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I Soatbera C..lloral..Arlzoa....atbera Nev.""'utb.rn C.lllornl.· Arlzon....utb.ra Nev.d.·Southera Caliloral.· Arlzoa '. Western hotline ~ E but this time it was Clement who dis· placed him. Clement went on to win the race while Steinhoefel moved up into second for the overall win. Siracusa held on to third for third overall. Bart Hitt (Kaw) again topped the 125cc Intermediate ranks with a. double win. Ken Campbell (SU1) sur· prised himself when he took second overall with a 3-4 seore after falling. Finishing third was Michael Curry, who went 6-2 on his Honda. Tbe 250cc Pro turnout was a little lighter than normal, but Jim Domann (Yam) double win was still impressive. Rick Zobel led for a few laps on his Santa Ana Kawasaki, but then dropped out of the race, letting Domann jump into the lead. He held it all the way while Roy Yoakum (Suz) finished second over Frank Fitzgerald (Han), and Chris Tarvin (Hon). In the nest race it'was Domann all the way. Fitzgerald took second for second owrall over Yoakum and Tarvin. Craig Gormley again did in the 125cc Pro class on his Indio Yamaha with very little apparent effort. Taking second in the first round was Scott Baker, but Dan Paulson was runnerup in the second round, giving him second place money. Leap Year GP to lAbovel The 250cc Novice c.... hits DeAnu'. first turn with Aurelio SiracuH 1131 and David Clement 131 Clleading. (Belowl Larry Roesel. totally dominated the Leap Vear GP'. 250cc Pro rece. Roese/er By Ron Lawson CORONA, CA, MAR. 9 Several years ago the Racing Association of Cycle Enthusiasts held a race in February of a leap year and logically dubbed it the Sportsmen Jam at DeAnza By Ron Lawson SUNNY MEAD. CA, MAR. 9 36 The action was clO5e in the sportsman ranks at DeAnza Cycle Park. The 125cc Novice class in particular was interesting with four riders in contention for the win. In round one it was Bob Nunez (Yam) who jumped into the immediate lead and took it all the way home. But right on his tail for tbe first two laps was Victor Nunez (Kaw). Victor, however, ran into some rough luck early in the race and eventually dropped out, leaving another Kawasaki rider, Paul NagaI. to carry on. Bob Nunez went on to win the race with Nagel taking second ahead of Rich Lisse (Yam). who was running in traffic throughout the race. Round two saw Lisse come back for a start·to·finish win. In the early laps he was locked in combat with Nagel. but he finally broke free and shortly after that Nagel ran into mechanical trouble and dropped back to third. This handed second place and the overalJ' win to Nunez. The 250ccNovice had a similar race with the first round going to Gary Steinhoefel (Hus) after a strong last lap pass on Aurelio Siracusa (Kaw). Taking third in that race was Butch Baker (Yam) ahead of David Clement (Yam) and Calvin Utterback (Yam). Siracusa altain led most of round two, "Leap Year GP." The race was a success and so tbe next year the promoters did it again, but didn't quite know what to call it. They finally just sbrugged their shoulders and called it the "Unleap Year GP" and went on to devote their time to loftier matters. Well, here comes 1980 and it's another leap year so the race was either called the second quad-annual Leap Year GP or the fifth annual Unleap Year GP; they couldn't really make up their minds. But whatever it was called, it was big. After the first date was rained out. a 101 of riders saved it up and nearly 700 showed up. Of those 700 entries, the top rider was unquestionably Larry Roeseler of Yamaha. In the 250cc Pro class, Roeseler got the holeshot and was never anywhere but in front during the 45 minute race. The only rider that could match Roeseler's pace was Cycle World's Don Griewe (Mai) who was second out of the hole and never more than 10 seconds behind throughout the event. While those two were. pulling away, third place was up for grabs with Riverside Suzuki's Andy Orescanin holding it on lap one. Orescanin lost quite a bit of time on the next loop and third place became the property of Ted Hoyt (Yam). Marty Miller held _ down fourth ahead of Orescanin while Danny Burtt (Yam) and Jim Tarantino (DG Han) were coming up strongly from the rear. The next time around saw Burtt pushing Miller for fourth before crashing and giving his own position to Orescanin, who in tum was working to hold off Tarantino. The four of them, Hoyt. Miller. Tarantino and Orescanin. were only yards apart when they came around for the white nag lap, and it looked like it was coming right down to the wire_ Taran-