Cycle News - Archive Issues - 1970's

Mike Tripes holds off Cliff Lett at CMC Carlsbad. 3. Rich SllJettel (Yaml. 250 JR: 1. Darnell Richtleg lAm x); 2. Art Claver . (Yam); 3. lJI"Y Jaclin (Suzl 125 JR: 1. Barney HoIbr_ (Suzl; 2. Don Blaib ISuz); 3. Mike Matson (Suzl . OPENBEG: 1. Bill Coffman IHusl' 2. Bruce Cox tHus)' 3. Dennis Sklinka (Yam). · • 250 BEG: 1. Den Oftdie (Yam); 2. Mark Mart in lHon)' Bill Hagen 121 won the 'Open Pro class -;t SSM . first ~lace in both motos. "Moto one saw TIm Lunde quickly jump into the lead ' on his Yamaha ahead of Kawasaki rider Robert Riesinger and Can -Am mounted Greg Blackwell . Then Huff Hadley moved his Maico r up in.to.second and ~lackwelI slipped - by Riesinger, b ut Riesinger repassed By ;Terry Whytal BlackwelI and set his sights on Hadley. Lunde was really pouring on the coal ORANGE, CA , MAY 5 ourfrom trying to pull away from Bill , ,H agen rode his Gennan Hadley and Riesinger, and the top special to a consistent 2-2 finish three riders moved far ahead of the arid ,the overall win at this SSM pack. Lunde managed to hang on to MX. Hagen took advantage of t~e !ead but with two laps to go . Riesinger passed Hadley to finish the b~d - uck suffered by Anaheim l second. Suzuki's Scott Cavness and the Lunde read the gate right at the worse luck of Suzuki teamster Danny stan of th~ second moro and grabbed , LaPone. . the lead with Blackwell hot on his rear La Porte ied off the first ' moto fe.nder and Hadley close behind. opening up a good sized lead early i~ Riesinger got off to a bad stan and was the -race. Hagen moved into second trying to work his way up through the after Cavness stepped off on the back pack. Hadley found a way around ' part .of the track and had difficulty reo BlackwelI near the end of the moto but starung. Ron Utaski rode his Suzuki ; Lunde was secure in first and took the up into third place but was unable to checkers and the overall victory. reel in Hagen. who was also unable to . Had ley collected the second place catch LaPorte. Utaski just kept money and Riesinger finished third. . Cavness out of third place after Team Suzuki's Brian Myerscough . charging hard to catch the leaders. made a shambles of the I25cc Pro class When the troops lined up for the by easily running away with both second moto one rider was m issing: motos . Mike Goodrich danced his La Porte's bike had suffered an Suzuki across the finish line for second undisclosed mechanical fai lure. So overall and Honda r ider Bruce Cavness nailed the holeshot McDougal ended his day with a third . determined to make up for the first Results mo to . This time he was ab le to keep OPEN PRO: 1. Bill Hagen IMail ; 2. Scan Cavness th e rubber side down as he motored to ISuzl; 3. Ron Utaski ISuz). th e , win; Hagen onc e again put his 250 PRO.: 1: TIm Lunde IVaml; 2. Huff Hadley IMail; 3. Robert Rleslnger IKawl. m o':nt m second and sta yed the re. " 125. PRO: 1. Btlan My erscough (Suz); 2. Mike leaving Utaski to fin ish third. Hagen Goodrich (S uz): 3. Bruc e McDougal tHo n), . OPEN INT: 1. Fulton TIdw ell IMei); 2. Craig took _home the top money for first Robertson (Suz); 3. Monte Roy IMa i). overall and Cavness eased out Utaski 250 INT: 1. Mike PauseIiIHon); 2. Ji m Beckes IHon); for the ru nner-up spot. 3. Alan Moon ISuz). 125 INT: 1. Richard Boiteeu ISuzl; 2. Rodney Highs The 250cc Pro class was filled with IHen); 3. Jess Harmon IESC). OPENJR: 1. Wayne Beebe (Suz); 2. Steve Fern IBui); acti,;>n as three riders battled for the Hagen's Maico hustles to SSM MXwin even . _ .30 3. Bill Kostior(Suzl. • 125 BEG: 1. Jim Banning IHusl; 2. Jeff Partts (Suz); 3. John McDougallHonI. CMC Carlsbad MX: Smith, Bauer split loot By Mark Kariya _CARLSBAD, CA. MAy'I3 The first licks of summer greeted those rnotocrossers fortun ate enough to find gas .after sneaking out of the house to spend Mother's Day here with the Continental Motosports Club, In the first 500cc Pro moto , Mark Mobs used the reputed power of his Can-Am to fling himself into the first tum before the rest of the crowd. Unfortunately. for him , the tum reo quired even greater deceleration and he ended up killing his motor, exiting tum one in last place. . In the meantime , Lee Ramage (Mai) seized the lead. He led for over a . lap. losing it to David Gerig (Esc) on the uphill . Moving up steadily from fourth , tho.ugh, was Husky-mounted Alan Smith. He tagged along behind Gerig for a _ few laps and zipped by him off the ledge onlap seven . remaining unchallenged the rest of the moto. Mike Tripes (Suz) and Chip Howell (Hus) finished 3-4 while Mobs came back to wrest fifth from Ken Yarnell (Mai) . . For the second moto, Tripes had a new rear tire fitted to his ,scoot and prom p tly grabbed the hole shot. Howell got on th e gas , pu shing him back to second before th e end of a lap. T ripes eventually dropped out of the contest . complaining of a strange handling mount on th is hot day. Howell kept his lead for a good portion of the race. It was Smith though. who had it when it counted ~ at the flag - taking the overall win handily. J Howell's 4-2 tally netted him third behind Gerig who cruised in third on a deflated tire the last moto. Mobs and Yarnell matched their first .m oro finishes. ' . In 'the 250cc Pros , Tony Wanket (Ya m ) took immediate command of the first moto . and appeared to be headed for a sure win until Lady Luck fr owned on his fr ont brake cable forci ng him into the DNF r anks . ' Steve Bauer on his Tim Buck-tu ned DG Honda took it in from there. Gary Jones kept him in sight until lap 11 when the gearbox on his Ammex stuck in fourth, dropping him to fifth at the checkered with a frying clutch. Andy Northrup (SoP) snared the runner-up slot while new Pros Dan Worley (PCS) and Mike Schoffstall (Hon) rode in next. . Jones got things squared away in time for the second moto and was never touched after the first lap . taking a convincing win . Bauer was forced to ' content himself with second after he fell over in a tight tum while making a ":In at and being slowed by a pair 0 Fox shocks that weren't working. Northrup was closing in third at the end wit.h Kirk Grissom (Hon) and Worley m fourth and fifth practicalIy the whole way. Randy Hess seemed confident that he would do welI prior to the start of the I25cc Pros due to his training program enabling him to handle the heat better than the others. It must have been effective as he was never headed in the first moto , remaining clean out in front. Rick Johnson (Ya m ) worked up from a poor stan to cla im second at the ha lfway point. His efforts were frustrated , though , when his bike quite three laps from the finish . . That allowed Cliff Lett (Ya m) back mto second. followed by Tripes. Scott Burnworth (Suz) and Paul Thede (SoP) . . rz:

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