Cycle News - Archive Issues - 1970's

_._._._._._...._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._.-_._._._._._._._._._.. =Western hotline . ...; ~ t in the pack. T his time . however , Meyers' charging style left him short at the checkered flag , ' with a seco nd behind Palhegyi with- Porter again up for thi rd. Results in Results Section. Ii' 00 1" en " ..-4 Hardick's still hot at CMC Speedway 0 ..-4 >- 117MX ~ ~ By Ro d Eschenburg - CHULA VISTA , CA, AP R . 19 A "brand new" course was fea tured at Speed way 117 this week. Track operators Don and Bob Basile fina lly got a little coopera- a: o -' S w w -' >- o '" =-_=_-' ---' Mike Yafchak tries to ho ld off 100cc Expert winner David Barberio (1OB) du ring the Sportsman portion of t he Coors Trans-AME m ot ocross. 28 .... from San Jose ridi ng shotgun; both Yamaha -moun ted . Br uce Brotcke was ho lding onto third wit h a hot and heavy duel going down for fourth between Richard Barron a nd Jon Harshbarger. By the end of the moto, Barron displaced Brotcke in third , leaving fourth to Harshbarger. When the rubberband snapped them off the line for the second time, Dias shot into the lea d with Bellici tt i hot on his heels , Brotcke was hold ing third with Ba rron in fourth . Wallowing in the tre nch dug th rough the middle of a mud hole. Dias left the others to dig their way out as he swung out into a wide open lead . Barron moved on thr ough in second as Brorcke and Bellicitti duel ed for third. When the winning checkered flag came out . Dias came home to top honors, Barron picked up second overall and third went to Bellicitt i. Mike Scoit (Suz) picked up a beautiful pai r of wins for the 125cc Intermediates, Division One. Out of a field of over 30 riders, he kicked off the first moto by fighting for the lead. side by side with David Baker, who la ter in the day won a doughnut maker! Both of them had Mark Sirota pushing ha rd in third . Scott p ulled out into the lead with Eric Graves moving into second and challenging him wheel -to -whee l for the lead . In third , Baker now had a more-long duel against Sirota . Coming down to the end , Scott fin ished still int he lead as G'raves held onto second and kept Baker in third . ~._ .. ~_ ..-.- _._ - _ Graves charged off the line the second time out in the lead . only to crash and lose it. Scott took over and ca rried the lead down to the checkered flag. ' Greg Boren had a beautiful ride in second staying on top of Scott and fighting off Brad Wi lliams in t hird . Sirota crossed the line in fourth , hounding Williams all the way . Scott went home victorious . Bor en end ed the day with a second overa ll and third went to Bak er. Rick Ellison from Orange Cove and aboard a Yamaha . took home top honors in the 250cc Intermedi ates. Leading the action in th e first mota was Ric k Worth . Ellison in second had his hands full fight ing off Chris Irigaray. The second time around Ellison came back to take command . finding ,Kris Phillips on his tail and Chu ck Warren holding third . Positions held to the end with Ellison emerging the overall winner. Worth taking second overall and third going to Phi llips . Results in Results Section. Rinard sweeps Explorer Post 2503MX 125 class By J im Roiger SAN DIEGO . CA , APR . 16 HJ . Rinard swept all ~ ~ . three motos to score a firs t overall in the I 25cc class of the Explorer Post 2503 motocross at Miramar Park. Rinard took t he lead at the start of the first mota, closely pursued by John Carter and Steve Braun. Midway through the rnoto , Carter's bike went sour , allowing Rinard to cruise ho me with Braun second . The second mota was again a footpeg to foot peg duel between Rinard and Carter . with Will La Roque lurking in third . On t he last lap with Carter nominally in the lead . his bike destroyed its gears one turn from the checkered flag . allowing Rinard the win with La Roq ue second . With his ma in competition out of the last moto , Rina rd cruised to an easy win with Steve Braun up to second after a good mid-race dice with Dave Conn and LaRoque who finished third and fourth respectively, Greg Meyers took the 250cc class honors . winn ing two of the th ree motos . The first mota saw Meyers take the lead at the start and rid e comfortab ly ahead of a furious racelon g di ce for second between Mi ke Rose and Scott Porter. The finish had Rose in second by .5 second ahead of ' Porter. The second mota saw Meyers come from behind to win . Mevers moved from third to the lead pastt he battle between Porter and Matt Carter three laps from the finish and he pulled Mike Palhegyi with him int o second . dropping Porter to third at the finish . The third mota ha d Palhegyi taking an early lead with Meyers back 5 :I: 0.. tion from Mother Nature and brought in Barona Oaks track prep man Frank Brundage to do the deed on t he Speedway 117 clay . Frank got the be rms up a nd the jumps all peaky again and the 175·plus riders rea lly dug it. Another fine fie ld of Pros were on hand, with the outsta nding effort going to three-straight 500cc Pro winner Chris Chaffee, who also moved into the tough ,250s and grabbed a come from behind tie- breaker second p lace from Mike Palhegyi . "Tony the Tiger" Gomez returned to nickname ' form in the 250s with ' a fine twostraight win effort. In the 125s it was all Terry Shekell as the 1977 champ ret urned to last year's top form to sweep two from Scott Anderson . OK , they make it hard, muddy , dry and now really j umpy, bu t still no one can to uch Clint Hardick in the Intermediates! The Monte Vista High School standard bearer again swept both the 125s and the 250s. marking his third st raight in the 125s and fourth straight in the 250s . Ha rdick. who has been gelling heautiful holeshots each week has had some veteran observers wondering how he ' co uld handle traffic , showed 'em last ' Wednesday as he got off fourth in the' second 250cc mota but blasted by-Paul ' Woods and Scott Porter to lead the first lap by 20 ya rds. Lots of Junior riders as a lways with the big effort by EI Ca pita n High rider T racy McMillen who went two for two in both the Division Four 125s and the 500s . McMillen looks like a real "fu tu re" as he too k to the 500cc like he had been riding them a ll his life in his first -ever try . X - Anorher Ju nior rider looking especially good last week was Santana' High rider Greg Fenton who pulled the "pass of the night" in his first 125cc Junior moto on vete ran La rry Mi llhone rig ht at the checkered flag and then returned in the second moto to again b last by Mi llhone for the win. In the Coca Cola /San Diego High School Championship Series . defendi ng champs Santana had only one rider in thetop three in any class . (Fenton 's win) but again a good solid team effort has them way out in front over EI Capitan in spite of McMillen's a two wins . Matt Carter picked up 500 cc Intermediate win for Mission Bay and moved his school into the third p lace spot just a head of Clint Hardick-led Monte Vista. who had help this week from Women's Open second- placer Ginger Senk le. All the hig h school riders are really high on qua lifying for the, ,SAM/ C MC State Ch a m pionship to be held at Saddleback on June 3 with the first of three qualifying races' to be held next week at Speedway 1.17. • , Results in Results Section . ~. \. ;~

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