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Half mile action at Corona finds Rich Volk ahead of Steve Fortune, Dennis
Briggs and Shawn leopold shouting "Go for it!" in the money race, which
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83cc Open Pro. It was a one rnoto, 10lap race and the spoils went to none
other than Scott Burnworth.
Results in Results Section.
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Proceeds of the recent Hook 'n' ladder Enduro are presented to the LA. 4
County Burn Ward in the form of a giant $15,000 check. Fireman Dick Payre
handles the mike.
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Pee Wee wins big
at Corona
By Elaine Jones
CORONA. CA , NOV . 9
Pete Hames won the 250 Expert
half mile at Corona,
Burnworth, Wilson
sweep new club
opening
By Carol Camp-bell
ELSINORE, CA. NOV. 13
Elsinore Raceway hosted the inaugural debut of the Ll.S, Minicycle Racing Association with
more than 250 riders entered.
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Scott Burnworth (Suz) rode an
almost flawless race and walked away
with top honors in the o·83cc Stock
Expert class. Burnworth then took
back to back wins in the 0-83 Modified
Expert class. beating out Robert Nolin
and Eddie Glover (Suz) who battled
for second and third . For that win
Burnworth took home a pair of Vera's
leathers as well as a first place trophy .
You would think by this time that
Burnworth would be getting just a
little tired. No way . Now the Open
105cc race is on the line and again it's
Burnworth. Antonacci (Yam ). Tim
Hines (Yam) and Robert Nolin in hot
pursuit of each other. Meanwhile back
in th e pack waS a tornado brewing by
the name of Glover . Eddie Glover
(Suz) was downed in the first lap by
another rider and he wasn't wasting
any time working his way through the
pack. By the last lap Glover was in
third and battling Tim Hines (Yam)
for second . But Hines was able to hold
. Glover off long enough to take second
and Glover finished third.
The Experts weren't the only ones
who did some super racing. In the 9-11
Novice class three little guys . Jerry
Sapp , Bruce Bunch. and Sean
.Frampton.. did a fine piece of dicing
for that first place. They went into
turns three abreast and over jumps the
same way . The lead bounced back and
forth from Bunch (Yam) , then
Frampton, then to Sapp (Suz). back to
Frampton and then finally back to
Bunch. Sapp went down in a corner,
giving the overall win to Bunch with a
2-1 and Sapp second overall with a 1-3
score.
The big ra ce of th e day was th e O·
When you 're hot, you 're hot and
Pee Wee Gleason wasn't hot
Wednesday night, It was Gleason
out on top in the Money short
track with Wayne Rainey, sporting a
pair of size 12 boots borrowed from
Tom Heard . in second and Jay Lewis
third . On the second lap Danny
Perkins took Lewis to move into third
while Gleason continued to set a super
fast pace. When the checkered came
out it was all Gleason with Rainey
second and Perkins third.
The half mile was a heartbreaker
for Rainey. He was leading with
Fortune in second and Gleason third .
By lap two. Gleason had taken care of
Fortune and was pressing Rainey. On
lap five . Fortune lost another spot as
Perkins moved into the top three .
About the same time Jay Lewis also
took Fortune who was having bike
problems. Rainey continued to set the
pace but on the white flag disaster
struck: Rainey's bike blew and Gleason
took over the lead and captured the
win. Perkins was second 'a nd Eddie
San Roman had enough for third .
Danny Perkins had his hands full in
the Open Amateur/Expert half mile
because Dorothy Rowe is reall y
starting to cook on her big 750
Yamaha . Danny did take the lead off
the line with Gary Pettis and Dorothy
behind him . It took Rowe only one lap
to take care of Pettis as she poured the
coal to the big bike and she was after
Perkins. Perkins, not about to be a
gentleman and let ladies go first , held
the lead for the win. Joel Windham
came from last to pick up third .
Pete Hames and Chris Cannon
shared the 250 Amateur/Expert
honors. Chris put his name on the
short track from the drop of the flag
despite all attempts by Rob Selvy to
change the outcome. Dorothy Rowe
had enough for third.
The half m ile was almost an instant
replay except this time Selvy played
bridesmaid to Hames with Cannon
collecting the show honors .
Bobby Garabedian is becoming the
man to beat in the 125 Expert class.
hitting for two topping Steve Karsten
and Mike Redding in both.
The Speedway boys are finding
Corona a good pla ce to practice the
half mile and six showed up and were
given a class. It was Jim Turner who
took th e lead early on with J ohn Fallon
and Da vid DeTemple in th e two , three
spots. DeTemple, who has done his
share of flat tracking on the Corona
ovals. made short work of th e field and
took over the lead on the second lap
for the win.
Wayne Rainey,
Charlie Summers
two to one at
Corona triple
header
By Elaine Jones
CORONA. CA , NOV . 6
In spite of the rain the ' day
before, a good turnout of flat
trackers made the scene at
Corona and were treated to a
full afternoon of racing.
Wayne Rainey started things off
with the pro boys as he battled Charlie
Summers for the short track win. It
was Summers off the line first with
John Calicchio in second and Dennis
Briggs third. Rainey was running
fourth in the catch up position. By the
second lap Rainey had picked up two
spots and was running second to
Summers. It took Rainey two more
laps before he was able to get by
Summers and drop him to second.
With five more hips to go his work was
not over yet as he still had Summers
right behind him looking for a
mistake . It never came and Rainey
had the dough with Summers second
and Briggs third.
The Money TT had Summers
written all over it as 'he got the jump
off the line and went for it. Dennis
Briggs who had had an easy time of it
in the heat found Summers hard to
even keep in sight as he struggled to
keep Steve Fortune at bay . He almost
made it but coming out of four on the
last lap, Fortune dropped low, came
out fast and nipped him a t the line.
The Money half mile , the primo
event of the day, saw Rich Volk blast
into the lead followed by Rainey and Fortune. It took Rainey one lap to take
over first but it was not a comfortable
lead with Volk riding double with him
and continued to do so all 10 laps .
Steve Fortune kept a safe distance in
third hoping that Rainey and Volk
would burn each other out.
Volk didn't go home empty-handed
as he flat ran away from Earl Roloff
a nd Pat Dobbins in the Open
Amateur/ Ex p ert half mile .
"Speedy" Pete Hames, very much at
home on his new 250 . collected the
wins in the Expert short track and half
mile . In the short track, Dylan Neihart
" gave him one heck of a run for hi
money as it was Neihart who got th
I jump off the line with Hames Ii
second and amateur Chris Canno
th ird . Neihart was able to hold Ham
for five laps before the Simi youngste
got a wheel under him and took ove
the lead. Niehart held on gamely t
take second with Cannon taking thir
and the amateur win .
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The half mile go again had Neihar
out on top with Hames right beh in
him . Eddie San Roman was third. I
only took Hames two laps to g
Neihart this time and the race was ' .
San Roman was unable to get Neihart
to budge from second.
The amateurs had Todd Brown
going wire to wire with Darren
Hulbert in the second place slot nd
Chris Cannon coming from a ast
place start to capture third.
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The 250 Amateur/Expert TT }Va
the charm for Neihart. Ric
Blankenship was out on top J bu t
Neihart made short work' of him .ano
took over the lead on the second lap
and nobody got by him. BlandenshiP
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held <;,ff a fast closing David Call~i
for third.
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Bobby Garabedian had his 1
really running. capturing the TT'~and
half mile. The TT was wire to I'!i ~
even though Steve Karsten was rigql
on his tail all the way . Rodney R ~i.Pc:Y
rounded out the field with third. ·w." I
In the half mile Garabedian aga jn
went out in front and kept it all hthe
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way . It was tiny Mike Redding ~.l!.
put on the show as he moved frplll
fourth in the first lap by Rainey to ~e
over third and then went to wor kJ,pJl
Ka rsten pressuring him for five la ps to
take over second as the white (flag
came out. He didn't have time to give
Garabedian a challenge but he . did
have a well earned second to his credit.
Karsten put the fly in the ointment
for Garabedian as he took the short
track away from him , going wire tp
wire. Redding was third in that one.
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$J.5,000 present .(
to burn ward at ?'(£ I
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Hook and L adder.l)I
trophy presentation
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By Donald E. L. Betsworth irl.
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PASADENA . CA , NOV . 15
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Over 1500 happy smiling people.
550 riding awards , several special commendations, a whoopingsized check, and a very cute trol)
phy presenter. This was th e Hook ?l.'!9
Ladder Enduro trophy night.
