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·ii·_· .-i· ..... Scott Aui~. A ·.(~rican5 but fro';;·" ·~·'.iIIII"'iIii""""''''''''''' ''''''_liIiiiiiialiiiiiilli__IliilliIlliiiii -ii-ill>.'-iii' the British League. won their events. At th.. end of two rounds. or eight events. the points race was very close. Penhall and Shawn Moran were tried at six points each. Sigalos. Autrey and Preston were all tied with five points. There had already been several high speed getoffs and the pain would take its toll as t he night went on. ... Round three was the best for the U.S. riders, with Mike Faria a':'d Alan Christian picking up their first wins and Sigalos and Autrey each adding .one more first place to his score. Still in round three. Shawn Moran lost his first race. coming in third. His brother Kelly got off hard on the back straightaway and hun his knee badly Husky riders continued enough to put him out of competition their 10 year domination for the nigbt. Autrey's win over Bruce Penball in round three would turn out of the roughest off road to be tbe only point lost all night by Bruce. race in the world when After a lengthy intermission. round four got underway. In event 13. Bruce Jack Johnson and Larry Penhall picked up his tbiro win. In event 14. Kelly Moran was replaced by Roesel~r finished first Larry Kosta. This was the race many over-all with a 1980 had come to see. tbe Moran brotbers going' nose to nose. but because of that Husky 390 OR. This win earlier crash, Kelly was on the sidelines just looking on. Tbat'race went to Ron is especially remarkable Preston. Gene Woods took event 15, bis only win of t·he nigbt. He, too, had since the race ran the gotten off hard earlier in the night and was in much pain. The last event in full length of Baja to round four went to Dennis Sigalos. At this point there were several riders tied La Paz and the course in points and it looked as if there favored the 4 wheel would be several runoffs after the regular 20 events. entries. The final four events in round five changed the points race around dramatically. Autrey won his race, giving him a total of 13 points. John It was a clean sweep for. Cook won bis race. pUlling him in seventh place on the night's list with' . TEAM HUSaVARNA: eight points. Ron Preston moved into a tie with Autrey by winning his race, totalling 13 points. In that same race. Dennis Sigalos took second place and 125cc tbe two points he earned put bim into 1st Coutts-Pfeiffer a three-way tie atthiTleen points. Riders 30·37 The final event of the regular 1st Vick- Watkins 250cc twenty-race program was taken by (9th over-all) 1st Finger-Kaplan Penhall. giving him the top score of 14 2nd Folks-Bass (5th over-all) . points and guaranteeing him a seat iii the World qualifying. Now there was OpenCI••• just one thing left to do, bre.ak the tie. Riders over 38 Ron Preston, Scott Autrey and Dennis 1st Roeseler-Johnson 1st Gilliland-Prather Sigalos would all go at it just one more (1st over-all) time for four laps, the winner to go 2nd Harden-Wallingsford 2nd Midgley-Sorenson with Bruce to Europe. Autrey won (3rd over-all) that honor, breaking the l3·point tie. 3rd Neveu-Vann The points listed below are what was earned but really do not give you, the HUSQVARNA MOTORCYCLE COMPANY, INC. reader, a true look at what went on. In .4925 Mercury Street 16th or last place was Kelly Moran with just one point - a bad crash and )I.~)I San Diego. California 92111 back trouble. Fifteenth place Dan r-jJ~ Phone 714/565-1414 McNeill with three points: Dan gOl off trying too hard. John Sandona finished in 14th place with four points after getting into the haybales on the outside of the track. Thirteenth place wentlO Brad Oxley, alternate for Dave Sims who did not ride. Brad earned four points. Duane Yarrow, Denny Pyeatt, Bob Schwartz and Alan Cbristian all earned five points. Schwartz crashed hard, Christian got off and so goes the story of the night of the guys who did not pick up all that many points. A broad look at the whole night of PLUS OFFICE AND,SHIPPING EQUIPMENT qualifying can be summed up by By Or.- of the s-d of Ondon saying the good guys did what was K.T.M IMPORTS. HERCULES DIST. expected, and the whole show was . DISTRIBUTORS-IMPORTERS outstanding. The crowd was much MOTORCYCLES. MOTORCYCLE PARTS AND ACCESSORIES HERC. ACCESSORIES Jarger than expected. The track. lights. • onthe _ _ of: officials and everything that we call AND SACHS & DKW PARTS HERCULES DISTRIBUTING speedway was first class. • TEAM ; 1979 Ensenada to La Paz Baja 1000 ; Husqvarna E 1st OVER-ALL & 5CLASS WINS! oomum(][B~[B(b(3~(jJ(]U§ ~ w[B(B(3§§mruU(3§ Tremendous Quantities of Results . 9823 Mason Avenue Chatsworth, Calif. 1. B,uce Penhall (14); 2. Scott Autrey (13); 3. Dennis Sigaloa 1131; 4. Ron Preston 1131; 5. Shawn Moran 110); 6. G• .,., Woods 1101; 7. John Cook lSI; 8. Mike Faria (7); 9 . .>J.n Christian lSI; 10. Bob Schwonz lSI; 11. DennV Pyoott lSI; 12. Ouono Yarrow 151; 13. Bred Oxley 141; 14. John Sarldona 141; 15. Don McNeill 131; 16. Kelly Moran 111. IUCTIOIEEa HARRY ENGELSON' 1_7 _ .. ew. _ Oob. c.. 91.03 (213) .72·1557 Plus Office & Shipping Equipment DRI.: Thurs.lFri./Sat. Nov. 29.30 & Dec•• 1. UL III .... NOTE: MerchandIse IS sold .., IS, wlthOul any warral'lly as to lit""' 01 use or rep...-senllliion. as to fItness 01 use lor any purpo" ~. Purchaser agrHS 10 assume an h_I"y~ tor fulure use or reute 0' any item PWChMld. 9