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Spectators lined the hillsides to watch the start of t he demand ing cro ss
country race.
Bob Hannah donated his $10.000 first prize money to the Muscular
Dystrophy Foundation.
Subaru International .Motorcycle Olympiad II
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By Da le Brown
Photos by Brian George. Charles Morey and Brown
ORANGE, CA , SEPT . 17
Yamaha's, Bob '.'H u rrica ne:' Hanna h won two
of the five Subaru International Motorcycle
O lympiad II in divid u al events a t Saddleback
Park to come out on the top side of a point tie
for first with Kawasaki's jammin'
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ridi ng for th e fir st li m e with Yama ha
fa ctory co lors , was fo urth .
.T he re were two dou? le eve,:,t
wmn ers . Ca me l P ro Se ries roo kie
Eddie Law so n took h is fl a t trac k
fram ed TT500 Yamaha to short track
susp ens,o n a nd t ha t p roved to be hIS
early advantage. During practi ce he
was pi tc hi ng t he S he ll R a cing
Specia lties Ya m a ha right down on its
cases through th e turns . U noffic ia lly,
he was turning laps in. t he high 15 ·
second bracket wh ile th e rest of th e
fie ld str uggled in th e 16s a ro u nd
Sa dd lehack's sa ndy ova l.
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and TT wins whil e Hannah triumphed
in th e cross co untry and m otocross
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Hannah disa ppea re d from practi ce
for a bri ef period of time to stret ch a .
too -short sp ring in th e ca rbu reto r. Jeff
J ennings, riding a Wheelsmith Mai co ,
had eng ine problems , but made his
hea t race and led it until the seizu re
problem reoccurred . AI Baker went on
to win that first heat over Jimmy
Weinert .
Jeff Ward a nd his factory Yamaha
. won the second heat ahead of Mai co mounted John Gennai ; Dave Aldana
kept his TT500 Yamaha in frorit of
Jo hn Hateley's Ma ico in th e third ; and
Eddie Lawson sim p ly ran away with
th e fourth heat over Rick Ho cking ,
T he sem i qualifi ed the final fo u r
rid ers: G ary J ones ( A m me x) , Bob
Han nah , Rex Sta ten a nd J im Gi bson .
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T he rem ain d er of th e fi nis hing
order in the semi filled