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R.,."..:Up Eric McKenna leads Braker in the Open Pro wars. (Below)
A broken downtube caused Breker to crash late In the second Open moto,
(Above)
Ron Turner took the 125cc victory for the second week in a row.
reker return to Madera
was 'hurting him from an earlier spill
in the first 125cc moto and he was too
pained to continue.
Breker was happy to take over the
lead with Turner out of the way 'and
quickly began to improve upon it even
more. Second spot became a battle
royale between McKenna, Lawrence,
Staten and Kawasaki's Larry Wosick,
now up to join the front runner's
battle. At one point Staten was up to
third, then bailed off and had to recover from seventh spol. Wosick stalled
his Uni-Trak and dropped a couple of
pla,·es. as well. W.orking up from a
bummer start, Danny Chandler passed_
Lawrence for third and closed on
McKenna for second, but the privateer
Maico rider held off the Maico factory
star ri~ht up to. the finish. Breker had
the win ahead of them, while behind it
was Wosick keeping ahead of Staten
for fourth place.
The start of the second 250cc moto
went to Dave Taylor. but it didn't last
for long as "Lavender" Larry Wosick
stuffed his factory Uni-Trak under
Taylor's Yamaha and snatched the lead
as the first lap ended. As Wosick steadily churned out a six-second lead,
.Breker and Staten were knocking themselves up into second spot ahead of
Brown, McKenna. Taylor, Lawrence
and Mr. Magoo Chander, up from another poor start at the back end of the
pack.
After six laps Breker was finally able
to shake Staten from his tail and tried
closing on
Kawasaki
teammate
Wosick. but Larry was able to keep his
distance and win the moto, giving him
second overall for the day behind
Breker. Staten collected third for tbe
moto as Magoo moved into fourth
place and garnered third overall for
the afternoon.
Open Pro
Rex Staten saw a secure points lead
in the series Open class disappear with
tbe'start of the first moto. As Maico
rider Randy Losh pulled off the holeshot, another rider, Daniel Waller
went down in front of Rex in the
sweeping downhill first comer and
Rex endoed over the top of his bike.
With a sprained foot and a twisted set
of handlebars, Staten was out of the
moto. Despite the injury, Staten would
return to endure his way through the
second moto and win it.
Maicos seemed to be in firm command of the race. with Losh leading
the first moto over Pro-Trac Trailers
rider Allen Berlutti, Steve Rhyan on
the Wheelsmith machine and then
Danny Turner on his Bill Harrison Construction-sponsored bike. Working up
from the middle of the pack to try and
make a little extra money in ridin~
their second class of the day were Danny
Chandler. Eric McKenna and Goat
Breker as well.
By lap three a terrific five-way clash
for the lead began to develop between
Losh. Rhyan, Turner, Magoo and
Breker as Berlutti dropped back. Wild
child Magoo. in his usual style of wild
abandon. flapped his way around the
riders in front of him and into the lead
with his 450 factory Maico, leaving a
four-way battle for second place as he
disappeared off into the distance. But
alas, a win for Chandler was too good
a wish to come true as a bent swingarm
caused the Maico to pitch its chain
and put Magoo on the sidelines. With
that, Rhyan now had the lead and was
pullinll out a slight lead only to have
his engme lock up tight with unknown
mechanical woes twO laps before the
finish. Danny Turner inherited the lead
and two laps later the win as Breker
fmally worked his way around McKenna
for second, then came Heiberger,
Klassen and Losh.
"Rocket Rex" Staten returned in the
second moto to take the start and the
lead, but hampered by his sprained
foot, the Yamaha factory rider wasn't
shaking off Turner. Tim Locey,
McKenna and Heiberger as he usually
dominated in the Open ·class. Breker
was working up from a bad start to slip
into fourth spot before long, but
McKenna was doing even better as he
danced his Maico past both Locey and
Turner right up to Staten's rear fender.
At the halfway point after'a lap of
hard and consistent dogging of the
Yamaha factory star, McKenna passed
Staten for the lead. Staten kept close
to McKenna for three laps. not attempting any serious assaults to get back by
until three laps later. Then Staten blast·
ed past McKenna for the lead, using
all 465cc of brute power at his. disposal
to power out of an uphill turn on the
outside line and repass McKenna for
the lead. The rest of the moto belonged
to Staten, with McKenna in second and
Turner third. For Danny Turner that
was all he needed for the overall win.
Breker was in fourth place with one
lap to go when the front frame downtube broke on his production 420 Uni·
Trak Kawasaki, buckling the bike to
the ground and pitching Goat off with
an injured ankle.
Hopefully Breker's ankle injury is 0
more than 'a light sprain and he should
be back again with Staten and the boys
to tear up the track at Prairie City
OHV Park in Sacramento Feb. 3.
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Results
125 PRO: 1. Ron Tumor, 4-1 (Suzl; 2. Jim Holey, 1-4
IVam); 3. Dave Coupe, 3-3 tSuz); 4 . .J