Cycle News - Archive Issues - 1970's

.Ii II .... ~ E John"Action" Ayers wheelies his way toward first place in the Texas goo. Logston and Vice win Desert Classic at Borderland " Action" Ayers wins wet cross country By E. Wright IRVING , TX. ,JAN . 23 EL PASO, TX ,JAN. 30 John "Action" Ayers rode his Ma ico to a IO-m inute lead in a two -hour , ra in -soaked cross country race here at County Line Borderland Motocross Park had its last race under the managem ent of Randal Jones, befo re an association to ok over. In h is last race afte r four years of promoting at Borderland, R andy ran a d esert race , som ething he has never done. Actually it wa sn't a " re a l" d esert race - it was the motocross tra ck and about 1.5 mii es through the desert. O ne class of Experts and one class of Amate ur ran sep arately with Experts go in g for an hour and a hal f. Amateurs ran a n hour. Experts ran firs t and th e sta rt was one of the best p arts of the race . It was a dead engine st art with the riders at th e front of thei r bik es holding the handleba rs , with the f ront t ire between their knees. When the fla g dropped , sometim e after that a shot gun fired a n d the r id ers took off. Maby Mcintyre (Ya m) jumped on hi s bik e and tried to sta rt it before the gun fir ed . After Maby got a scolding from the st arter - much to the delight of th e sp ectators - the race wa s started . Maby jumped in the lead as if it were a ' short ra ce - everyone else settled to a good pace . When Maby took a p it stop Scott Logston (Yam), took over the lead and held it until he pitted a t the halfway mark. Logston had a lot of bike .p ro b lerns including the handlebars falling down and took a long pit st op . By the time he got go in g again, he was in thi rd behind Maby and Andy Palafox (Pen) who wa s racing his first race in several months. This is when Logston , wh o is in very good shape, turned the gas on a nd went to work. As Logston took the lead with 20 minu tes to go, the wo rst injury of th e da y took pa lce, No, it wasn 't a rider - it was Mrs. Logston , Scott's Mom , wh o was running to giv e Scott a signal when she fell, cutting he r chin bad enough to require stitches. But as people tri ed to help her up, sh e said, " Do n' t worry about me, gi ve Scott the signal." Guess it was a good signal , as Scott had a g o o d le ad at the checkered flag. Dennis Patton (Yam ) , was plagued with bik e problems and had to keep making pit stops, but came in fourth . After the Expert race was over, Palafox protested. saying that Mcintyre cut the track at two d ifferent points lap after la p. No officials saw it, so the results stood as they were. The Amateur race fin'ished the wa y it started . Chuck Vice on his 400 Yamaha jum ped into the lea d , Arnold Peacock on a 250 Yamaha was second and Dan Balkovetz (Yam) was third . Results in Results Section. . Cycle Park. Dick ey Nowell placed se co n d after overcoming problems with a loose grip halfway through the eig h t- la p . two-gas-stop event. Nowell fini sh ed with an eight -minute margin over third place T om Hollister (Yam) , Billy Smith won the 250 class with h is Yamaha, with Dana Wright (Bu l) a nd Bruce Hallmark ( Pen) following. Ron Lane beat Alan Blackwell and Tony Bruce (both Yam) in the 125 Pro class. Local favorite J oe Warner rode his 250 Maico to victory in the 250 Expert class, with Larry Langley and Daryl Mill er chasing. Teedy H ead (Suz) won the 200 Expert class. ' D av id Morrison won the 200 Amateur class with a two -lap lea d . Resu lts in Results Section. American sidecars . second/third in Marlboro Series Two Am erican sidecar teams co m pe te d successfu ll y in the 1976-77 International Marlboro Se ries held in N ew Zealand. The c u r re nt u .s. AM A sideca r cham pio ns. driver Larry Col em an a nd pa ssenger W endell An drews. managed a n overa ll second pl a ce fin ish for th e se ries , T he ir co m panions , driver C ra ig Marx and passen ger Mick Parkinson , fin ished with a n overa ll th ird . Bo th tea ms , ha iling fro m Chico , Ca liforn ia , were com pe ting on 750 cc wa te r -coo led Suzukis prepared by Larry Sh enk of " Ra cing Specia lties" in So u t h Sa n Franci sco , Ca lifo rnia . O vera ll winner of th e se ries was 'the Aus tra lia n team of Peter Campbell a n d Doug C h ivas o n a 1000 cc Yoshimura Kaw asak i. . The American hackers raced ' on an asso rt ment of tracks th at included the city st ree ts o f Wan ganu i and W ellington 'a n d ro ad circ ui ts a t T im a r u a nd Christ church . Th e highlight of the series for the Am ericans was th e third rac e held at Timaru wh er e they finished first a nd second. Col eman-Andrew s taking th e win follow e d closel y by Marx Parkinson . The two Chico teams were t he first America n entries to ,ever co m pe te in th e sideca r event of the seri es. Despite the expe nse of th e trip . whi ch was se lfpaid ex cept fo r product sponsorship by Blend zall Corporation and Champion Spark Plugs, bo th team s, are looking forward to return ing next year. • =======~,~ CAUFORNIA CAR LSBAD INTERNATI ONAL RA CEWAY Carlsbad. Calif orn ia I"": ''0 do 0 I d. 26 ,27 80 28 Fe" I 9 . , B lit l' Febru ar y 23, 24 & 25 r iLl. II: • p:,l.I..£f) • March 9. 10& 11 March 23. 24 & 25 Apri l O. 7 & 8 OHIO MUSKINGUM VALLEY MX RAC EWAY ' Zanesv ille, Ohio Apri l 20, 21 & 22 Apr il 27. 28 & 29 May 4 . 5 & 6 MaY' ' , 128013 May 25, 26 & 27 June 1, 2 & 3 June 8 , 9 & 10 June 15 , 16 & ' 17 CAUFORNIA CARLSBAD INTERNATI ONAL RACEWAY Carlsbad, Califo rn ia June 29 , 30 & Jul y 1 July 13 , 14 & 15 July 27, 28 & 29 TEXAS Au gust 10, 11 & 12 August 17 , 18 & 19 Augu st 24, 25 & 26 - NOW IN CA LI FORN IA, OH IO, AND TE XAS. 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