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.._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._...._._.. , ' ,• • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • CO Don Grigsby, m o re unive rsaU y kno wn a s T· Bone, won the 500 Expert class a t Elsinore's 0 ·37 TT Scrambles. total. It was a hard fought three but pulled in with an ailing bike after rounds between him, John Bales and one la p . Mark Cain won that race. Ken McIntyre. In one round Curtis It was the two heat winners first and Cannon had the lead, lost it to Bales second in the main. Jack Smith got out who then slid out on the slick track front with Dorothy Rowe right after, while Jimmy Rosa got to fighting with then Duane Galleger, and Mark Cain. his bike and should have gone down At the end Rowe was going for it but ' but didn't. The tiddler class gets fun to just couldn't quite pull it off. watch when there are plenty of them The Open Novices almost choked racing. the spectators with dust in the first The expert class wasn't so much fun heat. One of them dumped it in tum to watch (sorry guys) as Darren one, causing the others to find very Hulbert, Chris Gabels and Chris Albus interesting lines around the turn as finished exactly that way each moto , well as tearing through the deep stuff and overall. . up by the fence - cough , cough. There were seven pie plate experts David Skirvin came around the same in the 125 Expert class, including Joe tum in the semi doing impossible Soloman who had a 100 Kawasaki in a things with the front end of his minibike frame and in spite of looking Yamaha but hung on to his second a bit odd going around with true spot, Joel Windham. who . won ~ he motorcycles, did alright for himself. semi, unloaded on the hill which ' Bud Carroll (KTM) won all three didn't give him a chance to finish in while Chris Cannon and Bobby the top spots in the main . Those w~nt Garabedian- settled out second and to Jim Throne and Pat McCann with third . Earlier in the evening Jim Morris always eager to take second Garabedian spotted a younger rider - away from McCann. get flustered on the line, plonk his Mike Montgo mery took three helmet on his head and get ready to go straight in the 500 Junior class but the without fastening it. Bo b b y went hard racing was right be hind between trotting over to do it for him, holding Dway ne Locke and Vince Landry who up proceedings while he did so; no one traded off p la ces with Jack can ever say ou r sportsman riders don't Dannenberg. care about each other. Don Grigsby won the 500 Expert , The 125 Novices had troubles . In going so fast in the second heat that hethe semi Audi Milam took off from the blew the back lights out again . Don start like the rubber band was behind Frauenberger took second place, also him giving a boost. Of course the with three straight. He came off the starter couldn't let him get away with line first in the last round but T ·Bone that so the race was restarted. Audi caught him . ' . went ahead and won it anyway. Wish we could get more of you big It was Milam shooting off again to bores out. The ones that do come lead the -rnain but three riders went always have a lot of fun, and someone down at the top of the hill in one big has to remind these young ringding tangle of bikes and riders. Off they riders what real motorcycles look and went again' but Garth ' Beavers got by sound like! Bobby Sanders was all Milam this time and led the rest of the ready to demonstrate his now famous way. Pam Bales ', who got a well-ridden starting techniques , and managed a second in the sem i. came in fifth; she 's couple of times to be first off the line. getting quicker and quicker. but it was Steve Miller on a Yamaha On to the notes about the 250 who won it three straight. Experts; the starter considered putting And the hacks were there, three of Jeff Springsman on the juml! for them anyway and they weren 't just getting too antsy but allowed him to trundling around, In the first round start in row two. The first round was a the Monohan rig was entering turn great scrap between Bud Carroll and one when the Lanash/McDoweli team Rod Sexton. Bud sure knew what came up behind, using a line that is pressure was that race with Sexton on not in any primer on racing, hit the his rear wheel , and Rod eventually side of Monohan and went up and passed. ' with Larry Bird thir~. Jeff over . Weeel But no damage was done. Springman won the next two with Joe Leon Van Orsdale's monkey Bernie Steffan second both ti mes , while Thomas fell off at the top of the hill Sexton , Carroll and Bird, swapped second moto and then went like hell around the other places. trying to cat ch up. How Monohan and Langash managed to miss clobbering Dorothy Rowe blew her fellow 250 each other in the last moto we'll never Juniors out of their socks in the first know ; I mean, it's hard enough you heat with Jack Smith winning the guys . taking lines like you use on .two second. 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