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d istance between himself and the rest
of t he fie ld . Mom G. McA llister had
second over Chad Olinger and Gary
Slover. On the last lap . Olinger was
able to sq ueez" by McAll ister for
second .
Bo b Sn yder jumped to the from in
th e 500cc Fin a l. hut Roger Sterling
quickly took over. Dan Bro oks and
Dennis Byrne m oved past Bill Snyder
hut Sterl ing was running aw ay with it ,
On lap number four Byrne took
second away from Brooks.
In the Open Fin al. John Fike took
the lead over Mark Fillmore a nd C.D .
Martin . By lap number three Martin
took second and a lap later he rook the
lead to win.
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for the summer months of J u ne . July
and August a t Topeka Raceway,
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tSuz); 3. Bi ll Heishm an (Suzl .
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500cc: 1. Roger Sterling IBSA); 2. Dennis Byrne
Mark Fillmore (Yam l.
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(Yaml; 3. Bill Snyder (Bull.
Dan Robertson in act ion at T opeka
before t he big cr ash .
It did not take long to figure out
ambulance to scurry 10 the scene. No
one was seriously hurt . but Tom Foster
had 10 be helped back 10 the pits by his
pit crew so he could ride th e Open
Final yetta come ,
At the drop of the flag . Dan
Robertson lea ped into the 250cc Final
lead ahead of Foster. Jimmie O 'Dell.
Jr .. Dav e Coats and Bill Snyder. By lap
number three Coats had moved past
O'Dell and Foster. and started closing
the gap on Robertson . Bo th were
wired -in , but Coats took the lea d on
la p number five on the outside coming
OUt of turn number two .
Meanwhile. O'Dell pu t a shou lderblock into Foster coming OUt of
number two to take third on th e
inside. But going into turn number
three . Ron Noble drove in hard while
Snyder slip ped by on the inside , O 'Dell
tried 10 br eak -off the turn , but he a nd
Noble collid ed and O'Dell went down .
Foster and Ph il Culver didn 't hav e anv
place to go and they, 100 crashed . Th~
race was stopped and Coats was
declared the winner over Robertson .
Snyder, Noble and Ku rt Ba rt on .
, A special Kno b by tire class was held
and Terry Monson , on a 80 or 90cc
"som ething" was spotted half a lap on
everyone else on 500ccs. Keith Cobb
just 'ba rel y. nipped Terry at the finish
by a few inc hes with Craig LeClaire in
third.
Dan Hollingsworth took t he lead in
th e 125cc Final followed bv Dennis
Byrne. Bill Heishman and Phil Cu lver .
C~ lver put on the move of the night as
he zapped t hcm all o n t he o utside 10
tak e the lead as Mike Rickso n moved
into fourth . By la p number fou r it was
Culver.
Byrne,
Holl ingswo rth ,
Heishman ,
but
Erickson
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mechanical woes got 10 both Culver
and Byrne at the same time as
Erickson shot by Hollingsworth to take
the lead and the win ,
J on Bo m berger didn't mess around
in the 200cc Fi nal and roc ke ted
quickl y to th e from a nd beg an to put
month. In th e Powder Puff class, 11·
yea r -old Jack ie Almond began setting
the pa ce with a run that onl y took 6.81
seco nds o n a 100cc Yamaha . Linda
W ilhit e q uickened the pace with a
tim" of 5 ,8 seconds , and that meant
that the me n , who are supposed 10 go
faster . wer e really going 10 have to
twist the wick .
In th e fir st run , things went prelly
much according to Hoyle and it looked
like t he lower fives wer e going to be the
winning tim es u nt il Duffy Dou gl as
too k a 500SC Yama ha over in 5 .16
seconds , That made it look like a four
second time wou ld have 10 be set for
top time.
The 750cc riders seemed to be
having some trouble with the hill. One
of th em looked good though . Harold
Adamson and his 500cc Kawasaki
shoo k up some of the other ride-rs when
his second rid e regi ster ed just 5 .58 and
placed him in third place .
Mike JonL'S and Tom Hairston
sta rted what proved to be a two -class
bailie that lasted all day in the Open
even t. Tom was going to take both his
Exhibition runs first so he would not
have 10 change tires so mu ch . The
1I00cc Triumph had other plans. the
clutch wanted a rest a nd a run in the
sevens was all it wou Id do.
Jones blasted OUt of the hole with his
1000cc Triumph and tied Duffy's 5.16
seco nds run . Hariston cam" back and
used his 750cc Triumph for the
re mainder of his runs. He slipped in
behind.jones with a 5. 17 second time.
J o n"s did no t let the pressure ge t to
him , he JUSt P~t cha ins on for the
Exhi bition class a nd proceed ed 10
b reak into the fou rs with a 4 .90 ru n
that was a little rough ,
"Crazy" Tom Ha irsto n was feeling
the effects of a little too much sun and
hea t last weekend , and J on es tho ug ht
that he had th ings sewed up . Bu t he
was not th in kin g about what the
nickname m eant . "C razy" took his
750cc to the line. took his tim e to get
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