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_._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._. race . Then he came back and won the semi . Bu t Su llivan started back in the seco nd row as the ninth rider in a lOman field . But keep tabs on this new rider. He came all the way u p and finished second in the Novice final behind Haney . Mike ' DeLacy a lso started in the back row and pulled off a t hird-place finish . Yes. it is still a sorting out period . But now Gary Scott is on hand for the rest of the series and each Friday other riders in all three classes will be popping in at Ascot, gett ing the experience before the May 13 Saturday night National half mile , the first National ha lf mile of the '7S season. Resu lts iri Results Section . Burnworth unstoppable at CMMCMX By Rod Eschenburg SAN DIEGO. CA, APR. 16 'JW Vl!l fl late laps to knock the early lea der lsnoia down to fifth at the finish. Either Pee 1'1 vln Wee tired , was not used to the all out , , ful l bore pace of Ascot, or the rear tire fa 'HTli went smooth . He just co u ld not hold OJ beqt he fast groove the last half of the race . doR I Trouble hit the Junior class early .nean when Oregon's Joh n Wincewicz was bsosr eas ily the fastest yellow p late qualifier , Jaw. But the engine failed to start on the ."ll J<) line for the heat race . The week before the fast improving Oregon rider won ,~miJ his heat race with ease. moll , This left it wide open for' Wayne J b'l Ra iney (Ya m) to go on and bag ~I fJI another pair of wins a nd run his undefeated win streak at Ascot and "l.iiI T u la re to six straight. . t. Rod Spenc er gave Rainey a push in 1¥'imqboth the heat and final for a pai r of 'ryseco nds with Mike Kunsman ta king thi rd in the fina l for the second '}sl ( straight wee k. ",b, Showing a lot of improvement wit h qsl rxeach lap was littl e Mike Minnig. He ..nl " was all over the track in the heat race. h·) settled down greatly in the semi to .nou·" com e u p the winner and then came n~,J'" from the second row in th e final to ..nl n; finish fo urth. _ _ Minnig a nd Rainey have been racing against each other for years in .I3'the Amateur ra nks and Mike cou ld be the one to cha llenge the na tion 's number one J unior before the season is over. C ha rlie R ob e rt s, the high point Novice in the midwest last year, made his J un ior debut at Ascot with littl e success. Ro bert s cou ld pull no better t ha n fift h in the heat race and a nother fift h in the semi. He failed to qua lify for the final but t he Sp ringfi eld . IL. rider proved that he was ge tting faster each lap in the two events a nd will be , back for the rest of the series. Novice J eff Haney kep t pace with Ra in ey in the win co lumn. scoring two m ore easy victories in the lig htweight 250cc class hea t and fina l. It, was no co ntest for the la test pupil of Kenny Ro berts. Ha ney d resses like Ken ny. sits o n a racing bike like Ke n n y . a nd 10Qks m a yb e even smoother than the departed King when it co mes to going around corners at t he sa me stage in his racing ca reer. Haney also now has six wins in a row without a loss. '---- R.od Sullivan ran t hi rd in his hea t 'HI Suzuki R&D rider Scott Burn worth contin ued h is wi n ni ng ways in 't h e C al ifo rn ia Mini Motorcycle C lu b motocross at Barona Oaks Raceway with a four for four win effort , taking wins in both the Stock and Modified Minis plus wins in the '125cc and 100cc I n ter m ed ia te Motorcycle classes. Visitor Eddie Glover (Suz) gave Burn wort h some competition in both of t he Mini classes but Burnworth led every la p of every moto. T he !05cc Mini class featured a career first win by young Danny Jones (Yam) and fireworks in the form of a second moto tangle betwee n Eddie G lover and Ro b b ie Nolin and the subsequent disq ualification of two o ther riders for racing through the yellow flag area and o ne other rider stopping and being un a ble' to restart! The Int erm ed ia te classes produced fine closely ru n races in all classes with the best show coming in the 12-16 yea r rider age Stock Mini class with Scott Swift (Suz) taking a tie-breaker seco nd mota win over Scott Brow n (Suz) . Bo th motos were, hot ly contested with the outcome in do ubt right to the checkered flag . Swift came back to take another win in the Modified Mini class over returni ng rider Ra ndy Hansen a nd new I ntermediate Terry Murray . Visitor Pa ul Denis (Yam) had a fine day with wins in the 9·11 Modified Mini Intermediate class a nd a second be hind N ational J unior Mini champ Ronnie Lechien in the Stock class . T he outstanding ride of the day in the No vice d ivisions came in the 9·11 Novice Stock class as eight-year-old Sean Frampton put toge t he r two seconds in the IS-ria er field to edge Brad Johnson after first m o ta winner Danny Ray was sidelined with a second mota crash and second m o ta winne r Tim H ea th ha d a d ista nt ninth in the firs t mota. A lthough Bu rnwort h was the dom inate Motorcycle class rider with t he two easy wins. the big race of t he day came in the 125cc Expert class as Cl in t Hardick (A SA Su z) score d a com e fro m behi nd victory o ver Scott J o h nso n. Ha rdick, who has scored eigh t straight mota victories at Speedway 117 in Wed nesday night C MC action, saw his victory string snapped in t he . first moto by 1977 Baron a champ J o hnson . ca me back for a tie-breaker. two -length win in the second round . 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