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(Above! Kent Howerton flew to an 8-2 third overall. (Below! Jim Pomeroy
combined a seventh and a sixth for fifth overall.
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he rides , and I have a lot of respect for
him ,"
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The Hurricane came back for the
second moto determined to do better.
He exploded out of th e starting ga te
and disappeared onl y to come around
leading the first lap and find it red
flagged . Different obse rvations had
th e starting gate either fall ing la te in
on e sect ion or a number of top rid ers
in one sect ion had jum ped it .
Either way , the AMA called a
resta rt and Bob na iled the holeshot
again . This time when he ca me
around leading the field he found a
green flag and left it tattered in his
wake as he walued off int o the
distance from the rest of th e field
which included Pomeroy in second ,
then Smith , Howerton, Mosier ,
Tripes. Sem ics, Noyce, LaPorte and
Sun . Roger DeCoster was back in 15th
place and seemed the only rider
determined to make the best of a poor
start.
Tripes seemed disheartened by 'his
sixth place off the line and let it
dissolve during the rema ining 45
minutes down to 10th. Teammate
Pomeroy lost a couple of positions as
well, and Kent Howerton throttled his
way up to second ahead of Smith and
stayed there.
Nearly every lap DeC?Ster made th e
best of things and picked off ride rs,
event ually crossing the fin ish line right
behind Smith for fourth pla ce.
Hannah , though , had put th e crowd
to sleep by th e middle of th e ra ce as he
styled his way int o a 30 ·40 second lead
that lasted all the way to th e finish
line . With only two ra ces remaining in
th e Trans·AMA MX Series, Bob has it
all but won . Next weekend a t Lake
Whitney should certainly see him
cla im the long .sought-after ti tle of
Ameri ca 's
firs t
Tran s·AMA
Champion.
T he biggest ra ce ever at Cycle
World with approx imately 20 ,000
spec tators on hand also proved to be
the last to be held there. One of the
best tracks on the AMA circuit goes to
land developers and .will certainly be
missed by the riders and fans alik e.
250cc Support
Steve Wise couldn't dodge away
from the bad luck which has tailed
him all this season to usually prevent
him from putting two good motos
together on anyone day. The opening
250cc Support moto fray saw Wise as
the class of the class as he disappeared
with the win , leaving Warren Reid .
Mickey Boone and Mark Gregson to
scrap for second, and Greg Theiss ,
John Savitski and Marty Moates in a
tussle for fifth .
(Above! Britain's Graham Noyce took seventh. (Below! Riding a 79 390CR,
tested elsewhere in this issue, Chuck Sun was sixth.
The second moto saw Wise bail off
his Honda twice though , causing a
huge deficit that hard charging could
onl y correct back up to seventh place.
Meanwhile , Boone on the works
Kawasaki and Reid with his CR·250
Honda provid ed the handlebar twisting action which kept the fans
fever pitched as they cut each other off
for the lead every other tum.
John Savitski on the DG Yamaha
and Greg Theiss with his privateer
Honda were providing the same show stopping clash for third position. Both
LOP riders who did well in round one,
Gregson retired with bikes problems
and Moates threw in the towel when he
flipped in a highspeed uphill whoop
section.
Mickey Boone's second moto victory
netted Kawasaki another 250cc
Support class win: "In that first moto I
twisted my ankle which has been sore
since Unadilla , and it took me a while
to get going and work up to third
place. The second moto I got a good
start and tha t was all I needed, except
perhaps for a little less weight to
match Warren Reid on those uphills.
The only way I could stay ahead of
him for the finish was to hold my bike
wide open going down the hills . That's
the only time a big guy like me can get
ahead of those kids ."
Series points leader Brae Glover
wasn 't happy about his sixth overall
for the day and his quicltly narrowing
points lead. "I crashed four times
today, three in the first moto and once
in the second. I just couldn't control
my bike. It seemed to be hopping all
over the track. I couldn't go any fister
without falling even more," he said. •
Results
500cc INTERNATIONAL: 1. Bob.- 2·1 lV_t.
2. MartyTnp.l ·l0 IHonI 3. K_ _ 8-2CSuzI;
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4. Gory Semic:a 5-7 1C-A1: 5. Jim ""'-oy 7.e IHon): 8.
Chuck Sun 9-5 1_: 7. GroIwn Noyce ~ CHonl: 8.
Rex SllIhln 3-15lV.m: 9. Tommy Croft 10-9CHonI: 10.
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Marty Smilh -3 IHonI 11. ~ o.c:oor. .. 1SuzI: 12.
DennyS-a 12·12IMa : 13. GIyton _
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14. Ken Adorno 14-11 (Mool: 15. S _ S_I6-17
CKawI: 18. Denny I.lIPorte ll -lSuzI: 17. Gory"'lSo14 CMlliI: 18. Mid