Cycle News - Archive Issues - 1980's

anada- Northern California·Northern Neval:la-Oregbn·Washfrigton·ldaho·Utah·AI · denso, N K Pl ugs. Sluice Bo x. Dirty P hot os, Seer and Husqvarna. The Club Participat ion trophy went 10 th e Dirt Diggers No rt h Mot orcycle Club a nd the Shop trophy had a tie among three KTM shops - MP C. Sluice Box and Sou th City Cycles. A lOSS o f the coi n gave the tro ph y to Sluice Bo x. Results 200/250 EX: t , Ken M cKen ze; 2 . Dave Wood; 3 . Sco n Yarbrough ; 4 . Larry Cole man. OPEN EX: 1. Eric Mc Kenna: 2. Randy Losh: 3 . Charl ie Sman ; 4. Randy Pockrandt. VET EX: 1. Scon Davis; 2. Olde Sco tt S inclair; 3 . Gary Vanderpool; 4 . Buzz Presser. EX: 1. Curt McMa hon; 2 . Geo rge Nielso n; 3 . Bob Sorense n . 200/250 AM : 1. M ik e Harpe r; 2. Dere k Des J ar d ins: 3. John Volk . or OPEN AM : 1. Ma rk Hil ton ; 2. Neal Nataro ; 3 . Richard Barc hard . VET AM : 1. Jim Loer; 2. J ack Nabors : 3. Bill Cooper. OT AM: 1. Norman Grattan; 2. Tom Hazeltine . 200 NOV : 1. Paul Hanson; 2. Bill Davis; 3 .Jeanne Morgan. 250NOV: 1. Jeff Sapp inglon: 2. SconVaughn: 3 . Shawn Frieling; 4 . Marty Mosley ; 5 . Scott Reynolds . OPEN NOV : 1. Jim Giuffra: 2. Bill Braun: 3. Bill Connelly; 4 . John Georgette; 5 . Bruce Neumann; 6 . Brad Halcomb. VET NOV: 1. Sid Schuetz; 2. George Mancebo: 3 . K. Cosmo; 4 . Eric Johnson ; 5. Mike Kennedy; 6 . Darrel Courtwrigh t. aT NOV : 1. Rick Vandermeeden; 2. George McCa ll : 3 . Bill y Fain . were ru n ni ng 1-2 u nti l C huck 's clu tch gave o ut. H e then asked if rules wou ld a Ilow h im to team with Ro n for th e short time that remai ned. Under th e circumstances. that seemed 10 crea te no problem and. after twoplus hours. Ron seemed receptive to th e id ea. T heir closest com petitio n throughout the race was Rick Burgetr / Ron Myers a nd Ron Vandehey/ Randy Crisman . Van dehey/Crisman los t some ti me when Cr isma n came lim p in g in with a mys teriously bentup scoo ter. Th ey wound u p fourth behi nd Kurt Stevens / Den n is Sweeten . 100·125: 1. Ted Holt (VarnI/ Ford Tannock (SuII; 2. Rowdy Blasdell (Suz)/ Ben Wil liams (Hon); 3 . Rick Bozarth (KTM). 250·0PEN : 1. Ch uck Sun (M ail / Ron Su n (Mail: 2. Rick Bur gen (Yaml / Ron M yers (KTMI ; 3 . Kurt St even s (Yam)/ Oen ni s Sweeten (Hon). 30 -40, 1. Jim Parks (Suzl/ Ron Long (Yam): 2. Glen Rose (Suz)/Ra VCrawford (Han): 3. Bill Golds pink IHus)/ Jerry Fairchi ld (Hon ), OLD TIMERS : 1. Jack Burgoyne (Hus) / Ji m Lam kin (Ho n); 2. George Gardner (Hon)/Bill Teste r (Ma i) 3 . Cliff Stump (Mai l/Dave Scan (M ai ). MX By Sa lly Sideliner BRENTWOOD. CA. MAR. 20 Ted Holt /Ford Tannock i n th e 125cc class. Ron Sun/Chuck Sun in the 250-0pen class. Jim Parks/ Ron Long in th e 30-40s and Jack Burgoyne /Tim Lamkin in the Old Timers . For the past th ree years Mt. View has held a team race just prior to th e kickoff for th e su m me r season. Teams are able to cha n ge riders at th eir di scretion which a Ilo ws them to wo rk out the kinks in th eir n ew bikes as weIl as in th eir bodies without too much stress on eith er. This year the format was cha nged from two onean d-o ne-ha lf-ho ur races to shootin g th e wh ol e works on o ne three-hour race for eac h gr o u p. The 100- I25cc class took off in th e morn ing led by the Rowdy BlasdeIl / Ben WiIIiams team. Ri ght beh ind came Holt/Tannock, Ri ck Boza rth r id ing a lo ne . R on Kent /Juli e Hiersche, Do n Coo k/ Dua ne Ol son and Frank Van Beek/ Kevin Mann. It wa sn' t long before Holt/ T annock took th e lead a nd just poured th e coal to it for th e ful l three hours. There was a ba ttl e for seco nd betw een Bozart h an d BlasdeIl /WiII iams for most of th e race bu t ti me bega n to tak e its to Il on Bozarth to ward th e en d and he ha d to sett le for a dista nt th ird. Chuck Goodri ch /Da v in T est er pull ed th rou g h th e p a ck for fourth and Kent/Hiersche held on for fifth. AIl th e Old Guys rod e with th e 250Open cla ss. co nseq ue ntly. th ey were so me what lost in th e sh u ffle o f th e co mpeti tio n up front. Park s/Long were tops in th e 30-40 gr oup. just one lap ah ead o f G len Ros e/Ray Cr awford and severa l laps a hea d o f BiIl Goldspink/ Jerry Fairch ild . With 46 laps under th eir kidn ey belt s. Burgoyn e/Lamkin led a good tu rnout o f Old Ti mers. G eorge Gardner borrowed a H onda to tea m u p wi th BiIl Tes ter fo r seco nd an d Cliff Stu m p / Dave Sco tt came out with third . T he Su ns h ad eac h signed up to ri de solo in th e 250-0pen class an d - Schlag, Heiberger cash at Sand Hill By Jan Newman When the dust finally settled on Mt. View Raceway's third annual Team Race. the teams collecting the top brass were; 0. < Resu lts Suns join forces, ta e Team Race SANDY, OR. MAR . 20 ...... ..... l-< Despite the soggy ground and a continual downpour, motocross die-hards trekked to San Hill Ranch on March 20 for th e s econd annual " W e e k e n d of Champions." The Expert draw wa s a guaranteed purse of $1000 by Budweiser and Contra Costa Honda. but with all classes fuIl the purse grew to $2000. It was on ly fitting th en that Contra Costa Honda riders J oey Schlag a nd J erome H eiberger took home first a n d seco nd place respectively in the Open Pro class. H eiberger led from the start in rnoto one followed by Jim EIl is with Schlag on hi s tail. Schlag passed EIlis early a nd the positions re m a ine d th e sa me . Schlag came back to dominat e rnoto two . The 250cc Pro class saw Schlag , Heiberger and EIli s go a t it aga in. Heiberger led th e field through th e mud with Ellis, Brett Cahors, Brad Emery. Bryan Wargo and Sch lag a ll in th e hunt. Wargo moved qu ickl y to third as Schlag bailed in a co rner. Ellis maneu vered around Heibe rger lat e in th e race to h old first. T he top thr ee repeated th e performance in moto two wi th Ellis ge tti n g th e h ol esh o t. Schlag passed Ellis a nd ran a way from th e pack. War go tried to pass Heiberger o n " Godzilla H ill's" upward side and managed a perfect loop-ou t for th e spectators an d a DNF for himself , . The I25cc Pro s had their p roblems as h alf th e field ju m ped th e ga te. leavin g th e latter half wi th gogg les full of mud. The on ly real adva ntage wa s 10 Ricky Ryan. wh o had clear sai li ng in moto one. Running wi th th e others in m ot o two wasn't quite so easy as R yan lo st it in a turn . Steve Vahl os, o ne of the latter starter s in mo to o ne. ca p itali zed on Ryan 's mi sfortune fo r a first pl ace. but th e overa ll went to Ed Minton with a very co ns istent ride. Shawn McC o"nn took seco nd honors a nd a new comer to th e area. 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