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Cycle News 1977 02 16

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If ROBERT ' BOSe ... • cq MDTD'CRDSS APRIL 3 ~ CRC Entry Fee: Sportsman Pro $10.00 mail $25.00 mail $15.00 $35.00 post post Mail Deadline March 15 24518 Island -Ave. Carson, Ca. 90745 Phone: 213/830-7519 BOSCH BIB BONUS Obtain a bib on the , day of the event. Winners with BOSCH Plugs receive: Danny MacDougal led eventual 250 Pro w inner Darrell Brown for much of t he second mota at DeAnza. Brown got past in the closing laps. (Inset) Brown by himse lf at speed . . ~ 1st 2nd 3rd I second on a flanrac ker . Norco's final win ca me ' in th e 175 No vice class, wher e La rry Arnol d worked his wa y th rough th e pack to win the first moto , lost to McCr eery in . th e second roun d a nd won the fina l moto. • Ken ny Trask led all 250 Senior mo tos from sta rt to finish to pu t a win in the Pal m Springs column. Rod Tet ric k won the first two rnot os in the Mini cla ss, on ly to get stuck in tra ffic in the fina l and lose his grand slam . T etrick d id emerge the win ner. Pal m Springs' other winner was Bill Brya nt in the 125 Senior-ra ce . Two new schoo ls. Espe ranza a nd Pacific , jo in ed th e conference and raced for th e first tim e . In no n -high school event s, it look ed like R .A .C .E. officials m ight ha ve to pay the S50 Bou nt y when Ga ry Dent o n threw his cha in twice and h ad to settle for thi rd in th e firs t 125 Pr o rnoro : behind Scott Sheedy and Pa ul Ba llow. -T he second moto was a ll Dent on 's as he bu ilt u p a tre mendous lead. Sh eed y was running in seco nd; if he stayed th ere he would be $50 rich er . He fell ' however , a nd Ball ow went by to finish second , whil e Sh eed y remounted and too k third . T he fin al moto sta n di ngs wer e th e sa me as th e overall resu lts.' A similar sto ry unfolded in the 100 Senior class. Bobby H a rt won the first mo to , had carburet ion p roblems in the second , and won th e th ird . Chuck Beck tied Hart on points but lost out due to the final -mote tiebreaker . • Resu lts in Results Section . Brown battles at De Anza By Ron Lawson SUNNYME AD, CA , J A N . 30 De Anza Cycle Park was t he scene of some close and, sometimes breath-ta king, P ro ra ces, especially in t he 250 class . Da n n y Mc Dougal (S u z), Jim La'Ten d resse (Suz) and Darrell Bro wn (Ma i) were all there , and Bro wn was running .his first race a t De Anza since turni ng Pro. but that didn't slow him down a bit. He shot out of the hol e a nd im media tely deve loped a sizable lead over McDougal, who had his hands full holding off LaTendresse. The two Suzuki riders were so wr apped up with eac h ot her , th ey lost sight of the flyin g Maico . As th e race wenton , it looked more and more like Brown had it made . T hen , with only fou r laps to go , Brown's .luck collapsed a long w t h his tire. Still , he had an eno rmo us lead a nd th ere was a cha nce he cou ld win the moto . Meanwhile , LaT endresse had torn free of McD ougal a nd was closing in . The Su zuk i pilot. real izin g Brown's p roblem , was on the gas . In two laps he d evoured all _of th e d istance betw een th em a nd it was j ust before the white flag when he flew by th e crippled Maico rid e r. Brown managed to hold second to th e finish and McDougal ca me in third . \ .\.. .) \. ~ ~ tt i f' ~''--L~~'1r''L..; All $3000 Purse $2000 in Products Bell Helmets to every class winner ...compliments ofBELL. RACING WORLD TRABUCO CANYON 714-581-6400 19

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