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125 Experts Rand y Morris (41), Todd Brown (9) and Pete Himes (4) slide
laround the Co rona track in Ha lf Mile competition.
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vintage YZ Yammy g-ave the show in
the expert class , but succumbed ea rly
to Long John Seider and his mighty
Maico for ba ck to ba ck wins . Tom
;Widick was consistent with a 2·2 .
followed by Sam J ones, who nipped
I Cal Browning for the third spot Jlboth having the sam e total score, and
Sam taking th e th ird in the last moto.
) A warm hell o to new member Art
Whiting and his 175 Yamaha in the
amateur class , wh ich was dominated
by Dick Mosel y a ll t he wa y. Boyce
Williams and Pet e Kla ssen ha shed it
out in fine style for second and th ird ,
with Dick Varvel . making close fri ends
with his new Ma ico . hu stling in for
fourth .
Guest Richard Johnson and new
member Tex T yler rounded ou t the
biggest bunch of th e da y - our novice
division . Speedball Ro y King earned
his amateur rating thi s day with a pa ir
o f spiffy firsts, followed by Bullet Bill
Lyons, gett ing tuned to Shadow Glen
for a second , Only one point apart .
O L' Dal and " Kid " Coffman buzzed
'{rou nd for third and fourt h .
I . List en up , guyS "our Mammoth
'1ati onal is co ming u p o n Father's
)ay, so get those ent ry for ms in to Bill
lird .
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McWhorter wins
Money Half Mile in
free for all
ORONA . CA , MAY 18
The Money Half Mile was a wild
o ne going right down to the wire
as Dan McWhorter, Garv Davis
and Danny Perkins wen t for it.
McWhorter was out on top with
Perkins a nd Davis riding d ouble in
second a nd third . On lap two Perkins
slipped his two st ro ke Yam aha underneath McWhorter's big 750cc to take
the lead , It was McWhorter's turn to
play ca tch up as he started to really
inti midate Perkins. Perkins was ab le to
hold him on e more lap definitely
ha ving the advantage in th e turns but
lacking the power as McW horter
turned the wick up as they hi t th e front
straight a nd b lew on by. All of a
sudden Perkins was a 750cc sandwich
with McW horter to t he front of him
and Da vis, ou t of Oregon to the rear
and kn ocking on the door. Perk ins was
able to ho ld Davis until th e last lap
befor e Davis let it all hang ou t and got
by to take th e seco nd . It was a
fant astic ra ce with all three riders
putt in g on qu ite a sho w.
Eddie Lawson also on hand was
signed to go in the ha lf mi le bu t
decided to scr at ch and limit himself to
the TT. It was a run away for the
Upland ace as he set a pa ce no one
could stay with in both the Mon ey and
Open Am ateur/Expert TT . Ja ck
Smith and David Reinhard t followed
him home in the Money whil e Pat
Dobbins and David Skirvin had the
hon or s in th e Open .
Dannv Perkins set t he fa st tim e of
the night as he blew the 250 cc Experts
awa y on the half mile , No one was ever
seen close enough to cha llenge the hot
shoe. The race was for seco nd as Terry
Singleton got th e second off th e line
but Dav is took it awa y o n th e third lap
onlv to lose it back to Singl et on on
fiv':. T wo laps later Davis was out with
a sou r engi ne and Rob Selvy picked up
th e third behind Singlet on as th e
checkered ca me ou t.
Rob Selvy came out top dog in th e
Open
Arn a t e ur /Exp ert
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De stru cti on De rbv th at sa w o ne
restart . Dav id Skirv;"n ca me off th e line
first with Selvy in seco nd and Pat
Dobbins t hird. By two Selvy h ad
dropped Skirvin to se cond wit h
Dobbins sti ll in t hird. As they headed
int o t he first turn eve ryt h ing broke
loose. Dobbins was out, slidi ng up
to wa rd th e wa ll a nd anot he r rider a lso
fell ca using th e red flag to come ou t.
Fortunatel y no one was hurt bu t
Dobb in' bik e was d a maged eno ug h to
sideline him for th e nigh t. T he single
file restart had Selvy on top with
Skir vin in second a nd Reinhardt t hird .
T hey kept that order th e rest of th e
ra ce .
"Speedy" Pete Hames not kn own as
a TT rid er showed the boys he ca n ge t
it o n th ere too as he pulled a wire to
wire ou t of th e hat a nd let th e rest of
th e fiel d do t he scr a m b ling for the two
a n d thr ee spo ts in th e 12 5c c
Am at eur/Expert. St eve Karsten a nd
Randy Morris were off behind Hames
with Bobby Garabed ian and T odd
Brown in th e four , five spo ts. It d id n 't
take Brown long- to start moving as he
had taken over third as th ey ca me
around the seco nd time. He was never
abl e to go any higher as Karsten had
t he lock on second and no one was
going to get by. Not m uch changed on
the ha lf mi le where Hames is reall y in
h is own ba ll pa rk and was on ly on e
second behind the fast tim e set by
Perkins in t he 250cc class . Todd
Brown who is much more at home on
the ova ls was right behind Hames with
Garabed ian in for th ird .
Da vid H ulb ert co n ti n ue d t o
do mi n ate th e min i classes winn in g
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