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For six laps Tubbs held Campbell at bay but when the white flag came out Ca m p bell went for it and got by Tubbs for second, They ended in a tie but the final rnoto order gave second to Campbell with Tubbs third. Results in Resu lts Section. Nelson lets'it out; smokes DeAnza 250 Pros By Ron Lawson SUNNYMEAD , CA, MAR. 19 Three weeks worth of racing exploded at DeAnza Cycle Park when the dark weather which has plagued Southern California It's a whole new feelingl 5ervice . Moto rcy cle 5eles Parts . Accessorie s 7 uzel 'n 7 t:a"et, 'We4t 26 2163 E. Co lo rado Blvd . Pa sade na , CA 91107 213-795-2711 - - - ' for so long let up long enough for all the riders with all that ra cing sa ved up to make it to the track and let it all out. " One of the riders that did the most letting out was Drew Nelson , who flew to a 2~cc Pro victory on his Suzuki. Nelson took the first holeshot and never looked back. 1£ he did , he would have seen Bill Pelto, on a Yamaha of Redlands -tuned Mono , riding like mad trying to catc h him . Behind Pelto , Robbie Brand (Yam) held off Rich Franklin and Mark Barnes, both on Yamahas. As the race continued , the" race between Pelto an d Brand become closer, bu t the leader just disappeared in the distance. By the end of the moto, Nelson had a comfortable lea d over Pelto, who was successful in holding Brand at bay . The next moto was a carbon copy of the first . Nelson finished in first with a healthy lead and was followed by Pelto, Brand, Franklin and Barnes. The 125cc Intermediate class held an imp ressive performance by Craig Gormley. He grabbed the holeshot in the first mote, but fell on the fir st lap. The lead was then inherited by Ken Odra (Yam). When they came around for the second lap, Gormley was 20 seconds behind the nearest rider. He made up his mind that he would catch the leaders and then lap by lap, he slowly started to make up ground , On the third lap, he was in ninth and on the next lap he was in fifth . In the meantime, Odra 's lead was being challenged by Phillip Moth (Yam), Odra managed to hold him off to the finish line, but if the race was " lap a longer , they both may have been caught by Gormley, who was in third and ga in ing fast. In the next round , it was Gormley all the way. Bart Hilt (Suz) was second followed by Odra and Moth , In the overall . st andings. it was Gormley. "Od ra and Hilt. Results in Results Section. Hames, Stetten and Minnig grab Corona tlat track bucks By Elaine Jones CORONA, CA , MAR . 15 Co rona Raceway was the place to be Wednesday ni ght wit h the Pro fla t trackers out in force : coming in bu nches fr om Northern Californ ia and from as far away as Washington. Joe Steffen capitalized on a mistake every racer has made at some"point in their career. The Money TT race had Dylan Neihart out on top and going away. Steffen, in second, was playing games with Rob Selvy until the fourth lap when Selvy broke. As it turned out Neihart self-destructed himself when he "neglected to put adequate fuel in his tank to go the distance, As the whtie flag came out , Neihart's gas ran out and Steffen went on to take the win with Shawn Leipold picking up second and Matt James thi rd . In the 250cc half mile Money go, it was wire -to -wire for "Speedy" Pete Hames as he outdistanced the rest of the field . Joe Steffen had to do battle" for second wit h a hungry Dylan Neihart, running this time with a full tank of gas. Neihart had his moment of glory when he got under Steffen on the th ird lap to ca p tu re the 'lUmber two spo t. With five laps to go no on e made any mistakes and at the checkered it was Hames, Neihart and Steffen, Eleven 750cc bikes were on the line for the start of the Money half mile and it was a battle between Yamaha and Harley-Davidson. At the drop of the flag it was Northern California rider Bud Rob inson aboard a Harley taking th e lead with Steve Fortune (H · D) and Don Tortorelli (H·D) in the two and three spots. By the second lap Mike Minnig and his big Yamaha had bulldozed their way from fifth to third and were looking for more. It wasn't too long in coming; by lap three he was running second and when they came around on lap four he was in the "lea d . Tortorelli , in third , started knocking on Robinson's door but he didn't get much of an answer until the seventh lap when it opened a crack which was all Tortorelli needed to go to second. Robinson came right back to reclaim his spot and held off Tortorelli to the checkered , Scott Dinkins, really up after winning the Open Money race last week, was a victim of Murphy's Law: Anything that can go wrong will and it did, In the Open Amateur/Expert race , Dinkins got off behind Tortorelli and pressured his way to the lead three