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remainder of the race as Weinert
cruised the remaining three laps to the
checkered flag , nearly unmolested .
Only on the last lap did he get the
signal to speed up as Lenny Geiger,
having battled his way past Honda's
Gary Semics for second position after
falling , almost got back his lead .
Danny "Magoo" Chandler was fourth
on a Maico, Gaylon Mosier fifth and
almost being ' caught by Rex Staten
who .was riding two classes had pulled
a miserable 30th place start at the
beginning of the race, then Tim
Lunde , Peter Wanket and Steve
Bauer.
500cc Pro
Though Rex Staten won the Open
class on his new YZ·400F Yamaha
production bike, the win just as well
could have belonged to Kawasaki's
new shoe Tommy Croft with their new
KX ·400 production bike . The
Tomahawk and Rocket Rex played
tag the entire. race, trading the lead
back and forth more times than could
be counted. Unlike the battles in the
other two classes which saw broken
bikes and bruised bodies as part of the
ruckus, both Tommy .and Rex kept
their passing clean and only zapped
each other when there were clear
openings. Croft won the start ' and
Staten the finish , but the order could
have been reversed - they were that
equal the entire race.
Making a strong comeback to the
Pro circuit was Billy "Sugar . Bear"
Grossi who kept his Moto-X Foxsponsored 450 Maico in third right up
to the last lap, when a little fatigue on
the Bear's part and a last-lap , last ditch-effort charge by Gaylon Mosier
on another KX·400 Kawasaki saw
Billy relegated to fourth spot just three
turns before the finish line. Rounding
out the top 10 money paying positions
were a slew of hot privateers which
included hot dogger Randy Losh,
Dave Williams , Will Harper, Steve
Rhyan, Dale Lewis and Bob Marino.
An interesting sidelight to the day
was Torsten Hallman's Lars Larson ,
-the old Swede who has to be pushing
40 years old by now but probably
won't admit it, who pulled Ake
Jonsson's old 1972 Trans·AMA Serieswinning Maico out of mothballs to go
racing. Lars placed ninth in his
qualifying moto on the bike with three
inches of rea r wheel travel . .. surely
good enough for a top 20 ·finish in the
feature against the California Pros ...
but we didn't see Lars after th e first
lap. A mudhole victim? Anyway, the
Suzuki/CMC Golden State Series is
p~etty exciting and certainly deserves
to see more than just -t he riders'. girl
friends coming out to watch.
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(Opposite page) AMA 125cc National Champ Broc Glover (1) and Gary
Denton (421 finished 2·3 in the 125cc event behind Kawasaki's Jeff Ward.
nop left) Sloppy Saddleback.lTop right! Tommy Croft. second in the 500cc
class joins 250cc class winner Jimmy Weinert on Kawasaki, (Below) Tommy
Croft lTC)and Rex Staten (30) played tag all through the 500cc motos with
"Rocket Rex" edging "Tomahawk."
Results
12Scc PRo: 1. Jeff Ward (Kawl; 2. Brae Glover
!Ya m); 3. Gary Denton ISuz); 4. Brian MY1!'scough
lSun; 5. David Waxman ISuz ); 6. David Taylor (S un; 7.
Choppy Blose IKawl; 8 . Danny Turner IS Ul); 9. Jimmy
Holley (Ya m); 10. Chris Hoisser IS uz); 11. Donnie
Cantaloup i (Yam); 12. Andy Kirker (Yam); 13. John
Greenway (Yaml; 14 . Terry Schel