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Terre Haute fiasco: Cary Scott wins crashshortened National half mile ... By Gary Van Voorhis T ER R E HAUTE , IND .. AUG . 14 "You just had to hang In there with all those 'restarts," T erre Haute victor Gary Scott was saying. "T he track was bad and you really had to work. Turn one was the worst pa rt. If you n:op l Bill Schaeffer 1961 leads the cha rge into the first turn . Gary seen lSI. : Kldd I~I. Keener 1621. Brow 132x1. Roberts 121. Hank Scon 1141 Caves 1281 . . Johnson 1751 Aksland 1271. Eklund (111. Romero and Morehead follow, . IAbove) Springsteen and Morehead go at it, IBelow l Roberts burns rubber as Boody gets traction, did n '~ !,:"t iruo it o ~, t he riglu lint, you were an for t rou.ble . . Terre Haut e s Action Track was the scene of plenty of action - but not the ra cing kind - as cras h after cras h m arred th e 18t h SlOp on t he AM A G ran d N a t i o n a I C:ha~ pionshi p -!Camel Pro Se r ies CirC U lI. T'he fina l bl ow was a t hreerider accident on lap [ T of the Nat ional after wh ich the race ~~s ca lled co m plete , T o furt her the POI nt of th e rough and da ngerous track co nd it ions. till' Tro phy Ra ce was not run . T he rUll in!':. bu mpi ng. brr-a ki ng up a nd po t holi n/{ of th e track turne d the eve n t int o a fia sco. TI ",r" wer e no cries of ou t rag e whe n th e Na tio nal was ca lled: the rid er s had had en ough . Lu ckil y o nly Mik e Kid d , involved in till' fin al cras h wi t h Steve Morehead a nd Te rry Poovey, requ ired hospi ta lization for a suspec ted broken rih a nd a po sible mild co nc ussio n . H" was released Mond ay m orning- with a sp rai ned I" fl wrist , Fo llo wing Ga ry Sco tt 's Sa l Acost a iu m-d-Evel Kn icvc l Speci ai l larley into victory la n e were Cork y Kcc rie r on t hr- 14 AI Stangk-r-tuned H a rley-Davidso n factory m oun t a nd t he Za no tt i Enterprises XR of Su-ve Eklund with J im Bel la nd doin~ tl1l' "n/{im' work. J ay Springs teen 's wee kend of had luck courinued through Terre H au te as he failed to make the Na tional after crashing in his hea t and rlu-n fai lin/{ to transfer from his semi . Springsteen's and Bood y's fail ure to score any National points at Tcrrr H a u te com hine d with Kcn nv Roberts' sixt h moves Ro be rts ( 153) I,;wi thin six po int s of Sprin/{"r (159). Boody ( 151) rem a ins in th ird . Time Tria ls Garth Brow continued to prove that he is currentl y the fa stest rookie around by tripp ing the clocks with a ner record time of 25 .487 on his Jim Cornow/Verse Brow -tuned Team Bel R ay/Bechelli R aci ng Accessories XR . H a nk SCOll, aboard Carl Patrick's X R, Ha rl ey -Davidson 's Ted Bood y ' and self-sponsored Harley rider Dave Alda na rounded out the top five . Heats La rry Zumbrun became the first 'of 12 different rid ers to di scover th e d angers of th e Action Track as he wen t down un injured in th e m iddleof turns 1-2 o n lap five of the first hear" (Con tin ued on page 36)