Team Honda'. Tommy "Toma haw k" Croft whipped his Alen Hahn-tuned Rc460 to a 1-3 overall victory in the Sears
Point International Raceway 600cc National c.....
AMA/Mr. PiSS 250/500cc National
Championship MX Series - Rounds 7/2
Hannah's no-ho-hum
250, Croft/Smith 1-2 5008
By Charles Morey
SO NOMA , CA . J UNE 11
Unlike recent rounds of the AMA/Mr. PiBB
250cc National Championship MX Series th at
were dominated by Team Yamaha's Bob "Hurricane" Hannah , the Sears Point International
Racewa y event presented b y
Kawasaki saw Hannah ha ving to
work hard to ea rn his pla ce at the
front . Hannah's 1-3 finishing
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posit ion on th e Keith !\IlcCa rty · tune d
works Yamaha and th e mem or y of an
ext r a- j nt e nse a ft ern oon of bar· '
bumping m otocross bear witn ess to
tha t statement .
In the 500cc N ati onal segment of
th e
AMA /Mr .
PiBB / Sears
P o in t /K a wa saki p r ogra m . Tea m
Honda's Tom my Croft pu t in an
ide ntical (to Ha nn a h's) 1·3 winning
perform a nce on his Alan Ha hn-tuned
RC4 50 factory MX er .
Backing up his Hon da teamm at e's
victory was A MA 50 0cc Na tion a l
Ch amp ion
Mart y Smit h
who
registe red a 4-2 to tal , na rro wly edgi ng
Yamaha · teamster Mike Bell 's 3-4 .
Fourth was Bassett Racin g Products
rider Rex Sta ten with a 2-5. Ya m a ha's
Ricky Burgett rou nded ou t t he top five
with a no- point first moto and a first
place in th e second forty-m inu te-plu stwo -Iaps rac e .
Runne r-u p be hi nd H an n a h was
Team Kawasaki's profession a l P.R.
person "Jammin' Jimmy" Weinert who
led a ha rd -chargi ng 250cc contingent
with a 3-2 finishing score. Third
through fifth went to Honda's Jimmy
Ellis with a 2·4 . Husqvarna 's Chuck
Sun with a 4·5 and Yamaha's Pierre
Ka rsm akers with a 5· 7.
250cc Na ti onal
Specta tors
who
m a y . have
anticipated a he -hum 250cc race were
rudely awakene d when, at t he start of
the first moto , H usky's Chuck Sun took
the lead from H annah - the ex pec ted
easy winner - as the eig hty -wheeled
avalanche roared th rough turn one .
Kaw a sak i's Ji m my W e in ert wa s
ma king mean green no ises wit h his
Rick j ones-tuned bike, searching for a
c hance to jam past t he leader.
Followin g closely were Hond a 's Marty
Tripes , W heelsmith's Jeff Jennings ,
Ho nd a- rnou nr e d
Greg
T heiss ,
Yamaha's
