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Fourth overall Kent Miller.
Classes 30 and 38
Classes 30 (over 30) and 38 (over 38)
showed the closest racing today with
the least interference from Lady Luck.
In the Class 30 action, A. C. Bakken
and Gary Jones took their Husky to
an early three-minute lead at check
one and held it through to the California finish over the Yamaha of
Richard Jackson and Mark Force.
Tom Mattox and Paul Eddy trailed
their Yamaha another minute back at
check one.
The Class 30 contest picked up on
the Arizona side as Jackson /Force
turned the lead around by' a full six
minutes at check two, onl y to have
Bakken/Tones gain five of that back
by the end of the loop. Lady Luck
then struck the Bakken/Tones team
with a flat tire on the way out of the
ghost town and both the Jackson /
Force team and Mattox/Eddy got by.
Bakkerr /jones tra iled Mattox/Eddy
by o ne minute at the fini sh a nd
pl aced third in class, ninth overall.
Last, and certainl y not least exciting, was the battle for top Class 38
honors. Stuntman and famed desert
racer J . N . Roberts teamed up with
Art Knapp aboard a Husky and
worked into a one minute lead at
ch eck one. over solo rider Charlie
Conway (Hon ). Roberts/Knapp held
their one minute lead to the California finish with Husky-mounted Dave
Miller, who has won this class the
last four years in a row, running
alone five minutes behind. The race
was far from over.
Miller must have gotten the throttle
stuck on the first Arizona go-around
because rolling into check two, Conway had picked up one minute on the
leaders, but Miller had picked u p five
and all three were tied for the lead.
R o ber t s/ Kn a p p stayed tied with
Conway at the end of the loop as
Miller dropped a minute back. The
final loop was the test and Miller,
who had run in third for most of the
distance, wicked it on again to finish
just one minute ahead of Roberts/Knapp and nine minutes ahead of
Conway. Miller's fifth win in a row
won 't be easily forgotten.
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