Cycle News - Archive Issues - 1970's

E • ------------------flood~d into the first turn ' with Yamaha -mounted Mike Sho emaker on top . Loc ey was ' buried 'back . in th e pack wh ile Shoemaker took - clear command. Second place was juggled back and for th between riders in the opening laps , but "it final ly settled down in th e po ssession of Hondamounted MikeVan.Acker. Locey was on the gas and by lap four, had moved up to third place. He whittled down Shoemaker's lead a nd on la p seven made his move past Shoemaker into th e lead. • Moto two again saw Sh oemaker take the lead but Locey got a m uch better start than last time and he was leading by the, thi rd lap; _behind h im were Sh oemake r wi t h Mark Parke rso n (Ho n) in third. The overall win wen t to Locey wi th se co nd goin g to Shoem a ke r ' and th ird going ' to VanAcker. '. The Open Pros had a tight ba ttle between H al Stra uss (Mai) and Andy J anni ngs (Mai). Jannings got the better sta rt in th e first rou nd, b u t it wasn't long befo re Str auss was up there with him . O n la p three Str auss ' passed J ann ing s b u t co uldn't p ull any dista nce . After four laps of elbow-to elbow ridi ng . J a nni ngs was ab le to retake the lead. Bu t a strong effort by Strauss enabled him to take th e lea d once again . In th e second -bou t . Yamaha mounted Darren Oliver p ulled into t he lead after Jannings went down in th e first comer. O liver was unable to hold off the strong ch a rge of Strauss. who took the lead after just one lap . Back in the pack we saw Maico-mounted Bill Hagen and Ste ve Richa rd work ing their way through the pack to take • o~er second and thi rd. But we really have to give a lot of credi t to strong rid ing Steve Rawson (Mai ). As the g ate dropped for the second moto, Rawson and his crew were just completing replacing the spokes in his rear wheel. By the time Rawson reached the gate , the rest of the pack was at least threequarters of a lap ahead of him . But at th e end of th e moto we saw Raw son taking the ch eckered flag in third place. T he overall went to Str auss with Hagen taking sec ond a nd th ird goi ng to Rawson . ' Tim Locey was back in th e winner's circle again in th e I25cc Pro class as he took the overall win . Mot o on e saw Honda -mounted Ken Zahrt ta kin g th e holesho t a nd the win with Locey in second. Moto two saw the win go ing to Yamaha -mounted W illie Sim ons wit h Locey again in second. T he two seco nd place finishes gave Locey th e overall for the day with second going to Zahrt and third going to Ed Arnet. Results ~ .E - , RLD MIMI GRAND·PRIX YAMAHA race of champioM featuring APRIL 6·t8,.1979 / UAAlP'ONSU'p " .~, OF ,rll"/~'~lE RAe AA/jll/tlJ~ ' . en '~I , ~-~~ DJJ:DLI I.lCK INC WoRL·V. . 4:P.ux -0 Tf) II FilMED Ff). ON ANY SUNDAY II -0 II 1/1 THI . 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