskers blowing a bout distant last . Mike Yorba made second . (Hon) , while Jennings, Ron Turner . and held it throughout. At the flag in the wind . For some of you guys who and John Smith dodged Dave Taylor. Ken Morgan , Mark Van Camp, and questioned why the Gripsters had to Danny Turner slowly started to fall off John Ayers followed Vidic and Yorba cut those last few races short . . . if the pace, allowing Jennings . Turner in that order. you knew what the tab would have and- Smith to go for the lead. Ron been if they had just flipped the light FMF's Ron Turner took today's 250 Turner was giving Jennings a good • Pro race with ease afte r making - a battle for the lead until nearly halfway , - switch on , Whoo-eel clean sweep of both motos _ Ron's Results in Results Section. through the race when his throttle Action Ayers and roost on Jeff'Vidic - the rest $l,OOOAMC.MX