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lAbovel Rick Johnson took the CMC OCIR 12&cc Pro c:Iua.lBelowl Tony
W....ket 1331 end Goet Breker dueled heevlly et CMC Seddlebllc:k.
Mark Stone,lookln' ..rIou. et CMC·. Speedway 117 night motocross.
th~n Donni~ Ha~n (C-A).
Ha~n caught Bau~r off guard on
th~ last lap and snuck th~ qui~t CanAm by him on th~ downhill.
Surprised, Bau~r tri~d to fight back,
but Ha~n eff~tiv~ly shut th~ door
on him in th~ few r~maining corn~rs.
(Hon)
125 !NT DIY II: 1. Doug Duboc:h IYaml; 2. John
3. Melt Whiting IYarnI.
125 JR: 1. Richaod Hoff...... lSun; 2. B,ot
lSuz); 3. Phillip
ISun.
250 PRO: 1. Donnie _IC·A); 2. Tony_ot
lVaml; 3. Ron T"""" IYam).
250 INT DIY I: 1. S,.... Platt IYoml; 2. Kevin Duffy
lVam); 3. Phil Joh.-. lOoK).
250 INT DIY II: 1. Jatt Lyodole lHonl; 2. Rage< Dion
IMaiI; 3. Pet. MurfayIDMGI.
250 JR: 1. Dovid Pettigrew IMoil; 2. Tommy Hodgin
ISuzI; 3. Rob Binlday's
Continental Moto-sports Club
event.
In th~ first 125cc Pro mota, Scan
Burnwonh (Suz) dropJlC'd down th~
starting hill just ah~ad of a fast,
scr~aming pack. A sudd~n strok~ of
bad luck f~lI~ him on th~ SKond lap,
though, and put him back in that
pack. H~ salva~d a sixth at mota's
~nd.
42.
Rick Johnson (Yam) took th~ h~lm
at that tim~ whil~ Mik~ TriJlC'S (Esc)
k~pt a c10~ watch from b~hind. Willy
Simons (Yam) mov~d into third a short
ti~ lat~r' and proc~~~ to mak~ it a
three ridu rac~ for first.
TriJlC'S appar~ntly stan~d to fttl un·
comfonabl~ in th~ Yamaha sandwich
and slipJlC'd by Johnson as th~ ~an
lap 10.
Johnson wmt down a coupl~ of laps
later as he calM dIf>4D a JaPPtlf1.DdA-4I
and was bump~d in the leg from
b~hind, giving him a charlie ho~. By
the time he got rolling again, TriJlC'S
and Simons w~re long gon~. Koji
Masuda (Suz) and A. J. Whiting
(Yam) also slipped by and th~
ch~cker~d saw th~m finish in that
ord~r.
Burnworth start~d w~1I in th~
SKond molO, also, but was displac~
by Tmps who I~d th~ whol~ show aft~r
following Burnworth for less than a
lap.
Simons finish~ th~ rac~ b~hind
th~ two, but it was good ~nough to
cop s~cond ov~rall. LOP's Gary
Denton (Yam) h~ld third for th~ first
half of th~ molO, slipJlC'd back and
scratch~d his way back to fourth, just
holding off Whiting and Paul Th~d~
(SoP).
Two qualifying motos and a
consolation rac~ d~cid~d which 250cc
Pros would advance to the two moto
final. J~ff J~nnings (Suz), Tony
Wank~t (Yam) and Randy Rodrigu~z
(Mai) ~ach won th~ir qualifiers.
In th~ first of th~ final matos,
J~nnings Sttm~d to b~ a bit fast~r than
~verybody, though Wank~t was abl~ to
stay with him for the first half of th~
rac~. H~ fad~d to fifth at th~ ~nd.
Ron Turn~r (Yam) did his tim~ in
th~ runn~r·up slot, but slow~ toward
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S&ae Bauer
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Results
MINI JR: 1. MicNol L_IY.ml; 2. Dono Anderson
ISud; 3. Newton AaMIdo lSuzl.
100 JR: 1. _
Lopp lSud: 2. Tony Totono lSuzl; 3.
Toddllf_dlVarnI.
125 PRO: 1. Mike Tripes lEoel; 2. Willy Simorw
IYaml; 3. Scan Bu,"wortlllSuzl.
125 INT DIV I: 1. Bryon Antonoc:ci lVoml; 2. Poul
Conc>CliuIll1'" _
&cl.
'"
_mon
Pete Vetrano (SoP).
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Grissom, Anderson
top Pros at
Speedway 117 MX
By Rod Eschenburg
Photo by Photocross
CHULA VISTA, CA,JUNE6
Suzuki rider Scott Anderson
scored his second 125cc Pro win
of the 1979 season in an unusual
manner. In the first moto it was
aU Scott M~er after last wttk's winner
Jack K~ and Chris Harold came
to~th~r in a rath~r viol~nt way, and
And~rson had troubl~ off th~ gat~. In
th~ ~cond round K~ jum~ into
an ~arly lead with Harold in s«ond,
~~yer in third and And~rson in
fourth. Th~n all of a sudd~n, Harold
was in th~ lead, M~~r drop~ out
and And~rson was in a cl~ third.
Th~n And~rson shot by K~ and
took th~ ov~rall with a 3·l! finishl
Th~ l!50cc Pros had th~ man that is
probably the all tim~ ~at~t night
rida in S~way 117 history r~turn to
action: Suzuki mount~ Mik~ Stan,
and it would be nic~ to say that h~
mad~ his r~turn a winning on~, but
n~w Pro Kirk Grissom "didn't hav~ no
r~~ct" as h~ w~nt wire to wir~ in th~
first moto and blast~ Stern in th~
~cond for a two for two win, St~rn was
th~ mast~r of th~ turns, but with th~
incr~a~d jumps this y~ar at S~~way
117 it was youth showing th~ way,
Looks lik~ we'll hav~ to put a bounty
out on 125cc Int~rm~diat~ rid~r
"Wailin' Woody" Carlson, as th~ San
Di~go Kawasaki rid~r onc~ again
blast~ a good field of ridas in a two
for two go. Th~ action for SKond was
~aIIy torrid, and it boil~ down to th~ ,
