IAbovel Bruce Penhell blllStll off the IIrfe.lBelowl Penheilleeds Bobby
Schwartz. John Sandona and Shewn Moran.
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Bruce Penheilicenterl and Scott Autrey lIeft! will be going on in World
Speedway competition. Dennis Sigalos lrightl placed third.
Penhall, Autrey
take Anaheim
World Speedway
qualifier
By Dennis Greene
ANAHEIM, CA, NOV. 16
What was it all about? America's premier
riders competed for two berths on a U.S. team
that could qualify to compete in next year's
World Speedway Final.
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All 16 riders are Americans.
Ten earned their way to Friday
night's event by placing high up
in points in the five rounds of
8
qualifying that were run to pick riders
for the U.S. National Speedway
Championship.
The other six riders came home
from Europe. where they have been
racing in the British Speedway
League.
They all came to race at Anaheim
Stadium, home of the Angels baseball
team, the future home of the Rams
football team and home of the
California Surf soccer team.
A special quarter-mile -track was
constl).Icted along with the motocross
track that would be used on the next
two nights.
As in every championship-style
show, there were twenty events, each
with four riders going for four laps. To
win earned a rider three points, second
place 'got two points, third earned ODe
point and fourth got zero.
The program is set up so no rider
_ will race any other rider more than
once. In each of five rounds, there are
four events.
In round one, Bobby Schwartz,
Dennis Sigalos, Shawn Moran and
Bruce Penhall all picked up three
points for the win. Shawn was the only
U.S.-based rider to win. Again in
round two, Shawn was the only U.S.
rider to win. Ron Preston, Penhall and
