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Cycle News 1980 03 19

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~. o 00 0') Patrick Pons wins Daytona 200 Road Race Daytona Supercross 1st Rex Staten 2nd Marty Smith 3rd Mike Bell Congratulations to Gina Bovaird on belng the first temale to _Iify and ride the DaYtona 200 ore "I just backed her down," Filice said afterwards. "I didn't want to falll" He closed on Haney near the halfway point but, at the signal from his pit crew, he settled back into "second" rather than challenge Haney. With the winner apparently decided, the race for second became the focal point. Californians Dave Busby and Fred Winters and Texan Kevin Brunson rubbed fairings in an intense three-way skirmish that began on lap five and lasted until the final trip around the 3.M-mile course. When the checkered flag came out. it was Busby's Yamaha that followed Filice's machine across the banked finish line. Winters took third. and Brunson's AA Harper·sponsored TZ250 rolled in fourth. Rounding out the top five was "first easterner" David Reed from North Carolina on the A&M H-D/Super Toad Racing Yamaha. • Results 76-MILE NOVICE: ,. Jim Filice (Vam); 2. Dave Busby (Yaml; 3. Fred Winters (Vaml: 4. Kevin Brunson (Yaml; 5. David Reed !Vam); 6. Bobby BeheIIVam); 7. GordonHedemark {Veml; 8. Keith Kiyota IVaml; 9. Hugh Delage (Vaml; 10. John Math"""" IVam); 1'. Nobushiro Nakamura (Vaml; , 2. Mark Bougas (Vam); 13. Carl Muffley (Vaml; '4. William Himmelsbach (H· 0); 15. David Matt_(Vam); 16. David Howes (Vaml; 17. Jell Haney (Vam); 18. David Gre«lO (Vam); 19. Gary McOonoId (Voml; 20. Jell Allison (Voml. TIME: 47:33.lee. AIIEAAGE SPEED: 98.012 mp/l. MOST WINNERS GO WITH D.I.D. CHAINI Headquarters: 885 Centennial Avenue,Piscataway, N.J. 08854 - Phone 12011885-1800 Red Mountain Enduro Placentia, CA Mike Hannon - Yamaha 465 on Dunlop 21

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