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Beta-mounted Scott Head won the Schreiber Cup and the Dam Trial to
remain undefeated in Americe during the 1986 ob..rved triall ..ason.
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Schreiber Cup
B,Y Len Weed
LITTLEROCK, CA, DEC. 7
Two-time national champion Scott Head
(Beta) added another Schreiber Cup victory
to his collection at the seventh annual presentation of VOTE's premier Expert/Support
trial, the Schreiber Cup.
For the second straight year,
the trial's namesake did not
compete. It was Bernie Schreiber's 1979 World Championship that
inspired his dub, the Valley Observed
Trials Enthusiasts, to create a difficult national-to-world-Ievel trial in
his honor. America's first off-road
world champion was scheduled to fly
. in from France four days after the
event, accompanied by his wife,
Yannick, the sister of former French
and world champion Gilles Burgat.
The Schreibers were married this
past July in Albertville, France.
In a trans-Atlantic call earlier in
the week, Schreiber confirmed that
he had finalized a contract to end his
one-year retirement in world competition. He'll be riding a Yamaha for
the European distributor and Sonauto, the French Yamaha (and auto)
importer. The contract teams him
with his brother-in-law. The duo
will also do a series of week-long
schools next summer during a break
in the world schedule. Schreiber
mentioned that he had hoped (,- -,'
. to also
ride the American series in 1986, but
could not arrange support with
Yamaha here.
Head topped runner-up Kip Webb
(Beta) by 10 points as he tabbed a 41 dropping an average of 1.7 points per
section. (Entrants rode two laps of a
12-sectioR loop.) Both FIM and AMAI
NATC regulations suggest a onepoint loss per section by an event's
winner. Scott cleaned nine of his 24
rides.
John Robertson (Yam) dropped 61
to take third. His fail ure to beat the
national champion forced him to
accept the ATA number two plate for
the year. He had needed to win one of
the final two trials to overtake the
new ATA champion, Matt Pritchard;
a Suzuki advertising executive and
1985 ATA president, Prit
