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cbued Lon Petenon and Mac Douglas
on a Quality M/C Service Yamaha to
tbe finish. but ~nded up tbe Class 50
winnen on ~lapsed time. At th~ finish,
P~non exclauned, "I rod~ with a flat
tire for ~r half a loop ~re trying to
stay abead of him (Ga~tz)I" Ga~tz immediat~ly shot bad, "I rod~ with a
flat trying to catch youl" pointing to
his own r~ar wh~1.
Whil~ on th~ California loop, Ga~tz
report~d that th~ir motor ~ized. "W~
w~r~ ~ight minutn down," h~ said. In
ord~ to malt~ up that ~: "My part·
~r coo/ced those fi~oads."
Early class I~ad~n Geor~ Erl and
Geo~ Luth~r on a Husky "bl~ it"
according to Erl. "W~ started pulling
a I~ad and ran out of gas two miln
from th~ (California) finish. We lost a
good 15-20 minutn," h~ recounted
whil~ waiting to start his portion of tbe
Arizona loops. "We'v~ got 15 minutn
to mak~ up." Th~ mad~ up som~
tim~, finishing in 6:06:05.52, but th~
~ffort was only abl~ to bring th~m
back to fourth.
In Class 58, Southwnt Motorcycl~
Saln Husky rid~r Dav~ MiIl~r soloed to
a ~mingly dfortlns win. "It was on~
of those things wh~n you didn't hav~
flats, fall down or anything," h~ said
aft~ finishing. SKond·plac~ finish~n
Lynn McGraw and Nat~ Sciacqua on a
Rust~n's Yamaha w~r~ slowed with
troubln on th~ oth~r hand. Whil~ fixing a flat, McGraw r~rtedly found
that tbe tube had melted.
Finishing a disappointing ~ighth in
class w~r~ Trac Pro Husky rid~n Rolf
Tibblin and Jim Partridg~. Tibblin
rode th~ California side and the
second Arizona loop hamper~d by a
numb~r of probl~ including the
brake stay arm and backing plate
(both brok~) and trying to g~t gas.
A n~ SCORE class this y~ar was
ATC, comp~d of two J- Wheeler
~lHonda-sponsoredATCl!50Rs.
Running
"only"
th~
IIO-mile
California loop, Trac~ Dickson and
~an Sundahl ddeated Rob~rt "Ac~"
Williams and Mark W~ixeldorfer by
18 s«onds. Down by six minutes at
Check 2. the Dickson/Sundahl team
turned it on to open up six minutes by
Check 3, but almost lost all of that
lead when Williams/Weixeldorfer dOlled
the gap at the finish.
The fact tbat the race even started
was a credit to much hard work and
cooperation by SCORE, the BLM and
a numb~r of other a~ncin. Though
SCORE had late last year s«ured permission and the necnsary permits to
run the race, ~~ral mvironmental
groups including the Si~rra Club and
Audubon Soci~ty went to court in an
~ort to halt the running of this year's
race. With tbe h~lp of the BLM and
local and county a~ncin. SCORE defeated the suit in what SCORE Presidmt
Sal Fish termed a "precedent.~tting"
decision.
The number of actual starters was
599, 514 of which w~re four-wh~l vehicles, 85 motorcycles and two ATCs. •
Results
CLASS 20: 1. BiI ~ . e-~ lV...,1
5:37:511.86; 2. Sam ..."""-'IK""'" Hopl<.. lV...,)
lVeml 5:55:31.10; 4. Sam
5:42:08.01: 3. Bob _
CoulloIDoryt Falla CHuol: 5. M _ _ _
CIoyDllVeml.
CLASS 21: 1. Rick ~1Bob IIolenu. (KTM)
5:29>I4JIlI: 2. K8w PIoiiM/SwlI _ l V 5:31:311.56:
3. CIIIard B. '"""'-IVortin E. V.. lalV
5:41 :00.40;
4. _
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lVom); 5. llomIlI Hl.-:hinII
Jim_lV.....
CLASS 22; 1: '--'Y _ / _ 0giMe lV...,1
5:04:02.n; 2. ChucI< Miller/Jim Fiohbeclt lV...,1
5:04:32.12; 3. ScoI _ _ WIiIingoford (H..)
5:07:04.32; 4. Jed< _
C~I; 5. KOIIin Wolch
(M801; 8. Torry CIIrt