Cycle News - Archive Issues - 1970's

._._._._._._._._._._._----------------------------------_._-- - .l-< .. 0.. -( a: w ::; ::; -=: a: lD w '" ::; -=: .., >- lD ;2 o :I: "' ,--,-- _ "",:" ,.. In t he same corner t ha t gave 125 Pro Gar y Denton troubles at CMC Irwindale. one 125 Junior looks rubber·le gged while another tries to get around. Brae Glover kept Yamaha's i m ag e sparkling by taking a 250 Pro win at CMC's South Bay High Scho o l MX. even p ick s up h ~r t ru ph iesve it her before or a fter a nyo ne else arrives to receive th eirs. BUI she can 't help but be not iced by everyone on th e track. Tom Hu gh es was on Bal es' ta il eve ry Stl'P of the way. but Bales was care ful to kee p the door sh ut. In th e final race for the 250s . Bales did a m agni ficent job of ho ld ing Rowe to ·seco nd for rhr ee lon g laps but th e second she sa w th e whit e n ag . it was her cue to mak e th e kill . and she d ived under Bal es to do a repeal win . The overa ll fini sh • was Rowe . Bal es and Hu gh es . Results in Results Sectio n . classes for Montgomery High School r id e rs. Mont gomery is a previ ous cham pionsh ip winner. They were in sevent h place after the first night in the cu rrent series. Morse High is the leader . • Rick Doets ch (Ho n) won 1·1 in the first of fou r di visions of 125 Junior cl ass r iders . R on Loundsbury of Boni ta was second to Doetsch in the second moto a nd Mark Castellanos fro m Morse High third . Cas tellanos' fini sh was good for second overall in the d ivision. . Ma x Maple (Su z) has four fir st pla ces in four motos of the series in th e 500 Int ermed ia te class. • Results in Result s Sec tio n . which reallv m ad e him sta nd ou t as th e 125 p'ro cha m p of Ir win d al e Ra ceway. O'·erall Denton rook home th e fi rst pl a ce hon ors over Lund e (Ya m) . Peterson (Ho n) . Pessy (DG) a nd Al wood (Ya m) . • Glover headlines record entry st . South Bay HSMX By James Bram mer SAN DIEGO . CA . MA R . 23 CMC Irwindale MX: Denton's still in command By Tom Corley IRWINDALE. CA. MAR . 18 The CM C N ig ht Natio n als cha m pion Gar,Y Denton is still ~o i n ~ stro ng a t Irwindale. The former DG ace has now fo u nd a new spo nsor a nd it seems tha t rea lly h a p py wit h his Suzuki Suzuki of Pom on a . T his evenin g went fo r th e 125 Pr o win success fu lly out -pe r fo rm c d he is from Gary a nd t en _ co m pe t ito rs : In rhe first rno to , Dent on was on his wav to the win whe n he slid ou t on a rO~lwr in front of t he gra nds tands . Dave Pessy took tot al ad va ntage of thi s a nd took a n eas ier co m mand of th e lead . Todd Peterson ( Hon) roo sted a rou n d that sa me co r n e r _ and apparentl y m ade it harder for Denton to get going again and as they n ew through th e ch ecke red nag it was Pessy. peterson a nd Denton . When rh e second moto took place. turmoil occ u r red at th e starting swe"'per. T his co rner is kn own for its fa m ous p ile -u ps bUI this ti me it claimed t he first moto winner Pessy, So th is time h... ...nd ed up with an eigh th while Dent on had a very clean win over Tim Lunde , John Atwood and Peterson. Third rnor o action saw Denton take a very co nv in ci ng te n or 15 ·yard length Iead over his nearest com petitor , High School Motocross at South Bay was a not her cakewa lk for Broc Glover. t he l fi -year o ld member of t he successfu l Yamaha Team in the Flor ida Winter Series o f motocross . Riding in the 250 Professional cla ss with 10 riders. he was hard ly cha llenged . Second place ma n Mike M cG ow en (H us) had o ne bri e f moment ahead of Glover at th e st art of the first mo to . McG owen a nd Scott Montgom ery (T S) scrambled fo r seco n d in the se cond m o to wi th McGow en getting by as Montgom ery fell on th e finish line. In th e sam e ra ce . Tim Marsh got an ambul a nce rid e afte r a fall in th e st arting la p . suffe ri ng a d islocat ed sho u lde r. T he previous winner for th e 250 Pro s. Mike Tripe s. was in th e pits without a bik e and calculating th e purse . The Pro classes drew $400 payback . Wit h 241 entries the night . was th e greatest in four yea rs at South Bay in motocross . about .double th e b reak -even draw of March 2. T erry Sh ekell (Yam) won the 125 Pro class wit h Steve Ba rt ley (DG) and George Spec k side-by-side for second at the finis h . Speck had won t he first moto , bu t was edged out by Bart ley for second overall at th e finis h. Rob Norgaard (Kaw) moved up in both motos from fourt h to win over eight riders in the 500 Pro class . He took the lead from Kenny Frost on lap three of six in the second moto . Tony Go mez riding in 125 and 250 Int erm edi a te classes won fo ur first places. .a nd ·he gets points from both Mike TIdwell leads Chuck Palm gren out of a corner at Corona 's TT. Tidwell four for four at Corona night flat track By Elaine J o nes CO RONA . CA . MAR . 23 Mike Tid well. spo rt in his new • g P ro Novice' pl a tes . rod e fou r rac es and won four including bo th m oney ra ces . (This was before T id well's MaT. 27 accid ent at SeaTS Point . . . Ed) He had some better than ave rage com peti t ion to race aga inst in 'the Mo ne y TT as Chuck Palmgren was out again and Dave Aldana showed up with a 250cc motocrosser co mplete with kn obbies. Tidwell bla sted off t he line with Dennis Br iggs in second and Pahl~gren in third . By the second la p . Palmgren had passed Br iggs and went looking for Tidwell. Tidwell was long go ne. taking full advantage of the duel between Palmgren and Briggs to get as much distance as he cou ld between himself and Palmgren . Chuck did close the gap but time ran out as Tidwell brought it home. Palmgren was sec o n d . Ten half mile Money riders pulled on to the line to do battle. Ag ain it was T id well with another fantastic start. d rag racing his 250cc Yamaha single into the first turn to get a slight lead on Wayne Ra iney. Tim Mc Whorter locked into thi rd and Marti Halkola fourth . Ra iney. who was com ing off a super win streak at Dayto n a . found out t hat Tidwell was even hott er as he followed hi m to the checkered a nd coll ec ted seco nd pla ce dough . McWhorter was third. Add both 250 Expert TT and half m ile for two more wi re -to-wire vict ories and yo u have a rather ou tstandi ng night for th e 15·year·old Up la nd ace . John Mattocks and Lee H ales were two . three on the TT and Danny Perkins and Don T ortorelli did it on the half mile . Mike Me yers a bsolutely smoked everyone in the Open Amateur/Expert as he made it look easy while everyone else looked like they were working at it. Dan McWhorter picked up second after he battled with Pat Dobbins. who held him in third for three out of the five laps. Robert Pfetzing almost had a triple wi n as he wo n th e 12 5cc Am ateu r/Expert TT and the O pen Novice TT. His streak was broken in the 125 Ama teur/Expert half m ile wh ere he ran into two sc ra pp y youngsters na med Chris Cannon and. Bobby Garabed ian . It was Garabedia n out fi rs t with St eve Ka rst en a nd Ca nnon in th e next two SpOlS. On lap . two . Cannon had passed Karsten and was pressin g Ga ra bedia n. For two la ps the y switched back a nd fort h with Garabedian -geeting th e lead by a ha ir as they crossed the finis h line. O n the fifth la p . C a nno n pu t a move on . Garabedian that did the trick and he took it on home for th e win in a dr ag race for th e checkered. • Results in Resu lts Section. • I ' : " 21

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