(A bove) Overall winner Ed Lojak gets ready t o start day one. By t he end ofthe third day, Lojak had a two-second w in. (Top right) Terry Cunningham t ook
second overall. f irst 500cc In t ent. (Above rig ht) Jack Penton's Cag iva effort was sid eli ned by a broken pi pe.
AMA ISDE Qualifier Series: Round 2
Lojaksqueaks byCunningham at
Tulsa Three-Day
By Merle Acord
TULSA, OK, APR. 2·4
Ed Lojak, with a win at the previous week's
series opener in Tennessee, continued his
winning ways by making up 14 points
(seconds) over Terry Cunningham's Husky
24
430 Automatic on th e rain ybut-abbreviated third day and
claimed th e Tulsa Trail Riders
M.e. Three-Day overall win. "I
kn ew it was go ing to be rea l close
wh en th ey told m e T.e. a nd I had th e
sam e time for th e grass tra ck, but I
didn 't think it would be within two
seconds," sa id Husky's 250cc cia sser
Loj ak , wh o topped Cunningham,
3 152·3 154 for th e overa ll.
Frank-Sta cy (3241) a nd Mark H yde
(325 1)Jacked up th e nex t two posi tionSfbdore J eff Fred ett e on a 200
Kawa saki broke th e Husky str in g .
To train the rid ers for th e riaors of
Six Da ys co m pe ti tio n , th e Tulsa qualifi er was run a s a three-day event
with th e Tulsa Trail Rider s awardin g go ld, silv er, bronze and overall
trophies. But the AMA scored th e
event a s three separate qualifiers with
some special rules. The rule getting
th e m ost a ttention : Rider s wh o DN F,
for wh at ever reason, if th ey co u ld get
th eir machine to th e impound ar ea
within o ne hour of th e time th e la st
check th ey went through closed , cou ld
rid e agai n th e foll owing da y. T here
was co nsidera ble pro a nd co n di scussion , bu t AMA Am at eur Act iviti es
Director Hugh Flemming was on
h and to adminster and in ter prete th e
ru le.
Husky team manager Dick Burleson said, "There 's some real good
reasons for letting the riders reimpound, a nd most of th em cen ter
