Cycle News is a weekly magazine that covers all aspects of motorcycling including Supercross, Motocross and MotoGP as well as new motorcycles
Issue link: https://magazine.cyclenews.com/i/126537
co 0') (Above left) Derail Devls won two 7·11 86cc ch8mplonshlps. (Above right) Robbie 818gg took the 100cc Ameteur end Schoolboy titles. AMA National Championship Amateur IY outh TT Scrambles Series Davis, Blagg dominate at Bridgeton By Tim O'Haver Photos by W. Straube and O'Haver BRIDGETON, MI, AUG. 15-16 The Muskegon M.C. climaxed its TT scrambles racing season with the hosting of the AMA National Championship Amateur/Youth TT 16 Scrambles Series finale. Over 400 previously qualified finalists made the trip from all over the u.s. to race for glory on the nat ural terrain Bridgeton IT track. Two youngsters from the Northwest made their long trip to Michigan pay off with a pair of championship rides. Bremerton, Washington's Darell Davis won every race he rode on his Kawasaki s in Saturday's Youth Championship and came away with firsts in the 85 Stock and 85cc Modified classes in the 7·11 age division. Yamaha rider Robbie Blagg, from Central Point, Oregon. was the only other rider to garner two titles in a fierce weekend of racing. Blagg was top rider in 100cc Schoolboy class on Saturday, and won the IOOcc Amateur class race on Sunday. Ohioan Jess Roeder flirted with the possibility of two titles, claiming the 65cc (7·\1) class for his own, but fell one place short in the 51 cc (6-8) class, as Larry Pegram's Yamaha saw the checkered flag first. Saturday's Youth competitors earned their National numbers under difficult track conditions as rains made the hard-packed corners and hill untractable. The Muskegon M.C. was forced to do much work on the track before racing could be concluded. "They really rode their little rear ends off," said one track official Sunday moming. "until ten o'clock last night." he added with a smile. An enthusiastic crowd greeted Sunday's finals as nine different classes came to the line for championship honors. Robbie Blagg was Sunday's first champion taking the l00cc class wireto-wire, after falling and being hit on the initial start which was red-flagged. "The fall didn't scare me or anything, it just hurt," said Blagg afterward while nursing a swollen knee. Rod GiUis took his Suzuki to the front of the 125cc final for seven laps before Curt Cannon and his Yamaha sailed by on Bridgeton's fast uphill jump and never looked back. ''I've been trying to win one of these things for six years, and I finally did itl" said a jubilant Cannon. "My start was OK although my back wheel just kept spinning and I was about third anyway. The guys behind me were giving me a little push. I knew it was going to be tough, but I had to win it." Jon Bombarger suffered a similar fate in the 200cc event after leading seven laps on his Bultaco. Bill Bennett and Dan Stauffer skittered by, with Stauffer's Yamaha holding the (ContinlU1d to page 18)