Cycle News - Archive Issues - 1970's

John Bettencourt r ides Yosh imura East 's EgliKawasak i. GOLDE N 4 SPECTRO proves i tself each tim e th e check ered flag flies . GOLDEN SPECTRO • , ~ gained Dimeo's spot but Mike Bell moved up behind Savitski eo spend over half the mota as if he were bolted to John's rear fender . That is, right up to the last lap when they disappeared from sight in some heavy traffic and Bell came out in front. Burgett stayed upright the whole way in the second mota - in front all the way. Turner and Savitski were second and third off the line, but Bell look care of both of them a quarter of d ie way into the race. At about the same time Savitski started dropping off the pace - a drive into a berm had bent his brake lever completely around his foot peg. .' Bell grabbed the hole shot in the first open race while Burgett was recovering from an endo off the line. Old man (34 years) Bill Cook came out in second followed by Gene Durham, Barney Newman and Goat Breke r, Newman moved into second for the first half until Burgett made his way back up to go by. Soon after that Newman's brakes began to fade and so did he as Cook and Breker passed in what became the only battle to watch. Bell was long gone and Burgett had a . cozy second place lead. Cook and Breker diced all the way to the flag. Burgett, Bell , Jeff Howard, Richard Earle and Newman came out front in the second race. In three laps Bell got out front and it was not long before it became a Bell , Burgett , Newman parade to the finish . Ron Sun threatened ' to get close enough eo challenge Newman but a wild endover-end crash sidelined him . Phil Larson dominated the Mini Expert support race and Rodney ~elle~ came O~lt on .tOP of a three point tie with DaVId HIlton for the Mini Intermediate win . • Results in Results Section. .Joyce, Taylor, . Kreite.r top CMC ·NW Challenge round three By Jan Newman ALBANY. OR, SEPT. 6 Round three of the NW Challenge was the first night race. Albany I{ .......-=:... I:' ',.J, . I , · .IL I ' I -, I . '" • L. I • I Speedway has some of the unual tight , twisty corners of a night track but it also has a lot of flat out go for-it stretches and go -for -it they did . Ron Turner led all the way in th e first mota but it was ne ver an eas y lead because Bill Joyce haunted him all the way. Mark Gregson was back after a one-day healing lay-off to argue with ' John Tessitore for third place but, after only a few laps Gregson pulled ' off. Tessitore held the spot at the flag 'a nd Neal Snarr took his onl y finish of the night in fourth . Joyce had the same kind of battle in the second mota but this time he was in front and Pat Jacobson was the shadow. Turner was third but was losing ground. He was back by about 15 seconds when his bike stopped with two I~ps eo go. He restarted a lap down to finish 12th. The three days of racing had taken it's to ll. John Tessitore finished third again . Jacobson's first moto DNF put him out of the money. Gregson showed his heels to the pack in the first 250 mota with a quick, big lead he never lost. Dave Taylor and Ron Turner followed him through. The same three shuffled positions in the second mota. Taylor was out front all the way with Turner breathing down his neck. Gregson was third. Skeet Hise , ' Sunday's open winner, led the first open mota until he broke a master link. Skeet swears he's spent his entire winnings on master links which have plagued him over the past two days. Phil Oveland took the lead while Hise made repairs but his luck wasn 't much better. He had built a very comfortable lead at the three-quarter point when his machine went sour and first became eighth. Don Harding became leader and Cla y Azar had picked his way through to second. The neighborhood curfew had come and gone when the open class lined up for the second race. In the interest of ' track survival, the mota was cut eo 10 minutes . With the thought of only half a moto to get .in front - everyone made a frantic drive. For some it worked . Joe Sandgathe got the holeshot but yielded to Randy Kreiter at the halfway mark . Azar was out to get Sandgathe when they both went down in a comer. Azar retired but Sandgathe remounted and attempted to finish . The spill left him ,(' J ) . , J J I' 1 . .... • Track tested for two years • Film strength far in excess Of canventionallubricants . • Mike Bell 13391 and Rick Burgett in action. Burgett dominated the first NW Challenge race; Bell the second. Mike dropped out of the series after injuring his ankle leaping a fence. - ! Blend of diester synthetic and the - hig hest quality petroleum lubricants Racing level prot ect ion with long mileage cleanliness and reliability GO LDEN SPECTRO 4 i, an impo rta nt new product. 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