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DIck Burleson !above) and Jack Penton (below). both members of the Trophy tHIn. eemed Gold; the sixth such medal for both. batt~ry·pow~r~d n~rv~ stimulator, h~ wo~ whil~ he rod~. "It got ~tt~r as th~ w~k w~nt along," said Dav~ aft~ th~ ~~nt was ov~r. Hu~'s back may hav~ gott~n ~t~r as the w~k w~nt by, but his luck c~r tainly didn't improv~ as Tu~ay went along. Still on th~ first loop, h~ ran into m~hanical troubl~, losing two minut~s at on~ ch~ck, and thr~e which 8 minutes at another before he got things straightened out. That put Dave into the Silver medal ranks, and from there he figured it was better for him and the Va~ team to ride to maintain that status, rather than be~rking it trying to make up time and ending up with a DNF. The Trophy team was not without its gremliDlJack P~on ran. out of gal and end up a minute la~ at on~ check. And Jdf Hill ~ally had som~ problems. Going through a d~ wat~r crossing on the first loop, anoth~r rid~r changed Iin~ in front of him and took out his front wh~1. His bike ended up inhaling a lar~ amount of water, and by the tim~ he had gotten it upside down, drained out the water through th~ spark plug hole, wrung out the air filler and drained the carb's / float bowl, he was 15 minut~ late at i the next check. H~, the organizers rerouted the cou~ around this particular water crossing on the ~cond loop, so the jury ended up throwing out the first loop ch~k. Hill got his IS minutes back, but while he was running Iat~ he hit another ch~k five ~onds lat~. Sin~ he didn't ha~ his two minu~ gra~ ~riod ~ause h~ was late, Jdf en~ up with a 6O-point The rest of the U.S. Trophy team. Kevin lavoie (above) and Jeff HII (below). finished the event on Gold status. ~nalty, which drop~ him to Silv~r. P~r~, still ridmg with an ailing machi~, drop~ to Bronz~ when h~ picked up 500 rout~ points (60 points ~ rninu~ early or lat~). Don Cichocki, riding for the Suzuki manufacturers team, also drop~d from Silver to Bronze, when a mental error was compounded by bike probl~ms. On the first loop, he went into a ch~k five minut~ early! "I've ridden four Six Days, and I don't know how many qualifiers, and that's the first time I've ever don~ anything like that!" he exclaimed later. Rear wh~l problems la~r in the day cost him even more time. Resigned to Bronze, Cichocki's strategy through th~ ~inder of th~ ~nt was to stay within his hour and finish. taking as much tim~ as h~ ~ed to make SU~ his machine was ~ady to go. Larry R~I~r tu~ in a pair of ~I test rides in the top 10 of his class to m~ from 15th to 10th, and also took o~r th~ top Ammcan slot, 11 ~onds ah~ad of Ted Leimbach, who had el~ated ~If to 12th in the 250cc class. Kuenzer still led th~ Americans in the 175cc class, moving from 16th to 14th with Suzuki's Rosso and Yamaha's Ron Ribolzi also ~curely in th~ top 20. In the 125cc class, Greg Davis moved up tei ninth, the only American there still on Gold. DaVthree Any thoughts that the Wl5t Germans going to host a piece-of-cak~ ISDT disap~ar~d on W~dnmay. The course was lo~r - the schedule w~re