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e TEN YEARS i'~. -AGO Solety_t ~ 00 0') ~ 8795 Suzuki's Roger DeCoster wound up the 1971 Trans-AMA Series with a 21-1 500cc International class win at Saddleback Park. Teammates JQeI Robert and Sylain Geboers finished 2-3, with Geboers winning the TransAMA Championship easily over Adolph Wei!. Mark Blackwell (Hus) finished ninth overall for top American honors, and in doing so he took top Ame,rican position in the final point stimdings (which also counted to name an AMA 500cc MX Champ) by one point over CZ rider Brad Lackey. In 250cc .National action, visiting German Werner Schutz (Mai) won the class over Doug Grant (AJS). Maico rider Tim Hart was the overall senes Winner. 0') 1-0 QJ .c e QJ U QJ ~ BSA announced that it was dropping its AMA Grand National Championship team, although it would continue its racing department to make racing parts available to racers, and contingency money would be posted. It was still expected that Dick Mann would ride BSAs and Gene Romero would ride Triumphs. Nothing but the best. The continuing battle Corona Raceway had been fighting over alleged noise violations came to an end when the case was thrown out of court and track owner FeliCe! Lipari found 10 misdemeanor charges dismissed. In recapping the '71 Barstow to Vegas, Papa Wealey.may have uncovered the best bench racing material in quite sometime. Rick Bailey, who won the 250cc Novice class, rented the Yamaha DT-l he used .from a North Hollywood shop. Bailey told the proprietors what he intended to do with the machine, and they rented it to him for $100 plus $100 in expected damage. Bailey brought the machine back cleaned up and without a scratch. The California Enduro Association put on one tough enduro in the southern California desert. How tough was it? Onl'( 12% of the entry (50 out of 411) finished the run, and Kawasakimounted Steve Hurd looked like the winner since he was the only rider with a score of less tha n 1001 Desert facing in Utah was in the form of the Turkey' Run, with overall winner Preston Gerber and first 250cc rider Woody Lawhon outgistancing the field. Lane Leavitt won the second of three· rounds in the California State Trials Championship Series. Rich Bledsoe and Bob Nickelsen trailed him by three and six points, respectlvely. Bill Cook rode a pair of Maicos to wins in the 250 and 500cc Expert class in a motocross at Goose Hollow, OR. Chuck Sun (Mai) was first 250cc Intermediate of the day. • Remember When? Only from ROCKY Sunnyvale, CA. Bridgeport, NJ IirEle;;;;;aaEl~Ei m III '~l!E!EI!!Iaem YEAR END CLOSEOUT _ m ALL WHIT:t:~::~RODUCTS .' Cycle Shack GIFT HEADQUARTERS Now In Our 11th Year • BELL HELMETS • DG GOODIES III NOW IS YOUR CHANCE FOR THE FINEST III ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ WP Racing 6340 Georgetown lane Middletown. OH 45402 ~ WARRANTY INCLUDED ~ III III a YamahaYZ KawasakiKX Honda CR " XR KTM Maico (1980) All solo shocks $340 All dual shocks $310 All single shock springs for stock shocks $50 Suzuki Air Boxes $68 III a • JT RACING APPAREL • WHEELS OF MAN CLOTHING • MOTO·X·FOX • MALCOLM SMITH • HI·POINT BOOTS PRODUCTS • TIRES - WE HAVE 'EM ALL Cycle Shack ~ .. 1645 W. Chapman Ave. /.. v~, ,_ Orange. CA 92668 W~rl"\,\i "-\ . (7.4) 978-3975 "') MON.-FRI. 10A.M. -7 P.M. SAT. 9 A.M. - 5 P.M.. '\ 7 V ~ a a III 513/422-6622 lEi 17