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TO OUR RACING DEVELOPMENT The foreru nner to the AMA l25cc National MX Series was a one-day championship event held at Arroyo Cycle Park in southern California. Ray Lo pez took th e overall win . posting a 4-1 tally on a Penton. FiTSt moto winner Chuck Bower was also Pen~ton-mou nted. but dropped to a fift h in the second moto and wound u p secon d overall. Third overall went to Monark rider Danny Turner a nd his 5-2 tally. Billy Payne, riding a Penton, and Monark pilot Many Smith bot h turned in good performances in one of the two motos, but then crashed out of contention in th e other: TEAM BOB HANNAH 1ST PLACE - 1 2TH ANN UAL DAYTONA SUPERCROSS DAYTONA INTERNAT IONAL SPEEDWAY - SATURDAY. MARCH 12 "Hurricane" Hannah came in 1st w it h a fl awless performance by jumpin g into th e lead at th e st art and neve r looking back . CONGRATULATIONS TO KENNY ROBERTS -lstPLACE-DAYTONA200 I AND TO OUR DEVELOPMENT TEAM MEMBERS (WEARING OUR NEW M·2) Triumph riders Gary Scott an d Gene Rom ero finished 1-2 in the annual lDO-lap Tr steeplechase at Ascot Park. Eddie Mulde r made it a sweep for the English twins by p lacing th ird in the long event. I _ Kawasa ki came to Daytona International Speedway after the annual 2OG-miler to set some closed-course !peed records. Yvon Du Ham el was lite primary pilot and. riding a Yoshmura-prepped 903. he set an unlimied record of 160.214 mph. DuHamel also went after th e 10- and lOG-kiloneter records. Two 903s were assigned 10 the task of going after th e 24-hour i:cord. One was ridden by Cliff Carr, Burley Wilvert, Masahiro Wada and Cook Neilson, G ary Nixon, An Baumann, J ohn Weed and Bryon Farnsworth were the riders on the other. Other than the unlimited time, no reco rd were released because the AMA bad not yet cert ified them. EDDIE LAWSON - 2NDPLACE STEVE WISE - 3RD PLACE JAY SPRINGSTEEN 1ST PLACE - BATTLE OF TH E TW INS - GP CLASS DAYTONA INTERN ATION A L SPEEDWAY - FRI D A Y. MARCH 1 1 Springsteen grabbed the lead on lap 2 of this 50- m ile race finish ing first by 26 seconds. ANOTHER BELL WINNER: TERRY VANCE I 1ST PLACE GATOR NATIONALS - PRO-STOCK CATEGORY GAINSVILLE. FLORID A - SUNDAY. MARCH 13 Terry wa nted to set a t rack record an d did in his first r un of t hi s 'A mile rac e 15 6.7 9 mph in 8 ,403 seconds, The Sled Riders' D-37 hare ' n ' hound saw a DKW rider win the race overall, but his time it wasn't Tom Brooks. Mark Adent was the winner's name, rid in g th e m ysterious more-than- 175cc-bu t-less-tha n -25Occ Deek . Secon d overall-went to Bill Saltzman on a big Husky. Chuck Cartledge took a ~ w ell -earned third overall on a I()() Hodaka. THANKS FOR YOUR INVALUABLE INPUT INTO THE DESIGN AND DEVELOPMENT OF OUR HELMETS AND THANKS FOR PUTTING US ON TOP Results from the a ma teu r road races hel d a t Da ytona showed Da le Singleton winning the 100cc class on a J ..uzu ki. In Class IV. for multiplecylinde r 250cc two -stroke machines and others up to 36Occ, Joh n Gleason, Rand y Cleek and William Wei gle took th e firs t three places on Yama has. Yama ha rid er R ick Hocking won bot h ma in even ts in two days of AMA Pro short track ra cing in EI Centro, Calif. Bultaco-mounted AI Kenyo n followed Hocking past the checkers on th e first da y, and th e seco nd day of racing saw Rob Morrison push his " Bui lt-to-go" into the runner-up slot. A Better Way to Do Thingsl Precision is eve rything in a sprocket. With computerized machining for precise tolera nces, PS I sprockets give smooth, eve n chain feed. Exact toot h form assures even power transfer and dem anding performance. You can feel the difference . Kaw asak i-m ounted Whitney Bla keslee won th e 350cc Senior GP class in an ACA road rac e a t Ca rl sbad Ra ceway, followed by th e Yamahasof Wcs Cooley a nd Ch uck St rohrnenger. The Open Produ ction cla ss was the scen e of a win by H onda rider Lee Flem ing. In a mile race h eld in Atlanta, Ga. , Rex Beach am p won th e Expert class on a Harley-Davidson. Hank Scolt was th e Junior winner on a Yamaha, a nd J ay Ridgeward won th e No vice honors on a Yamaha two-stroke !~in. . , .' and ASK FOR THEM BY NAME. " ~ . '. ,. , .... .' PBI sprockets •, ... Clackamas, Oregon 97015 1 ~MADE: TOUGH! I , _ 5