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It's not "The Best Go West" but the "West Gol:S Best" says correspondent Maureen Lee after two days of the Amateur National TT at Ascot. Full story next week, but the winners are as follow: 50cc 6-8 years, Tom Knight, Stockton, CA; 65cc 7-11 years, Randy Turbett, Peoria, IL; 85cc Stock, 7·11 years, Aaron Hill, Stockton, CA; 85cc Modified 7 -11 years, AaFOn Hill, Stockton, CA; SOcc Stock, 12-14 years, Clay Clark, Powell Butte, OR; 80cc Modified, 12-14 years, Doug Chandler, Salinas, CA; 100cc Schoolboy, Doug Chandler, Salinas, CA; 125cc Schoolboy, Danny Moore, Carmel, CA. 100cc, Chris Carr, Manteca, CA; 125cc, Charles Carroll, Torrance, CA; 200cc, Chad Bettencourt, Hanford, CA; 360cc, Jeff Springman, Carlsbad, CA; 500cc Mark Key, Stockton, CA; Open, Ronald Day, Salinas, CA; Lightweight Hacks, Loren Immken/Ron Peck, Reseda, CA; Heavyweight Hack, Keith Butterfield/Ted Hill, Fresno, CA ... and Papa says, note all those double trophy winners too, folks. How about an AMAAFMCRRCWERA roed race7 Could happen. Am.-ican Federation of Motorcyclists' Keith Code and Rudy Galindo are organizing an effort to complete the "incomplete': 79 Superbike series. Of six races originally scheduled, only four were' run when the second Loudon event was cancelled and the Pocono race rained out with no availeble rain date. AFM proposes to hold two more Superbike races in conjunction with regularlyscheduled club events. One would be in California, either with the Sept. 22-23 AFM Riverside date or the Oct. 21 Willow Springs race. The other would run in conjunction with the Central Road Racing Club's Oct. 13-14 date at Texas World Speedway, also a WERA National event. AFM and CRRC will apply for sanctions. The rest is up to the AMA. 4. Rich Schlachter 1461:, 5. Harry' Kllnzmann lJOI; 6. Chuck Parme 1271; 7. John BettenCourt ,1221 B. (Three-way tiel Mike Baldwin/Daviei' EmdeJJohn Long 1161. Team South - far south in this case - stole the top two placings in the AFM Golden Gate Challenge IV, held Aug. 26 at Sears Point International Raceway, but the NorCal vs. SoCal "civil war" fell to the "yankees" with Team North filling most of the other top spots. Louisiana's Freddie Spencer and tuner Erv Kanemoto showed up with a Howard Racing TZ750 to win and give 17 ·year-old Freddie some practice for next year when he gets his AMA Expert road race rating. "00 I sound like a Yankee?" Spencer responded when asked which tearn he was racing on. San Diego's Gil Martin took second,' also on a TZ750. San Jose's Al Collins, riding a TZ250 with two TZ750 barrels mounted.on top for a toral 375cc, scored a hard-fought third placing over KZ1000 Kawasakimounted Gordon Seim in the lO-lap grand finale to a full day of club racing. FuLl coverage next week. Four days of short track racing will take place in northern California over Labor Day Weeken~ with the program kicking off at Lodi on Friday night. Aug. 31, then moving on to Oakdale on Saturday night. Monterey on Sunday, before wrapping up at Newman with two races, one on Sunday night. the final event Monday. Alex Jorgensen won it all last year over Jeff Haney and Jimbo Felice. All three ara expected to be going for it again this 'time. Tick.ets fo~ the Sept. 23 San Jose Mile are available through NorCal motoTcycle dealers and at Bob Barkheimer Associates, 14 Camp Evers Lane, Scotts Valley, CA'95066. Phone 408/438-3210 for tickets and/or info. How about a Daytona Superbike race? Word has it that Daytona International Speedway would like to run an AMA Superbike race in conjunction with their Oct. 6-7 ProAm date. That makes it a three-way choice for AMA: Go AFM, go Daytona, or no go. 6 Back on the road again. Shell Thuet was seen at Indy with Shell Racing Specialties rider Wayne Rainey. Lat's welcome the raturn of the man who helped King Kenny Roberts do it on the dirt during his AMA Grand - National Championship circuit days! AMA Superbike point standings following the Laguna Seca event. before the Pocono rain-out and prior to any other events that may be added to the series, are as follows: 1. Wes Cooley 1581; 2. Ron Pierce 1561; 3. Freddie Spencer 1511; Scott USA is in the process of designing plastic boots for str.eet ridersl All Papa knows is that they're s'posed to be black; no release da te yet. Seems to Papa that' the company that produces plastic motocross boots, is building a piastre street boot and has No, it doesn't come with the designation XS650SG floating over the seat as shown in this press kit photo from Yamaha. But the new streetster does come pecked with a 653cc. 51 hp, SOHC twin cylinder motor and other good things. been making plastic snow ski boots for years, should come out with a plastic water ski boot for National MX Champs who spend their off·weekends on "the river." Better late than never ... (OK, OK, it's a sick joke. Sorry, Hurricane.) Correction: Make that a Champion MX Cycles Can-Am that Jerome Heiburger _ riding in the Aug. 1 Fremont/ZAP/CMC motocross race, not an Olympic Cycles CanAm. Don Walsh prepared the bike. Tri!1mph Motorcycles is filing a "multi-million dollar" law suit against Cincinnati· based Domi Racer Distributors, Inc. acco-rding to Triumph V.P. Ruth Furman. An employee at the distributing firm allegedly has spread a TUmor that the Triumph factory will close later this year and has advised certain Triumph dealers not to order new machines now, to w;i.it until the factory closes and get them at a reduced cost. Yamaha, according to the British newspaper Motor Cycle Wealdy, has an all-new 850cc shaft drive triple and a 650cc four-cylinder in their 1980 streetbike stable. The triple is Rot an overbored version of the XS750. And as stated by a Yamaha spokesman, "There ere no V-anythings Itwlns or four cylinderl in our 1980 range." . Suzuki, agai~ thanks to the pages of Motor Cycle Weekly, has a GSXllOO, actually a 1075cc four·cylinder street machine. It's a chain drive model with four valves per cylinder that weighs in at 564 ibs. They also showed, in England, a GSX250 four-stroke, eight valve DOHC twin with a claimed weight of m Ibs. The 750cc version of the GSX line·up has received a "radically new" treatment and also spons four valves per cylinder. More? Stay tuned ... . HosPITal STOP: Reg Pridmore, injured in a collision with Steve Epstein at the Aug. 4-5 Laguna Seca .road race, suffered several broken or crushed bones In the wrist. hip and neck area. He's just undergone an operation at Goleta Valley Hospital where four pins were placed in the wrist. Reg could stand a little cheering up, so direct those cards and Ietters to him at Reg Pridmore Motorcycles, 5718 "F" Hollister Ave., Goleta, CA 93017. "Injuries to top riders prevent us from fielding a team." That's how a wire from AMA Professional Racing Manager Mike DiPrete to the FIM was worded. What team? The MotO<:I'a. and Trophee des Nations MX squad. Guess we'll have to count on the 41 ISDT riders to pick. up ally European "gold" for the USA this fall. By the way, don't miss our ISDT Preview Issue next week. Graham Noyce at the Anaheim Supercross 7 Could be. WhOe nothing ~ settled yet In the way of a deal between Noyce and pr0moter Mike Goodwin, Noyce has been contacted. On Aug. 25, new 500cc MX World Champ Graham Noyce won a 250cc race- in West Germany and gave his prize money and start money to a friend. The event was the Willi Bauer Trophee, a benefit race for Bauer who was paralyzed from the waist down as the result of a crash in last year's 250cc British MXGP. Bauer plans to travel to .Russia for an operation that, hopefully, will cure the paralysis either in late '79 or early 'SO. Roger DeCoster finished second behind Noyce's 4·3 with a 2-7 total. Third was Neil Hudson with a 9-2, and he was followed by Andre Vromans and Valdimir Kavinov. Jim Pomeroy was listed in the program, but didn't show. Ukiah District of the Bureau of Land Management is asking for nominations for a 1G-member District Advisory Council. Members of the Council will be appointed by the Secretary of the , Interior from the list of nominees. Dean Stepanek, Ukiah District Manager, said the Council will meet at least once a year, to aclvlse the District Management team on programs and policies for the 469,000 acres of public lands i!'l the district. Members will re~sant 10 areas of Interest - one each representing Renewable Resources, Non Renewable Resources, Elected General Purposa, Govemment. Recreation, Environmental Preservation, Transportation and Rig~-Way,