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Cycle News 1981 07 01

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I e { T1Wd .... flnI8her Yrjo VeeterInen 131 ~mpta • truly atunnlng weterf811 HC:tIon. VeRy wound Up 10 poInD behind the _den. 22 (ContinlUldfrom page 19) his bike and hopped it .. a foot at a time .. around. The crowd went wild. Then Burgat did the same thing and Schreiber repeated his feat on the third loop. Despite the stamina sapping sections and t~e discomfort of being wet and muddy for seven houn there was still some humor left in a few of the riden. Eddy Lejeune. who was leading the point standings going into the event, clipped a tree in a section sending him tumbling. The oblerver' asked his score. "Clean,'" said Lejeune with a smile. He got a five. The National class riders gOt are· prieve from the two toughest sections on the course·· .«tions six and eight· . to ride a total of 12 sections on each of three loops. Winner Curt Comer lost n points in his National winning ride and 105 in-the International class .. the 50 mark difference was tallied from six tries and six failures in those International'c1ass only sections. Don Sweet. who virtually owns the New England trials scene after nine straight titles. placed second with a 102 mark' loss. Sweet was Montesa mounted as was Comer. The event was ably handled by organizer Carl Peters and the metnben of the ~huyler County M.C. and the AMA District 4 Trials Committee. . Results WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP: 1. Gilles Burget ISWMI 47; 2. ChIrtoo e - d IMonI 47; 3. Yrjo V _ C8u1157; 4. _ Subira IF.,) 58; 5. UtI " - - tMonl 12; e. Eddot ~ IHont 12; 7. llriIo cw.zz; ISWMI88; 8. _ ~ Utal 71; 9. Tony Gorgol 10al 74; 10. M-.uot SoIor IMonI 78; 11. av-. llanoyers (SWMI 88; 12. Malcolm FIlnhmoIIMon) 97; 13. Curt Comer fMon 11031; 14. J...-o Lejeune lMonI 123; 15. Jact< Stitoo CSWMI 158; 16. Morgen ~ CBull 184; 17. Woyno GoIvin (Bull 175; 18. WIIllom Ululll79. WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP POINT STANDINGS: 1. 8urgol 171); 2. Lojouno l65l; 3. " - - t58l; 4. V_non l5Ol; 5. SoIor (45); e. Gorgot 14Sl; 7. Sc:hroibor 13Bl; 8. e - d l36l; 9. IIolhtnoIt t2Ill; 10. Mortln Lompkin 1241. NAT1ONAl: 1. Curt Comer IMon) 73; 2. Don S IMonl102; 3. MQ;aon Ko..-.gh IBulII34; 4. Dwoino W..... (BulII40; 5. Woyno GIlvin IBulll44; 8. _ Crook (Monll46; 7. W..". W_uk ISWMll46; 8. IloynQ1d Foumior IBuIl 147; 9. Bubby _ lBuIl 149;10. WIIllom ~ (Bull 149. a..-

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