Cycle News - Archive Issues - 1970's

I , i 'j ! I I I o Glen Elliott 1751 heads up the 250cc Pro pack at CRC's Racing World MX. but broke on the last lap of the second moto while leading , Another combined ari on -p acked race featured all th e Intermed iates. Bob White took the Open portion on his Can -Am while Keith Ehlers b eat Ske eter Marks in the 250s . T op 125cc went to Todd Bausch. Ra ce four brought five classes to the line at once. The 250 Beginner a nd Novice classes, along with th e Open Beginners and Novices a nd CRC Vet er ans storme d onto the track in a heap. and after two rounds of crashing and remounting, Bob Bu rleig h . Gr eg Atk ins on , Mike Shell , Br et Hammond a nd Jerry Black wer e winners. In 125cc Beginner and No vice act ion . another Jerry Bla ck too k th e Novic es and Ralph Usher defeat ed Victor Berry in the Beginners, .. Results DeAnza w inner Steve Bauer. ' 25 PRO: 1. J ohn O'Mara ISUI); 2. J oe Price (Yaml; 3. Richard Bunch (S uzl. 250 PRO: 1. Edwin Arnot ISuz); 2. Dava lahn IC·AI . Don Orasko vich (M ail . 500 PRO: 1. Bob Bang IVaml; 2. Dale Lewis (Mail; 3. (Continued from pag e 47) J oe Brown IMa i), CRC riders rip drenched Dunes' • mud-o-cross 3. Dan VanAcker (Han) . By Brian George VALENCIA, CA, DEC . 17 With both Saddleback and Racing World shut down due to excessive rain . Ind ia n Dunes opened its , gates Sunday for 50 another California Racing Club moro cross on a revised Shadow Glen course. It turned out to be rnud-o-cross aft er practice though , as the downpour let up only momentarily throughout the day. All the Pros were run together to assure getting all the ra cing in before Mother Nature dumped too much precipitation on the Dunes' soil , and J ohnny O'Mara , Edwin Arnet and Bob Bang took their class wins . O'Mara backtracked from Saddleback to enter late , but 'still outran Joe Price and Richard Bunch for the 125cc win , and Bang had little trouble handling the Open Pros , even after a hard getoff in a mudhole . The 250cc Pro race was the thriller , bec a use after both ro unds a three-way tie emerged for the win. Arner' s second moto win gave him the overall after a fourth th e first round , to ed ge out Dave Zahrt (Ken ny's brother) an d DMG 's Don Draskovich , who had been sick all week with the flu . J ohn Atwood was in control and won th e first mot o , 1251NT: 1. Todd Bausch ISuzl; 2. Glenn Cave ISu z); 250 INT: 1. Keith Ehlers (Suz); 2. Skeeter Marks (Vam ); 3. Brian ChereskoH (Han). 500 INT: Bob White IC·AI. 500 NOV: Bob Burleigh (Husl. 250 NOV: 1. Greg Atkinson (Hon); 2. Vincent DePiazza (Suzl; 3. Mark Cummings (Suzl. 125 NOV : 1. J8fry Black (Yaml ; 2. David Nealon (Yam); 3. J on Zahrt IYam). 500 BEG: 1. Mike SheIlISuz); 2. Ken Johnson (Yaml ; 3. Steve Cohen ISuz). 250 BEG: 1. Bret Hammo nd IHusl; 2. Ste ve Marquez ISuzl; 3. Brian George ISuzl. 125 BEG: 1. Ralph Usher IV aml: 2. Vietor Berry IVaml; 3. Frad DeVries(Yaml. CRC VETS: 1. Jerry Black IMail; 2. Dean Sau nders IHon!. 100 EX: Richard Ising (Yaml . 100 INT: 1. Randy Morales (Yaml ; 2. Tony Barbacovi (Yaml; 3. Ralph Oehoryo ISuzl. 100 NOV : 1. Kirk Betta (Yam); 2. Rick Kra",er IYaml; J . Robert Giammar ino lSozI. MINI NOV: 1. John Hughlen (Vaml; 2. Steve VanDuzen (Yam); J . Lyie McPh erson ISuz). MINIINT 1. ZoIi MeszaTo (Hon): 2. BiPy Fun : _ 1Vam!. MINI EX: Jack McSili(Varni. Eropkin, Blevins Yamahaul at CRC Racing World MX By Keith Clemons TRABUCO CANYON , CA , DEC , 5 Near perfect weather and absolu te primo track conditions paved the way for California R acing Club's return to Racing World . Following a rain on Friday th e Sunday sun added warmth to the moist soil wh ich under the wheels of a mot a man , or maiden , is pure perfectio n . However . someone should have posted a sign reading "Slippe ry When Wet ," for those unaccustomed to mudocross beca use spills spotted every race throughout the day. Five 250cc Pros didn't finish their first mota because of a bail off of one kind or another; and Pros should know how to handle it. Dave Eropkin got the holeshot in the first 250cc Pro mota and held onto the front position throughout the race t~ claim victory over Ken Elhers who finished second. Ted Ho yt scrambled around four other would be winners to finish third after a middle of the pack start and as mentioned before five others slid out of the competition: Yamaha-mounted Eropkin had a problem getting untangled from a three bike pileup on the second tum of rnoto number two wh ich brought him in a la me last place position in the first lap. Bu t Eropkin was able to make the best of it and before the finish of the seco nd lap had moved himself all the way u p to second place jus t behind Ted Hoyt whose own Yamaha was pioneering the 'p a th out front. Eropkin and Hoyt went at it for the entire mota with Eropkin threatening to steal a second mota win for sponsor White Bro s. at every turn. It was all Hoyt could do to hold off Eropkin's attack but hold him he did . In the final turns before th e finish Eropkin made several attempts to squeeze by but to no avail and Hoyt fi nis hed nu m b er one . Eropkin still completed th e day with first overall be cause of Ho yt's th ird place first -mote fin ish . Ken Elhers finished with a th ird in th e ra ce and took h om e t he m one y for that position . Brad McLeod (H us) sn a ppe d up the holeshot in th e first Open Pro race . but hard dri ving Randy Ble vins ca ugh t him in th e second lap a nd was able to cop the position in the fifth lap . However , Blevins joined the slip and slid e squad in the 10th lap and laid his DG -sponsored Yamaha in th e mud to let McLeod retake his victo ry position and win th e ra ce. Second time around Blevins made up for his first mota mistake and McLeod applied for his own mem bersh ip .in the mud brigade. McLeod took the ho leshot again but th is time he spilled in the first la p and Blevins got in front and stayed there to win. McLeod was able to get back into the race to finish second but Blevins rode away as the overall champ while McLeod had to settle for number two . Results OPENPRO: 1. Randy Blevins (Yam); 2. Brad Mcleod IHus);. OPEN INT: 1. J im Beltnick IMa;l: 2. Go

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