Talk about a jam ! Darrell Shultz (371). Rick Burgett (14) and Jimmy Weinert (17) unta ngle as Bob Han nah (1) looks for a way around t he outside.
ver
pla ce comi ng ou t of th e fina l turn on
the last lap of th e race . Br and settle d
for fourth as Yamaha's Rick Bu rgett
com pleted
th e
to p
five
who
autom at icall y transferred to th e final
Jimmy Ellis (181 leads Kent Howerton (6) and Gregg Toyama (110) t hrough the open ing lap of t he Scott USA Qualifier.
even t .
Third of th e fou r qu al ifying motes ,
th e Scott USA Qu alifier . bega n in
co nfusio n when th e sta rting ga te failed
to fu nct ion a nd sna red eve ryone s
from wheels. The ac tion sto pped: th e
relea se mech anism was dou sed in
cha in lub e : th en a fai r restart pu t
Honda 's j im m y Ellis ou t in fro nt .
Ellis led Gr egg Toyama . Kent
Howerton , W arren
Reid . Roger
Brown , Suzuki's 250 cc National
Champion Tony DiStefano and Monte
McCoy through the open ing lap . By
the end of the third circ u it around
Goodwin's Whi te Knuckler , th e top
three - Ellis. Howerton a nd Reid had moved ou t ahead of the rest a nd
see med solid . Reid and H owe rt on
wou ld bely that assu mptio n in t he
fin a l mi nu tes when they exc hanged
pla ces behind th e win ner Ellis .
T he last two tra nsfer slots beca me
the su bject of controversy as Bro wn
a nd Jimmy W einert . who had started
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