Cycle News - Archive Issues - 1980's

• Nonhern California·Nonhern Nevada·Oregon·Washington-ldaho-Utah-Alaska-Canada· Nonhern California·Nonhern Nevada·Oregon-Washington·ldaho-Utah·AIa &1 NORTHERN DATELINE ~ E o 00 0') P"""l Experts fling their MXers around Sand Hill Ranch's scrambles track. 40 Bonovich claimed second and Palmer third overall. During the long wait for the ambulance before the I25cc Expert race , a lot of water was put on the track with the result that both the Expert race and the Intermediate one wh ich fol lowed were run in conditions that in part seemed almost a grim re-run of a winter mud run . Scott Rebuck (Suz) was out first followed by Tim Lear (Ya m) and Will Akers (Ya m) . Ake rs was an early casualty and Ra ndy Pockrandt , on a Suzuki, took over the th ird pos ition until Rebuck fell on the third lap and let Lea r and Pock randt get past him. Their order was rea r ranged but those three, now Lear , Pockrand t and Rebuck , moved out ahead , putting about 20 seconds between themselves and those who followed . Joey Schlag (KTM ) got a m id -pack start and worked up into fourth at about th e same time the three bikes left in front of him .had pulled out their 20 seconds. Mike Beier (Yam) crashed a t the beginning of the moto and was unable to climb any farther than seventh. For t he second moto , Rebuck aga in got int o the lead but this time he stayed to finish firs t. Schlag and Beier got good sta rts as well and came across the fin ish line second and th ird . Comin g down the chute at the start of rnoto one of th e Open Exp erts, Pockrandt (Mai) looked promising bu t he slid out in the turn and remounted dead last only to fall , again and lose more time before the first lap was over. Keith Meyers (Kaw) was first around the turn but he seriously overshot th e second turn and Br ian Jod ry (Suz), Dean W iggins (Ma i) and Rick DeLong (Ma i) were the early leaders. J im Inglebright (Ma i) claimed DeLong's position by the th ird lap and those pos itions - Jodry , W iggins and Inglebright - seemed ironclad until the final lap when both Wiggins and Ingelbright heated it up a litt le and moved up closer behind Jodry. Never theless, th e formation held all th e way to the checkered flag . Pockrandt , with seemingly undimmed spirit, kept pushing and fin ished a not too shabby fifth . Wiggins led around the turn in the second moto with DeLong , Pockrandt a nd Jody following . Ingiebright. eager to move up , fell in th e second turn and reshuffled th e pack. Wiggins retained the lead all the way to the fin ish for the win and the first overall money . Jodry moved up into second place and kept pushing until he fell ~ n the final lap leaving seco nd to Pockrandt a nd third to DeLong. Results VETEX: 1. Harry Belliein i (Yaml. TM); 2. Jack Leis (Mai); ter VETJR : 1. Earl Remp fer (K . VET NOV 1. Ed Sm ith (Ma;); 2. Waller Glann (Yam); : 3_Larry Heringth IMai). 3. Bill Harrison (M ail. OT EX: 1. J im Saitone (Mail; 2. Ernest CabrallSuzJ. OT JR : 1. Richard Ben encou n IYaml: 2. Fred Persen (Hus) . OT NOV: 1. Carl Leiher ISuzl: 2. John Weitz IC-Al; 3. Mike Hackel (Hon). 250 EX: 1. Jim Inglebright IMail; 2. Sco tt Rice (Yaml; 3. Ji m Robertson (Mei ). 250 INT: 1. Steve Richa,d s (Yam): 2. Grog Bonov;ch (Varn I; 3 . Ken Palmer (M ail. 250 NOV: 1. Scon Castaneda (Yaml; 2. Gary Maho ney (Hon): 3. loren Turner (Kawl. 125 EX: 1. Scon Rebuck (Suzl: 2. Joey Sc hlag IKTM ); 3. Tim Lear Ivarnl, 125 tNT: t. Kevin Bixby (Yaml ; 2. James Dick man (Hon ); 3. M ike Whalen (Suz) . 125 NOV DIV I: r. Bill Willis (Honl ; 2. Sean Grathat' (Yam l: 3 . Tim Coll ins (Yaml . 125 NOV DIV II: 1. Tony Gasoeri ISuzl; 2. Myk Brown (Kaw l; 3. Lo n Kind er (VarnI. OPEN EX: 1. Dean Wig gins (Mai); 2. Brian Jod ry (Suz); 3. Rand y Poc k randt (M ail. OPEN tNT: 1. Robert Stone IMai); 2. Jim Stewart IMail: 3. Wayne Martin (Mail, OPEN NOV : t . Al an Ceredo IYam t: 2 . Rod Nissen (Yam); 3. Steve Bevilacq ua (Suz). MINI EX: 1. Tim Aston (Yam). MINI JR : 1. Shawn Freiling (Kaw l. MINt NOV : 1. Chris Plain (Yam); 2. Tallon Vohland (Yam); 3. M ichael Sm ith IKawl . 100 JR: 1. Lerov DeLeon (Suz). 100 NOV : 1. Bill Moseman {Yaml; 2. Emmet Ram ifez ISuzl. WOMEN: 1. Melissa Ross (Suz); 2. Nina Bevilacqua (Suzl . Greg Anderson (4631 and Sean Duncan negotiate some Tulare whoops. The red flag ca me out again in the Vets/ O ld Timer race as Pen Parks ended up on the ground in th e right hander. Jim Hartbauer led th rough th e ea rly laps on the restart but cruised through the fence in the sweeper. No vice Mike Crosby too k over the lead , but he too fell as the track had considerably dried out by the main . In the meantime, Hartbauer had reo covered and moved up from wa y back , overtaking Parks in the last turn for the win . Dennis Parker took th e third spot. Tony Flores came awa y with another easy victo ry in the Mini division . Tony, who should be wearing the Junior plates soo n , was followed by Johnny Ward and Richard Da vis. Don Wilson came away with his second straight Open Novice win outdistancing second-place fin isher Chris Riddle. Wil son , also destined for the Junior class, rode the T T 500 wide open around the outside a nd gets the vote as the b est crowd pleas er of th e night. Andy Butler rounded out the top three . Jerry Brandt took the exhibition "Money Minibike" event , taking home the cash over, Craig Christian and Da ve Faria. Results It's Faria again at SHR Scrambles By Roy Hartbauer Photo by Kelli Burnett BRENTWOOD,CA , MAY 16 David Faria d id it again, crossing the finish line ahead of the pack to win the Open Expert main event at Sand Hill Ranch's weekly scrambles. Faria , after getting off in the heat ra ce . ca me from ba ck in th e pack to meth od icall y pass th e leaders and cr eep into the lead . Ga ry J ohnson , com ing back afte r a serio us inju ry, seemed to be ge tt ing his form back by winning the heat a nd fin ishing seco nd in the -ma in . Jerry Brand t. co nsiste ntly fin ishing among th e front runners, took th ird . James Casey flew off th e lin e on th e restart after a m isha p forced everyone back to the line in th e 250c c No vice race. Casey, wh o is fast picking up those Junior points , went on to win th e main event handily. J oe T owbis took the runner -up honors with Bill Gr osse in th ird . 5Occ: 1. O. Leff (Yaml: 2. M. Pasca rella; 3. S. Davidson (Suzl . 8Occ: 1. T. Flo-11

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