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Euroti tIe last year, the Zundapp team has a head start, and with tiddler champ Stefan Dorflinger a board will be favorites for the title. Zundapp will have competition because the pan ish Derbi team will be looking lO add to their run of five titles 10 years ago, now that they're back in road racing again with a strong team led by former champ Ricardo Torma. Then there's the wizard of the twostroke, J org Moller, whose Dutchbased Casal team now has a lOp rider in former 125cc champ Pierpaulo Bianchi, while Carelli has changed their minds and uprated Lazzarini's old 50 to make an 80cc contender. There's an advanced new bike from Villa, but dependable though Lusuardi i for a lOp three place again, I don't think he'll win it. The honor of bei ng the first 80cc World Champion lies between Torma and Dorflinger, and I'll take the Zundapp rider because he'll rack up some 'early season points while the Derbi is still being developed. fn the .Sidecar class, Rolf Biland apparently intends to devote his developmental talents to Formula Two car racing, running his sidecar outfit in the same trim as last year. Considering he won six out of the seven races he finished, it seems likely that will still suffice to earn him his fjfth title, but for heaven's sake will someone in authority somewhere do anything to halt the crazy slide of sidecar racing. Most of the CPs had empty grid places last year, the racing was mostly processional. and the devices not only cost a small fonune to buy and run, they bear increas;::0ngly less resemblance to anything from the motorcycle world. A 350cc two-stroke/ I,000cc fourstroke Sidecar class with well-defined chassis rules including a maximum wheelbase much smaller than at present, plus narrower tire restrictions, would reduce speeds, improve safety, and bring back the spectacle of sidecar racing, as well as reducing costs dramatically and bringing more tea.ms back into the span. In last year's CP preview, I got three out of five right, not perfect but I pride myself on picking Spencer A 13th World Championship title is in the cards for Angel Nieto. ..... --.... 0- < ~\~25cc 250:509~ ~:"7:~~"NATIONAI! CHAMPIONSHI qC .G~:~:O~cl $25.000.00 P~o:oo~·'" PRO PURSE & CONTINGENCIES SADDLEBACK PARKORANGE, • CA. SUNDAY. APRIL. 1. ·84 See ALL Bob Hannah O · Johnny'M ara of the Greatest Stars D1 Ron Lechien 4". • al Motocross Rick Johnson ProlesslOll Mark Barnett Including • . • • Bill Liles TICKETS AVAILABLE AT GATE OR TlCKETRON even ifBilandand 'ietowereobvious choices. I'll go for those three again in their respective classes, Dorflinger for the tiddlers, and Mang for the 250cc tiLle. But if anyone of a couple of dozen other riders becomes 250cc World Champion .. ,well, I won't be surprised and I know I'll have enjoyed watching him do it more than anything else in CP racing 1984-style. 8 • leffWard .. Magoo ., Chandler y.~v ~e'1lVO~ 0f'1l'i' ~\o~s Brae Glover· Q\ to-t\a.O\a.S\.G~~ol' sa.t\\a. to-"e. 6 \t\j!; "a-t.. . David Bailey'\a.....c"a.Q~~t\.\to~ ~\\e'i>\o Goat Breker \~a.t\\\~~oa.QQ{O"' . ....A1 J'1m H 0 IIey sa.t\\\<><:>· ~ ol' \e~\' SANCTIONED INfORMATION 213-868-8n2 144 Rail. ad AvJnua. S ita 21 Edmonds. WA 98020-+--1 (206) 774-1581 . 31