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CA , OCT. 23 The American Federation of tI0torcyclists (A.F.M.) ran their a'imual "backwards" Ontario road i!as e. using the same course and direction as the AMA Nationals here il1 1974 and 1975 . )0 David Emde (Yam) cruised to easy victori es in bo th the 250 and Open .Crand Prix races, with Eddie Lawson (250 Yam) .and Harry Klinzmann (750 1(am) taking turns fin ishing runner-up beh ind Da ve. Rudy Ga lindo (Yam) and Riverside AMA Novice winner John Gidney (Yam) staged a classic ba ttle for third in the 250 race. Emde, John Glover (Suz), and Keith Code shot to the head of the pack at .rh e sta rt of the Superstreet race . j;lover "leaned over too far" while ch asing Emde through tum eight and crashed. John got up and got going again only to crash into a-haybale two turns later, when he discovered that his rear brake pedal was bent into an inoperative position. Emde coasted into the pits at the end of that lap with motor trouble, and Code rolled in six laps later, after a fuel line came loose. By then, Dennis Smith (850 Suz, 86 mph avg.) was eight seconds ahead of Billy Addington (850 Moto-Guzzi) , who had been dicing with Code for second. Tom Ballantyne (595cc Suz) later came out and won the under 600cc Supentreet race on the bike Glover had crashed twice . In the 410cc Production race, Bryan Cathey (Yamaha , 83 mph ave.) pulled 0l;'t a. three -second lea d, with Gennady Liubirnsky (Yam) and Ala n Ginger elli (Yam) in a heated battle for second. Bu t with the race seemingly in th e bag , Cathey threw his bike down the road on the sixt h lap , leaving Gennady and Alan to battle down to th e wire with the decision going to Gingerelli : Da ve McClanahan sneaked into thi rd when the rider ahead of him looked over hi§ shoulder coming ou t of the last tum, then bobbled the bike and nearly crashed . T hr ee teams ba ttled back and forth for the lead in the Sidecar race. While they were squeezing th rough int o the lead , the Co leman/Andrews Suzuki collided with on e of the other ha cks and the damage forced them out of the rac e and back into the pits. W ith the fin ish line located between th e second and third turns, t he Gipe/Essatt BMW took to the insid e of tum on e and grabbed the lead, onl y to . get into the final 90· left-bander too hard and spin off into the d irt , allowing last year's Sidecar ch am pions Lougee ,,;nd Hough (Kaw) to slip on by for th ewm. One-two -five GP winne r J ody Nichol as (H on ) barely edged 250 Production winner Gordon Seim (C-A) for first overall in the Lightweigh t race. Doug Draper (125 Yam), who'lI be carrying the Number One plate in the A.F.M . next season, and Mike Fleming (250 Yam) dueled down to the wire for third overall . 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