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Gary Scott won Ascot in record time. while Randy Gossl131 was third.
Steve Oort was the Junior winner. besting Danny Perkins.
Gary Scott wins
Ascot Regional in
'record time
when he discovered in the pits that his
bike wouldn't shift.
The crowd was up on its feet. Scott
hadn't gone quite like this in a long
time, he rode confidently up to tht;
high groove and started flying out of
the turns on them, at one point going
between Labrie and the wall' at the
start of the main straight in only a
whisker of space. "I didn't really want.
to do that," he grinne.;l 'afterwards to
fans who were still try'ng to quiet their
hearts. "But I thought, oh well, -I'll go
for it, I knew there was just enough
room," It was probably the,hardest
work Cary's do",e in a long time, a
night when he and the bike just got together and ran as one, and it earned
him a nice lump of cash and trophy
and the Western RegionaJ Championship when "those in the know" were
saying, "it's a Goss night."
The Juniors all got safely through
their heats, Rich Arnaiz had' an easy
win the first heat with Derek Land the
second transfer, Danny Perkins and
Jeff McDaniel carne out of the second
heat, and Jeff Allison and Sal
Hoffman the third. Fast Arlette Smith
·was third in that one, and when Jim
Keener tried to pass her he fou nd
himself going too quickly into turn one
and ended up scattering hay in the
sou'th turn and breaking the from axle
of his bike,
In the start of the semi, Tom
Cameron, who makes the trip down
from Washington with his dad Jack
(also a Junior), took a bad spill exiting.
turn two and got taken to Gardena
Hospital. His condition dicln't I()ok
good but as w~ go to press we've spent
30 minutes being transferred all over
that hospital oy phone' trying to find
Torn until the operator finally got
tired and pulled the plug on us.
Unbelievably, the Juniots crashed
again on the restart, but they finaJly
did get the race off, with Arlette Smith
leading them all through the first
turn, and Steve Oort taking first away
'and keeping it. Arlette did one hell of
a fine job turning back or passing back
all comers after the second spot until
finally Steve Karsten got it. but it gave
Arlette a transfer to the main.
In the main, Rich Arnaiz the high
point Junior for the year couldn't get
his bike to fire so Bob Cunnington
moved in as first alternate, Off they
went with the early. leaders Derek
Land, Jeff McDaniel and Danny
Perkins doing things like going down
the main chute three abreast. Perkins
got a bit anxious and found himself
behind Jeff McDaniel and Steve Oort;
OOrt had been coming up like something nasty was chasing him.
By Maureen Lee
Photos by Dan Mahony
GARDENA, CA, SEPT. 26
The high groove at Ascot is a lonely place, riders ~sually go there only by mistake an.d it's not
fun up by the wall in the marbles. But there
has been a handful of superstars over the years·
who will roam there at will howling out of the ~ol'th tu;n and
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