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!~PJPEUNB · ~ Russell tops E Toppers Hare Scrambles By Jeanie Flippin CARBONDALE. KS. FEB , 27 Garv Ru ssell overca me a fift h pla ce start to take overall a t t'he T opeka T oppe r MC 's hart' scra m bles. The four inc h sno w in Kansas Cit y had d iscou raged some riders. bu t Carbonda le didn't have snow . It was an ideal 45 d egr ees a nd 50 rid er s enjoyed th e somewhat d usty rac e. In add ition to the regular classes. th e Toppers had an endu ro cla ss for st reet legal bikes with work ing lights. any size engine. At th e start th e riders wer e lined up 100 feet in fron t of th e bikes. At the starter's nag th e 50 rid ers ran ac ross th e field worrying that they m ight stu m ble in th e chuckho les or on the two scru b trees in th eir path and be run ove r. No one stum bl..d b ut some fast rid ..rs we r.... mba r rassed by their not -so·fast runn ing . . T he t wo mile co urse has great var iety of terra in . Pa rt of the course is a strip m in ing a rt-a with a ski typ" j ump . At t h e j ump a la rge crowd of spectators ke pt m o ti o n ing th .. r iders to ROfast e r so th ey cou ld see them la u nch dow n rhe 30 foot hi ll. Some ' of · th e rid ers sa id rhe y wen' reluct ant to do So on ly bec a u se they weren 't sur,' th e p ho togra ph e rs we re re ad y. Also in t he st rip m in ing area is a 30 foot mo u nd to tick le t he h illclirn lx-rs' fa ncy. T he co urse has a field of woods, roc ks a nd a muddy rutted creek for th e .end u ro riders. The first lap it was Dan e La rsen . Vern Petefi sh (tw o end uro rid er s) a nd Leo Burell in th ird . The seco nd lap it was Larsen, Burell , J ohn Kiek e 1. a nd RusSl II. During the third lap Burell · passed Larsen but had a ca rbu retor problem a nd had to drop ou t of the ' race . At the checker ed n aR Ru ssell, C huck Lamb . Kiek cl a nd R ich a rd Ebert were th e on ly rider s with 25 laps . Results in Results Sect ion . z w Vl .... W z :.: ci > '" Vl 5 IE Kidd. Pickard, and Priddy 147)-the Texas Triumvirate in the Oak Hill Open class. John Kiekel leads Jerry Semler in the Topeka Toppers' cool. dry 25laD marathon. The Toppers ski jump gives 125 winner Doug Arnold a launch. Hollingshead wires Mosier MX, Kidd debuts 'new Yamaha By Dave Nielsen ARLINGTON . T X. FEB . 20 Nic e guys don't a lways fin ish last. Today at Mosier Valley MX Park , Dallas Husq varna rider Darrell Hollingshead bl ew off (Above) Marty Luther (23) and Kim Rousseau (301) pace each other in 250 Intermediate race over Mosier Valley's lumpy, tractive turf. (Below) These 'guys never win, but they occasionally score. 34 : th e 250 and Open Expe rt classes. ma sterin g th e sa ndy . se r penti ne. d iabolically rough course with a four moto swee p . d espite th e effo rts of 250 runner-up Randy Tarter (Bu l) and Ric ky Kidd's initial outing on th e new 400 Yamaha . Ricky Kidd will be parking his Pentons to become a n " Am bassa dor of MX " for Yamaha International aft er a long , tough road of privateering in th e pro cir cui t. Like a duck , to water ; Danny Doss has taken to the new RM125B Suzuki. . Doss took today's 125 Expert motos convincingly on the box, sto ck RM . A heated bout for second overa ll went to Husky-powered Ft. Worther Dave Boles over Ruben Alonzo (Hon) of the Charco-Broil Steak House Team. ' A rising power in the Intermediate ranks is Bobby Kyle of Dallas. who but for a first race fall would ha ve burned both 250 and Open classes. His 6·1 was second to Mike Tarter's 3-3 rides in the wild 250 motos. That class had 30 riders. The ,125 Intermediate -ent ry was so big th at th ey ran two d ivision s. , with Gary Ha rrison (Yam) of Team Bazerko and Irving Suzuki's Randy Marshall taking first gold. It seems there can be no greater achievement for th e motocrossers in this neck of th e woods than to win something at this track. Over 350 of them appear every 'other week . The Kidd: "I can beat you guys with my eyes closed. , ." first Novice th at ro lls out for ea rly pra ctice sees a wet , twisting freewa y. laboriousl y a nd loving ly prepared by George N eill . Bill Simpson . J ohn Wooll ey. a nd th e rest of th e MVMXP crew . By race tim e. its who ops and berms ha ve begu n to form. By th e time th e Novices are th rou gh and th e afte rn oo n fast gu ys go o ut. it is wa ll-towall ro ug h because so many different lines a re being used. Still . dust is neg ligible and th e m an in 20t h p lace is hav ing as much fun (beating his brains ou t) as th e guy running sevent h. • ~ Results in Results Sect ion. • 1200 riders to storm' Astrodome GNC Finals By Dave Nielsen "T he weekend motocross racer's ultimate' challenge, " the Grand National Championship Motocross Finals will be held "a t Houston's world famous Astrodome on Sunday. March 20 toculminate nearly , eight months of qualification and elimination involving nearly 3.000 participants in ten sta tes. The very finest Amateur and Expert racers will form 12 hundred -rider classes going for over $ 10 ,000 in cash purse . trophies. contingencies , and other I awards to make th e GNC Finals tHe largest stadium motocross meeting in history. ' .' .Elim in at ions in th e 'Dome will begin at 9:00 a.m. with only the absolute cream of th e,cr0t:! advancing to the 12 Grand Finale events of 24 riders each beginning a t 7:00 p.m. Sunda y night. The new stadium motocros form at will be employed , whereby all the marbles are on th e lin e in th e Grand Finales. instead of the traditional multi-heat combined scoring system . " The