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(; • •.•.•.•.•.•...•.•.•.................•...... ...•.... .•.• -.......- . .•.. ..-.- =Western .~ . _ ~, ~ t Eddie Lawson 1741 leads the knee-scraping action at Manning Racing. every other comer. But . before he could make th e pass , his Yamaha start ed to seize. lea ving Vidic with what loo ked like a su re win . But, for th e second time in two weeks . as Vidic came up b ehind lapped riders . someone fell in front of him. taking Jeff with him. This left Jennings to take the lead and hold it un til the end even with a flat rear tire slowi ng h im down . Tim Welker foll owed h im across the fin ish in second. Vidic was able to put it together in the secon d moto , taking the win . Tony Gomez, after a fifth -place finish in th e firs t mo to , took second in the moto and second overal l. We lker rode steadily and fin ished th ird leaving him with firs t overall . St eve Montaque , with a 4-4 record , went home with fourth for the morning's effort. Ron Turner. on what might have been his last ride on an FMF Su zuk i, had two impressive rides taking win s in both rnotos in th e 125 Pro cla ss. Ron built up good size leads in both motos, much to the chagrin of Ken Burky and Br ad Burks, wh o finished seco nd and third resp ectivel y. Resul ts in Resul ts Sect ion. Baeder's Ilthree cylinder" wins ManningRR By J im Lester RIVERSIDE, CA. OCT. 30 Manning Racing played host to over 100 pavem ent specialists at Riverside. Open GP looked to be a thriller with local aces Da vid lAbove) GiOman1921 closes on Vidic at SSM . (Below) A Suzuk ilYamaha battle. Steady Welker winsSSMMX By Jack Wright ORANGE, CA , OCT. 29 32 The 250 Pro class got off the line in a typical start with Jeff Vidic bounding down the hill first. Vidic (Yam) was out to put some ' ground between himself and Scott Gillman (Yam) before settling down into his pace. Gillman , knowing exactly what Vidic was doing settled down about 10 ya rds behind. It was Gillman's first race in two months and he showed that he was not going to let Vid ic run awa y. Jeff Jennings moved up to take third , with Tim Welker in fourth , about five seconds behind. Gillman started to move on Vid ic , putting his front wheel under Jeff in Emde , Mik e Ba e d e r a nd H arr y Klinzm a nn , tied for the class points lea d , battling away on their Yama ha 750s. Emde led the first lap of the race . bu t seized on th e second la p . Baeder , turnin g 1:32 laps, bui lt up a fou r-sec on d lead on his four-cylinder before it becam e a " three-cylin de r ," b u t Klinzmann was h aving clutch t roubl e , a n d was n' t abl e t o take advantage of Mike's misfortune . Bill Hen ry, m eanwhil e , cras hed h is new sha ft -d rive Yamaha at turn seven : bu t d uste d it off an d lat er took secon d place in th e "Su per Cafe" race beh in d Keith Code (Kaw) . Kl inzmann ( BM W) grabbed the lea d in th e Four-Strok e Grand Prix an d stretched it out to five seco nds by mid -d istance. But Pat Eagan , wh o had been feathering th e a iling clutch on his Mr. Jags Rickman , began to close the gap . passing Keith Code (Kaw) and Billy Addington (K aw), before pulling even with Klinzmann on the last lap . Klinzmann won th e drag race to the finish. Earlier , Klinzmann had blown-off the op position in th e Open Production ra ce. Dick Fuller (Ya m) ran off with th e 350 Product ion race . with class points leader Alan Gingerelli and Ed T oomey d icing for second place until Alan's elec trica l system went dead. letting Da ve McClanahan through to th ird . McClanahan's joy lat er turned to sorrow when a n erratic rider in th e Cafe race forc ed him off the tra ck . demolishing the back end of his bike. In frantic lightweight ac t io n , Darren Penrod (Yam) b eat · FMF's Malcolm McCassey in th e 100 GP ; Bob Nolan won his second straight 125 GP race on an ex -Philippe d e Lespinay Yamaha ; Jim Ahrens breezed to an easy victory on his 50cc Kre id ler, and T im Steinberger (Yam) won his th ird straight 200 GP race , to pull within on e point of th e cla ss po ints leader , whose bike developed an "e xtra brake" (in th e cylinder) during practice . Results in Resul ts Section . Hall and Adams fastest at SRA GrandPrix ' By Sue Sen n CARLSBAD . CA , OCT. 30 As the flag dropped at the start of the open class race , it was 20year-old Craig Adams off the line first and that's where he stayed . Bryan Bennett and Ga ry Bates were ri ght behind Adams, but soon devel oped problems. Bennett got a flat tir e and Bat es' engine stalled . Bates reentered the race behind Charlie Conway , who didn't rea lize that Bates had mi ssed a lap . and he cont inued to take unnecessa ry cha nces to hang onto fourth behind Adams, Don Glover and Jim Decke r. Ad ams, who is sponsor ed by Competition Cycles, has a re p utation for not on ly being a winner but for possibl y bein g th e on ly racer whose bedro om is a complete m achine sho p . Craig's furniture consists of two large Craftsman tool boxes, a wor k ben ch , drill press, lathe , weld er . air com p ressor and two motorcycle ram ps whi ch fill th e room so completely that he's forced to sleep in th e closet. It was Dave Crofoot wh o got th e holesh ot in the sen ior race, bu t by th e en d of the first lap it was Up-Tire's Geo rge Erl who had moved his 390 H usky out front. In the meant ime , W. C. Thornton was wor king his 370 Suzu ki through the tig ht curves and over the long straigh taways to overtake Crofoot (250 Suz) . On the seco nd lap W .C . h ad moved out front of Erl while Dick Sm allwood moved up beh ind "T he Crow ." Erl, wh o isn' t used to losing, was th e first of three big ups ets during th e d ay. The seco nd upset ca me in th e 8 I ~ 200 race when George Luther's Yama ha develope d serio us p ro b lems and he was beaten by an amat eur on a Husky, Mike "Fr eck" Mon oghan. Luther. who is well known among fellow riders as bein g one of th e most courteous riders on the course , has often joked of his pit stops as being a wa y to "give fellow riders a chance ." This tim e , th ey got the whol e thing . The th ird upset of the day was when Mike Nixon , a motocross rider from New Hampshire who has won every ra ce he's ever entered , beat expert mini rider Kevin Senn, Senn held the lead until th e last lap when he lost his shift lev er and the fast Easterner moved in for th e checkere d. I An other newcomer 'was Loren Hall who rode a Montesa in th e 250 race . Hall go t th e holeshot and ran away with th e lead. Bill Sabo a nd La nce Tubbs . wh ose luck h a s be en unbelievable th is year , were running second and th ird until the last lap . when Sabo ran ou t of gas and Tubbs' chain came off, destroying his hub. cases and cutting his igntion wires in half. } Hall not only cla im ed first in the 250 class , but he also proved to be th e fast est rid er of the day when he turned the 2 .7 -m ile laps in four a n d one half minutes . Adams was th e second fast est with a -time of four m inutes and 40 seconds. Results in Results Section .