Cycle News - Archive Issues - 1970's

=Western hot~ ' . , '- ~ t 00 t"" O'l 1""""4 1""""4 1""""4 ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ w w w Z w ... e > '" l/l 15 if IAb ovel Open Experts Bob Sanders 1 5Rland Steve Fortune battle at Perr is. IBelow l The 500s hit the first corner. Number 13 is out of step. EndotYear Scrambles By Maureen Lee PERRIS, CA, DE~. 11 It was the last scram bles of the year with the Gri psters hosting, and what a dayl We haven't had such a close points race in a long 26 while. Riders fell more than usual in their eagerness, although the track was superbly prepared. The Mini class started wrong first race of the day. Starter Ed Drechsler gave them a restart and Curtis Cannon won that one. Second round the track had just been watered and riders were really slippin' , slidin' and Fallin' down, but Michael Kirby stayed up and won it. Darren Hulbert won the last mota and his combined points gave him the overall win . Steve Polson and Bud Carroll have gone at it all season for that number one 125cc Junior·Expert plate and it went down to the wire. Firs t moto Bobby Garabedian got away running in front, and ru n he did. Steve Griffith held onto second for a while u ntil Carroll got away from changing places with Polson and took it over . Round two Carroll went out front and although you knew ' they all wanted to go quicker , th e y remembered the track was freshl y wa t ered and contro lled th e ir e age r ness. Gara b e dian c a m e up alo ngside Bud at on e po int but Carroll • " ... J ... .t ~ .: .. . _ • • • ~ .. "" ... held his advantage; Polson found one .of the wet spots in turn one a nd came off. Jay Bales, who has also been right there -in the front a ll season , was now changing his line at the top of the hill each lap and really putting pressure on Bud. But he just couldn't get the extra !iriv~ to pass. . Last mota and off they went , with Carroll securing the lead. Polson tried to better his position after he got caught,in the first tum scr amb le. The number one plate rested on that moto. Polson rushed up with Jay Bales right with him and both got past Carroll, who settled for third wh ile Jay took the win . Unofficially, the number one is Carroll's but Steve came so close we . wish there was a platethat could say " O ne -a nd- a- h alf" or something! Now those 500cc Expertsl It took almost ten' m inutes - to get th e first mota away: The referee finally had to warn some of them , "J ust ju m p ' that second line once more and you' re out, period." That restored a little order, even Mike Myers'managed to cool it and get off smoothly. Up at the top of the hill all kinds of things happened. Rex Hailey came off . and was just getting 'u p as another rider hit him hard , knocking him spinning (his Bell now has a hole in it) .• While themelee was goi ng on up there Steve Tinsley could hear Charles Petty screaming, "Steve, stopl stop!" Petty had his foot jammed up behind Steve's sea t! . Next moto th ey wer e , just a tad b etter . Th is tim e it was M ik e Montgomery rolling a ro und in t he dirt top of the hill. A co upl e of laps la ter on th e restart he was down again . DeAnza 125cc Pro class w inner Clint Carman leads Andrew Jefferson IGI, Myers won it with two seconds and a first. Don Frauenberger, locked into his own points battle, got second and T om Heard third . Rex came back after that stunning crash to win the second mota (in 'a borrowed helmet) an d 'g ot fourth overall, Ah, you big bore riders always make my day. Odds 'n' Ends. 125cc Novice David Hulbert, who isn 't tall enough yet. to her his foot down comfortably to " T'T" a comer, practiced standing up ala motocross down the straight, going deep into tum one, up to the tires and berm shooting off the edge .. . hurray for the sound of Bill Bartels' little 250cc Harley 'in the No vice class . . .he could almost drown out the ringdings . .. Ben M yer and Greg Sargent had a good one going same class with Myer knowing a little faster way to get around the tum one sweeper. Joe Steffen won the 250cc Expert with, three straight but not without some earnest attempts from Dan ny. Perkins, Jay Bales, and Dylan Neihart. The 500cc Novice main was good .. .Dave Skirvin led for a while but Gary J oh ndro came up through the pack to end second with Jim Morris doing real well to take over the lead and keep it . Results MINI COMBO: Do"en Hulbert ISuzJ, Jimmy Ro.. IVom MichaelKirby (Yom l. l. 125cc NOV MOTO: BrionBurch IVoml. MorioAyers . (Yom). Steve Smith (Yoml. 125cc AMIEX MOTO Charles Corroll IVoml. Joy : Boles(Yom). Bobby Garobedian (Yom). 250cc NOV MDTO: Greg So

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