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Donnie C8nt11loupl_ e two-c:.... winner et Argyll's scorcher MX.
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way. His record now stands at five and
the record is six, held for some six
years ·by Rick Hocking. Doug had to
ride from last place to win tonight and
shared the top honors with teammate
Keith Day on Kawasaki of Salinas
motors. Keith won the 500cc Expert
main and then took the first special
"King of the Bay" event.
A slightly lower turnout of riders
didn't bother the swelling crowd that
enjoys Wednesday night short tracks
and it was a newcomer to the 80cc
Novice victory circle. Jeremy Chisum
finally got a chance to come up and
ride and did the right job winning on
dad's KX80 while Vince Caramella
took second. Joey Diaz and cousin
Ricky seem to like to keep all the 80cc
Junior trophies in the family, Joey
winning once again. Kurt Chandler
continues to dom ina te the 80cc Expert
- class, He beat out a determined ride
between Kelly Fisher and Mike Macedo.
In big boy 125cc Novice/Junior competition it was Dave Caballero on the
Champion Yamaha over another new
name, Brian Blackburn. Brian Havey
made his first appearance at this track
and won the 250cc Novice class with
good style over old faithful Bill Baker.
Pete Murray seems to like winning
the 250cc Junior class despite lots of
competition from Caballero and Steve
Speaker.
As the main events got to going real
smooth, it seemed to be just a bit too
early and so in the 250cc Expert main ,
somehow a restart was called. Before
the green flag flew, about half the
front row was in the back row, then
the cheaters box and so when the
sorting out came to be , Chandler was
running the Salinas Kawasaki in last
spot and there was no way in hell that
he was going to beat the likes of Jim
Mertens on the BOSS Yamaha , Dave
Rosa on the Don's Plumbing Yamaha
or Danny Moore on the Yamaha of
Salinas special.
Of course, this young man who has
won seven national Amateur titles and
was the four-time number one Mini
rider doesn't ha ve that in his vocabulary and so he went to work riding
Kei th Day's short tracker' around the
competition to win his fifth straight
main event.
Mark Day came out on the H & S
Bul for the 360·500cc Novice main
over Randy Holycross on the ancient
age BSA . Mike Ahm kept the bigger
displacement bikes at bay as well ,
winning the combined 360·500cc
Junior race over Steve Nunes. Steve
Carrillo still has the stranglehold on
the 360cc Experts with a very quick
Yamaha, winning over Kevin Hugill
and Rocky Malynn.
Keith Day came out for some good
sport and handily won the 500cc
Expert main over Danny Moore and
Doug Chandler and then came back to
win the special "King of the Bay" series
which wasn't so good for Dave Rosa
who took a bad tumble but will be well
enough to go East for the Amateur
Nationals on the Don's Plumbing,
Harry Lillie-prepped 250 and 500cc
bikes .
Results
80 NOV: 1. Jeremy Chisum IKaw); 2. Vince
Caramella IKaw).
SOJR: 1. Joey DiazIKawl: 2. RickyDiazIKawl.
80 EX 1. KurtChandler (Kaw): 2. KeI}y Fischer (Vaml;
:
3. MikeMacedo lSuz).
125 NDVlJR: 1. Dave Caballero (Varni; 2. Brian
Blackburn (Yam).
250 NOV: 1. B weeks
previously and the cool night air of LA
differed drastically from the Dixon
heat. Two steps richer did the trick.
Cantaloupi was again out front of
moto two, this time with Blair's Yamaha on his tail. Coleman, Turner and
Woods were back in the pack a ways.
After a few laps, Cantaloupi was
still in the lead, Wargo had taken over
second and Blair was third . As ' Lou pi
and Wargo put a small cushion on
Blair, Turner had worked his way
through the pack from a poor start
and was challenging for third. Coleman
was in fifth with Jimmy Robertson and
Woods behind.
Turner put his great riding experience to work and made it to second
before the eight laps were up, but
Canraloupi had the win and the
overall.
Turner holeshot both Open Pro
motos and won the first unchallenged
while Brian Jodry took second after
working past Rick Ferlong. Bob Schaeffer made it up to third in the first mot o
as Dean Sh ul tz (Darrell's brother)
dropped back from a good start with a
disintegrating front wheel that m ade
his Suzuki look like an MX missile in
heat.
Jodry passed Turner in the e~rly
going of the second moto, but Dan Just
held back waiting to take advantage of
any m istake. The mistake came when
Brian got personal with the turf and
tried to kiss a sweeper. He got up in
third and held position to the finish.
Puhakka meets
WMRRA 250 GP
Challenge
By Russ Cazier
KENT. WA ,JULY27
Peter Puhakka showed the Washington Motorcycle Road Racing
Association faithful at Seattle International Raceway that he still
has the touch by winning the 50-mile
250 GP Challenge. Puhakka, a Canadian rider and formerly a frequent
visitor to the WMRRA winner's circle',
made his first Seattle appearance this
year a big one by playing a waiting
game in third and fourth positions for
most of the race. When pre· race favor ites Bruce Lind and Brian Sutton fell
out with mechanical failures. Puhakka
was in for the win .
•
With Randy Skiver taking a Sunday
off from Northwest' roadracing, Bob
Loose, on a Suzuki GSlOOO Cafe bike
sponsored by Everett Suzuki, won both
Open Cafe and Open GP, plus finish'·
ing fourth in the 250 GP race. Bruce
Lind, on an older TZ750 , stayed wheel
to wheel with Loose , swapping leads
through both heats of Open GP and
forced some of Loose's best -ever lap
times around SIR. Chris Michak's
debut of a Kawasaki four-stroke GP
machine netted him a third place, but
the Kaw's brakes and handling aRpeared not yet dialed in.
Keith Pinkstaff kept his perfect unbeaten string in Open Production,
winning that class going away, as well
as taking second to Loose in Open
Cafe. Keith is presently leading the
slate of WMRRA racers in season points
in a class, and the other racing Pinkstaff, Howard, went into the race with
a narrow points lead in Open Single
GP. Howard's fourth in this race kee~
him in contention for the season win W
Rod Chronister's astonishing development as a road racer continues. The l
Yakima rider gets faster and smoother
every race and won both heats against
a very strong field "including Claude
Hislop and Dave Wilson who finislied
second and third in 750cc Production.
Rod's father, Howard, helps prepare
the bike, sponsors him and then works
a comer during the race; he appeared
more tired than Rod at the trophy
presentation.
John Westphalen, whose picture
graced the cover of the .WMRRA race
program, showed dedication above
and beyond the call after he crashed
his Triumph. Westphalen went to the
hospital and returned to the track in
time for the trophy presentation wearing the familiar figure eight brace sup·_
porting a broken collarbone. Naturally;"
he claims he was in second and going
~
for the lead when he crashed.
- Impressive-ride-of-the-day honors
should go to Adrian Chaster who won
410cc Production handily. then rode
the same RD350 in a mixed 750 and
O pe n Production hea t. It looked for a
while that Chaster was not going to
finish last, prompting at least one
Open Prod uction rider to expend som~
extra effort.
Resu lts
250 GP CHALLENGE: 1. Peter Puhakka IVam); 2.
;
Chris Robinson (Yam); 3. DarylComwetl (Vaml 4. Bob
loosa (Yam) 5. Sidney Collier(Yaml
;
.
OPEN PROD 1. KoOth Pinka1alf (Suzl; 2. Wayne
:
Tanner ISuzl; 3.Lawis Haruft (Duel.
750 PROD: 1. Rod Chronister CSuzl; 2. Claude Hislop
1Honl; 3. DaveWiIoon (Kawl.
