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; .. I: _ . _ . _ . _ . _ . _ . _ . _ . _ . _ . _ . _ . _ . _ . _ . _ . _ . _ . _ . _ . _ . _ . _ . _ . _ . _ . Western hotline _ . _ . _ . _ . _ . _ ~ . _ . _ . . _ . _ . _ . - . . ~ t 00 1:' 0') ~ Mike Casey leads seven-time Norwegian observed trials champion Bjorn Fager li at SSM. • Steve Ba uer was the first rider to get around the Suzuki tower to start the last qualifier. Hadley and Miller had the next places. ahead of Rhya n and Whitehill. After eliminating some of the racers there were 24 riders on the line for the final heat for the 250cc Pros. Steve Bauer blasted off the line for another holeshot , Tony Wankey. David Gerig . Mike Palhegyi, Arden Hadley. Tim Lunde. J ack Keese and Dave Miller were in hot pursuit of the leader. Wanket took the lead away from Bauer on the fourth lap. Lunde had moved into third with Gerig and Palhegyi riding fourth and fifth . Wanket was smoking but his machine $ot a fla t and the lead was again taken over by Bauer. Lunde was now in second wit h Miller in third a nd Hadley. Gerig and Doma n n next. Ro bert Reisinger and Steve Rhyan finished the moto next. Steve Bauer, w inner of the 250cc Pro class at CMC's $2.000 motocross, here leads Tony Wanket. Bauer, Gerig, Wanket split CMC MX $2000 purse By Patti Firth-Trotter CARLSBAD. CA. AP R. 2 More than 400 riders showed up at the Ca ptains Anchorage Flying Machine Factory/ CM C double points and $2000 purse race at 20 Carlsb ad Raceway. After spending an entire day getting the track ready. Carlsbad R a cewa y ' ow ner Larry Grismer was more t h a n a little chagrined whe n the rai n started coming down in buc ketfuls during the night. The rain made some rather interesting. large m udholes - that even ca pt u red some of the Pro riders and refu sed to release them or their machines. The 250cc Pro riders got t he first shot at the track. In the first gate of the two division race. Ocea n Pacific Sunwear Suz uki rider Da vid Gerig gra bbed the holes hot with CMC Number One. Moto Meister sponsored Tim Lunde keeping his new Maico right•on Geri • •knobby. Tony Wanket- 's _ • • •• 4 _ • • - locked his Yamaha in third with Steve Blackm an (Mai) and Bob Haag ahead of Robert Reisinger (Kaw). On the second lap Lunde was the undisputed leader and eventual winner of the moto. Gerig was second until the sixth lap when Wanket whipped by. DG rider jim Domann piloted his Yamaha into fourth . The second gate of Pro riders had Arden Hadley hauling on .his Maico as the signal was given to go . Behind Arden was Cross-Up Suzuki- riding Steve Rhyan. Mike McGowen (Suz) was in third . H ad ley held onto the lead for four laps and then Rhyan took over. DG's Steve Bauer started the moto way bac k in the pack; at the middle of th e IO-lap qual ifier he had worked his way to the fro nt and at the close of the ra ce he . was right behind leader Rhyan. Bassett Yamaha -riding Dave "Works" Miller finished t hi rd wit h McGowen fourt h. In the second round of the 250cc qualifiers Ge ri g again took the holeshot wit h L u n d e a nd Wanket again rig ht after him . Lunde led the race until the last lap when Wanket whipped his machine in the number one position. Lunde finished next with Dornann, jack Keese and Steve _ j ackson !211Cl~i.n& _ Track N Travel Maico 's Val Tamietri, looking like what he likes to refer to as his " new self. " roared off the gate and into the first tum for the lead in the first Open Pro moto . Moto Meister rider Bill Jewell was second. David Gerig (OP Suz) and Mark Rodman (Kaw) had the jump on Cole Bros.' Wes Sutton. Tamietti kept his lead with Gerig moving to second and Rodman moving to third ahead of Jewell . Tamietti went for the holeshot in the second moto also and was in control of the lead for several laps until one of the giant goop-filled holes on the back section of thetrack made short work of him and his mount . Luke Messer moved . to the lead with Jewell and Gerig next. Alan Smith. plagued with bad luck in the first rnoto , had the next position. Smith wondered why old pictures of Brad Lackey. while h e was riding a .H usq va rn a . always showed a large piece of duct tape over the gas cap. . After th e first mo to he kn ew - the cap pops off. Messer led unti l the ninth lap when Sm ith smoked the H usky into . t he lead . Messer finished t he moto in second with Gerig. Tarnietri, Ch ris Chaffee (Yam) Bill Jewell and Rodman taking the next honors. Gerig took the overall money. in fact he took home 5300 for a days work. . IR~ Ti re company gave brand new tires to the winner in each of the Intermediate and junior classes. The I25cc Pros had the next- to -last go at the track . FMF·sponsored Ra ndy Hess got going first to lead the action . Tim Lunde. this time on a Suzuki was next with Brian Myerscough (Suz). T o ny Gomez (Yam) and G regg Toyama (Yam) following. Hess led for five laps until he crashed and Lunde captured the lead . Lunde was in control of the lead for one lap and Myerscough swooped it away . Myerscough had the lead for two la ps a nd then machine failure put him out of the action for the rest of t he day. Lunde re-took the lead with Wanket , Gomez and jeff Ward (FMF) in pursuit. O n the last lap. as the riders we re m a king t heir charge fo r the checkers; Gary Tomlin and another r ider got too close to each other co m ing over th e dropaway and both crashed hard. sending Gary to the hospital. In the seco nd moto Lunde took and early lead only to have to forfeit it to Wanket when a seizing engine put Tim out of contention for the major part of the payback. Wanker , Toyama . Ward. Hess. Gomez and Suzuki of Pomona rider Paul Thede were the top finishers. Resu lts in Results Section Tamietti, Bell, Turner win at SSM MX By Terry Whytal ORANGE. CA . MAR. 25 As the gate d ropped on the first Saddleback Saturday Motocross 250cc Pro m ota . Tim T ola r put his Suzuk i out in front. closely followed by Tim Weiker (RMC) and Arden Hadley (Mai). Mike Bell had gotten a bad start but was quickly moving u p through the p ack. By la p three Bell had passed everyone but T olar . }Vho tried to hold the lead but lost it on lap four . From there Bell just motored away for the win with Tolar keeping second and Tony Wa nket (Yam) moving in for third . Be ll wasted no time in grabbing the lea