Cycle News - Archive Issues - 1970's

d uce the expected Irvi n / Reeder battle as Noot pulled off the holeshot and led every lap aboard his "my dad , Wayne, tunes it" Yamaha . Behind Irvin it was a battle for second with North Carolina's Bill Smith, aboard a Bu ltaco, holding off every challenge Roed er could muster until Roeder managed to get by on the seventh lap. The win place and show positions remained in that order Irvin , Roeder and Smith - for the final three laps. Junior _ Scott Pearson 1951 leads Daytona half-mile w inner Ted Boody /121 Scott . Drake (91). Gary Scott ISland Terry Poovey (18) trail. . , Wayne Rainey (8E) and Tommy Duma lead the Juniors at Daytona. but Triumph-mounted Tom Bries won the main event. Orlando ~ile winner Randy Goss (13) squirts dirt at the pack. Daytona half mile wins to Boody, Bries and Irvin By Jack Mangus BARBERSV ILLE, FL , MAR . 5 Florida lived up to its billing as . The Sunshine State for Sunday afternoon's lJ&B promoted Da ytona Half Mile at Volusia County 26 Speedway. The welcomed sunshine provided sharp contrast to the previous night's weather and spirits were lifted as the track surface was as smooth as a baby's you -know-what , discounting a hole in the exit point of turn four. Hank Scott broke the track record in qualifying as-he turned in a 20.44 second tour of the banked oval. But Hank had to sett le for runnerup honors in the Expert main behind H ·D factory rider Ted Boody. Wisconsin 's Tom Bries carried off the Junior trophy and Noot Irvin made it two wins in less than 24 hours in the Novice ranks. Novice Heat and sem i action was high . lighted by the pair who had finished 12 the previous night in the Orlando Mile's Novice main - Noot Irvin and John Roeder. R oeder edged Irvin in t heir scratch heat and Irvin topped Roeder in their "semi." The previous night's third -place finisher , Allen Knickerbocker got off hard in practice, reportedly suffering neck injuries. The IO-Iap main event failed to pro- Eleven scratch heats and two semis were run to set the stage for the Junior main . Those events narrowed the 99 man entry down to ·12. The semi wins went to Dickie Godwin ' a nd Wayne Rainey. Godwin had a helluva battle with Tom Bries and the pair crossed the line in a wall-banging shadow/photo finish . Ra iney had less trouble scoring his win . b ut a good dog-fight was carried on behind him between Tommy Duma and Charlie Roberts. Robert s got by Duma for runnerup honors . Main event time saw Rainey on the pole and ' the crowd had already written his name down as the winner when the green flag was waved by starter Mike Anthony. But other riders had other ideas. It was Godwin first across the line at th e e nd of th e first lap followed by Duma , Rainey, Ra y Dugan and Bries . Duma took over th e lead for th e next eight laps with Bries , Rainey and Godwin pressuring in a tight race . But th e final lap and the checkered flag saw Bries, aboard a Competition Cycle Center of Madison , WI , sponsored Triumph tuned by Lyle Sharer, in front . Bries collected the trophy and a kiss from trophy girl Becky Eaton. Expert The 54 Experts were staged in heats following time trials which , as previously mentioned , saw Hank Scott break Dave Singleton's lap record. Also breaking the old record, . were Steve Freeman, Scott Dra ke and Garth Brow. Brow's blistering lap was accomp lished without the benefi t of practice. T he first Ex pe rt "semi" was won by Hank Scott. H ank , who is ca lling Findlay, OH , home now, led all six . laps. Behind him a t the checke red in advancement positions seco nd th ro ugh sixth ca me Scott Drak e , R icky Ca m pbell, Guy McClure , R and y Goss and Ga ry Scot t. McClure, last year's winner, was aboard a Yamaha he had borrowed from Da rry l H urst. McClure, like several other riders , is awaiting deliverv of a new XR from Milwaukee. Semi two saw a very questionable call pulled on Lance Jones, Mark Cox , Garth Brow and Steve Morehead. They were set back on the penalty line after what appeared to be a mass rollover by everyone. Cox was later set back another notch . Whatever , when the green flag waved (W hy no starting lights at Volu sia , folks? ) for good it was Ted Boody around first ' on each lap, followed on every lap by Scott Pearson and Terry Poovey. Advancing to the main with that trio were Lance Jones, Don Bailey and Garth Brow . Brow's advancement came at the expense of Dave Sena , who lost sixth at the finish line . Boody picked up S50 in pocket money for scoring the fastest hea t win. Rob ison H a rley-Da vidson of Da ytona posted the purse fattening money : Hank Scott had earlier picked up a like amount for his fastest qualifying time . Boody led the field away from his inside pole position and held the point position for the first two laps until Scott Pea rso n got by. It was a four - rider fig ht the ~est of the way bet ween Pea rson , Bood y, H a nk Scott and Ricky Campbell. Boody and Scott go t around Pearson on the ninth lap and that was th at . Checkered flag time saw a 1-2-3 H -D finish with British . honors bein upheld strongly by Trium ph- mounted Campbell who finished ' a close fourth. All in all, the well-run progra (thanks , Feddie Ephrem) provided some exciting half mile action tha sent the crowd away with smiles their-faces . . Results EXPERT: 1. Ted Boody (H-DI: 2. Hank Scon (H·D); 3 . Scon Pearson (H·D ); 4. R;cky Campbell CTri); 5. Bailey (Vam l; 6 . Randy Goss (H-DI; 7. Scon Dnoke 1++ 01; B. Lance Jones (H·Ot; 9. Gary Soon (H-DI; 10. T Poovey IH-D I; 11. Ga"" Brow (H·D); 12. Guy McClure (Yam). I - JUNIOR: 1. Tom Bries CTrij ; 2. Tom Duma (H-D); 3. Wayne Rainey (Vaml; 4. Dick Godwin (H-DI; o . Ray Dugan (Yam); 6. Drew Peterson (H-OI; 7. Charles Roberts (Yaml; 8. Russ Davis (Yam); 9. Paul Norkandin' (H-OI; 10. Eddie Thompson (H-Dl ; 11. Brian Bamard lI-P 0); 12. John Wincewcz (Yaml . NOVICE: 1. Noot Irvin (Yaml ; 2. John Roeder (Yaml; 3. Bill Smith IBull ; 4. Glen Roberts (C·AI ; 5. Emmen Watkins (Suz); 6. John Blackstock (Yam); 7. Ed Blount (Bull : 8. George Garren IBull; 9. Scon Walsh (Vaml : 10. Greg Moeller (Bull; 11. Tom my Reg is ter; 12. Dave Park", (H-D). Goss, Rainey and Irvin bounce to victory 'n Orlando mile By Jack Mangus CASSELBERRY , FL , MAR . 4 Expert Ra ndy Goss, .J u nior Wayne R ainey and Novice Noot Irvin topped the competition in their 'respective classes and pulled off a more difficult feat at the same time Saturday night as they survived the Seminole Harness Raceway mile track's appalling condition. The surface. of the "short " m ile ova l rutted up once pract ice began with the straights turning into tank slapper affairs and the turns developing berm s. . Expert Doug Sehl called it a n ight early. "I rode one lap of practice, pulled into the pits, loaded u p my bike an d opened up a beer: ' Bill Schaeffer 'cam e in from this time trial lap a nd told me ch anic Tex Peel , " I sure hop e we d id n' t qua lify, Tex ." For H arleyDa vidson' fact ory rider Co rky Keener , the co ndition of the track put hi m on his ear. Sa id Keener the followi ng day, "I d id n't know whe re I was for th ree hou rs a fter the get-off. Bu t ot he r than feeli ng all beat up, I' m OK." T he stories co uld go on and on, but we'll wrap them up and get down to the racing th at did take place after we add that Lance Jones, Cycle News ' Rider of the Year , elected not to run the Expert final after he had earned a starting berth. "I just didn't feel it was safe, " said the young rider ' who is normally berserking a bike at wide open speeds. Novice Following scratch heats and two "semis" the Novice main got the green and from the very start it was a battle between Georgia's Noot Irvin and Florida 's John Roeder. Yamaha mo unted Irvin and H a rley-Davidson mou nt ed Roeder rod e like one unti l they crossed the line at th e end of the second lap where they banged together and Irvin got a breath size adva ntage a nd went on to win . Roed er continued to shadow Irv in and they were long . gone from the rest of t he field. Junior T he Ju nior main followed scratch hea ts and two "semis" which were won by Californian Wayne Ra iney and Curtis Oates, who hails from North Carolina . The feature was all Ra iney's as he took the lead at the green and

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