TEN
YEARS
AGO
Though results were not o££icial,
Doug Wilford's score of 2537 earned
him the overall win at the Bad Rock
Trial, a two-day ISDT qualifier held
in Weston. OR. Billy Uhl tallied 2579
points for second while observed trials
rider Lane Leavitt was a speculative
third in the wet and muddy round.
After a review of ISDT rules. the
Yankee Ossa team of Dave Latham.
Don Cutler and Charlie Vincent were
awarded the Trade Team Trophy for
the previous week's Trask Mountain
Trial. not the Penton East team.
Kawasaki's R&D folks gave Papa
Wealey the latest on their "490" MXer
- it was actually a 420 and would
( probably be unveiled in production
form at the Laguna Seca National.
Sonny Burres led the way in the
Expert main, even after a red-flag restart, and captured the win at the Castle Rock TT. Jim Einarsson won the
Junior main while Ricky Graves led
the Novices to the checkered.
e After Dave Aldana came down with .
the flu before practice. forfeiting a
chance to continue his win streak.
Frank Gillespie filled in and won the
Ascot half mile Expert main over
Jody Nicholas and Lloyd Houchins.
Tom Horton edged Larry Gino for
the Junior main win . and Rick
Hockingdominated the Novice ranks.
Bill Silverthorn and Gene Fetty
teamed up on a stock-framed Honda
o XL250 to win the Baja 5OO's twol wheeled side. The overall win. on
'(,-co rrected time, went to ex-biker Bob
)l Ferro in a Sandrnaster buggy.
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"Wild" Bill Cody took the Scratch
main at Ventura's speedway show
while Don Cullum topped the Handicap main and the Scratch consy.
Farther north in Napa, Butch Corder
captured the Scratch main win. Paul
Minor. Jr. came from the zero to win
the Handicap main.
The AFM road race at Orange County
International Raceway in Irvine. CA.
saw Bob Endicott win Open Production and 5oo·0pen GP on a Honda
and BSA, respectively. Mike Summer
(Yam) ran away with 250cc GP.
Kevin Stafford was declared the winner of the lOO-lap Jim Brockman
Memorial TT at South Bay Speedway in Chula Vista, CA. after a protest and lap check showed him a lap
ahead of Sal Peluso. who mistakenly
received the checkered flag first.
The Loudon road race National saw
Gary Fisher use a pair of Yarnahas, a
TD3 250 and a TR3 350, to win the
250cc Combined and the National
races, respectively. Mark Brelsford
(H-D) was second in the National
and took the point lead while Kenny
Roberts was the 250cc runner-up. •
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