Martin Lampkin 's third place f in ish could dropto fourth if Griffiths had his
FIM license in t ime to compete.
youthful motocross ana now . trials
"veteran" Bob Yankus , but to no ava il.
"Five!" sai d Ya nkus. "Dam nl" said
Whal ey. ,
The AMA has not yet made a ruling
on Mi ke Griffith's license status. Mike
barely received his FI M license when
AI Ames '(A MA ) hand carried the
paper to Mike at sign -in . Herein lies
the controversy , did Mike have the
license in time to compete for World
Championship points? Because of that
problem the po int totals are not yet
official.
leaderboard came Montesa-rnounted
Mike Griffitts in third place. Griffitts'
33,9 placed him ahead of ' two - t i~e
Scottish Six Days Trial winner Martin
Lampkin and fellow Californian Mark
Eggar, with those two tied at 35 each.
Britisher Lampkin took the fourth -:
place World Championship points
from Eggar because he had 35 cleans
to Eggar's 33 cleans , Egg~r w~s
lentered in .the World C hampionship
class but not in the North American
Trials Championship, the AMA's
championship series.
Mike Griffitts earned his third place
finish in the World Championship
class via a protest of the final scoring,
Griffitts was orginally tied with
Behin d Cou ta rd and Whaley on the
Lampkin and Eggar at 35 marks
a piece, bu t disputed a scoring call on
Section 21 of the second loop where he
was tallied as receiving
a five
although his scoreboard reflected a
three . The decision went in his favor .
For Coutard , the victory was
"so m eth ing that will mean .mor: to ~e
tomorrow , 1 will call my gtrl fnend In
France now. and she will call J?Y
father. H e rides sidecar trials in Fran ce and is never home on Sunday," The
young Frenchman picked u p only one
five a ll day, that coming in the fo urth
section on the second loop . "I knew 1
had done very well in the first loop and
perhaps I ยท tried a little too hard at the
beginning of the second. "
.
Many had expected the trials to be a
cakewalk for the European stars. but
few expected the top 10 to reflect
. America's "coming of age" in observed
trials , Beh in d Americans Whaley,
Gri ffi tts and Egga r came Montesa
sp onsored Do n Swee~ a~d B~I~aco
sponsored Lane Leavitt In POSltlO~
five and six, respectively. For Sweet, It
was " too easy. The winner should score
between 30 and 50points."
(Continued on page 42)
Marland Whaley put in a fine ride for second place laurels.
(Left to right) M ike Griffiths, Mark Eggar and Don Sweet await t he FIM license ru ling on Griffiths.
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