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e c<") l-< GJ ..0 GJ U GJ The Maywood M.e. used a LeMans start to get you warmed up,labove) before you started racing (below). o (Above) Fred Griego goes down in the 250cc Amateur/Expert race and the pack (below) starts to take evasive action. led by Robbie Brand. Zarp, Vetter, Brand lead the wa By Gary laudig ADELANTO , CA , DEC. 2-3 T he pleasu re of racing was combined with the satisfaction of helping someone as the Maywood M. C .: organized and held their Toys for Tots Grand Prix at the Sun rise Valley Cycle Park and the surrounding desert of Adelanto. Lining up the bikes on the start grid, the racers fired them up. shut 'em down , and then lined up behind the chalk line 6 for the start. The banner rose and .dropped ' with the foot race to the bikes , the sporatic ignition and the race underway. They all managed to make the first turn without any mishap then into the desert for a six mile jaunt. Joe Zoeller, Sam Grace , Ben Benson and Noel Barber were in a tight knit group heading into the first tum. Picking up the short piec e of fire road, Max Moore just got relaxed when he was back in the chop aga in . Heading down th e wash , Mike Stowers edged into th e lead followed by th e mystery man . 1703 . At the halfway point. entering the motocross section, Joe Stout was th ird. Rick Sauers moved into fourth ahead of Gary Gibbons. Leslie Klug , Judy VinCurek and Kelly Kline represented the sparse women's effo rt . On the last lap , Mike Maggio muscled his way into sixth overall. The checkered dropped ending the first race of the day, the winner was Mike Stowers. . . Race two staged th e 200cc Novices and Beginners. Prior to the ra ce, " Big Bird" stated to a few listeners to watch the Winters kid : a shoo-in first place. The banner dropped and the last bike off of the line was Greg W inters. By the time the " Bird" grabbed a beer and got back to the fence, fending off jeers, the leader into the motocross section was Greg Winters . Ed Wisenant and John Stoffel rattled handlebars ' several times , Stoffel managed . to maintain fifth overall while John Morrow held fourth at a safe distance. By lap three , Bill-Parks had a good handle on third but couldn't seem to close the door on seco nd place T im Fo st er . R on Milligan , Jr. , John Goatcher, Murry Kapko, George Artis and Rick Jared made up the Beginner ga ng and pu t on quite a ra ce. When th e checkered fell , Winters took a sizeable lead. second through sixth remained the same and "Big Bird" collected the free bee r bet . The next race' put a charge in the somewhat cool air. The big bikes were lining up . Names like Larry' Roeseler , Danny Sanchez. AI Baker and Bill Saltzman . The track fen ce and starting area were lined ' with spectators . A hush fell as the banner rose . When it fell , th e damndest foot race im agina ble took place. These guys ma y race fast but th eir running is something else. Ed Zarp runs OK and got his bike underway first with a wad of racers in hot pursuit. Jay Orendorff gave his Mono a workout along with J im McGraw and Steve Eckardt. The sleeper of the day started making his move and before anyone realized it Terry "Ca ble" Davis was running second overall. Roeseler was making his usual mad chrge when havoc struck. His shock snapped and stuffed itself int o the King's cha in , causing some anxious moments . Eric McCracken , Pancho Spa in , Lou Monterone and Rich Case lli were moving through the masses in sp ite of the dust. Sta rt ing the last lap , Troy Hollis moved into the fifth spot, Cory T imms manhandled his Husky into fourth . Ron Gibson could see Da vis but couldn't catch him. Terry rode the moto section beautifully but not as neat as Ed Zarp did. Ed knew he had th is one and just hoped his old plagues would take a holiday so he could wrap one up . The checkered dropped and th e happy Bellflower Yamaha rid er took all the marbles. Race four staged the Sen iors , and th e D·37 Women's Division .This class had mo re tha n 75 entries, wh ich shows you where all the sandbaggers and die hards sign up as. This start resembled a stampede. Right in the middle of all th is mayhem were people like "Lovely" Lynette Zuber, "Smiling" Cindy Max , Kathy " Be rze rko" Be nso n , . Diane " H o lesh ot" Holeman' and Linda " Quick Shift" Shatka . The rest of the mob were male chauvinists of all shapes , sizes and d isplacem ents . Quickdraw had the lead once Al Guzman .ra n out of " Bea ns" when suddenly Nate Sciaqua zoomed by like a gu y with no gray matter under his Bell . The glory was short lived as Nate did more damage with his endo than Patton's tanks at 29 Palms. McGraw picked the lead and • ma inta ined , encountering close encourters with Ron Bebo a few times. George Zuber made a few strafing runs bu t the mighty McGraw maintainedv his cool and the lead. Bob Dole in thel fourth overall spot had to put up with the delirious Sciaqua . Nate re grouped, scooped up the remains of his scoot, and proceeded to make another charge for the front. When the checkered fell it was a happy McG raw , Bebo, Zuber, Dole and Sciaqua. The las t race brought the 250cc Novice 'shoes to the line . These guys really get with the program. Crammed into the' first tum were Tim Burley, Lou Harris , Ryan Grosz, Gary Covington, Paul . Pettigrew and Ken Guyett: plus many more . At the halfway point the racers were spread out enough that only a malfunction would cost a position . Dan Herrera was at the number six position chasing the Burley kid . Burley tried his " damdest to get by Lou Harris but the effort was for naught as Harris put all his energy in to keeping pace with the fast -moving Bill Lo vitt . The onl y thing keeping Lovitt away from first place Kenny Guyett wa s Steve Blakey. Blakey charged the desert like a champ but the gu y in front, Guyett was pumped to the max. The only thing that was go ing to keep him from winning was a problem of some sort. Th,e problem didn't develop and the young man charged int o the rnot o section for the last time, attacking th e berms as if they were an enemy. Flying over the big jump, d iving into the exca vated trench and the off-camber tum, Guyett took the checkered for a well deserved overall win .