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Scot t Head rode his Beta to his ninth win in a row at the Utah rou nd of the NATC Championship, AMA/NATC National Observed Trials Champ-ionship- Series: Round 9 Head sweeps series By Th orn Martin SALT LAKE CITY, UT. SEPT. 2 Beta-mo u n ted Sco tt H ead made it nine in a row for the 1985 season by winning the Wasatch T ria ls Association's Utah round of the NATC Championship . H ead was never p us h ed in this final round of th e series an d finished 21 points ahead of his nearest competitor. Head turned in three o f the .24 L1. four lowest cha m p ionshi p loop scores for th e day with totals of 15. 12 and II . The lowest single loop of the day belonged to Yamaha-mounted second p la ce finis her Stan Ba kgaard . Bak gaard's third loo p score o f nine was an incredible fea t and earned him a one-point edge over th ird spot finis her Don Swee t (Mo n). r ~~.e.fi~ij~I~1}: l[W~ P1 sen set up a great series of sections. The loop cha nged dramaticall y as it cl im bed th e ca nyon . At th e bottom. the terra in wa s a lmos t desert-like. As the loop climbed up San taquin Ca nyon. it became much more a lpi ne wit h pi ne fores ts in cool sha de . T he strea m sections in th e m iddle were about as cl ose to th e Scottish as most o f us will ever co me . with casca ding st rea ms in boulder-strewn creekbeds . It was section 14. known as Pivot Rock . tha t m ight a lso be n icknamed " Tracy's Reven ge." It sta rted with a three-foot vertical step on to a rock abou t five-feet square. A 90" jerk p ivot 10 th e left and a h op off th e u ndercut rock would set yo u up for the off -camber step up onto th e next large bo u lder. An other drop o ff, this · rock points you into a co up le of sm all bo ulde rs tha t led to the floa terpivot pas t a steep sla b. T he la n di ng area for th e h op o ff of this roc k a rea was off -cambered onto so h dirt . P ivot Roc k was not clea ned all day and on ly three rid ers, Bakgaard , Sweet and R ya n Young, scored less than three poi nts o n any ride. Riders' co m ments poi nt o ut wha t a grea t job j orgen sen did in selecting the sections . T he Sportsman class had th e tigh test fin ish th at anyone present co u ld remem ber with Fantic-m ounted Steve Clark win ni ng th e class. Cla rk a nd second pl ace fin isher j eff Kin gsford tu rned in tota l scores o f 33 a fter riding threeloops of 10sections . Both th ese rid ers h ad 16 cleans. five Is. three 2s and fou r 3s. T he deadlock was broken by goi ng 10 " fart hes t cleans" and it was Clark wi n n ing th e gold . Kin gsford is last year' s WTA cham p, so it was a thrill fo r a ll th e local mem bers to see h im ride hi s Ca n-A m to suc h a strong Nat ional finish . Beta rider Dan Ol son. another WT A member. fini sh ed thi rd in fro nt of a h ometo wn crowd by edging Kell y Ech terli ng o n Is. T he Sen ior Class Championship for 1985 wa s decid ed here in th e fi na l round. Charles Mall ow of Oklahoma rod e away with th e titl e on his Yamaha on th e strength o f a second loop sco re of four points. This wa s th e best loop , score turned in by any of th e Support cla sses. a n d it allowed Mallow to win a clos ely-contested fight between h imself. Rob in Farmer and Dal e Ma lasek . Farmer finished second in Utah with Malasek third. Yamaha-mounted Wiltz Wagner defeated Fa n tic rider j erry Young by . one point 10 tak e home th e gold in th e Super Senior cla ss. Monte T uc ker rode h is Yamaha 10 a 15 :point vict or y ove r seco nd pl ace finis her Kevin Mann iko o n h is Fa n tic in the High Schoo l class. Tucker's second loo p sco re of nine p ut h im in position for an easy victory. a nd he took it h o me p u lli ng away. • Results CHAMPIONSHIP: 1. Scon Head (Beta) 3B: 2. Stan Bekgaard (Yam) 59: 3. Oon Sw eet (Mon) 6 1.4: 4 . Keith Adams (Yam) B2: 5. Ryan Young (Fanl 82: 6. Neil Belvo ir (Yam) 90 ; 7. Mike West (Fan) 91: 8. Ron Com mo Jr. (Beta) 94: 9. SIeve McNeal (Fan) 95: 10 . St eve FracY (Vam) 95: 11. 8r uce Carver (Yam) 96: 12. David Burke (Hon) 102; 13 . Kenny Most elle r IBet a) 105: 14 . Todd Roper (Yaml lOB : 15. Tony Leduc (Yam) 111 .4; 16. Ron Sch melzle (Yam) 112: TErt YEARS AGO Jim Po m eroy won a rnoto and backed it up with a six th to lead th e American team to a th ird-place finish in the Trophee des Nations team motocross cha m p io nsh ip in Maggiora , Ital y. T on y DiStefan o sco red a 6-11 a nd Kent Howerton added a 16-16 while Brad Lackey h ad bike problems. The wi nni ng Belg ian tea m co nsisted of Gaston Ra h ier , Harry Everts a nd Rog er DeCoster. T he lat est tire news from Eu ro pe revealed that Dunlop was working o n a bias-belt ed series of tires made for h igh -speed use. Rep orts also indicated tha t ser io us work was being done on rad ial s. which were rep orted to be two to th ree years a way. . Corky Keener won h is seco nd stra igh t AM A G rand Na tio na l Champ ion shi p /Came l Pro Series Na tiona l of th e year a t th e T ol edo (O hio) Half Mile. Keen er beat point leader G ary Scott a n d Bill y Eves for th e top spot to move with in 40 poi nts of J ay Springsteen in th eir point battle for th ird. Scott pulled farther ahea d of Kenny Ro berts in th e race for th e Grand Nat ion al Cha m p ions hi p as Roberts only managed a six th- p lace fini sh . In speedway ac tion, Dubb Ferre ll co ntin ued h is bli ster in g assault on the track s of Californ ia with a win in the Han dicap main a t Ventura. Ferrell wo n from th e 40-yard lin e a fter disposi ng o f Jeff Sex ton in th e clo sing stages o f th e race. The Bureau of Land Management denied th e San Gabriel Vall ey M.C.'s applicat ion to hold the Barstow-toVegas deser t race. R u m or s persisted that the race would be run " ou tlaw," that some sort of demonstration would take place. or that th e whole thing wa s dead an d buried. T h e bi g-name National motocross stars showed up a t Carlsbad Raceway in Carlsbad. Ca lifo rn ia to do battle in local CM C ac tion . Marty Smith continued h is win streak by ta king th e I25cc Expert class. wh ile Bob Han na h a nd Rich Eierstedt swep t th e 250 and 500cc classes , respectiv el y. Honda-mounted Marland Wh aley defea ted Ya mah a riva l Don Sweet and tea mmate Mark Eggar to win the North America n T r ia ls Cou nci l (NAT C) National Observed Trials Champion ship after points were comp iled in a co m p licated scoring system . 17. William Bu rgener (Hon) 1 12; 18. M ark M an niko IFan) 123: 19. J erry Carre ns (Vam) 125: 20. Garry Hoover (Yam ) 125. SPORTSM AN (unofficial pending appea l): t . Steve Clerk (Fen) 33 : 2. Jeff Kingsfo rd (C·A) 33: 3. Den Olson (Bete) 36: 4 . Kelly Echterling (Yam) 36: 5. Ted Arment(VamI 37: 6. Todd Tucker IVaml 38 : 7. Terr y Peacock (Fan) 43 : 8. Mik e Oiesburg (Bell 51 : 9. neve J ohnson (Vam) 58: 10. Rod Chappell (Vam) 60 : 11. Pete Rudn ick (Hon) 62 : 12. Kurt Gammill (Yam) 70: 13. Norm an Glidden (Bul) 7B: 14. Roger Larsen (Vam) 81; 15. Pat Most eller (SWM) 81 : 16. Phil McCandless (SWM) 85: 17. Drew Ferwerda (SuzI 135. • SR: " Charle sMallow(YamI31 :2. Robin Farmer (Vam) 34: 3. Dale Malesek (Vam)43: 4. Billde Garis (Yam) 45 : 5. Bob Pick (Yam) 56: 6. Ron Saum (Yam) th e two previous ro unds. mos t of the riders were more than a lit tle su rp rised 10 see th at tri al s ma rs ha ll T racy jorgensen had set 10of hi s 15 fantastic sections in th e cree k. Th is brought man y pr e-tria l co m me nts from riders but th e only ones we ca n print ranged from "Where's th e new winter tire?" 64; 7 . John Hu sm ann (Beta) 72 : 8. Lawren ce 10 " I thought U ta h was a desert!" Schmelzle (Yam) 79: 9. Ed Peecock (Vam) 93: 10. Whe n one of Utah's brief afternoo n Marty Paulson (Fan) 99: 11 . Bob Strohman (SW M) 100 . th u ndershow ers rolled through. one SUPER SR: t , WilU Wegner (Vem) 46 : 2. Jerry rider looked up a nd asked wis hf ully Voung (Fan) 47 : 3. Bill Thompson (Vam) 59: 4. Bill Wachendorler (Yam) 78 . if there wasn' t enough water down HIGH SCHOOL: 1. Monte Tucker (Vam) 45: 2. h ere a lready. j orgensen and hi s ass isKe. in Manniko (Fan) 80 : 3. Kelly OldroYd (Fan) 7B: . , reilJ 'lfY'i9 ap(i r il l " . ir W Ee J,.7 .. • • • • • • I. • • • / Doug Ch andle r used a sm oo th and co nsistent approach to trophy in three o u t o f four races in the extremely co m petitive 80cc class d uri ng the Valley Sh ort Track series in northern Ca lifornia. Yamah a , shocked by losing its number two sa les pos it io n to Kawasak i. showed five new mod els a t th eir Las Vegas dea ler show. For mot ocros s, Yamaha in tro duced a YZIOO , 125. . 175.250 a nd 400. a ll with Mon osh ock suspension and increase d fork travel. In th e street line. th e RD250 was dropped. th e XS500C was restyled and th e RD200 received a front disc Il qrM e I II . J J •••• I . • ,, " .