Cycle News - Archive Issues - 1970's

,.•.•••-••iIf'.-.-•••- -•••-.-.-•••-•••••-•••••-.-,..•-.-.·.-.-.·.-.-.-.·.·.-.- · ·.-.·,.- ·.-.YH.·.-.-.-..,.-.-.-.-.· -.-.-,.- -.· -.·.·1.-.-.-.-.·.-.-.-J.-.·A -A-.· - .,.·.· ·.·,. Desert Hotline Motocrosser Ro n Haase pu t it to the Pro s during CRC 's W ild Be aver GP. Haase's CR250 R t op ped M organ Malocco and Cordis Bro o k s. .Haase, Malocco, Blix bite the CRC Beaver By Jerry G. Welton VA LENC IA, CA , APR , 30 Ron Haase and his 250cc Honda took the lead on .the third lap of the Expert-Am ateur Pro race and won hands down at CRe's W ild 18 Bea ver GP . held Su nday a t Indi an Dunes. Wh en CRC offic ia l George Spellma n d ro p ped th e flag , th e b ikes were off and shooti ng down th e lon g , sa ndy straightaway to the first tum, Ripping through tum one wide open was desert ace Cordis Brooks. Beh ind Cordis was a mass of hard-charging riders jo ckeying-for position. Aft er going through the first two a nd one -half mil es of fast sandwash , t he course ca me on to the Internation al moto rcro ss co urse. Br ooks an d his Wheelsm ith Ma ico wer e closely pursued by ho tshoe Ron Haase a nd Dean Taylor. Taylor (Ma n) moved past Haase on lap two and int o the lea d on lap three when Brooks sta lled . Taylor lost it on th e motocross portion of t he co urse and Haase took the lead , That's where he staye d. Morgan Malocco (IT 400) nearly fell over on th e front tire-straddle start and was on e of the last riders off th e line. Tom Brooks (400 Mai) , however, managed to tip over and was dead last off the lin e . This did not discourage either rider as they managed to move in to th e top 10 in the first four la ps , Malocco had it dialed on and found himself running sixth. Taylor contacted a flat rear tire and was out of the run ning for .the lead with Mike Shoemaker moving int o Malocco · out -powered second . Shoemaker on th e seventh lap to take over second for the first tim e. Jeff Blix ( 125 Su z) was tearing up the track , as well as th e com peti tion , as he was on his way to a class win on his AI Bakersponsored machine. One lap from the finish , Tom Brooks had moved all th e way up to sixth behind Ron Gibson (400 KTM) but dropped out because of too many neutrals in his trans , When the checkered flag fell , it was Ron Haase all by himse lf with Ma locco , C. Brooks. Gibson. and Shoemaker picking up overall honors, with Blix taking first smallbore. First Amateur was Doug Hurt (Suz) a nd no soo ne r did he fin ish than his bike ran out of ga s, First race of the day saw Gary Schell (400 Yam) p u lling the holeshot over Leon Pri ce 1400 Yam ). It appeared as though Sch ell wou ld be the easy winner as he slowly increased his lead to a bout one hundred ya rds over Price. Ab out 20 m inutes into the race it looked like Schell was getting tired a nd Price was ready to strike, After both rid ers excha nged th e lead a few tim es, Price finally got firm co nt ro l to take th e win with Schell a close seco nd. T he 0-200cc Begi nners and No vices made up th e second race . J ack Pfate led mo st of the way with charges from J eff Heth (Suz) , Steve H asert (Ya m) and Scott Hubble (Ya m) , R a ce four c o ns is ted o f 2 50 c c Beginn ers and Novi c es , with th eW oman's Division start ing sho rt ly after. Robin Bu sse ( Ya m) to ta lly domi nated th e class as he ope ned up a huge lead at th e finish, Lori Farmer d id the same as she ra n away with th e win on her Steve's Bultaco . In race five, Jim Donaldson (400 Yam) came on rea I strong in th e closing stages of th e race , but was un able to catch Bill Edringt on (400 Yam) for th e win , Edrington had a - goo d- sized lea d most of th e wa y, The fin a l ra ce was th e team ra ce, Cordis Brooks, teamed with brother Tom , tackled th e tough field by ju m p ing into an ea rly lead with Ironman Bill Pickard (250 Suz) right with them a ll th e way, Tom was making qu ite a showing a fter almost a one yea r layoff. When th e battle was co m p leted , Tom and Cordis Bro oks had brought their Wheelsm ith Ma ico across the fin ish line first ahead of Bill Pickard. Results in Results Sect ion . Cory Timms takes SimiD·37 hare scrambles By Gary laudig RED MOUNTAIN , CA , APR . 30 Overcoming dust , rocks, and a bad start, plus doing some gutsy riding. Cory Timms took th e overall win of th e Simi Vall ey M.C . AMA 0 ·37 hare scram bles. At 10 a .rn . sharp , th e Simi Club sta rted th e race a nd th e bikes headed for th e right side of the g ra y kn oll below th e Seales, Hooking a left , dropping down int o th e narrow , smooth sa nd was h , Br ad Hens on p rop elled by a scream ing YZ250E, had a 100 -ya rd lead on second place , firs t Am a teur Lee Sch effers. The next b ike to bol t pa st the overhanging pu ckers was Bill Tarling , t hen heavy favorite Bob Ba lentine , Chuck Miller, a nd first Trai l Expert Francis Christensen took seco nd in the 250cc Se nior Expert class at the Sim i V alley M ,C, AMA D-37 hare scrambles. Kevin Hopkins, Zig.zagging ever higher into the mount ains, Ed Zarp got by Yamaha 's Ch arlie Hami ll and set his sights on th e H usky-m ounted Cory Tim ms. Ga ry Charters a nd Craig Harris cha nged positions severa l times before t he racers clea red t he ca nyo n , hit the nea t d ou ble j u m p th en headed into th e fun ' bu t tricky ridge run portion . Chuck Pettigrew on his Wheelsmith Mai co ta ilgated T imms through th e barre n, one bike tra il sec tion toward th e end of th e Searles ra nge . Two bik es blasting down thi s sect io n were Eric McCracken and Gregg Thomas, Both racers goi ng very fast. Kern Park , Ron Bebo and Bill Sal tzman saw th e two bikes disappear. Making a qui ck righ t hander , th e th ree racers d isa p pe ared a lso, down th e lon g , lon g , sa ndy d ownhill : wit h plenty of vu lt u re type spec ta to rs at t he bott om j ust in case some thing neat happened like a su personie getoff. Crossing the Searl es Va lley over some new territory, some int eresting th ings began to develop. Henson relinquished his lea d to Pettigrew and Balent in e d ue to some con vulsive tankslappers th at p itc hed th e su pe r racer over the bars. Standing up unhurt . he watched Chuck and Boh blast by_Closing in on Pettigrew , Balentin e's flat tir e demon stru ck again . In th e Tra ilbike cla ss, J oe Lockhart on his Lecki ch- tuned b ike needed all the tuning he co uld get. He had Kevin Hopkins in sig ht but cou ld n't close the gap. Two finer Trailbike riders can not he found . The Trail Amateurs had a sim ila r du el. Leader Cl iff Thomas pulled OUI a ll th e tricks he kn ew bUI he just co u ld n't shake th e vastl y. improving Dennis Marchand as well as Mark Davidson . T he new leader Ch uck Pettigrew b lasted over t he grass a nd ro ck-strewn new stu ff a nd proceeded to get a fron t I • ... flat. T o th e d elight of T imms, Chuck' slowed in th e wide wash a nd Cory. running on good ru bber . shot by for, fJ th e lead . Simi is one of th e clubs that will not, h eal you to death with whoops. Ju st as th e big was h go t n asty, the arrow~ tu rne d Ron Holst , new Amateur Boo Cronkite and Al Baker-spons or ed Monte Lee to the right into a smoother segm ent. Dave Lapraik headed up ) ~_ cobbl ed uphill with Morris Norman on his ta il. Divin g into th e second wa~h segment , t he two fas t gu ys headed up t he Spanglers in th e direction of Charlie's Place. Amateur 250cc ace Scott Postma had a lot to be proud

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