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, Dave Bertram (340) overcame his starting problems of day one to tum in a strong ride. Here he runs with Australian Mike Mills-Thon (70). Fritz Kadlec saw his chance of posting the best American score go away at the first check on day six. Kadlec finished on gold. 22 and we gave it everything we had, but I got there too late and Charlie was very near to houring out himself. That was a heck of a thing to do because he didn't have to stop. I can't thank him enoug;h." . "I saw we had a chance to get Kevin to the check before his time was up and I felt if we could do that then-the chances of the Vase team of finishing up there would be pretty good," said Halcolm. "It was disappointing after all that effort not to make it." The circuit at Norg, a SpOrts faci!ity for soccer and MX, featured a track less than a mile and a half in length with terrain the same as the rest of the countryside - sand and more sand - although the start/finish area in 'front of the grandstands was grassy. The final test, nine motos in all with each displacement class running its own moto/motos, became an East Germany versus Holland shootout. The Dutch blistered nearly every moto they were in, but when East German ]ochen Schutzler sustained a broken ankle in his moto it was all the Dutch needed to begin a celebration. The highlight of the motos for the Americans was Roeseler winning his Four-stroke class moto over Dutch Trophy team riders Simon Schram, the class winner, and Gerrit Wolsink. Additionally, Bob Elliott, who battled starling problems and various mechanical woes during the first four days, ran second for the first three laps in his moto before crashing to the back of the pack. Fredette, Ballard and Kadlec were all in the same moto. Kadlec led to the first turn, but the steering head bearings were so badly worn by that time that when he tried to make his turn the bike kept going straight. Kadlec slipped to the back of the field while Fredette and Ballard, having lost his front brake on the warm-up lap, battled in mid-pack. By the finish, Ballard,' with a broken exhaust and an engine sounding like a bucket of bol ts, led Fredette by less than a second with the two at the tail end of the top 10. Fredette led the gold medal tally, picking up the only one on the Vase team as Bertram and Smith finished on silver as Brown DNF. Ballard, Kadlec and Roeseler van der Ven lost 60 and 120 trail points, respectively. Horst Geissenhoner, an East German Trophy Team Simpson rider, topped the 80cc class while Henk Van Mierlo, aboard a Honda and riding for the Dutch Trophy team was the l2Scc class winner. (n the 250cc ranks it was Martin Schalkwijk, a Honda rider and member of the winoi.ng Dutch Trophy Team with the SILVER: Brian Mull (Hus) 8.437.90/1 8th. BRONZE: Mark Hyde (Hus) 14.881 .66/37th. DNF: Randy Hawkins (Hus) Day 1. 250Cc CLASS WINNER: Martin Schalkwijk. Holland (Hon) 6.683.62. 'GOLD: Jeff Fredette (Kaw) 7.1D5.19/8th; Geoff 8allard (C-A) 7.213.52111th; Fritz Kadlec (Rus) 7.259.81/15th. SILVER: Jeff Russell (Hus) 7.982.69/3Bth; James Gunselman (Hus) 8.725.48/56th. BRONZE: Zack Elkins IC-A) 9.425.23/62nd; Charles Halcolm (Hus) 11.676.49/BOth; Bob Elliott (KTM) 12.927.85/85th. DNF: Kevin Brown (C-A) Day 6; Fred Hoess (KTM) Day 1. 500cc CLASS WINNER: Henk Peorte. Holland (Hon) 6.544.53. SILVER: Dave Bertram (Hus)7.764.26/21st; Vic Ely (Hus) 7.802.76/24'h; Wally Wilson (Hus) 8.016.58/29th; Ray Mungenast (Hus) 8.140.63/ 30th. WID. grabbed gold on the Trophy squad The Four-Stroke class saw Honda with Wilson on silver and Hines and riders Simon Schram and Gerrit Hyde taking home bronze medals. Wolsi.nk, respectively the youngest The top individual honors went to and oldest members of the Dutch Honda-mounted Dutch Trophy te<,lm Four-Stroke Trophy Team, run one-two in the rider Henk Poorte. Poorte, with some CLASS WINNER: Simon Schram. Holland (Hon) final tally. Husqvarna-mounted GP MX background, led the SOOcc 6.996.64. GOLD: Larry Roeseler (Hus) 7.532.61/4th. Swedish Trophy team member class standings on four of the six SILVER: Drew Smith (Hon) 7.725.1 7l7th. Tomas Gustavsson placed third with days. The 34-year-old Poorte beat fel8RONZE: John Haaker (KTM) 15.661.27/45'h. Larry Roeseler in fourth for the best Manufacturer's Teams low Dutchman and KTM factory GP 1. Honda 2 (Hollano); 2. Simpson 1 (East Gerin class placing by an American. • MX runner Kees van der Ven by 54 many); 3. Simpson 2 lEast Germany); 4. Honda 3 (Holland); 5. KTM 1 (France); 17, Husqvarna 2 Results points/seconds. Sven Erik Jonsson, a Americen Medel Winne,. (USA); 20. Husqvarna 1 (USA); 22. Can-Am (USA). Husqvarna-mounted member of the Club Teams 80Cc Swedish Trophy Team and last year's CLASS WINNER: Horst Geissenhoner. East Ger1. Italy B (Italy); 2. M.C.C. Wychen 1 (Holland); 3. many (Sim) 7.533.25. SVS Praha (Czechoslovakia); 4. FMCK Skoevde top individual scorer, was fourth 125cc (Sweden); 5. SMI Mk II (Sweden); 10. Seafair City 2J:!1 points/seconds behind despite CLASS WINNER: Henk Van Mierlo. Holland(Hon) M.C. (USA); 13. Prospectors M.C.(USA); 31. Capital 6.899.39 Area Trail Riders (USA). zeroing the course while Poone and ......- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - D a y by d a y - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - . , World Trophy Silver V... World Trophy Silver v... ----------DAy ONE------------,-----------DAY FOUR---------1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. , O. Holland East Germany Sweden West Germany Great Britain Poland Czechoslovakia France Finland Australia 11. USA 12. Austria 13. Italy 14. New Zealand 15. Switzerland 16. Canada 96.72 560.69 637.66 700.73 1.051,48 1.078.06 1.185.70 1.207.76 1.878.97 1.910.89 3.873.83 6.768.20 15.406.91 18.248.20 31.079.86 34.448.22 1. East Germany 2. Holland 3. Italy 4. Finland S.USA 6. Sweden 7. Canada 8. Switzerla nd 9. Great Britain 10. West Germany 11. Czechoslovakia 12. Spain 13. Ireland 14. France 15. Australia 16. New Zealand 17. Mexico 18. Austria 362.29 457.71 486.78 519.93 806.€7 1.317.26 1.491.07 1.581.55 1.715.76 1.617.98 1.973.95 2.068.44 3,081.22 3.137.61 3.266.64 5.738.54 18.094.97 32.125.32 ---------OAYTWO--------1. 2. 3. 4. Holland East Germany Sweden Finland 5. Poland 6. West Germany 7. Great Britain 8. France 9. USA 10. Australia " . Czechoslovakia 12. Austria 13. Italy 14. Switzerland 15. New Zealand 16, Canada 231.41 1.194.89 1.338.39 1.504.02 1.778.10 2.505.21 2.679.92 3.890.96 6.952.34 10.996.26 16.994.60 26.419.14 30.760.95 48.051.54 62.493.10 81.431.36 1. 2. 3. 4. East Germany Italy Finland USA 5. Czechoslovakia 6. Great Britain 7. West Germany B. Hofland 9. Sweden 10, France 11 . Switzerland 12. Spain 13. Australia 14. Canada 16. Ireland 16. New Zealand 17. Mexico lB. Austria 888.22 1.290.62 1.400.38 1.820.95 2.566.25 2.696.18 3.229.33 3.470.28 3.571.53 3.835.08 4,200.88 4.366.97 8.263.25 18.219.69 19.648.12 26.526.63 34.439.20 67,173.62 ----------OAY THREE---------1.Sweden 2. East Germany 3. Poland 4. West Germany 5. Holland 6. Great Britain 7. France 8. USA 9. Australia 10. Finland 11. Austria 12. Czechoslovakia 13. Italy 14. Switzerland 15. New Zealand 16. Canada 1.674.12 2.066.77 1. East Germany 2. Italy 2.374.43 3. Czechoslovakia 3.261.79 3.274.32 4.113.69 4.607.07 10.117.19 13.104.91 17.229.66 28.660.51 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. Holland Sweden Finland USA France 9. West Germany 10. Spain 11. Aus"alia 32.887.93 12. Great Britain 46.893.60 78.823.59 93.470.62 127.961.90 13. Switzerland 1.363.29 1.906.82 3.024.80 3.685.18 4.007.03 4.150.28 4.460.48 4.496.96 4.715.29 6.832.01 10.732.04 18.614.83 21.557.81 1. East Germany _ 2. Sweden 3. Poland 4. Holland 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. France Great Britain West Germany USA Finland 10. Australia " . Czechoslovakia 12. Austria 13. Italy 14. Switzerland 15. New Zealand 16. Canada 2.739.34 2.984.00 3.243.70 3.268.42 5.551.14 5.855.20 7.866.44 11.074.04 33.972.04 44.081.72 48,796.85 60.226.60 77.461.61 124,430.58 _124.431.14 189.186.19 ----------DAY ,. East Germa ny 2. Holland 3. Poland 4. France 5. Great Britain 6. West Germany 7. USA 8. Sweden 9. Finland 10. Czechoslovakia 11. Australia 12. Austria 13. Italy 14. NewZealand 15. Switzerland 16. Canada 3.000.07 3.294.22 3.719.79 6.084.21 6.806.87 8.491.92 11.789.44 18.152.96 49.354.76 64.390.99 74.696.98 76.138.33 107.772.88 166.090.83 169.928.74 238.603.26 1. East Germany 2: Italy 3. Holland 4. Sweden 5. USA 6. France 7. West Germany 8. Australia 9. Finland 10. Spain 11. Czechoslovakia 12. Great Britain 13. Switzerland 1.943.32 2.524.39 3.834.26 4.425.38 6.167.78 5.329.74 7.457.04 13.585.43 19.555.48 23.293.46 25.936.93 37.487.08 39.146.00 FIVE-----~--- 1. East Germany 2. 3. 4. 5. Holland USA France Spain 6. Australia 7. Sweden 8. Italy 9. Finland 10. Czechoslovakia 11. Great Britain 12. Switzerland 13. Ireland 2.148.49 3.876.61 6.682.64 6.867.96 13.368.08 15.639.61 19.631.70 20.148.48 34.869.77 41.214.29 52.877.90 64.919.07 69.039.26 ---------~DAY SIX---------- 1. Holland 2. Poland 3. East Germany 4. France 5. Great Britain 6. USA 7. West Germany 8. Sweden 9. Finland 10. Czechoslovakia 11. Austria 12. Australia 13. Italy 14. New Zealand 15. Switzerland 16. Conada 3.386.86 4.900.68 4.947.41 7.322.96 9.215.23 14.368.84 25.043.70 34.2B8.81 66.489.12 82.343.83 93.634.18 106.054.90 138.343.35 203.701.74 217.382.78 302,044.13 1. East Germany 2. Holland 3. France 4. Australia 6. '6. 7. 8. Spain USA Italy Sweden 9, Finland 10. Czechoslovakia 11. West Germany 12. Great Britain 13. Switzerland 14. Ireland 15. Canada 16. Mexico 17. New Zealand 18. Austria 2.416.66 4.696.63 6.976.28 20.848.76 21.403.02 21.090.45 33.131.99 34.994.79 62.433.98 56.832.19 68.130.42 68.668.09 73.079.21 87.619.40 68.684.66 103.869.12 153,812.64 194.410.97