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New Mellico-Colorado-Wyoming-Montana-North Dakota -South Dako Central Pipeline Albert Firestine took Berthoud's 125cc Expert win in stride. David Bailey leads John O'Mara early in Sunday's final. Seattle (Continued from page 8) -- he and teammate Liles provided thrills for the crowd whe n Liles landed o n the bac k o f H ow erton 's bike abou t mid-race. There wo uld be no punctua tion in the red wrecki ng crew's dom ination for the res t o f the nigh t. Ch andler tra nsfe rred 10 th e fina l via a wire 10 wi re second semi win, even th oug h he wo uld p robabl y reg re t it lat er. Keylon , Barnell, Ward a nd King followed. Keylon faded to fourth a nd the top five was set. Camal oupi moved th rough th e pa ck for six th a nd Shoemak er a nd Glover took th e last transfers. Gl over did it th e hard wa y a fter going down in a fir st turn pile-up with Holl ey, Burnworth , Burdett e a nd others. Th e last cha nces went 10 Brian Myer scough a nd Kent H ow ert on, Myerscough worked from th ird past Howerton an d T arantino for the win . Final 24 No one not iced the lead ers in th e pa ndi moni um o f the massive cras h, bu t Ba iley. was in th e lea d o f a pack consisting o f O 'Ma ra, Breker, Barnell , Ha n nah , Bell and Ca n ta lou pi , Howerton wen t o u t in tu rn one with , hopefully, a badly bruised ca lf, a nd Magoo ou t in a great dea l o f pain fro m a n inj ured kn ee. Hannah said later, "T ha t p ile-up kin d of held me u p , bu t 1 saw it coming an d hit th e bra kes a nd d id a ha ul-bun right . All 1 co u ld do was ride as ha rd as 1cou ld. I rode every line o n the trac k," H annah flew by Barnell up th e j um p at th e fini sh line as Ward a nd Glover hooked up a nd wer e movin g up toge ther. H annah moved in on Breker and went by o n th e in side th rough th e whoops. About th e same tim e Bell dropped from th e lead ers with a no the r rock-in-the-chain case. He, like Glover, was stuck beneath the brid ge. Breker fell , sayi ng la ter, " I felt rea lly good , but 1got a li ll ie ten se because I'm not used to being o u t in from like th at . 1slo wed down a lillie, th en I fell do wn a nd mash ed my face a nd kn ock ed myse lf oUI for a second, but lu ck il y 1 got ba ck up an d got m y pace back. Only Barnell go t by me," Hannah closed on O 'M ara and Ba iley a nd it was obvious they ha d no ideas o f team raci ng on their m inds. " It was really hard to pass clean," sa id Hannah af terwards," so 1 tried 10 signa l the H onda pits as 1 wen t by to see if th ey wa n ted me to pass, but th ey said 10 go for it ." The three went side by side for a half a lap in a wi ld swapfest, H annah went by one of th e team mates a lap in the whoop section . Hannah burs t a berm in the first tu rn, bu t ot her than th at the race was over after he saved it, T he fin al o rder read H annah , Bailey, O' Ma ra, Barnell, Breker, Reid a nd Myerscough . Myerscough had moved up a pl ace a lap after being stop pe d by th e first turn mess. H e had 10 ba ck his bik e up befor e taking off. Gl over mad e a n im pressive co me bac k from nearl y a lap down to ninth. Bai ley had been p u mped about th e same finish the n ight before, but was clea rly upse t abo u t seco nd pla ce, " I do n ' t rea lly have a ny com me m . I don't think it was mv fault 1 d idn 't wi n, but 1 do n' t want 10 complai n." There rnav ha ve been ot he r fa ctors bu t th e AMA tech inspectors cou ld ha rdl y push Ba iley's bik e back to the p its. Ap pa rently he had been su ffering a severe hor sepower loss wit h the rea r brak e dragg in g badl y. O 'Ma ra was no t as pl eased with th ird as many would have been . " It was better than last n igh t, but I d id n ' t rea lly feel very com fortable ou t the re, so I just settled fo r wh a t 1 gOI...it's a long season ," Barnell was expl ici t, " I was in th first tu rn mess last ni gh t, 1stayed o u t of it to ni g h t; it's taki ng a while to ge t the bikes dia led . Atl anta - we'll be the re at Atlanta .' • - Results FINAL: 1. Bob Hannah (Hon) : 2. David Ba ile y (Hon) ; 3. Johnny O'Mara (Han); 4. Mark Barne n (Suz); 5. GOBt Braker (Hon); 6. Warren Reid (Yam); 7. Brian Myarscough (Han); B. Kenny Keylon (Han); 9. Broc Glover (Vam); 10. Tommy Benolkin (Han); 11. JaIl Ward (Kaw); 12. Alan King (Suz); 13. Rick Ryan , ISuz); 14. Donnie Cantaloupi (Yam); 15 . Mike Sho e· maker (Hon) ; 16. Mike Bell (Yam); 17 . Kent Hower . ton (Kaw); 1B. Danny Chendlar (Han). AMA /WRANGLER SUPER SERIES POINT STANDINGS : 1. (TIE) Bob Hannah /David Bailey (B5); 3. Mark Barnen (65); 4. Johnny O'Mara (56); 5. Jeff Ward (52); 6. Kenny Keylon (43 ); 7. (TIE)Donn ie Canta loupi/ Alan King (4 1); 9. Warren Reid 1 0 ); 10 . 4 Broc Glover (36); 11. Mike Bell (35); 12. Goat Breker (29 ); 13. (TIE]Billy Liles/Steve Manin (25); 15. (TIE) Danny Chandler /Bria n Myerscough (24); 17. (TIE) Scott Burnworth/Jim Holley (22 ); 19 . Kent Hower ton (20); 20. Phil Larson (lB). Firestine chats, says g'byeatSRAC MX By Ernie Ferguson BERTHOUD, CO, FEB. 6 The Valley Dirt Riders, in association with the Sports Riders As sociation of Colorado , opened the 1983 motocross season with a " D" motocross in near perf ect wea th er for a February weekend. This year look s like th e best ever with riders in a ll clas ses com peting on th e tough cou rse a t Berthoud. T he 125cc Expert cla ss provided the biggest th rills of the da y when Albert Firestine che wed up the cou rse with his typi cal super form a nd aggressive styIe. Firestin e ca rries th e number one plate in Colorad o thi s yea r and it will be rough gelling it a way from him. When he gets the holeshot he is hard to catch , riding one of the faste st bike s in th e stat e. But rig h t behind him all da y. two more fast I25cc riders kep t Firestine honest . Paul Lindsay and Sta cy Cook pushed on eac h turn and every jump and Firestin e felt the pressure all da y. These three 'crossers will have man y more races as exci ti ng as ' this first cha llenge of th e you ng season. Earl ier in th e da y the Mini Ex pert s put on quite a show. Steve Kyle. one of th e hardest riding Expert s in th e Min i class. found th e gr oove and stayed ou t front in both of his rnotos. Steve threw roo ster tails a ll day in the powdered dirt as he ran to th e chec kered flag ahead o f Kip Sa ndil l a nd Derek Brown. The Open Experts burned up a li ttle track in the afternoo n 100 , wi th Mike Knupp ta king both motos for a n overa ll win in the dust of th e Berth oud track . Mike stayed on the ga s as he flew over th e p yramid jump like he had wings. Knupp looked over his sho ulder at Randy Warren and Tim Buchl i as the se two great battlers tried 10 ca tch him on each turn. There will be more meetings of the se three top Open riders. Results 125 EX: 1. Alben Firestine; 2. P8ul Lindsey; 3. Stacy Cook. 250 EX: 1. Dave Newell; 2. Brent Reed; 3. Stacy Cook. OPEN EX; 1. M ike Knupp ; 2. Randy Warren; 3. Tim Buchli. VET EX; 1. Richard Dostal ; 2. Glade Hill ; 3. Randy Meyer . MINI EX; 1. Steve Kyle; 2. Kip Sandill; 3. Derek Brown. Logston returns, takes Las Cruces GNC qualifier By Lynda Torrez LAS CR UCES, NM , JAN. 23 , Former Team Green rider Scott Logston, after having hung up his leathers to devote full time to his new Scott's Kawasaki bu siness, returned to ac tio n with two new KXs a t th e Las Cruces MX Park Grand Nat ional Ch ampionship qualifier. Th e beg inning o f Logston's day long domination was the l25 cc Pro class. The fir st moto was stop ped a fter a lap a nd .a half becaus e the a m bu la nce crew was having a difficult tim e ge ll ing 10 a downed rider. It was decided to stagger start the riders in the order in whi ch they com p leted th e last lap. T hey fini shed in th e order they sta rted, wi th Logston a com forta ble first fo llowed by Midland/Odessa riders Mike La wso n a nd Joh n Laney and EI Paso 's Shaun Perrero , All three rod e Hondas. Logston p ulled th e hol esh ot in th e second rnoro as well and soon stretched o ut a 30-second lead . Perrero was second wi th Lawson third. They had a good battle unt il Lawson 's bike went sou th , giving th ird 10 Laney. The 250cc Pro event was a lso a Logston sho w, hol eshot to che ckered flag each tim e o u t. Perrero, John Brown (Ya m), Derek Van Wart (Kaw) and Bru ce Wollard (Suz) all battled for seco nd a t on e time or a noth er, and when die overall results were sorted out, Perrer o took th e runner-up spot over Brown. The Open Pro cla ss was a two-man ra ce for the lead between Bobby Nichols (Suz) a rid Ryan Armitage (KT M). Armitage held a slim lead on Ni ch ol s through j us t about a ll o f the fir st mot o , but Ni ch ol s slipped by in th e fin al corner to tak e the win. On th e final moto, Ni chols led all the wa y to take th e win. .