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o C(") ~ v ..0 S v > o Z (Above) Ron Pomeroy neils the Nationel class holeshot. Winner Broc Glover is on the far right. (Above) Lone Kawasaki rider in the Kaw-sponsored race was Terry Clark. who finished third in the National class. (Bottom) Hanneh chases Mosier. . Trans-AMA MX Series finale Lackey scores win at Sears Point '" n" By Jim Gianatsis ct- SONO MA , CA. N OV. 20 . )n~ The 1977 Trans-AMA MX Series had snaked and banged its way across America , and when it finally ended, the King was still the Kin; . The Kawasaki Sears Point Raceway Tran§J,U AMA, . race eight of eight frustra ting attempts for America ns to win their own series in eight . years , on ce agam belonged to the ~ing for the fourth yea r. Su~uki ' s five time 500cc World Cham\?lOn ~oger DeC ost e r had taken h IS Minoru Harada p r<;par:d RN400 works bike to another senes VICtory . T hou gh both DeCoster and Husky's C~uck Su n wr~pped .up their Series w~ns at ~ears ~Olnt, neither went home WIth a victory in the fina l ro und . Brad Lackey pushed his Steve Whitelo~k tun.ed RC 400 Honda to the 500c~ takmg the first rnoto, and fi":lshmg second to runner -up Hannah. m the second . Broc Glover ro de t~e J~m Felt tun~d Yamaha to easy ,,:ms in bo th Na tiona l cla~ ~otos , edging Sun and lone Kawasaki nder Terry Cla rk . "I'm ha ppy," smiled the Ma n , who hopes to eq ual Joe l Robert 's six -time World Cham pionships reco rd in 1978. " It fee ls good. T he T rans·AMA Series was important to me because I d id n't win the 500cc World Championship this year. This was also probably, th e toughest Trans-AMA Seri es for me. " DeC oster's toughest com pe tit ion came from 20 -year-old Bob H annah who won more motos th an a nyone --:tn, 6 else , incl ud ing DeCoster in this year's seri es. But two. DNFs k.ept the trou~leplagued H Urricane KId fr~m , ed~ng out DeCoster for America s fitst Trans-AMA title. . ""0 "H an na h 's good, but he a lso thin ks he 's good, which is something rha t /he shou ldn't do. At least not until he-has more experience to go along with it. " said DeCoster . ,~ Su n wins National title a For O regon's Chuck Sun, the Trans-AMA Series 250cc Support National class marked the transition fro m two years' hard struggling as ) a semi -p riva teer to a full facto ry spon sors hip for 1978 as H usqvarmi's to p rider in America. Like DeC oster in the 500cc Interna tiona l cla ss, Stin 'wr app ed up the Su p port class title in the day's first moto . He did it though , as a p riva teer doi ng his own wrenching ' on his own bike, p aying his o~ expenses , slee ping in his van or motel room floors . And he beat the facto ry riders from the \ b uc ks-up Japa~~se com pan ies. . :> " I wanted to go for the win in the first moto, but I fell down . After th \'t I figured it would be better to settle down and clinch the title since all 'I needed to do was fini sh in th e top 10. I finished fourth ," sa id Sun. l!rh