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Racing Yam 575) were scrambling forpoints in an effort to break their' mid·
season deadlock. Vallerga jumped out
to an early lead in his race, 600cc Super·
street. But Chuck McAvoy, on his im·
maculate Dick Mann·framed Honda
XL~OO, wasn't payin, muc~ respect to
Louis. Suddenly, Bnan TI1seth (East
Bay Yam 550) passed both of them,
McAvoy passed Vallerga, and Louis
had to settle for third place.
Later in the day, Graves had problems with Howard Monise in the 450cc
Production contest. Howard stayed
close, but couldn't quite catch Kirk.
"Ran outta tire - I need wider tires.
The bike popped out of fourth gear
every time. I was better on the brakes
than he (Graves) was," remarked a
frustrated Monise. And Graves was
concerned. "I'll just have to go faster
next time. I blew it going into 11. On
the first lap I was looking back and
was so busy looking I almost ran into
the dirt in (tum) seven." Tracy DeMuro
(Encino Cycle/ND Yam 550) kept his
john Lassak·prepared mount ahead of
Tom Maggard (Yam RD400) to stay in
the hunt for the Number One plate.
As mentioned a few weeks ago, the
1981 550cc street bikes have trans·
formed the 600cc Production and Box
Stock classes into Kawasaki GPz/
Yamaha Seca benefits. The AFM reo
sponded to requests by the singlecylinder crowd to hold one more race,
this one for thumpers only. As race
director Duncan Blake explained,
"There was desire to have their race
because their bikes aren't competitive.
In the past it seemed as though some
people weren't listening .. ". I had
enough guys to get another race for
them." Blake said that besides the
thumper race (won by Chuck McAvoy),
next meet will have thumpers in one
wave and four-stroke twins in another.
Mike johnson, a longtime AFMer,
announced that his shop, East Bay
Yamaha in San Leandro, will have
eight Yamaha RD550LCs for sale as
soon as they arrive from Holland.
And finally, the name of the place
has reverted back to its original name,
Sears Point. This was one of the many
changes instituted by the new owners
- jack Williams, Rick Betz and Clark
Marshall. The trio purchased the 155acre facility for "comfortably under a
million dollars," stated Williams.
"We've started cleaning weeds and
generally cleaning up,- but it's not
going to happen overnight. That's
going to take up about a year. Next is
upgrading the motocross course." Williams is no stranger to the track,
having been general manager in 197778 under president Lee Moselle, now
at Laguna Seca. The new owners also
patched turns one, 10 and 11, besides
filling the "craters in the paddock."
Williams said that the paddock will be
entirely repaved by mid·September.
The next Sears Point race will be
August 8-9, the annual Golden Gate
Challenae. August SO marks the seventh
race of the year at the track, with action
switching to Laguna Seca on September
~7.
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Results
TllUMPERS: 1. Chuck McAvoy IHan); 2. John
IVoml; 3. Anav MIIloni IVaml.
460 BOX STOCK: 1. DoreIt WiIto