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Cycle News 1978 05 17

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Chappy Blose (4441 leads a pack of wild 125cc Pros at Argyll Trans-AME action. Randy Losh rode to overall victory at Argyll's Coors Trans-AME round five. 'I Maico's Darrell Shultz lost a heartbreaker in the 250s, but came back in t he 1 Open Pros to win. ~ Coors Trans-AME MX Series Round five 1 v Losh, Shultz, Blose win at Argyll 11 '2 IW III 'I ] I n ) I By Lee Taylor DIXON. CA . MAY 7 o o A record-breaking crowd of racers and spectators gathered Sunday at Argyll park for the ruth race in the Coors Trans-AME Motocross Series. They found a track plowed out of a farmer's fiel d' complete with a pond and fast and twist ing layout to challenge even the most seasoned Pros. With the personality and flag- 18 twirling d exterit y of Am er ic an Moto r cross Ent erpri ses' offi ci al flagger. Tom Knott s. the d a y's races were soo n underwa y. A welc ome cha nge for Argyll Park was a spec ia l sound system brought up by AME. covering the en tire track . Randy Losh , as t ride a Mai co , gathered th e winn ing loo t for the 250cc Pros . The Open Pro cla ss was t aken b y Darrell Shult z wi t h spectacu la r ba ck -t o-back wins and Chappy Blose from Ph oenix . AZ. too k hom e top dollars for th e 125cc Pros. .~ Losh sta rt ed off th e first moto of th e ' 250cc Pros with the lead. followed by' Shultz and Kenny Zahrt (C -A). Shulti? was closing gr ound fast on Losh wh ile Phil Crane took over th ird . With Zahrt in - fourth . Larry Wosi ck and Jerome ] Heiberg-er battled for fifth . I ] Losh sta rted to pull more of a lead " as Sh ultz pu lled ba ck consid era b ly. h is bike starting to seize . Heiberger was having co nside ra b le trouble with his front wheel . losing spokes a nd th~(1 hub . Comin g around for the end of th e mot o , Cra ne passed Shultz for second as Wosick foll owed su it to set Shultz b ack in fourt h . On th e whi te flag- lap .

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