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I Western.hotline ~ E '. continued their fight for the lead right down to the wire where Stubblefield remained in control. Going off the track . these two flashed a victory sign for each other. The second time out, Lane grabbed the holeshot with Abler behind him and Shore in third. Lane crashed, in the hairpin turn and Abler took over with Stubblefield running third. Lane recovered and was putting enormous pressure on Jannings. Getting by, he went after his buddy Kirk Sturgeon. Abier was sailing trying to hold onto his lead. He had Shore '. breathing down his jersey. Shore edged on by and opened up a lead. Stubblefield started to close on Abler. Shore had a wide-open lead and Abler was fighting for his life, holding off Stubblefield. Heading into the white flag lap , Abler and Stubblefield were wheel to wheel, right down to the wire ,wh e r e Stubblefield took over for the overall win. Second went to Shore and third to Abler. .' • Results in Results Section. Bauer, Taylor, Callaway victors at Corona MX By Elaine Jones CORONA, CA,JULY 15 Steve Bauer started the Corona motocross evening 'off with almostwire-to-wire wins in the 125 Pro class. The real battle was • (Continued from page 23) Gordon, .Hopkins battle at AME / Sprockets Pam MX By Lee Taylor BAKERSFIELD, CA,JULY 16 The 500 Intermediate race was a battle all night long between Don Hopkins and Robert Gordon. Gordon led th,e huge pack over Can-Am Hill three abreast and then started to pull a slight lead. Stewart Rogers and Steve Siznennan were locked into a battle for third; Rogers going high into the berms, trying to take over third and finally getting by. Siznerman managed to take third back on the white flag lap which held to the end of the moto, The second time arournf. Ned Bassoti (Mai-Cycle Shack) got the holeshot and held the lead. Gordon , running to the inside tried to get by Bassoti. Gary Jones (Sua-Pesky's) pulled off the track in trouble , losing third position, as Gordon moved into the lead. Heading into the white flag lap, Gordon was still leading with ··H op kins .•in • -second. . and.• Siznerman .. 26,· third. At the finish line, Gordon rode across to top honors for the class; Hopkins took down second and third went to Siznerman. Valley Cycle Service of Bakersfield was good enough to donate $25 to the Pro Challenge Race. Rusty Hunt lived up the challenge with a super ride, _ back...a rds and all , to take the money. After '\ staggered start, Jeff Stubblefield took the lead with Paul Lane running second and Andy Jannings fighting for third. Jannings managed to move by Lane as Hunt moved on in behind him . Hunt , Jannings and Lane were riding three abreast, bouncing off berms ' backwards and landing on the jump approach ramp. Stubblefield had a healthy lead and .it looked like his race. Then Hunt started closing in fast. Wheel to wheel, heading into the reverse hairpin . Just before the checkered flag went out, Hunt passed Stubblefield for the win. Stubblefield led a large pack 0£125 Pros off the line and was on his way to the overall victory. Stubblefield , Lane, Jannings , (C -A-Kolbe) , and Mark Ablert had a huge lead over the rest of the pack. Jerry Shore started moving up and eased himself into fourth when Jannings went down on the back of the track. Stubblefield - and Lane between Jon Friesen and Doug Lincoln. In the first moto Lincoln had the holeshot but Bauer quickly took over and pulled a commanding lead. Lincoln settled into second and took over the business of holding off Friesen. ' Lincoln was successful and collected the second behind Bauer with Friesen third. The second moto had the three front runners , .Ba uer , Friesen and Lincoln holding their positions, even with the wider turns Corona has been building in the past few weeks. The .overall went to Bauer with Friesen and Lincoln tied for second and the nod going to Friesen by virtue of his better finish in the final moto. ' Rick Taylor, who has been due for a win , came through in spite of a challenge from Jim Hoover in the 250 Pro contest. Taylor got the holeshot with DannyJean arid Jim Lawson right behind him in the opening moto. On lap three , Lawson got by Jean to move into second but Jean came back to reclaim the spot on the following lap , and held Lawson to the checkered. The second moto again saw Taylor out in front with Jean in second and Hoover third. Hoover started chipping away immediately and by lap two had moved into second. It only took him two laps to catch Taylor arid then the race was his. Steve Feld was also on the move, getting by Jean about the same time Hoover did to take over third. Mike Jacobs was the. next one to get into the act as he traded places with Feld on the fourth lap. The three top dogs were Hoover, Taylor and Jacobs when the dust had settled. The overall went to ' Taylor with Hoover putting together a 5-I combination which was good enough for second. Danny Jean and Mark Rawley were tied for third with Rawley, riding for GSM, getting the nod. r The 500 Pros were minus Goat Breker who retired early with major mechanical problems, a rarity for him. Kelly Callaway ran away with the first moto with Keith Fearing passing Steve Fry on the second lap to capture the number two spot. In the second moto Fry came flying off the line to take the lead. Callaway ran into trouble but managed to hang on to a distant second while Peters, down two laps, still had enough for third . Fearing, who was really in contention never made a lap . Callaway took the overall by one point over Fry with Peters getting the third. Results in Results Section. • De Arman, Baum beat heat, checks at SRA enduro BySueSenn , RED MOUNTAIN, CA,JULY 10 Don De Arman beat the heat and the clocks when he zeroed all the checks including the tiebreaker at SRA's Crack 0' Dawn family ~nduro. De Arman, who is under 16-year of age and rides an 80cc mini, has always tried to keep his own time but this time he had no choice. When the two loopers were separated from the one loopers over a three-mile section, the one loopers found they had a surprise check which was the ,tiebreaker. The two loopers also had a check in ·this section that did not allow for any late points. The IRRC ana SRA officials kept a very close watch over the one loopers through this section, but it was still a great experience for the ones who will someday be two loop riders. And for those like Robert Cox (21 seconds off) and Carol Prado (24 seconds off) who had that satisfied feeling of "I did it myself." . Shannon Eiechner (-16 125 D) was riding his third enduro and he thought the 26-mile first loop was ,great , and that the speeds, which ranged from 18 to 30 miles per hour, were perfect. He also thought that the course, which included a couple of gOod rocky hills, short sandwashes and fast fire roads was a very "pretty" ride. The 32-mile second loop also contained a few surprises, thanks to John Nagle and Mark Vincellette who stay up nights thinking of ways to make the enduros a bit more ' interesting. The majority of enduros will never have a check point closer than three miles from the start, thus enabling the rider to check his speedo meter and time-keeping equipment against the officials'. The first check was located at 3.2 miles, which caught many riders unprepared. Also in this surprise package was a three rn.p.h. average for , .2 miles. Though it made a few riders uneasy when they read their route sheet, it only went over,railroad tracks that were no problem. 'I , ' Due to the heat, the course-was kept fairly easy. It started off in sandwashes, then swung across Invader Valley to a pretty fair rocky uphill . After five or six miles of ridge running, the riders found they were looking down one of the steepest, sandiest hills they'll probably ever go down. At this point, Tony Encabo (250 C) , found he was half buried in sand as he slid toward the check at the bottom : When he finally stopped •sliding, his engine had stalled so he ran pushing his bike into the check on is 59th second. Dave Baum had absolutely no problems. He zeroed both loops with a 0.30 at the tiebreaker, making him the number one rider of the day. The

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