Veltho van in which W illv drove ahead
ofJaak on the next to last comer of the
last la p to put Jaak down in seventh.
Gerrit limped home in eigh th after
his chain problems and Hakan Andersson was ninth with Graham collecting
one point for his tenth place finish.
Graham had been catching Schmitz,
but with two la ps to go his chain slipI ped off and it dropped him way down.
t Eigh te~n riders finished with only.
I the top nders up to seventh place on
the same lap as Brad's 24 -!ap race .
Heikki blasted into the lead of the
second race and was never seen again
las he bo lted into a 23 second lead
aft er only two laps . Swede Arne
Lindfors o n the En equist -sponsored
Husqvarna took a good stan and was
in second place in jhe early minutes
until a broken brake rod bolt forced
him out.
Brad got a bad start then bad luck
hit him after a few laps when his Honda became a victim of the track and
threw its chain. It got wedged between
the. brake activating arm and the
backing plate and as he struggled to
force the chain free his chances of any
points in the second race slowly
dissolved. Brad finally forced the
chain loose , rolled it on the sprocket
and completed the lap to retire . His
philosophy was to save his energy and
bike for the race in Finland rather
than risk crashing and injuring himself
while trying to salvage one or two
points in the chase for l Oth or ninth
place. When the day finished Brad
had emerged as the only rider capable
of staying with and beating Heikki .
Wolsink crashed early in the race
when his front wheel got stuffed into a
rut and pitched him off. He remounted and raced an excellent race to
fini sh second, 32 sec o n ds beh ind
H eikki.
It looks like Roger is becoming "Mr.
Third Place." In the last fou r races including the second race in Sweden he
has earned four third places. That's
40 points and exact ly the kind of
riding that it will take to keep him in
the h unt with Heikki until Roger gets
it all together and we'll start seeing this
World Championship series become a
continuation of the 1975 battles when
Roger regained his title after losing it
to Heikki in '7,4.
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