Cycle News - Archive Issues - 1970's

NORTHERN DATELINE Thompson wins Orland whistler By W . H. Spencer ORLAND, CA , OCT. 16 Although the end of the season is just around the proverbial corner and the number one spot is sewn up by Rus ty Davis by over 100 po ints, Brian T h om p son let everyone kn ow that he is going to enjoy the number two spot with an out right win of the 250 Expert class th at started with 37 riders. It wasn't that big for th e rest of th e races but th e action was still there. , The few Min i kids assembled saw Joey Brazil win th e- 80 Expert and Todd Willaman the Novice portion. Scott Dickerson beat Jeff Valentine in a real close match . Larry Krusemann won the 125 J unior/Expert despite a tender foot , with Wayne Karcich in second. Richi e Simpson came back to win th e 250 Novice over Blair Newell with Jon . Eichelbaugh in third. Leading out the 250 Experts was Lowell Moural , after winning his he at over Jimbo Fili ce . The large rider main was a real thriller in the th ird corner with eight r iders following Moural around. Rodger Slack took second after sending Filice to the fence post , and R usty Davis was coming fast off the back row for th ird. Moural's Bultaco cou ld n 't st and the pace though and fell to ills wh ile Thompson swept through th e pack for the win . Best ra cing of the day went to th e 360 Experts with R ick Dela cy pulling Jim Mertens around in h is first race back sin ce July. But one little m istake was all the Pacific Coast Junior ch am p needed to win . Results in Results Section. of Olson. Bren t Davis had to settle for third . Mike Brown rode hi s fi rst 125 Expert ra ce and almost won it. Brown led the first fou r laps with hard charging Bill J ohnson pu shing him . Johnson fin ally m ade the pass. T hen Bill Beonhart cam e up to push Br own and made th e pass to tak e over second place . T he nex t m ota Bro wn was pumped and wanted to win. But with th e experience Joh nson has, he passed Bro wn . Then his buddy Jerry Ed ie ca me up to challenge. Ed ie passed Johnson but they du eled all the way with J ohnson taki ng the win. One of our fa vo rites. Andre a Williams came out to rid e the Powder Pu ff class and forgo t her boots. So gallant Tom Anderson took his own off and loaned them to Andrea so she could ride. This must have given her some extra luck because she took th e W In. Bill Johnson and W es Morre ll collided the first mota of the crowded 250 experts and J erry Ed ie to ok com m and and won. T he seco nd mota was a new race with Wes and Bill Johnson really dueling. Johnson would take the insid e drive with wid e open W es outsid e. This was th e wa y the ra ce went until Johnson had m ot or trouble and did not finish . The overall win went toJerry Edie. . Most outstanding race was the Vet s Expert. Big J im Hartbauer has been unbeatable in t he past few weeks . T on ight there was a new challen ger named Jerry Bowers. Boy, is he fast! Both rode 500 TT Yamahas. Jerry and J im would go wid e open in th e tu rn , pitching th ei r m ou nt s sideways inches apart . Jerry took th e win . The second mota Jerry had some trouble and a DNF. so b ig Jim too k th e overa ll win a nd remains undefea ted . The trophy dash wen t to the rid er on a Suzuki, Mark Pantell, Results in Results Section. Jim Foley returns to SandHill MX Billy Johnson tops SHR Marathon By Tom Anderson By Tom Anderson BRENTWOO D , CA , OCT. 21 BRENTWOOD , CA . OCT. 23 In Friday night'S 500 /0pen Experts there were 14 of the fastest guys you would ever want to see . Dashi ng J im Foley on a Yamaha The dead engine start at the Sand Hill Ranch Marathon was a surprise to many riders. Billy Johnson got th e holeshot up the took the lead right away with the speedway rider Mike Faria and Steve Marusic on a Maico right on his tail. They would start pitching those big bikes at the end of the sweeper and slide full bore into the back straightaway. While those three were dueling for positions there was another fight between Phil Anderson , big John Pro to and Dave Faria for founh. Phil got it as Jim Foley took first. In the seco nd mota Jim showed that it wasn 't luck , with a wire-to-wire win - aga in . Mike Faria and Steve Marusic were a t it once more , with the speedway rider ta king the second spot and Steve thi rd . Again the fight for fourt h co ntinued with An d erson , Proto and Ma rk Prib e really duelin g it out , but An derson got too hot in the sweeper an d spi lled, wh ile Pro to ga thered th e fourt h spot. W he n these ex perts ri de there's wa ll-to -wa ll excitement and dynam ite racing . J ammin ' Joh n Loo ney put on a good ride as he dial ed in Steve Fu rtado in both motos. John works for a farme r aft er sch oo l and on holid ays to help his parents suppo rt his racing . Troy Bara zo ro a n d R ick O lson traded p la ces a lm ost every la p. T ro y was fin a lly able to shake off the d ri ve big hill , lea d ing the full pack of roa ring mot or cycles. Johnso n led the first lap , but th e second la p belon ged to th e team of Sca rlett and Clausen . They led for th ree laps then J oh nson took over on th e fifth lap and kep t it for the balance of the race a nd winning it in th e 250 cla ss. The winner of th e open class was th e team of John Silva and Rick Oderio on a Yamaha . They grabbed second behind J ohnson on the 11th lap then in the 12th lap , Mark Jones riding for Moto-X vf'ox took over seco nd . On t he 14th lap the hard charging team of Silva a nd Oderio took the lead in th e open cla ss and never lost the lead. Second in that class was a very improved Jerry Edie dueling with th e top runner all the way . T h e 100/1 25 class started two m inutes behind the other bikes. The first team across the line was John Bell icitt i and Ron Pepper on a Suzu ki . On the second lap Mark Lenz and King Pet er s took over the lead on the Honda , but t he duel was on with Bellicitti and Pep per who led the next t hree la ps. On th e sixth lap Lenz and Peters took over the lead and wou ld become the overall winners in the 125 class . Second place went to the Ol und team on their Yamaha . They took seco nd place on th e l Irh lap and were push ed by the team of Don Stanley and cross-country rid er Ph il Rice. Ken Sm all got fourth and th e 10·year-old Rick Ryan too k fifth ridi ng the twohou r ra ce by him self. T he 100 class was won by the Lofgren brothers . Second in th is class went to Bert Elworthy. Results in Results Section . Wood tops two classes at Sacto nightMX ' By Sallee Hilton SACRAMENTO , CA , OC T. 21 David Wood, riding for J im and jim's of Davis, took home the first place cash in both the 125 and 250 Pro classes at Sacramento Racew ay, winning five out of his six motes , In the 125 class Wood (Suz) , go t a bad start but made up for it in th e first cou ple laps by getting by a couple of riders. He could n't m ak e up any more though. Jim Wooten (Suz) had the lead for a whil e be for e va n ish ing from the sce ne , a t which time Ph il Minahan (Suz) too k over an d stayed the re for th e rest of the race and th e win. Chalma Roberts (Suz) ha d the second place a nd refused to reli nq uis h it to Woo d . The second tim e out , Wood grab bed th e holeshot and went on to the win from the re . J on Yourd (Ya m) had h is hands full maintaining his second position against Minahan , Pa t Yoh o (Yam) and Roberts , who la ter crashe d and finished fifth . Minahan was right on Yourd's ta il at the finish . W ood again hol eshot th e th ird mota and foll owed up with th e mota and the over all win . Minahan had cr ashed and at th e checke re d flag , Wo od , Yourd a nd Yoho all cam e through in a bunch , but in th a t order. Wood's Yamaha was running poorly in th e first 250 mota and he was trailing AI Griego (Suz) and Yourd . He managed to get it bl own out in tim e to overta ke Yourd by outflying h im off th e big jump in th e next to t he last la p , and then did th e same to Griego in the last lap . In the second 250 m ota : Wood got out fron t at the sta rt and had no t roubl e winn in g . You rd pull ed o ff after cras hi ng , and Griego got the second. In th e th ird moto Wood again started out in front , but in spite of his superior altitude off the ju m ps, he never really got too big a lead over second runner Gri ego , but th en he di dn't need it. He took th e mota, and ano the r overall first for the big mon~ of the night. • Results in Results Secti on . Cantaloupi crashes, • wins By Sallee Hilton HELVETIA PARK . CA , OCT. 23 Breakin g a fam iliar pattern, Donnie Cant alou pi only took first place money in one class this time, and had to do it the ha rd way a t that. While Canta loup i was p icking himself and his Yamaha out of a hay b ale on the starting pad , the rest of the 125 Pro class were ha lfway around the track in t heir fi rst mota . Bill Leo nhea rt (Suz) had the lead and Ma rk Fortin a nd Bob Sh oreen (Suz) Donnie Cantaloupi crashed. still won the Helvetia 125 Pro class. were fighting it out for second. Dazed, Cantaloupi decided to figh t the odds and go for it. There were only 15 rid ers ahead of him , a nd nin e whole la ps inthe race , so off he sped . passing one or two riders every lap. Phil Minahan (Suz) had ca ugh t up with the first three and all were close together. Shoreen had passed Fortin, and both of them had taken Leonheart by th e time Cantaloupi made it to fifth a nd was practically running over Minahan. Before the ra c;:e was over, Cantalou pi was r igh t on top of Shoreen threatening. but not able to take first. Cantaloupi got off the line good in the second moto and stretched out a gigantic lead to claim the mota and the OVfi3.1l for Yamaha and Dirt Werkes. The action in this race was the battle for second place. Fortin had it for more la ps , but finished fourth. Jim Sisco (Suz) had his tum at it , losing out to Minahan in th e last lap. Dan Turner (Kaw) took the glory and top cash in the 250 class . He had the holeshot in the first mota, but wasn't the o n ly one out front. Cantaloupi and Mik e Hersman (H us) were chasing him hard. Turner held out against the attack for a coup le laps before Cantaloupi made it by , but T u rner wouldn't let him get very far ahead. Hersman had dropped off the pace, but T u rner was still charging when Cantaloupi crashed hard . He stayed down long enough for Larry Wosid (Yam) to get by him. So dazed that he didn't even rem em ber the race afterwards, Cantaloupi was up a nd racing on reflexes alone to finish third for that mota. . In the second moto, Wosick was out fro nt for a wh ile before he saw Cantaloupi go by and good bye. T u r n e r a lso went a round and co n ti n u ed to c h a se the flying Cantaloupi all t he way to the checkered. Knowing tha t the second spot was still good for overall first , T u rner didn't endanger himself by trying too hard to take over the lead. Danny Dennis (Yam) moved into third place when Wosid broke down, then J erome Heiberger (Mai) took the spot away from Dennis and went after Turner. By the end of th e race Dennis and Heiberger had had some sort of trouble, and dropped way back. Cantaloupi took the win . and not far behind him was Turner. Much , much later, third place man, now Troy De Herrara (Yam) and fourth John Minor (Suz) came across, and those same fou r cashed in for overall. Wosick was looking good in the first open mota from stan to finish out front. Heiberger, also looking good , chased Wosick a ll the way but never got by . J eff Jacobson (Yam) pic ked u p the third. Wosid didn't make the second mota at all and Heiberger DNFed after chasingJacobson ha lfway through the race. Ren ny Bruns (Yam) took the lead aw ay from Jacobson by the end, but Jacobson still got the overall first . second going to Bru ns and third to Dave Mc Rae (Yam) for his two fourth p lace finishes. Results in Results Section . 33

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