Cycle News - Archive Issues - 1970's

; .. ;I 'Wes te rn hotline · - ~ E · Chris Chaffae t ook t he 500cc Pro class at Speedway 117. topping Max Maple (hi dd en) in both motos. Frauenberger whizzed past Mike to steal away his second and Mike Montgomery from San Jacinto followed suit to hold San Diego's Montgomery to a fourth. _ Mike (San Diego) was going to give the final Open Amateur/Expert race all he had, and he did just that. Steve Miller was right on his heels 'with Frauenberger right on him. Joel Windham pulled off the win and Frauenberger was second with Miller placing third overall. Windam went on to capture the Special Expert race leaving Mike Montgomery (S .D .) and Dorothy Rowe to battle it out in this class. Dorothy had the lead every lap of moro one but Joel was really breathing" down her neck. Montgomery was a close third . Montgomery timed the start to a T and led lap one and only lap one of race two. Yep, it was wailin' Windham struting his stuff out front. Rowe had bike trouble and pulled off on lap one. Bud Wanbaugh, aboard a 250cc Bultaco (only because of a sour 500cc Yam) clinched third . The final race for the Experts, and the final ~r a ce' of the evening was Dorothy's, I don't know what kind of pit stop she made, but whatever she did she ·did it well. Mike was a close second but on lap three he left an _opening for Joel to stuff his bike in to finish second. The overall finish went Windham, Rowe and Montgrnery. Results in Results Section. Hess hot at Speedway 117 linale By Rod Eschenburg CHULA VISTA., CA , NOV . 30 Speedway 117 wound up its most successful motocross season in four years of CMC operation with a night race program highlighted 32 - _._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._.~_._._._._~._._._. by Pro rider Randy Hess. Hess won the 250cc class over new Pro Abian Lelevier and Dan Steele. rhen backed it up with a second in the 125cc race behind tie breaker winner Mike Tripes. Hess was Suzuki-mounted in both events . New Pro Chris Chaffee took two convincing moto wins over Max Maple' and Dan Steele to grab the 500cc class honors. Chaffee turned Pro in the final month of the Summer '77 Series and has a whirlwi nd three-straight , victories for a second in class. ' , The Intermediate divisions all gave a preview of things to come in the 1978 season with new Intermediate class riders taking the 125 and 500cc classes. Matt Hope 'd owned a fast field , of youngsters in the 125cc class, Matt Caner of San Diego took two easy ones over Mark Day and second place summer series 500cc Junior rider Craig Infeld. Carter was a busy lad this summer as he consistantly.campaigned in all three Junior classes and picked up finishes in the top five spots in both the 125s and 250s. In the 250cc class, second year Intermediate rider Donnie Campbell went two-for-two over Greg " Meyers and Brayn Hart. . The Junior classes produced a show stopper in the 250cc class as Loren Jarvis and DougJenningS went at it for keeps in both motos. Jarvis' quick pass right at the checkered in the first moto has to rank in the all time top five passes ever seen at Speedway 117. • Speedway 117 Motocross racing will resume in March beginning with our 5th High School Motocross / Championships. _ Results in Results Section. Mosier takes SSM win-on. factory Kawasaki By Fred Pierce ORANGE, CA, DEC . 13 Caylon Mosier, riding a watercooled factory Kawasaki took both wins in the Saddleback Saturday Motocross (SSM) 125cc Pro class with no noticeable objection from Drew Nelson or Rick Maki. Gaylon took the holeshot in the first moto and never looked back while he built a 30-second lead over Tony Gomez and Drew Nelson. Tony ran into a problem when he crested the uphill and ran into a stalled bike. letting .Nelson and Maki by while he tried to re-start. Gomez was then able ..10 work his way back up and pass Maki for third whi le Gaylon wheelied away from Nelson for the win. Gay lon, sta rting on the second gate with the 125s , d id n ' t have any competition. When the gate dropped for the second moto .. the 250s, starting on the first gate, were a lready half a lap ahead . Mosier again took the lead running first 125 'a nd !}fth behind the leaders of the O pen class. Working his way through the Open class , Mosier passed Val Tamietti who was running second in the Open class as they came up to the slower 250s and lapped riders. Gaylon then pulled away from Val and kept up his drive through the rest of the 250 pack. With four laps left, Gaylon lapped Drew Nelson who was running in the second 125 spot, Mosier then set his sights on the leaders of the 250cc class : On the last lap Gaylon passed Tim Tolar in the , second 250 spot and wheelied to the checkered followed , by Drew Nelson and Tony Gomez with Rick Maki in fourth. Ron Turner put together two good rides for back to back wins in the 250cc Pro class. Riding an unfamiliar bike, Ron ran into some good luck when the,two leaders of the first moto, Goat Breker and Luc DeLay dropped out wirh , mechanical problems . /T u r ner then made short work of passing Doug Boyd for the lead and the win. Boyd finished second with Tim Tolar third. Tolar got the lead in the second moto ~ly to lose 'it to Turner on the fourth lap . Luc ' De Lay, after a - middle-of-the-pack start, worked up and passed Doug Boyd for third only _ . _ ._ . _ . _ . _ . _ . _ . _ . _ ._ . _ . The Sun M.C:s Autum n Phoen ix Grand Prix waterhole trap pe.dth e unprepared. to.DNF again. Boyd then proceeded to drop back to fourth with the flag coming out to give the win to Turner. Tolar got a second overall for the day in front of third-p_lace Boyd . (read "water hole ") was modified to trap the unwater-proofed. It did. Savvy riders found that a rapid, oblique line across the face of the drop-away into the water could carry you through the situation without any problems. Some people , elected to brute force the problem, with typical results . Caution and a faint heart resulted in many woes as the bottom was loose desert rock offering almost no stability at , low speeds. The water hole was, the site of many an By A. H. Tellier impromptu party, with free entertainment. CASHION, AZ, NOV. 13 When Irnbriale's bike gave up the Post-entered Mark Drauge1 from ghost, it was free sailing for Draugel. Flagstaff dropped in for a truly But it sure wasn't that way for fourth rare m otorcycle ' ride and too k and fifth, which was also for first home all the honors at the Sun 250cc Expert honors. Early starter Darryll Tussing, from Gila Bend (how M.C:s Autumn Phoenix Grand Prix do you -m a ke a Gila bend?) was after an untimely demise of three-lap physically ahead of Mesa's Bob Cline leader John Imb riale. Mark was a one(Yam). In fact, Tussing took the time local legend for his ability to pick checkered ahead of Cline. But . the up a bike after several years' lay-off factored time differential at the start and beat the reigning hot shoes, all the made the difference. If you snooze, time perfecting his Alpi ne ski talents you lose: . and working as a ski instructor while The 125cc Expert class looked like it attending Northern A rizona was sewn up by last year's winner Tom University. The son of ex- P & D Schoemig: But broken-bike-blues, a Triumph owne r Vito Draugel, Mark's rea l problem today, eliminated him. had plenty of motorcycle education in So Gary Understiller took over and did his formative years, for sure. a fine job with an 11th overall on a With the -rnixed Amateur/Expert 125 . This was a fastcourse. class start sent on"their' merry way by Another real tight race was for first starter Brian Pepper, local 250cc 250cc Amateur. Last year's 125 winner Expert on a rYamaha, John Imbriale . Don Bab bitt (Yam) from Lake Havasu shot to a definite lead over Mark got the nod over Mike Harris (Hus) via Draugel on a 400cc Yamaha. the time difference. The top eight lmbriale, also a late entry, had to fight overall riders did the full 13 laps, with his way from the back of the asphalt only.32 getting in 12 or more. The real oval grid into first place against a class is told by the Senior class (35 and plethora of big bores. A half mile of over). All 12 entries took the asphalt gave the nod to 'the bigger checkered flag , with 53 (I)-year-old bikes, but Imbriale put it together to Jack Blackwell doing a tough 10 laps. grab the lead by the first lap. He had a Senior winner was Bob Edwards (500 10 second lead over eventual winner • Yam) , also 14th overall . Bob is a Draugel. member of the group that puts on the Right behind in third was Ed Zornes infamous Tonto 170 ± Enduro. followed by 250cc Expert Darryll It probably.wouldn't do to forget Tussing. The first lap had the riders fairly tight, but didn't necessarily third ov~rall and first ORen .Am a teu r Ken Skiff, a local attorney-at-law. favor the big bores; 11th place was LaSI year Ken ran into a bike in the Tom Schoemig on a 125cc KTM . Pole pits .. . and it was the pits, 100 . sitter Goofy Goebel came through as first Open Expert, but his luck (and The infamous sidecar class took off his KTM) was not to last. Several laps last, but typically not least. The first later he was to fall in the mudhole and lap was immediately snatched by Rob be run over by Ralph Whitney's Evans/Steve Cisty on their real new GP Norton sidecar. That, along with- a Wasp complete with AMA Pro Rick malfunctioning rear brake rod, was Kraft's old Shell Yamaha engine. But that. It's just like SatchelPaige said, as with all things, fame and first place "Don't look back, somethin' might be . can be very fleeting . The 12.5 :1 gaining on ya'." compression pistons couldn't tolerate The race was run on a seven -mile the unusual duty cycle and proceeded course, modified somewhat from ' last to complain. This left the field open spring's course. An old stock tank for diminutive Karl Krohn, riding a Dragel-shines at Sun M.C. Phoenix GP

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