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Sumki's Roger DeCoster became the
fint rider to win three consecutive
50lkc World Motocross Champion• with a 4-5 performance in the
fiaIII round of the series in Holland.
DeCoster ended up defeating his chief
opposition. Maico's Willi Bauer,
145-142, whenBauerDNFboth motos.
Y_aha rider Ake Jonsson won both
tIMlI06 to take the day's overall win.
Despite seizing his Kawasaki just
yar £rom the finish line, Gary Nixon
,.las the easy winner in the Pocono
Road Race National. Yamaha's Kenny
Roberts continued his bid towards
the Grand National Championship
with a second-place [inish, and Gary
FiIIaa recovered sufficiently [rom his
I.aatma Seca injuries to place his
Yamaha third. In the Junior/Expert
Combined. and also in the Junior race,
Yamaha·mounted John Long took
thedledered overall. Leslie Johnson
beseed Wes Cooley in the Novice race.
and Yvon DuHamel used a tWD-suoke
, Kawasaki 750 uiple to win the Production event.
In the Pocono National Motocross,
