(A bove) Ed Lojak took advantage of a dry track on Day Three and posted
low score. (Belowl Jo hn Ayers led for two days; still took SOOcc honors.
AMA ISDT Qualifier Series:
Round six
Lojak, Ayers
erupt at Trask
Mountain
Thrt;e-Day
A
By Dale Brown
Photos by Action Oz and Brown
McM INNVILLE. OR. MAY 24·26
Getting in his third motocross special test before
rain severely slickened the surface , Ed Lojak
recovered from a 35-point (second) deficit to
post low score at the Trask Mountain M.e.
Three-Day ISDT Qualifier.
Husq va rn a -m ou nted
Lojak
won the 250cc Qualifier cla ss.
h il S
ki Yid J h A
w I e Ul U, I n er 0 n
yers ,
low scorer In the first two days.
6
too k the 500cc class win . missing out
on the low score honors by 54 points.
2144 -2178 .
Kawasaki captured th e two sma llbore classes as Mark Hyde beat team mate Jack Penton by four points in the
175cc ranks, Dane Leimbach spent
three days breaking trail and won the
l25cc Qualifier class.
Day three was marked by the con rro versia l fift h chec k . near the end of
the loop . R id ers. who had been hitting
checks early all w.eekend. often by as
much as 25 ·50 rnmutes , found them selves late. T he problem was com pounded by a turn in which the tra il
going away 'from the co urse looked to
be the right way . In the en d. the
referee agreed that the marking could
hav e been vague. and he extended the
time between the checks by four
minutes . This left most of the fast
riders free of route points. but not all .
Can' Am's John Martin. who had
gotten lost and was eight minutes past
his grace . filed a protest asking that
the chec k be thrown out altogether.
