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for dominating t he races a t
Kingfisher Motocross Track.
In the 250 Expert class. Jim Thomas
(Suz) monopolized the lead in both
rnot os with - David Fultz (Ossa).
holding second in the first moro and
Pat Johnson ( Pen ) hanging in ther
hard for third. Johnson pushed his
Penton all the way for a close second.
in the second moto . St eve Willard
(Suz ). earned third. Fultz . fourth .
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IAbovel Ronnie Jones (266G), Mike M innig (119R) and Dave Bradley led the
start of the Oklahoma City Novice Main. Bradley won. (Below) M ike Gree n
raises fist in victory after beatin Terry Poovey at Oklahoma City. Green's
Bultaco's engine was protested, found legal.
125 Expert Fultz goes for it at .
Kingfisher.
Poovey - Green
battle continues at
Oklahoma City ST
By Frank Harrison
O KLAHOMA CITY. O K, MAY 21
For the past weeks at their home
sta te track at R oss Downs near
Ft. W orth . ex pert T erry Poovey
and j unior Mike Green have '
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bee n havi ng wheel- to-w heel and elbow
to-elbow battle for the ma in event.
Satu rday nigh t in O kla homa City was
more of the sa me . As far as this Texas
duo was concerned. no one else was on
the track. They didn't seem to realize
that it was the night before the
National Half Mile . and that other
riders present would have made any
national short track promoter real
happy . Both riders came from
respective wins in their semis and the
battle lines were drawn for the final with another bit of rivalry present
between their home cities of Dallas
and Ft. Worth. Poovey rode a Bultaco
of Dallas steed tuned hv brother
Teddy, while G reen was 'on a Les
Stults-tuned Bul taco Unlimited of Ft.
Worth mount.
. .
At the start of the junior-Main it
was Poovey quic kest the firs t lap.
followed bv Steve Morehead 'a nd
Green . Gr~en qu ickly picked off
Moorehead at the start of Lap Two
and by Lap Three it was Mike Green
leading with Poovey hot on his heels.
Moorehead. Skip Aksland , Okie Rory
Simmons. and Albuquerque's Mike
Collins followed . In the fifth and sixth
laps it was anybody's rac e for third
with
Simmons.
Morehead
and
Aksland shuffling back and forth.
Morehead won that batt le, and Green
started stretching his lead over Poovey.
Bu ch Boren moved into sixth ahead of
Collins.
At a full turn's length over thirdplace Skip Aksland, fourth-place
Shawnee.
Okla homa's
R or ry
Simmons. then Moorehead. Boren
and Collins .
.
The Poovey - G reen battle was not
over. however . Poovey filled out a
protest form for measurement of
Green's machine and deposited $25
with the referee . As Poovey stated it".
" I'rn 99% sure he 's legal . but it keeps
us all honest". A few minutes later
Green smilingly " merged from the pits
e
clutching the $25 he had recieved
when the protest was disallowed and
good naturedly agreed with Poovey
that " It keeps us all honest" to have a
protest now and then .
originally
T he
Novices
were
scheduled to run Friday Night May
20th. Bu t. d ue to a spectacular of
"Mother nature" (which included
better than four inches of rain . three
tornados . and floods in Oklahoma
City). it had to be postponed to this
beautiful Saturday afternoon before
the junior-expert event.
After eight scratch heats and six
regular heat races . David Copeland
(Bul) of Lubbock and James Bradley
(MISI) Bultaco of Tulsa won the two
semi-finals and the stage was set for a
real final I5 -lap thriller. At the start it
was Oklahoma City's Ron nie Jones in
Turn One followed by Dave Bradley
of Tulsa and - California's Mike
Minnig. Bradley. riding his MISI tuned machine quisJ