Cycle News - Archive Issues - 1980's

back. Cushing stretched his lea d through lap three when, sudden ly, Silverthorn began to reel h im back in . With less than a la p to go, Si lver thorn was back in Cush ing's dus t a nd the race to the checkered flag was on. At the finis h , it was Silverthorn first overall and first Senior, with Cushing nowh ere in sight. Cushing didn't get quite th e gas mi leage he expected and was left pushing h is bik e a mill' from th e chec ke red flag . In heri ting second overa ll and first Vet Expert was Dale Connor (Yam ), wh o ran th ird n early th e whole race. By th e end of th e first la p in th e Open race, Walker had already pulled out a 30-seco nd lead. Running second ' and third were Tom Moen (Ya m)a nd Bru ce Smith (Ya m). Walker was ea sily in command of this race a nd stretched his lead at will to finish nearly three minutes ah ead of second, wh ich featured one of th e best battles of th e d ay . Smith, n ot norm ally kno wn for his m udh ill ridin g a bility, was running a close th ird to Mo en . Wh en Smith pitted, he los t 30 seconds to Moen, but mad e up this time o n th e next lap wh en Moen took h is pit . Smith flew pa st for seco n d o vera ll , and Moen was unable to make up any g ro u nd o n th e final lap a n d had to sett le for third o vera ll. Results SA EX: 1. Bill Silverthorn; 2. Dick Denniso n; 3. w.e. Thorn ton. SR AM : 1. Ted Scott ; 2. Dave Kr ider . SR NOV ; 1. Ray Kepp le; 2. Richard W . Ransd ell Sr . SU PSR : 1. Br uce Conn ell ; 2. Jo e Mu lle neaur; 3. Chick Dimond. VET EX: 1. Dale Conner; 2. Pat Flanaga n; 3. Brett Cushi ng . VET AM : 1. Ray M iller; 2 . Ken Kuge l; 3 . Flo yd Hudson. VET NOV : 1. Scott Sh eldon; 2. J im M arti n; 3 . Mi ke Govern. 125 EX: 1. J ames Tucker; 2. Dan Mo rgan ; 3. Joey Lane. 125 AM : 1. John Griffin ; 2. Jimmy River s: 3 . W as Enz. .. 125 NOV : 1. Craig Britt; 2. Ji m Kell y; 3 . Kevin Mclain. 250 EX: 1. Gordon Clark; 2. Robbie Pippin. 2 50 AM : 1. David Taxel; 2 . Bob Joh nson. 250 NOV: 1. J oh n W elin itz; 2. Robert S. Copeland: 3. Bobby Bal dw in. OPEN EX: 1. St eve Walker; 2. Bruce Smith; 3 . Tom Moen. OPEN AM : 1. Peter Berg ; 2. Tom St . Pet er: 3. Chris M cDade. OPEN NOV : 1. Bill Lidd le; 2 . Larry Orn es: 3 . Richa rd W . Ran sdell . SPTSMN : 1. Tony C. Murtagh; 2. Steve M urt agh; 3. Bryan D. Miller. Bast gets lucky at Baylands By w. H. Spencer FREMONT, CA, SEPT. 28 " I got luck y," was the first 'com m en t that Ba rt Bast made tonight after winning the Ba ylands Racewa y Park Class A Speedway Championship. His reference was to the start of the 16-ri der, 20-event a ll -scratch program . With heavy hitters like Steve Martin, Pat Linn and Pa ul Orlandi at th e start, it was a pivota l first round surro unded with controversy. The first four rolled out and three were promptly down in the first tu rn, the product of a little slippage. On the nex t try, the first turn ate two, wh ile on the third try it only a te one when Linn, who ha d gotten a bad start, saw to it that it wou ld take four starts to get the first event into the book . When the g reen finally fle w, it wa s' Orlandi from the pole a lo ng with Bast, o n h is Bast Bros. Welding/Sierra Pro d uts Weslake, wh ile Lin n was trying desperately to keep some sort of outside line. Martin put on a hard charge as O rl a nd i crashed on his own, while Bast set sail for the first wm. O ff th e pole for the second event was Mike Delacy, on h is n umber one Bicycle Sh o p / A &: A Ra cing/Oilzall Weslake, wi nning big time over Jim Sisem ore's VacAero/ Weslake. John Houston Jr. ha d the outside line in that race but it was in effective early on. The Bay la nds rookie of the year , Scott Brant, aced the third event from the pole on his Bru ce Porter/Brant Eng. special wit h Mike Parson second over Hi-Point/Team Vooch's Greg Martz and Rocky Robinson, on th e MPE/Sierra/Custom Eng. spe cial. Orlandi and the Quaker Stat e/HiPoint Weslake made up for hi s firstround cra sh by w inning event five over Steve Crawford a nd Mik e Dela cy. Brant made his second rid e of the night look real easy with som e fancy wide lim's, wh ile Bast kept h im ho nest ; th ey were the only two with perfect scores for round two in event seven. Linn topped th e eig h th event ov er teammate T om Ferris o n th e Petrich Cycle Specials . Mike Parsons a nd th e Richmond Yamaha/BMW/ Ja wa won the thirdround open er from the outsid e, while Orlandi crashed for th e second time. Martin and th e MPE/Team Trim sp ecial took event 10, keeping Delacy on th e low-scoring .side o nce aga in , wh ile Dav e Cox pi ck ed up hi s thi rd straight goose eg g for th e H ealth Ra cing/Dick 's G ar age bunch . Bast showed up for round II a nd zoome d th e troops with a win ov er J ohn H ous ton a nd G reg Martz. Brant cha n ged tires a nd promptl y cra shed ou t of co ntentio n with Sisem ore, who wa s the winner in event 12. Settling down for th e seco nd half, Sisem ore sta rte d down a nd won fro m the poll' w ith Fer ris and Orland i fo llowing . Mik e Pars o ns lopped even t 1·1a fter Mart in cl ip ped th e rea l' wh eel o f Parson a nd lxriled. Joe Led uc and th e 1I'0opS go t ca ugh t in the tapes. and Dela cy sh owed th e way h O lll I' alt er th e restart a head of Bast. Delarv had a st art from Ihe o u tside th a t wa~ p ictu re pnfect , whi lr BaSI. com ing off positi on two , had to set tle in beh ind the only northern California rider to be se~'ded di rectl y to th is year's lJ .S. Nationals. . Linn pi cked up hi s seco nd win o f the even in g and wa s back in ro n ten lion with a superior ride a nd win over Kid Curry 's B&\\' Mach ine sh op Specia l. Going into th e fina l round, Bast had II points over Sisemore's 10. Linn and Dela cy were still in th e hunt with nine. In event 17, Houston won handil y over Orlandi and Brant. Martz startled the n ext group with a win over Sisemore tha t rea lly brought th e crowd to atten tion . Wh en event 19 came to the line, it wa s Bast on the pole, and a win wou ld put the ch a m pionship to wraps. Bast read the tape well a n d exited turn one just right, leading to the checkered flag . Up for grabs in the last rou nd was th e tie bet ween Delacy and Lin n , and if ei ther were to win , then a tie would occur with Sisemore for second. Delacy ha d the pole and Linn was on the outside. At th e green , L in n had the right li ne, but the traction wasn't cooperating and Delacy held on for a win and th e tie. Tommy H eddon won the best- two-of-three show, and in the sudden-death ride Sisemore was the anti-climactic winner all th e way and second overall . The Junior championship was its usual wide and wooly affair. Bobby Heddon topped the first round on the Team Stephe ns /Shoe/ PJ-I Special ove r Ken Wag ner and Dusti n Schroder. Schroder blew them away in the seco nd round from the pole, but Heddon won the fina l two rounds for an overall I I points total and yet another ti tle. _ Results OVERALL: 1: Bart Bast (14): 2. (TIE)J im Sisemorel M ik e Delacy (12); 4. Pat Li nn (11 ); 5 . M ike Par son s (10); 6 . Steve Crawford (9 ); 7 . 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