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Cycle News 1981 10 21

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----------------------------------------------~In ceI*ation 01 our 1,2,3 standings in the ArM Nlllallli Enduro a.amplansllip. and took the lead. Meanwhile, Scott Tyler huDg in like glue till he went down ami the paelt roared by. Robby Watilo(Yamahnuppon), wbostarted the tint lap in founh, p.-d Andenon OIl lap six and then Andenon seemed to dear the fog to try and haul in Wztilo. By lap nine he was able to pass ami slip into lleCond to the flag. Cropper had a commanding lead and flew acnJlll the fiDisb liDe a strong winner of motoone. Watilo pidted up third and Mike McConnielt (Yam) held founb. Larry Hofenbredl (Sur) took fifth and Steve Corcoran (Yam) claimed sixth. Bob Cameron (Gresham Sur) got the RCOnd moto bolesbot and ....ept it until lap two when Stacy. Thornton (Sur) blasced by him to go into the lead. Cropper got a lousy stan and had to wor.... bimJelf up through the paelt. Anderson went from founh on the fint lap to lleCond on the IIeCODd lap. He then passed Thornton on the third lap to take the lead, which he held to the flag. Stacy stayed with him for lleCond and Cropper got to third before time ran out. Overall it was AmIerson, Cropper IIeCOnd, MCCormic.... ami Thornton. Robby Watilo (RW Racing), got a magnificent holesbOl in the first 2SOcc Pro moto. He was way into the lead and hauling you blow what. AnderIOD, the major threat was laying way baelt in fifth. Srne Williams (Yam) had 1IeCond for ~:r' but on lap three Anderson pi a liDe and swept by WiI1iaIDI to take IIeCOnd. Meanwhile, Watilo was out front smoking. Then it happened, while he was smoking he jumped the fint umIerpus jump, set up for the right hamler and dumped it. Anderson was just close enough to see what happened and wielted it just enough to squea.... by before Watilo could right his machine. They both had such a lead that no one got by_ Watilo cranked it bac.....on and the race took on added interest. Side by side they went and it was "wow" time. On the next to the last lap Anderson , made that same jump, the fint underpass, and rewrote the Watilo book, dumping it in exactly the same spot as Rob did. Watilo went by to take the flag and the moto. Anderson was IIeCODd, Steve Smith third, Tim Mich· 1itsch founh and Kevin Jansen fifth, the latter two riding support Kawaaakis. The lleCond 2~Occ Pro moto was an anticlimax. Watilo got a bad stan while Anderson got a good stan. Steve Williams (Yam) took. the lead for a short time and was p.-d by Anderson by lap two. Kevin Jansen reclaimed the second position and held it to the flag. Williams was able to hold third and Craig Praus (Yam) earned fourth. Ken Reynolds (Suz) pic....ed up fifth. What could have shaped up to be was not to be. Watilo went down in the third tum, getting started again dead last. Three laps later he pushed in with a broken fr.rme. The overall shook out as follows: Anderson, Jansen, Williams, Steve Smith ami Craig Praus. 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